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by seriousquestion 5y ago
That's true, but they are the foot soldiers for the technocrats. Like Mao's Red Guard, they are the ones enforcing it on the ground, ousting dissidents and running the struggle sessions. They humiliate, bully, ostracize, get peopl
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Studied or researched is not that reassuring given the replication crisis. There's a big difference between academia and real world use.
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Is this a generational thing or an introvert vs extravert thing?
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Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln, sees need for boosters(reuters.com)
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
What an odd title. Drowning does look like drowning. How could it be any other way, given that it's involuntary?
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Data: Masked school districts vs. Unmasked school districts(statsiq.co1.qualtrics.com)
1 points by seriousquestion 5y ago|1 comments
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
What would be the justification for making it private anyway? Shouldn't this be transparent?
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Americans Hate Each Other(tabletmag.com)
7 points by seriousquestion 5y ago|1 comments
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Another issue that is skewing the data: Early in the pandemic, the United States had an undertesting problem. Now we are overtesting those who are immune and asymptomatic. A person with immunity to the coronavirus will fight off an infectio
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Are there examples of that in groups larger than Dunbar's number?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Thomas Sowell is easily in the top 5 intellectuals alive, and yet most people are barely aware of him and his work. Why? I genuinely don't understand why he is so ignored.
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The Consequences of Fatherlessness(fathers.com)
2 points by seriousquestion 5y ago|1 comments
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Watching the Watchmen(buzzfeednews.com)
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Latest Data on Covid-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity(kff.org)
4 points by seriousquestion 5y ago|1 comments
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Given that we are outside observers, is it possible that they know something we don't? What might be some charitable explanations for why they don't raise prices?
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Net worth gains in 2020 were the largest for the least wealthy(fredblog.stlouisfed.org)
2 points by seriousquestion 5y ago|0 comments
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
> If I hear the phrase "I'm an ideas guy" one more time No kidding? People actually say this unironically?
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Freedom in the 50 States(freedominthe50states.org)
2 points by seriousquestion 5y ago|1 comments
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Vaccine passport compulsory for nightclubs and large events from September(cityam.com)
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No ‘return to normal’ expected in post-pandemic New Zealand(theguardian.com)
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NY book publishers: Author's ethnicity must match that of their protagonist(twitter.com)
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
I find that scary actually. Many of the same people were ostensibly for unions and breaking up big tech to minimize their power, but are now embracing the full exercise of their power? Worse, endorsing an effective merger of media and state
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Here's the SMS thing for the curious > Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Now the question is how do we correct for this? How do we get the critical thinkers in the headlines and fear merchants on the sidelines?
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
Correct me if wrong, but this doesn't appear to have a non-Covid-19 control group? This study on Long Covid found there was no statistical difference between teenagers that had Covid compared to those that didn't. Suggesting that
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San Antonio's oldest park holds one of the coolest little mysteries(mysanantonio.com)
1 points by seriousquestion 5y ago|0 comments
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
I think this is why a lot of developers take on things like woodworking as a hobby or even a new career. The tools just WORK. They are reliable. They don't randomly change. There isn't a constant churn. You don't spend all da
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Cuban Goes to American Supermarket for the first time(youtube.com)
1 points by seriousquestion 5y ago|3 comments
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
You would think so, but it is an $800 charge even if you make $0. This yearly tax will be due, even if you are not conducting business , until you cancel your LLC. https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/business/types/l
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by seriousquestion 5y ago
That's part of it. Another is that they tend to have authoritarian tendencies.

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