LurkingPenguin

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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I don't think it's the business of a company to set the standards of communication world wide. Facebook isn't setting the "standards of communication world wide." It's a privately-held company headquartere
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Nobody has ordered Facebook to do anything. Not the US government. Not an international body. Facebook has a policy against content that incites violence. Facebook alone determined that the Ethiopian prime minister's post violated this
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Personally, I think occasionally reading poorly-written/flawed articles is a good way to keep one's critical thinking skills (and BS detector) honed. If we only consume content that we believe is well-written and logically consist
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
In a surveillance state like China, technically everyone is on a "watchlist".
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I don't know much about the situation in Ethiopia... Perhaps you should educate yourself. Here's a good primer: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/03/africa/ethiopia-tigray-explai... > Ethiopi
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
This is bad news. If too many truck drivers run for public office, the supply chain problems are only going to get worse.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> KEGOC did not directly blame miners, but it used language similar to the energy minister’s and said it was cutting off customers who “over-consume.” And: > "We have seen that our [country's] electricity consumption has l
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Did you read any of the articles? China banned mining. Chinese miners moved to Kazakhstan. Now Kazakhstan is having power shortages.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> This is a non-sterilizing vaccine. It was never designed to stop transmission. Nobody really knew in precise terms what the vaccines were going to do because there was initially no long-term data about their efficacy or studies about t
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I pointed out that the VE against hospitalization remains high (>90%) at 6 months and you continue to highlight VE against infection. These are not the same endpoints. > People don't want to get infected so they don't ge
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
So we should ignore everything published by MDPI but take as gospel something stated by a PhD candidate in molecular biology who livestreams on Twitch under the name Homozygoat and has 329 followers there?
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577 > BNT162b2 is a lipid nanoparticle–formulated, nucleoside-modified RNA vaccine that encodes a prefusion stabilized, membrane-anchored SARS-CoV-2 full-le
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I agree, but the mRNA vaccines factually aren't long lasting. Get your booster if you haven't yet, its important since the protection is about half in under half a year. This is misinformation. From your link: > Vaccine ef
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Except the researchers raise the possibility that this could be an issue: > This suggests that the use of antigenic epitopes of the spike as a SARS–CoV–2 vaccine might be safer and more efficacious than the full–length spike. Taken tog
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
The key finding: > Our findings provide evidence of the spike protein hijacking the DNA damage repair machinery and adaptive immune machinery in vitro. We propose a potential mechanism by which spike proteins may impair adaptive immunity
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Who needs facial recognition when we're going to be uploading our minds into the metaverse?
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> The statement quoted Facebook’s Regional Public Policy Director, George Chen, as saying the company hoped the measure would help the government deal with harmful content in a more efficient and effective manner. He said the company wa
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Another factor is that the cost of higher-end/"luxury" goods outside the US is often much higher outside the US. In the US, for instance, you can easily buy a Ralph Lauren polo for under $100 (on sale online, at an outlet, et
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
If you're not a customer, you're the product.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
Corporations are spineless. But that's not really relevant to the issue of military action. Again, I live in Taiwan and I'm realistic about Taiwan's odds of defending itself successfully without help from the West and Japan,
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> If GDP per capita were relevant, then Luxembourg, Monaco, and Liechtenstein would be the dominant superpowers. You're missing the forest for the trees. The point of looking at GDP per capita is to get a sense of where China's
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> China is today, by PPP, the largest economy in the world, with the US coming in second. PPP has its flaws/limitations, but I don't really see your point. China has 1.4 billion people, the US 330 million. Look at GDP per capit
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I can't afford dying (got dependents?), or long covid, which IMO worse than death in severe cases. Good news. There's early evidence that the vaccines don't provide nearly as much protection against long COVID: https:&#
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> But, being so self-deluded, the US will take on an adversary that has not only 4 times the number of military-age men but also has a far greater manufacturing capacity. The number of military-age men is irrelevant in modern warfare and
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
The Chinese people aren't evil. One can reasonably argue, however, that the CCP is. The greatest victim of the CCP has been and continues to be the Chinese people, who live in a dystopian surveillance state controlled by an authoritari
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> This doesn’t seem as good as the title and comments are making it seem unless things stay this way . Table near bottom of page shows the inflation rate over time. I wouldn't purchase these bonds for a number of reasons, but I do
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> There is probably no good reason to distrust Huawei. https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/the-huawei-dilemma-insecurit... > The findings to these lines of inquiry proved troubling to the Intelligence Committee.
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> (edit: France has legislated 35 as full time - overtime must be paid for hours >35. They are currently considering revising this to 32). That's great. The parent poster should consider moving to France, where, I understand, the
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> I think you're confused about why some unvaccinated people are being fired. It's not to be mean to them, it's to get them away from customers and employees so they don't pass it on and cause another shutdown. The gr
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by LurkingPenguin 5y ago
> Gp asked for more pay OR fewer hours, so either way it's just an increase in hourly rate, potentially to exactly the same figure. For an employer, there's a huge difference between paying a full-time employee more money and h

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