Posted by ceejayoz 2 days ago
Politics is whatever happens to irritate some detached and ignorant tech bro.
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/education-financing.html
Far from from 'most', we find literally none except for Luxembourg ($33k), which being an extremely wealthy and tiny nation is not that much of a surprise; and is otherwise an extremely outlier.
On the other hand, the UK, France, and Germany are all beaten by Alabama [yes, that bastion of education], at $15k PPP (you can't, of course, forget to apply PPP calculations to the US states you are looking at if you're going to apply them to European countries). This is, btw, very consistent with the average income in these areas, too - Alabama is around or wealthier in PPP terms than the UK, France, and Germany as well.
Stop misinterpreting "my body my choice" as permission for those with infectious diseases to purposefully spread deadly diseases.
If you have AIDS, you do not have blanket permission to spread that disease to anyone else. Thats a violation of consent, bodily autonomy, and inflicting direct harm.
My Body My Choice means YOU do not have the RIGHT to infect ME with your deadly disease you contracted. It's my body, and you do not have permission to take your gunk, and infect me with it. Wear a mask.
And stop spreading misinformation with zero cited sources.
Someone's being dishonest here; vitamin K conspiracy theories long predate COVID.
2014: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15749
2015: https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/newsroom/news-releases/2...
> There were calls to force people to get vaccinated against their will.
We've done this for decades (https://www.kff.org/other-health/state-and-local-policies-on...) in all fifty states. If you went to public school, you were forced to get various vaccines. Many states even require it for private/home schooling.
> The 'my body my choice' crowd quickly changed their tune.
That's what happens when your choice impacts others.
You'd be pro-choice, too, if pregnancy was airborne.
"We" do it because governments want to reduce the cost managing an outbreak. Not because it is good for everyone who takes it in some absolute sense. I mean, such measures are enforced without taking effort to assess individual RoI, because that would be more costly than managing the outbreak.
Governments and establishments ("We") don't give a shit about your health beyond your ability to vote and pay taxes.
Yes, that tends to be the case for policy that impacts several hundred million people. We know what a world without vaccination looks like; it wasn't that long ago.
> Governments and establishments ("We") don't give a shit about your health beyond your ability to vote and pay taxes.
Antivax influencers, though, are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
Made no such claim. Why are you responding to something I didn't mention?
Ironically, I did not claim you did.
Past elementary school, we do start learning that rhetoric isn’t always accompanied by a “the author means x when they say y” explanatory box.
Teen pregnancy drops dramatically: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/09/nx-s1-5777587/teen-birth-rate...
Women die in childbirth less: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/study-higher-maternal-deat...
I’d love to hear your theory on the casual link here.
The same issue there; we see a similar drop in birth rate in countries where abortion is neither legal nor "normalized". So again, what's the causal theory here? How have you ruled out changes in sexual education and access to contraceptives from the equation?
> Demographers cite access to education as the strongest predictor of fertility rates. Oxford researcher Max Roser, for example, has documented a 40-80 percent reduction in fertility rates associated with 0 to 6 years of primary schooling. The corollary proves the point: Birth rates are dramatically higher among women with less education. In Chad, for example, women attend school for an average of just three years, and only 14 percent complete middle school.
> Similarly, critics cite abortion as a factor in declining fertility rates. But the demographic literature is decidedly mixed about any such association. To the extent that studies have documented a correlation between higher rates of abortion and lower fertility rates, the effect appears to be insubstantial.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/05/19/5-facts-a...
> Still, Africa is seeing a decline in fertility. The UN projects that its fertility rate will decline from 3.9 to 2.8 by 2050, dropping to 2.0 births per women by the end of the century. The region’s fertility has already fallen substantially from its peak of 6.7 births per woman in 1972.
African abortion laws are… not very permissive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Africa
> As of 2019, 45% of women of reproductive age in Sub-Saharan Africa live in countries with highly restrictive laws, 47% are under moderately restrictive laws, and 8% in countries where abortion is broadly legal.