OCASMv2

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by OCASMv2 1y ago
1) You didn't even present an argument, just your personal impression of him. 2) Law enforcement. It's in the name. 3) Are you under the impression that "conservative" just means to keep things as they are no matter what
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
1) That's just your impression of him. 2) Enforcement of the law requires force. Who would have thought? 3) If an institution is corrupt it should be reformed or destroyed. What's wrong with that? Nothing.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> autocratic authoritarian with a track record of hating American liberties and institutions It's that level of hysteria what causes moderates to shift to the right.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
No when it's a label deliberately misapplied to run of the mill conservatives. That's defamation with the purpose of generating hate against those people.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
Restricting freedom of speech (through "hate speech" laws and the like) is a danger to democracy then since it limits people from expressing their ideas and putting political power behind them.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
That depends on the basis on which they deny them.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> What if that person is a threat to democracy though? What does that even mean?
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
Calling people nazis and fascists nilly willy doesn't even count as hate speech...
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
They didn't affect transmission at all. Symptom reduction is also debatable since it can also be explained by immunity from previous exposure, less damaging variants and better treatments as time went on.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> We could have easily had a more lethal omicron variant emerge if it wasn't for vaccination effectively halting the pandemic. Vaccination didn't even prevent transmission.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> Everyone got exposed eventually. Republicans who didn't vaccinate died at a higher rate when they got exposed. Again, due to differences in risk behavior not limited to anti-covid measures. > Which was Omicron, and it turned ou
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> Which is borne out through the higher death rate in Republicans who didn't get vaccinated, compared to Democrats who did. Or because republicans never took the threat seriously and didn't took effective preventive measures li
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to believe that when the vaccine in question is crap that doesn't prevent transmission, whatever limited positive effects it has last very little time and has severe side effects like heart inflammation.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> The incubation period was plenty long enough for the virus to spread before incapacitating the host. All the selection pressure was for the virus to become more virulent - and that is precisely what happened. We saw multiple strains ap
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> not having a perfect solution certainly doesn't indicate going in the opposite direction and completely giving up on the idea. Having a so-so solution can in fact be worse than nothing since it makes people think they're saf
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> I don't know why you wouldn't wear a mask to stop aerosols. Because the masks don't stop aerosols. They're too tiny for them. Then there's also the fact that being so light they accumulate in the air and last t
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
So long as they don't have a targeting mechanism and can turn any of your tissues into antigen factories they can't be deemed safe for use. Just like carbon nanotubes were all the rage until it was discovered they are as toxic as
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> 2021 - saved millions of lives Not really, the virus mutating into less aggressive strains did. Reducing counter-productive treatments (like ventilators) helped greatly too.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
No, what I said about masking policy during COVID was this: > Reasonable at first. Once it was known that the virus is transmitted via aerosols then forcing masks was the wrong thing to do, specially on children. Useless and damaging.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
Or maybe they do have evidence that proves ineffectiveness/harm of a technology that was rushed to the market during a global panic.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> the ick An ever changing and contradictory anti-concept.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
Yes, we should instead blindly trust AI companies to decide what's true for us.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
How do know? Did you ask everyone involved for their motivations?
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
> What was tricky was a separate technique to get real cubemaps working on the PS2. Any details on that?
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
Still not a measure of quality.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
It doesn't allow me to write my own memory allocator, it forces me to. This line of argumentation reminds me of this: Advertise and promote a shortcoming or a fault as a virtue. For example, ultra-cheap single-use film cameras are adv
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
I don't think compilers allowing trash through is a good thing.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
Popularity isn't a measure of quality. Never has been and certainly not in the case of programming languages.
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by OCASMv2 1y ago
If that was true then the optimizers wouldn't need to exist in the first place.

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