This chart is taking into account situations where a person shot or attempted to shoot multiple unrelated people in a public setting. The stereotypical mass shooting. I really don’t care what someone is going through, my sympathy for the poor and disenfranchised does not extend to indiscriminate murder

Do you really not get the difference between “the chemicals are the same chemicals” and “nuh uh?”

I’m ignoring it because you don’t really have anything to say besides “we don’t know what the health effects of lab grown meat will be” when it’s quite literally exactly the same as normal meat. It’s like complaints about GMOs. The process of producing it may be different, but the physical material that you consume is literally identical on a chemical level. It’s nothing like cigarettes.

Wrong. Doctors lied about it for years when it first came out and long after

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Counterblaste_to_Tobacco

Some doctors may have been wrong, but that doesn’t mean nobody knew cigarettes were dangerous. I’ll save my time and assume that if you’re this unabashedly wrong about this, you’re probably as unabashedly wrong about everything else too

What’s the actual difference between a cancer cell and a normal cell, aside from the fact that cancer cells don’t kill themselves? Is cancer from a cow transmissible to humans?

People knew the effects of tobacco for centuries, actually. But also, it became widely known as soon as it started being widely investigated. I have the same argument about vapes all the time. Within like 2 years cigarettes went from being something prescribed by doctors to something that everyone knows gives you cancer. When something is as heavily scrutinized as vapes or lab-grown meat, you can be damned sure the effects will be widely understood within a couple of decades

What is in lab grown meat that you reckon is harmful?

In this very thread, like six parent comments up, it was already established that China is not communist

I wonder if there’s a reason why I said “the vast majority” and “legitimately implemented”

Nah I’m sure I only picked those words because they sound nice

Not necessarily, it could just mean that the vast majority of the time it would be legitimately implemented, a larger country that doesn’t like communism spends a lot of time and money interfering with it

I wish there was a way to explain this without making it sound gross, but get some saltines, chew em up, and sneak the pill into the mash in your mouth before you swallow

Considering almost every one of my ancestors for the last few hundred million years managed to have sex at least once, I’d say it’s pretty remarkable how I’ve managed to avoid it so far

State Capitalism

a political system in which the state has control of production and the use of capital.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism

? I’m not defending anyone, I’m calling out bullshit when I see it

I don’t really care that you like watching kids through their bedroom windows or whatever

If that doesn’t accurately describe your views, no worries—I said “or whatever,” so it’s fine

These articles are useless without a damn list

If you didn’t want to put words in someone’s mouth then you shouldn’t have said something like

You actually believe Microsoft will launch this and then everybody will be hacked or something.

Reminding myself that I am not the worst ______ a professional has ever seen really helps a lot. I’m usually pretty far down there, but like. At least I’m not the actual worst.

He also has a habit of making videos that are just long ads, like that self-driving car, or that shampoo

Sharing users’ mental health information with advertisers and connecting LGBT users with Christian faith-based therapists are the two big issues I’m aware of

The electricity one wasn’t so much him being wrong as it was him being really bad at communicating that one point

Imagine spending 40 billion dollars on one of the most recognizable brands in history, so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that any other company would throw virgins into a volcano for a chance at that level of recognition, just to replace all of that branding with your own little name that everyone has been telling you sounds stupid for the last 25 years