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by drewcon 6y ago
Sounds like they're just behaving like parents with young kids. I routinely stay up too late just to have some quiet, waking conscious alone time after a full day of work and time with the kids (which are now hopelessly intertwined).
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by drewcon 6y ago
It feels like folks are missing the part where it’s a joke...
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by drewcon 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying. That seems like the right analysis. Good round up here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/17/swedens-covid-... Been fascinating and disheartening to watch the elevation o
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by drewcon 6y ago
You don’t have to look very far to see Sweden’s official plan was certainly not herd immunity though community infection. They took a more hands off “do the right thing” approach and I think it’s fair to say that did not fare as well as the
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Human Ageing Reversed in ‘Holy Grail’ Study, Scientists Say(independent.co.uk)
4 points by drewcon 6y ago|0 comments
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by drewcon 6y ago
I have similar experiences whenever my kids have any kind of medium to high level accident (so to be clear not helicoptering every time they fall over). For whatever reason its like I go into immediate clinical triage mode. My two year old
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by drewcon 6y ago
Why hasn’t tiktok bought them out for pennies? Seems a natural fit for the content.
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QAnon is running amok and the time has come for interventions(bloombergquint.com)
19 points by drewcon 6y ago|34 comments
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by drewcon 6y ago
Scale is the truly terrifying variable here. We’ve always believed in ghost stories when we couldn’t explain the phenomenon. But now those ghost stories are displacing explanation and at massive speed and scale. So worrying.
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by drewcon 6y ago
This. This hard pull towards conspiracy theories is happening in contrast to a period of about 100 or so years of relative enlightenment supported by mainly centralized liberal institutions(not saying that doesn’t have a cost), but this pa
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by drewcon 6y ago
No one said it’s supposed to be easy.
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by drewcon 6y ago
Semantics, but I view “support” as an active measure. There are loads of issues folks are just not engaged with enough to have a qualified opinion (their perspective not mine), which is fine. I view that as living in the status quo but not
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by drewcon 6y ago
Fair enough. I read it as condemning apolitical folks for lack of engagement but I see your larger point.
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by drewcon 6y ago
Or being apolitical just means you don’t have time or inclination to obsess about the political origins and implications of every atomic micro-decision in your day because doing so is a tremendously tedious and unproductive burden that freq
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by drewcon 6y ago
It’s really unfortunate to see such an unchallenged application of the label “libertarian” here. Put aside your own feelings for a moment. Highlighting any connection between libertarianism with the alt-right, white supremacy, or anti-gover
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by drewcon 6y ago
You just described exactly how insurance actually works. I don’t really want to live in a world where the higher risk people are MORE disincentivized from being able to secure insurance by eliminating “subsidies” because of their behavior.
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by drewcon 6y ago
Massachusetts (where I live) just retroactively restated their case and death data by test/death date vs. reporting date so it more closely aligns to when a person was experiencing sickness or death. I find it far more useful now. The
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by drewcon 6y ago
I think I watched a movie about this one time...
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by drewcon 6y ago
Chance of death is one thing, but your chance of ending up with a prolonged extremely unpleasant hospital stay and possible long term (we don't know yet, but I don't want to be the one to find out) morbidities is far higher. Unde
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by drewcon 6y ago
Those are all C19 symptoms. Get an antibody test and find out!
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by drewcon 7y ago
Challenge accepted!
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by drewcon 7y ago
To be fair. Seasonal flu usually induces secondary sickness (bacterial pneumonia) that causes mortality in the elderly and very young population. Spanish flu wiped out the young and elderly but also the middle aged directly with things lik
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by drewcon 7y ago
SK looks like a good back of the envelope proxy for the first world. Id also add... I’m not sure why we, worried internet lay people, really care so much about “the percent”. (Not accusing you of this, just having a thought after your comme
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Tobacco-Use Disparity in Gene Expression of ACE2, the Receptor of 2019-NCov(preprints.org)
3 points by drewcon 7y ago|0 comments
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by drewcon 7y ago
Serious question. Why is Alexa on an Echo different than Siri on a phone? Seems like there is clear outrage about “surveillance economy listening devices” (from some members of this community) when they’re in your kitchen but not your pocke
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by drewcon 7y ago
Bizzarroooo!
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by drewcon 7y ago
This. Telling that it’s arguably less of a lift to fill in 50 square miles of the bay vs. rewrite zoning with some practical common sense updates.
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by drewcon 7y ago
One thing I haven’t seen in any of the reports, is this afflicting folks who took a single hit or who have been habitually smoking (whatever adulterated substance is in there)?
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by drewcon 7y ago
Subsidies? Not really. https://www.forbes.com/sites/drillinginfo/2016/02/22/debunki...
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by drewcon 7y ago
Jesus. Literally went through this philosophical moment and just moved my young family out of the city. Pretty spot on.

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