it takes a bit more than you

Remember how I posted about Chilean and Argentinian authorities in Patagonia arresting IDF soldiers who were masking as tourists to start said fires?

Remember when I said that, just a few months before that, Milei had abolished wildlife protection laws and defunded firefighting forces all over the country because this was clearly a coordinated move to burn down Patagonia and sell the land to Israel?

Remember how people called me a nazi antisemite for saying this and called it a conspiracy theory despite all the proof for everyone to see? Despite the testimonies from people who live there who have been denouncing the abuses of these Israeli "tourists" for years? Despite Netanyahu parading around with maps of Patagonia in his meetings?

Infants are given a vitamin k shot at birth because they cannot synthesize vitamin k or get it from their diets, it is vital in preventing vitamin deficient bleeding which can cause death or permanent brain damage. Administering the injection is a bog standard preventative measure done on newborns immediately after birth, usually automatically. More and more parents are denying it and more and more babies are having totally preventable complications in their first 6 months of life just because the vitamin k shot has a black box warning. Doctors are repeatedly trying to explain to parents that babies need vitamin k and parents just keep asking “Why? Why are babies born needing vitamin k? Humans survived for thousands of years before it was invented. This must be a conspiracy.”

Infants, the human life stage notorious for randomly dying with no easily discernible cause. I don’t say that to be flippant, human babies are so incredibly fragile that before the modern era, about half of them died before adulthood. That is a natural 50/50 of making it. Humans did not evolve to be perfectly designed and efficient, we are just functional enough for some of us to survive to adulthood and reproduce. We don’t have to live like that! Looking at the human body through the lens of infallible intelligent design and allowing that to inform your medical decisions is so fucking dangerous.

"Well if childbirth is so dangerous, how did humans survive so long?"

Because 1 in 100 is not an extinction-level rate of maternal mortality, next question.

"What do you think people did before Vitamin K shots if babies are so vulnerable?"

Infant mortality was 16.5% in 1900 and even higher before that, next question.

"Women have been giving birth for thousands of years, don't you think they know how to do it by now?"

Women have been dying in childbirth for thousands of years, next question.

This meant that most of the "income" of a poor household went to maintaining their family line, which basically neutralizes any chance of betterment of self or situation.

This also meant that the mothers in these households would die in their 60s or earlier, if not from complications of childbirth, then from the fact that it's not a gentle process for the body, and doing that once every two years for a decade or two is a brutal thing for even the healthiest woman.

Because we CAN do better than that, because the average lifespan of a well maintained human floats more like in the 90s, because we have the power to do better we MUST

this was on Y'ALL to pick a better candidate to back in the primary because WE FUCKING TOLD Y'ALL

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

Murderbot chronically finding new scientists/travellers to claim as “clients” (whether paid or not) like one of those sheepless herding dogs that goes around finding sheep (or anything else they can herd like a flock of sheep). Like it clearly has a protect humans instinct and a desperate need for enrichment.

German politics decided to massively fuck over every German who needs therapy now or in the future (as a means to lessen the financial burden on the public health insurance, completely ignoring human dignity, and actual input of people working in this field)

If this thing goes through we basically loose any hope to ever receive mental healthcare.

The "Psychotherapieverbund" started a petition

That can be signed until midnight of the 9. Of July. Please reblog if you have German followers and send it to all Germans you know, so we can help our dear clusterfuck of a government to make the right decision.

And from this I’ve always drawn two conclusions:

To always distrust Mr. Beast and his ilk who always want their acts of charity done on film, because the people who really want to do good and have no motives to do it besides the doing it never want recognition for it, and