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by estearum 2mo ago
Well for one, there's not nearly enough of them to be valuable the way that Flock is. Two, they're pointed exclusively at roads. Three, their outputs don't show up in court cases as evidence, which itself dramatically reduces
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pov: a vatnik tries to understand western values
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I could be wrong, but I don't think the UK has a network of privately owned ANPRs that can create ~complete pictures of people's comings and goings, and that data has effectively zero legal protections whatsoever. Automated speed
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The study you linked is evidence that prior infection reduces the rate of reinfection. Yes, this would be surprising if it were not true. Your prior claim was that prior infection is equivalent to or superior to vaccination (i.e. relying
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So why did you claim to be treated like a leper? And yes, all studies have limitations, especially observational studies done in the middle of an emergency. Here's your claim: "There was never any indication in the data that a pre
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> There was never any indication in the data that a previously recovered person posed any kind of heightened threat to anyone else Nope, also not true. There actually was plenty of evidence of exactly this even by August 2021: https:&#x
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That's just not true. Here's the authoritative guidance on the rollout: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/103787/cdc_103787_DS1.pdf What gives you the idea that a low-risk person opting not to get the
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by estearum 2mo ago
Not really. It's the "making decisions based on best-available evidence is good, even if every once in a while it leads you astray." You're more than welcome to read the evidence they use to create their policies. If you
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No there actually is in general and it's the same exact way in which there's generally good guidance for medicating your children: they're called evidence-backed guidelines. The contexts in which drugs make sense is capture
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I suspect that you and GP and GGP are talking about different time scales. Vaccinating your children for COVID during peak COVID was the right thing to do both for them and for the adults they interact with. Vaccinating your children for CO
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Maybe you should hang out with a different "everybody" if they systematically believe untrue things
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Finally someone said it! This is exactly why we need to be REMOVING VIAGRA FROM THE MARKET! There were NO longitudinal studies! NOTHING looked at psychological effects! REMOVE VIAGRA TODAY!
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Let's assume that it's correct that "no one who was not immunocompromised should have ever taken it." (It's not, but let's assume that it is) Was this knowably true in Q1 2021? Can you please share the specific
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by estearum 2mo ago
Take it from someone who has read all of said emails: no, they don't prove that.
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You're misinterpreting data here. You are conflating the fact that the clinical trials didn't measure infection/transmission (which is very hard to do in a clinical trial) with the distinct claim that they didn't reduce
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What?
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+1 the public health apparatuses' actual statements were impressively correct even if you don't account for the underlying uncertainty at the time. Where public health officials "failed" was not having a megaphone lo
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What?
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And, critically, a malignant narcissist in the highest office.
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> They also left the public in the dark about the risk of vaccine-associated myocarditis, especially in young males, many of whom experienced permanent heart tissue damage. Not true. This was correctly disclosed in the trial results as a
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I too can't detect the meaningful qualitative differences that might emerge from changes in prevalence or intensity of a given behavior. Next up: Oh drinking alcohol is an enjoyable social activity? Well tell that to my uncle who drank
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It's really not that clear. For example there are specific procedural requirements, enforcement cannot be capricious or arbitrary, they can't be vague, etc etc
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The question isn't whether the US government has power to sanction people, it's whether the Executive has the authority to use that power for this purpose against these entities. "The bear" (rah rah, bro) is governed b
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Is your implication that something responsible for 5% of the demand is responsible for 5% of the price? Because... that's not how prices work. And certainly not energy prices, which have both significant capex requirements, spot-mark
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Hegseth himself literally committed a war crime already. Simply declaring no quarter is itself a war crime. On the other hand, it makes both the current SecDef and any 14 year old COD player feel REALLY badass. Giving your own personnel
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Think the ICC is engaged in political posturing and theater all you want, sanctions are not an appropriate tool
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Or because people see: 1) their electricity bills rising 2) their land prices (read: rent) rising 3) actual fucking nutjobs in charge of these companies who can't seem to simply not say actual nutjob shit all the fucking time 4) entr
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It seems quite clear at this point that important parts of our social and economic fabric are in fact damaged by people buying everything online, ordering food delivery, drive-through windows, streaming movies, and so on
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Humans are quite bad at doing what brings them (durable) happiness
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> When my dog starts running around the living room swinging her rope around, it becomes more urgent. Because you can intervene before the consequence gets baked in > When she bumps the table and the glass starts falling, it's an

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