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by bequanna 5y ago
Did you just unilaterally decide what the word “vaccine” means? :) That isn’t how it works. A word means what people understand it to mean. But…semantics. Whatever. The main issue that the parent comment touches on is that this is a new pro
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by bequanna 5y ago
There is essentially a revolving door between industry and regulators in the US. We shouldn’t trust, we need to independently verify. We need openness and the FOIA. Also, please see vioxx to learn more about how pharma will push drugs with
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by bequanna 5y ago
Right, my argument would be that the “currently available evidence” should be viewed with skepticism given the incredible profit motive involved and current political climate.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Right, but isn’t the main difference that children are still developing? Shouldn’t we try very hard to avoid the possibility of screwing up a growing child’s body?
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by bequanna 5y ago
Right…Vaccines we have been using for many years.
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by bequanna 5y ago
> What will the long term effects be? We don't know. Thank you for bringing this up. It isn’t “anti-science” to ask these type of questions and expect answers. Indeed, it has always been the job of the FDA to hold drug companies res
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by bequanna 5y ago
Are the children in this trial part of high risk groups? I guess I am quite surprised to hear that there are drug trials for healthy children that young. In this case, the risk/reward seems very imbalanced almost to the point being une
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by bequanna 5y ago
> you might be racist Please stop this. Every instance of someone referencing something that originated from a culture other than their own is not "appropriation" or "racism".
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by bequanna 5y ago
The precise definition of the pejorative 'woke' can be debated, but I think we all can agree that "we know it when we see it". And it is far from useless. IMO it accurately labels people who are either: 1. Taking liberal
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by bequanna 5y ago
r/antiwork + Jan 6 “insurrection” + blue-collar low vaccination rates Wow, this really hit the intellectual left 2021 topic trifecta.
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by bequanna 5y ago
As far as I can tell, these prices are not being caused by some jump in demand but rather a combination of several supply problems.
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by bequanna 5y ago
What kind of additional financial education would you recommend? I think we are already doing a decent putting this info in front of our young. I grew up very rural and solidly lower middle class. We learned to balance checkbooks in 8th gra
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by bequanna 5y ago
> More than 1 in 4 fatal crashes in the United States involve at least one speeding driver, making speeding a factor in nearly 10,000 deaths each year, in addition to an unknowable number of injuries. We hear this statistic all the time
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by bequanna 5y ago
This isn’t at all true. In addition to very favorable net income/interest expense ratios, most large companies have increased the duration of their debt. So, pretty low interest expense relative to income plus longer dated, low interes
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by bequanna 5y ago
Smokers pay higher life insurance premiums, right? Risk-adjusted health insurance premiums for preventable lifestyle issues is a great idea. Couple the above with with a ban on advertising pharmaceuticals and we would see a 50% reduction i
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by bequanna 5y ago
Let's get real for a second and be honest about the very real problem we are discussing: Political activist teachers are pushing their agendas onto students. This has been quietly happening for some time, but has become harder for the
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by bequanna 5y ago
I think you have that backwards. Parents and the community should have the final say when deciding what is included in a curriculum, not (potentially activist) teachers and school boards.
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by bequanna 5y ago
I don’t know about HOAs, but it is extremely common now for apartment owners when they initially acquire a property to sub meter units and bill back those utilities that were included in rent back to the tenants. Rent is typically kept at t
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by bequanna 5y ago
Laws should be enforced equally regardless of politics.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Are you saying we should suppress the truth because we’re worried the woke mob won’t like it? One solution: Open, transparent justice and cities enforce laws for rioters instead of letting them throw city burning temper tantrums.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Not an enemy of everyone, just the ~50% of the US that doesn’t share YT’s politics.
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by bequanna 5y ago
It looks like ~300,000 videos are uploaded to YT daily. What percentage of videos do these "dislike mobs" mobilize against? 0.001%? 0.01%? As I said, they are hardly a thing at all.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Ha, I love that! My comment seems to suggest that maybe I am right-leaning and you sneak in a reference to Q-anon! Genius!
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by bequanna 5y ago
Please read the sentence right below the one you copy + pasted: > If you're confused what I mean, check any US mainstream media video with an obvious political slant but pretending to be "objective news" and look at the li
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by bequanna 5y ago
The point of my comment is that the stated reason for this change is quite obviously bullshit.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Ah, but then we can use the comment to update their social credit score accordingly.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Not quite. The social signal that a large number of people disapprove of content is what they are looking to hide. It isn't just important for us to know if the majority of viewers think a fortnite walkthrough is shitty. We also need t
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by bequanna 5y ago
> Was it "politically motivated" then? Absolutely. 2019 was only 2 years ago. YT's politics are the same now as they were then. Also, "dislike mobs" are hardly a thing at all. Almost always a large number of disl
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by bequanna 5y ago
Absolutely. It is so much easier to just silence your opposition.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Ah, right. We must censor speech for the "greater good". The underclass must not be allowed to organize or disseminate "dangerous" ideas.

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