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by lurking15 2y ago
Crazy how this happens concurrently as the CEO of Smartmatic gets indicted for bribery and fraud [1]. They were the company "chosen to replace voting machines in Venezuela ahead of Hugo Chávez's 2004 reelection." [1]: https:
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by lurking15 2y ago
If we're going about this from pure physics, climate change isn't about "per capita" nor political scaremongering and demagoguery, it's about absolute carbon emitted.
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by lurking15 2y ago
China & India have the largest fossil fuel footprint by far, so calling US laggards in that context is misdirection.
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by lurking15 2y ago
> I’m not an expert of any kind here You don't have to be an expert to have seen that it wasn't remotely sensible to react the way that people did - and that authoritarians, the whole world over, reacted stupendously irrational
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by lurking15 2y ago
> is just ignorant and inane My workplace was enforcing a vaccine mandate through an unconstitutional authoritarian justification jammed through a federal regulatory agency. The vaccine does not prevent transmission and offers little ben
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by lurking15 2y ago
Except personal freedoms are actually continuously encroached by the federal govt and bureaucrats across the board. Whereas democrats whine when they don’t have absolute unchecked authority, it’s not enough that they control media, regulato
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by lurking15 2y ago
Why should we extend a ruling from a state court from 1905 to the entire US? By any stretch this seems like cherry-picking and goes to show how baseless the argument for mandates is.
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by lurking15 2y ago
it's funny how progressive turn into conservatives, as though we need to cement whatever happened in the 70s things clearly took a turn for the worse since then in many fundamental ways specific to the progressive "revolutions&quo
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by lurking15 2y ago
B12 can be tricky to pin down. It can be falsely elevated by vitamins. You need cofactors, e.g. a B2 deficiency could falsely give the impression of repletion. This is ON TOP of the really loose grounding of accepted ranges for various vita
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by lurking15 2y ago
> wouldn't remove him because of how it would have reflected on the them! I hate having to witness this at work where there's a team who's been working on a shitty project FOR YEARS and then it gets standardized across the
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by lurking15 2y ago
In Codd we trust
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by lurking15 2y ago
I'm convinced this is caused by monetary policy. Inflation through monetary expansion leads to cheap substitutes for EVERYTHING. Whether it's food, labor, housing or education you get junk swapped out for the real thing.
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by lurking15 2y ago
> What is your basis for saying it will be an utter catastrophe? Any of the other times when efforts were made to extend credit to people with bad credit scores, and it ends up with indebted people being in worse debt. > Not so sure w
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by lurking15 2y ago
They claim credit scores negatively affect "economic opportunity." This do-gooder idealism will be the basis for extending much more credit than advisable to people who proven themselves to not be credit worthy, and the result wil
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by lurking15 2y ago
this isn’t a blue/red thing, whenever liberals accuse red states of having bad statistics it’s usually unwittingly highlighting a certain demographic in those states they wouldn’t implicate knowingly
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by lurking15 2y ago
do you always selectively quote a response and misunderstand what a person is saying?
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by lurking15 2y ago
Police power is different than “the police.” 6-foot distance was not just a recommendation it became this bizarre ritual divorced from reality with no actual scientific rational.
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by lurking15 2y ago
You're saying that random bureaucrats deserve unmitigated police power. That's authoritarian and despotic. In fact, average people have the ability and humility to do basic ground-level checks that authorities and academics almost
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by lurking15 2y ago
Kind of sick of this liberal view, when they're generally so in favor of trusting an individual's intuition and "lived experience" but when it comes to economic "lived experience" it's completely ok to rej
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by lurking15 2y ago
I had him as a Matlab professor
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by lurking15 2y ago
You've cited whether there's pathogens detected, you could do that with many things and it matters less whether there's pathogens and more whether the food itself is dangerous to eat in practice. It seems to me that you'
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by lurking15 2y ago
> Drinking raw milk is more like walking into traffic without looking, maybe you get hit, maybe not, maybe you are injured, maybe dead, maybe your ok. The risk is so vanishingly small compared to traffic deaths that what you’re saying is
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by lurking15 2y ago
Here’s the problem they said the same thing about the covid vaccine when anyone remotely familiar with the data knows that saying something like that is so laughable cause the risk is so vanishingly small for healthy people. Raw milk doesn’
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by lurking15 2y ago
> it has also become a call for "FREEEEEeeeeeddoooomm" it's also become a call for "us smart people must outlaw the stupid people" > Now, laws are viewed as bad, just let me kill myself if I want to on the oth
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by lurking15 2y ago
wasn’t it betolt brecht who really pioneered getting state funding of theatre as a way to advance communism (and line his pockets)?
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by lurking15 2y ago
> This is toxic as hell. I think it's not toxic, and long overdue that open source isn't hijacked by overt political activism of a certain persuasion that's led to a decade+ of stagnation and so much wasted money (on CEO p
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by lurking15 2y ago
but the point is that walking around a plane is relatively safe, and severe turbulence is rare, so much so that you'd probably better off walking around fairly regularly if only due to less DVT risk
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by lurking15 2y ago
nah it's this covid authoritarianism that blows risks out of proportion and usually with scant evidence and does it in a categorical way that ignores impacts which often have WORSE harms than the thing they're trying to protect ag
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by lurking15 2y ago
but that would only happen under monetary contraction, and the norm now is monetary expansion which siphons off money from savers and redirects it into the pockets of asset holders and "Cantillionaires", and this also means you ge
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by lurking15 2y ago
> that getting overly excited about things seems to just be a thing humans tend to do human nature is to avoid discipline when they're comfortable and set the stage for a bubble & contraction, exactly what happens with artificia

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