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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
What annoys me is that "doing your own research" actually makes sense in a lot of contexts. Our modern politics driven news is 90% bullshit and you're better off fact checking everything they say by looking at reliable sources and tracing the origin of dubious claims. But these people have ruined that by acting like "do your own research" means "blindly trust some guy with a podcast who tells you what you want to hear."
I hate when people use the word "research" because most people think it's reading a Facebook page.
Real research requires nyears of studying to actually understand the subject before advancing the field. It requires sometimes year or decades of meticulously measuring and registering data, all while ensuring bias stays out of the data.
To 99% of people it's spending 5 minutes to find the right Facebook page that will confirm their preconceptions..its gross
I was talking to a new friend who is a nurse yesterday, and she told me she worked in peds a bit last year during a measles outbreak in my city, during which one child died. She said she has never seen sicker children in her life, they were all unvaccinated, and that they all went home having lost so much ground. She says half the parents were just victims of disinformation but that many of them were super obnoxious.
Interestingly, I have some nurses in the family and the rate at which people who are educated in healthcare, are anti-vax, is too damned high.
Which isn't to imply its a lot of people, but any nonzero amount of people, working in healthcare, who buy into anti-vax propaganda, is too many. You've been formally taught about this stuff. Yet, you're anti-vax because some person on Facebook/Twitter/whatever, fed you some bullshit about the "dangers"?? Wow. What the actual fuck.
My sister left a really great hospital job (radiology tech) due to the vaccine mandates. Some people are so smart and yet so dumb.
Some of those foods include peanuts which are fine for most people but are deadly for others.
Also, some American companies have created some lab grown food that seems revolutionary, but still lacks long term health testing.
因噎廢食 (īnyēfèishí)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9B%A0%E5%99%8E%E5%BB%A2%E9%A3%9F
This is a Chinese proverb meaning "to avoid something essential because of a slight risk of making a mistake." Literally it means "to not eat due to the risk of choking on food."
To quote from Wiktionary:
夫有以饐死者，欲禁天下之食，悖；有以乘舟死者，欲禁天下之船，悖；有以用兵喪其國者，欲偃天下之兵，悖。
It is nonsense to forbid the world’s people to eat just because one person has choked to death when eating; it is nonsense to put the world's boats in disuse just because someone has drowned while sailing; it is also nonsense to eliminate the world's military forces just because one sovereign has lost his state due to his military action
I mean, this level of Darwinism would be fine. What grates me is not recognizing the effect it has on others.
Still seeking an analogy where not eating food somehow puts a neighbor or classmate at risk of starvation.
Herd immunity is pretty important.
The first of the crazy parents who went anti-vax benefitted greatly from Herd immunity. Now enough of them are not vaccinating that the herd immunity is basically non-existent. So we get things like measles outbreaks.
There are people who are medically incapable of getting vaccinated, like those with compromised immune systems (some might be in treatment for cancer)... And their best defense is if all of us, who can be immunized, are immunized.
Cancer treatments are not the only immunocompromising thing that can happen and not all immunocompromised people have cancer specifically.... For the record.
Anyone who is anti-vax should be aware that they are actively and intentionally putting other people at risk and that should be strongly and thoroughly documented; so when they bring in a cold/flu/COVID/measles/whatever preventable disease to the school and someone else's kid dies as a result the grieving family has the ability to sue them into poverty.
They deserve worse, but legally, I can't condone that.... But if someone wanted to take a page from a particular person named Luigi, I would be hard pressed to find a good reason to pursue any charges against them.
I stopped at a stop sign and somone almost rear-ended me. Had I driven through, I would have been safe. There is no reason to stop at stop signs. Other people can stop if they choose to, but the government can't force me to risk a rear-ending in order to protect someone else. Jesus wouldn't let me get T-boned in an intersection, I'm covered in his blood.
I thought you were dead serious for a bit
How can you know for sure?
Because food is dangerous, we've taken steps to ban supermarkets which distribute food.
Only a select few strictly regulated supermarkets will be allowed to distribute food.
We know some communities may struggle with reduced or no access to food because of this decision. However we deem this imperative in order to have a strong and healthy country.
I feel like it's very perpetrated by Americans, and Americans are very ~~self-centered~~ individualistic
We live in a free society and this is one of the costs of freedom. I may not agree with their choices but I respect their ability to make it.
I'd agree with you if it weren't for herd immunity and immuno compromised people. It's like allowing people to drive cars with old, dry, tnt bombs if they feel like it, they're not the only ones who will get hurt for doing something stupid.
Even if their kids die as a result?
Absolutely
So parents should be allowed to kill their kids?
Like in the example a parent is free to decide for a child that food is bad for them, and even when the child dies of starvation it is no problem because it should be seen as an expression of the parents freedom to choose to do so?
That is not a realistic example and only demonstrates how ridiculous you are.
Your immuno-compromised kid or spouse - who can't get a vaccine - may die as a result too.
It's just Darwinism at it's finest. As a species, the increase in brain matter/intelligence led to the survival of Homo Sapiens. Homo Sapiens with higher intelligence can pass those traits to their offspring, and are more likely to be able to rear their offspring to the point of adulthood. Homo Sapiens with lower intelligence are less likely to successfully breed and rear children to adulthood. Science doesn't doesn't give a fuck about the innocence of the offspring.
Actually, it's the less intelligent humans that are doing the pro-creating these days. The smarter ones know the perils of raising kids in today's world economically, politically and environmentally and are choosing not to.
You know what every living autistic kid have in common? They all eat!
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WARNING 100% OF CHILDREN EXPOSED TO DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE DIE!
Actually, they die while not being children anymore
Checkmate atheists
100% of children who are given food die, too. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Not 100%. Most children stop being children before they die.
True, I usually refer to something similar: Do you know how many people die in bed every year? Perhaps we should ban beds.
To be fair, food is a significant contributor to the existence of adults. And we all know those are problems.
Outstanding. This is what good satire looks like.
Even then, starving your own children isn't going to cause their classmates and teachers and those people's families to also go hungry. OP's comparison is extremely forgiving to those dipshits.
If you want to be really pissed, read up on ~~doctor~~ disgraced former doctor, lifelong charlatan and grifter Andrew Wakefield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
He abused autistic kids in a medical experiment that was meant to convince both the public and the scientific community that a specific combined vaccine (measles-mumps-rubella, a.k.a MMR) could trigger some kind of bowel disease that causes autism, all so he could peddle his own alternative that is three separate shots.
And here's the kicker: he did that because he was financially invested in the company producing the older, separate vaccines.
"Do your research" is a dogwhistle and of course what it really means is "Google what you want to be true and read all the shit from morons like you who agree with you."
I feel like it's probably worse than this. It should start with "I read about this thing called 'choking to death'".
Or better yet, take out "choking to death" (which can happen) and insert some made-up bullshit like "choking so hard your eyeballs pop out".
Sounds like the type of person who won't give their kids ~~hydrogen~~ dihydrogen monoxide either because it can cause even metals to oxidate