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  • Productivity isn't important to them, control is. It is, always, about control over people's lives. Money isn't what matters, it's just how they keep score.

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    Swedish minister responsible for the agency countering misinformation retweets Russian propaganda channel - stands by it
  • They also have a personal, psychological need to be "normal". They can't stand the thought that other people aren't like them--or maybe even more importantly: that they aren't like "normal" people.

    Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians talks about this in some detail.

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    Swedish minister responsible for the agency countering misinformation retweets Russian propaganda channel - stands by it
  • Sweden has slowly been going insane right wing (and the rest of Scandinavia too, but more slowly). They failed to treat the Nazis in their society seriously and have allowed racism and conspiracy theories about immigrants and such to fester.

    The right is in this for the long haul, too. When Anders Breivik (aka Fjotolf Hansen) blew up a bunch of people, who did he target? He targeted a camp full of future political leaders. He wanted to kill the next generation.

    Every modern society has Nazis in it but you can't have a modern, advanced, peaceful society if they get any power. You have to fight them and their bullshit wherever they appear.

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    Tim Walz says he's 'sick and tired' of prayers after Georgia school shooting
  • I don't want to argue against mental health services, i think mental health services could be helpful. However, i do want to point something out here: saying this is a mental health problem really doesn't make sense. You know a group that has mental health problems? Women. You know who else? Black people. You know who barely do any mass shootings? Either of those groups. We're not (just) talking mental health issues, we're talking about people who view "shooting up a school" as an appropriate way to resolve their social grievances. You can help that with mental health services, you can take their power away by blocking easy access to guns, but that's a pretty big component here as well.

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    Telegram Sparks Outrage Over FAQ Changes Even as Key Language on Private Chats Remains.
  • Signal is E2EE encrypted (similar to Telegram's secret chats but probably better) so it's less vulnerable. If people know about it they can ask Signal to ban you, but they can't just passively spy on everything.

    That said, XMPP is better still IMO.

    (Edit: centralization isn't as big a problem as you might think with Signal. The wealthy own the whole world now. You can't set up somewhere outside their jurisdiction, you can only stay ahead of them as they force people to stop hosting you. Sending a takedown to Signal is the same as sending it to your hosting provider, do not fool yourself. )

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    ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • Man, in lots of places the you can't even get the name brand so at least there's that.

    I have heard, don't know how true it is, that hospital pharmacies have first shot at the supplies so they're less affected by stuff like this. For what that's worth.

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    ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • It's funny because a lot of people really like Vyvanse (that is: lisdexamphetamine) better than the alternatives. It was only made because the DEA wanted fewer people to take regular amphetamines and then a bunch of people responded well to it and the DEA went "wait! Not like that!"

    Anyway, it's on generic now. The only reason there's a shortage is the DEA.

    (Before you say "I'm not in the US and we have a shortage, too!" the drug companies killed all their production lines because the DEA basically gave them an excuse to try to force people off Vyvanse and onto meds that were still under patent.)

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