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NeonPunk posted:Nah. Back then, they didn't know any better. actively reverting to conditions before public health or sanitation or medicine were a thing so that the tiny percentage of people who benefit immensely from an obsolete economic system can continue to collect ever-increasing rents
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Kylaer posted:Real horror isn't recognizing how bad things are, and how much worse they are likely to become in the near future. I think people use this thought to make themselves feel better about how lovely things are but like, it just doesn't work that way. okay sure people in the past had it worse in various ways. poo poo still massively loving sucks and is only going to get worse now. the rich surely love us gaslighting ourselves by saying 'well I have air conditioning and a fridge so my life is better than a medieval peasant's, at least'. Even if it's true it's not a very helpful thought imo.
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NeonPunk posted:The real horror is that we *do* know better and we are actively making things worse for us all 
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I started the new COVID thread may god forgive me
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empty whippet box posted:I think people use this thought to make themselves feel better about how lovely things are but like, it just doesn't work that way. okay sure people in the past had it worse in various ways. poo poo still massively loving sucks and is only going to get worse now. the rich surely love us gaslighting ourselves by saying 'well I have air conditioning and a fridge so my life is better than a medieval peasant's, at least'. Even if it's true it's not a very helpful thought imo. "Surely things were much worse in the past" I tell myself as I'm strapped to the cow catcher on Warlord Scabrous Scrotus's war rig.
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Sex Arse of Calais posted:
Right, that's not what I'm saying, I'm just trying to provide perspective. It's terribly saddening how bad things are and how much worse they're likely to get, but it's important to remember just how resilient humans are as a species and what conditions we're capable of enduring. And I may read that book, sounds interesting. BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:infant mortality & labor associated mortality need to go way up before we get there. People back then still got old, but the averages were dragged down by dead babies, mom's, and kids Exactly. The maternal mortality rate for the U.S. is (statistic from a couple of years ago) ~24 per 100,000 births, and that's considered a great shame on the U.S. compared to the rest of the developed world. Premodern statistics are harder to find and vary greatly with location and era, as might be expected, but I've seen estimated numbers in the range of 1 in 50 all the way up to 1 in 30. 2,000 to 3,300 per 100,000, for an equivalent presentation of the statistic. And that's mothers dying, not infants. Infants do way worse.
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 quote:Vice President of the Korean Vaccine Society Ma Sang-hyuk wrote in a social media post on March 16 that, “The adults who have not yet been infected with COVID-19 are those who have interpersonal problems.” Source
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Trixie Hardcore posted:I started the new COVID thread may god forgive me sorry but im going to ignore the new thread until the posts there start growing exponentially
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Better no friends than no friends (because they all died from covid).
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if you've never caught the clap you're clearly a sexless loser who isn't loving enough
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we did it we beat roni forever and the world is saved *puts finger to earpiece* https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3997695
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