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by newacct583 5y ago
> The people who are for forcing everyone else to take the vaccine don't understand how strongly people's beliefs (including their own) are held. Interestingly that's not borne out by polling. Very, very few people cop to
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Protonmail did not provide the authorities with the users IP address...they did allow the account to monitored which they are required by their laws to allow. Something their marketing material appears to disclaim. This is just excuse
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by newacct583 5y ago
> In real life there is nobody enforcing Chekhov's gun. Of course not. Which is sort of the point. We already have real life. Stories are something different. Checkov's gun isn't a statement of some kind of platonic id
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by newacct583 5y ago
I think it might have been that one of the great thinkers of nineteenth century abolitionism weighed in on exactly this subject and had something relevant to say? I mean... it's not like he was quoting someone on reddit here.
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by newacct583 5y ago
> some folks might argue that using scapegoats can help society move on, while others might object [...] Right, but in this particular instance what actually happened is that we just moved on by building consensus around a new paradigm.
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by newacct583 5y ago
> It didn't. It lives entirely in elite society. If you aren't a member of an elite social strata it doesn't impact you and nobody gives a damn. That seems to be a highly reductive concept you're using for "elit
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by newacct583 5y ago
Most of those same criticisms can be levied against the "broken windows" theory on which the studied policy was based, though.
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by newacct583 5y ago
> And as a Libertarian myself, I know quite a few. Yes, but obviously that's not a representative sample. My point was that the population of genuine libertarians for whom this seems like a first principles argument is dwarfed by t
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by newacct583 5y ago
> For example, the government being able to tell you what to do, vs. it not. People end up locking in to trivialities like approval or some study, but they just obscure the real debate. Is government regulatory authority really the &quo
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by newacct583 5y ago
I don't think that's responsive. Regulations are forcing up the size of the smallest vehicles. The median vehicle in the US is a SUV with almost twice the curb weight of those "larger" compacts. The change in median
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by newacct583 5y ago
> In 2001, Microsoft "constituted unlawful monopolization" under Antitrust Act for bundling a web browser with their operating system. Microsoft got out of that, though. They barely paid a fine. I don't disagree that th
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by newacct583 5y ago
Second greatest. Antibiotics take the crown.
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by newacct583 5y ago
I got fairly heavily downvoted last week for trying to point out that Facebook's "Suggested for you" stories were almost certainly paid content via some path (even if not "advertising"), given that they're unif
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by newacct583 5y ago
> The idea of a city split into two by ideologically opposing factions, and the split being marked by a big wall, sounds like sci-fi now. Jerusalem says hi.
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by newacct583 5y ago
I guess, but that imparts a level of uniform direction that isn't really known. It could very well be that the PRC government does not know themselves whether or not covid was a lab leak, because who the fuck knows what those beaker
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by newacct583 5y ago
> maximize profits while carefully falling in with the most powerful That's not really consistent with the evidence though. Elite media in this circumstance seems to be treating lambda relatively calmly. It's outfits like the
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by newacct583 5y ago
Indeed, lambda doesn't seem to be growing vs. delta anywhere. It's so frustrating to watch the media fall into this trap, just google "lambda covid" and you'll find a flood of breathless headlines about this "
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by newacct583 5y ago
OK, I'll humor you. I went and clicked on the first two links in that collection, both claimed to show "little to no evidence for the effectiveness of face masks in the general population": Both were studies of mask POLICY (i
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Also...it's an opinion piece from....a university....in San Francisco...the two most notoriously political places in the entire universe and you're saying I'm convinced by MY MEDIA. It's... a medical school. An eli
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Would love a citation for that. Are you living in a cave? How can you not have seen all this. UCSF has this amazing review, and it's right at the top of the google results page: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2
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by newacct583 5y ago
> I see it as a race to the bottom for news organizations, and society Why are you citing "news organizations" and "society" when the offender is a political leader? I don't argue with your point but it seems li
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Do you think wearing the same mask every single day and being able to take it off when the waiter brings the breadsticks is an effective mask policy? More so than not wearing a mask at all, yes. Are you arguing for more effective mas
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by newacct583 5y ago
> I'm literally responding to a comment from somebody who is advocating for eradication. No, you're not. Go read the comment again.
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by newacct583 5y ago
> You are actively spreading disinformation. SARS-2 ("covid") will never be extinct. Sigh. THIS seems to be a deliberate misreading too. Stopping the pandemic doesn't require eradicating the disease. Malaria remains endem
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by newacct583 5y ago
> His comment was on masks reducing the risk of you getting infected, not infecting others. His comment was extremely ambiguous and certainly sounded to me like he was claiming masks don't work as a tool to fight the pandemic, or
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This is what the flag button is for.
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by newacct583 5y ago
>> If you want to make a technical argument that Facebook drives revenue via other means than direct payments, then that seems reasonably likely (if deliberately misleading). > This is exactly the argument. OK, then as mentioned I
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by newacct583 5y ago
This doesn't seem like a hard question to answer. Black americans are underserved by the health care system in basically all other ways. They see fewer doctors, have fewer clinics in neighborhoods where they make up majorities, get f
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by newacct583 5y ago
And it only guesses that I'll enjoy clearly commercial content and not any of the community stuff related to things I actually interact with? Really? That seems oddly suspicious. I gotta say, I don't believe you. I've ne
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by newacct583 5y ago
This is true for "ads". I also get a flood of "suggested for you" links which seem indistinguishable, are almost certainly paid content, and have no such labeling. Some of this is benign enough, like all the inexplicabl

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