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by gitaarik 2y ago
It's totally ungracious to downvote this. My grandma had similar issues in her legs, exactly after the COVID vaccine. And I've heard many other stories from people. Now that this news is coming out the people that don't want
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by gitaarik 2y ago
You are giving too much trust to a small authority group to determine what the "facts" are for the rest of the people. If these "facts" are so obviously facts, we wouldn't need a team of researchers to establish the
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by gitaarik 2y ago
I think Russia would love to have control over a group of supposedly "fact-checkers" to manipulate their citizens.
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Yeah, also sugar was labeled safe years ago.
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Hehe ok, next question: do you think those are positive reasons for drinking sodas?
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Yes, but when you eat fruit, you also eat the fibers. That slows down your uptake, and will prevent a sugar spike. You don't want your blood sugar level to spike, because then your body will create insulin. The insulin's job is to
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by gitaarik 2y ago
A lot of sweeterers used are synthatically created, and their long-term health effects are not well studied. They could cause various diseases, or could confuse your metablic system, because your body thinks it is getting calories because t
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Haha, wait, are you offended? I thought you were one of those people who would enjoy that.
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by gitaarik 2y ago
What am I dismissing?
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Well it has a lot to do also with the way you say things, how you interpret the words. Maybe the politician did give some kind of speech, but maybe it wasn't an official speech. There's always more to the story, and multiple ways
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Well I think what you are calling fact checking is actually journalism. The concept of fact checking is a very recent movement, with the idea that we could filter out the "fake news" on the internet, which is also a recent concept
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Well yeah true, the decision is probably mostly made because of the change of government. The fact checking was pleasing the left, and now that the right has the power, this left-wing-propaganda thing has to go. But then is community notes
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Ah yeah, you are right, there are people that have been exposed to it so much that they think it is normal, and a necessary part of life. Well you know, things can change. In the past it was a family outing to go watch a beheading. That was
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by gitaarik 2y ago
And you are trying to say that makes it better? Sure, I'll trust the leadership of this huge commercial company, famous for lots of controversies reagarding privacy of people. I'll trust them to decide for me what is true and what
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by gitaarik 2y ago
It are also facts that many politicians are corrupt and are fooling us. But they arranged it nicely so that they aren't being fact checked. And the ones in power and with money can decide who the fact checkers will be. And the ones in
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Well maybe meant for a different audience? You don't have to watch it if it doesn't appeal to you.
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Ah ok, nothing noteworthy
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by gitaarik 2y ago
But they are not claiming to have the facts. That's the big difference.
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Or they are more realistic, or less corrupt. Seems to me that if some authority is determining what are facts and what are not for me, that I am easily shapable and foolable. Community Notes at least don't claim they have the facts. So
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Oh yeah? Why?
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by gitaarik 2y ago
So it's not offensive. Just because it hurts you doesn't mean others meant it that way.
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by gitaarik 2y ago
I think it's important to remember the real meaning of words. If you know language better, you can understand a lot more information, and you can express yourself better. Knowing the meaning and origin of words give you great insights
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by gitaarik 2y ago
I don't think insult should be socially accepted, it shouldn't, it's not a nice thing. Rudeness, impoliteness, offense, why would we socially accept them? Freedom and cencorship is another thing. You have the freedom to be ru
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by gitaarik 2y ago
These words have non-offensive uses outside of schools and offices.
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by gitaarik 2y ago
We would have to fact check if those numbers are correct. Oh wait, fact checkers don't work, better just inform yourself and make up your own mind, and don't just believe some supposedly authoritarian figures.
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Right, if you don't agree with people at an online community, these communities should just be banned! You would be a good dictator.
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Heh?
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by gitaarik 2y ago
What is this based on? I see so many people shouting things like this, but there doesn't seem to be any basis for these arguments. They seem a bit useless and empty.
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by gitaarik 2y ago
How is that different from fact checkers? They can also be driven by large actors who pay shills to influence public opinion? Only the name "Community Notes" is less misleading then "Fact checkers".
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by gitaarik 2y ago
Indeed, how to fact check the fact checkers? If we could have legitimate fact checking that really works, then I guess we wouldn't need any politics at all.

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