What a stupid example of false equivalence. The opposite is true. The Apollo program led to huge technological advances that also led to advances in medicine.
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Yes but you see, funny tweet go haha facts irrelevant
I don't think I would call Buzz Aldrin "boring."
I wouldn't call him anything. He's got a mean right hook
And that's sober. The rest of him gets mean when he isn't.
Neil was boring by most standards though. He was a boy scout with a death wish. Later on he got interesting by his hometown's standards and painted his barn purple.
He gets to live life being known as "Buzz".
How does life get better than that?
Watch out, he’s a fighter.
I wish we would fund both. And socialized medicine.
And end hunger and homelessness.
And
And
And
We could. But think of the shareholders.
I think of the shareholders, board, c-suites, and all of their friends every time I gaze upon my Guillotine.
we would all be 'shareholders' of public services for public good.
That sounds like less money in my bank account, and how am I supposed to feel superior towards my lessers without denying them wealth that I only actively support due to my aforementioned superiority complex?
You are a stock holder. Your entire pension is mainly in stocks, i can guarantee it.
Wish granted. Instead of giving 3% the annual military budget to nasa we give 4% now. The new research in physics helps everyone and advances our society.
But just like with every wish there was unexpected bad side and it's that even tho shareholder profit didn't increase in the short-term, in long-term they got better lives too due to trickle-up economics.
Funny joke but I dislike the "boring men" part. NASA was THE example of "women in STEM" at the time.
How many women have been to the moon though?
Allergy immunotherapy is absolutely a thing.
Allergy desensitization therapy was invented in 1911. It's just that your insurance company doesn't consider it a 'necessary procedure', so they don't pay for it.
What kind of success rates does it have?
You're failing to understand the lack of hayfever on the moon
You can have a moon allergy, though, and that's basically moon hayfever.
When's the pollen season on the moon?
I think you are missing the obvious cure handed right to you. Funding should be increased so you too can be free of airborne plant reproduction via the most sensible and straight forward method.
If you are unhappy with the scenery, I am sure the technology developed for lunar habitation will also prove helpful for polar habitation, where similarly few natural particulates are dispersed.
You can get sprays to completely alleviate symptoms. And if it's a severe case you can take injection. There's also inmune therapy to permanently cure it.
I am the first guilty of not going to alergologist for years. But after I started to go each spring I have it completely managed.
Well that would require us to be in a society that values scientific research and investing in the public interest.
Unfortunately we are living in an age of deception and greed.
Of course we should care for the vulnerable in our society. Of course.
But may^yyybeee^ if touching grass kills you, you're supposed to die.
if touching grass kills you, you're supposed to die
So like, inspire of the fact they need it, your saying 2/3rds of Lemmy needs to die?
That's crazy. There's no way 2/3 of Lemmy uses Emacs.
Whoa whoa whoa! We were all having a good time joking about killing people and you had to bring religion into it.
But mayyyybeee if touching grass kills you, you’re supposed to die.
like, i don't know this, but maaaybe a lot of allergies are symptoms of us living in a modern society, instead of in the woods. that makes a whole lot of differences and actually does some changes to our immune systems somehow. don't ask me the details though, they're nasty and hardly comprehensible.
I'm pretty sure allergies are due in part to our crap diets. I changed my diet to one with only food my thrice great grandparents would recognise, also very low carb, no modern vegetable oils, and my allergies vanished (seasonal rhinitis) or became minor (cats)
I am pretty confident that mRNA vaccine research is going to lead to the cure for the common cold along with cancer, Parkinson's, MS, etc.
We already have an effective AIDS vaccine now. We are getting really close to stopping a lot of human suffering. This is probably why the current administration is trying to pump the brakes.
the current administration is pumping the brakes not because they're trying to stop cancer from being cured, but because they're dumbasses who have no idea what they're doing. don't suggest they're intelligent enough to actually understand the outcomes of their own choices.
But they're also not completely ignorant either. They're just greedy, and don't care about much else.
I do not think they are dumbasses. They understand very well that "pumping the brakes" can start negotiations with people who have infinite deep pockets and are willing to let them have a little extra so the infinitely deep pockets stay that way.
Self-enrichment is a powerful motivator.
Like Nixon, when he helped privatize healthcare. Playing Dumb (and a little crazy) has been a schtick for republicans for 60 years. I wish there was a website with all the crazy shit republicans said and did in public, maybe I need to start one....
Reeks of toxic desperation.
I mean... I wish I could blame the guy for not going to the doctor (Americans will do anything but try going to the doctor), but we'd also rather put people on the moon than give free at the point of care Healthcare to people...