SideburnsOfDoom

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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
The USA has Mr Vermin Supreme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> The thing is most of those people made rational objections. The problem is their reasoning was based on false information. This is how Typhoid Mary understood her status: > It did not take Mary long to react to this suggestion. She
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
"A civil conversation about my statement" quite. I'm not buying it and you shouldn't be selling it.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
Who is "they" ? And are they in the room with you now?
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> Please stop doing what your doing Yes, and it's worse than that for the parent commenter, the unvaccinated population also got some cases of myocarditis - often after Covid. And they got myocarditis at a higher rate than the
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
That's just spreading ignorance. > The incidence of pericarditis and myocarditis in patients exposed to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines was lower than in those who were not vaccinated https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38262150&
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
You're not wrong, at least in the USA - but it really shouldn't be. The polarisation was ginned up for various bad reasons, including political gain. It's deadly culture war nonsense.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> There is a legitimate discussion of what can be mandated you do to your body. There is a legitimate discussion (dating back at least to Typhoid Mary (1) ) on excluding people from public spaces when they refuse to take basic public hea
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
There is also a mRNU flu vaccine now: https://www.modernatx.com/ir-insights-mflusiva I don't know if that counts as the same "trick" or not as it's another antiviral vaccine. Not that I disagree with you
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> The opportunity for fraud is immense At the time, not so much. It was called "The Bronze Age" and "The Iron age" came later. The names aren't random. From the article: > The use of meteoritic iron particular
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
Why ask things that you can easily look up?
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
The odds of an EV catching fire are lower than for a gasoline vehicle. And safer, less-flammable kinds of battery are in development. Less-flammable kinds of gasoline are not.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance" - last words of Major General John Sedgwick, American Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sedgwick
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
Yep. Github issues mostly hit when it's morning in the USA and that load comes online. i.e. afternoon in UK and Europe.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
People are already saying things like "We need a plan B in case we urgently need to deploy a fix to production, and GitHub Actions is unavailable again". But in general, it's not feasible to do everything in house. And I don&
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
The euphemism treadmill has not been unalived.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
An earlier example of something similar was "Vegetative electron microscopy" https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-phrase-keeps-turning-... https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/vegetative
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> I was extrapolating that Count Binface had a real chance. At winning? No. Count Binface got 26.9% of the vote (1), and overperformed expectations at that. He was not expected to win outright. At being funny, and making Farage look weak
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> It's a helmet Well, that's worse. Wearing armour into Parliament is specifically forbidden since the year 1313 (1). I'm sure that Count Binface could argue that it's merely a costume not functional, just plastic res
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> Are you thinking that there are no wars and power plants do not get destroyed? OK, but is the argument that oil refineries don't get the same treatment in war? They're also "large, centralized, easy to destroy". In
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
EVs that have Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) capability are also useful in a natural disaster: You can use the EV as a big battery on wheels to power some electrical appliances - e.g. keep a fridge going or a light on, until the grid is back.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
If you're talking about "outside threats to oil supply" then this has to be a major and current example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_Russian_fuel... We can find many examples of &quot
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
What's good in Gasoline cars? If a refinery is destroyed how are you going to fuel your gasoline car to escape? It's not like you can charge it from a standard wall outlet or rooftop solar like a regular EV. * Ask the people in Cr
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
You're describing the last power cut that we had due to poorly maintained infrastructure. I would not romanticise it too much. It also fits severe water restrictions due to drought. I would not romanticise that much either.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
You will find Chinese electric trucks making inroads (heh) everywhere from UK and Europe (1) to Africa (2) now that it's a proven business model in the centre of the these things, of course. 1) https://octopus.energy/bi
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
As mentioned here (1) the IMHO cool and useful features are good battery life, heart rate and sleep tracking, "find my phone" and "tap to pay" / NFC payments. Find my phone: because sometimes you'd rather not s
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
As a Fitbit user, I would agree. Sleep tracking and heartrate monitoring are ok, but what's really cool are Tap to pay and Find my phone.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> AI, Advanced Gemini, Google Health Coach The fitbit users already have "google heath coach" in the latest googlified version of the app. And https://www.reddit.com/r/fitbit/ is full of commentary on
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
Yes, but it still ended the polio epidemic resulting in a drastic drop in total polio-related deaths. You don't get vaccines in use for 50 years without vaccines in use for 1 year, and you don't get that without using them for 6 m
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
WW2 and it's consequences will be a big part of this. Consider the Oppenheimer movie. The majority of physicists depicted there are people who left Europe around that time. It's this: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F

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