I understand and am very burned out about it all myself. But I will never have the audacity to complain out loud that anyone is ruining my escapism as long as people out there are suffering with no chance of escape. We’re bombing the fuck out of 80 million people right now.

I’m on great terms with my wife and make my own fucking breakfast. These things may in fact be related.

Isn’t it almost universal that as long as resources are plentiful, organisms drift toward larger sizes?

You’re starting to get it. Politics is not just a very boring television channel. It’s power transactions at the highest levels and it affects basically every thing. To even be able to whine about having to pay attention to politics is a great privilege.

Idaho about that, actually.

…where we all come from and where we’re all going!

It was this coalition of big tech companies that blocked Texas SB2420 from going into effect on Jan 1 of this year.

Believe me my dude if they wanted your birthdate they would have gotten it before. Or more likely they already have it without this.

Okay but you could still do step 1 without revealing anything personal. Tell us: what even is a “reason to exist?”

Folks, this is coming from your government. The phone makers want nothing to do with it and are actively fighting it in court as best they can. Switching between phone makers will not help, and is not the right place to put your energy. Address your concerns to your governments.

Yes every single iPhone owner also bought those 🙄

Kinda like a 2 stroke engine. The fuel and the exhaust all just mix.

It’s gross, but I can’t see any reason this disqualifies it from being on the tree of life.

Okay, we’re listening. First establish some framework of “reasons to exist” so we understand what that even means, and then tell us yours. Centuries of philosophy haven’t gotten past the first step and you probably won’t either, but I won’t stop you from trying. Okay, go.

I wish capitalism was allowed to operate in its pure form so that people could truly see what things actually cost. Meat and gasoline and corn syrup are so heavily subsidized it’s ridiculous. The amount of blood and treasure we’ve wasted trying to keep gas prices low is similarly ridiculous.

We see this pretty differently. I take the fact that insurance covers chiro to be evidence that insurance doesn’t know what the fuck it’s doing. You assume insurance know what they’re doing and take them as evidence that chiro must have value.

Taking assumptions out of it, what medical literature tells us is that chiropractic can be used to help alleviate lower back pain. This is an incredibly widespread ailment with no hard fix. A chiro adjustment offers a little pain relief. A massage or hypnosis or a blow job would probably perform as well in a blind trial.

What has happened is that a whole universe of quacks has taken advantage of the fact that chiro is unregulated to get all manner of shit paid for by instance. There are chiropractors who will “cure” your allergies by adjusting you back while you hold a bag of weeds, “aligning your energy with the energy of the plant.” And a million other similar quack bullshit things.

So yes, it’s not as if there is no case ever where chiro does anything. It’s probably about half as effective as a single ibuprofen at alleviating back pain. But it has become overwhelmed by quackery and fraud. Please tell me with a straight face that there is no fraud in the medical insurance area. Because that’s kind of what you keep saying. “Well insurance pays for it so that means it must be efficacious!”

The fact that insurance does or doesn’t cover something is not evidence of medical efficaciousness.

I understand chiro quack shit the same way I understand crystals and essential oils quack shit. It’s all just quack shit.

What I don’t understand is why insurance actually pays for chiro, at least sometimes.

Wow there’s a way to prepare for it? Please share the details. I’m still on “stumble out and get blindsided by it all again.”

“Bad person” is like a qualification at this point. I’d take JV Dunce over this raging geriatric kleptomaniac paycho and his blitz of nonstop carnage. Seriously, Vance is weak. He will step into Trump’s shoes and promptly begin melting.

Why he gotta speak ill of the potato

“Not learning lessons” is a pretty mild way to put it.

The only way it isn’t pure evil is if we allow that the alcoholic is not in control of their actions. And if we allow that, they cannot be trusted to drive, or really to even have their freedom. They are 5150, plain and simple.