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by timr 1y ago
Citation absolutely required for that claim. Even ignoring the fact in order to get your pet licensed anywhere in the US you have to vaccinate it for Rabies, the transmission chain doesn't work that way. When people get Rabies, they ge
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by timr 1y ago
> The short-term effects of relaxing vaccine requirements won’t be obvious right away, but the consequences will likely compound over time. I don’t know how much time of lower coverage it will take before we start to see measles, rabies,
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by timr 1y ago
Correctness is difficult when you’re dealing with a word that has a vague constellation of meanings. I gave you a correct definition. I didn’t assert that it was the only possible correct definition, but it is correct, and I made an argum
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by timr 1y ago
First of all, Wikipedia is useless for definitions of words that are in the middle of active political debate. You completely ignored the definition I gave you (which is from an impartial source [1]) in favor of one you prefer , from a wik
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by timr 1y ago
Except you have to ignore every prior word of the sentence I quoted to make that interpretation.
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by timr 1y ago
> They are filling every power vacuum they create with direct executive power. Pure authoritarianism. I just gave you a correct definition of authoritarianism, and that isn't it. It's also untrue -- this administration has rath
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by timr 1y ago
Few people actually know what "authoritarian" means, and are mostly just repeating things they've heard and intend to mean as "leaders doing things I don't personally like." A strict definition of "autho
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by timr 1y ago
A razor is a default presumption, yes. It allows you to "shave off" unlikely explanations. When you find yourself violating a philosophical razor, it's a strong indication that you should question your priors.
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by timr 1y ago
Yeah, exactly. Given the text of the EO plus the public statements about it from the administration, it sounds like an ambiguous drafting, coupled with lawyers doing what they do best (i.e. the most conservative possible interpretation of a
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by timr 1y ago
> I don't read this poll as being about illegal immigration but someone else might (e.g. you did). Almost every question was about illegal immigration. They ask some top-level questions about overall immigration, then ask a series o
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by timr 1y ago
In the plain text manner. To me the more relevant portion is this: > ...except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000 Again, just doing a plain text reading, this seems to be intended
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by timr 1y ago
So basically, you don't know , and you're violating Hanlon's razor because you think its wrong this time. The fact that this administration routinely implements policies of all types in this way suggests that rambunctious
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by timr 1y ago
You're confusing facts with the opinions of others. Read the EO. There's literally nothing in the EO stating that pre-existing visa holders are subject to the new rules. Someone else is interpreting the EO , and you're assum
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by timr 1y ago
That's an assertion of opinion, not a fact. This administration has a pattern of implementing policies this way, regardless of domain.
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by timr 1y ago
> This has very strong "cruelty is the point" vibes. Hanlon's razor. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Regardless of what you think about the wisdom of the policy itself, implementi
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by timr 1y ago
> Polling in the US has swung in favor of immigration Don't forget to quote the parts that contradict your statement: > After climbing to 55% in 2024, the percentage of Americans who say immigration should be reduced has dropped
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by timr 1y ago
Yes, just like you can die if you choke on food.
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by timr 1y ago
It's a solid.
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by timr 1y ago
Because Teflon is harmless to the human body. It is inert. It interacts with nothing. We literally make replacement body parts out of it. This is a case where conventional wisdom on HN is wildly out of sync with actual science.
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M7.8 earthquake in Kamchatka; 0.2M Tsunami Warning in Japan(jma.go.jp)
2 points by timr 1y ago|2 comments
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Metal Barrels Dumped Off the Coast of LA Are Encircled by Mysterious White Halos(smithsonianmag.com)
21 points by timr 1y ago|4 comments
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by timr 1y ago
I've been to Dōgo Onsen several times, but I had no idea of the putative connection to Spirited Away. If you'd asked me at the time, I never would have made the connection based on visuals alone. They're really overstating th
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by timr 1y ago
Oh, they're still here. They just close earlier since 2020.
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by timr 1y ago
Greek diners in NYC are a miracle to me. The food isn't the greatest, but it's good enough , and the huge diversity of menu items (usually made by one guy in the back), served for decades, is enough to make me wonder if there&#x2
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by timr 1y ago
Yeah, calling something "fascistic" is at least more honest that a metaphor is being invoked. I still think it's lazy, because most of the time, the people using the word have no idea what specific thing they're talkin
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by timr 1y ago
> Fascist is a very concrete definition, as it is a comparison to a concrete existing historical movement. If, by "very concrete definition" you mean "party name invented by Mussolini" [1], then yes. Otherwise, absolu
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by timr 1y ago
> Its important to note that Immunity debt is a concept that anti lockdown activists created in 2020. It was not in medical texts before that point, it never had any science behind it. It was a political term used to end mitigations agai
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by timr 1y ago
Rebutting this kind of stuff turns into a link-sharing competition. For any debated theory I can show you a thousand links saying the opposite of whatever claim is being advanced, but you'll just assume my links are self-selected. Look
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by timr 1y ago
You can speculate if you like, but the claim you're advancing is fantastical to anyone who has studied virology, and requires an accordingly fantastic level of supporting evidence.
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by timr 1y ago
Just to be clear: "they", in this case, is a cherry-picked sample of scientists by a journalist.

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