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by newacct583 5y ago
Gah. Influenza kills more people in the US than any other infectious disease, and frankly it isn't even close. You aren't making any sense here. I cited that number, clearly, as an UPPER bound beyond which we couldn't pos
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by newacct583 5y ago
That seems nitpicky. There are lots of non-eradicated endemic diseases (ebola, malaria...) that are objectively much scarier than covid. But we don't freak out about them because they are well-controlled and rare. A covid mitigation
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by newacct583 5y ago
To be clear, I meant "elimination of the outbreak " in the sense of an endemic virus that produces a steady case rate. Clearly no, no one expected this disease to be eradicated.
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by newacct583 5y ago
> The great lie still [...] is that Covid is going to go away courtesy of vaccinations. The authorities have pitched that to the public from the early days of the vaccines That is (1) outrageously hyperbolized and (2) completely wrong.
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by newacct583 5y ago
Prion diseases aren't airborne. Yes, you can aerosolize them mechanically and get them to infect mice in a lab. There has never been a known case of airborne transmission between two animals. The shed load just isn't remotely
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by newacct583 5y ago
> We clearly don't, though. As a citizen you can be entirely unvaccinated and live a completely normal life. You seem to be arguing technicalities without addressing my point. We have lots and lots of vaccine regulation that ensure
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by newacct583 5y ago
Yeah. I've made this point to friends too. In some sense covid sits at exactly the pessimal spot. Any less severe, and we'd have just let it roll over us without the societal breakdown. Any more severe and the mitigation stra
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by newacct583 5y ago
I have not heard of a surge in cases among the unvaccinated, actually. Do you have a cite? All data I've seen points to a 90%+ effectiveness of Pfizer vs. Delta for infection, and it looks like more than 99% vs. death. It's MU
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by newacct583 5y ago
> it's dystopian It's already the law , and has been for like half a century ( edit: more like 80 years, actually ). If you aren't vaccinated you can't attend school. You can't serve in the military. You can&
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by newacct583 5y ago
You're genuinely more uncomfortable with the idea of unfair liability protection than you are with the persistence of a pandemic that has already taken millions of lives? I mean, I think it's possible to agree that maybe the liab
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by newacct583 5y ago
Prions aren't airborne. vCJD and mad cow spread by a feedback loop involving slaughtered infected animal brains being fed to the same animal stock. This case was a technician who stabbed herself with a tool heavily coated in brain ma
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by newacct583 5y ago
The relevant regulation here seems to be for laptops, that they must have net consumption of of 30 kWh/year or less. That comes to about 3W constant power, which is a lot. Basically the law says Thou Shalt Not Ship a Computer Without
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by newacct583 5y ago
> One of the lessons people refuse to see in politics is that the people who vote for things they don't like might, potentially, be upset about something. And one of the lessons other people refuse to see is that appeasement of hate
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by newacct583 5y ago
> this stuff is vastly easier than traditional weapons development. Saudi and Mexico don't produce many homegrown weapons systems either. Again, non-proliferation is well-travelled territory. In fact most of these things are not
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Nations that want to do this will do it, and trade bans won't stop them. Again, that's experimentally false. Saudi and Mexico didn't develop their own home-grown spyware. They bought an Israeli product instead. This
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by newacct583 5y ago
For a start, yes. Also Israel, of course, and anywhere else countries host these kinds of malware companies. A trade ban would inevitably be best implemented via a treaty, but there's no reason unilateral action can't happen fir
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by newacct583 5y ago
> What people should be looking at is the crazy amount of Israeli presence in the so called cyber security sector. Limiting the ability of nations to export this kind of capability as a product for other entities to use is precisely what
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by newacct583 5y ago
... "forever destined", really? "no matter how hard they work" ?! Alternatively, and much less apocalyptically, a median hetero man in China will spend 17% less time in a committed relationship than one in the Germany (
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by newacct583 5y ago
This is sounding extraordinarily abstract, and more like an evasion than a defense. If your point is NOT that "women in China should stay home and let men have jobs", then maybe you could explain it better?
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by newacct583 5y ago
But there are more than a billion chinese citizens... In fact the gender ratio among 15-24 year old chinese (the peak of the one child gender curve) is 1.17. That's not low, but it's hardly a strong effect either. In particular
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by newacct583 5y ago
The point above invoked "We are seeing a sociological experiment in action across the globe.", which didn't sound like a pointed critique of the one child policy or of Chinese gender politics to me. Now, I think there's
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Now that you have to compete for a dwindling supply of the opposite sex just to have more responsibilities without any traditional patriarchal privileges That sounds distressingly redpilled to me... I don't have demographics for C
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by newacct583 5y ago
Sigh. Of that list, only one is even plausibly an "economic" indicator, and it's laughably wrong. Even squinting and spinning as hard as you can, you'd say that current inflation might be as high as 5% at this very mo
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by newacct583 5y ago
Sorry, what's wrong with the US economy, exactly? We had a devastating pandemic over the last 16 months from which we're recovering rapidly (c.f. yesterday's really quite good jobs report), inflation seems to be a bit high t
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by newacct583 5y ago
I can't find that. Here's what I think you're citing as the relevant passage from Stundin: > Thus, when Thordarson continued his previous pattern of requesting attacks on Icelandic interests, the FBI knew and saw an oppo
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by newacct583 5y ago
That's a "he was no angel" argument, and like all such it's really an attempt to deflect. The reason to reward whistleblowers isn't to make sure the money goes to Objectively Good and Unimpeachably Moral individual
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by newacct583 5y ago
Really? I mean, you don't think Real America also has a problem with coexistence? It's all the fault of the hippies? I mean, just trivially: to a Real American, Smart Americans are The Globalist Elites controlling their lives
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by newacct583 5y ago
> In general I am of the opinion that fostering competition results in the best internet. How do you square this with that the US trails all the more heavily regulated internet infrastructures in the rest of the world?
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by newacct583 5y ago
All of which are decent arguments in the abstract. Unfortunately the practical situation is that US broadband solutions outside of major urban cores are really bad (and even in the cities, we're essentially just barely at parity wit
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by newacct583 5y ago
So... I actually have a theory. He had kids. His kids are precocious and bright. And if you watch him on twitter he loves to talk about how smart they are. Which is hardly weird. But read back through his early writing: PG's schoo

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