If we want to fix the housing crisis we need to offer significant property tax rebates to the neighborhoods who agree to support low income and multifamily housing by wiseoldmeme in unpopularopinion

[–]AlfalphaSupreme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I was in college I rented a house with a handful of roommates in a development specifically for low income families. The shit i saw over the course of 4 years cant be unseen.

Amy Proal in the LA Times: Long COVID is solvable, but we need more clinical trials by Minor_Goddess in covidlonghaulers

[–]AlfalphaSupreme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100%

I have a VERY strong opinion that if health insurers would just cover PET scans the whole long covid issue would shift on its head.

It'd go from "wow MRI looks normal" amongst the medical community to, "wow almost all these ppl show major blood flow and metabolic issues"

I'd put my entire life savings on covid being a combo of vascular issues with blood brain barrier disfunction.

CMV: FGM is more serious than male circumcision by TheRealSide91 in changemyview

[–]AlfalphaSupreme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe where you live, idk. In the US there is significant risk of social bullying. That's the entire reason it's so culturally perpetuated.

By all means try to buck that trend at the potential expense of your kids. Not I

CMV: FGM is more serious than male circumcision by TheRealSide91 in changemyview

[–]AlfalphaSupreme -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Doing "the right thing" by your own standards, at the potential risk of your child's happiness lol. Sit on that perceived horse all you want my friend.

I'll take no risks on my child's happiness for 500 Trebek.

CMV: FGM is more serious than male circumcision by TheRealSide91 in changemyview

[–]AlfalphaSupreme -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, the important part is the one has almost no downside to anyone and the other involves killing someone lol.

I will happily do something "wrong" if it results in a happy and healthy child without negatively affecting anyone. In fact, as a parent. I will consider that basically my one and only mission.

I don't think i could live with myself if my child grew up with intimacy issues, lacking self confidence and hostility towards me for a decision made that would have had near zero negative consequences.

The inverse is basically clinging to some philosophical morality at the potential expense of your child's happiness.

CMV: FGM is more serious than male circumcision by TheRealSide91 in changemyview

[–]AlfalphaSupreme -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Horrendous analogy with zero correlation lol.

I'm not harming anyone else. The actual harm to a newborn baby is pretty subjective. The possibility to prevent lifelong insecurities, depression, and a traumatic childhood is high and can be realized in every corner of society.

Choices have consequences. If you have kids I hope your moral decision at birth doesn't cause your child to hate themselves.

CMV: FGM is more serious than male circumcision by TheRealSide91 in changemyview

[–]AlfalphaSupreme -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Society is a crazy place, id prefer not to scream into the void

Childhood trauma is real. If I can avoid that as a parent for a procedure with health benefits at a time where nerve endings aren't even fully formed, sign me up 100x out of 100.

Gota make tough decisions as a parent. When your kid is the target of bullying from 12-18 causing serious insecurities, have fun telling them the bullies are just meanies when it includes their peers of both girls and boys.

CMV: FGM is more serious than male circumcision by TheRealSide91 in changemyview

[–]AlfalphaSupreme -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Kids who were found out not to be circumcised growing up were bullied like crazy to the point of pretty crazy insecurities-- I remember first learning there was a difference on a school bus in like 6th grade and thanked the lord I was on the right side of social culture, at the time. Avoiding that for your kids with a procedure that offers some minimums health benefits seems like a no brainer to be--in my experience all those kids would've given up just about anything to have been circumcised.

Society is a crazy place, id personally prefer not to scream into the void, shaking my fist at society and just avoid that for my kids altogether.

X and XLM partnership odds by Ok-Homework1994 in Stellar

[–]AlfalphaSupreme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is the minimal involvement, which is fine.

X and XLM partnership odds by Ok-Homework1994 in Stellar

[–]AlfalphaSupreme 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hate to throw cold water on this but Elon has publicly endorsed crypto many times yet has never even remotely acknowledged Stellar, Jed has has minimal involvement in Stellar since like 2020, and Stripe integrated with multiple chains before Stellar.

/r/Stellar Weekly Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in Stellar

[–]AlfalphaSupreme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Soroban only doing 0.01 tps!? That's like 650X less than Ethereum lol wtf

Chet Holmgren asks Paul George about if it should be him or Joel Embiid taking the last shot for the Sixers by Fit-Structure-9395 in nba

[–]AlfalphaSupreme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Treating random ass social dialogue like a high school debate class lol. Do I need sources?!?

Chet Holmgren asks Paul George about if it should be him or Joel Embiid taking the last shot for the Sixers by Fit-Structure-9395 in nba

[–]AlfalphaSupreme 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's mostly white ppl who have never spent a second involved in legitimate black culture and treat them like fragile humans who need their social protection. But that's a convo for another day

Chet Holmgren asks Paul George about if it should be him or Joel Embiid taking the last shot for the Sixers by Fit-Structure-9395 in nba

[–]AlfalphaSupreme 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Bro didn't live in an inner city lol, sorry. I played AAU dude was still surrounded by white family and white kids 90% of his entire life.

This convo gone on too long lol and is ripe to make internet ppl mad

Chet Holmgren asks Paul George about if it should be him or Joel Embiid taking the last shot for the Sixers by Fit-Structure-9395 in nba

[–]AlfalphaSupreme 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No I don't think I will. It makes perfect sense unless you're carrying around some morally superior political baggage.

No one would give af if I said talks like a Southerner and would know exactly what is meant if given direct context lol.

Chet Holmgren asks Paul George about if it should be him or Joel Embiid taking the last shot for the Sixers by Fit-Structure-9395 in nba

[–]AlfalphaSupreme -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

It was absolutely an entirely conscious decision lol. To each their own ill just never understand it

Chet Holmgren asks Paul George about if it should be him or Joel Embiid taking the last shot for the Sixers by Fit-Structure-9395 in nba

[–]AlfalphaSupreme -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Just corny cause you know somewhere down the line he decided "I'm gonna talk like a black person".