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@timo21

Thats an awefully big blanket statement that is just simply not true of all of the rich, and frankly quite rude to a group of people many of whom have given back in ways that are far more generous than most.

As with any group there will be selfish assholes, as well as very generous people. To paint everyone with the same brush simply for having been successful, with no care for what they did or didnt give back is.. well, hyperbolic and short sighted to say the least.

That said, againit was largely meant to be a joke with a hint of truth. But yea if you want to discuss it seriously I dont mind. But villanizing someone **only** for being successful is a bad look to say the least.

Interesting fact of the day. USA isnt just the wealthiest country in the world. it is the wealthiest by a huge margin.

Here are the numbers:

Total household wealth by country:
United States (30.8%)
China (18.6%)
Japan (5.0%)
Germany (3.8%)
United Kingdom (3.5%)
France (3.5%)
India (3.4%)
Canada (2.5%)

That puts the USA well ahead of even China, the second largest.

For comparison USA has 50% more total household wealth than all of Europe combined.

@timo21

That was the joke, obviously. They were stupid on purpose, for comedic effect.

@timo21 So what your saying is we are the richest country, and the reason is our tax code.. Though im sure you imply it isnt a good thing.

Reminder, mroe than half of the top richest people in america were not born rich. They come from middle class and below homes.

@lovelylovely

The far-left needs to do better. They are probably the biggest driving force pushing Biden/Democrat supporters away to third-parties and even to Trump...

We (the left) need to stop with the internal toxicity against every criticism. Our Toxicity is going to be our downfall and is the only reason Trump is on the radar at all right now IMO.

@ambihelical

In the bedknobs and broomsticks it is called "Star of Astoroth" and is as pictured int he attachement.

The "seal of astaroth" (different spelling) is the center part of the image in the OP. It is one of the seals of solomon from the grimour the keys of solomon.

What is interesting is the seal is intended to cast real magic,much as is the theme of bedknobs and broomsticks.

@unabomber As if i couldnt hate this president any more already... lets hope he makes the right decision here.

@nathanlovestrees

Agreed, as well as reconstitution :)

@randahl ID he cant even keep his mouth shut to save himself 83 million imagine how he acts when it isnt his money he is loosing.

Interesting fact of the day. The movie Big is the only movie on the Disney platform promoting pedophilia in a comedy format.

@Raccoon

One prime example I can give to the nuance is your statement about variants. You seem to be under the false impression that quarantines would have resulted in fewer variants around today. The reality is quarantines can in fact increase the number of variants due to the conditions needed for new variants to become established in the population, which is assisted by small isolated groups of people more than large interconnected populations where there is no isolation.

It again comes down to the nuance of how new variants come into existence and become established, its not as simple as people think where it just happens spontaneously and then it exists. Variants usually require multiple mutations occurring in a series and need to become established so they must **locally** out compete the dominant strain and reach critical numbers before being released to the general population.

Keep in mind this is very different than other types of viruses, where recombination can occur in a single step.

@mcnado

@Raccoon

> As someone who was actually crippled by the disease, I do think that you underestimate how serious a situation things were in 2020, especially when you say there was overreaction and panic.

I am sorry you've been crippled by the disease. :(

I didnt say it was overhyped at the start of the disease. Depending where in the timeline of the disease we are talking there were points where I would agree, particularly in the early days, it was at times under-hyped. It wasnt until it became political that the misinformation and over-hyping kicked in, which didnt come until later in the disease lifecycle.

More quarantine was not the answer, never was. But better hospital care and supporting care certainly would have saved lives. There is always room for improvement.

> There were people in the government literally arguing that we should allow the entire population to be infected so that we could move on as quickly as possible, while doctors were screaming at them that there was no evidence that people couldn't have repeated serious infections, and that we didn't know what the long-term consequences would be.

Actually I am one of the scientists that invented one of the algorithms that is fairly instrumental in this part of the discussion. I worked on a model for the DoD many years ago that models disease proliferation in populations. It can model the effect of vaccine, quarantine, and natural immunity.

To be clear, no doctors were not screaming for more quarantine, I was literaly one of those people part of the discussion (and fairly well known in the scientific community a a result). I can tell you as an authority as one of those Scientists, no we werent all screaming for more quarantine. In fact it was far more nuanced than that.

@mcnado

Im wathcing the movie Big. Thereis a scene where a bunch of corporate management are in a room having a meeting. There is only one woman and half of them are smoking cigarettes in the meeting.

Such a strange thing to trigger my nostalgia, but i remember when it used to be that way.

@lonelyowl yes, waking up naked next to your 2nd cousin usually does the trick.

Just took my 2nd dose of Ozempic (2nd week)... here we go....

#Ozempic #Semiglutide #Diet

@realcaseyrollins

Not relevant when it comes to humantarian aide anyway... and considering the fact that israel has been acting like absolute savages the more this progresses their excuses are running thin.