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Isn't the IFR somewhere in the realm of .16%...

More than this, by what standard is something blockable and who determines this. Maybe it just doesn't stop at allegedly hurtful words, Maybe two folks are discussing something pol…

You're mistake was thinking that being college educated leads to critical thinking. On the contrary, college and the University system in general is largely a credentialing and sig…

NFS using Kerberos over the network is very secure while being fast. Complaining about nfs being insecure is to be ignorant regarding how NFS was originally intended to be implemen…

Far more comes from the media itself. Like the "undecided voters" who thought Biden won the debate, but some of whom were interviewed by msnbc months ago and said they were voting …

Your attempting to use reason and facts with someone who doesn't care about truth. Anyone who lauds what happened in the northeast is either ignorant, bordering on negligence and m…

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It took them a while not to endorse slavery as well. I'd not look for anything groundbreaking from either party, especially not one where the octogenarian candidate was one of the …

They're far more likely to be enthralled with democratic groups like antifa or BLM and see how they slap around 70 year old white folks leaving the Republican convention, or how th…

180 days to flatten the curve.. Remember, we're all in this together...

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Partially correct. Thinking about them in terms of the mall or a shopping plaza is good. However, you mistakenly compared the app store with the Gap. The app store is the mall spac…

Thankfully hyper capitalism's provided an alternative, Windows, Android, or linux, and pine. I suppose if you're a socialist you probably don't understand how it all works without …

Which is a primary reason for the push against capitalism

Didn't they just fire a Michigan State University prof for having a different opinion? Honestly, just drain the system as much as you can.

Most of the "resurgence" in cases in Texas is from about 3 counties, all in the border, all of them treating individuals crossing the bitter for better treatment. If course, we cou…

Now do cancer.. Now do influenza. Now do suicide.. Here's one for you, take out deaths over 60 and then look at the data. Better yet.. If you statistically don't want to die, don't…

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There already is "greater regulation".. In fact in NY the nursing homes themselves pleaded with the governor to not force the return of these COVID positive individuals back to the…

I think it's close to around 44% by recent numbers. However, NY recently revised how they are counting these deaths, and they now count them in a way where if the nursing home resi…

I think Russ Roberts of econtalk went into this pretty in depth. EconTalk: John Cogan on Entitlements and the High Cost of Good Intentions http://www.EconTalk.org http://files.libe…

The legality of antifa as a terrorist organisation aside, there are numerous examples since the civil war of presidents using the military outside the scope of posse comitatus act.…

Actually there are numerous instances of presidents using active duty troops on its own soil. And this doesn't even include the military police or navy/marines which may or may not…

It Isn't just California, it's the entire USA. It wasn't about a virus it was about control. https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/05/26/nursin...

Everyone followed a flawed IHME model, they shoved out elderly to make room for patients who would need ventilators because everyone blindly trusted the models and certainly didn't…