spookthesunset

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by spookthesunset 3y ago
Everybody gets a say in “lessons learned”. Not just a bunch of cherry picked doomsday epidemiologists. The “experts” were phenomenally myopic in their focus and would be in “lessons learned” as well. There is far more to life than the preve
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Okay but the data suggests I’m not downplaying anything.
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Covid isn’t actually that dangerous for the vast majority of people. We have almost four years if data showing that. The vaccines dangers are questionable. There are huge incentives to cover up any dangers and pharmaceutical companies and g
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What is even the point of these tests? Knowing if the specific virus you got was covid won’t change a single thing about how you deal with it. Knowing it’s covid instead of some other similar respiratory virus matters for only extreme cases
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Stouts are so good but even in a store with a large beer selection they are hard to find.
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Why is deciding what goes into your body a political issue?
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Totally agree. The craft beer industry needs to stop with all this IPA nonsense. It’s absurd how hard it is to find anything but yet another weird IPA. If the craft beer industry is shrinking, this is one large component. Stop with the nons
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Those light beers are also low ABV, which is ideal for warm summer days where to just want something refreshing without getting plastered. A simple tasting 4% beer works great for that. A complex, bitter 12% double IPA? Not so much. I’d muc
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If it’s based on models, it’s only as good as the model
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So it’s a bunch of models?
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1 in 9 is so absurdly high it calls into question everything about the study. There are about 42 million teenagers in the US right now. 1:9 would be about 4.67 million teens. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), SWAT team
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> I’ve found that people who create policies in a specialized field of expertise tend to think through those policies a whole lot more than internet commentators like myself do. I've found the opposite, actually. Specialized fields
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I find the YouTube ecosystem amazing. If there is a popular niche topic that has at least some amount of following, you’ll find several “competitor” channels. VASAviation is one of the “air traffic control recording” YouTube channels but th
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Not a very robust analogy. There are tons of different wheel designs out there. Some are good for racing and suck for rain. Some are great in the snow but are noisy and inefficient on the highway. Etc... Maybe their needs are so special the
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I don't think you fully understand how big their codebase is and how many different teams are working on it at any given time. There are very fundamental differences between a mono-repo and a bunch of repos for each "service"
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It’s weird how macs don’t come with a GUI for managing system services. Windows does.. that being said the number of times I’ve had to mess with system services on mac can probably be counted with a few fingers…
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Depends on the car, your tools, and your working space.
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They are the pigeons of the suburbs and forests.
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That smell thing is probably huge. When yon get out into the wild, deodorant smells super strong. Humans have so many strong artificial smells on them (clothes, deodorant, hair stuff, sunscreen, bug spray not to mention all the other stuff
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And if they did, they'd lose their license. Which would happen because there sure were a lot of people who were super happy to dime out anybody breaking covid rules. It astounds me how so many people continue to buy into the mainstre
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A restatement might be: There is "book smart" intelligence and "street smart" intelligence. People without a lot of street smarts but a lot of book smarts are probably easier to con.
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The homepage needs to be the content. Without doing that you are gonna be dead in the water because only a small fraction of people are going to bother registering just to test the water. Also look at how the current and past generations of
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At some point you might as well just do it yourself cause it’s easier. I’ve gotten to this point more than once with ChatGPT. ChatGPT will get you like 70% of the way initially and if you are lucky you’ll hit 90% with a lot of time invested
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> The tradeoff for doing less was more people dying. That is quite simply not true at all.
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> I have read pretty credible studies that contradict you. Studies cannot show if something was the right course of action. This isn't something that can be accounted for by some peer-reviewed research paper. The fact of the matter
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> goose stepping along to lead the largest propaganda and brainwashing effort in our lifetimes. It's crazy really. I wonder how many decades will have to go by before it becomes okay to acknowledge what a major fuckup the response t
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> Sarcasm aside, in a time of a medical emergency, it is the job of medical professionals to make decisions, because public safety supersedes individual freedoms. This might be true for like the first week or two of march but after that.
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> Pushing cases into the future was always the stated goal of lockdowns. That was what "flatten the curve" meant. The idea was to accept some temporary consequences in order to prevent deaths until vaccines could be made. The i
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> Unsurprisingly, the people attempting to debate this typically had no medical background whatsoever. You don't need to have a "medical background" to debate lockdowns or masks. The decision to use those should never have
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> It is also a known tool of any epidemic/pandemic management, it just has rarely been necessary at such scale given the intensity and wide distribution of COVID. That must be why all the pandemic planning guides from various nation

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