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by guscost 6y ago
We apparently live in different realities. “If big business is on your side, everyone on TV is on your side, Hollywood is on your side, every university faculty is on your side, and almost every union is on your side, then you are not The R
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by guscost 6y ago
Same exact thing that they are trying to do to Trump. The war between populists and establishment is just getting started. This is probably not a popular (ha) opinion on HN right now, but just wait and see!
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by guscost 6y ago
That is not just the ideal case, it is the case supported by both historical precedent and theory: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873896 > By far, the most widely studied trade-off involves trans
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by guscost 6y ago
> The "experts" are the new priests and science is the new religion. Pretty much - sacrificing common sense on the altar of p-hacked statistics. It’s disturbing to witness. > And don't you dare question it. Nope, it is
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by guscost 6y ago
The one huge tragic problem with that plan is that when we surrender our freedoms “temporarily” to the government, they never give them back! Or at least we do not trust they will give them back, based on vast experience (see: Patriot Act
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by guscost 6y ago
If you don’t already understand that argument as a perfectly obvious concern, we will probably not agree. It is obvious to hundreds of millions, probably billions, of people all over the world. I recommend you look for conversations outside
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by guscost 6y ago
You exhale viruses. You exhale CO2. The campaign to remake society in response to these threats is, in its purest essence, a campaign to redefine the free human as a toxic animal. If successful, it will then be used to justify slavery and m
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by guscost 6y ago
Meanwhile in the Northern Hemisphere, the winter surges correlate with latitude, after a quiet summer. There’s a pretty obvious pattern: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81419-w And depression can be a slow k
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by guscost 6y ago
We will see. Flu shots get around 45%.
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by guscost 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. And er, good that you don’t actually want to go as far as killing me - there’s some wild shit out there right now. I would still be in favor of arguing about all the details over drinks, but for now I’ll just offer the
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by guscost 6y ago
Someone who in their grief also wishes me suffering and an agonizing death, perhaps as revenge: > I wish every single one of them could experience the fear my grandfather did. Stuck in a bed, unable to walk, waiting for a plague to take
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by guscost 6y ago
Commentary is for color, I think they mostly agree but have not used anything like those words, no. But it absolutely is a creepy, fascist, disgraceful fiasco, and I’m also not in the habit of lying to people I care about.
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by guscost 6y ago
It’s all wrapped up in the same context. Wear the mask, get the vaccine, trust the science, and we will un-person you if you question any of it . The last part is the problem!
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by guscost 6y ago
Thanks, same to you. Don’t count on any “return to normalcy” though, at this point the only way out is through, and the other side is gonna look a lot different.
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by guscost 6y ago
Thank you for sharing, really, but understand that I could also slip into blind hatred over what I see as the suffering you and your culture have caused (not least being caregivers so scared by the hyped-up risk to younger and healthier
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by guscost 6y ago
> And while I haven't decided yet whether I'm going to get the vaccine, one thing that will make me much more likely to fall into the "refuse" camp is if they decide to impose some kind of restrictions on basic freedo
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by guscost 6y ago
> You could encourage them to keep in mind that by refusing to get vaccinated, they're likely going to be living the rest of their life under threat of contracting COVID. I think you might be blind to how a person who values freedom
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by guscost 6y ago
I’m not sure how much of it is fear of the MRNA vaccine itself, and how much is an objection to the creepy fascist context. Probably a lot of both, and maybe yes a bit too much of the former. But in any case their reply is, “We would rather
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by guscost 6y ago
What should I tell my elderly relatives who are so creeped out by this fascist, disgraceful fiasco, that they will refuse a vaccine even though it has a decent chance of doing some good?
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by guscost 6y ago
Not buying that for a second. This same industry ran PR to squash efforts at developing competing vaccines in human challenge trials[0]. I try to remind myself that most individual players don’t act with malice, but the system as a whole ru
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by guscost 6y ago
You’re at the other extreme with the milquetoast takes. But that is just another kind of insanity, to blind yourself to obvious and monstrous corruption, and then I guess try to gaslight people who point it out. Hopefully we can avoid war d
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by guscost 6y ago
All views expressed on this forum are entirely my own. That aside, you can find open positions at Density listed here: density.io/jobs
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by guscost 6y ago
Remember this is the same pharma industry that: - Squashed support for COVID-19 human challenge trials[0], claiming it was “too risky” while standing to profit enormously from their own brand-new MRNA vaccines - Did less than nothing to pro
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by guscost 6y ago
Nah you’re not a bot, you would know. It’s your friends who are bots! You are a member of a tiny cultish minority, living in a fantasy world, foolishly believing a con while the woke right-thinkers (who have a lot of real friends) laugh a
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by guscost 6y ago
Not a threat, just pointing out what is obvious to anyone who has the faintest sense about how many people are upset, and how long they have been upset. The causes go back a long way before any of this, the “stolen election” thing is just t
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by guscost 6y ago
It will escalate to a lot more than slapping, if enough people keep this attitude.
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by guscost 6y ago
If you remove “falsely” your message is stronger. That needless judgement thrown in there is like a slap in the face to anyone who wants to talk about these issues rationally, no matter what they believe.
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by guscost 6y ago
Using “left” and “right” as if nothing has changed will only lead to the bewilderment you are feeling. There is a great political realignment underway, where the new teams will align roughly with “populist” and “establishment” once it is o
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by guscost 6y ago
Twitter’s official statement on this is one for the history books: https://mobile.twitter.com/Policy/status/1349059275461685250
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by guscost 6y ago
Sure, call it what you want. Maybe “social burnout”.

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