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While they're at it, seperate out the social justice books from the science fiction, because I'm absolutely sick of it all. Hugo awards used to be a great way to source new, high-q…

I think Fox News is just more honest about their bias than most; its certainly not true that CBC, CNN, etc. are unbiased lol. There is a distinct bias in wikipedia that is unavoida…

That's a good position to have on a new drug, actually.

Its also enough time for them to accept their body the way it is. Yet that doesn't appear to be what ever happens, why? Prior estimates were 90% would desist.. https://www.frontier…

There's some crazy stat, that 98% of kids put on puberty blockers continue to cross-sex hormones. Which clearly tell you, whatever the puberty blockers are for, its not temporary a…

Agreed. When I was a kid, I would look for the award winners as a shortcut to find new books to read, but lately its been disappointment after disappointment. I don't feel like the…

> wouldn't want to continue accumulating it as they know it's purely at the expense of other people > Therefore, having a billion dollars is a clear sign that millions of people ha…

Ok, but inflation is not cost-of-living and the CPI doesn't measure either of those directly. Its often convenient for government to conflate the two; cost-of-living is a very flex…

And if the prices for good B go down, and people buy more of it, then it will be weighted more in the calculation. CPI is structurally biased to report lower inflation.

I think the portraits of the downvoters would fully explain this phenomenon

Are you Canadian? Even asking the question feels ridiculous: yes, absolutely. He shredded the Charter to fabricate a wedge (interior vaccine passports, firing civil servants) to wi…

I thought this was quite a good interview, summing the rational, skeptic position. https://youtu.be/l90FpjPGLBE?si=v8fwGFWT-yLPpKgC

that depends on the temperature.. Burn it hot enough and the result is water + co2, perfectly clean energy

Maybe there is no conspiracy and the note is just wrong. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...

"Capitalists aren't as bright as ppl think." As opposed to communists? Those paragons of intelligence? Funny how the solution to climate change (and covid, and inflation..) is alwa…

About that negative 18 degrees for equilibrium, does that take into account the heat radiating from within the earth as well? Radioactive decay, the core is quite hot.

Yes, they were defending in an urban area, but I think this matters less than you might expect. Russia's strategy was to saturate the Ukrainians with artillery, and they undoubtedl…

My guess: its a tactic designed to embolden the enemy and keep them committed to a failing strategy. Bakhmut was a meat grinder, but as long as the hope of victory could be kept al…

The killer feature imo would be a forum with moderation that only moderates and doesn't censor. Right now Reddit is unusable if you have an opinion contrary to the hivemind. Go on …

Covid-19 is actually a great example. The spike protein was highly conserved until it became advantageous for it mutate to evade the highly-specific immunity created by mRNA vaccin…

Stable across mutations? On what timeframe.. Its been stable so far. However, create a population with narrow immunity based on a single protein, and you create a selection pressur…

That doesn't really make sense. Target specifically, and it only takes a minor mutation to escape. A less-specific vaccine would create immunity against multiple targets, and would…

The cohort used for the study was overwhelmingly white and female (95%+ for both), so I think your first point is fair, its not possible to generalize to the population from this o…

I'm in favour of free speech, without censorship from government or private entities. Which is why I think censoring the laptop story was wrong. So tell me, how is that anti free s…

Conspiring to suppress true information to influence an election seems worse.