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by pasabagi 5y ago
V. interesting take. I always assumed that the reason why the Italians got it so bad was because they are a nation of extremely social old people who kiss every time they meet. Old people in most countries in europe are rather lonely, where
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess, but there were loads of things about this disease that made it stand out right from the start. The bad timing (before chinese new year), low lethality, high transmission rates, high asymptomatic rates, all made it pretty clear even
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think anybody with a feeling to go with the words 'exponential growth' could tell that this virus was going to be a huge problem from very early on. That turned out to be a surprisingly small minority.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the problem is generally legal, not administrative. Development in germany would typically be held up by people suing the developers to stop it from going ahead, so the city or state itself wouldn't be in a position to speed th
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> my point is you don't even know WHAT to criticize. Yeah, sure. That's what I'm responding to with all the stats. The nice thing about numbers is that they are fungible. Anybody can read a chart and tell you the US milita
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Depends on how you rate side effects. My experience of depression was feeling so physically awful I wanted to die, just to make it stop. In comparison, even the 'extreme' side effects from rapid anti-depressant withdrawal (shocks,
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Yeah, re-reading my post, I probably should have expanded on the 'if dosed and chosen properly' part. Obviously, if you take the wrong dose, or have an adverse reaction, it's going to not very fun. I recommend talking to a ps
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> For these reasons I am completely shit-scared of them. I see them as my option of last resort but increasingly I feel my options running out. I was in the same boat. Don't listen to the haters. Anti-depressants are amazing. Most o
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by pasabagi 5y ago
My feeling is that a lot of people work in dangerous workplaces, where mistakes can and do kill people. The miltary is one of those workplaces: if you look at the stats[0] you can see that ordinary workplace injuries absolutely dwarf combat
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by pasabagi 5y ago
My thinking is that a peacetime military is basically a skeleton that needs to be able to be rapidly fleshed out when it becomes necessary. That's not exactly a novel thought, but I think there's a lot of room to explore when you
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I take your point, but if somebody called me a 'porky pig' in the first month of a new job, I'd probably a) quit, and b) assume the organization was seriously messed up. I'm not a particularly sensitive person, but I don
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I know the logic, it's just, I don't think it makes that much sense any more. Fighting wars has become an increasingly technical occupation in the last couple of centuries. Therefore, a technically capable soldier who is cowardly,
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> How does basic training even work now in this post yelling world? I was called “Porky the Pig” in basic. It forced me to exercise much more than threat of some fake arrest. As a non-military guy, this is what I've always found rea
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by pasabagi 5y ago
>Rome had a huge empire and could therefore field large armies My feeling is actually that as the empire grew, the armies they could field somewhat declined. When Cannae happened, the Romans were big, but not huge, and they could literal
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Professional feudal armies would have crushed Roman armies of equivalent sizes. Really? Why? The other thing is that a feudal state wouldn't be able to field an army that was of an equivalent size to a Roman army. The Romans field
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess technological-determinist arguments are generally easy to source, because there's usually abundant archaeological evidence of the kinds of equipment people use to fight wars. I'm generally pretty skeptical: there are just
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I imagine 'reluctant lockdowns' also create unclear messaging, so the general public is less likely to know or follow lockdown rules, making them less effective. As I understand it, lockdowns were generally put in place to stop th
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by pasabagi 5y ago
That's the point. If you consider hours spent in lockdown per-capita, even a country like China, an authoritarian police state, did less harm to the liberties of their citizens than countries like the UK, France or Germany with their
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> the mainstream consensus was that anyone who prioritised the economy over stopping Covid was an evil murderer, and every single Covid death that happened was caused by our government not stopping it. This poses a false dichotomy betwee
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Does anybody know why he ended up in Russia? Are there really no other countries that will not deport you to the US? I think I would probably pick Cuba, for instance, over Russia.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Yeah, I saw that from your post history. Could you get a doctor to sign you a note giving you a medical exemption? I don't think this is really a mask issue, it's a, 'people not taking psychological suffering seriously'
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess for me, wearing a mask is like wearing a hat: I'm essentially comfortable wearing one in some contexts forever. For me, it's just not heavy handed at all. There are many other restrictions we've had through the pande
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> when severe cases ramp up so quickly that they overwhelm the health system. Wait a minute: A. You agree masks slow transmission. B. You agree the issue with covid is 'case spikes' overwhelming hospitals. You don't see th
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> those people who make close contact with reality have figured out that masking doesn't make any practical difference Wait, what? What's your epistemology here? I thought medical studies overwhelmingly show that masking does
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, at least in Montana, it's just a semi-arid climate. It doesn't rain enough for farming techniques developed in western europe. My general feeling is that a good field is usually the product of generations of work: where I gr
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I'm skeptical. A lot of the land that looks like good land in north America has a poor climate, poor soil, or both. Further, to make soil productive, you have to do a lot of work building irrigation and drainage. People look at a state
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Definitely. The first gulf war proved that an enormous army with dated soviet equipment could be overrun in a matter of weeks. Surprising exactly no-one, regimes with dated soviet equipment and huge armies (north korea, iran, china) started
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, Hirohito is from a tradition of leadership where he's supposed to say nothing. Hitler is from a tradition where he's supposed to be a genius from which all policy flows. This obviously makes it a much more contentious assert
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I figure it's actually rather complex: certainly the area most unanimous in their support for the Nazis (Bavaria) is also the most deeply religious. The simple explanation is that the Nazis were a big tent coalition that had a fetish f
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> They are reliant on both Taiwan and China continuing to produce pretty much everything. I think security-apparatus people don't really think like this. A good example is Australia's recent falling out with China. Australia is

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