full Taiwanese independence is still a minority held belief on the actual island

Excuse me wut

I just refuse to order off Uber Eats or Doordash. Does that count as not punishing the drivers?

I get that you’re trying to do a reductio ad absurdum but your post really falls flat on its face.

The Roman Empire no longer exists in any shape or form.

The United States of America is a surviving institution that has continuity to its darker history as it pertains to slavery.

The problem is not simply that slavery is causing some sort of moral taint; it’s that there are still institutions today that continue to have advantages that stem from the unjust practice of slavery in the US.

Ugh, gig workers need to be brought into some semblance of a minimum wage. Uber and Doordash are just techstortion.

I’m sorry, did you say cervix?

You either need to go back to school or you have some weird-ass fetish for endoscopy

Sorry guys it’s my fault. I canceled my D+ from my Hulu account when the prices went up. Didn’t realize Disney would stage a full-on takeover of Hulu to get me back.

You have it half right.

Our healthcare system is fucked.

Our insurance system is quite profitable.

For Boston specifically, they could rebuild the Long Island Bridge, which before its demolition was a usable footpath for addicts seeking treatment to get to Long Island, which at one point housed a hospital and even after the hospital’s closure offered facilities for those in need including a homeless shelter and rehabilitation programs.

This area called politely “Mass and Cass” is also referred to as “methadone mile” and it does not really have comparable facilities to help those in need. Methadone mile sprang up when the BU medical center became the only real place where addicts can get treatment to try and wean off their drug addiction, and it’s a real problem even for the addicts as there is very easy access to genuine opiods.

Stressful street living + constant presence of dealers + no facilities besides a regulated hospital = a really fucking impossible way to kick your addiction.

Methadone mile needs to go. Boston also needs the neighboring town of Quincy to stop fighting the rebuilding of the Long Island Bridge.

I can’t get past the awful animated guy

You’re probably not familiar enough with the office workplace then. This is like every joke rolled into one.

I2P is still around? I remember experimenting with it a decade ago. Sounds like it’s still a slow experience.

They’re also very well crafted to force the narrative down one narrow, black-and-white path.

That “game” of which you speak is an appeal to privilege in its most obscene form: claiming an ancestral myth that allows you to impact extreme violence against other humans whose only crime is being born into the wrong bloodline.

It’s 2023 CE out here but some cultures are pretending it’s 2023 BCE

Huh, I just checked US News and World Report, and they not only rank BYU higher than U of Utah but also list tuition as being cheaper than the public flagship universities.

I’ll be damned. Probably by the Mormons.

What an odd way to say the same thing twice in those last five words

Lmao the dude was calling America a hellhole, not discussing global warming.

This comment has major “God sends hurricanes to punish the gays” vibes

They can be so right that they all collectively drink poisoned Kool-Aid.

Tribal behavior is simultaneously humankind’s greatest strength and its greatest threat.

I think you have it backwards. People realize tribalism so intrinsically it doesn’t even register.

The beauty of the social justice push we’ve seen from the 70s to today is that it actively tries to counteract the human tribal instinct to create a more fair and inclusive world. Granted, I’m not sure how successful it’s been at removing tribalism… it just seems to have redefined the tribes.

There didn’t even need to be a deliberate cartel for this to happen either.

Amazon realized it could make money and grow the company by offering cloud services and now AWS runs something like 30% of the internet.

Google turned their leading search algorithms into an extensive tracking and advertising platform that integrates with most of the internet.

Apple decided that people don’t need to be allowed to tinker with and repair their own devices so that hardware can be locked into a four-year cycle of planned obsolescence.

A whole bunch of profit-maximizing firms did the hard job of controlling everything for the governments.