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by collias 5y ago
Apparently, booster efficacy wanes after about 10 weeks[1]. If you think the 3rd shot is important, why not the 4th, 5th, ad infinitum? Genuinely curious, not trying to be difficult. [1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk&
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by collias 5y ago
It's not a lucky ending as much as it is the inevitable ending. Virus evolution tends toward becoming more contagious and less deadly. We've known this for a long time, and we have no reason to believe that this virus would be any
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by collias 5y ago
I wouldn't say it's more of an economics problem...it's still a medical impossibility as far as we know. Everyone develops cancer given a long enough timeline. If we can somehow defeat that, or give everyone robot bodies af
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by collias 5y ago
Weirdly, some atheists/agnostics are now circling back on the intelligent design thing in the form of "simulation theory".
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by collias 5y ago
Correct. It's inconvenient for the current narrative of getting absolutely everyone vaccinated with a spike protein from a single variant, but the best immunity currently available is naturally-obtained. Also, mostly unrelated, but the
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by collias 5y ago
Pfizer’s own data says the same thing. The safety and efficacy study they did shows that efficacy drops by about 6% every 2 months. Everyone will need boosters at least once per year in perpetuity if they want to maintain any reasonable amo
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by collias 5y ago
Sure, it’s in Table S4 of the supplementary material. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2021/07/28/202... Here’s a TLDR of cardiac-related deaths in the study: Arteriosclerosis: 2 v
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by collias 5y ago
How does it not pass Occam's razor? A large pharma corp, known for sacrificing morals in the name of profit in the past[1], wouldn't do it again? The pandemic has indeed caused casualties, but casualties amongst the population in
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by collias 5y ago
Some studies suggest that the risk of myocarditis/pericarditis among vaccinated young boys is higher than their risk of hospitalization due to Covid. The fact that this is even a possibility, and the data on it is changing so rapidly,
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by collias 5y ago
The difference is the control aspect. As far as I know, you won't be labeled as a second class citizen for not getting a flu shot.
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by collias 5y ago
I mean...yeah. Normal people do exactly this every month with credit cards, mortgages, etc. Should you pay a tax on your mortgage loan amount?
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by collias 5y ago
He didn't "make $50 billion". The assets he holds increased in value. You wouldn't say you "made $100k" if the value of your house increased by that much, and you weren't selling it.
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by collias 5y ago
This insanity stems from the media misleading the public into thinking people like Musk (for example) actually have hundreds of billions in cash. He doesn't. What he has is Tesla stock, which the public is welcome to buy as well. If yo
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by collias 5y ago
I never claimed getting covid was safe, only that we don’t have long-term data on the vaccines. Re: things like Tylenol, the difference is we have a ton of long term data on that, and the interactions with things like alcohol or other drugs
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by collias 5y ago
I have never heard of Vioxx and just looked it up…wow. Great example.
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by collias 5y ago
It definitely hasn’t been clear “for a while now” that the vaccine is safe. They do seem to be effective, though. It really depends on what your definition of “safe” is. The vaccines have stated side effects, some of which can severe. The s
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by collias 5y ago
Absolutely. Their front-end is phenomenal, even if their back-end is subpar. It's to the point where I use Robinhood to look at market info, then open my actual brokerage app to execute the trade. Robinhood is lightyears ahead of tradi
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by collias 5y ago
Belief in a god in itself is not really that irrational. Even secular thoughts like simulation theory agree in some sort of force that is outside of the material space-time universe we exist in.
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by collias 6y ago
Source for the stats in #1?
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by collias 6y ago
In my experience, flying over oceans or less populated areas on the US reduce the speeds to a crawl, if you get any connection at all. It's different for every airline, but I believe the system for Southwest just uses signals from cell
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by collias 6y ago
Part of me thinks planes with a stable and fast connection would be amazing. The other part of me will mourn the days when a plane flight was one of the few places you could be expected to be totally unavailable.
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by collias 6y ago
Yes, your max gain is whatever premium you collect from the sale. Your max loss is infinite, as the plaintiff has now discovered.
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by collias 6y ago
"The would-be plaintiff representing investors in the case, Christian Iovin of Washington state, sold $200,000 worth of call options on GameStop shares when the stock was below $100. The stock quickly eclipsed $400 a share, forcing him
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by collias 6y ago
"I can't be banned by my power company or my water company" Los Angeles is breaking new boundaries in this arena!
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by collias 6y ago
I assure you customer-facing retail employees experience plenty of yelling at work.
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by collias 6y ago
Not to be crude, but the whole sexual education debate is fairly analogous here. We can teach people to abstain completely, or we can teach them how to do things safely. It's pretty settled on which works better to prevent unwanted con
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by collias 6y ago
That's kind of what I was getting at, but you put it more succinctly. Either Einstein didn't know everything, and maybe part of his theory was a bit off. Or, there's an alien species visiting us with advanced craft that crash
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by collias 6y ago
I agree, and I'd be upset as well. But it sounds more plausible than having advanced spacecraft crash in our backyard, so to speak.
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by collias 6y ago
That doesn't explain the US military consistently having encounters with aircraft that they don't understand the physics of. Perhaps they're dogfooding the product and seeing if their own pilots can catch it. So far, no one h
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by collias 6y ago
I get almost Manhattan Project vibes from this. Pure speculation like everyone else, but I imagine that they're slowly disclosing some huge tech jump (akin to splitting the atom in the '40s), but they don't want everyone to k

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