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by pbak 4y ago
Wait until you hear how many Starlinks have already fallen to the ground...
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by pbak 4y ago
According to the PR standards set up by Bush the Second in Mosul, Najaf, and others, yes, absolutely.
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by pbak 5y ago
Those are fungible NFT's I'd pay for, as opposed to the digital ones.
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by pbak 5y ago
It is not reliable, for sure, and we don't know by what factor or which way the error goes. It might show ten times the real number, or half the real number. That would be either 1'700 people or 34'000 dead in the US alone. I
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by pbak 5y ago
Ugly is the correct word indeed. Just imagine what attitudes this conditions for at such an age...
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by pbak 5y ago
I'll convey the compliment, kind internet stranger.
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by pbak 5y ago
That argument is a very slippery slope. There are a lot of other health issues which stem from either active at-risk behavior or lifestyle choices. I don't believe medical ethics should be reformed in a way to open such a door. It migh
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by pbak 5y ago
> It’s not clear to me what your position is. [...] As more data comes out maybe my mind will change and I’ll agree with you. But you seem to be nipping for a fight and I don’t really care to engage. I am a big proponent of the precautio
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by pbak 5y ago
I understood that distinction perfectly. And as OC wrote "at the time Dune was written", it is absolutely true the distinction was generaly not made. However this movie has been made in 2021. People who fail to make the distinctio
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by pbak 5y ago
> Given younger populations have very, very low risk from COVID, this is a subtle and complicated question to answer. Shouldn't we apply the precautionary principle to that question then ? From my primitive understanding of medical
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by pbak 5y ago
> And how stupid is it that these articles talk about studies but still don't actually link to them? Well, the middle-man doesn't want you going to the source. What's his job gonna be if you do?
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by pbak 5y ago
Watch this till the end : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZMtSPX3iE
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by pbak 5y ago
My elderly mother proposed in April 2020 that this crisis would end when everything not bolted firmly to the floor would finish being stolen. I laughed with her then. I don't anymore.
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by pbak 5y ago
And they are no different in relation to risks of transmission than what we know are between 40% and 60% of vaccinated susceptible to asymptomatic breakthrough cases. Are you saying we should hurt the young to protect the old nevertheless,
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by pbak 5y ago
I don't know if it'll stick, but it works.
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by pbak 5y ago
Are you saying grown men keeping young boys for sexual gratification is not perversion anymore ? It seems to me that that catholic priests abusing choir boys or the "bacha bazi" practice in Afghanistan are still shocking everybody
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by pbak 5y ago
So, in the end, the Mulet stabs Golan Trevize in the back? F**...
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by pbak 5y ago
Precisely. Didn't the US finish up in Afghanistan and Iraq ? Why don't we go back ?
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by pbak 5y ago
I swallowed a Mmmemberberry, and this came back to me : "I was 20 years old, before the USofA Congress voted for the Patriot Act. I was about to travel a short 1h hop by plane, and I walked directly to the gate from the parking, right
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by pbak 5y ago
The theory behind "it doesn't cross" was that the modification to the spike "anchored" it to the inside of the cell, and the cell only presenting "the pointy end" (i.e. the relevant dangerous ACE2 binding
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by pbak 5y ago
As somebody who has spent a fair amount of time in elder care facilities around these times of the year (mandatory Civilian service in my country), boy do I have some depressive anecdotes for you. Flu shots can be just this side of too stro
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by pbak 5y ago
Individuals not paying taxes, yes. Oh wait, we all do, in one way or another...
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by pbak 5y ago
0.2% of the population _per day_ would be something like 50% a year. That's worse than the black plague, a worse variant of Anthrax or runaway Marburg which spread even more easily... We'd be in Walkin' dead territory...
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by pbak 5y ago
I really don't see the problem with it being acceptable to be asked to police my neighbor. See something, say something. /s
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by pbak 5y ago
Indeed, And the health pass of today will be part of the carbon/health/credit/social pass of tomorrow. See initiative by GAVI/B&M Gates/Mastercard in Africa.
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by pbak 5y ago
> People with stocks have undergone a massive boom in the last 20 years, that boom is not sustainable. Bubble goes pop!
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by pbak 5y ago
I am older, and school years are 20+ years past me. What are the better practices and attitudes which replaced the "useless" ones mentioned in OP's article ?
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by pbak 5y ago
Thank you for your measured response. > As if the favor was entirely from Belgium to the US. I get what you say. Anyways, we'd all do better to demilitarize a little. The current geopolitical trends are really worrying.
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by pbak 5y ago
Seeing that the last third of the show was a homage by Dave Chappelle to a comedian trans friend of his which committed suicide, maybe you should.
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by pbak 5y ago
It's called a very well funded political lobby (see Mackenzie Bezos billion dollar donations), not a cabal.

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