Haha, great photo on wiki of Dutch guy.

I think his opening comments in the afterlife would have been: “whoopsie!”

Spitting facts brothers, gimme another fact please.

Sticks and stones make break my bones, but vegans aren’t happy and always find something to “offend” them.

“He who lives upon hope will die fasting.” Benjamin franklin

Classic move—attacking me because your argument ran out of steam.

Your philistine viewpoint is still under researched and, frankly, unknowledgeable.

Your points don’t make sense. Let’s dig into bulbs, antibiotics and Vaccines from a $ perspective.

Filament light bulbs are gone because someone else sold a more efficient bulb and changed the market…and made boat load of cash and literally made filament bulbs extinct. $

Penicillin and later antibiotics cured deadly infections that once required long hospital stays. These cures transformed modern medicine and became some of the most profitable drugs ever sold.$

Lastly my Vaccines example, Smallpox required endless isolation facilities and caretaking. The vaccine eliminated an entire global disease. It was also massively funded, widely purchased, and financially successful for its creators.$

That example is old, overused, and rarely true. For example: How many old filament lightbulbs do you see on the market today?

Many cures have made a lot of money in medicine. Iron lungs used to be expensive to maintain, but vaccines made them unnecessary.

There is plenty of fast and lasting profit in actually curing diseases. The demand for cures is enormous, so successful cures become some of the most valuable medical products ever created.

Examples from medical history where cures were profitable: 1) polio vaccine, 2) hepatitis c antiviral, 3) small pox vaccine, 4) antibiotics, and 5) H. pylori cure for stomach ulcers.

You forget capitalism is about making money first and foremost. Ask your self if there’s money in a cure for anyone in the market.

Im open to hearing your argument.

You opened by insulting me instead of addressing my point, which says more about your argument than mine.

Claiming solar is automatically cheaper ignores system level costs. Wind and solar need storage, backup, and major grid upgrades, and those costs are still high. That is why renewables depend on large subsidies and mandates, just as fossil fuels have historically.

If solar were truly cheaper in a complete sense, companies would switch on their own because profit is a powerful incentive. The fact that adoption still relies on policy pressure shows the picture is more complicated than the simple claim that fossil fuels only survive through inertia.

Sigh, all I see is panacea thinking…I want dank memes.

But here’s some reality for you that’ll destroy my karma.

The market naturally drives energy toward the lowest price because buyers choose the cheapest reliable option and producers must compete. Inefficient sources fade while the most cost effective ones grow. This happens automatically through supply and demand.

Many green technologies, depend on heavy subsidies and huge upfront costs. They promise clean and limitless power, but the real costs of materials, storage, and maintenance make them far more expensive than they seem. This makes them feel less like practical solutions and more like a comforting promise being sold as a cure for everything.

If your energy company could create very cheap energy it would. It would mean higher profits.

You’re right, and I appreciate your deep emotional investment in my contraction.

Ty for that context and counterpoint.

But ill add that he then paid us back w/the insufferable “i like pretty girls” Song.

Im saying its weaponized discomfort to not like a tourist because they wearing a hoodie, shoes and shorts. Service staff is there to make money and serve, not shame people for their dress.

Also, I love you. Let’s run away together.

And just to reiterate a little more clearly, my whole point is your feelings are on you. I am responsible for my actions and words.

If shame was that valuable, fox news would have had us doing their dirty work long ago.

Weaponizing discomfort is toxic because it uses confusion and shame as a form of control. It makes someone feel small and off balance instead of safe and understood, turning communication into emotional pressure rather than clarity.

Shame is as old as time. It is just another way of saying “fall in line.”

Real connection takes far more effort and far more courage. Owning your feelings and your actions is difficult, but it is also infinitely more worthwhile.

Weaponizing discomfort is toxic because it uses confusion and shame as control, making someone feel small and off balance instead of safe and understood, turning communication into emotional pressure rather than clarity.

Shame is as old as time, but people are always responsible for their own feelings.

Put another way sticks and stone may break my bones, but some people (kratzkopf) will always find some reason to justify being offended.

It would be better phrased without ending the sentence with a preposition, such as, “Sorry, I do not know to what you are referring.”

Are we weaponizing discomfort again…already?

If your famous enough, they’ll let you slap people on stage these days.

1 From dictionary: A person’s race is primarily a social construct defined by self-identification with one or more social groups, based on perceived physical characteristics like skin color…

2. I love you, let’s run away together.