BigNote

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bullshit. There are vast areas of the western US and Alaska where this simply is not economically possible or even desirable. The same is true for huge parts of Canada and Australia and other countries that have very remote and thinly settled regions. Even when I lived in Ireland, which is tiny and relatively densely populated, there were rural communities that only had bus service once or twice a day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The prefix "Mc" or "Mac" is Celtic anyway, not Germanic, so you failed in that sense too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You mean my kids?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

More often than not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not true at all. There's tons of adaptive pressure. If there weren't, we wouldn't see the thousands of pelagic and shorebird species that we do. But even if what you say about the threat from predation were true --its not-- there would still be adaptive pressure from differential reproduction rates and access to nutrients.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

They're probably just "dumb" in comparison to corvids and parrots and the like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Well obviously it's very difficult for the poor to leave and if you aren't poor it's actually a pretty nice place to live.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Also most of the loyalists in the colonies fled to Canada during and immediately after the American Revolution, for obvious reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What a crock of shit!

Why would capital willingly poison its workforce as a deliberate policy? That makes zero sense.

I can see capital writing it off as a necessary side-cost of doing business, but I can't see it as a deliberate policy.

Again, it makes no sense. Capital wants a relatively healthy workforce, not one that's falling apart due to lead-caused neurological decrepitude.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I have a cousin who still insists that her mom died of pneumonia and that it wasn't COVID. Her husband is currently in prison for storming the capitol on January 6th, which tells you all you need to know. It's weird because she's the only one in my extended family who's even remotely into far right craziness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Allegedly there are two known instances of people in the US dying due to complications from the vaccine, though one of them wasn't the mRNA vaccine that the anti-vaxxers were most scared of. Compare that to the over 1 million people who died from COVID.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That and the fact that everything about our society shits on working people and tells them that it's their own fault that they aren't rich like the college-educated elites who look down on them.

It doesn't actually make any sense, but I am telling you that this is a huge part of the resentment that Trump was able to tap.

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