Or join an instance they don't like and they curate themselves for you. :)

Sorry, I didn't see your other comment on the post when I responded earlier and I was only focused on the wealth disparity aspect. The point of your comment hadn't quite hit the mark for me yet.

I think what you are pointing out is a very important aspect of the discussion particularly for wealthier nations with easy access to drugs.

One of the particularly worrying trends in recent years has been the rise of multidrug-resistant TB. These drugs are one of the only reasons TB was driven out of wealthier countries to begin with and the BCG vaccine isn't particularly effective against pulmonary TB (there's no way people in the US would put up with getting it anyway, given the scarring).

Combine multidrug-resistant TB with immune dysregulation increasing the prevalence of active TB cases and lack of an effective vaccine...it paints a bleak picture. Potentially another big problem brewing.

I imagine it would be similar to the authoritarian practice of forcing teenagers to attend school: it really depends upon how it is organized and executed with additional variations in response based upon the individual.

This may help clear up much of where you are butting heads with MLs in your comments.

I'm pretty sure that much of the most progressive stuff in The New Deal were concessions made to labor unions. FDR didn't do it from the kindness of his heart.

Yeah, we call it K-12.

Did you mean a slave who has recently graduated to indentured servant status?

A fair point.

Honestly, Elsevier is the worst. They tease you with those section snippets, so I scroll from the abstract and can start reading the introduction...scroll a bit more and it's unceremoniously cut off mid-sentence. Then I rage because the article is newer than 2022 (no Sci-Hub) and my institution gets cheaper every year.

I can't view papers I've published in some journals anymore. When I see this, I think: "Why don't we subscribe to papers we are actively publishing in?? Why aren't all of the papers I want to read published in open access journals?? Why did I contribute to a journal that wasn't open access??"

Where was this? The practice described above is common in US universities.

Yikes. Sounds like a personal problem. Maybe don't engage with "tankies" if you don't like them?

"I like capitalism with minor concessions (won by communists) that will continually be rolled back over time."

Fuck dude, add some god damn spice to your politics. Milk toast is better with chili powder. Maybe read some books and come up with your own opinion via critical thinking too.