Isn’t that all owned by the City? If they didn’t sell it off last century when they were almost broke they aren’t going to do it now…
Trump park after SCOTUS rules in favor of his lawsuit for wrongful prosecution.
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For GJ’s post to work it doesn’t need to be the case that communist countries were better at preventing childhood mortality. It still points to capitalism not being the reason for the drop. And the USA has had loads of socialism (education and science) and technology (the real cause here) has advanced in socialized environments (whether they are US Universities or in non-capitalist countries) perhaps more than through capitalism.
Point being a throw away sarcastic comment here as if it is something obvious is unjustified.
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Dunno about Slovenia, but looks like a handful of countries doing best where they might stay the fuck away from other folks a lot. Maybe cos it’s frickin cold (…or the people are).
Iceland, Finland, Norway, Japan, Slovenia.
Beh, it’s the medical science bros who deserve this W.
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I literally don’t know who GJ is defending or who simplicitus is attacking here. Arguing why child mortality has gone down in the last 100 years seems to be a great way to pick your favorite reason from a long list of reasons all of which require much more information than any of us has to get close to the right amount of credit to give them. Like, how liberal does a US research university have to be for you to give more credit to Socialism for it instead of Capitalism?
It’s a lot more than that. It’s food. It’s stuff like tractors that make it so farmers don’t have 12 kids and put them all in the fields.
eta: and when medical science bros figure out that malaria or cholera kill people it’s still engineers and labor and government organization and funding that drain swamps and build sanitation systems.
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Simp is the one who took a position on the cause. All anyone else did was say that’s not the only reason. It doesn’t make sense for you to respond to that with “oh yeah, the other thing isn’t the only reason”.
Not sure if this is something Ive heard before and is wrong, or if its right, but don’t females in general have a higher constitution than males?
This might be the one I read
Mars vs. Venus: The Gender Gap in Health - Harvard Health Publishing - Harvard Health.
Are phone calls supposedly from CVS a scam now? I’ve been in the US for two weeks and I keep getting them
Well, my wife certainly believes that she responds to illness with strength, dignity, and a stiff upper lip, while I respond to the slightest sniffle by crawling under a blanket and whimpering for days at a time. So, at least in our household, that’s just an accepted truth.
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Infant mortality is a fuzzier statistic than you might think. The USA and Canada generally count more extremely premature births (which have a much higher mortality) while other countries have requirements like 500g. That matters when you’re looking at things on a one in one thousand scale.
That’s not to handwaive away USA issues around pregnancy and health care, especially regarding black women and babies, just to point out that these numbers are more limited than what you might think
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I responded with the actual difference GJ was making a big deal about. Which is a very small difference.
Central Park is nominally public of course, however much of the maintenance of the park is borne by the Central Park Conservatory and that gives that group (rich people from uptown basically) quite a bit of leverage over park policy and use. Call it pseudo-public. Perhaps ironically this probably gives some insurance over that type of park development. At any rate, most other city parks are riven with highways and golf courses.
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I think this sentiment is expressed in 95% of married households, true or not
131 posts were merged into an existing topic: Is the economy good or bad, and what is the economy, and how much should a person care about it
His first stroke came in 2020 and he blamed it on stress after Trump. Hopefully, the third time’s the charm.
https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1781010153451729355?t=3r37JwqQb4O44hLDB0t0dg&s=19
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People don’t talk about this enough.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1781277311867683309?t=L3MveZYmH4eJ_TIelpuJBA&s=19
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