In fairness, also of Communism and Military Dictatorships.
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For as far as the info available, I would say that yes, it was the parent's choice. I get it. Some may disagree with me and that is fine. People are allowed to disagree with me.
Closer to where I live we have some Mennonites and they chose to not vaccinate either at all, or at least only the ones that are far more serious. I doubt they may say no to a rabies vaccine. That's my guess, though.
It is their choice. Not going to march into their communities and call them all a bunch of idiots. They are all adults and parents. I have no right to tell them how to raise their kids, small risk or no risk.
Hey, I think you are replying to me? But Iwas not the one who said, "in the long run," that was the poster above me.
I did not make that claim. But nevertheless, if I may, 25 years from now, is a long time. I agree that many things can change. But right not, when it comes to privacy, the next 5-10 years do not look good.
I use Linux on all my machines due to privacy, and tech background, I like Linux, and because I support FOSS. If you do too, we are less than 5% of all users, likely closer to 4%.
I use Firefox based browsers, and if you do too, we are less than 4% of all internet users. Closer to 3%.
If you use the Fediverse. The entire Fediverse cannot be more than 100 million. I posted elsewhere that all Lemmy users are less than 433,000, total. We are likely under 20 million or maybe a tad more? FB has like 3 billion. Twitter has hundreds of millions, I believe. Even Bluesky is like 32 million. Feel free to fact check me on that, it has been a while since I last checked.
Everything is turning into subscriptions services and at least in my circle of friends, when I mentioned the fact that people have bought corporate microphones that listen to everything that they say, with clips of those going to corporate, they all accept it as fact, but there follows this weird uncomfortable cognitive dissonance where people accept it but do not want to really think about it because they like asking Alexa for weather alerts and to play music, etc. And they are all fine with it. When I deal with normie people, they are 100% on board with giving away all privacy if it saves them a click or two. Maybe in 25 years it may be different, but this is not changing in 5 years. That is for sure. Maybe not even 10 or more. The majority is likely to not really change in that time. Since tech trends are heading into even less privacy, in the aggregate.
Does he get pay for playing games for 8 hours?
At the risk of sounding callous, since a life lost is sad, it was their choice.
Article says that its been 2 deaths in 10 years in a country of over 320 to 340 million+. If those two deaths had happen in 2025 alone, the absolute risk of anyone dying, vaccinated or not is about 0.000000589%. Now divide that risk over 10 years and even compensating for a smaller US population, we are now talking astronomically small.
Like, if someone is worried over those odds then they would not be able to move or exist, rationally. Sometimes people have bad luck. I come from a 3rd world country and when I asked the parents, they said that measels was never seen as a serious disease by anyone in the aggregate. So to me this whole story comes off as a bit like fear mongering due to orange man bad.
To be fair. I wanted to look for any studies re: Vaccination risks, if out of sheer Scientific curiosity. And surprisingly, there seems to be a lot of reluctance in people wanting to do solid, well powered research on this topic, outside observational studies. But found one in the internet archive. Feel free to take a look, the scope was 2 years and obviously pre-Covid. Certainly wish there were more or better studies. These are not just for the MMR shot:
Death - Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines - NCBI Bookshelf](https://web.archive.org/web/20190310003733/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236284/)
"VAERS began operation in November 1990. By July 31, 1992, there were over 17,000 reports in VAERS, almost 11,000 of which concerned vaccines covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Of the total number of reports, just over 2,500 of them were considered to be "serious," which is defined as the following: the patient died, suffered a life-threatening illness, or suffered a reaction that resulted in, or prolonged, hospitalization or that resulted in permanent disability."
If you get them from OnlyFans, there is a non-zero chance they may come with STDs, too.
There was no real Twitter exodus to here. Most users came and went back. Or ended up in Threads, stuck there since FB will delete their IG account if they delete their Threads ID or BlueSky and even that last one is starting to go down already. Peak was Nov, 2024.
Lemmy Stats: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
BlueSky Stats: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
I think you overestimate the normie mindset. Most people want a heavily curated, walled garden and silos which high-end corps provide, if sold under convenience. Most are not going to go around looking at say Lemmy or Mastodon instances and pick and decide. Most people who use WhatsApp can barely switch to something that does not utterly spy on them despite the fact they know that Meta spies on their Meta data. FB is wretched but it has billions of user, alone. Doubt it will be the fediverse.
If this is to be believed, all Lemmy users do not even break 433,300 users total. Unless I am reading it wrong.
This seems to be their privacy policy as this site leverages an American website/services. They have a blog if anyone wants to check it out.
Luckily no. Have earings, never regretted them. Have a tattoo I drew myself that came to me in a dream, which seemed pretty timeless, at least to me. Still happy with it and of where it is.
Thought of getting more tattoos, but glad I never did. Never could come up with another design I would be 100% content with, or that I was certain that I would never outgrow. I had friends and ex-partners that got tattoos on a whim or impulsively, getting a tattoo can be fairly cheap, getting a tattoo removed can easily be thousands of dollars. And that is assuming there is no scarring.
Would you actually need a Bugatti to be content? Like your life would somehow feel incomplete without one? Or is just a nice to have, sort of thing?
The wage slave part, I think, we all get. One of my biggest fears when I was young was to dread going to work every single morning or be staring at the clock due to hating the job, while waiting to get out. I had to make some really hard life decisions when I was young, as to avoid that.
When you say business, you mean being self-driven and self-sufficient? Or was there a specific type of business you wanted to do? Also, sorry to hear about the challenges, sure skills are a huge factor, but the one thing that gets overlooked in stories of success is that there is a large chance or luck factor, as well. One can do everything right, and still fail. Specially if you do not have a cash windfall to back you up.
The being rembered is a good drive, but 99.99% of all people will not achieve that in the way most Invision it. You would have to be highly unique in some way, what are you unique at, if you do not mind me asking? I mean, being a good person and being truly loved by those that matter to you is a great way to be remembered. I guess, a question is of how would you want to be remembered or by whom? And if that is realistic.
Money is good for the safety and security aspect, sure. Some land is always good. But in my experience, going after money is mostly a fool's errand. Since once you get in that treadmill, and it is a treadmill, there is no end to it. You will never have enough money, unless you have an exact amount, now, where you will stop at and that is doable/actionable. Or, you will never be fully satisfied by the money angle. There will always be more money that could be had. I have never met anyone who is driven by profit or money being content, aside some fleeing ego boost for bragging rights to shallow people. Ironically, money should usually be a side effect of living the life that you want, and not the main drive. Some of the most successful people that are worth remembering were usually not driven by money.
Aside very close or intimate relationships, depending on the acceptance of others as way to derive contentment is usually not advisable. Finding just interesting people is really not hard, specially in a large city, if you are just looking for interesting people and not 'wealthy' interesting people. Why do you want to be well connected? Favours? Bragging rights? FOMO?
What country in Europe, would you like to live in? Also, what of those things could you start doing now? I am a bit older than you and trust me, time flies. If you want kids you will have to get on that like, yesterday. One of my older best friends had a kid at 43, meeting his future wife a few years ealier, he spent a good chunk of his life building his career, he is now well off, but it dawn on him that by the time she is out of Uni, he will be 65+. He now wishes he could have more time, than money, and not be such an old man by then, and I doubt he will try for a second kid. You may need to highly prioritise at least some of your goals. You may find that your list is a nice wishlist but that you do not actually need to have all of those things to be content. Also, I hardly ever seen, highly money or career driven people who are also good or great parents. There are simply not enough hours in a day, and just buying them expensive things is not good parenting. Two highly career driven parents is a recipe for badly adjusted kids, or even just two overworked parents.
It seems that you have a lot of goals, which are the 3 most important and vital ones to you?
Wow, had not seen this one. Some good talent is going into these.