taolegal

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by taolegal 4y ago
The same people who wouldn't be charitable with, say, Exxon, are bending over backwards to defend global pharmaceuticals. Exxon has an interest in minimizing (disregarding) the harmful effects of their products and same goes for Pfizer
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> this sort of overt discrimination appears to be rampant in certain tech circles It's rampant in society, prevalent in most bureaucracies. It's minority essentialism, a subordination of entire minority groups to everyone else
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by taolegal 4y ago
Humans have millions of years of evolution searing into our DNA the impulse to be social creatures. And it always struck me as actually anti-science to be very hush-hush or even outright ignorant of the profound negative consequences of s
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by taolegal 4y ago
is it free speech to show a decapitated effigy of your political opponents?
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by taolegal 4y ago
> He's banning people who make fun of him. the policy is about banning anyone who's impersonating someone else. there's a major bot issue with accounts pretending to be others, and people are playing coy about it specifica
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by taolegal 4y ago
Twitter was a leftist bastion. They censored opponents and favorable media for/of opponents. Everyone said “it’s a private company that can do whatever it wants” and “free speech needs limits.” Now it’s ruled by someone apparently not
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by taolegal 4y ago
> This is just willful ignorance. If it's just a matter of calling your opponent names, you're being hysterical. What he said isn't willful ignorance. Humanity has never been safer from extreme weather and has never been m
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by taolegal 4y ago
but we've never been safer against extreme weather, reflected in deaths
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by taolegal 4y ago
wasn't it "twitter is a private business that can do whatever it wants" during the pandemic when they censored the hunter biden story and people who said the vaccine didn't prevent transmission or that masks don't w
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by taolegal 4y ago
> but the defend the free speech rights of pornographers and klansmen alike famously they don't really do that anymore at all, in fact it's a just a progressive advocacy group now nothing like classical liberal values and funda
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by taolegal 4y ago
Of course liberals are bending over backwards to defend big business and outrageous (actual) profiteering now, as evidenced by you being downvoted into oblivion. The merger of private corporations and public power, the definition of fascism
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> Btc is only valuable if you can exchange it to fiat surely people value things other than paying off liabilities?
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by taolegal 4y ago
yea it doesn't happen much at all in the US, tons of normal ppl were hired to inject people and AFAIK that was never really part of instruction
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by taolegal 4y ago
> If you believe in your moon money so much why not just actually use it as money I don't buy stuff with it though it's being used to facilitate transactions for people. I route around $40k a month.
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by taolegal 4y ago
wonder why this is getting downvoted, cause I know people would think differently about me if I said I was conservative, they're all about diversity until you don't agree with them
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by taolegal 4y ago
> Or maybe they were free to focus on their favorite hobbies and started a successful career yea the young kids who are forming hobbies, instead of say learning to read or talk
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by taolegal 4y ago
But clearly people are spreading coronavirus while vaccinated?
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by taolegal 4y ago
Those studies you reference conflict with each other. The second isn't peer-reviewed. From the first one, it actually says for men younger than 40, myocarditis is actually higher in vaccinated, whereas for women it's similar to in
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by taolegal 4y ago
I'm talking about any adverse event, like with the swine flu vaccine from the 2000s, for example, where people came down with narcolepsy. Then there's the swine flu vaccine from the 70s that caused GBS. It's just clear to me
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> We absolutely took a middle ground. Europe apparently operated a lot less draconian wrt schools, never really closed down & things worked out pretty well. The science was pretty clear even from early on but democrats in US said geo
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by taolegal 4y ago
We didn't take a middle ground. Kids (the poorest and most disadvantaged) suffered a massive, irrecoverable learning loss under the mandates of public health experts.
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by taolegal 4y ago
I had a family member come down with shingles shortly after getting boosted, hasn't been infected with covid in years. There's enough discussion about this happening after vaccination: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x
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by taolegal 4y ago
> The former is actually being used to run businesses run businesses? to say nothing about whether those businesses are sustainable or actually generating wealth & human prosperity. if you look at all the worst aspects of the economy
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by taolegal 4y ago
> meta commentary on money is pointless and pathetic why are you getting so defensive about the fact that fiat currency exponentially decreases in value
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> there is no such thing as immunity debt this makes absolutely no sense at any level
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> Acquiring immunity by suffering through an actual infection is always, always worse than acquiring it by a vaccine say that to the whoever ends up coming down with narcolepsy, thrombocytopenia, acute peri/myo-carditis, shingles re
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> Putting off exposure for a couple of years lets lock kids in solitary confinement until it's safe to leave, good plan /s
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> Society is propped up by legal decree and violence and a currency whose value approaches zero as time grows. if bitcoin is bad, how is that much better?
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can't beat the JVM, python is great for many reasons and situations though
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by taolegal 4y ago
Are you in favor of workers' rights or not? Every job is essential, insofar as declaring any job nonessential under the justification of not-obviously-effective public health policy is arbitrary and an obvious overreach ripe for abuse.

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