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  • 95% of cervical cancer is caused by HPV.

    Source: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cervical-cancer

    I thought the WHO said 99%, since numbers are different depending on which you ask, but this says 95%. Screening and treatment, which are also included in the article you’re claiming to have read, will very effectively prevent harm from the other 5%. Thus eliminating it as a public health problem. It’s a great thing, and here you are in the comments INSISTING that other people need to absorb your misunderstandings of the situation and I guess view it NOT as a good thing, or something.

    Youre defending people who are saying the article says 94% of these can be avoided, when the article says 94% of cancers occur in those countries.

    I don’t even know why I’m in this conversation. These are not mutually incompatible statements. 94% of the problem exists in the third world, and 95% of cervical cancer is caused by HPV. I don’t know why you are saying that the first statement somehow DISproves the second. They’re both true. Multiple statements can be true, even if they involve similar percentages.

    That is, in fact, such a weird type of misunderstanding for you to be so confident about that I feel comfortable just ending the conversation here. Think, read the sources, learn. Or don’t. I don’t care.



  • He read it as “elimination of cancer” first, read only the headline and then got really upset without reading the article because cancer is not just one thing (true!), and has now noticed, and for some reason edited it to retcon into getting equally mad claiming “a cancer is not just one thing,” which is total nonsense, but superior I guess to just admitting he made a mistake.

    HPV causes 99% 95% of cases of cervical cancer. The article is mostly talking about outreach to the third world sharing things like HPV vaccines and saving hundreds of thousands of lives. The guy’s just yelling and being wrong. And, of course, some other lemmy.world yelling idiots are upvoting him, because they love yelling and being wrong. Just ignore him.

    After this and a group of people from lemmy.world who got really mad earlier today about a “paywalled” article I posted that didn’t, in fact, have a paywall, I think I may defederate my systems from lemmy.world. It’s honestly just too dumb an environment to produce useful comments. PugJesus and !news@lemmy.world and the cat pictures are the only good things on it at this point, I think.

    Edit: It was more than one person who got mad about the “paywall,” I think it was at least 8 people.

    Edit: I don’t know where I got 99%, the WHO says 95%.












  • This isn’t quite the question you asked, but my best advice based on being in survival mode some time ago is: Get a Costco membership or borrow someone’s card, and start to get small batches of $50-100 worth of groceries from there at a time. Plan it ahead for what you’ll need for the couple of weeks coming up. Big sacks of rice or flour, cases of tinned bean or veggies, milk and eggs or cheese, peanut butter, cheese and oranges once you’ve got a reserve of the staples. Potatoes, olive oil, bread, Annie’s mac and cheese.

    Even if you’re only buying 3-5 things with each trip, your money will go pretty far and it’s wonderful to have some basic stuff in the cupboard all month and then be spending your money on filling in new stuff you want, instead of just on survival.

    I have no potato recipes for the now, this is just some stuff for later that worked for me.






  • Okay, I looked at how it’s set up. I think the right thing would be to set it up so there’s one community for each main section: World, US news, sport, tech, and so on.

    The issue is that there are a huge number of them. That’s pretty common, but usually there’s a “top stories” feed that I can do. I could make a bunch of new communities, one per section, but I’m a little reluctant to just make huge amounts of spam if I’m not sure how much human attention they’re going to get.

    Which sections would you want? Maybe I could do like I did for Ars Technica, and make a few communities for some of the mainly useful ones. I’m still not sure how to handle it, to be honest. It would be nice if I could set up a nicer UI so that people could just pick out exactly what they wanted, without creating spam or ghost-town communities for other people.




  • Adjudicating whether or not someone is guilty of a crime, or in the US illegally, requires a trial. Doing that for millions of people all of a sudden within a system that’s already backed up by more than a year is completely impossible.

    In other words, they are absolutely talking about deporting innocent people of the wrong ethnicity without any attempt at due process, and anyone who thinks different is living in a dream world. And then, once they’re done with that batch, they plan to move on to other classes of undesirables.