Saw him last week. He’s doing fine.

We have this implemented in Russia. Free breakfast, lunch and the afternoon tea with sweets/pastry for elementary kids. And very cheap meals for everyone else. Yeah, it was the same in the USSR, but not in the early days of RF. They only returned that policy a couple of years ago. You don't have to be a first-world country, you don't even need successful economy to take care of your kids. Because who else will? Kids are more important than anything.

Did you visit eastern europe?

When we watched it after the fact on YouTube she had the same amount of screen space as the actual halftime show. Seemed kinda odd at the time honestly because it gave her more screen time than Rihanna but she killed it.

Okay. To each their own.

I'm not disagreeing or arguing with anything you're adding to this conversation.

All I'm saying is that the idea of stem cell research has been rolled into the wedge issue of abortion as a way of our corporate overlords to divide and conquer us.

California provides free meals to students. If I remember correctly it started ~1 year ago.

Of course you have

Ugh sorry. I'm terrible on my phone and covid brain. Fixing now

Of note:

This “stem cell treatment” is a bone marrow transplant. The procedure itself comes with a 10% mortality rate, which is why this was only done because this man had HIV AND a serious blood cancer that would have killed him. His donor had a rare mutation that makes him resistant to HIV, which is why this has functionally been a cure. Most people will not qualify for this treatment unless they are very unlucky, and even then you have to find a matching donor who is resistant to HIV. But the good news is that this treatment cured his HIV and cancer!

A handful of people have been cured this way.

BUT THERE IS BETTER NEWS:

The HIV treatments currently available are expected to give people living with HIV COMPLETELY NORMAL LIFESPANS.

Additionally, with these medications, most people can become undetectable, meaning their HIV is controlled to a point where they have too little of the virus to spread it to others!

EVEN BETTER:

We now have PrEP, which is a medication that can prevent infection in the first place. If you’re a gay, bi, or other man who has sex with men, or you have a partner who has HIV, or you use injectable non-prescribed drugs, you meet criteria for PrEP and can take a pill a day to prevent HIV.

Pho is an amazing dish, really underestimated

Look, I'm a stem cell researcher, I'm doing my PhD in this, so I'm fairly familiar with the backlash against embryonic stem cell research. Bone marrow stem cells really aren't part of the controversy, and haven't been at any point. Some of the research into bone marrow stem cells has received criticism because it sometimes does use fetal tissues, but that's again separate from bone marrow stem cell donation and use for medical purposes.

thank you!!

Very true, but remember you're citing fact and nuance, two things that have nothing to do with the "Pro-Life" movement.

That's embryonic stem cells, while this man received a bone marrow stem cell transplant. Bone marrow stam cells come from adult donors or (if the patient is a child) from umbilical cord blood.

This is actually a different type of stem cell altogether. It’s only the type that matures to become white blood cells, can be your own or from a donor. It’s a treatment that comes after extremely intensive chemotherapy for people with cancer when there are no other options.

Source: it’s mentioned in the article but I also just finished this treatment last week. It’s a living hell to go through.

Agreed, this is great news

Oh ho ho! The wealthiest county on Earth just ended the additional food funding for children in the middle of a housing crisis, logistics crisis, inflation crisis, endemic crisis, and healthcare collapse.

Western World leaders do not care about the poor in the slightest. Unless they feel like guillotines are about to start rolling down the streets.

Good question.

Being Swedish, I'm still in shock finding out this is not the norm in industrialised countries already. Been legally mandated here since 97.

Do it from now on or you're not doing anything.

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what now?

It's a social media without real names. That's it. For me, it's the same as any other social media. Also, I never set foot in that subreddit. I just know that whatever social media I use is bs, but I'm addicted. Also, we have followers here on reddit and profiles and some people that are known in a few subreddit as regulars. It has everything a typical social media has. I think you should step outside of your little reddit bubble and look at this stuff objectively.

TikTok brought too much business to a local restaurant here and caused the owner to retire earlier. :(