vanusa

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by vanusa 5y ago
You do have that right but to exercise it seems oddly ... paternalistic. ":-)"
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by vanusa 5y ago
He most definitely did do it in hopes of forcing Spotify to drop Rogan. No - he did it because he has FY money and FY reputation. And if doesn't want to be associated with a platform he doesn't like -- he's not going to be
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by vanusa 5y ago
And Neil Young thought that they were going to pick him over Joe Rogan? I don't think he cares. Like he needs Spotify.
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by vanusa 5y ago
"One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool." -- George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism (1945)
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by vanusa 5y ago
I don't by this "censorship" rap. That's not what's happening here. Neil is just saying: "If you're going to do <X> (which just so happens to be patently obnoxious and harmful) -- I don't want
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by vanusa 5y ago
Did you actually listen to her explanation? I did, and it's rather obnoxious of you to suggest otherwise. I just think your own reading of what she said is off, for reasons I'll let you figure out (or not) on your own.
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by vanusa 5y ago
No, just that they definitely would not agree with your view that the current system limitations are "completely possible to fix in the short term". For the simple reason that the most critical resource it depends on (trained peo
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by vanusa 5y ago
But if you keep at -- enough to mess up your life (which also doesn't last forever).
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by vanusa 5y ago
For those who didn't drop out.
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by vanusa 5y ago
I'm not sure what you're driving at, because she clearly doesn't think that "masks" as such are ineffective - just the cloth/surgical masks -- she advocates N95/KN95. Which of course are what everyone sho
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by vanusa 5y ago
I wasn't, by even the remotest possible interpretation, "blaming people in healthcare". So I find that a very, very weird implication for you to make.
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by vanusa 5y ago
It's completely possible to fix this short term That's not what people in healthcare say. But hey, you can say whatever you want.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Is it a person's right to decide what medicines they take? I'd say yes, definitely. Note that the mandates in question (those in Quebec) don't force you to get the vaccine. They just say that if you don't, you no longe
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by vanusa 5y ago
Why is covid different than riding a motorcycle? Would you agree with this analogy: "Going out into crowded public spaces unmasked and unvaccinated ... is not unlike riding a motorcycle without a helmet. And with a busted taillight
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by vanusa 5y ago
If that company is Google, apparently not.
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by vanusa 5y ago
I don't dispute the underperfomers are the typical case. But I've seen plenty of glaring exceptions. The point is: things aren't always what they seem. And we can't automatically assume that the people who make these
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by vanusa 5y ago
Your language said "they require [that you run] apps" -- in the present, not future tense.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Usually they are laid off because they are plain bad Or because their managers are bad, or the company is rife with politics.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Hey I'm not the one making the policy change. I'm just saying, at least they have that (partial) justification. And that they say they "expect" rates to go down.
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by vanusa 5y ago
DevOps, cloud architecture/engineering. ⊂ "software development" (which the author hates) or what am I missing here?
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by vanusa 5y ago
Denmark is moving to getting rid of ALL restrictions. We'll see. They did that in September of course, only to re-introduce them 2 months later. Keep in mind they're only able to do this (if it ends up working) because they hav
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by vanusa 5y ago
You're seriously complaining that when someone seeks healthcare they are using a bed? No, not when they "seek healthcare". But when they go out and inevitably get themselves covid because they think they're making bol
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by vanusa 5y ago
we need to look at expanding healthcare; Not happening in the short term. complaining that people seek healthcare when they are ill. It's not that they "seek healthcare". But that they expect to have critical resources l
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by vanusa 5y ago
The point is it's misleading to say "so our own adult lives can be saved" when that's not the main motivation for these policies. If the health system becomes incapacitated, and we have to push people out of ICUs to make
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by vanusa 5y ago
So we sacrifice other lives (young children) so our own adult lives can perhaps be saved. The lives of their grandparents (and of older folks not related to us), you mean. You know, the ones actually the most vulnerable to this epidemi
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by vanusa 5y ago
In edge case matters not defined by current law, sometimes. But precedents that simply overturn other laws -- or as applies to the matter at hand, in the United States at least: the 4th Amendment - no.
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by vanusa 5y ago
No one doubts that owning at least a burner "dumb" phone has become a practical necessity. It's the idea of an actual smartphone not just maybe, hypothetically but "right now becoming" a legal requirement that see
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by vanusa 5y ago
Other people's lives, you mean.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Having anyone's freedoms dependent on available hospital capacity is a terrible way to run a society. So is letting people die from otherwise treatable injuries and infections so someone else can enjoy their "freedom" to ..
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by vanusa 5y ago
Since when was an app required to drive a car? Certain new models, maybe. Certain rental cars, maybe. But in the general case? And where in the world is one required to run an app to use public transportation? I just don't find this

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