• The Bard in Green
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    7 months ago

    I actually met this mother fucker in Mexico in 1999, giving a talk on habitat preservation at Lagoona San Ignacio to a bunch of C list celebrities who were there to support the Natural Resource Defense Council and it’s efforts to stop Mitsubishi from building a salt extraction plant in the middle of a gray whale breeding sanctuary (super good cause).

    I was there with a bunch of high school students who’s rich white parents paid for them to go on an expensive ass field trip to watch whales fuck (and do eco protest activist tourism). Coincidentally, the NRDC was there too and they got really excited to invite a bunch of American highschool students to their media shindig.

    RFK Jr. got SUPER drunk and gave a sloppy, rambling, barely coherent speech, thanking people for their generosity. The kids were like “WTF is up with this dude? We’ve never seen grownups act like this!”

    We did get to hear some really cool marine biologists talk about gray whales. Then one of THEM (Roger Payne, I think) got really drunk too and told us “Whales are people damn it! But you can’t publish that! You can’t fucking publish that!”

  • Kalcifer
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    7 months ago

    […] ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine […]

    I’ll be honest, I don’t really understand this one. I’d guess that this is likely some hold over grudge from COVID, but I don’t really understand why it’s still a concern to get, presumably, more open access to those drugs. Aren’t we long past that conversation? Feels like beating a dead horse.

  • Kalcifer
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    7 months ago

    […] raw milk […]

    I’d support raw milk being legal for consumers to purchase so long as the manufacturers of said raw milk could be held to account for harm caused to a consumer who purchased it under the belief that it was safe — likely, this would also mean that, if it isn’t safe, the product containing raw milk must otherwise display explicit warnings. I think a person should be allowed to take take their own risks.

    • @[email protected]
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      157 months ago

      And parents are held responsible if they give it to kids

      Insurance should also not need to cover sickness caused by it

          • Ginny [they/she]
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            107 months ago

            I also think insurance shouldn’t cover cancer treatment for smokers. Or diabetes treatment for overweight people. Or broken bones for skiers. Or literally anything for anyone who has ever done anything bad for them. /s

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              Why shouldn’t they be able to sue cigarette companies or companies releasing unsafe products?

              Why should my insurance be higher whilst cigarette companies are benefiting off their shit marketing

              • Ginny [they/she]
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                17 months ago

                One reason why people have historically had trouble suing tobacco companies is that non-smokers also get lung cancer. While we can say for sure that smoking makes it more likely you will get lung cancer, it’s generally impossible to say any one person’s lung cancer was caused by smoking. This is in contrast to say, someone who injures themselves climbing, where it is definitely 100% on them.

                The real answer of course is that you’re paying for it either way. Insured people pay absurdly over the odds to offset the amount of money lost on people who accrue medical debt and can’t afford to pay it off.

          • threelonmusketeers
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            17 months ago

            What if a child were given raw milk by their parents? Should a child be forced to pay for their parents’ decisions, potentially with their life?

          • @[email protected]
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            77 months ago

            What is it with this americans aversion for raw milk, it’s not like you’ll fall down dead if you drink it.

            Do you also burn your salmon and cook your meat?

            In france there are lots of cheese (no really?) and many are forbidden for import to the USA because of stuff like raw milk. Guess that’s why we have the watch coming by getting all the dead babies every tuesday.

            Maybe I’m missing something, please do enlighten me!

      • Kalcifer
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        17 months ago

        And parents are held responsible if they give it to kids

        Imo, only if it can be proven that the parent is being willfully negligent regarding the safety the child.

        Also, if a product that claimed to be safe, but actually wasn’t, was purchased and given to the child, then this responsibility should fall on the producer only.

  • @[email protected]
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    607 months ago

    Fucking FDA and big Pharma having a stranglehold on vitamins, exercise and su-…and …sunshine…

    • @[email protected]
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      657 months ago

      Oh, he knows. They took him on an airplane and made him eat food he had just called “poison” for a photo shoot.

      He couldn’t say no, because of the implication.

      • Liz
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        177 months ago

        Obviously if he did say no, they wouldn’t make him eat it. But the thing is, he’s not gonna say no, because of the implication.

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
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    257 months ago

    Can’t wait for deregulation to result in a tech bro reinvesting his Facebook money into an Uber But For Psychedelics startup that incentivizes mixing 9% more sawdust into my shrooms to maximize yield

    ancap-good

  • GHiLA
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    37 months ago

    “Fuckin-A!”

    vape

    “not that!”

    swipe

    “awww, damnit.”

  • Ænima
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    147 months ago

    Start growing your own food, boil rain water for clean water, and avoid close contact with others for the next four years then? Can’t wait to hear about all the cases of preventable diseases, contaminated foods, and new, deadly viruses we get introduced to once these clowns take over…

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      If they break that infrastructure the long term impact won’t be immediately evident, which means the impetus to fix it will match that of climate change.

      And last way longer than 4 yrs. Took Biden 3 yrs to fix Trumps fucked up economy.