chronofar

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by chronofar 5y ago
You say you're not justifying tailgating, but it sounds like your prescription for rush hour is exactly that. I suppose there are different characteristics in different types of congestion. Stop and go congestion is usually caused by d
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by chronofar 5y ago
I think that's an extremely suspect hypothesis. Most congestion is caused by: - Construction - Accidents - Directly counter to your point: people driving like assholes and cutting others off or forcing others to take abrupt maneuvers t
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by chronofar 5y ago
Until you realize being cut off doesn’t actually impact you much so you play a much safer game of giving everyone a wide enough berth to act like an idiot and not ruin your day. Driving habits are extremely psychologically interesting, from
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by chronofar 5y ago
> If there had been some sort of response the Russians would have backed off. Are you sure about that? Are you really willing to risk your chips betting on a retreat? This sort of geopolitical chicken would be incredibly dangerous.
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by chronofar 5y ago
Yes physical is one of the things I glossed over and generalized, and of course there is real physical decline that is inevitable. However most people are not genetically destined to be saddled w/ medical bills immediately following th
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by chronofar 5y ago
I don't think this is a necessity but rather a trend bourn of hardening rituals and habits. When you're young flexibility is built in, you are moving quickly between milestones and change is part of the program, thus your adaptabi
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by chronofar 5y ago
Not every, or even most, individuals no, I would hope not. But every for-profit company surely does. No matter whatever bullshit mission they may plaster on their walls, the moniker "for-profit" tells you what the goal is plain an
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by chronofar 5y ago
I don’t think there’s nearly as much daylight between these as you’re suggesting. Just look at how current beliefs in COVID or climate science fall along political preference lines. Scientific literacy is absolutely important to express coh
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by chronofar 5y ago
> When I worked in DoD intel in the past, I had to travel to multiple nations with extremely high rates of dangerous tropical disease. I took multiple vaccines for this purpose. At no point do I ever recall worrying about whether the loc
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by chronofar 5y ago
Does it really? Across age demographics and other risk factors when compared with those with 2 shots (who from data I’ve seen aren’t getting severe disease because of the protection from the vaccination)? That would surprise me and isn’t wh
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by chronofar 5y ago
> Marginal reduction in transmission can mean the difference in ending a pandemic or dragging it out for another year or two. Sure, it’s great that we have the vaccines to do so. We should be focusing on making them available to everyone
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by chronofar 5y ago
> College kids were already required to get multiple vaccines to attend and I remember being lined up to take the swine flu nasal spray with no say in the matter if I was going to continue education. Saying it's happened in the past
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by chronofar 5y ago
I don’t think you need to lack empathy or patience to desire a return to normalcy with an understanding that if someone decides not to protect themselves they may experience negative consequences. We all have our choices and risk tolerances
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by chronofar 5y ago
My second shot made me feel more ill than I have any other time in the last half decade or so aside from a bout with dengue. It’s likely I’ve also had COVID within that stretch and it barely registered (had a slightly sore throat for a few
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by chronofar 5y ago
The main motivator for doing so would be to sell it more cheaply to those who can’t afford the cocaine sold elsewhere as crack requires lower dosages for effect. You’ll find this in patterns of cocaine use already, the affluent use cocaine
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by chronofar 5y ago
Proper legalization and regulation would mean it wouldn’t be sold as crack and wouldn’t have the potential to contain fentanyl, eliminating much of the physiological risk. Proper drug legalization would also divert funds currently used for
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by chronofar 5y ago
> experts on Twitter seem very very worried and I’m more inclined to go with them (and the exponential function) than with my antivaxxer friend’s posts on Facebook. I wouldn’t give a lot of heed to either of those groups, they’re both av
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by chronofar 5y ago
Right, the thing is before you have children you can weigh the costs/rewards dispassionately, but after you have a child the calculus changes because now this person exists who is now the most important thing in the world to you. As so
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by chronofar 5y ago
This appears a strange mindset. You see the issue, you see solutions to the issue, but you imagine these solutions are too difficult? Are they more difficult than the mental health and happiness struggles you've been having? I certainl
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by chronofar 5y ago
Because the evolutionarily programmed rewards from parenting will typically outweigh the rewards from general altruism. Your child becomes the most important thing in the world by default, which can flip all sorts of joy and fulfillment tri
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by chronofar 5y ago
And this is irrational on a country wide scale, though understandable at the beginning. We should, I would think, be much better at modeling by this point factoring in vaccinations and recovery immunity to make predictions about specific mu
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by chronofar 5y ago
"Lie" is the wrong term. "Mislead" or "misrepresent" would be the more appropriate way to phrase it. On a topic as politicized as this with as little scientific literacy as the general public has you don't
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by chronofar 5y ago
And it’s a common refrain of “follow the science” dogmatists to attempt to paint things as “objective facts” in a decidedly unscientific way. Just what “measurable numbers” are you referring to and what “objective facts” do you think they r
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by chronofar 5y ago
> There is plenty of room for dissent, but it stops being “dissent” when it is simply denying reality. Ah yes of course, when the common view gets the label of “reality” dissent is no longer “dissent.” /s If only everyone could see
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by chronofar 5y ago
I agree that certain forums require perhaps different compulsory actions, and for healthcare certainly the case for more stringent requirements can be made. Nonetheless my previous reply remains accurate, it is quite possible to coherently
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by chronofar 5y ago
Convince or compel? Do you expect all healthcare workers to receive any widely prescribed treatment? Is there no room for dissent in your mind?
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by chronofar 5y ago
Rejecting a compulsory measure not “anti-science,” and using that term in that manner displays a dogmatism that is decidedly unscientific. It is quite coherent to accept the consensus epidemiological realities of COVID, the efficacy and saf
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by chronofar 5y ago
> You can use a PC in the same way. If you position it well, you can even have a dual purpose work/entertainment PC. Not without significantly more work. A console you just plugin to your TV and you're good to go, with a PC you
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by chronofar 5y ago
> I am not aware of instances (at any scale, I'm certain examples exist but exceptions don't disprove the rule) where people are aware that Facebook usage is ruining their lives but are incapable of discontinuing their use. &qu
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by chronofar 5y ago
Most people mostly care about his/her own opinions, and others opinions only insofar as they reflect on himself/herself (even though of course the others are also thinking about themselves mostly), we're hopelessly self-invol

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