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Written by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems on 2024-12-23 at 00:21

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th December 2024

https://awful.systems/post/3120587

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Written by skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de on 2024-12-25 at 03:39

four thieves collective goes on 38C3 and i groan in anticipation of whatever stupid trick will they pull now fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/…/ASBXWW/ why they even are there

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Written by gerikson@awful.systems on 2024-12-25 at 15:37

Governments have criminalized the practice of managing your own health. Despite the fact that for most of human history bodily autonomy, and self-managed health was the norm, it is now required that most aspects of your health must be mediated by an institution deputized by the state.

JFC

go back 200 years before the “gubmint” got involved in public health and tell me that average life expectancy was better than now

before the pandemic it was possible for people to believe that libertarianism was an answer to everything, turns out if it was a tiny minority would have hoarded all the PPE while the people they were gonna sell it to died of the plague. libertarians have not been able to square this circle since

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Written by Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems on 2024-12-26 at 10:36

I think there is value in giving people the tools and knowledge to make more involved decisions about their health, but using that sort of libertarian rhetoric in the covid era is at best really fucking irresponsible.

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