Yeah mumps is real bad, and iirc rubella is generally not too bad after birth, but if a pregnant person gets it it’s known for causing birth defects.

Vaccines are amazing. Like I get that some like covid and smallpox are unpleasant, but even those are better than the disease. And while many people may not like the idea of giving their kid a vaccine for an std, the hpv vaccine prevents cancer.

Yeah turns out there’s a reason for that whole MMR thing

All people exist within and help create culture. It’s difficult to resist culture. As a young millennial, social media was everywhere and rapidly became how you interact with people. Many of us got hooked on it or other aspects of the internet. Hell I was reading cracked on my phone in high school after finishing my work instead of reading the book I brought (and yeah getting in trouble for it). It was normal. When I quit Facebook it came with social costs that weren’t intentionally applied, I just didn’t know about things that were happening because they were posted there.

Gen z is more hooked than any previous generation and at a younger age, just like millennials were. But the content has changed from texting peers to browsing the web to doomscrolling to doomscrolling without even needing to read. They bear some responsibility just as we did, but those of us who formed the culture they live in and built these tools also deserve some responsibility, as do the parents who haven’t been raising them to value education as much as ours did and who’ve been providing them with unlimited access to the devices.

Psychedelic mushrooms are really cheap and easy to grow yourself. Some people hunt them, and sometimes it’s because they don’t know that. But from what I can tell regardless of the kind of mushrooms the real purpose is to hike miles into nowhere with a fun activity that might leave you a bit lost. It’s why it sounds appealing to me at least. A nice long hike getting a tasty treat to cook up in some risotto or pasta

Surrender should always be rewarded, turning sides moreso. Full forgiveness isn’t always warranted, but you only hurt yourself by offering no quarter

Hey, Catholics have a lot wrong, but they’re wildly different from Baptists, especially when it comes to theological rigor.

Evangelicals as a whole are a demonstration of what a religion looks like when it has none of the things that encourage resisting demogaugery

Ye canae stay here, there’s guan’ae be a disaster. Gae home

Didn’t these people condemn Islam for that 20 years ago.

Also I thought protestants thought salvation was free

Yeah, because it’s not pulsing in intensity, it’s pulsing between which kind of energy it’s being

It’s also that cops have put an amount of investment into pr that is unique among government employees (and that includes pushing you to not think of them as just more government employees) except maybe the military. They’re bleeding your local budget dry, but if the news reports on stuff like that or their misconduct they lose access to crime leads. There’s a massive push to make you think highly of them. Here’s a video I recently watched on the topic that points to true crime as a possible in to get ordinary people to see the cops as as flawed as they are

Yeah, police falsifying evidence should carry the same penalties as the crime they falsified evidence for and a guaranteed firing. This country treats cops with a bizarre level of leniency

It’s a surveillance company, stoking fears of terrorism is just good business, especially if it’s not true

That’s really concerning. Like, if a loved one told me that I’d express serious concern for their mental health

Good, but also holy fuck we need to ban gerrymandering

Being an adult with adhd is buying one of these after one too many days where you could feel your heartbeat in your extremities

He deserves to go like Ghaddafi did

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Yeah, plenty of Russians are being oppressed by their government, that’s why I’ve had a problem with Russia since before this (well that and the annexation of Crimea, and the attacks on global democracy)

I’ve voted for a socialist in local government!

Very true for specific foods, but I will say that back when I ate meat it was negligible on meat. I really recommend tasting it plain to really understand how it works flavor wise.