DuskStar

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by DuskStar 6y ago
First woman of color, but not first "person of color" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis Assuming that "significant non-european ancestry" is the determining line here.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Funnily enough, I've seen other people say that Sweden's strategy succeeded and that no one will admit it...
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Vault-Tec meets only very flimsy definitions of "competence" themselves. What fraction of the known vaults were some form of horrific experiment, again? What fraction eventually released sane, healthy survivors? And Super Mutants
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And telling people to move is a better counter today than it would have been in the 1700s due to ease of movement and communication.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
A new predator, to go along with all of the others. AIDS, the other things that get lumped into 'colds' or 'flus' (which are different from COVID-19 in degree , but not really in kind ), Malaria, and so many more.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Thus far? Nursing homes have operated as 'places people go to die'. COVID has just made those deaths a little faster. In all seriousness, taking any amount of effort to protect nursing homes would be better than what we have rig
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Yeah, if you're fine with unqualified politicians making inaccurate claims about the virus in order to intensify lockdowns (which, frankly, has been most of the lockdown justifications) then that's pretty unfair. The burden of pro
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I'm personally waiting for Facebook to start removing 'misinformation' on the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. (Turkey officially denies that such a genocide ever happened, so 'misinformation' could go either way depend
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Don't multi-company unions exist, though? The UAW is a pretty famous example. Unless you're saying that the problem is that the US doesn't make every new auto manufacturer a UAW shop with no opt-out?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Unironically, I would be happy with a sliding tax scale here - if Apple/Google takes x% of the purchase price, then there's an x% federal tax added on top of the purchase price.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I think my comment was unclear, so let me try and clarify. > And I'm ashamed that you're describing a number of hysterectomies that at most, using laughably high estimates, could number in the thousands, as genocide Two things
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And I'm ashamed that you're describing a number of hysterectomies that at most , using laughably high estimates, could number in the thousands, as genocide. (Which would be horrible! But also leave enough evidence that it would
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Generally people will accept "human rights" abuses for ends that they feel strongly enough about if there aren't alternatives. Maintaining the existence of borders as a practical construct is one of those things. So, if you w
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Literal genocide is now being practiced at the border. Citation please? The only thing I've heard alleged that would even be close is the woman who had her uterus removed as part of a cancer treatment...
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Can you formulate a way to enforce conditions on international migration and travel that doesn't challenge what you view as "basic human rights"?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
That was the complaint, but the AP at least was completely unable to substantiate that. At least as of a week ago... https://apnews.com/f2008d23c5f9087f4214d9722dfb097e
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Wasn't the whole "involuntary sterilization" thing a single woman who had her uterus removed as treatment for cancer? Yes, arguably the doctor should have tried to remove a smaller section of that uterus... But it's no
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> The panels can help reduce total grid usage during the day to help supply power to businesses where people are during the day. Daytime load is basically not a problem in California or elsewhere in the US. In fact, load minus solar is a
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> If you have even a small solar install—which makes tons of sense in California—the load on the grid is near zero. Will most people be plugging in their cars during the day, though? Or will they be charging at night, at home?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Don't forget choosing model names to be S3XY... (Apparently Ford owns the rights to "Model E")
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I don't think anyone does yet, and there's still the massive confounder of 'covid'. But it's hard to say for sure that excess deaths above normal beyond what are reported to be from covid are missed cases, when we d
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> But based on excess mortalities, it is likely that COVID-19 is being undercounted a lot more than it is overcounted. Unless lockdowns are rather bad for one's health, you mean.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Let's walk forward some more. Every restaurant in the country goes out of business and stops paying rent. People still want to eat out, so when it becomes legal to serve that market again new restaurants will reopen - and likely with c
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And wasn't that addressed in Stickman's ruling? There's a difference between "something that we can allow in an emergency" and "something that has been going on for 6 months and legally continues forever",
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by DuskStar 6y ago
It's debatable. On the one hand, yes the most common case that the law applied to was "has HIV but virus loads are undetectable and thus risk of infection is nonexistent". On the other, removing that law means that someone wh
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by DuskStar 6y ago
When did the Supreme Court rule that? And why the hell would Congress be able to overrule states on something like this? What torturous reading of the Commerce Clause gives Congress the power to forbid lockdowns?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I'd bet on "Taiwan would block it". If Apple bought TSMC, they'd probably want to diversify production locations away from a geopolitically interesting island. But having TSMC there makes it a lot more likely for peopl
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Every kind of advice kills people. For instance, lockdown advice has caused a lot of "deaths of despair" in the US, and the economic damage will kill countless more in the future. That doesn't make it not worth it! But it IS
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by DuskStar 6y ago
At the same time, from the Republican perspective... They won "fair and square", and then largely liberal-staffed agencies and other organizations delayed and resisted the implementation of Republican policies as much as possible.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And it was only one hysterectomy. [0] For cancer. Crying wolf like this does no one any good. 0: https://apnews.com/f2008d23c5f9087f4214d9722dfb097e

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