Trump did heaps of terrible shit before and during his first presidency. The algorithmic internet and the laziness of mainstream media to report social media trends as news, instead of doing real journalism, are basically why we’re here.

Indeed. Mostly because of starting, enabling or continuing the various unnecessary armed conflicts in the world right now.

We also know there’s been no actual reduction in government spending as well.

Neither. But we can’t have such nice things.

Zaphod’s just this guy you know.

Just “unpopular”…

We’re in for history repeating itself if we keep talking about Trump and the present moment like any of it is normal.

Nobody should forgive the Republicans until they’ve apologized for the damage they’ve enabled. There should be commitments to undo the damage. Of course it won’t happen until MAGA is dead.

How can it be good for the world if everyone is spending more money on their militaries?

And rare earths. Don’t forget rare earths.

Medicine company sets the highest price the government is prepared to subsidize on behalf of Americans who can’t pay. But for some corrupt reason, the government sucks at negotiating.

I do not think anywhere near most Reddit users came to Lemmy. I wish it were true.

Do we know if Lemmy mods are doing quality content moderation? That and their locking out open source and third-parties is why I mostly avoid Reddit. But I’m not entirely gone.

And my axe.

Totally think that makes sense, but also what a waste of admin that really shouldn’t have to exist in the first place, if people never when in to debt to begin with.

We’re updating old code instead of rewriting it from scratch. Has to be done, but I wish we were working on the new version in the background with any kind of seriousness.

In theory, insurance companies shouldn’t be putting people in debt. They’re the ones who should be in debt to the pharmaceutical companies and the government because they’re paying out more claims than they can afford to cover with their revenue from premiums.

This being true would force the government and insurance companies to both be fighting the pharmaceutical companies for better prices and for accelerating decelopnent of generic medicines. Also, it would make putting research funding into long-term cures rather than lifelong treatments a more worthwhile gamble compared to now.

Not actually true, unless your means of supporting people includes provisions for the extravagances of carbon-based energy and huge amounts of inefficiency everywhere in the supply chain.

If we want to carry on with capitalism as we know it now, yes. And you know it’s going to be the elderly, sick, disabled, among the working class population that need to go first. You know, those who can’t be forced to work. It’s not the poor working class populations who wealthy right-wing policy makers are asking to have more babies.

The world is already on track for around 10 billion people anyway, because there are already enough young people in developing nations who we expect to have families of their own in the next few decades.

So good thing we could carry that many people sustainably if we get our shit together.

Not that I’m against Pokemon inspired sexy times between consenting adults.

I don’t see any specific defense in her argument. No mention of anything in particular the episode might have gotten wrong.

I didn’t expect anything of substance but I do like happy surprises. Sadly, I am not amused.

Isn’t that debt still paid back to the private insurance companies?

Better people’s debt is erased, but even better if the debt is absorbed by the insurance companies which is the point of having insurance in the first place.

Had a massive early 20s crush on her. There was no need for this.

I was joking above. Being totally serious, female beauty standards at the time weren’t great and I wouldn’t hold her accountable at all for a decision to get plastic surgery like this.

We can’t blame any one person, but it’s a stupid evil world that ruined what were her naturally stunning curves.

What she did to her own butt confirms she’s both.

I can smell this post and the disappointment.

Thanks, clear as corn soup.

I don’t blame them at all. Corn is the superior fruit.