You know, one of the biggest social problems we have today was caused by Reagan shutting down mental hospitals in his first term. If we really cared about the homeless they'd get picked up, showered off, given clean clothes, forced to go drug free, and provided with mental health care. Those capable of getting back on their feet can be helped to get a job and basic housing, the truly mentally ill can stay there, for life if necessary.

Providing them free housing and no services won't fix a damned thing.

This is transcendent stuff. To summarize: Reagan took away public care of the homeless, bad. Public care of the homeless, bad. Your head has stretched your chief end wide enough to fit the entire fence. Also, the first part of your post is glamorizing people bravely starving for some Scrooge's bottom line.

We should take your "Reagan Bad" argument and go back to (?) having more social services and community. If this means we take money or resources from those that have lots of empty property, that seems reasonable. Also, it can benefit our same benevolent overlords by keeping the rest of their property from being overrun by the increasing populations of desperate people, likely at a lower overall cost than paying the police to chase them around every day.

It's obvious that the MAN in an effort to take away our FREEDOM has decided how much sugar and sodium are "healthy" for an average diet. I mean, who can live on just 1 mountain dew a day? Or just 10 Oreos? 1 bag of pork rinds? I don't know about you but I call that dinner and am feeling FINE. Those TYRANTS at the so called FDA do not have the nations HEALTH in mind, just a sick twisted desire to remove our LIBERTY.

People might be scared of nuclear, but coal mining leads to more fatalities: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwwn.cdc.gov%2FNIOSH-Min...
And these are direct worker deaths, not some seagull getting lung cancer.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwik...
Nuclear has a much better track record, even when comparing worldwide nuclear to just US coal, which is a comparison tilted against nuclear. People who are afraid of nuclear because of that reactor in Japan that failed in a generally safe manner almost 15 years ago have a lot more to be scared of.

All someone needs is admin access to their VPN, and then they are fuuucked!

The future of coal is automated. The underground coal mining industry remains the most dangerous from of mining (in the US). In addition to environmental costs, there is a large human cost as well in the harm to the miners. Coal will be needed for steel production for the foreseeable future. Steel isn't getting cancelled anytime soon. I could see coal becoming a more specialty mineral as time goes on, but until we can make clean high grade steel with a cheaper fuel, coal is here to stay. There is no good reason not to put a filter on those dang smokestacks though

No no no, supermicro servers have never been compromised, cannot be compromised, and never will be compromised. There are no little extra chips that make a backdoor, and anyone that tells you otherwise is a communist with blue hair.

This pricing information isn't mine officer! I'm just holding it for a friend

I believe you that someone told you about the difference between ionizing and non ionizing. I bet they were convincing too. But what's the difference between ionizing and non ionizing? Amplitude? Frequency? Now take your non ionizing source and nestle it between some conductive and non-conductive surfaces. Hopefully there is no arrangement that can cause local peaks from the reflected waves...

I believe in the past, when cellphones used lower frequencies and less power they would have been safe(er). But with the new iPhones that cheat on power emissions tests? Go run a simulation for a 2.4 GHz source and a conductive plate several inches away separated by a meaty watery dielectric and tell me there's no way to get an ionizing hotspot.

Ah yes, this is why deciphering of text is only possible by humans gifted with that special glyph reading gland which uses quantum particles entangled with the soul to determine true meaning of each symbol.

They are already watching us everywhere, no need for the lizard people to give us a convenient store

Has your job been taken by a blue-haired, brown-skinned, person with unspecified genitals? Maybe consider learning a skill instead of blaming "society" for your problems and continued unemployment in the field of being able to drink a bunch of beer

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If the secret cabal of lizard people want to convince us to collectively pool our resources to maximize medical care for the population... then we must be tasty?

Or, there are a bunch of crusty people in charge that don't have the same problems with affording health care... so then either they don't care to change anything or just might be themselves profiting from the status quo of really inefficient care.

Either take is just a wild conspiracy until substantiated with some facts. The first one would be more interesting. I think in either scenario there would be motivation to convince the population to go against their best interest.

I agree there are honest people out there who value human life starting at conception. Ideally, no one would get pregnant or impregnate someone else without careful planning. This doesn't always happen, and these edge cases should be worked out in advance. I think there are a few loons on either side with nonsense extremist opinions like "all babies should be brought to term regardless of consequences" or "I should be able to abort any child for any reason". I believe most people would agree the answer is somewhere in the middle.
The thing I have trouble with is believing that some ancient lizard in office actually cares about other people's lives in a meaningful way and isn't just looking to score some political points with a group of voters or even worse, make sure there is a large base of poor people from which they can extract more wealth.
Show me a rich evangelical politician and I'll show you a hypocrite.
Further, if you don't want to get an abortion, no one is forcing you here in the US. I think whenever you are looking to force someone into doing something, you should see if it really needs done in all cases. Also if a politician is telling you we need to do X because Y. That doesn't mean that Y is the real reason they want it done.

Why is this modded down? This is obviously what is happening in many places.