RindlessWatermelon [they/them,he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • Not an epidemiologist, but my understanding is that the reason Covid-19 was so bad, and the vaccines took as long as they did, was because there was no vaccine for anything close to it before (it's similarish to the common cold). A mutated strain, even if it makes it more infections, is still relatively better than a wholly new disease because the existing vaccines might already be partially effective, and will be the basis for new vaccines to attack the specific strain. This means that even if the current speed of vaccine development is outpaced by mutation, that gap will close as vaccine development for specific strains will be quicker now that there is a Coronavirus vaccine. People tend to get flu shot's once a year, and I imagine worst case scenario, people will have to get Coronavirus vaccines around the same time.




  • What I get annoyed by is the ping ponging of arguments.

    Omni: Veganism is privileged and low income people can not afford to eat a purely vegan diet.

    Me: I am a low income person, and if I really need I can make rice and chickpeas which is .25c a serving, and add frozen vegetables as I need.

    Omni: That food is bad though

    like yeah, no shit I am poor. But even then it is way healthier and cheaper than microwave dinners or mince meat, and can be made on nearly any heat source including a microwave. Yes some people may have FODMAP or whatever, but it isn't an excuse for all of the completely healthy middle class people, who tell me vegan is bourgeois, to eat meat.



  • The heirarchy of childhood is not unjust, unlike racism, capitalism etc. but it is still a worthwile part of growing up to allow a child to question, push the boundries of, and subvert the heirarchy, if for no onther reason than to learn how to do it when the heirarchy is unjust.



  • some cops do genuinely join to help people and are not immoral people, at least not at the start. Arguably they are corrupted later on, though.

    That's in line with the most police abolitionist position. The problem isnt that only psychopaths join, its just that some truly evil people arent prevented from joining and that the institution of policing motivates that other officers protect them. A cop that genuinely engages with the community, never arrests a non-violent offender, and deescelates all situations, if one exists is still a bastard if they cover for cops who don't.

    Joining the cops doesn't make you a bad person, but not being kicked out for fighting corruption kinda does.


  • He did the same thing in 2016.

    As someone who represents "the left" to the democrats, it isn't necessarily a bad thing that he plays along.

    This doesn't mean that people should vote Biden, but we can't fault people acting within the electoralist/reformist space for making decisions that support the status quo. That is an inherent part of working within that space, and it is why it is so important to do praxis outside of that space.