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by q1w2 5y ago
Sen. Wendy Rogers's quote was not about Jews at all. It was about latino migrants (not that that's better). Ron DeSantis spokeswoman isn't, what I would call, a politician - and her quote was specifically about the Rothschil
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by q1w2 5y ago
It's usually better to support efforts that have a greater chance of succeeding, than supporting the ideal solution that is unlikely to happen. ...assuming "support" is a substantive action and thus a finite resource, and not
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by q1w2 5y ago
That metaphor doesn't work. Radioactive isotopes produced in nuclear reactors do not occur naturally. Coronaviruses are one of the most common types of viruses in nature.
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by q1w2 5y ago
It's really not that crazy given that the first cases were in a meat market where wild animals were butchered and sold.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Some amount of coronavirus research is very common in most BSL-4 labs. Coronaviruses are common, and are of particular interest to China in that region due to what happened with SARS only a decade prior. It's really not much of a coin
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by q1w2 5y ago
I think you are unnecessarily conflating hygiene with wild animal contact. Even a perfectly hygienic butcher shop and wet market can transmit a new disease. Keeping it clean is good to reduce the transmission of common illnesses - but the
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by q1w2 5y ago
Hygiene isn't the issue. Butchering a wild animal and selling the meat for human consumption is inherently dangerous (at the societal scale) - even if you adhere to strict hygiene standards.
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by q1w2 5y ago
This is exactly why nuclear needs to be the solution. Solar and wind will always need gas to provide reliable power.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Covid is endemic - it will never leave us. Even if all vaccines worked perfectly and forever and every single person got vaccinated - we would still see new infections, because animals also get and transmit covid. I don't think I&#x2
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by q1w2 5y ago
This vaccine is different in that it is only partially effective, and unless you are in a high risk group, taking it is primarily for the benefit of others, not you. Also, prior to covid, only students were required to take vaccines - all f
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by q1w2 5y ago
Covid is now endemic - that is the scientific consensus. Are you suggesting that we permanently give up our right to decide what medications to take? Taking a vaccine is a forced medical procedure for the benefit of someone other than the i
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by q1w2 5y ago
These policies are punitive - they are not based on science. There is no science demonstrating that withholding unemployment reduces transmission rates.
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by q1w2 5y ago
He's making the same mistake we see all over social media these days. The collective assumption that everyone who disagrees with any ONE popular narrative, must also disagree with ALL other popular narratives. Anti-vaxxers must also b
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by q1w2 5y ago
Lumping all the people you hate makes, and assuming they all share all the same negative characteristics, makes it easy to hate just anyone who doesn't agree with absolutely everything you say. It's just another modern flavor of i
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by q1w2 5y ago
I envision a sequel to Idiocracy where the main character discovers a hidden wondrous island city of intelligent people who recognized the problem and hid there rather than deal with the ever-reproducing morons.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Laws that are vague are superseded by laws that are more specific.
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by q1w2 5y ago
I have seen prosecutors act like complete slime balls - from both parties. Intimidating witnesses - misrepresenting evidence - omitting counter-evidence - over-charging defendants - denying timely access to council. If you think this is abo
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by q1w2 5y ago
Even if it's not sterilizing, it does reduce the spread. Lower viral loads means less virus transmission.
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by q1w2 5y ago
You cannot conclude your 2nd sentence from your first. The relative rates of serious disease AND the transmission rate have both been demonstrated to be lower for vaccinated and boosted people - even with the Omicron variant. Vaccines, ev
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by q1w2 5y ago
Can you guys list out the browser extensions you are using and/or if you're using LP on mobile? We need to find a common thread.
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by q1w2 5y ago
It was popular for the younger adult crowd and women. If your a middle-aged IT male person, you probably miss a lot of popular trends. Missing fads is a feature, not a bug.
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by q1w2 5y ago
I'm not allowed to talk about it - sorry. F'ing crazy story.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Higher asset prices makes building property more profitable. It incentivizes more construction. This is how the free market works, in general. When prices go up, it incentivizes asset creators create more. This is one of the down-sides
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by q1w2 5y ago
> ...and their investments are going into companies which haven't done anything innovative in decades. Not all investment sparks innovation - and innovation takes years. I would not expect people investing their life savings to get
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by q1w2 5y ago
I use Typora, and sync with WinSCP. same same - but different.
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by q1w2 5y ago
I'm using a markdown big file. What features in org-mode are really worth making me look at it?
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by q1w2 5y ago
I was using Google Docs until one day an inspector demanded my PERSONAL Google account credentials because they were inspecting the company I worked for - for something I wasn't even involved in. They got a court order, contacted Googl
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by q1w2 5y ago
I think a more accurate translation of Aristotle's quote is simple, "virtues are actions, not words." It's more about actions speaking louder than words.
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by q1w2 5y ago
If you steal someone's BTC coins in this way - don't expect to be able to talk about it publicly. A judge might easily make a ruling that you "stole" the money. Don't expect the legal system to accept the notion th
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by q1w2 5y ago
It's interesting to think that we are currently part of what the future AI(s) will consider their abiogenesis moment of creation. I wonder if they'll one day far in the future debate the nature of their genesis and how common it i

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