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by ksenzee 3y ago
All of this discussion is abstract, based on a vaccine that doesn't exist yet, yes. It is possible to discuss eugenics in the abstract. And in the abstract, saying "It's a deeply selfish attitude for the elderly and obese...
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by ksenzee 3y ago
You can't reach herd immunity without a highly effective vaccine. No highly effective vaccine exists. If they manage to develop one, and if enough people get vaccinated, then herd immunity is possible. It's just math. The questi
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by ksenzee 3y ago
Children under five are at high risk from influenza. Even if you see nothing wrong with the antisocial and frankly eugenicist idea of letting the elderly and obese die off for want of herd immunity, you might consider the utility of keeping
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by ksenzee 3y ago
> Anyone I know who was vaccinated at this point has gotten at least one other person in their household sick. This is frankly not credible. You can't be surprised when people call you antivax when you are making claims that don&#x2
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by ksenzee 3y ago
> I just don't see why I should get myself sick to risk not getting sick(er) If everyone acted this way, we'd never reach herd immunity with any vaccine-preventable disease, so yes, this is an anti-vaccine position. You're
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by ksenzee 3y ago
I'm a classically trained pianist with a bunch of music theory under my belt but zero idea how music is produced, and this is fascinating and addictive to the point where I need to put it away or I'll get no work done today.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
The term to look up here is "process addiction." You can be addicted to a number of things that are perfectly healthy in moderation, such as work, gambling, or shopping. Internet use falls into the same category.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
What I was describing (where the last stressed vowel matches but the rest doesn't all match) is called assonance. This isn't even assonance, much less a rhyme. If you have a source describing this kind of not-a-rhyme from any peri
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by ksenzee 4y ago
It has to do with which syllable is stressed. The last stressed syllable in the word (or in the line of poetry), and everything after it, has to be the same. So the "-eacher" in "teacher" and "reacher" are iden
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by ksenzee 4y ago
No, it only works for words that sound vaguely like "hex". You need the short e sound and preferably a consonant cluster with an s in it.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
"this sure is a great circular saw" "table knives work so much better for most people"
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by ksenzee 4y ago
Yep. They're complicated rules to memorize but you can definitely reduce them to an algorithm.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
There is _still_ no other word processor I'm aware of that can properly convert to title case. Not to mention Reveal Codes. I... might actually use this, not just play with it.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
We don't catch bird flu from eating infected birds, we catch it from being exposed to live birds who are sick (or to their droppings, as I understand it).
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by ksenzee 4y ago
I'm no longer a practicing Mormon, and I understand where you're coming from, but that's not what's happening here. They'd be banning wider swaths of the internet if they were trying to keep kids from learning about
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by ksenzee 4y ago
Interesting, are you located outside the US? I've lived in Washington state, Utah, Maryland, and briefly in Missouri and Massachusetts, and I've never seen or heard of this happening. (And I am a woman of reproductive age.)
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by ksenzee 4y ago
Am I the only one who finds the Socratic method ill-suited to forums?
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by ksenzee 4y ago
My psychiatrist says in her experience lavender takes 6-8 weeks to show any effect, and it only gets you a 10-20% improvement. She prescribes it as an add-on when the existing treatment regimen is mostly working.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
Most mainstream American media, including those two papers, is very slightly left of center, possibly due to geography and who their paying audience is. The right has taken this small slant and turned it into a major grievance.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
I think they meant the encoding is more efficient, so you can encode more information with fewer characters.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
My 16-year-old remembers a pediatrician's office she hasn't seen since she was 18 months old (we moved across the country). She described it well enough that her dad and I were both convinced. I was shocked.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
No need to rely on a gut feeling: it's in the dictionary. Merriam-Webster defines bullshit as "to talk nonsense to, especially with the intention of deceiving or misleading." So it's not being objectively wrong, it'
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by ksenzee 4y ago
Well, yes, but we work with what we've got, and right now it's a lot easier and even cheaper to file a lawsuit than to get Congress to act.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
"because I sometimes forget them" is disingenuous. You were commenting on them hoping to forestall downvotes on a flamebait post.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
Wow. There's no way that should be legal. I hope somebody sues so a judge can rule on it.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
That seems like a pretty small potential confounder. It doesn't seem to bother the US Census, for example, that they get some people's response via mail right away, and others they have to go knock on the door and pester them to r
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by ksenzee 4y ago
I don't see why the middle ground is indefensible. We'll buy your widgets, but not if they're sophisticated enough to be backdoored and cause a national security issue? That seems okay to me.
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by ksenzee 4y ago
Depends how you define "work." It would have to be pretty damn bad to be worse than what we had. I think King County is doing the "buy hotels and turn them into housing-first apartments" thing, so I do expect those to tu
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by ksenzee 4y ago
Right, so this is a hugely political issue right now. Don't be surprised to get wildly differing answers. Republicans are pointing at public disorder and screaming about crime, and Democrats are accusing them of being fragile suburbani
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by ksenzee 4y ago
The prices here vary wildly depending on where you're shopping. In a Manhattan CVS I wouldn't be surprised to see prices three or four times what you would see in a Nebraska Walmart. I live in the Seattle suburbs and $9.55 for deo

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