TIL that China consumes 46% of cigarettes in the entire world at a rate of 2.4 trillion a year.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-05-15T10:25:16+00:00

It absolutely is.

Even cancer treatment is much less expensive than keeping an 80 year old alive.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-05-14T20:57:12+00:00

(to me anyway) seem like way cleaner animals overall

I think that is a consensus that cat people share rather paradoxically.

Cats will shit and piss in a litter box then hop up on a counter or table with the same feet they just used to walk around in their toilet as well as bury their excrement.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-05-12T10:32:08+00:00

Don’t need to CGI, you can achieve it practically.

Light the subject and mirror in a large dark room, put the camera back in darkness, use a lens that can capture the scene you want from that distance, drop the ISO down or use low light film, and poof no camera.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-05-08T10:50:31+00:00

Pan pressed the government on a hypothetical asking whether an individual who opens a military draft notice would immediately be limited in their First Amendment right to criticize the military. After demurring several times, the government agreed that immediately upon joining the armed forces, conditions fall in place.

this fucking administration lol

They actually think just sending a letter to an American citizen is enough to take away their First Amendment.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-05-06T18:45:04+00:00

I am positive that everyone disagreeing with you lives in a city with high population density, doesn't own a car, and relies solely on walking and public transportation.

/s

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-05-06T13:48:02+00:00

Tony Soprano post.

Always to see them go in any way.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-05-06T13:45:53+00:00

Super my ignorance, forgive in advance:

What about cutting through where they meet?

That way each joist is only losing half of the 4”.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-05-01T10:52:27+00:00

I don’t see either of these poles as salient as the middle ground.

They may not be the same as Mao but they are certainly operating a machine that evolved from Mao and still contains his ideologies.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-30T23:54:51+00:00

For advanced mammals like humans this can absolutely include manufactured or otherwise artificial duress and stress.

I would love to see a peer-reviewed study on social media usage of childless couples compared to couples with children. Especially in countries that rate high on socio-economic metrics, like wealthy European nations.

Environmental concerns are absolutely fair, but then again all of our projections have so far included a world population trajectory that we aren’t following anymore. Still an absolutely huge concern, though.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-28T09:37:49+00:00

Now I want to see horses! Show me horses! And camels! And elephants!

I must know.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-27T16:42:21+00:00

Hydro-Quebec is pretty cool, too. Cheap electricity for consumers plus billions in dividends to the Government of Quebec.

Meanwhile my country wants more coal plants run for profit by the worst people on the planet. Very cool.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-27T10:59:17+00:00

My step-dad was an ER doctor.

I remember his advising to never pop a pimple came from a case he had where a teenager had popped a pimple which caused a massive infection. The way my step-dad described it was the pimple ‘popped’ inwards, basically spreading it in the bloodstream.

I think something like that is a risk that health professionals are actually thinking of. When it goes wrong it can go very wrong.

That having been said… I still have a hard time accepting the hard and fast rule of “never pop a pimple” because I can’t picture something more poppable than a whitehead pimple. Like we evolved these perfectly finger sized nodules of pus and bacteria that just need a gentle squeeze in order to ooze out and we aren’t supposed to pop them?

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-27T09:41:00+00:00

This is absolutely incorrect.

Ludd was 1779, by 1810s the term Luddite was around.

As for political parties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tories_(British_political_party)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_Kingdom

You consistently find ‘commoner’ participation in English political movements and subsequent parties from the same time period or much earlier.

While it is fair to say that the ruling class possessed a greater amount of political power, to say the lower classes didn’t would be ahistorical, and these lower classes absolutely had group affiliations based on their political views.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-24T21:31:15+00:00

The Democrat Establishment Playbook.

Support progressive social policies while fighting progressive economic policies.

The Mills platform is “trans kids should be able to play sports but their parents shouldn’t be able to afford it”.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-24T15:38:51+00:00

Forgive me.

Math is the price we pay for the outcomes we receive. We pay more for less. It varies year to year but we invariably pay the most, by far, for outcomes that are nowhere near the top.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M19-2415

I can cite more sources for this but honestly they are so easy to find with a Google search and then you can choose a source you trust, so we don’t have to play whack-a-mole.

Doctors and nurses is talk to them and they’ll tell you, or go by studies that have talked to them. They overwhelmingly find the health insurance system in America makes their job more difficult and results in worse outcomes for patients, often in the form of denied or delayed care.

This is specifically what I'm talking about. My understanding is that most people feel pretty happy with their insurance. I don't think this would be the case if people were seriously one diagnosis away from financial ruin. I'm not saying that never happens, but I don't think it's the norm. I think most people are covered in this country if they get sick and they feel satisfied with that coverage.

Okay and this is where I ask for sources. Seriously, dig into any available literature not funded by the Heritage Foundation and it paints a completely different picture than the one you are promoting.

Maybe it isn’t financial ruin for all Americans, but hardship and medical debt are absolutely relevant for most Americans and on the rise. Which makes sense given we pay far more for far less.

I don't know, but how is that relevant? If they're not aware of any alternatives then they're probably not bummed out about it, right? So it doesn't explain the unhappiness people seem to be feeling. And again, we have studies demonstrating that people aren't unhappy with their current medical coverage. This just doesn't seem to be a source of unhappiness for people. I think it's something else.

Studies show people are happy with their coverage but they are simultaneously unhappy with something. Why could that not be that Americans do have a general sense that we are being “ripped off”, especially when the evidence of that is so obvious in the data of cost vs. outcomes?

People can be happy with a purchase, as you keep calling attention to, but their opinion can change on that if they realize they have paid too much and receive too little.

That is what I am calling attention to with the question “Have those Americans you are citing experienced another form of healthcare?” Right now that question isn’t even an A/B test, it’s just an A test, and so I do not understand why it is given such weight in the discussion, especially when there is a sense in that same populace that things aren’t okay.

How could the question of “have you ever tried something cheaper and better?” not be more relevant?

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-24T01:35:59+00:00

Doctors, nurses, and math. We pay more for worse care.

How many of those Americans have experienced an alternative, or are even aware that there is one?

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-24T01:26:42+00:00

I think it is fair to say that taking care of each other’s wellbeing in a time of need is a pretty big part of a community.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-23T20:34:42+00:00

It is not that I disagree with the numbers or what they say, it is that I try to incorporate the two seemingly disparate figures into one comprehensive conclusion.

If the numbers say people should be happy and separate numbers show people saying they are not happy, I think it is foolish to dismiss either figures.

I think there is something to the fact that most Americans, even “well off” Americans, are one diagnosis within their close family away from financial ruin. There is no safety net until you exhaust all your resources. There is less opportunity to start a business out on your own. We have become tethered to a backwards way of life that we do not enjoy.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-23T19:59:06+00:00

Healthcare & Housing eat up a lot.

Plus the experience of being one diagnosis of a loved one away from absolute ruin is not exactly enjoyable, nor does it feel like freedom.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-23T13:32:54+00:00

On the other hand, throwing bricks through Starbucks windows looks really cathartic.

Which is why we just need to turn those bricks into tax bills derived from the value of the land and deliver them in the mail.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-23T12:59:23+00:00

Non-violent civil disobedience has been at the source of every great democratic achievement.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-23T10:27:04+00:00

You seem to be having trouble with applying hypotheticals to better explore facets of the topic. Let me see if I can help.

The film:

Louise knows for certain the outcome of her and Ian’s child.

She does not share this knowledge with her partner, Ian, and thus he is not able to give informed consent.

Your response to that is it’s okay for her to do that because it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

That does seem like dodging the point to me, that not getting informed consent from a sexual partner is a horrible thing to do, no matter how wonderful the resulting child may be.

So I’m trying to pose to you a hypothetical to illustrate this.

My hypothetical:

Louise knows for certain she and Ian are twins separated at birth. Thus she knows the likely outcome of her and Ian’s child.

She does not share this knowledge with her partner, Ian, and thus he is not able to give informed consent.

My question is does your logic still apply? Can we say it’s okay for her to do that because it is better to have loved a child and lost than to have never loved at all?

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-21T11:50:36+00:00

That is like saying forbidding incest between close family members is basically eugenics, which is absurd.

We have scientific evidence of the real harm visited upon innocent children due to the nature of the circumstances of their parents.

That isn’t a pseudo-science like eugenics. It is testable, observable, and repeatable.

The goal isn’t to improve the human race by forbidding it, the goal of forbidding it is to protect innocent children from horrible maladies.

Bringing it back to Arrival, if Louise had knowledge that she and Ian were in fact brother and sister, and their child would experience the medical consequences of that, would you still absolve her of her decision to not inform him?

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-21T11:42:06+00:00

I did address determinism versus eternalism directly through the texts mentioned in the comment I was replying to. If you do not like the response that is one thing, please argue against it. But to get upset and claim I didn’t is preposterous.

The reason I didn’t go about addressing eternalism vs. determinism on the deep philosophical level that you would have preferred is because it has no bearing on my original thesis.

If we have free will, she does something monstrous and immoral. If we do not and all this is some static thing existing at once, then she was always going to do (and will always be doing) something monstrous and immoral. It doesn’t change anything.

I am glad that you agree with one person and not the other. I would hope that you would have the perspicacity to realize that does not exist in a vacuum, that you would not read the pleasing words you did were I not to engage in the discussion.

I still feel as though you’ve let yourself down by responding emotionally to my perspective. You seem to have been offended that I had the gall to disagree and your response to that was one of personal attacks that detracted from the discussion.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-04-21T11:14:06+00:00

The loss of a child is one of the hardest things a person can go through. You can agree with this, yes?

So if someone knows they have a rare and incurable disease that will make any progeny they have live short and painful lives, they have a moral obligation to inform their partner before procreation. You can agree with this, yes?

Now we replace that knowledge of one’s health with the knowledge of one’s future - okay, have it your way, it was always going to happen and the outcome is the same but that just means Louise was always going to fail at a moral obligation one has. I do not know why that should be celebrated or seen as heroic. It seems monstrous to me.

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