drekk

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by drekk 5y ago
I don't see how you're going to legislate for people to weigh less
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Brazil has a lower obesity rate and much higher fatalities. It's a multifaceted problem and I think it's irresponsible to paint this as a "if you die from COVID it's your fault because you had comorbidities". That&#
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It was 1-5% chance of hospitalization for the unvaccinated, compared to less than 1% for the vaccinated. You should do more reading as well. Democrats were more likely to accurately guess the hospitalization rates for vaccinated individuals
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They don't need to run a fear campaign, they already own you. Most companies are losing money, especially the ones generally calling the shots. Kind of hard to exploit the plebes when they keep getting sick and infecting all the other
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Dying isn't the only outcome, and you can't work while you're sick. This isn't some flu, it has long term implications for 10-30% of those infected and is extremely contagious. Many ICUs are at capacity or beyond it, and
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by drekk 5y ago
Anti-vaxxing isn't dissent, so weird to see Americans still politicize it. If you want to be a public health hazard I'm all for putting you on a list. It's incredibly gross and tone deaf to compare that to the beginnings of t
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Well of course, in practice you don't have the CIA couping countries because they became capitalist . Unfortunately for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Panama (formed by the US
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by drekk 5y ago
There is always coercion. Low wage is better than no wage, and you can choose which capitalist you must sell your labor to (or try your own hand at becoming a capitalist) but you cannot exit the economic system willingly. A "fair marke
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Well it's wonderful all these black Americans you think so highly of live in states with good public transit so they can get to the pharmacy without a car, and have labor rights and money in the bank to take an unpaid day or two or thr
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by drekk 5y ago
This is a pretty mask-off (excuse the pun) moment in your argument. So to protect small businesses we shouldn't have paid people at all or closed down at any point and we'd have more than a million dead Americans but at least work
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Maybe the government should have paid people so they could stay home? But that's communism and then no one will work and who will bring us our McDonald's order during the outbreak
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It wasn't inevitable, Americans chose per usual to do something half-ass, which generally is worse than doing nothing at all or full-assing it
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That's your anecdata, why should we treat it as representative? I was delivering food throughout the pandemic and not one person I handed the food to wore a mask (even when all deliveries were supposed to be no contact) We didn't
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It stops being "your body" when you're walking around being a vector. I have to get groceries. At my last job, I had to go into the office. Regardless of my risk model, there are reasons I cannot stay home. You are making the
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I guarantee you regardless of which state of the 50 you're discussing, red/blue/whatever, that people still went to bars, to indoor dining, to parties. In New York the national guard was sent to SUNY Oneonta to forcibly quara
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One thing I find more odd is how American audiences treat the DPRK while also supporting the continued military puppet state that is the ROK. There were also a "lot of sources" supporting WMDs in Iraq. When what you're saying
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by drekk 5y ago
Democrats aren't the "left" by any stretch, the two parties are both wings of the same bird and it's amazing to see people pretend otherwise. They have the same corporate donors and belong to the same class. You have a c
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Which compatriots?
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They didn't, though? Look at the former members of the Soviet Bloc today. Higher infant mortality rates, lower education attainment, no industry of which to speak. Name one country doing better after an IMF loan! I could talk about Arg
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If the company doesn't take it seriously your next available escalation is to take them to court. Generally these settlements include firing the perpetrators from what I've seen
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You could just nationalize these inefficient plutocratic utilities and provide free renewable energy, but that's communism I don't know why the answer is always to make the serfs pay more when a more attractive and simple soluti
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by drekk 5y ago
Talking about indidivual contributions is pointless without context. The richest 1% of humanity emits more than double the amount of CO2 as the poorest half. Air travel could use alternative fuel sources (or even solar) and I'm sure ot
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It's forked from an English version
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Apple doesn't let you switch out the mainboard. I think that's the value of these USB-C dongles that are cheaper than Apple peripherals + lay flush to the laptop. Sticking to USB-C means the chassis doesn't have to change bet
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by drekk 5y ago
I had COVID before vaccines were available as a healthy and fit 23 year old. I would compare it to the swine flu, which I've also had when I lived in Buenos Aires, and put both far beyond a cold. A non-ignorable section of the populati
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I have no clue how you got strong-arming of Hungary and Poland, two countries that signed treaties they refuse to honor. If they want to be in the EU they don't get to pick and choose which laws and regulations apply to them
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I'm not sure where you're getting this information from, toxic masculinity applies to men regardless of their sexuality and originated as an academic term. The difference I'd highlight to you is that women are taught these th
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The onus is on you to show that they aren't. Have you been to Xinjiang? Prior to the pandemic one could simply visit and see for themselves
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Did you read the article? Modules might be landfilled but the cars themselves are designed to be repaired, and being made from commodity parts use less finite resources. The issue is that most electronics are not diverted from landfill, not
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We have those in the US too, it's called the "defense" industry. Our permanent wartime economy isn't for the good of most Americans or our talent pool—free education and healthcare (the largest discrepancy in public fund

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