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by spurgu 5y ago
I tend to agree, and definitely on the surface of it. But what about for example incentives to cut down on carbon emissions, how would you achieve those? Or stopping investors for buying up all the great real estate in an area and boost up
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by spurgu 5y ago
What makes Pleroma different from for example Mastodon? Why would one choose one over the other?
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by spurgu 5y ago
I'll bite. First of all I don't think vaccine mandates are "tyranny", just stupid/stubborn (and in the some cases virtue signaling). > The idea that vaccinations cause more spread has in fact been studied on the
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by spurgu 5y ago
Your question (not me though, but) was: > why is a mandate that the majority wants equivalent to tyranny? I doubt the dead people (the vast majority being 60+) are the ones mandating it. It's the same people who think it's impe
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by spurgu 5y ago
Oh you mean the Americans who think they have a 15-25% chance of dying from Covid if they get it? I wouldn't trust the majority to be well-informed. https://covid19pulse.usc.edu/ (granted the numbers have been going do
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by spurgu 5y ago
Interesting. I was looking into the nicotine/smoking and Covid link the other day and the initial results from France have been replicated in many other countries. While some studied have tried to "debunk" it, with the intent
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yeah I don't get it. At which point did Big Pharma become the good guys, with zero ulterior motives and zero regards for profit? Always having the public's best interest in mind. This is a weird timeline.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yeah my first thoughts as well. I had an electric kickbike in the last country I lived in and it was insanely convenient. The rental ones support people dumping them anywhere/everywhere and have a bunch of people not used to handling t
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by spurgu 5y ago
That's an interesting angle that I hadn't considered before. Not that I don't have serious doubts regarding the viability of Bitcoin overall, but it seems like it could play a role in balancing out the imbalance created by in
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by spurgu 5y ago
Try this: https://archive.md/UqKK0 I wasn't able to access the article at all due to it redirecting through https://guce.yahoo.com/consent which is blocked by my DNS (NextDNS.io). The archive.md links
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by spurgu 5y ago
Direct link to article: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/12/printed-website-thir...
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by spurgu 5y ago
> I don't particularly felt that VR is easy on the eyes since while the illusion says otherwise, you have 2 very small monitors directly in front of your eyes Think of it as having glasses. Your focal point isn't in front of yo
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by spurgu 5y ago
If you aren't aware that DNS propagation is actually about waiting for cached DNS records to expire then maybe you shouldn't be the one debugging DNS issues in the first place? I think propagation it's highly descriptive. You
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by spurgu 5y ago
Here's a great video going over the same concepts but in a humorous way. 7 ways to maximize misery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o
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by spurgu 5y ago
> In the causal world in which we live future actions have absolutely no impact on the present. Of course it doesn't have any impact on the present. Neither did the old apes have any advantage over other animals just because they we
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by spurgu 5y ago
I clearly wrote: > Of course it's not a given though Plus, if we're still arguing the logic , how exactly does symptomatic/asymptomatic make any kind of difference here? You fail to explain how I'm "completely
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by spurgu 5y ago
Yes, but the public response will be completely different. We're not looking at a virus in a petri dish here, but one that circulates in a human society. That's what tends to lead the virus towards a less lethal evolution.
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by spurgu 5y ago
This is key. We're not looking at a statically behaving population, but a dynamic one.
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by spurgu 5y ago
No it's not. The more a virus spreads, the more it mutates. The more it mutates towards more transmissible and less lethal, the more it spreads. Thus it's a positive feedback loop. Of course it's not a given though (there
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by spurgu 5y ago
Just to clarify, socialism is about government ownership. Communism is about ownership of the people . As I see it no society has ever reached communism. Those that have gone full socialist have failed. There seems to be a fair amount of
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by spurgu 5y ago
You can work for a bit, save up for a sailboat, live on it, fish for food, travel from country to country.
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by spurgu 5y ago
> That's... not deflation? Isn't inflation/deflation about purchasing power ? I.e. how much housing you can buy for a month's salary (for example), how much computing power, how much food you can buy? If you hoard mo
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by spurgu 5y ago
> E.g., Guillain-Barre syndrome is ~10 times more common after a COVID infection than a COVID vaccine. Myocarditis is something like 20 times more likely. In relation to what? An average Covid infection? We don't even know how many
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by spurgu 5y ago
That's a bit illogical isn't it? Better to put the food in your pockets than in your stomach.
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by spurgu 5y ago
So it is due to IQ.
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by spurgu 5y ago
This is a worrying trend across the board. Everything has to be equal and politically correct, because if not then it has to be racism or something else evil.
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by spurgu 5y ago
Haha! Article doesn't mention whether he ended up getting the jab in his real arm though.
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by spurgu 5y ago
> That you are used as the factory for the protein with mRNA doesn't make a big difference IMHO. I'd beg to differ, or at least make a slight distinction. The mRNA vaccine targets the spike protein specifically, which is the im
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by spurgu 5y ago
> When you get a COVID vaccine you are getting COVID. That’s literally all a vaccine is: a copy of the disease you want protection against, so that your immune system can gear up to fight it. Whoa, hold on there buddy. You might want to
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by spurgu 5y ago
> Where do you get the idea that the vaccines only work on people who have co-morbidities? How do you draw that conclusion? I never said that. Vaccines work across the board. But to illustrate an extreme, they do practically nothing to

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