Post AcbubA1yPOGk0DlYm0 by drq@mastodon.ml
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(DIR) Post #AcbaGTx993uocqN2e0 by RickiTarr@beige.party
2023-12-08T15:28:21Z
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One of the things that drives me crazy is the people who are constantly saying we need to go back to our roots, eat, sleep, and live like Amazon tribes or Neanderthals. If you do any research at all, this is just a ridiculous concept. Especially when you the are also encouraging people to reject modern medicine in favor of "natural" medicine. Now I understand that our current modern medical establishments are rife with issues, and I'm not denying or excusing that. But let's just address basics, life expectancy, only about 20% of Neanderthals made it past 40 years of age, and the average life expectancy for modern Amazonian tribes is 53 years. Being that I am now 42, I'd like to live a little longer than that, and the reason I can is MODERN MEDICINE, access to clean water, good and plentiful food, living indoors when it's too cold or hot, working jobs that aren't as physically demanding. Telling people that if they go back to some kind of traditional past lifestyle, that they will live a healthier happier lifestyle is a falsehood and a dangerous one. Get medical advice from a medical professional, who bases their research on science, not some person on YouTube who bases their ideas on things that seem true to them. I'm sorry this was so ranty!
(DIR) Post #AcbaGUzfHBWXqwYZCy by beecycling@romancelandia.club
2023-12-08T16:02:30Z
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@RickiTarr The people who complain about how pregnancy and birth are too "medicalised" need to check out times and places without the obstetrics care we have today. The awful rates of death in childbirth, or from infection, the impossibility in most times and places of mothers surviving C sections, the effects of childbirth, like fistulas that women in advanced countries never have to suffer now (but too many elsewhere still do.) Ah, the good old days.
(DIR) Post #AcbaGVrY2qcqY3lbCC by RickiTarr@beige.party
2023-12-08T16:07:03Z
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@beecycling Awww the good ole days when the infant mortality rate was 50%
(DIR) Post #AcbaGWbHIpCmptA7TU by beecycling@romancelandia.club
2023-12-08T16:10:52Z
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@RickiTarr "Things were better then" they say of a time you could lose all six of your children to cholera in a 48 hour period. There's a large grave monument in a local cemetery for the children of a family that suffered that in the 19th century.
(DIR) Post #AcbaGXWLscrJgtrhR2 by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-12-08T16:33:14Z
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@beecycling @RickiTarr Oh! Oh! And don't forget things like vaccines, where 50% to 80% of all children used to die of preventable diseases!And why do we call these preventable? Because vaccines!
(DIR) Post #AcbubA1yPOGk0DlYm0 by drq@mastodon.ml
2023-12-08T20:21:06Z
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@RickiTarr Totally.Fuck anprim bullshit.
(DIR) Post #AcysmW5a7TXhoh8UXQ by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2023-12-08T16:47:46Z
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@RickiTarr Another point - hunter/gatherer and subsistence farming simply CAN NOT SUSTAIN 8 BILLION PEOPLE. Hell, "Organic" and "Non GMO" farming can not sustain 8 billion people. I don't care HOW good your farming methods are, without fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, your yields drop. A LOT.So when you're trying to preach some "return to nature" bullshit, you're basically saying that you want a world that can only grow enough food to support 1-2 billion people. And how confident are you that you/yours deserve to be one of those 1-2 billion who are allowed to eat?
(DIR) Post #AcysmhWva8x9Ih0zBo by RickiTarr@beige.party
2023-12-08T16:49:13Z
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@JessTheUnstill Excellent point!!! It tips very quickly into fascism and eugenics then.
(DIR) Post #AcysmiOoLo3RzoE1B2 by jargoggles@mstdn.social
2023-12-08T18:08:59Z
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@RickiTarr @JessTheUnstill From what I've seen, everyone who promotes eugenics seems to think they'd be exempt.Let's ignore the fact that it *always* gets abused in practice or the fact that if you're selecting for high IQ, you're already starting off with a flawed premise that discriminates based on socioeconomics, not actual potential.Do you have any family history of congenital illness? Predisposition to health problems? Congrats, you've signed you and your family's death warrant.
(DIR) Post #AcysmjEvE3jqbQbdOy by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2023-12-08T18:26:35Z
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@jargoggles @RickiTarr Yeah ... I mean, MY best idea for ensuring my/my loved ones' survival is to work to make sure that as many people as possible in my community can survive. Because if most or all of us are surviving, then it's pretty great odds I'm in the group of people surviving.Once you're saying you're willing for most folks to not make it, the odds of you/your loved ones being the one of the ones who make it are a whole helluvalot lower...
(DIR) Post #AcysmjxaXzT2pxVJ1U by jargoggles@mstdn.social
2023-12-08T18:38:57Z
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@JessTheUnstill @RickiTarr That's a great point. When you allow the idea that some people's lives are worth more than others, you introduce cracks in the social contact. If it doesn't cover all of us, without exception, it becomes a matter of debate. What could undermine a community more thoroughly than a disagreement about who the community will protect and who it won't?Even just having that discussion makes everyone less safe.
(DIR) Post #AcysmkdQ2Svavh4iDw by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2023-12-08T19:15:05Z
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With all of our knowledge and science, there's literally no good reason why anyone should ever not have enough to survive. We just suck at getting it distributed equally and fairly because of greed.How about, and I know this is a mind blowing concept, but rather than trying to pick who lives and who dies, and prepping for a world where lots and lots of people die, we build a world where we don't HAVE to pick who lives and who dies.Because everyone lives.Yes, even the people you don't like and who don't like you.When you start from the position that allowing large amounts of people to die is considered an "acceptable loss", you've ALREADY lost. You've shifted everyone into the scarcity mindset of "I gotta stab everyone else in the back to make sure I get mine".You START the problem solving process with the fundamental that each and every person lives. That they all have shelter, food, water, medicine. You don't even get to begin to discuss who gets a second helping until everyone has had a first helping.@jargoggles @RickiTarr