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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Death counts don’t tell you much. If the main effect of the virus is ultimately to advance a bunch of older people’s deaths by a year or two, then it’s not a big deal. People live and people die, that’s life.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Making people think they are safe is not sufficient reason to force everyone to wear a mask. It’s only justified if we have good reason to think they work.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
It became a point of civic religion to believe that the virus was catastrophically dangerous. Disagreement was not just mistaken but evil .
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Not just insane people, but also people who in real life you would immediately dismiss as losers.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
People aren’t psychologically equipped to handle this kind of dishonesty. We evolved to deal with small groups. People would either be forced into honesty by socialization or reputational fears, or they’d be exiled or executed. Now, you jus
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Thatcher wasn’t perfect, but England was an economic basket case before her premiership. Visceral Thatcher hate is a meme for nonthinking people. The great irony is that one of the most significant effects of the EU has been to replicate ma
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
This is meme security advice. Anti-systemd, anti-glibc, anti-openssl. This is security by internet fad. As for the rest of the advice, it doesn't explain any of the tradeoffs, making it worthless. The kernel devs and distribution maint
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Do you have a source for that?
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Those wars are over. You have to be ready for the next war.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Scoop tries to swim upstream and change the default install location. In my experience, this ultimately leads to problems and system fragility. Sure, it should work, but that's no comfort when it doesn't work right when you ne
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Wow! Thank you. I don't think I can justify the purchase, already having bought a fairly small third-party dock and power adapter, but hopefully someone else sees this. The Genki is the obvious choice, assuming it works correctly.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Yes, compare the portability of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JK9DFKH and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D64QLQ1 with having to lug around the official dock and adapter. If
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
The Switch is great but you have to get a third-party dock and AC adapter for optimal portability[1]. I'm kind of perplexed by the bad design of the official dock. [1] There were some issues with unofficial docks/adapters bricking
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
By suggesting any negative effects of lockdowns, you have inadvertently challenged a tenet of the new national religion.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
If you’re criticizing goto in kernel source, you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s incredible how many people just regurgitate this anti-goto meme without any experience writing system C code. There are various highly structured us
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Plenty of young adult books, which is what Harry Potter was, especially after the first book, engage with difficult moral situations. Harry Potter instead tells you that you can have your cake and eat it too.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
My biggest frustration with Harry Potter is that Harry never has to actually make tough decisions. All moral dilemmas are resolved by a deus ex. He never even has to murder the villain, just deflects his spell back at him. My eyes rolled st
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Running ads on copyrighted content that you didn't pay for is pretty nasty. Is that your position, defending profiteering off of someone else's content?
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
The places with the strictest mask orders are having surges in cases just the same. E.g. California hospitalizations per capita are now far outpacing Florida. Masks work, kind of, I’m sure, under very particular conditions. But the net effe
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Maybe I care more about not being mugged than doing racial justice in where I choose to walk. Certain neighborhoods being crime-infested hellholes is not my problem.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Doubtful. The victors write the history. The Church of “If It Saves Even One Life” and “Anti-Lockdown and Anti-Maskers are Murderers” are clearly the victors in this timeline. Your children and grandchildren will be taught about the backwar
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
I'm responding to a comment that pooh-poohs serious consideration of alternative theories because they are contrary to the "scientific consensus." No one is going to pursue alternative theories if people don't believe
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Scientific consensus is often wrong. Science advances one funeral at a time. Most “scientists” are conformists looking for their next grant. Outside of the tenured professor elite, most of them are looking for the next job. And the tenured
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Nothing does social justice like getting mugged.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
UK Police is a private company and they can do whate... oh wait.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
That's not true. The government must prove, by a prepondernace of the evidence, that the property is linked to crime.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
I share your sentiment in opposing such efforts, but I think they're actually highly effective. Right-wing populism would have done much better were it not for the extreme censorship deployed against it. Most people have never even hea
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Criminal prosecutions are for the condemnation of moral wrongdoing. Law serves many functions aside from that.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
That's not what I mean. I mean the burden of proof and due process is the same as if I sued you for, e.g., injuring or stealing from me.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
The government cannot keep civilly forfeited assets unless it wins a civil case in court, the same process by which anyone can sue and take everything to your name if they win. It also has a long pedigree, being in continuous use before, du

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