Overton-Window

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Italy Launched "Hug a Chinese" Campaign to Fight Covid Induced Racism (Mar 2020)(in.news.yahoo.com)
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
The largest risk in such a scenario is a Sino invasion. NZ is incapable of defending itself without US assistance.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Googlers continually run damage control on HN, if you weren't aware.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Being bored to death is the more likely option.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> World Economic Forum: Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better https://twitter.com/wef/status/815090618078732288
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Is Covid Being Used as an Excuse to Stop Cheap Travel?(telegraph.co.uk)
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Stop the Senate from Sneaking Through Total Surveillance of the Crypto Economy(fightforthefuture.org)
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> To predict the baseline total number of medals each country might be expected to win in any given summer Olympics, we updated a linear regression model produced by Julia Bredtmann, Carsten J Crede and Sebastian Otten ahead of the Rio O
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
The Financial Times’ alternative medal table ranks countries not by their total medal haul but by the difference to the tally they are expected to achieve, according to an economic model that takes into account their economic, social and po
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Tokyo Olympics Alternative medals table(ig.ft.com)
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> We seem to be at an impasse, because that question can be asked literally word-for-word of you. I'm not asking anything of you. You're asking me to waive my right to legal recourse and inject an experimental vaccine based on
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Israel debunks your theory. You can't vaccinate against COVID. It is now a seasonal disease with us to stay. > A thorough campaign of vaccination, on the other hand, would put an end to this disease, just as vaccination put an end t
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Forced oestrogen vaccines for males exhibiting symptoms of toxic masculinity.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> I'd prefer not to expose them to likely sources of the virus if it can be avoided. It can be avoided. You remain locked down. Why should others moderate their existence based on your unfounded fears? Should cars be banned as they
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> "The tiniest risk to me is not worth reducing deadly risk to a hundred thousand strangers." Please elaborate on how an unvaccinated individual poses a deadly risk to a hundred thousand vaccinated strangers.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
You're the problem. You're championing tyranny. In a century from now COVID will be but a distant memory, will the tyranny?
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
You're free to remain locked down and homeschool your children.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
More surprising is that CNN still had heretics filling their ranks.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
This is not aimed at devs in the West: > That’s why we named 1729.com after Ramanujan’s number. Ramanujan made great contributions to India and to mathematics around the world. He was particularly renowned for his contribution to number
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Why should those living within 35° of the equator have to subsidise those living in the naturally uninhabitable reaches beyond?
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
The hole in the stern of the ship is taking on 30L of water per second. The hole in the bow of the ship is taking on 20L of water per second. Let's just focus on plugging the latter shall we, while we all go down together.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Per capita figures are meaningless. You're discussing imaginary lines in the dirt. The only way to tackle climate change is to bring down global emissions.
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Crypto tax changes spark clash between White House, key Democratic senator(politico.com)
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Nationwide US Survey: only 21.8% support Mandatory Vaccination(thetrafalgargroup.org)
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2019 Global Health Security Index: Countries Ranked by Preparedness for Pandemic(ghsindex.org)
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> We are pretty good vaccinating the globe against polio and measles. The institutions staffed by our grandparents generation delivered this, just as they delivered the Hoover Dam and Apollo 11. Contemporary western institutions are inco
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
If we can't feed the developing world, how do you suppose we'll immunise the developing world?
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Blatant false equivalence. All of those are FDA approved.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Do yourself a favour and volunteer at your nearest shelter for an afternoon.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
The path from refugee to homelessness is an obvious one and points to an over-admission by the German government. The path from native born citizen to homelessness is less obvious and points to complete social dysfunction.

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