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by rajin444 5y ago
I’m similar I think. I generally smoke similar amounts daily. I’ve taken a break a few times now and aside from some weird dreams initially and my eyes being less dry, I didn’t really notice much. I took a 2 month break not too long ago and
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I had Covid and hit a new all time high deadlift (515 lbs) at a lower body weight a few months later.
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> The absolute risk reduction (ARR) for the covid Vaccine is something like 1% I'd imagine this value is much higher if you're old, fat, and/or have relevant comorbidities. This also means the value is much lower for nearl
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> After you’ve had a bunch of excess deaths (of the oldest and most vulnerable) wouldn’t you expect it to go below normal after that? This argument also works against vaccine efficacy.
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> The work of the teacher who shapes the future of our children or the work of nurse that take care of our dying parents don't generate any revenue, and thus has a lower market value, but I, and I think we as a society should, value
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The US had a riot on Jan 6th 2021 and it’s been portrayed as a crisis on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. Millions of Americans think it was an insurrection. I don’t know if your theory holds up.
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Why can’t we just group antivaxxers with smokers then? We’ve ignored the obesity problem for a long time and are taking 0 steps to correct after we’ve seen our health systems buckle in no small part due to it. If you’re in favor of mandates
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How can you say that for certain? We don’t understand genetics well enough yet (much less anything downstream of that).
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What’s the correct breakdown of software developers by race / gender / etc? I think if we can answer that question we can then accurately assess whether or not those attributes are acting as filters. However, without knowing those
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> this is a terrible and naive way to think of DEI No, it isn’t. OP is describing the intended use of DEI. A proper merit based approach would have 0 knowledge of race, gender, etc. DSA as well requires prior knowledge of irrelevant attr
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> But then they apply that label to all postings of the story, even ones who were sharing it with the subtext of "Pfizer is corrupt" rather than "don't get vaxxed". Not getting a vaccine because the producer is c
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> You know that pharma companies aren't literally paying for their own treatments out of their own pockets, right? Yes that is my entire point. The average person is paying out of pocket for this pandemic and you’re saying we can’t
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> and that monoclonal antibodies are orders of magnitude more expensive and more difficult to make. We’re in a global heath crisis and the average people have been convinced that they need to be concerned about big pharma’s “bottom line”
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GG&S is basically a religious book given the narrative it’s trying to enforce. It’s extreme blank-slatism. It was pretty awful 20 years ago and looks even worse now.
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As someone with UC, medicine outside of prednisone has done nothing for me. Given that my disease is likely caused by something that modern science says is safe the least they could do is fix it. The pessimist in me says they make too much
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You’re free to update as you like. It’s entirely possible to audit your local packages. Letting maintainers update your projects is a convenient feature. If it is a liability in your use case you can work around it. Yes it will take more ef
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There’s no reason people can’t keep local caches of these libs if it is a major concern. This seems like a non issue.
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Yeah, the gem library changes are pretty brutal but this 100% should have been caught by a test.
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Do you ever check the underlying data when you write a database query? Same logic applies here. There’s limits to what you can do but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
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It was more or less common knowledge “big pharma” doesn’t have a strong record when it comes to trust before Covid. It’s pretty crazy how fast political tribalism can be used to change people’s minds. Just because your political enemy wants
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When your concern is global warming most things in the world today can’t be justified outside of necessities including Reddit. If your argument is “it’s a waste because we’re destroying the environment for no gain” all entertainment falls i
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I had an autistic coworker who could not understand using pronouns outside of the already established ones (he/she). She was otherwise very “progressive” but didn’t consider herself such. It had to do with he/she mapping to (99% o
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Racism is pattern matching (and can be good or bad - selecting a good bone marrow transplant donor is racist) so I’m not sure how educating will resolve it. People correctly notice trends. I think making it illegal and socially unacceptable
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Do we know why some vaccinated people still die of Covid? That would probably help a lot in figuring out who will benefit from the vaccine.
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I think it remains to be seen if the global world or the tribalism is a net negative.
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You’re starting to get it with your last points. There’s a lot of factors that go in to determining trustworthiness. Being knowledgeable is a prerequisite for trusting somebody.
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It’s definitely a soft skill, but roughly for me it’s: - assumes good faith - doesn’t attempt to control others - doesn’t show disdain of their out group Obviously knowing somebody personally makes this much easier.
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Spending a lot of time on one thing does not inherently make you trustworthy. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
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How am I supposed to judge expert advice if I lack the technical knowledge? Blind trust?
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> The problem I have with statements like these is they focus on the misses while ignoring hits. That's how trust works. It only takes 1 miss to lose it. The issue isn't that experts are wrong or change their stance when the da

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