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by VagueMag 3y ago
Actually the article zeros in quite well on the suspension of democratic process in favor of "emergency" powers, and the mistakes skeptics are making in attributing all the manifest and abject failures of the COVID response to e
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by VagueMag 3y ago
At the very least, we shouldn't have been hearing one word about how the hospital system was supposedly stretched to its limits (which was the whole justification for extending "15 days to slow the spread" into "lockdown
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The false lesson of lockdown scepticism(unherd.com)
4 points by VagueMag 3y ago|4 comments
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Bay Area police union leader allegedly smuggled fentanyl into US to sell in bulk(abcnews.go.com)
3 points by VagueMag 3y ago|0 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764773 Chomsky's remarks on the unvaccinated from 2021: https://www.yahoo.com/video/noam-chomsky-unvaccinated-remove...
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Masayoshi Son Now Owes SoftBank $5.2B on Side Deals(bloomberg.com)
7 points by VagueMag 3y ago|0 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Locals who had never even visited called it "Pedophile Island."
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U.S. Virgin Islands Issued Subpoena to Elon Musk in Jeffrey Epstein Case(cnbc.com)
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by VagueMag 3y ago
This is a classic motte and bailey: "it's normal for adults to be attracted to adolescents" used to defend "it was reasonable for a fat CS prof in his 70s to believe a young minor on Epstein's island wanted to have
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Not just shun, but regard with the utmost suspicion!
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Stallman made some remarks defending Marvin Minsky (very poorly) from victims' allegations that he abused young girls on Epstein's island. Meanwhile, Reid Hoffman is now known to have visited the island and has not seen any fire
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Former Silicon Valley Bank CEO says rate hikes sank firm(reuters.com)
4 points by VagueMag 3y ago|1 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
I don't see any evidence that was actually in supply though. The executive leadership seems to have done nothing to interrupt the rampant overuse of ventilators or remdesivir, both of which were actively harmful to Covid patients. They
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by VagueMag 3y ago
At this point I think it calls to mind "cope" more than "hope."
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Was with you right up until the part where you said the behind-the-scenes handlers are acting on behalf of the public's will or interest.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Rolling Stone is using the royal "we" in the headline to refer to "the public" and not "reporters and newsmedia," whom the piece shows have played an active and knowing role in concealing Feinstein's menta
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Dianne Feinstein's Health Crisis Goes Back Farther Than We Knew(rollingstone.com)
9 points by VagueMag 3y ago|7 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Did you read the article? Those problems didn't impact hospital revenues because they were handed billions in emergency funding from the government.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
In fact, hospital staffing levels fell after the initial outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 and had not fully recovered two years later. Meanwhile, it was considered everyone's personal obligation to undertake every possible manner of precautio
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As COVID raged in New York hospitals, executives pocketed $73M in bonuses (2022)(lohud.com)
110 points by VagueMag 3y ago|66 comments
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The Pain of Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse Is Being Felt by Caymans Depositors(wsj.com)
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Am I the only one who's a fan of what you might call the "default" monospace fonts on Apple and Google platforms? I very slightly prefer SF Mono (the Apple one) and use it on my Macs, but since it's not free I'll us
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by VagueMag 3y ago
I mean that the myocarditis risks from the COVID vaccines and from SARS-CoV-2 infection are cumulative. Maybe "additive" would be a more precise term to get at what I am saying: that the choice is not between two mutually exclusiv
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The Drug-Fueled Protest in Dianne Feinstein's Office You Haven't Heard About(politico.com)
2 points by VagueMag 3y ago|1 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> outside of particular ethnic or religious groups lol
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> According to a large 2022 study led by researchers at Harvard University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the group at highest risk of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination—males ages 12 to 17—saw 35.9 case
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Bioethicists: Canada should give MAID if social conditions make life intolerable(nationalpost.com)
2 points by VagueMag 3y ago|0 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
What Russia did is save Latvia from being liquidated entirely by the Nazis.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
"Want to come to Canada" is not really a relevant example in this case, some of the people facing expulsion by this fascistic and ethnocentric policy have lived in Latvia for decades. It's explicitly being framed as a loyalt
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Russians take language test to avoid expulsion from Latvia(reuters.com)
1 points by VagueMag 3y ago|9 comments

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