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by croon 5y ago
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by croon 5y ago
> I completely disagree with his stance on vaccinations but I also disagree that he's some sort of major source of disinformation. Just to play with this a bit. Joe Rogan is unvaccinated himself, and he at least has recommended you
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by croon 5y ago
They're not saying 1 out of 8 vaccinations gives symptoms, but that covid is 8 times likelier than the vaccine to cause those symptoms. From [0]: > They found that, during the first 12 months of the pandemic, males aged 12 to 17 wer
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IRS abandons facial recognition plan after firestorm of criticism(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by croon 5y ago|0 comments
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by croon 5y ago
22 adults competing over a ball isn't inherently any more serious than 2 people playing a game of Starcraft.
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by croon 5y ago
Logic is not complicared in your scenario either, but merely the veracity of the variables.
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by croon 5y ago
> You consider "being unbiased" as a default in a world where most people are biased. Again, it's not about being default, it's about not being possible to prove, which you asked for in your original post. The number
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by croon 5y ago
I wasn't focusing on guilt. I pointed out the logical fallacy in you stating the burden of proof was on the fact checker.
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by croon 5y ago
The best sources I've encountered are the ones where they source their information to some form of verifiable data (not blog/youtube/rag), lay out their reasoning, fix/own mistakes, have clear information about who they
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by croon 5y ago
That's not my point. Everyone is unbiased until pointed out where/how they are biased. Maybe that is every action of every person on the planet, but in my biased opinion some are clearly less biased than others, and it's not
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by croon 5y ago
> The very fact of being unbiased, or claiming to be, is quite a big claim and the burden of proof of being unbiased should lie on the side that claims being so. This is a ridiculous claim. You can't prove a negative. If they are be
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by croon 5y ago
Enables how? Not by votes or bills.
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by croon 5y ago
One party is responsible for the Citizens United vs FEC ruling. One party repeatedly blocks voting rights bills. One party closes poll locations, gerrymanders and makes it harder to register and get ID's. A two party duopoly is bad. Bu
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by croon 5y ago
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell
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by croon 5y ago
What do you think is the causality?
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by croon 5y ago
That I agree with, but that wasn't what I meant, and judging from anecdata, not everyone can make that distinction. It's easy to be convinced by presentation rather than content.
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by croon 5y ago
I think they mean anyone/everyone in general terms, not someone specific.
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by croon 5y ago
> With great power comes great responsibility. Someone should tell JR(E) that, being the largest podcast on the planet.
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by croon 5y ago
Everyone I've ever talked to that listens to JRE thinks what they say on it is generally correct. I guess you can't stop people from being idiots, but there's no harm in trying.
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by croon 5y ago
If you want to save time, and some.money, you could try intermittent fasting by just eating one larger meal per day, either lunch or dinner. It takes a couple of weeks getting used to, but it has both health benefits and I feel less bad abo
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Tennessee school board bans Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust novel, Maus(theguardian.com)
12 points by croon 5y ago|1 comments
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by croon 5y ago
>> This is why we explain how something is wrong, and support it using data from mutually reliable sources. You repeatedly sidestep this, for whatever reason I don't know. > Mate there's CBO, BLS, Journal of Economic Rese
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by croon 5y ago
> I have repeatedly, your inability to observe data from the CBO and BLS is not my problem So we have this scenario where either 1) you can't explain how my points are wrong, and direct me to read some blogs you like. 2) you don&#x2
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by croon 5y ago
So from blog to medium post, this isn't getting stronger. Make a statement and link a source, or disprove the ones I made.
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by croon 5y ago
> lol at thinking Daniel Mitchell is just a "guy" He's a global warming denialist often citing Daily Mail as a source. I know who he is. "just a guy" would've honestly been a better resume. What he is not is
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by croon 5y ago
I've already been paying them $12/month for storage for years, mostly out of laziness, but at least Google One added sharing storage a year or so back so I could add my family. If they added custom domains to Google One I might be
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by croon 5y ago
> There's these things called citations, there's tons of them throughout the piece, those pieces further cite primary sources for the data. I clicked 10 or so citations that all went to the same guys blog where he at best had s
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by croon 5y ago
That's not data, that's extremely bad propaganda. Median wealth was the same in 1995 as it was in 2016 [0]. Median inflation adjusted household income was the same in 1974 as in 2016 [1]. If you go the full range it's gone fr
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by croon 5y ago
I stand corrected, I have yet to encounter that nuance, and we have often enter into political discussions at work and socially, but sadly all too formulaic in the end.
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by croon 5y ago
> One can be anti-mandate without being anti-vaccine. One can be pro-therapeutic without being anti-vaccine. One can be pro-investigation of therapeutics without being anti-vaccine. One can be pro-doctoral autonomy (with regards to off l

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