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by slumdev 5y ago
Vaccinated people must be required to wear masks to prevent the transmission of more virulent strains. Unvaccinated people, because they would be homebound (or killed) by the more virulent strains, must be allowed to go about their business
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by slumdev 5y ago
If you're in the United States, consider buying a Speed Queen. They're not pretty. They don't have lots of features. They use more water*. But they'll last forever. *Many consider this to be a drawback, but it results
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by slumdev 5y ago
> the alternative is spreading a virus that can have vulnerable people end up on a ventilator or worse We're already at a point in terms of wealth and technology that Amazon could deliver all of our durable goods and nonperishables,
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by slumdev 5y ago
All 349 of them had serious preexisting conditions. (Not to say that each of the 349 isn't a tragedy, only that the coronavirus is unequivocally not dangerous to children without preexisting conditions.) Also - if you're conside
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by slumdev 5y ago
> There's probably some low grade physiological stress when you use a mask. When you inhale, your diaphragm contracts and creates a negative pressure inside your thoracic cavity (relative to the outside atmosphere's 101.3 kPa).
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by slumdev 5y ago
Let me help you, then, because you shouldn't be conflicted at all. "Think of the children" is how they force changes that would otherwise be unconscionable. They've done it with encryption and anonymity for years. Now t
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by slumdev 5y ago
Do ANYTHING . Buy a feature phone or a phone from a vendor who doesn't have this power. Switch to Linux. Stop buying from companies that abuse you. Elect politicians who care about your rights. You know what's not helpful? Attac
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by slumdev 5y ago
Like swatting, but worse.
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by slumdev 5y ago
I'm just using the VAERS data. Trust the science.
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by slumdev 5y ago
A small cut on the skin is systemic? What definition of the word systemic are we using?
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by slumdev 5y ago
Shoes don't have systemic side effects.
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by slumdev 5y ago
> some provision of AZ election law that I don't recall precisely which states that if the machines aren't air-gapped the election is invalid and must be rerun So, we don't need to follow the law? The law is merely advisor
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by slumdev 5y ago
Yes, sorry I didn't make that clear. "Fact checking" and deplatforming are the Orwellian knockout punch to finish the job begun by the Huxleyan MTV (and similar influences in that vein) a few decades ago. It's clear tha
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by slumdev 5y ago
It's a bit of both. Jay Leno spent years showing us clueless Californians who couldn't tell us why the 4th of July is a holiday. These types would seem to confirm Huxley's suspicions, but they don't make up the entire c
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by slumdev 5y ago
I intend this with all the charity in the world, but it does need to be blunt because comments like yours are influencing decision makers to force everyone to come back, whether it's full time or in a so-called "hybrid" model
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by slumdev 5y ago
Communication points are a bottleneck. Smaller teams help, but the ideal team size for accomplishing a task is 1. Putting engineers in a war room or open office is only going to irritate the ones who want to spend their time doing deep wor
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by slumdev 5y ago
A small amount of malaise, drowsiness, arm tenderness, and subclinical fever are expected after any vaccine. It's most probable that you did have symptoms but didn't notice them because you're a normal, active person with ot
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by slumdev 5y ago
Better not let the peasants have any more of this dangerous information without a fact checker to provide them the right context.
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by slumdev 5y ago
Just don't try to activate it!
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by slumdev 5y ago
It's still not prestigious. Joe Average envies Bill Gates. Joe Average does not envy MS programmer #7413 who does device driver maintenance.
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by slumdev 5y ago
A quirk of our legal system that allows dishonest people to continue with impunity.
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by slumdev 5y ago
This is an unreliable system which police and prosecutors misrepresent as reliable. It might not be useless in the strictest sense of the word, but it ought to be taken away from them.
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by slumdev 5y ago
Any lawyers in the house who could comment on their refusal to test his hands? Can they refuse to run a test because they're afraid it might produce exculpatory evidence?
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by slumdev 5y ago
"Fur baby" overattachment is a very different thing from manifesting the appropriate amount of kindness and care for a being that can experience suffering.
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by slumdev 5y ago
I do have kids. I observe a correlation between overattachment to animals and lack of empathy toward other humans. In other words, people with "fur babies" are far less likely to have well-formed consciences.
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by slumdev 5y ago
> Even if the species isn't endangered or anything, isn't that kind of messed up? Not a great way for a kid to learn empathy. I think most kids are smart enough to understand the difference between insects and the higher forms
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by slumdev 5y ago
The Office UI, in general, hasn't improved since 2007 introduced the ribbon. Recent changes to Outlook make it seem like nobody at MS is even thinking about these issues.
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Butter and brie are now health foods. I'm onboard.
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by slumdev 5y ago
Most of them already live in a town. Not every French person owns a 100-acre vineyard.
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by slumdev 5y ago
It's a causality problem, not a technology problem. Information can't be changed in two places simultaneously. That latency, no matter how small, requires us to either eat the latency, give up guarantees, or alter our system&#x27

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