davidagain

I thought that statistically gay men have more frequent sex with a much broader range of partners and so stds spread much more quickly in unvaccinated sexually active gay men.

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Ah, no, I read elsewhere in this thread that HPV can be very serious indeed or life threatening for someone with HIV.

This is a silly point to make. Right wingers always make this point because they hate for rich people to ever have to contribute to society.

A well designed taxation system takes from people in rough proportion to ability to pay and then distributes to people in rough proportion of need.

So yeah, it cost someone somewhere something, but the fact that you can rock up at the maternity unit, std clinic or cancer specialist without your credit card in civilised countries is called free healthcare, and whingeing about how much some higher rate taxpayer could have spent on a supercar or yacht or second home if we didn't use that money to save someone's life is silly.

Yeah, ok, so everything in healthcare costs something to somebody but now the word free has no meaning in relation to goods and services, so we can't use ever it?! Nope nope nope. Free has a meaning that's very clear in this context, this is free healthcare and it's good.

I'm sick of "won't anybody think of the poor higher rate taxpayers?". No. They're not poor. Literally. Fix the tax system so that global corporations, multimillionaires and billionaires pay at a rate that approaches regular income tax, and everyone except the grotesquely wealthy will have a more reasonable tax bill and we can all have nice things.

Respected them as a military force, I mean, not for the decisions their lunatic presidents made about deployment. World's most powerful military, that sort of thing. Now they look weak and ineffective.

Yeah for the diesel/petrol/gasoline ones they've excluded energy wastage at the extraction point (eg if they have a flare), moving the oil to the oil refinery (from wherever in the world it came from), during the refining process (definitely a lot of energy used there), transporting the end product to wherever the filling station is, and finally pumping it into the vehicle.

But they included all the comparable costs for electricity. They wanted fossil fuels to look as good as possible. I'm extremely skeptical about data that suggests air travel is efficient when people have been talking for years about how wasteful and environmentally damaging it is.

YOU are the embarrassment, trump.

A year ago people respected the US military. Now you have copied Putin's self-humiliating needless petulant war strategy.

Edit: I DON'T mean respected the purposes to which it was deployed or the decisions of its stupid presidents, I mean that people believed it was the strongest and most advanced military. Now they look weak and ineffective.

I read the music through first, slowly, imagining pressing the notes. It's like having a mental practice or two. It doesn't work unless I genuinely imagine my fingers moving.

Over years and years I got very good at sight reading the styles of music I play a lot, but I still find it hard to sight read music that's in a different style.

I think I just became a tiny bit stupider.

My surname is not really "again".

TOTALLY NORMAL.

WE'VE ALL HAD HOLIDAYS LIKE THAT.

TOTALLY REGULAR URGE TO KEEP THE PENISES OF ROADKILL FOR CLOSER STUDY LATER.

I'm not sure I should google that.

GBE: Monster Hard Snake

I don't think you read behind my graphic detail spoiler, or you just claimed the equivalent of kissing you without your consent was just as bad as raping you, because they key point is consent. Incorrect. It is you who have missed the point. Kissing people without consent is not in any sense ok, but also trying to make out that my great aunt is a rapist because I never wanted the kisses trivialises rape and is not ok.