- Moobythegoldensock ( @Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ) English59•2 months ago
I’m a doctor. My job exists because nature hates you, and we can do better.
I have to hold my tongue when patients tell me they don’t want vaccines because they “want to do it naturally.” Fuck nature. Nature made polio, and polio paralyzes children. Nature can kiss my ass.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) English15•2 months ago
your wish has been granted
- Hegar ( @Hegar@fedia.io ) 19•2 months ago
You could just as easily say nature wants empathy, cooperation and collective action. Also that tool use that Mr Frum seems so fond of, nature wants that too.
But of course the nature doesn’t want, it just is.
- Semjaza ( @Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ) English15•2 months ago
Pretty sure that “dead by 50 thing” includes all the infant mortality.
I bet he’s also using the stats from peak mortality of European late middle ages with urbanisation but no good sewers.
- rimjob_rainer ( @rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ) English6•2 months ago
I wonder how the stats were in the stone age.
- Semjaza ( @Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ) English5•2 months ago
Me too. We have plenty of bones of people who lived into old age with signs of disability or having been crippled.
But the overall stats not only do I not know, but since we only have a relatively minor number of data points it’s hard to really say any of us will ever know.
What we have does tend to point to being better than a medieval city iirc, and I think the general consensus amongst anthropologists is that the transition to agriculture saw a decrease in life expectancy.
- RandomVideos ( @RandomVideos@programming.dev ) English5•2 months ago
Shouldnt fire and cooking meat count as science and technology?
- Semjaza ( @Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ) English1•2 months ago
That too.
Even the humble napped flint.
- considine ( @considine@lemmy.ml ) English14•2 months ago
Is that David Frum, speechwriter to the Bush Jr administration? Writer of speeches about the axis of evil? Writer of speeches to whip up frenzy for an invasion of Iraq? An invasion based on lies? That David Frum?
- TheReturnOfPEB ( @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ) English8•2 months ago
nature doesn’t want for anything
nature is everything
- Nicoleism101 ( @Nicoleism101@lemm.ee ) English3•2 months ago
I hate when people manipulate me so obviously. I feel insulted. It’s like intellectual groping