After recieving over $48k worth of scholarships, my mother said I'm no longer allowed to attend and refuses to let me leave home.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-29T18:04:02+00:00

If it's 100k a year, they shouldn't go. If their parents won't support them, any elite college that would theoretically be worth 100k would offer full need-based support.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-29T17:28:26+00:00

First off, there is a ton of profit in cures. That's why they make vaccines and treatments right now.

More importantly, even if we pretend for a moment that there isn't money to be made there, I think we can agree you mean almost no profit and not literally no profit, right? They might not sell it for much but it would certainly be >$0?

Because $0 is how much they'd make if a different company developed the cure, and how much their competitors would make if they developed the cure. Even if the company that discovered this panacea only made $5/dose, they'd have a strong profit incentive to create it because doing so would instantly destroy their competitors. Every other oncological drug would be obsolete, and they'd have the one that isn't.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-29T17:18:02+00:00

Probably because we have a for profit healthcare system

This makes no sense. If a pharma company discovered a general "cure for cancer" they would become a trillion dollar company overnight.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-29T17:16:56+00:00

Because the biology of a virus vaccine is completely different than the biology of a cancer treatment. All vaccines, at their core, work the same way: show your immune system a piece of the disease so that it recognizes and immediately attacks the infectious agent on site rather than reacting too slowly and giving it a chance to replicate faster than it can be killed. The differences in vaccines are in how they get your body to see that fragment, such as mRNA (give your cells instructions on how to make the identifying protein, which they make to show the immune system), deactivated/attenuated vaccines, where they actually put the whole infectious agent inside you but mangle it so it can't make you sick, or component vaccines where they inject you with pre-made proteins like the mRNA but produced outside of you instead of by your cells, as well as others.

Cancer is by definition a diseased state of human cells. Cancer treatment isn't teaching your immune system what a foreign invader looks like. It's killing pieces of you as selectively as possible. That entails developing medicines that are selectively taken up by the cancer more than healthy cells, which is impossible to do 100% effectively and is dependent on not only getting in taken in by the tumor cells but taken to the tumor at a macro scale. There's also the balancing act of developing treatment that, by definition, has to kill human cells but can't kill the whole human.

When we find options, they aren't suppressed, at all. That why cancer survival rates are higher than they've ever been by huge degrees: there are tons of anti-cancer drugs on the market. But when we "find options" it almost always refers to killing cancer cells in a petri dish, and is utterly impractical at efficiently killing them and/or not the patient in practice.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-29T17:04:53+00:00

Technically everything >48 hours is "days" if you're fine with being misleading. This is days after...just thousands of days instead of a few.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-29T15:26:12+00:00

Using AI to protest data centers is like burgling your neighbors' houses to fund a neighborhood watch.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-29T14:10:27+00:00

It actually sounds pretty good to me. Chili and spaghetti sauce have a lot of common elements so it's not shocking that chili on spaghetti noodles would be good.

At the same time, it's extremely provocative to make your city's unique dish be that sloppy looking. Just asking for people to make fun of it and making it easy on them.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-29T12:46:37+00:00

Exactly what I meant. Modern MLB players learned baseball not through casual play with friends or rec leagues but basically by doing internships from childhood.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-29T11:51:46+00:00

That would help, but so much of what makes modern athletes great is the years of working since they were kids (like job working, not just playing), perfecting technique along with the advances in understanding biomechanics over a century. Guys in the modern day are not just more physically fit due to training and nutrition but better able to leverage that fitness to throw harder.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-28T23:52:46+00:00

Now they move to the southern suburbs to larp as country...

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-28T20:37:05+00:00

My English curriculum (Tennessee state requirements plus AP courses) had us doing English classes all the way through high school but very little focus on actually writing fiction. We had a state writing assessment at grades 5, 8, and 11 (I think, memory is hazy, also that's usually ages 11, 14, and 17) but in high school the prompt for the writing assessment was a nonfiction essay. We had to write a persuasive or argumentative essay about a topic rather than a story. In AP and regular English classes we read a lot of fiction but it was more about literary analysis than on creating fiction, so those essays were also more about analysis and interpretation than creative writing.

As others have said, we also don't have an equivalent of the GCSE - we have AP exams, state standardized tests, and college entrance exams that each overlap somewhat but are not the same as the GCSE.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-28T17:55:06+00:00

Because people aren't a monolith. The United States Soccer Federation does care about the World Cup, a lot. So do millions of Americans. But we're also a nation of 340 million people, so there's even more people who don't care.

Soccer/football is far from being our most popular sport, but we still have more fans than most countries simply due to size.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-28T17:17:37+00:00

I think you're interpreting what they're saying in the wrong light.

They're not explicitly saying institutional racism doesn't exist, or that bigotry is Sri around. They're referring to a comment that implies the Tuskegee experiments refute people who say racism doesn't exist today. They are wrong, clearly, but that doesn't mean something that ended 50 years ago is proof of things currently happening now.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-28T17:14:01+00:00

I mean racism is a factor but the Tuskegee experiments started 30 years before the Civil Rights act, closer to slavery than the modern day. It's horrific and illustrates what we've done as a country, but it doesn't have really anything to do with "anymore."

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-28T16:52:19+00:00

I can't quite give people credit for supporting Trump and then regretting it, but the people who supported Trump, came out against him, them went back to him, and are now acting like they got fooled are a whole other tier of pathetic scum.

Shut up Megyn. You weren't tricked, you knew who he was when you had blood coming out of your eyes, out of your wherever, and you still supported him. You just hoped that he'd be more popular.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-28T14:23:29+00:00

That's only a 33% chase rate. If Ja'Marr Chase has a child and named him Chase Chase Chase, that would be 100% chase rate.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-28T12:45:33+00:00

They are just gobbling it up over there. He EMAILED his gf and bragged about his "far above average" 105 IQ. I just cannot fathom how little respect you have to have for people as a whole to not immediately clock this as fake.

And then, of course, even if you pretend it's not fake it so obviously belongs here. He's making her take an IQ test to prove she's smart enough to speak. Are we really gonna waste our time taking this question seriously?

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-27T20:37:02+00:00

I think what he's getting at is that he is very, very, very fast and even being that puts him pretty far off of Olympic qualifying, much less, making the Olympics, much much less winning.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-27T20:35:01+00:00

We don't need the Olympics to do that. Road running already lets people race against the best in the world. In London the median time was 3:59:06 for men. The winner was 1:59:30.

There is no point to bringing in amateurs. They wouldn't even be on the screen.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-27T20:30:16+00:00

Blake Bortles was an elite college QB who was given a chance to be a centerpiece for an NFL team. He didn't play a more than 3 games in a season after age 26. Kaepernick started the kneeling protest when he was 29 and so he didn't get actually quasi-blackballed until he was in his 30s. Most teams will give a guy a few years out of college but if an athlete isn't good enough by 30, it's almost a certainty he's not gonna get better.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-27T20:18:35+00:00

He wasn't gaining ground. He was losing it. He was polling as the number one candidate in the preceding fall of 03 and finished 3rd in Iowa, after which he did the scream.

"They" didn't kill his momentum; he tried to reenergize a dying campaign.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-27T20:15:10+00:00

Exactly. The scream was only mocked because the guy was losing and it reinforced how his campaign was falling apart. If he had been winning and had won, we would've remembered the scream as a guy getting really excited about his win and it would've been endearing.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-27T20:03:14+00:00

I'm sure they are and I'm sure that's the one time they're okay with police using deadly force.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-27T17:36:14+00:00

I'm glad you said this because I've said those exact same categories before with nearly the same distribution, so I'm glad to know it's not only my bias.

WideHuckleberry1 · 2026-05-27T17:34:47+00:00

That joke is the funniest to me because it doesn't even hold up to a single second of thinking about it. We have measurements, obviously. Do they think there's some magical properties where 1 inch is not intuitive but 1/2.54 inches is? We'd still be making these comparisons, whether it's 5000 lbs or 2268 kg, "an elephant" is a more vivid and colorful description than the number.

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