The deflection here of course is that it is far easier to prevent cancer through proper screenings than to cure already existing cancer. However, that would make it necessary for society to invest in some level of universal basic healthcare, so that is right out the window
Honestly, I'm pretty sure if you can cure cancer you have such a firm grasp on gene manipulation you can prevent most kinds of degradation from the aging process. So it might happen, but I think cancer will be a side effect of that process, not what people are actually researching it for.
Liberals are often like people who cheat on others in a relationship, they assume that because they are doing it, everyone is doing it. It's the same way that they assume communists are lying or gaslighting them or that we are saying what we are saying just to hold some sort of moral high ground, as if that is what is important, and not the literal human lives at stake.
Imo, it comes out of having to sell the partition of India and Pakistan as 'natural religious divides', and then selling hindivatu nationalism as the 'deep spiritual ancestry' of a country that was historically multiple petty kingdoms with a myriad of faith traditions, with one of the most historically overwhelming not being a unified Hinduism, with is a faith practice that attempts to amalgamate myriad traditions into a singular whole that reifies a singular ruling elite and was typically practiced by the upper caste, but Buddhism, which came as a response to Hindu elitism or local animistic/ancestral faith practices and of course areas of Islam sprinkled throughout.
That and it created an anti-colonial 'spiritual alternative' to baby boomers who understood that capitalism was eating their lives but still had communist brain-worms, or baby boomers who were extremely successful under capitalism but had rejected Abrahamic faiths as being too 'impure' (as they actually understood what was being talked about, nothing helps faith like not understanding what the fuck is actually happening). Basically, people who don't actually understand what karma actually is.
It's the military contractors that are getting the money more that the actual military. That said, the U.S. military itself is primarily made up of the worst kinds of dullards and sociopaths. The smart ones, the real psychos, use it to transition to the private sector as soon as they can.
Jewelry is real art. It's just one of the arts most wrapped up in human exploitation. But you can make jewelry out of anything and it is literally one of the oldest forms of art.
I hate hate hate this stupid racist framing. Quite often our safety standards are worse than those in Asian countries. We get videos from Asia about accidents because they bother to record and publish them as examples of what not to do! In the U.S. we don't even standardize placing cameras on machines, and do not publish these videos unless forced to by a court of law. It is only in Fortune 500 manufacturing that you really see safety culture enforced, and they were the ones who set up much of the manufacturing in Asia.
America will not re-industrialize because we stumbled into becoming an industrial power, and those who understand how industry actually develops are nowhere near the levers of real political power. Wages will stay where they where they are because the rent will remain high and the workers have to be able to make rent to live near the factories. And companies will continue to take government incentives that remain untied to production, squirreling away the money. It's just not going to happen.
Agreed. I'm saying they bit into the area and influence of other older organizations in the Church. Specifically I personally know that the Jesuits and many of the monastic orders were not huge fans, as they saw them as a 'modernizing' influence on the Church. Not socially liberalizing but getting the Church more directly involved in secular affairs.
Yeah the factions are complicated, particularly in that the very conservative monastic factions tend to be the most against the Church turning directly to fascism because fascism comes from a more liberalized (in the economic sense) root.
As well, the big thing is that Opus Dei is a new organization, at least in terms of the Catholic Church. And being new and modern, it decided to rapidly expand it's scope and interests, cutting directly into the power and influence of other older sections of the Church, who clearly didn't take it too kindly.
It would be nice if she had a more comprehensive understanding of theory, particularly economic and industrial, God knows we have too many activists and humanities in the mix. But she is doing good things, not bad things, and that is enough for me.
I doubt it is coming from the processing machinery itself. It may be coming from the process itself. The plants, on their own, don't contain that much lead, but at some point in the process the protein from the plants is concentrated, and that process also concentrates the lead. Could have something to do with the chemical or physical filtration process, and it may be the case that it needs to go through an additional filtration process to either reduce or eliminate the lead (or they are unable to do so at this point in time).
Whatever the case, adding processes is extremely expensive, often exponentially depending on how many lines you are running (multiple lines going down to do the same kind of retrofit means that you are probably hiring contractors and not making money while you are doing that). Without regulation and punitive measures, firms will slow-roll this kind of thing as long as they can get away with selling it.
Because they think that there is significant indigenous resentment against Maduro to create an easy "kick in the rotting door, and then the real insert idealist government here take over" scenario.
Literally that is the narrative that is circulating online, especially in online Spanish speaking spaces (because, shocker, poor Spanish speaking Venezuelans in Venezuela (who are Maduro's primary base of support) aren't going to have a huge online presence and thus will not be heard).
For alot of 'became politically aware after October 7th' types (not this poster specifically), this is going to be their first time dealing with the horseshit surrounding Venezuela and Maduro (who is not a particularly fantastic leader, but still better than any reasonable alternative). They are likely going to think whatever the internet groundswell is because that is honestly how many of them came to understand Palestine.
My policy is to let others deal with that level of social media engagement.