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It wasn't hard to see this as a potential (albeit entirely uncertain) possibility if you weren't extremely impassioned by partisan politics.

> “Thousands of highly educated scientists, doctors, pharmacists, and at least four major medicines regulators missed a fraud so apparent that it might as well have come with a fla…

I've seen this more often than not. The pyramid is a pyramid for a reason, and I'm somewhat skeptical that we just have to throw out unit tests or they suck or something. You don't…

> Personally, I find unit tests to be mostly useless. Meanwhile I've found myself in the position where people eschewed unit testing entirely under this "just do integration tests"…

Yea I think this is a more accurate view. It's definitely a more thought-provoking angle, namely that people often complain about systemic bias - ignoring that pretty much all impo…

Inconceivable that this could be abused. /s It doesn't take a genius to surmise that a future actual despot will hijack all this infrastructure that was so cleverly crafted by The …

> near zero-cost safety measures Do we have any sense of the cost to young children who presumably won't see as much face-mouth signalling during the crucial developmental phase of…

> I don't understand why hundreds of thousands of deaths is okay for the right wingers like you? Kamala said she wouldn't take the vaccine cause it was from Trump. Cuomo/Murphy hav…

> Lockdowns are a basic application of germ theory. And eugenics is a basic application of evolutionary biology.

What would the average pro-lockdown person say if someone hosted a party or even got together with someone for coffee without a mask? They'd be calling for jail. I've heard this en…

I notice a lot of run-of-the-mill liberals automatically assume their opponents who aren't manifestly crazy are "devil's advocates" or not making the argument in good faith. It see…

> the part where he instead diagnoses everyone with having been driven crazy [...] is not really thoughtful I said you could expect "significant" depression if there's de facto (in…

Since they claim a quarter of patients are showing symptoms and one of those is depression - how do they separate the out the effect of the de facto criminalization of social activ…

> Bitcoin does jack shit. It's a store of value that just survived displacement from a despotic regime without breaking a sweat.

> I really don't know what their game is, but they are up to something. Their game is absolute power. It's not hard to see that anything that strays from the party line or amasses …

> But just to say that you do not want to live in a society with rules seems quite extreme. You could easily say this to justify mistreatment of undocumented people or deportation.…

All the sanctimonious tech types making more than all the lower classes they sneer at - they think it’s their right to “waste” energy on their unimpeachable luxury good: their Tesl…

Didn't the CDC stop collecting data about this too? I seem to recall reading something like they only test hospitalizations now.

> know-nothing populist bullshit Can we flag this for unnecessary sanctimony?

> there will always be a lot of doom and gloomers predicting massive inflation Clearly if all the actually essential things like education, housing and healthcare are manifestly un…

The problem is that the US has a culture of freedom, and most importantly a Bill of Rights that outlaws violations of individual rights to privacy, speech, etc.

It coincides with a society that's become hyper-focused on historically small risks. Look at anxiety rates in children, etc. I guess it must have to do with the progress of humanit…

> The bigger issue would be if "Original Antigenic Sin" [0] could impact the immune systems response presumably if this is an issue at all - it'd be because most people are "locked…

> I don't particularly care for the opinion of one lone man. Same thing happened with Galileo - I'm not saying anti-climate change perspectives are tantamount to Galileo, but it's …

> lack the political will In other words, countries outside the USA and many in Europe lack a culture of freedom.