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Entertainment is getting worse and you're getting old. The media landscape has fractured, and there are no dominant cultural touchstones anymore. You're looking for media in all the ways you used to, but everything is different now. There is still plenty of amazing long form content on YouTube, and lots of great movies. You have to do more seeking now, though, where before you could just open up YouTube or turn on the TV

Ok, then criticize the Israeli government. We'll wait...

Dude. The New Age crowd started all this, with their "all natural" remedies. California was at the center of the anti-vaccine movement prior to the right losing their mind about vaccines during Covid

And "you people" are incredibly presumptuous

Yeah sorry, was just stating the rate. I've also never known anyone who's gotten measles. While there may be hundreds to thousands of cases each year in a given country, it's still only a few out of every million people

Ireland had 49 cases over Jan-Jul of '25, for a rate of 9.6 per million, 50% higher than the US

When you look at the variability in cases per year over the past 20 years, it's clear you can't tie this back to one person. He's a total idiot who is going to make things worse, for sure, but the anti-vaccination movement on both the left and right predates his involvement in politics by many years

Someone who is on the fad "carnivore diet" and who is also eating vegetables is actually on the "omnivore diet"

It really does, and it's more likely to turn people off from doing this than encouraging it. I already eat a low meat diet, and there's not a chance in hell I'd ever use this word to describe myself. This reeks of vegans coming in and saying "look at this cool new diet we invented!" when it just describes what much of humanity already does

I know it's easy to shit on the US, but the per capita measles infection rate is higher in many EU countries than it is in the US right now. France, for example, had 744 cases from Jan-Jul of this year, Spain had 339, and the Netherlands had 474.

US: 5.6 cases per million
France: 11.2 cases per million
Spain: 6.9 cases per million
Netherlands: 25.6 cases per million

And this includes several more months of data for the US than the other countries

Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

While this is awful, it's also cherry-picked data. There were 1,274 cases in 2019, and 667 cases in 2014, for example. Last year in 2024 there were only 285.

I suspect 2020, which had the lowest measles infection rate in the US in all of recorded history, was so low only due to covid and people isolating much of the year.

Literally no extra steps lol

Just a healthy balanced diet