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by aredox 1y ago
>nobody had any explanation for why flu "disappeared" The flu didn't disappear, and we know very well why it almost disappeared: it is far less contagious than SARS-CoV-2, and masking and the huge dip in international trav
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by aredox 1y ago
>something that was never a serious claim And yet was claimed again and again by e.g. pediatrics societies in Switzerland and France to justify ending every restrictions (thereby mass contaminating children before they could be vaccinate
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by aredox 1y ago
>It basically sounds something like “drug companies couldn’t show their vaccines were safe enough like other drugs Can you point exactly where in the given link there is something that could be summarized or interpreted as such? “drug co
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by aredox 1y ago
“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death,” Kirk said a week after three children and three adults were killed at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville in 2023. “That is no
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by aredox 1y ago
And it is not the only case. The French people went to war in 1914 "la fleur au fusil"[0]. Jean Jaurès is assassinated for his pacifism and (his assassin would be found not guilty - despite being totally guilty - in 1919). [0]: a
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by aredox 1y ago
>some damage to societal perceptions of transgender people Weird, how do we call people who do "some damage to societal perceptions" of black people? Of Jewish people? Why are you reaching for such a tortured expression, "
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by aredox 1y ago
>you invented a significantly stronger, more inciteful quote (something Charlie didn't say) https://youtu.be/KivCRqfFcqY?si=hLN0akbswSlPm8pE But if we take 5 minutes to search, we can see Charlie Kirk has said publi
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by aredox 1y ago
Too sad the WebIDE link on https://picat-lang.org/ doesn't work, I would have been happy to try it with minimal fuss. It seems to be a very nice langage for niche but important use cases.
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by aredox 1y ago
I won't "debate" with someone with so much bad faith he would say with a straight face "1 mass shooting is too many" when there are hundreds every year. Why don't you say the actual number? Why didn't Kirk
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Lutnick says U.S. should take 50% of universities' patent revenue(axios.com)
5 points by aredox 1y ago|0 comments
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by aredox 1y ago
Who said "the king has no clothes" in the classic tale?
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by aredox 1y ago
Hope the downvoters got that I was sarcastic.
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by aredox 1y ago
Adults can't dismiss experts and expertise all the time on every topic (climate, health, economy) and worship know-nothings, and expect their children to invest time and effort to learn stuff. The kids may become dumber but they aren&#
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by aredox 1y ago
>But in practice I imagine / wonder if these stats really are reasonable "sufficient stats" because the probability of seeing data with strong structure is unlikely in most contexts. We just spent five years since COVID ap
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by aredox 1y ago
Well, the American far right is now also anti-American...
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by aredox 1y ago
>As a specific example teachers unions were against in-person learning during COVID even when parents were actively observing bad outcomes for their children. Schools were accelerants of COVID propagations. Kids are contagious, like with
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by aredox 1y ago
Is there a know secondhand marketplace for retired supercomputer hardware?
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by aredox 1y ago
>Intel and AMD have had plenty of years to catch up to Apple's M-architecture and they still aren't able to touch it in efficiency. Why would they spend billions to "catch up" to an ecological niche that is already oc
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by aredox 1y ago
You are nitpicking. The Supreme Court is allowing racial targeting right now . It is happening, right now . People are being roughhandled, thrown to the ground, handcuffed right now . People are going missing from their families right n
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by aredox 1y ago
BBC: "Supreme Court lifts limits on LA immigration raids" PBS: "Supreme Court ends restrictions on LA immigration stops set after agents swept up U.S. citizens" Politico: "Supreme Court lifts restrictions on ‘roving
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by aredox 1y ago
>it's what America voted for This isn't true, and even if Trump had a wide majority to support him (which he didn't have, and hasn't now), you don't live in a "winners-take-all" system. The laws and Con
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by aredox 1y ago
But it is the content of the article, and of the decision. You would not play on words, if you were "colored".
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by aredox 1y ago
The potentially "explosive" part of AI was that it could be self-improving. Using AI to improve AI, or AI improving itself in an exponential growth until it becomes super-human. This is what the "Singularity" and AI &quo
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by aredox 1y ago
Here is a good article on where the Supreme Court is, now: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/...
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World Map Generator(worldmapgenerator.com)
3 points by aredox 1y ago|0 comments
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by aredox 1y ago
Doré, Grandville: https://essentiels.bnf.fr/fr/article/73d641d9-bbf0-4334-ae2b... But there has been a lot of others: https://www.polkadot.fr/content/21-les-fables-de-la-fontaine
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by aredox 1y ago
Will Dig1t reply to this? Will he try to show this to the many vaccine sceptics he knows of and update us on how they reacted? Because usually that's what happens when you "debate" with vaccine sceptics: they just accuse you
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by aredox 1y ago
Polls show there isn't an exceptional loss of trust on confidence in the medical system: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/confidence-institutions.as... What happened is that the minority of contrarians and F
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by aredox 1y ago
The Supreme Court who keeps voting 5-4 or 6-3 and affirming things patently wrong like "the President is immune"? Or who keeps issuing so many shadow docket rulings devoid of reasonings?
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by aredox 1y ago
>Colbert’s “The vax scene” episode did more to damage the reputation of vaccines than I think anyone realizes. Oh yeah, perfectly rational to make health decisions based on a mediocre skit by a comedian you don't like and almost nev

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