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by iammisc 5y ago
I dunno man, I gave my experience. Maybe it's unique to me, maybe it's not. I can't give another's and I make no claims to be an expert in this area. Maybe take your flamebait somewhere else?
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by iammisc 5y ago
I don't deny covid at all. I am vaccinated, and was first in line . What I am not is a fear mongerer. The data show that if you're young and without preexisting conditions your chances of survival without hospitalization are excel
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This is arguing pedantics. Trump is not the fda. Trump was never going to 'approve' a vaccine without fda. This sort of fear mongering is responsible for a lot of vaccine hesitancy
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by iammisc 5y ago
Believing covid is as bad as the flu implies believing covid exists. The original claim was that large swaths of the public don't believe the virus exists. That is ridiculous. If the claim was large swaths of the public believe it to b
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by iammisc 5y ago
You are out of touch. Large parts of the country do not believe that COVID is 'not real'. Such characterizations are wild exaggerations. And IIRC, in the last administration, large swaths of the country had no trust in anything th
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Money isn’t magical. You can’t create infinite value out of nothing. It's not 'nothing'. It's something, just sold over and over and over again. Remember that MV = PQ . Fundamental equation of macroeconomics. The av
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by iammisc 5y ago
Well for me having made the jump from IC to being responsible for my whole team, the issue is that the promises I used to give were based on my ability, whereas now I have to take the whole team into account. And so sometimes, I'm left
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by iammisc 5y ago
And this gets to the core of the nihilistic social rot at the core of so much wrong in society today. We hesitate at being dependent on others or having others help us. In the us, no matter your political side, the idea of finding meaning o
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by iammisc 5y ago
This is silly. For one, large portions of the economy are not built on actual material. For example, take software, an evergrowing segment of the economy. The number of computer programs is incredibly large. Even assuming a dense packed i
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Correct. More elderly welfare programs discourage family formation. Anytime I mention this, people think I'm nuts, but you seem to have come to the conclusion on your own.
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Except non-immigrants and immigrant americans both have higher birth rates, even if immigrant's are higher.
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> It's okay now since it's divorced from the hokey red hats and low status swine who just happen to make slightly different consumer choices than you. I'm an unapologetic trump supporter, so I guess I'm the low statu
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by iammisc 5y ago
How can you honestly compare what I wrote to the handmaid's tale, in which women are forced to breed with men who are not even their husbands? There is no overlap between the two visions. Stop the strawmanning. There is literally noth
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by iammisc 5y ago
You should not be downvoted. Historically, this was the view. A traditional 'family' was mainly seen as a man's responsibility. The word 'husband' itself literally means a man bound to a house (i.e., a family or a l
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by iammisc 5y ago
Except the USA where we don't do anything. Don't even have paid maternal leave.
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Hungary and Poland also have incredibly interventionist governments who are happy to not only ecourage family formation through economic policy but also cultural policy. The former is fairly easy and many other developed countries are going
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> The second core issue is modern dating. That one I don't know how to fix, but the essential issue there is the dynamics of dating not requiring commitment coupled with financial security for women mean long term pair bonding happe
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Dramatically ramp up childcare support. Strongly enforce anti-discrimination laws, particularly in the case of discrimination against mothers. Forbid employers from requiring more than 40h of work per week under certain (very high) co
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by iammisc 5y ago
By Western values, China is evil and America, despite it's many faults, is not. So there is no contradiction here. For example, take the Western value of freedom of conscience. China does not believe in that and forces those who disagr
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by iammisc 5y ago
Build Back Better and America first have extremely different meanings. To 'build back better' doesn't imply a nationalist economic policy. One can build back better equally well with Chinese goods or American ones. America fi
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by iammisc 5y ago
I mean, the one politician to make America first a point of his campaign (Donald Trump) faced intense domestic opposition and a media scrutiny beyond that of other presidents.
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by iammisc 5y ago
I agree, what this man did was criminal. It doesn't matter how he felt about it, or the great redemptive arc the story talks about (him learning to read eventually), the truth is he short-changed a lot of children on a proper education
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by iammisc 5y ago
Yes. They have deep internal biases that present themselves as 'concern', but these biases lead them to disregard the actual stated desires of the very groups they're trying to save. For example, both blacks and Hispanics ove
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That's the point... That is why these people want it
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721859/ This offers real estimates of the actual IFR (the likelihood of death if you have the virus in your system). I'll refer you to table 3 The average HN
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by iammisc 5y ago
Thanks for the source. Even if I were to try the best interpretation of the claim above, which would be that Boudin got 14% of the vote in the first round of a ranked choice scheem, that falls flat. Boudin was the first choice of a pluralit
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by iammisc 5y ago
My goodness, all viral colds have a whole slurry of symptoms that some unlucky few get. I remember when some kid in my mom's second grade class died one weekend because of an infection he caught on Friday. Shit happens, the world is we
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by iammisc 5y ago
Are those 'vulnerable' populations not able to get vaccinated?
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> Democrats were calling for Desantis' head because he was thought to be cooking the numbers. Republicans are calling for Coumo's head because he was cooking the numbers. Except, rational people can see that someone being &#x27
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It's just (d)ifferent.

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