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by metamet 6y ago
I'm sorry for you and your family's loss. I am at the same level of loss-shock as you, I suspect. My mom lives and my grandma lived on the Iron Range in Minnesota, so a very rural area, which seemed to help keep infections at bay
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by metamet 6y ago
Oh for sure. Grieving over death in 2020 is just all around a bad experience. But I think it's fair to say that the excess deaths [1] in 2020 have certainly amplified the reality of death, especially within the context of a shared expe
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by metamet 6y ago
I agree that my understanding of that mindset is limited to the rationality I can make of it, but I wouldn't consider that a threat. It's the reality that we exist within, as this virus only really "cares" about replicat
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by metamet 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. It seems that those who are vaccinated can still spread it, and I
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by metamet 6y ago
Thank you. My grandma tested positive on a Monday around a month ago and went into hospice the following Thursday night, when her oxygen dropped. She passed away the following Saturday morning. My girlfriend's grandma also passed from
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by metamet 6y ago
That you don't want them to get it and die, like my grandma did? I'm not quite sure how you can convince someone to get a vaccine if they don't trust the science on it.
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by metamet 6y ago
Research suggests that after infection with some coronaviruses, reinfection with the same virus — though usually mild and only happening in a fraction of people — is possible after a period of months or years. Further research is neede
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by metamet 6y ago
Comcast, for example, could ban Zoom, WhatsApp, Skype, etc. if they thought it would be financially beneficial for them to do so. They could charge more for VOIP, or gatekeep certain traffic unless you pay more. And many people don't h
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by metamet 6y ago
Wow. Thank you. I truly appreciate that. And my sympathies for you and your family's situation as well. I know the process will grow and change, but it's also a reality that will never go away. I'll always love and miss my gr
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by metamet 6y ago
> Jo was adamant that he didn’t want to end up in a long-term care facility like the one in which he’d visited his mother—sometimes with Robin along for the ride when they began dating as teenagers in Kapuskasing, Ont.—and he hoped that
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by metamet 6y ago
I wonder if they brainstormed something like BunkerDB when deciding on a name with that in mind.
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by metamet 6y ago
It's gone to the courts dozens of times already. Just because they continue to fruitlessly file suits doesn't mean that it is actually ongoing.
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by metamet 6y ago
The difference is that mainstream platforming of those ideas exposes them to massive amounts of folks who stumble upon them, whereas you would have historically had to seek it out on purpose.
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by metamet 6y ago
Sex and gender aren't the same thing.
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by metamet 6y ago
But they're all... screens. And you're spending your time looking at them, regardless of what's on them and how you interact with it. I do agree that they are different. But they're still screens.
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by metamet 6y ago
You can still sign up for Netflix, Hulu, HBO and Disney+ for a fraction of the cost of a cable subscription, without commercials.
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by metamet 6y ago
> I suspect the only reason they claim not to be an organisation is because they don't want to be label a terror organisation. I suspect it's because there is no "they". All the antifa-in-the-name orgs are just loosel
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by metamet 6y ago
Um. That is exactly what has been happening with the rhetoric around otherizing anything in opposition to Trump. The President of the United States has called for this himself, which should be a bigger alarm bell than a corporation enacting
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by metamet 6y ago
It's looking like Oracle (of which Larry Ellison recently proclaimed his support of Trump) is now the front runner: https://twitter.com/jolingkent/status/1305290263632343040 Edit: "Oracle Wins Bidding fo
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by metamet 6y ago
"Defund the police" doesn't mean "tax break for citizens". It means reallocating those funds, which emphasizes training. There's very little oversight of how the police spend their money, which leads to instanc
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by metamet 6y ago
And there's an opposite argument to that, that the police would be able to properly allocate the appropriate officers to where they're needed. Right now, officers are trained and conditioned in a way that keeps their gun at the fo
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by metamet 6y ago
How exactly is this "horseshit"? In a private dinner at the White House in late October, Mr. Zuckerberg made the case to President Trump that the rise of Chinese internet companies threatens American business, and should be a
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by metamet 6y ago
I bought a set of Uplift legs online and bought and stained a butcher block from Home Depot. Whole thing cost around the same as the Ikea desk, but is built like a tank, has programmable heights, and the butcher block is strong and thick en
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by metamet 6y ago
By that logic, consent was given to be shown on a projector at a concert by showing yourself on Chatroulette.
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by metamet 7y ago
Robert Evans (from Behind the Bastards podcast) mentioned in one of his episodes what happened at Cracked when FB's falsified lure led to a strong content pivot to FB. This, obviously, didn't pan out according to what was advertis
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by metamet 7y ago
I believe the 2019 algo was dramatically changed recently, meaning that the core of the 2018 algo was present throughout the majority of 2019.
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by metamet 7y ago
> The same is true for good ideas. Absolutely. This is precisely why I don't think there is any form of feasible solution out there. Things get weird when forum moderation is used to snuff out dissenting opinions. You see this a lot
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by metamet 7y ago
That's a pretty absurd thing to say. I don't have to post thinly veiled pepe "memes" in order to see how real this slippery slope is. The fact is that there is is a lot of hate speech online, and it mostly fosters in unm
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by metamet 7y ago
It was the place that had some of his paintings on the wall, yeah? Small, quaint place. Definitely worth stopping by.
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by metamet 7y ago
absolutely. I don't think there's an easy answer here, but it poses an interesting question regarding a company's willingness to balance the idea of a true and open forum vs once bound by some set of ethics.

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