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  • No. He was discussing something technical and linked an article by uncle bob, someone tried to argue about uncle bob being a bad person. kovarex said that him being a piece of shit doesn’t mean the technical thing he is describing in the article is wrong.

    This is a really forced smear campaign against him that’s being pushed by russian and tankies accounts of Wube came out in support of Ukraine.






  • I mean I know that long wait times exist in our system, but I’ve personally just never experienced them.

    I broke my arm a couple years ago. Got to hospital around 8pm. Got painkillers immediately and a bed on the triage ward, stronger painkillers within 30 mins, got x-rays, consulted and then a Ketamine injection and had the arm set and bandaged within 3 hours, then was scheduled for surgery the next day when the non emergency surgeons are in. Went under at 11am the next day, had a plate put in and stiched up and was released by 5pm that day, so in and out in <24 hours.

    And it cost me absolutely nothing.

    The longest I’ve had to wait for something was 2 weeks to get a MRI done on my knee after I dislocated it.






  • From what I see most people really don’t give too much of a shit. Sure in leftists circles where people care deeply about other it might be just exhaustion. But to your average person? They don’t really care as long as they come home from work, and zone out to netflix while the mindlessly scroll tiktok for hours.

    Maybe if they consider themselves liberal they will like a couple posts about how bad trump is or maybe even make a quippy tweet, but that’s about itm





  • I think tablets like these are actually extremely common.

    I know a guy I spoke to at the British Museum about cuneiform tablets said they literally just have hundreds and hundreds of them in storage and they are most very mundane record keeping.


  • Nah fuck this attitude, if you ever tried to use Wikipedia for an actual research project you’ll know how dubious those “”“sources”“” can be.

    It’s actuslly an exercise one of my TA friends sets for students when they’re just learning to research things properly. She gives them a claim on Wikipedia and and asks them to find the primary source for it. So they end up spending hours following chains of citations, until they are checking out old books from the library to try and find excerpts that some blog post that was cited in a paper that was cited in a newspaper, that was cited in a different blog post that was cited in another news article that was cited by Wikipedia claims exists, just to find out it doesn’t.

    But seriously, don’t take Wikipedia seriously unless it cites a primary source directly.



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    No I understood the point of your comment perfectly, it’s the old “well we can’t complete fix every problem with society magically overnight with 1 action, so we shouldn’t try to do anything” argument. With perhaps a dash of “you want to improve society, yet you participate in society, curious” thrown in as well.

    Basically if everyone were to have the same attitude as you literally nothing would ever get better.



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    Idgaf he’s a bigot, a cow or a racist. If I like x thing that was made, and them being a bigot, cow or racist does not impact the product I’m buying, then I’m buying it.

    Congrats on perfectly respresenting the core of what is wrong with modern society.

    “If it doesn’t get in the way of my mindless consumerism, I’ll happily support people who are openly racist”

    People like you, more so even than the bigots themselves, are why society is turning to shit.