I just refuse to order off Uber Eats or Doordash. Does that count as not punishing the drivers?

I get that you’re trying to do a reductio ad absurdum but your post really falls flat on its face.

The Roman Empire no longer exists in any shape or form.

The United States of America is a surviving institution that has continuity to its darker history as it pertains to slavery.

The problem is not simply that slavery is causing some sort of moral taint; it’s that there are still institutions today that continue to have advantages that stem from the unjust practice of slavery in the US.

Ugh, gig workers need to be brought into some semblance of a minimum wage. Uber and Doordash are just techstortion.

Informed consent laws were around well before The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out. I think there were earlier publicized examples of subject mistreatment (like Tuskegee) that already pushed the field to be better.

23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks.

Sorry guys it’s my fault. I canceled my D+ from my Hulu account when the prices went up. Didn’t realize Disney would stage a full-on takeover of Hulu to get me back.

You have it half right.

Our healthcare system is fucked.

Our insurance system is quite profitable.

For Boston specifically, they could rebuild the Long Island Bridge, which before its demolition was a usable footpath for addicts seeking treatment to get to Long Island, which at one point housed a hospital and even after the hospital’s closure offered facilities for those in need including a homeless shelter and rehabilitation programs.

The area the article discusses, called politely “Mass and Cass,” is also referred to as “methadone mile” and it does not really have comparable facilities to help those in need. Methadone mile sprang up when the BU medical center became the only real place where addicts can get treatment to try and wean off their drug addiction, and it’s a real problem even for the addicts as there is very easy access to genuine opiods.

Stressful street living + constant presence of dealers + no facilities besides a regulated hospital = a really fucking impossible way to kick your addiction.

Methadone mile needs to go. Boston also needs the neighboring town of Quincy to stop fighting the rebuilding of the Long Island Bridge.

It’s almost like our entire world of modern technology is inextricably connected to the economics that support it.

Oh cool, is there anything similar for lemmy?

I love the fediverse, but it hasn’t fully solved the migration need problem. If I open an account on an instance which I later discover I don’t like, I have to migrate for that as well.

The point as I see it is just limited to who do I want to follow, and what platforms can I use to do so? If bluesky turns to shit in a decade, but I get value out of it for that decade, maybe that’s enough for my needs.

(FWIW, I am not on bluesky)

I don’t have a great perspective on Israel and Hamas but all reports seem to be converging on the point that Bibi failed Israel and may have also deliberately fucked over Gaza.

Just Google it, the advice you always hear when the other person is shutting down any more conversation. What an unfortunate result

They’re also very well crafted to force the narrative down one narrow, black-and-white path.

Mint was my first, Pop is my current and fave.

Just remember to check your favorite Steam games on protondb.com to see how well it runs on Linux.

I actually appreciate this article. I’m not near where I need to be to invest in solar, but the details of the corporate fuckery that goes on in rooftop solar providers is helpful to learn.

That “college friends” line always bugged me. I keep in closer touch with my good high school friends then I do with my old college friends.

What an odd way to say the same thing twice in those last five words

Lmao the dude was calling America a hellhole, not discussing global warming.

This comment has major “God sends hurricanes to punish the gays” vibes