@rasterman @ChristiJunior I place my bets that Thomas Jefferson would be a full on anarcho-capitalist if he was alive today.
@underwater@neckbeard.xyz @ChristiJunior @judgedread It died after WWI. After WWI, Western Europe wanted to emulate the US and the US had to be involved in nearly every foreign affair.
@ItsSkyDragonz MegaMan.EXE can travel across the Internet within minutes. I'm not sure Kirby's Warp Star can outrun that.
I was actually looking up MegaMan.EXE vs Kirby and just found a Death Battle fannon for MegaMan.EXE and Kirby but it's unfinished. The comments are placing their bets on EXE though.
https://deathbattlefanon.fandom.com/wiki/MegaMan.EXE_VS_Kirby
@ItsSkyDragonz He can survive the destruction of the Internet which is basically the whole universe to him. AFAIK, Kirby can survive a planet's destruction and that's about it.
@ItsSkyDragonz MegaMan.EXE could probably beat him in a heart beat, but he's a computer program so that probably doesn't count.
@icedquinn Not even that. It's pretty much confirmed now that HCQ and Ivermectin are effective treatments for COVID, yet both of those require a prescription.
@icedquinn Now, let's imagine all the cures and vaccines we could have if we actually had a free market.
remind me again why the government, a non-profit public service, feels the need to seek patents to, i quote,
NIH said in a statement that its scientists created the “stabilized coronavirus spike proteins for the development of vaccines against coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2,” and the government consequently has “sought patents to preserve the government’s rights to these inventions.”
@coolboymew Long term effects are still a concern (that's why it takes at least a decade to develop a vaccine) and I don't think there's any point in taking a vaccine for a disease that has basically become endemic at this point. Delta variant has already broke through immunity (look at what's happening in Israel). I think most people are better off eating healthy and exercising to boost their immune system which is what I've been doing lately.