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Cake day: May 23rd, 2024

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  • That’s a little less than what my primary charged my insurance for an office visit in 2022. Including $200 for a mental health screening that, offense intended to the well known institution that runs the office, was worthless and unnecessary because I’ve already received actual professional help for that and I know what it looks like, thanks.




  • Of course, one of the things about Lemmy is you can’t appeal a mod action (as far as I know)

    JordanLund seems fairly level but once deleted one of my comments for “advocating violence” when I said Nixon and Kissinger should have been hanged for treason. They’re both already dead… And that’s the legal punishment for high treason. Which they did.

    Tl;Dr you can’t get in a mod fight because you can’t fight back







  • Socialists don’t see a fundamental difference between a king or church owning the means of production and a merchant/capitalist/whatever owning it, because there isn’t a significant difference. Adam Smith was observing truths on the nature of property ownership and how to increase the gains from such, not describing the idea of rich and powerful people owning property that would make them money by exploiting the value of labor. That idea is as old as agriculture.

    Where it might get tricky is if the gains from owning the “relic” were funding welfare programs/charity more than they were funding the excessive lifestyle of the clergy, but that’s not something Catholics are particularly known for living up to, responsible usage of tithes and actually following the precepts of ascetism in the clergy.