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by aredox 1y ago
>There are completely valid questions for normal people to ask that don’t receive much of a response often Wrong, wrong, wrong. These perfectly valid answers have received again and again perfectly valid answers, and vaccine "scepti
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by aredox 1y ago
Like the herd immunity that made polio measles and meningitis extinct in the millenia before the invention of vaccines... I really wish sometimes RFK jr went through with his idea to let avian flu "rip through" poultry farms. The
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by aredox 1y ago
>Isn’t it sort of unethical to force parents to inject their child with something they think is dangerous? Then isn't it unethical of these parents to force the other parents - the rest of society - who think illnesses are dangerous
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by aredox 1y ago
Ethics board have already discussed the topic at length, where you "argue" with a single sentence - but ok, let's admit vaccination obligations are unethical. Then you do admit infecting others is unethical as well? Now, scie
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by aredox 1y ago
Was that the inspiration for James Blish's Cities in Flight series? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight
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by aredox 1y ago
It was the Republicans who kneecapped Michelle Obama's initiative. Not the Democrats. Stop trying to bothside this. And "who is in power" is decided by your vote. You could vote anytime against those Republicans who voted aga
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by aredox 1y ago
>it's illegal under state and church separation in the United States. Try to keep up with reality. It is on display right now, and there is reason to think the Supreme Court will allow it. https://www.ksat.com/news&#
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by aredox 1y ago
"Well what about those other people who are worse and that we have promoted to the highest places on our society ?" Where would we get as a society, indeed.
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by aredox 1y ago
>I don't think we need to look through that lens all the time. You don't think so, but kids aren't stupid and see what's going on.
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by aredox 1y ago
Absolutely tone deaf article when the whole US Presidency, half of Congress and half of Senate are promoting incompetence and punishing any experience. What is the goal of "tough grading" when they, and a majority of the populatio
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by aredox 1y ago
>why aren't we handing out vitamin D tablets at school? The current US administration, the one with Trump and RFK jr, is currently cutting free meal at school. The food was coming from local farms, not Big Ag. Whatever the posters a
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by aredox 1y ago
Michele Obama tried to encourage physical activity, and was met with frothing-a-the-mouth backlash from the whole right-wing media personalities and Republicans who vehemently criticized related regulation as government overreach. https:&#
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by aredox 1y ago
You want the nanny state to tell you what to do? How many of you American are following the CDC's guidelines? Can you follow them without the nanny state enforcing them on you? Look at Trump congratulating himself for the return of gas
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by aredox 1y ago
But he is perfectly happy with people drinking liters of Coca-Cola (with still the same amount of sugar, but "natural", now).
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by aredox 1y ago
Yes, this is the cost of "freedom". Do you want the nanny state to come and tell you smoking is bad, eat less meat, walk more, drink less sugar, don't sell guns and put "This product contains a chemical known to the Stat
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by aredox 1y ago
>there was never broader discourse on if gain of function research is a good idea. There has always been tons of discussions if GoF is a good idea, for years. You don't know anything about the topic you are commenting about, do you?
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by aredox 1y ago
The clique downvoting my post can suck it: SARS-CoV-1 as well as MERS are more lethal than SARS-CoV-2 (aka COVID-19), and nobody doubts they are perfectly natural - that is until RFK jr and the crazies around him on day begin to lie they ar
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by aredox 1y ago
And at the same time populism worsens inequality and isn't punished for it (it gets away with making the elections just a little bit "unfair", it doesn't need full totalitarian control over them and can keep the oppositi
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by aredox 1y ago
The most bloody obvious explanation is a natural origin, exactly like the first SARS. Did you forget about that was also a coronavirus outbreak, a close cousin of the COVID-19 (whose real name is SARS-cov- 2 ) that was more lethal (but less
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by aredox 1y ago
With these rabid haters, COVID-19 is at the same time "just a flu that doesn't hurt kids nor adults and can be cured with a cheap widely available medicine" and “a genetically engineered bioweapon that targets Black and white
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by aredox 1y ago
A) The lab leak hypothesis is still unproven. There is no hard scientific data to support it, and many supposed proofs ("Chinese scientists fell ill first") are circular references without proof. B) Pseudoscientific grifters such
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by aredox 1y ago
>So it will be quite a long time before people have sufficiently "done their own research" (by dying). And even then, it may not be enough. Antivaccine is as old as vaccines, with the same arguments forever, and I would argue t
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by aredox 1y ago
It is a car. A vehicule which can be involved in a fatal accident. It is not a website. There is no "oversight", nor is it "pretty standard" to do it like that: when you don't think about what your system is actua
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by aredox 1y ago
Thanks ChatGPT. >The phrase "without much evidence" is the reporter's judgment, not a neutral presentation of fact. No, it is a neutral presentation of fact. The Trump administration hasn't presented any evidence. Tha
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by aredox 1y ago
One man, one vote - one last time .
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by aredox 1y ago
See here for some melodrama: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532483 "The beam of thin
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by aredox 1y ago
https://archive.ph/u9vsM But don't worry, it will soon be flagged. Many HNers with flagging rights don't want "politics" on this website, apparently. They live on another plane.
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by aredox 1y ago
>many are interested in HN _not_ becoming _yet another_ front in the political flame wars. Thanks for deciding that without asking. Stories about the Therac-25 - badly using a computer to control a radiation machine - are fine and often
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by aredox 1y ago
There is clearly an ongoing manipulation going on on HN and outgunning the moderation (if moderation itself is not compromised by a MAGA insider). Many perfectly factual, relevant stories about the Trump administration are flagged to oblivi
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by aredox 1y ago
>The liberation of Europe owes more to the Soviet Union than the USA Oh yeah, just ask Poland about it! F*cking revisionist

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