cm2012

2026-03-12 4:58

Commented: "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

The correlation to any of that stuff and cancer is basically meaningless in the scale of one persons life

2026-03-09 4:14

Commented: "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

The Polish manufacturing miracle is really well known among people who study economics so it's funny that natural Polish people wouldn't be aware of it.

2026-03-08 3:39

Commented: "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

"Big diaper" has made basically every form if diaper 80% cheaper compared to 30 years ago, also.

2026-03-08 2:37

Commented: "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

Some kids are very developmentally ahead of others, its quire uneven.

2026-03-08 2:19

Commented: "$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year"

Just because Bill Gates didn't solve all issues in Burkina Faso doesn't mean the donations were meaningless. Burkina Faso's GDP per capita has quadrupled since Bill Gates started donating, in addition to a lot of lifestyle indicators like child health and child mortality and so on. You certainly can't say his intervention made things worse.

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