so wait, people should be happy with the penis they have, but if they want a vagina they should get one? why shouldn’t we just strive to give everyone a body they’re happy with regardless of circumstances?

There are people who want a smaller penis too.

dude i think the shackles might be having to work to not die

the problem with that is having to turn off your brain, which most of us can’t do

I just wish people could take one single step back from actively scamming others, if they just cared a little bit they could at least stop actively harming people, and maybe outright help them deal with emotional anguish if nothing else.

Like come on, do they have to promise to cure cancer? How much money would they really lose on simply promising to stop it from getting worse?

the one thing i’ll say about this is that the medical field needs to get better at PR, because that’s what’s holding “alternative medicine” believers back from it. We need to iron out the culture of doctors dismissing people’s experiences and making terrible diagnoses, and make it all feel less clinical.

Grab the counterculture by the balls and legitimize it, put the scam artists out of business by classing things like massage/cupping/acupuncture as a serious therapy you can get as a first stage of treatment, where the (licensed) practitioners are actually educated in medicine and (importantly) psychology.

Because these things aren’t inherently useless, they’re rituals and ways for people to feel like they’re being cared for on a more personal level. It’s not gonna magically cure cancer, but there’s a lot of stuff it could genuinely help treat and absolute worst case it’s something that helps patients feel better and can be a foothold into getting them more serious medical treatment.

We could just add a new base layer to the ladder of medical workers: People whose job is simply to get to know people and help them do things like schedule appointments, understand what the doctors are telling them, and remember to take medicine and such.
I think there’s potential for a huge amount of benefit here, to everyone really. It’d be a new kind of job that would suit many people, it would help those who find medical stuff intimidating, and could ease the workload of higher-educated medical workers.

yeah i feel like we need to pass legislation against keeping wombs alive just because, it’s perfectly fine if it’s for a limited time while waiting to be transplanted, but there’s very obvious horrifying things that can be done without legislation…

the luddites were reasonably cautious, because the looms were literally driving them out of work with no recompense purely to profit the owners.

literally just skipping beef is a great improvement to your diet and the environment, and isn’t difficult to do

I’ve gone to just chicken at this point, which is by far the healthiest “standard” and cheap meat, and i don’t really feel like i miss out on much. Chicken works just fine for most dishes, you just have to be a little bit smart about how exactly you cook it to get the texture you want.

are you saying the USA isn’t bad?

yeah, what i want to see is more local unions to bolster the power of the small countries in the world.
Obviously here in europe there’s not that many candidates though, since the big group of smol nations is uh, not keen on the concept of getting along with each other…

that’s not a fair comparison… cyprus is a tiny not particularly important country located reasonably close to an unambigously european country, meanwhile canada is the size of the rest of the EU combined and is separated by a massive ocean.

ah, maybe it only defaults to it on web

i honestly really like dymaxion because it’s a nice aspect ratio and keeping the landmasses all together just feels right.

And it doesn’t even look strange if you just remove the ocean

except that continents quite plainly aren’t just about landmasses, they’re defined by culture as well. Hence why most people these days consider “oceania” a continent, and why india and the middle east don’t really fit smoothly into any standard continent.

i mean, i’d say the lack of tube lines is the bigger issue

what? google maps absolutely has a globe view when you zoom out

which means you should 100% report this massive safety risk wherever you can

and i would argue there are way more, because grouping all of africa and europe and asia together is kind of utterly pointless.

What makes sense to me is groupings very much like europe in size and cultural cohesion, something roughly like this:

(I can’t intuitively figure out where to draw lines in america, aside from the fact that the northern part of the landmass is basically unpopulated and vastly more similar to greenland than it is to the populated parts)

huh? i have never heard anyone complain about this unless they’re using a sports saddle, which… yeah no shit? get a normal saddle.