You kinda have to ignore replicators for most of this to make sense. They should've just let replicators be either microwave ovens or 3D printers instead of being apparently able to replicate anything.
What's really strange to me, is that for all the expertise around dentistry, AFAIK there has never been an actual evidence-based study for how long and how often you should brush and floss.
Its literally the most important piece of dental advice they could study, and no research has been done. How much plaque builds up on average when only brushing once per week, once per month? It makes me question the whole discipline and wonder if they don't just say "brush 10 times a day" in order to sell more dental products.
Maybe they'd discover that actually you only need to brush twice a week, and floss twice a week. Maybe it ends up being flossing every day, and brushing once a month... who knows.
I recently finished reading Losurdo - Liberalism, a counter-history, and it really illuminates a lot of the core hypocrisies of liberalism. Basically every single one of their ideas doesn't apply to those considered outside the "community of the free", and they explicitly state as much.
So the primary liberal philosphers (Locke, de Tocqueville, Bentham, Franklin, Jefferson) and the main liberal countries (england, netherlands, US), believed variously in mass-imprisonment for the poor (the panopticon), suppression of speech, imperialism, colonization, enslavement.
If I were to boil it down, Losurdo thinks that rather than "individualism" and the freedom of individuals being the primary tenet of liberalism, its rather the master/slave or owner/servile distinction that is the core tenet.
Yeah pretty much. Even some people selling themselves as leftists substitute anti-semitism and "jews control everything" for a class analysis, because anti-communism is so deeply ingrained. One random example I was reading about recently: Father Coughlin.
You wouldn't be yelling CONTEXT if this were a quote from a white supremacist like David Duke 30 years ago, whose views also haven't changed. Admit it to yourself.
You kinda have to ignore replicators for most of this to make sense. They should've just let replicators be either microwave ovens or 3D printers instead of being apparently able to replicate anything.