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    Allergy desensitization therapy was invented in 1911. It’s just that your insurance company doesn’t consider it a ‘necessary procedure’, so they don’t pay for it.

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      You can have a moon allergy, though, and that’s basically moon hayfever.

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    Funny joke but I dislike the “boring men” part. NASA was THE example of “women in STEM” at the time.

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    When’s the pollen season on the moon?

    I think you are missing the obvious cure handed right to you. Funding should be increased so you too can be free of airborne plant reproduction via the most sensible and straight forward method.
    If you are unhappy with the scenery, I am sure the technology developed for lunar habitation will also prove helpful for polar habitation, where similarly few natural particulates are dispersed.

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    What a stupid example of false equivalence. The opposite is true. The Apollo program led to huge technological advances that also led to advances in medicine.

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      Imagine if we actually tried to improve things without doing stupid space shit for nazi missile nerds and their vile menagerie of mass murderers ?

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        We spend on space research about 3% the money we spend on military. Is this really the priority?

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        Doing “stupid space stuff” in no way prevents us from improving things. The NASA budget is not even a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. And getting rid of the nazi nerds is an entirely different conversation.

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          In a way he’s right, the space race was really a dick-measuring contest against the ruskies to demonstrate launch capabilities.

          But yeah, we’ve gotten a lot more from NASA than just winning a dick-measuring contest.

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    You can get sprays to completely alleviate symptoms. And if it’s a severe case you can take injection. There’s also inmune therapy to permanently cure it.

    I am the first guilty of not going to alergologist for years. But after I started to go each spring I have it completely managed.

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      Wish granted. Instead of giving 3% the annual military budget to nasa we give 4% now. The new research in physics helps everyone and advances our society.

      But just like with every wish there was unexpected bad side and it’s that even tho shareholder profit didn’t increase in the short-term, in long-term they got better lives too due to trickle-up economics.

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          That sounds like less money in my bank account, and how am I supposed to feel superior towards my lessers without denying them wealth that I only actively support due to my aforementioned superiority complex?

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            What a corrupt system, they have made us complicit in our own exploitation, if we try to stop it, we will be the first on the chopping block, it is monstrous that our pensions have been stolen and turned against us, and of course, WILL DISAPPEAR when we actually go to collect so they can put us in meat packing hospices for a quick, wished-for death once we are no longer profitable

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              Not just that. I actually lied when i said that “your” pension is in stocks. It is in fact the current pension for that are retired right now. Unless there are as many younger people working and paying taxes to fund your retirement by the time you’re old enough, you’re not gonna have one.

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    I am pretty confident that mRNA vaccine research is going to lead to the cure for the common cold along with cancer, Parkinson’s, MS, etc.

    We already have an effective AIDS vaccine now. We are getting really close to stopping a lot of human suffering. This is probably why the current administration is trying to pump the brakes.

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      the current administration is pumping the brakes not because they’re trying to stop cancer from being cured, but because they’re dumbasses who have no idea what they’re doing. don’t suggest they’re intelligent enough to actually understand the outcomes of their own choices.

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        I do not think they are dumbasses. They understand very well that “pumping the brakes” can start negotiations with people who have infinite deep pockets and are willing to let them have a little extra so the infinitely deep pockets stay that way.

        Self-enrichment is a powerful motivator.

        Like Nixon, when he helped privatize healthcare. Playing Dumb (and a little crazy) has been a schtick for republicans for 60 years. I wish there was a website with all the crazy shit republicans said and did in public, maybe I need to start one…

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        But they’re also not completely ignorant either. They’re just greedy, and don’t care about much else.

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    Well that would require us to be in a society that values scientific research and investing in the public interest.

    Unfortunately we are living in an age of deception and greed.

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    I mean… I wish I could blame the guy for not going to the doctor (Americans will do anything but try going to the doctor), but we’d also rather put people on the moon than give free at the point of care Healthcare to people…