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by etherael 5y ago
When you say "work" do you mean better than an absolute risk reduction for mortality and hospitalisation of say 2%? Because that doesn't sound like "working" to me, even completely ignoring the potential side effect
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by etherael 5y ago
So in other words, covid is a vaccine against covid that actually works, and the vaccines are not vaccines against covid, don't, and also have cumulative negative externalities. Why are people still talking about mandating this nonsens
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by etherael 5y ago
> As if the streets are paved with gold everywhere else? They kind of are, though. Find somebody that is broadly world traveled over a multiple decade period and they will invariably have noticed the stark contrast in the way societies a
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by etherael 5y ago
Facebook is where people were defending the behaviour, not where I heard about it. That was circling in more obscure smaller libertarian circles as an example of the escalating insanity of Australia. The defense of the behaviour has indeed
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by etherael 5y ago
Well said. Living through this has been a real eye opener on the nature of humanity and civil society. The veil certainly has been lifted.
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by etherael 5y ago
I understand the imagery is extremely disturbing, and the worst nightmares of the idea of a concentration camp, which are actually extermination camps, is not what is being executed at the moment by the Australian government, but the fact i
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by etherael 5y ago
I am also an Australian citizen although I have not lived there for many years now and after seeing what became of it during covid I intend to renounce it as soon as it is practical and I certainly never intend to return. With regards to th
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by etherael 5y ago
> There are no concentration camps, no military round ups Yes there are, not a troll, straight from the horse's mouth so to speak. https://youtu.be/vQok3GMMSAI > and no forced medication* in Australia. That part
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by etherael 5y ago
The problem with this is that the mass of clueless kindergarten attendants are fed a steady diet of complete nonsense by curated and cultivated media outlets pushing very specific self serving narratives, which these obedient clueless drone
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by etherael 5y ago
Is the author's point that the political views in question are not popular? I thought he was attempting to make the point that the economic system personified in the execution of those political beliefs is not efficient. Which if the l
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by etherael 5y ago
I'll give you a bad review in a venue where your reputation is more valuable than the trade or I wouldn't trade with you to begin with. Or I would insist on an escrowed bond. There's many other ways than inserting a monopoly
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by etherael 5y ago
> This is the most psychotic take I’ve read on this topic. The opposing position is ironically that of those who inflicted hundreds of millions of deaths, the largest cause of non natural death in fact, on the entire species in the previ
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by etherael 5y ago
> planning on causing? Refusing to take medicine is not the same thing as "planning on causing harm" no matter how many times you attempt to falsely equate the two things. > I get that it didn’t jive with your narrative Narr
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by etherael 5y ago
> My criticism of your argument is that it’s silly to decide that nobody in town can leave their houses during the winter because you don’t want to get a shot. Once again, that's not what they're doing. "I'm not going
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by etherael 5y ago
Definitions matter and if you change them arbitrarily in order to declare victory where none would exist if your incorrect definitions were not accepted, it is pointless to engage with you.
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by etherael 5y ago
Sorry but all you have done is repeat false claims and insisted with progressively more intensity that they're true. In light of that, I'm not interested in continuing this unproductive discussion.
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by etherael 5y ago
> We are not in opposition Yes we are, you are continuously making the argument that if you can give good reasons for coercion, it is no longer accurate to refer to it as coercion. This is false. Examples; > For a lot of these compani
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by etherael 5y ago
Because the definition of coercion doesn't change when you put a bunch of qualifiers in front of it and say it's for the greater good. It's still coercion. Sometimes coercion is necessary, psychopaths will kill random people
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by etherael 5y ago
I would not say anything you've said is facts, they're just incorrect statements.
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by etherael 5y ago
All you're doing here is re-stating your original argument, seemingly without actually understanding my criticism of it. I'm not sure what you're hoping to accomplish by that, but it strikes me as very strange. Look, let&#x27
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by etherael 5y ago
It's not my opinion, it's a fact that; Mandates are coercive by definition, that's the entire point of them, putting whatever magical word in front of them you like doesn't change that. The medication to which the "
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by etherael 5y ago
Isnt this argument predicated on the supposition that the only reason they are opposed to coercive experimental gene therapy is because they want to "own the libs?" I mean, maybe that's right but it seems unlikely when there
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by etherael 5y ago
Similar or arguably higher levels of development, very different culture though.
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by etherael 5y ago
Shhhh, if they notice their ideas are already held by their opposition they'll never accept them.
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by etherael 5y ago
It has been my dream for decades to do exactly this on a sailboat at sea. With providers like Starlink it might be finally getting close to time to pull the trigger.
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by etherael 5y ago
Those specific three have their own dedicated spectrum and don't overlap in Australia. There are many other MVNOs there that just resell that spectrum under a different brand name with sometimes better deals, but those three are the &q
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by etherael 5y ago
I got a rabies shot in rural Cambodia when I almost certainly didn't need it just in case, and it was so cheap I can't even remember how much it was, well below a hundred bucks. This particular point blew my mind, I didn't re
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by etherael 5y ago
It will definitely use lightning, and 99% chance it will be a custodial version no different in actual execution to venmo or paypal, as this is exactly what the present solution du jour there has been (strike in custodial mode) specifically
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by etherael 5y ago
Alright, was curious as this is how I have been handling my third layer of backups for quite a while now, regular incremental encrypted zfs snapshots to an offsite storage provider using API keys that only have write priveleges. Wanted to m
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by etherael 5y ago
Why are offsite write only continuously incremental snapshots from a full start not backups?

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