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901.
by ummonk 4y ago
Even if it's treated as fact, it has to be false. Has she lied about what cards she saw in the tarot reading?
902.
by ummonk 4y ago
He claims defamation requires a statement of fact rather than an opinion. This very much depends on the particular jurisdiction. Defamation does extend to opinions, especially unreasonable opinions, in many countries.
903.
by ummonk 4y ago
The details on the method are paywalled in his Substack, and it's not clear whether he has any evidence that the method he is proposing are actually how the Babylonians actually calculated square root 2.
904.
by ummonk 4y ago
I'd argue only 4-6 is 'political furor'.
905.
by ummonk 4y ago
The claim was that they were " legitimate doctors and researchers". He clearly was not considered a legitimate researcher anymore.
906.
by ummonk 4y ago
It showed that masks worked. Unscientific people with an agenda then sliced and diced it into smaller subgroups (such as purple masks) where there was insufficient statistical power to consistently show whether masks worked for all the subg
907.
by ummonk 4y ago
It's not clear that treating amyloid plaque is actually palliative for Alzheimer's patients.
908.
by ummonk 4y ago
There have been large scale controlled studies on masking (via recommending mask usage, sending masks, etc. to a randomly selected group of villages / districts). They showed that masking has a moderate effect on COVID spread.
909.
by ummonk 4y ago
There is nothing in that article to indicate those studies may have been biased.
910.
by ummonk 4y ago
"for something for which there was no initially no evidence" - that's not true. There was evidence that it had antiviral properties against covid-19 in vitro. This is extremely weak evidence (most compounds which are effectiv
911.
by ummonk 4y ago
I think the study is somewhat more robust than you're letting on, since it compares HCQ against an alternative rheumatoid arthritis drug - Methotrexate. It's possible that the choice of prescribed drug itself is correlated with so
912.
by ummonk 4y ago
Exactly, and I think the same context will become associated with "plant-based" if it is consistently used as a substitute for "vegan".
913.
by ummonk 4y ago
This strikes me as the start of a euphemism treadmill, given that the etymology of "vegan" is no more negative than "plant based".
914.
by ummonk 4y ago
"I also can't get over the incident from the early 10s when Amazon deleted 1984 off of their customers' kindles." - what an ironic book for this to happen to
915.
by ummonk 4y ago
Thanks
916.
by ummonk 4y ago
Well the guy who wrote the post had the same opinion as you and his job search took a year as a result…
917.
by ummonk 4y ago
I don’t understand the thinking behind #7, especially when it contradicts #2-#4… Surely if the job market is so tight, it might be worthwhile to take what jobs you can get?
918.
by ummonk 4y ago
Are doctors unable to prescribe THC like they’re able to prescribe opioids?
919.
by ummonk 4y ago
IQ in children is a lot more reflective of environment / happenstance than IQ in adults. This statistical analysis seems to be looking at IQ in children.
920.
by ummonk 4y ago
Private landowners should have to pay property taxes on any public land that is inaccessible to the public but accessible to them.
921.
by ummonk 4y ago
It is simply a fact that ISIS did successfully radicalize and recruit western teenagers via the internet. What if anything the government should do to prevent such recruitment is a matter of debate, but you shouldn't pretend such recru
922.
by ummonk 4y ago
Yeah, and some of the tweets reported by the FBI didn't violate TOS and were allowed to stand by Twitter.
923.
by ummonk 4y ago
How exactly do you do this after the instance admin has banned you?
924.
by ummonk 4y ago
Is there some way to carry over followers between addresses that I'm unaware of?
925.
by ummonk 4y ago
I must have missed the part of internet history where people were constantly banned from their emails by capricious administrators for vague ToS violations. Like we are rightly concerned about Google suspending accounts without recourse, bu
926.
by ummonk 4y ago
Just arbitraging ensures this scheme never blows up in their faces and they can never get charged with a crime. Acting shady (but not actually stealing anything) isn't illegal.
927.
by ummonk 4y ago
My conspiracy theory is that USDT is actually well backed, but the Tether people intentionally make it look shady so they can buy the dip and arbitrage against panic selling. Some volatility would actually increase their ability to profit.
928.
by ummonk 4y ago
I'd bet he's white and was raised by upper middle class parents.
929.
by ummonk 4y ago
It's an award that can get you a full ride or even a stipend at many state colleges. Prestigious or not, it's a very important award.
930.
by ummonk 4y ago
And there are plenty that aren't, who should be hired to union bust and keep costs low.

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