Neurologist

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

“minor edits”

Basically asks you to rewrite the whole thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Look up plague poems on bluesky, was posted yesteday author provided source in replies iirc

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you’re healthy.

Sucks to be disabled or immunocompromised or at risk in any other way…

Also, it’s still killing at much higher rates than the flu.

And I won’t even start getting into Long COVID, which I’m currently researching. But it is a major crisis. 2-4 million people unable to work in the US because of it.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

FYI, you seem to be new here and seem not to be far-left. For your future enjoyment of lemmy, note that Lemmy.ML is a communist instance and therefore you may not like some of the content there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

When I was into gym and building muscle mass this confused the hell out of me at first.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not really.

There have been extensive sociological studies over this. Condition in a capitalist society and the promotion of the “homo economicus” model continually reinforces “greediness” and leads to people in capitalist societies being far “greedier” on average.

It isn’t a natural thing, it is conditioned. Obviously everyone is greedy to an extent. But in anthropological examinations of different forms of societies, altruism scored far higher than greediness in non-capitalistic societies.

Kate Raworth, Oxford Economist, wrote an excellent chapter about this in her book called “doughnut economics”. The chapter is “Nurture Human Nature”.

The view that all humans are greedy and rational was promoted by Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill and is the precursing foundation of capitalism. But modern economics have rejected this view as it has been proven to be inaccurate, and increasingly rely on theoretical models built within behavioural economics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

what are you trying to say?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Critical of capitalism ≠ Socialist

There’s a lot of nuance you’re missing out on in this simplistic statement.

I obviously oppose any authoritarian regime regardless of the economic system.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Does this statistic include calories fed to livestock or not?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This fact makes me viscerally angry

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Lac Léman, is the french word for what english people call lake geneva (all the region around lac léman is french speaking).

Léman comes from celtic “lemann” which means lake.

So lac léman is the lake lake. Given it is the biggest lake in western europe, not a bad name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That’s not how these collegues treat them.

They act like you can basically “think yourself out of” most mental illnesses.

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