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respectfully it is not a lie, and more than a half a dozen people I know personally lost function of their hands, legs, were hospitalized with myocarditis, had local paralysis/pals…

In a March 29 2021, MSNBC interview, Rochelle Walensky stated publicly that CDC data suggested "vaccinated people do not carry the virus" and "don't get sick". a knowingly false st…

most of the critics of this particular vaccine are the ones that took it. either the people who got covid anyway or were injured by it. it was incredibly destructive for trust in t…

you never get a second chance to make a first impression

guess you can believe what you want but data shows the Epstein topic has been damaging his base support

not sure where you are looking but Rasmussen polls have been showing Trump hemorrhaging support since June among his base. if you visit X this is where many of them converse, and t…

experienced something very similar. thought I would leave my field permanently out of frustration and despair. I like my work now, but faced with that burnout again do not think I …

anyone remember XPDE? I'm not sure it was ever finished / packaged in any major repo but came across someone doing a walkthrough of it the other week and it looked pretty complete.…

a couple pages that describe the agency and their projects, for those who were not familiar. the agency was created in 2014. https://18f.gsa.gov/our-work/ https://www.govtech.com/c…

generally intelligent people tend to perform well on intelligence tests people who perform well on intelligence tests may not present as generally intelligent

you do know different people say different things? I am sharing my personal opinion The opposition will always employ fear tactics like socialist, marxist, fascist, science denier …

it is hard for me to think of a more status quo candidate than Harris

interesting to behold this inversion where the "conservative" side is taking dramatic and rapid action, changing things quickly, while the "progressive" side vociferously defends t…

maybe both of us are doing some presupposing

not sure if their policies have changed but in 2021 Amazon Studios implemented quotas for performers and creatives on each project based on race/ethnicity, gender, and ability, wit…

I think that is a valid argument and makes some sense. have to toss the hot potato. The argument for the trade offs are pretty simple I think. It encourages more concentration of w…

care to cite some examples of deflation quickly destroying an economy? there are many such examples for inflation. Argentina, Germany, Zimbabwe, Greece there is deflation that come…

1-2% inflation is "healthy" is a trope that nobody really justifies. Perhaps its true, and it is often repeated as gospel. the "2% inflation target" was derived just from the comme…

not sure there is a country on earth that you could save your money in the national currency and not watch inflation rip away the value of your earnings. The purchasing power of US…

deflation in computers, cars, apparel, materials and other technologically manufactured goods has been consistent for generations ... is this bad? would it be bad if the cost of co…

a lot of people were advocating for a primary in 2023 and got shouted down by the establishment dems

I actually feel Apple did a decent job gobbling it up and incorporating some of the best features into their native weather app. Merry Sky is a good homage but I've never evaluated…

CPI doesn't measure things like healthcare properly (17% of GDP) as those prices are not paid by consumers. the insurers get their cut straight out of your paycheck. College either…