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  • No, I’d be extremely shocked if every Republican politician didn’t have a huge stake in that company. That’s the point of being republican, right? To get the skinny in the latest scam?

    Yeah, well, this is it. A giant skim, straight into their pockets.

  • The point I was trying to make, though, is from some paper I read a couple of decades ago. Sorry, I can’t reference it, but it basically said that, once a species, such as ours, reaches a certain point of life expectancy, they can then start building what is basically considered, “legacy“.

    Basically, we now live long enough that we understand that, for us to have any concept of long-term survival, we must make and build things that outlive us in both physically and conceptually.

    That’s when they can start building empires because they stick around long enough to create culture and society and then civilization, because we’re finally living beyond a couple of generations, and we have a vested interest in passing down all of what we know and what came before that type of multi general preservation is what creates a culture.

  • Same. Both my mother and my uncle liked to show off their polio vaccine scar. They were proud of it. I’m really glad they’re not like that anymore, but I absolutely am extremely thankful for the wide variety of vaccines available now.

  • I mentioned in another comment that it must’ve been 8 to 10 years ago when I was sitting in the backyard of some bar in Brooklyn, in the middle of summer, where I saw the last one I ever saw. And I was sitting with a bunch of friends, and I pointed out that it was the only one, and that this might be the last one any of us ever see.

    Now I made myself sad