SculptusPoe

joined 11 months ago
[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 43 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The cops just found a guy who was on a trip repairing pianos with a kid that slightly looked like the one they were looking for. They arrested him and took the kid. Even when the mother came to town to attest that it was her kid, they gave her the run around and, since she was too poor to fight it in court, stole her kid. Those kids didn't even look anything alike... People nowadays don't seem too bright on average, but I think maybe people back then were extra stupid.

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But how are we here?

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, that's the scam... If they were really looking to fix housing, they would give everyone 50 year loans at 0 interest on one primary residence or just enough interest to cover the paperwork.

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well, nothing is stopping the super soldiers, with or without open DNA. Most of those are not all that worrisome in any practical way, except employment and insurance. The only real answer for Insurance is single payer insurance at one price for everyone. The way we let insurance companies hold the noose around our necks in the US is flabbergasting. I don't know for sure that the rest of the world is quite as good as all that, since I've talked to people of many countries and never heard one that didn't have major complaints when they weren't just trying to dump on the US. I do feel like the US is the worst of the wealthy countries anyway. If we could stop the insurance companies from having the leverage to hold us to the fire, open DNA could facilitate research on lots of medical treatments. So I guess, first put the insurance companies out of business permanently, then open source the DNA. Which I suppose means never at this rate...

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think everybody's DNA should be open source...

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Okay, do a 50-year mortgage with 0 interest.

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I think that hose on the outside left is for filling the barrel... and/or making a siphon that empties the barrel.

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago

Thank you. We need to be aware of climate change, but crying wolf and false interpretation of the science isn't the way to get people on board.

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