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by esotericn 6y ago
There's a distinction between "healthcare crisis laws" (such as the initial lockdown for a few weeks in the UK), and making it illegal to visit friends and family indefinitely. I'm just repeating myself now though.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Eleven months, you mean? Well, I've certainly learned a lot about society in these eleven months, that's for sure.
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by esotericn 6y ago
7% of the UK population has been tested positive via PCR so far via the official dashboard. Models indicate around 25% infected in the country, 37% in London. The rest of your post, well, I'm glad that you find it easy and have lots of
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by esotericn 6y ago
No-one was forced to enact laws against me visiting my family. It leads me to my original post: > They will throw you under the bus immediately and comprehensively as soon as there's even the slightest microscopic threat to their we
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by esotericn 6y ago
I like this sentiment. :)
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by esotericn 6y ago
I personally cycle inside a hamster wheel with no air holes. Avoids germs, you see.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Well, you missed off my next bit. "if you want to". I personally couldn't give a toss; in the UK we're eleven months in to the sunk cost fallacy. But that's outside of the scope of this article.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Sure. You can wear a helmet, and you can cycle safely, but given enough years, you'll eventually end up falling off. That doesn't make helmets or cycling proficiency pointless, but it does mean not making wild claims that you&#x27
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by esotericn 6y ago
This article is very bizarre to me. There is no way to completely avoid the coronavirus whilst interacting with other humans unless it's simply not prevalent in your area (e.g. Australia, NZ). Pretty much everyone has failed. Football
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by esotericn 6y ago
"Next time", I and many others will simply refuse the lockdown strategy, and if it so happens that it's a virus that has high lethality across all age groups, loads of us are going to die before the evidence is clear and we s
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by esotericn 6y ago
Mostly, my mental condition has declined as I've started to realise that we have increasingly slid into considering perpetual lockdowns and cessation of democracy to be a normal state, rather than a state of emergency. Initially, at th
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by esotericn 6y ago
You are absolutely right on every point. There was a time, when I was. And I've been blindingly lucky to crawl, bit by bit, out of that. But I still identify with that, because precisely the same societal decisions that fuck me, are th
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by esotericn 6y ago
Amusingly, I actually rewatched this just last night. Brilliant movie. Are you sure you're not the one that's spying on the wrongthinkers? ;) Just kidding.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Not at all. Those are the most minor, trivial aspects of what has happened over the last year in the UK, and what continues to happen as we speak. How about we make a trade. I'll wear a mask in situations where others are concerned, ta
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by esotericn 6y ago
The way that my country has, and is handling the coronavirus pandemic, has meant that their vision of the future of society has diverged from something that I wish to be a part of. It's not about my accomplishments, but whether I feel
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by esotericn 6y ago
Amusingly, without realising it, your post specifically hits on the reason I'm done with society. It's individualism for me now. Me, my friends, the neighbours. Everyone else, figure it out, I'm not your pawn.
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by esotericn 6y ago
The entire article is about people who are treated as human beings being more effective at their jobs. I'm saying that this applies at every level of the scale, in work, love, friendship, society, everything. We are wasting mind-bendin
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by esotericn 6y ago
This is going to sound egotistical, but it's not intended that way, just the experience of your average prole. The times that I have been the most successful, most motivated, most driven, most productive, and most useful, in study, car
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by esotericn 6y ago
Thank you.
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by esotericn 6y ago
The scientific method does not give us a sort of monolithic, hierarchical entity, into which everyone collaborates and then an answer pops out from the top of the pyramid. That's the role that politics serves. To take into account all
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by esotericn 6y ago
I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful with this comment, but you're essentially parroting the same line that happy families have been doing for a year now. "For example, we have two families that we're co-sheltering
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by esotericn 6y ago
Thank you for telling me that losing control of my mental faculties is "selfish". I'll keep that in mind when I'm not able to keep it in mind. Glad you're having a nice time of it.
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by esotericn 6y ago
The basic concept of 'reducing human contacts outside of the household' means that people who are not happy nuclear families are _completely ignored_ by the legislation. A husband, wife and children living together are surrounded
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by esotericn 6y ago
Mental health doesn't respect 'reasoning'. If your policy requires humans to be robots, you are a bad policy maker. I followed the rules until it became clear that I was becoming psychotic as a result of extreme isolation and
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by esotericn 6y ago
Lockdown in and of itself is the divide. It's a policy thought up by rich folks, in huge family houses, with good family relations, and inflicted on the rest of us. I live alone. I cannot - not will not, but simply cannot - follow rule
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by esotericn 6y ago
I just reject WFH out of hand for these reasons. If the culture of software development remains primarily WFH, and it becomes too onerous for me to find a job that's actually an in-person, in-office role, I'll just leave, wasting
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by esotericn 6y ago
People ask me why I use cash, why I use bitcoin, why I think Uber and Deliveroo and their ilk are poison - this is why. Take your data and shove it up your arse. If you work on this stuff, you're a cancer cell. You just haven't re
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by esotericn 6y ago
If we don't stop using fossil fuels we are capital F Fucked, regardless of bitcoin.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Fossil fuels are negative. Ecosystem destruction is negative. Using energy is not negative. Focus on the problem. Bitcoin could disappear tomorrow and we'd still be fucked unless we address the real issue.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Yes, this is illegal in the UK. We're all criminals now. Such are the '20s. With the trajectory our political system is on, a few more months of this and the outcome where the guy with the gun pulls the trigger may well be prefera

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