I swear, everyone on Lemmy have their heads shoved so far up their asses about how everyone should go full internal combustion and that they're great and have lower maintenance costs just down vote me to hell when I bring anything like this up. I know the tech and work on vehicles and combustion engines. It's dumb to buy a $40,000 vehicle with a 300 pound engine, 200 pound transmission, mechanically complex 4 wheel drive system with upwards of 3 independently locking differentials. The resale value when the head gaskets is blown is next to nothing, and the great 5 year 60,000 mile power train warranty doesn't even cover the average mileage people drive in 8 years. It only requires you mosty pay off the average loan length for a new vehicle. My Tesla costs 13 cents to drive about 4 miles, where the equivalent combustion car, with 400 horsepower and 400 foot pounds of torque, costs upwards of a dollar to drive the same. The high strung powerplants in performance cars require regular, expensive, maintenance, and if you actually push them will blow up in under 10,000 miles. An LS3 crate motor costs more than the car is worth and that doesn't even include the transmission or any of the other drivetrain components. No one should buy and keep a combustion engine for more than 10 years or you risk "being the bag holder" and stuck with a cancer emitting 4,000 pound paperweight.
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You can't even say antibiotics save lives.
Of course your personal experience is what we're talking about.
I checked again, and you're fighting this fight with a lot of people.
Why? What's your personal experience?
Buddy, I get it. You're campaigning against antibiotic overuse. That's true. Antibiotics are over prescribed. I've never said they weren't.
What you need to chill on is giving people medical advice. I took a look at your post history, and this is a topic you're clearly passionate about
But you are not a doctor. You are not even in the medical field. It looks like you're an IT nerd. Which is great. We need nerds
But you espousing your opinions can hurt people. There are countless examples of people rejecting medicine that works, for essentially folk cures that do not. People die. Children are one of the most vulnerable to this, and I have personal experience with kids suffering because of people like you, campaigning against western medicine, convincing impressionable morons that alternative medicine works.
You are not a doctor, medical researcher, or a scientist researching bacterial diseases. You are a person reading what other people write on the Internet, and fixating on the gut biome above all other things is simply the wrong way to look at this.
Antibiotics save lives.
You've linked a lot of other people's opinions, which is fine. A lot of stuff about how doctors aren't always right, diagnoses aren't always correct, and how antibiotics are prescribed in situations that aren't necessary, like viral infections, which agreed, all of that happens.
But the context you're avoiding is your original claim.
While antibiotic resistance gets all the attention, the damage being done to our host-native microbiomes is arguably as big a threat as climate change, as the damage compounds over generations, and once it's gone you can't get it back. (Apr 2019).
It is beyond ridiculous and what started this whole thing.
So, again, for everyone reading, my claim is that doctors should be the ones to make medical decisions. Antibiotics save lives, and to add one more, people who advocate for their disuse because humans make mistakes, should rightfully be called out.
And since you're such a fan of random website "sources".
https://jennymccarthybodycount.com/
Never forget anti vaxxers, and anti medicine people in general, are responsible for hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths.
My stance is consistent, clear, and concise. Medical decisions should be made by doctors.
Just so everyone reading this knows what your stance is, can you make that clear? So far I've heard nothing but contrarianism.
I know I'm not going to convince you, and that's fine, but people like you get other people killed.
Steve Jobs infamously had a treatable form of cancer, but instead of going to a doctor and doing the scientifically verified treatment he ate fruit that some nut job said would cure him and he died.
The only medical advice anyone should ever give is go to a doctor. That's it. Period. The end.
It isn't, and a random website isn't a source
If you have an article from a medical journal, or a study with a sample size of over 1,000 diverse participants I'll happily read that.
I could make a website that contradicts everything in the one you linked and host that for free.
Antibiotics save lives. Vaccines save lives. They are good things.
If the choice between giving someone life saving antibiotics or disrupting their gut microbiom until they eat some yogurt, that's an easy choice.
False equivalency is what you're doing, btw
Bacterial infections can kill people.
Don't be stupid
That's just not true.
What is true is trolling is done by insecure pseudo intellectuals who think they're smarter than everyone, but are too afraid to intellectually compete on a topic
It really isn't.
The whole point of the crate motor vs battery pack was it's ridiculous to compare the cost of a new battery vs a used engine. If you blow an engine in a regular car it's replaced with s used one, even if it's covered by warranty. Used battery packs will get cheaper with time, especially 8 years from now when the warranty on a new EV is done.
Good for you that your car hasn't broken yet. I have a friend who got a bad transmission in her Subaru, it was replaced after something like 500 miles. Are you claiming that every new ICE vehicle that had ever been sold have had 100% working drive trains for the entirety of the restraint period?
Or are you comparing your anecdotal experience with a FUD news story about one person who had a lemon of a vehicle that happened to be electric