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Hello from your South
superpower neighbor, Brazil. We have free healthcare, free higher education, acceptable welfare, loads of dumb people and cheap chinese products. On the plus side, at least our electricity is overwhemingly green.Oh, so you mean poor people replace their crappy phones that only last a few years when they break.
And you think they shouldn't do that.
Got it.
Once again you prove to be illiterate...
You:
I do give a shit if you buy a new tablet every couple years when the old one works just fine.
Me:
Buying a new tablet every couple of years: something poor people notoriously do.
You:
Swap tablet for phone, and the answer is yes.
So it sure sounds like you're saying that poor people shouldn't buy a new phone when their shitty phone breaks in a couple of years to me. Because the old one never works just fine on account of it being a shitty phone. Which you should know what with your apparent intimate knowledge of global poverty.
Weird how your insult doesn't reflect what you've said so far.
Also, I have not insulted you once. Are you really unable to have a conversation without insulting people? Is this how you talk to people when you're in the same room with them?
Because the old one never works just fine on account of it being a shitty phone
I used a Moto G, an entry-level phone, for 5 years. My next phone, also entry-level, I kept for 4 years. My current phone is a low-tier flagship, which I've also had for a while. Tell me again how is it that you need a new one every two years?
Which you should know what with your apparent intimate knowledge of global poverty.
I'm guessing you've never been hungry? I have, so I'll take my experience with poverty over yours.
Also, I have not insulted you once.
Except you have, by implying I'm stupid enough to fall for your fallacious argumentation.
I’m guessing you’ve never been hungry?
Not for the last seven months. But it would be lovely if I were.
(I don't think you actually wanted an answer to that question.)
Oh yeah, choosing to not eat is totally the same as not having any food, they're totally comparable experiences! /s
Your privilege is showing.
It's weird that you called me illiterate when it's fairly apparent that you didn't get past the headline.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be at the top hospital in the nation right now if I was choosing not to eat.
https://lemmy.world/post/13867999
Or is this like saying someone with clinical depression is choosing not to be happy?
But sure, I'm highly privileged to never be able to eat anything no matter how much I want to. What a privilege.
In March, I stopped eating for six weeks. It’s not like I’m too nauseated to eat or I feel too full to eat, I just do not want to eat.
Your words, emphasis mine.
Sure, I was accepted by the Mayo Clinic gastroenterology department after sending them all of my medical records, was evaluated by three different medical professionals, diagnosed, and given a regimen of treatment that might lead to me being able to eat solid foods several months from now and they do that for people who just choose not to eat. And then there's the multiple stays in my local hospital to get scopes and scans, the blood panels, the gallbladder removal, not to mention the thousands of dollars of medical debt... all because I am choosing not to eat. It's something I've been doing as a hobby, like wood carving or pottery.
But congratulations, you read to the first sentence of the third paragraph of that post.
Keep digging this hole for yourself.