lucretian

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by lucretian 5y ago
> Introducing skin tone provided no advantage awfully confident take.
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by lucretian 6y ago
> The transition from two to three is really just quantitative. not from the perspective of the women who bear the health risk.
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by lucretian 6y ago
> I don't think we are going to buck the lessons of thousands of years of human history and find some kind of "enlightened secularism" that hasn't worked before. this is a rather ethnocentric view of religion based on
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by lucretian 6y ago
this is an obviously bad analogy. trump is clearly a moron, and also holds the most powerful position in the world. those are not contradictory in any way.
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by lucretian 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/politics/marjorie-tayl...
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by lucretian 6y ago
it will not. more direct resources: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/beirut-explosions-l...
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by lucretian 6y ago
no, the death rate for ventilated covid patients is something like 80-90%. this is based on a NYC study published yesterday.
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by lucretian 7y ago
so many comments asking "how could this be?" and "what the heck is going on?" and so forth. the answer is obvious, but i guess it's too "political" for people to accept.
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by lucretian 7y ago
It took two weeks but I found an answer. It seems to trace to budget cuts forced by the tea party: https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stoc...
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by lucretian 7y ago
two comments: 1) the american TV news industry has slowly blurred, then obliterated, the line between straight news and editorial opinion. they're now often intermixed, with slanted analysis weaved throughout reporting. things like t
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by lucretian 7y ago
i'm not sure. i'm not a doctor. at minimum, flattening the curve is buying time for therapies and vaccines. that study may be overly pessimistic. elsewhere, i think i saw 50/50 survival rates for ventilated patients but i
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by lucretian 7y ago
it's not good. in on study, 24/26 of pts with non-invasive mech ventilation and 31/32 of pts with invasive ventilation died. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... note
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by lucretian 7y ago
some clarifying questions worth asking: - was there an attempt to replenish or was it forgotten? - if there was, was funding made available or blocked? i don't know the answers to these questions, but they are important to determine wh
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by lucretian 7y ago
a dentist's expertise is hard to displace. not everyone can be bob mortimer...
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by lucretian 7y ago
> “Unbridled love and trust in others. Non-judgement. Absolute acceptance, before we learn there’s such thing as a stranger.” i don't know if this is what you meant by "playing well around here", but what you wrote is a se
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by lucretian 7y ago
what about the risk that candidate #2 has schmoozed their way up the ladder, and really isn't as smart as they seem?
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by lucretian 8y ago
1) she 2) your criticism seems overly harsh. perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the author's other writings: http://www.coppolacomment.com/2019/04/keynes-and-death-of-ca...
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by lucretian 8y ago
the entire saga with gawker media, for one thing.
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by lucretian 8y ago
> but focused on Bush (the next Hitler!!!!) bush launched a war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. sometimes, strong negative reactions are justified.
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by lucretian 8y ago
I was suggesting that they do not have the information necessary to make a defensible decision. only in the narrow, status quo definition of the job, structured as such in the interests of the owner class. i encourage you to expand
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by lucretian 8y ago
there is a moral valence to this topic, and that ought to be expressed somehow.
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by lucretian 8y ago
Hyperbole aside, I'm pretty sure this is illegal and no worker should ever be allowed onto a job site without insurance. only because of the agitation of workers to assert the value of their labor. which is the same concept we
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by lucretian 8y ago
supremely disappointing to see such a poorly substantiated comment upvoted this highly. What value does workers electing their directors add for anybody? the value is articulated in the original op-ed. among other things, reducing i
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by lucretian 8y ago
what are gun owners doing to stop the incarceration of infants and children?
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by lucretian 9y ago
maybe they should repatriate it and pay their damn taxes.
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by lucretian 10y ago
i think you mean 4.1 km?
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by lucretian 10y ago
neither am i comparing them. you're observing that the NYT comment section is free of trolls/spam but is otherwise a liberal echo chamber. that's another way of saying that it's lacking a counter-balance of intelligent
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by lucretian 10y ago
i think your diagnosis is wrong. show me a conservative news outlet on the web with a high SNR of thoughtful and intelligent comments, free of frothing, conspiracy-laden bullshit. maybe the NYT is an echo chamber because modern conservati
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by lucretian 11y ago
your link's broken (usatodaycom)
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by lucretian 11y ago
re: #2, the device was confiscated. it's in the hands of the police now, presumably.

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