@ThatDoug@Max_Imum We do seem to have rapidly diverging value systems. I'm also beginning to suspect that end-stage nationalized health insurance is euthanasia.
From the same article: "She also said killing patients helps fund Canada’s public health care system."
“MAID is a huge money-making business — now they’re saving money on future healthcare,” Hancock said. “They’re literally denying us healthcare treatment and offering us MAID instead.”
Canadian Doctors Suggest Harvesting Organs From Euthanasia Patients Before They’re Dead
Other Canadian doctors have publicly embraced “death by donation” (in other words, the person is killed through the process of having his organs harvested)
@mk@Phil I don't know of anyone who has died from microplastics. However, researchers have only recently learned such things as the fact that people now have microplastics in their brains, and that the amount is increasing over time. Right now only ½% of our brains are microplastics. And maybe that's totally fine. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/health/plastics-in-brain-wellness/index.html
Research reveals food riddled with microplastics. In case you were thinking of just avoiding the contaminated food, here is a list of food & drink shown to contain microplastics:
@Phil This could be a new angle for the Fermi paradox: We haven't discovered intelligent life elsewhere in the universe because at some point in their development, they contaminated all life on their planet with microplastics, and later come to realize that this is bad.
@Zennagain When I first heard about Five Eyes, I thought it was about sharing info on Islamic Terror. Later on, I found out that each country wanted to surveil its own citizen, but were thwarted by civil liberties protections. BUT their international partners could do so for them.
Now whenever Rand Paul says some legislation will erode our civil liberties, I pay attention. He just did so about the DOD's proposed drone legislation that would permit the government to hoover up cellphone data.
Young, single men are flocking to the Orthodox church after discovering the “masculine” Christian religion through online influencers.
Some converts said they felt disillusioned with the “feminisation” of the Protestant church and were attracted to the “authenticity” of Orthodoxy, which they claim pushes them physically and mentally.
@KeepTakingTheSoma@LostInCalifornia I think that the 17th Amendment to the US constitution is at least partly to explain. Previously, US senators were elected by their respective state legislatures, which forced them to represent their state's regional interests. After they were elected directly by the people, instead of representing their region, they became the plaything of whichever political party funded and conducted their campaign.