Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th December 2024
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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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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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maybe it’s more of a take acceptable for americans
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The FDA is a response to people just making shit up and selling cough cures full of opium. “Raw milk” pushers are cut from the same cloth.
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It also prevented the Thalidomide medication from causing much damage in the usa (compared to the rest of the world) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal and prob countless more, as it is a bit hard to cause problems if the problems are caught before it being brought to market. And I do worry that the “the fda is too cautious” pushers are actually motte baileying for the total removal of the fda.
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And I do worry that the “the fda is too cautious” pushers are actually motte baileying for the total removal of the fda.
they absolutely are, see also Scott Alexander stanning for these guys
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NRx people was what I was thinking about. Every city a city state with bespoke medical experimentation going on. And if you don’t like it, just leave and go to a different city state with different crazy medical experiments.
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