we blame government for being inefficient when it is under-resourced, so we strip it of resources to make it more efficient.
@interfluidity hahaha! You actually believe the government is under resourced. Haha. It would be over resourced if it wasn't for 2 things.
1. It sticks its nose in and focuses on things it shouldn't, to the detrement of things is should focus on.
2. It grossly mismanages the resources it has.
It buys ounces of good to cover pounds of shit and you think its worth it cuz the ounces make you feel good.
@Phil i think you are blind to how much you rely upon it, and how much better our world could be if we did much more with it. perhaps we’ll see.
@interfluidity I rely on about 35% of it and pay 50.1% of my income in taxes for it. In my lifetime it has added a huge number of agencies and departments and programs. I did just fine before they were added and dont rely on a single one of them.
@Phil have a nice flight. (replacing reliable, high bandwidth fiber with flakier, lower bandwidth starlink makes total sense.)
will that hurricane hit?
is that drug safe + effective? (it’d be better if FDA were faster. many clinical trials—including of unpatentable compounds—should be publicly funded. we need more people evaluating new pharma. more, not fewer, resources.)
enjoy giving your kid Vitamin A and hope for the best after their “study” tells us vaccines cause autism.
@Phil@freeatlantis.com@interfluidity you twist facts. The fiber is having problems so starlink is being used (free) as a stop gap measure.
The FDA is wrong as often as not, faith in it is unwarranted and the sense of safety it gives is false.
What if giving so many vaccines so quickly does contribute to Autism? All the NIH website says is that the issue hasn't been studied. FDA has tried to discredit the idea with studies on individual vaccines. This is deliberately misleading as this says nothing about cumulative
@Phil the issue has been very extensively studied.
@interfluidity NOT the cumulative effect. IT ABSOLUTELY has not. I have an autistic son and have read everything the government has put out and it has not been studied in any kind of reasonably thorough way and what studies they do have are by vaccine companies which have a conflict of interest and some if which are proven to cheat on studies and trials.
@Phil do you have any reason to suspect a cumulative effect of vaccinations over all the other cumulating factors that have changed over time? i do know, for example, autism diagnoses have continued to rise even after childhood vaccines were stripped of thimerosal that had previously been alleged the cause. i’m not saying some difficult-to-detect cumulative effect is impossible. i’ve no idea why anyone would especially suspect one, though.