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This. Their goal isn't logical consistency. It's to confuse every individual issue to such a degree that there will be conflicting court cases, at which point the supreme Court can step in and rule in the least democratic judgement possible.

I'm not sure why they get to set the standard for what people need to conform to, but somehow never have to make any compromises of their own.

There have been studies that indicate that people who are not exposed to varieties of people constantly tend to not recognize faces and/or facial expressions on other races.

There are also studies that indicate that white patients are more likely to be prescribed painkillers when they're in pain, whereas black patients are more likely to be thought of as exaggerating.

I've had instances where I, as a white person, got immediate access to great medications. My black coworker, same illness around the same time, was told to take Sudafed and other OTCs.

The numbers also don't lie. Maternity mortality is higher for non-white patients. Surgical outcomes tend to be poorer. Follow care tends to be less stringent. It's across the board.

On one hand, there are some systemic things that can explain this. Drug interactions are kind of presumed to be identical for all races when you control for race, but that may not be the case - we may just be averaging out to a measure that is no longer useful. So biological differences, ability of the doctor to identify pain/issues, willingness to believe the patient, and all sorts of other things play in just as much if not more than overt racism.

I think you're right if the goal is to stop them all together.

But what we can do is stop people from sending them around and saying that it's true/actually the person.

Once they've turned it from a art project into a weapon, it should have similar consequences to "revenge porn."

Especially when you take into account that he's currently dealing with accusations of fixing his books for preferential bank and insurance treatment.

Most arguments about wait time are conflating two issues: how long from when you check in to when you see the doctor, and how long between when you try to make an appointment and the date of that appointment.

The US system is not terrible for wait times on appointments, and depending on your type of insurance it's not terrible to see a specialist. But there are some niche practices that are horrible wait times, such as endocrinologists.

The US system "solves" the office wait time issue by dinging doctors for spending more than 7 minutes per patient.

Federalize their national guard, then.

They're misusing military resources for political maneuvers. If the supreme Court does not order them to stand down, or if they refuse such an order, then it will be a necessity.

This is a very nuanced issue, and I won't be able to explain my thoughts without someone whatabouting it.

And while you're right, it is absolutely insane that we blame individuals for the exploitive nature of society.

Kids are expensive because businesses realized they could charge whatever for everything and then run ad campaigns about how bad of a parent you are for not buying their product or service. Simultaneously cutting every public, infrastructural component that used to support parents.

I thought the same way as you until recently.

A lot of times when we fly, we have to rent a car anyway. Once that's factored in, driving often winds up being cheaper.

Did a ten hour drive recently. Gas for the whole trip wound up at about $300, including driving around up there. Which is close to what we paid for a car last time we had to rent, plus the gas for the rental.

Wonderful in theory, but in practice it's a dumpster fire. Quick, mainstreamm-acceptable takes are incentived, and nuanced, alternative viewpoints are nearly impossible.

If it were all for hobby stuff, it would be fine, but when this is how most people get their news, it's not good.

The reason we haven't had a redo of the French revolution, despite having a more fucked up tax system and higher economic disparities, is because the massively rich wised up. They don't go in public very much.

Private parties, private clubs, etc. if they do anything in public, it's a minimum of several hundred dollars per person so that normies can't afford to even look that direction.