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by pfisch 5y ago
Oh yes, the scientists of the unspecified date in the past when everything was perfect and there were no politics and no one was ever subverting science to tell us to smoke cigarettes. You are living in a fantasy. Science and economics have
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There have been people pushing snake oil instead of vaccines for the entire history of vaccines. You can draw a straight line through the history of vaccination and find people pushing fake cures and drugs that are basically unsupported by
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by pfisch 5y ago
The antivaxxers are all out in force pushing ivermectin, which is not well supported by evidence. I didn't say anyone was dumb, but people have been fighting against vaccines and pushing snake oil for the entire history of vaccines.
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Reducing the odds of getting covid does reduce transmission. That is what the vaccine does. All you have to do to stop the spread of a virus is lower R below 1. The vaccine would do that if we vaccinated everyone.
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The people saying ivermectin works are the same people saying hcq worked last year. The people pushing the vaccine are the only people who have consistently been curing serious illnesses for the last 100 years. The ivermectin group are the
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Ridiculous example. "The only people allowed to live in the Vatican City are clergy (religious people) and the Swiss Guards who are the Police force of the country."
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How do you know that? That is just an opinion based purely on your politics disagreeing with the actual facts about CA.
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https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/quality-of-... They are #19 in standard of living. Seems fine.
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That is strange, because CA seems to do really well economically for being a disaster. GDP per capita is 79k in CA and US GDP per capita is only 65k. So maybe, just maybe, they know a good bit more than you are willing to give them credit f
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That might exacerbate the problem. When the profit margins are reduced companies will go even further to chase the limited revenue and allow even more outrageous content. The main thing that is very obvious, is that the content that does be
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He could've made lots of arguments. But he frontloads this irrelevant energy argument and spends almost 40% of the essay on it. It really hurts his case.
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He acts like he has an energy usage argument for POS and then misleads and pivots really hard away into another direction. Makes his whole essay kind of silly since he leads with this big energy argument that then crumbles immediately and h
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"There is harm with criminal organizations have way to get huge amounts of capital." Because this isn't already the case...
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>People are perfectly happy to come and drop hundreds of millions on developing apartment complexes in the CBD for some reason The amount of real estate investment in New Orleans is incredibly low compared to other cities. They build mor
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You're being unrealistic about the reality of living in New Orleans and the level of capital investment in New Orleans vs Baton Rouge or other cities that aren't under constant threat of destruction. People just aren't going
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It is and it isn't. His scenario won't happen but what will happen is fairly similar. No one is going to make large capital investments in a city that gets blown away all the time. Every time New Orleans takes a big hit like this
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by pfisch 5y ago
Qanon is just a few people...
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The us actually handled the 1918 pandemic even worse than this one. Public authorities largely claimed it wasn't happening and wasn't a big deal as hospitals overflowed and we dug mass graves. They even cancelled public gatherings
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In that event I think many states and congress would've refused to recognize the executive branch and from there things would've quickly spun out of control.
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But in that election there was very clear evidence of fraud, and a compromise was reached.
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There is no time when the outcome of a presidential election was set aside based on "fraud" with no meaningful evidence of fraud. An event like that would most likely shatter the country and probably end democracy.
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Is this supposed to be satire or are you so disconnected from reality that you think this makes sense?
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Tucker Carlson can already barely hold advertisers and he has a massive platform on a pretty reputable network. Any social media site like this is going to be carlson++, so how will it ever stay afloat?
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but that software in most cases isn't constantly under attack from another team of engineers trying to blow up all the planes.
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Maybe I'm out of the loop, but who cares what he says? He is just a crazy person who dodged taxes.
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So it sounds like Fauci is saying they didn't fund gain of function research in the Wuhan lab. If they did doesn't that really mean Trump is either more responsible for Covid or equally as responsible as China? Trump allowed the b
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Even if all the embryos would develop 100% it shouldn't matter since according to you they are alive right now anyway. Also it wouldn't change the answer for reasonable people anyway. No one would leave the baby to burn alive vs m
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If you were in a burning building you would save a jar of embryos over an actual baby? Is that what you are saying? If that is true you are a sociopath.
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An arbitrary distinction that does not convey the true complexity of the issue. Anyone would destroy millions of embryos vs killing a single actual baby. So they are clearly extremely different things.
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> Why can't the electorate elect competent legislators? I don't believe this is a realistic goal. It is an idealistic goal, that we should strive for but will never actually happen.

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