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by skrbjc 5y ago
This is one of my main qualms with how public health does their work. Lying is justified if you think it will convince more people to do something that will improve metrics at a population level. Maybe that works for a period of time, but o
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by skrbjc 5y ago
In the US there are multiple levels of law enforcement that generally have their own jurisdictions. At the national level, there is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to handle crimes that occur across state lines or large crime webs
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by skrbjc 5y ago
Does the NRA not represent the will of a group of people? If a group of people get together, put their money together and tell that group of people to sway politicians with that money, then you can reasonably say that that is the will of pe
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by skrbjc 5y ago
The crazy thing is that those other viruses are more serious for kids than covid.
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by skrbjc 5y ago
Can I ask why you would be so insistent on testing? Did you change treatment based on a positive test result? When my son tested positive, they refused to let us re-test to see if it may have been a false positive. He's 2 and was compl
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by skrbjc 5y ago
It’s interesting because universities over-produce academics for the number of tenure-track jobs available, so they then hire those phds back into adjunct positions, which is often the only academic job available to them, especially if they
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by skrbjc 5y ago
250 0-4 year olds died with Covid and 573 5-18 year olds died with Covid. Remember these are people that died in the hospital with a positive Covid test. One study out of UCSF found more than 40% of kids hospitalized with Covid were there f
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by skrbjc 5y ago
There's this concept of voice vs exit. When things aren't going well in an organization or politically, you either decide to speak up and say there is something wrong or leave to find something else. One of the points in the artic
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by skrbjc 5y ago
I second this. Learning SQL and a BI tool like tableau or looker makes you eligible for data analyst jobs. I'm sure you could do a few data analyst-y projects in your current role, even if they are side projects, that could propel you
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by skrbjc 5y ago
Actually they are focusing on the STEM fields now saying they enroll too many men.
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by skrbjc 5y ago
There are also those of us that feel a bit screwed by buying a "starter" home. While that starter home has appreciated, we can't afford a bigger home for our bigger family in the same area, which means we have to think of alt
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by skrbjc 5y ago
I think another factor for continued demand is what some have called the "millennial baby boom". Millennials are aging and getting to the point where they are confronting having a child or not. Those that want kids likely also wan
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by skrbjc 5y ago
In the US that isn't an issue as most mortgages are fixed rate for 30 years. Once you lock in a low rate when you buy or refinance, you keep that until you sell the house. My understanding in 2008 was that many people did adjustable ra
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by skrbjc 5y ago
*couldn't care less
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by skrbjc 5y ago
If you didn't want something like this to exist, maybe a good way to get it to be un-enjoyable by the people who want to use it would be to show up and yell intolerable things at the top of your lungs. You can already see many instance
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by skrbjc 5y ago
Where are people getting this notion that the only possible negative outcome of unnecessary vaccination is death and that that's the only stat we should look at? fixed that for you
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by skrbjc 5y ago
This is the trick. Force private companies to force you so that we can technically say we're not forcing you so you should shut-up you walking bio-weapon. I hope you understand how ridiculous this is.
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by skrbjc 5y ago
The point is that if you aren't in agreement, then you can't be part of the group of people that say they are safe. They have tried making MRNA shots for a long time with consistently negative results. Maybe they got it right this
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by skrbjc 5y ago
LOL let's not look at the data that says children are very low risk, it's important to blindly give them the shots. (Time to check my pfizer stock...)
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by skrbjc 5y ago
It's funny that people read the same data with such different interpretations. This is why I feel like the insistence of "just look at the data" rarely leads to a clear decision, and anyone working at a company that has dealt
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by skrbjc 5y ago
That website is very much designed to be scary. They say that hospital admins think 30% and above of Covid patients mean "extreme", but they use 20% and above for the "extreme" red. Then below that they use % "extre
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by skrbjc 5y ago
That's the beautiful part of humans, though, we push through and live our lives no matter what. If everyone panicked every time there was something that seemed apocalypse, then we probably wouldn't be where we are today. Maybe it&
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by skrbjc 5y ago
Where are you in CA? Here in the Bay Area, at least East Bay, you have to wear a mask to go shopping. >90% of people at the parks are wearing masks, we can't go into the daycare to pick up our son and the nanny wears a mask all day,
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by skrbjc 5y ago
It's virtue signaling
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Handed out iphones as prizes??? That sounds crazy. Also, you can change this behavior. It is crucial that you build a positive relationship with him and pull him out from the screen and into your life. Not sure how old your son is, but try
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by skrbjc 5y ago
10-15K to restore a classic truck is not possible. Unless you're just talking about getting it to reliably run on the road. If you're talking about a paint job and new interior, and you're not doing it yourself, then you are
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by skrbjc 5y ago
In regards to vacuum, diesels don't produce vacuum since they don't have a throttle, and so they use a vacuum pump. They run off the engine, but I imagine you can get an electric driven one. Also many vehicles use electric driven
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by skrbjc 5y ago
Whoops, sorry I must have missed that, thanks for pointing it out.
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I wonder why this isn't mentioned anywhere? If she is worried about not having parts for the iron lung, it's more about her preference to use it than whether she can live or not, it would seem.
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by skrbjc 5y ago
What's wrong with letting them go out and get sick, if that's what they're comfortable with? You're telling them they need to either stay home or get a shot? Why not let them go out, and take the risk of getting sick? We

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