There needs to be CVEs/KEV for public misinformation vulnerabilities. APTs have been using social media channels to spread disinformation, the CDC has been disabled by another APT, and we're failing to immunize people against health misinformation.
You mean decently-funded students. The education system compared to pretty much anywhere else on Earth is extremely well-funded, it just goes to administrative parasites.
There are a few Nordic countries that are at about 80% of California. California students have an average of $27,418 per student projected for 2026-2027, and $25k in 2025. I'm finding nearly half of that for UK, Europe. Perhaps you could peruse some statistics and cite yours? Taking into account PPP Norway and Austria get close (22k and 20k respectively). Germany and France after taking into account PPP still are around 15-17k.
Far from from 'most', we find literally none except for Luxembourg ($33k), which being an extremely wealthy and tiny nation is not that much of a surprise; and is otherwise an extremely outlier.
On the other hand, the UK, France, and Germany are all beaten by Alabama [yes, that bastion of education], at $15k PPP (you can't, of course, forget to apply PPP calculations to the US states you are looking at if you're going to apply them to European countries). This is, btw, very consistent with the average income in these areas, too - Alabama is around or wealthier in PPP terms than the UK, France, and Germany as well.
Once upon a time when a document or posting was written, the first use of a TLA (Three Letter Acryonym) or ETLA (Extended Three Letter Acryonym) would result in its expansion immediately following in parenthesis.
You are actively re-writing the recent past, ignoring the way that vaccinations work, and how they've been required in many settings for decades. Do better.
They're a troll, read their comment history. There's nothing of value in any of their comments, and they only post so they can stir up controversy. Flag and move on, stop feeding them.
Stop misinterpreting "my body my choice" as permission for those with infectious diseases to purposefully spread deadly diseases.
If you have AIDS, you do not have blanket permission to spread that disease to anyone else. Thats a violation of consent, bodily autonomy, and inflicting direct harm.
My Body My Choice means YOU do not have the RIGHT to infect ME with your deadly disease you contracted. It's my body, and you do not have permission to take your gunk, and infect me with it. Wear a mask.
And stop spreading misinformation with zero cited sources.
"We" do it because governments want to reduce the cost managing an outbreak. Not because it is good for everyone who takes it in some absolute sense. I mean, such measures are enforced without taking effort to assess individual RoI, because that would be more costly than managing the outbreak.
Governments and establishments ("We") don't give a shit about your health beyond your ability to vote and pay taxes.
> Not because it is good for everyone who takes it in some absolute sense.
Yes, that tends to be the case for policy that impacts several hundred million people. We know what a world without vaccination looks like; it wasn't that long ago.
> Governments and establishments ("We") don't give a shit about your health beyond your ability to vote and pay taxes.
Antivax influencers, though, are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
> Lower fertility as in lower number of babies born per person…
The same issue there; we see a similar drop in birth rate in countries where abortion is neither legal nor "normalized". So again, what's the causal theory here? How have you ruled out changes in sexual education and access to contraceptives from the equation?
The last time I saw this topic come up on HN it was flagged:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039391
Yes that happens often with articles that discuss consequences of The Current Administration.
To paraphrase Bertrand Russell:
Politics is whatever happens to irritate some detached and ignorant tech bro.
There needs to be CVEs/KEV for public misinformation vulnerabilities. APTs have been using social media channels to spread disinformation, the CDC has been disabled by another APT, and we're failing to immunize people against health misinformation.
Nah, you need a decently funded education system.
You mean decently-funded students. The education system compared to pretty much anywhere else on Earth is extremely well-funded, it just goes to administrative parasites.
No, that's actually not true. The US is not "extremely well-funded." It's pretty much on-par with other advanced nations adjusted for PPP.
There are a few Nordic countries that are at about 80% of California. California students have an average of $27,418 per student projected for 2026-2027, and $25k in 2025. I'm finding nearly half of that for UK, Europe. Perhaps you could peruse some statistics and cite yours? Taking into account PPP Norway and Austria get close (22k and 20k respectively). Germany and France after taking into account PPP still are around 15-17k.
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/education-financing.html
Far from from 'most', we find literally none except for Luxembourg ($33k), which being an extremely wealthy and tiny nation is not that much of a surprise; and is otherwise an extremely outlier.
On the other hand, the UK, France, and Germany are all beaten by Alabama [yes, that bastion of education], at $15k PPP (you can't, of course, forget to apply PPP calculations to the US states you are looking at if you're going to apply them to European countries). This is, btw, very consistent with the average income in these areas, too - Alabama is around or wealthier in PPP terms than the UK, France, and Germany as well.
That is a forlorn hope.
WTF is an APT
Once upon a time when a document or posting was written, the first use of a TLA (Three Letter Acryonym) or ETLA (Extended Three Letter Acryonym) would result in its expansion immediately following in parenthesis.
"Advanced persistent threat": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat
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You are actively re-writing the recent past, ignoring the way that vaccinations work, and how they've been required in many settings for decades. Do better.
They're a troll, read their comment history. There's nothing of value in any of their comments, and they only post so they can stir up controversy. Flag and move on, stop feeding them.
hey look more claims with zero evidence.
Stop misinterpreting "my body my choice" as permission for those with infectious diseases to purposefully spread deadly diseases.
If you have AIDS, you do not have blanket permission to spread that disease to anyone else. Thats a violation of consent, bodily autonomy, and inflicting direct harm.
My Body My Choice means YOU do not have the RIGHT to infect ME with your deadly disease you contracted. It's my body, and you do not have permission to take your gunk, and infect me with it. Wear a mask.
And stop spreading misinformation with zero cited sources.
Yes if the government spread more misinformation, misinformation would surely be less prevalent.
> This could have been avoided if the government was just more honest about the negative affects of the Covid vaccine.
Someone's being dishonest here; vitamin K conspiracy theories long predate COVID.
2014: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15749
2015: https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/newsroom/news-releases/2...
> There were calls to force people to get vaccinated against their will.
We've done this for decades (https://www.kff.org/other-health/state-and-local-policies-on...) in all fifty states. If you went to public school, you were forced to get various vaccines. Many states even require it for private/home schooling.
> The 'my body my choice' crowd quickly changed their tune.
That's what happens when your choice impacts others.
You'd be pro-choice, too, if pregnancy was airborne.
>We've done this for decades..
"We" do it because governments want to reduce the cost managing an outbreak. Not because it is good for everyone who takes it in some absolute sense. I mean, such measures are enforced without taking effort to assess individual RoI, because that would be more costly than managing the outbreak.
Governments and establishments ("We") don't give a shit about your health beyond your ability to vote and pay taxes.
> Not because it is good for everyone who takes it in some absolute sense.
Yes, that tends to be the case for policy that impacts several hundred million people. We know what a world without vaccination looks like; it wasn't that long ago.
> Governments and establishments ("We") don't give a shit about your health beyond your ability to vote and pay taxes.
Antivax influencers, though, are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
> Antivax influencers, though, are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
Made no such claim. Why are you responding to something I didn't mention?
> Made no such claim.
Ironically, I did not claim you did.
Past elementary school, we do start learning that rhetoric isn’t always accompanied by a “the author means x when they say y” explanatory box.
Why bring that (anti-blah blah blah) up at all. What is your point? I don't get it..
Normalization of abortions, there being overall more abortions, and related issues do affect society as a whole.
Correct.
Teen pregnancy drops dramatically: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/09/nx-s1-5777587/teen-birth-rate...
Women die in childbirth less: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/study-higher-maternal-deat...
More babies die, lower fertility, aging population, decline.
So male sperm counts in anti-abortion places like Africa are decreasing… as a parasympathetic reaction to American reproductive rights?
I’d love to hear your theory on the casual link here.
Lower fertility as in lower number of babies born per person, not sperm count lol. Learn better reading comprehension or something.
> Lower fertility as in lower number of babies born per person…
The same issue there; we see a similar drop in birth rate in countries where abortion is neither legal nor "normalized". So again, what's the causal theory here? How have you ruled out changes in sexual education and access to contraceptives from the equation?