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Re: CDC data are disappearing

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Post by SmirkingRevenge »

tialaramex wrote: post #200
marcosdumay wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I laughed when those people self-identified as accelerationists... but holly shit! they knew what it means and were honest. Historically, they are just a bunch of rich morons that got lucky, got power, and decided to stage a coup. This is not some enlightened movement trying to replace the social norms. It's just your run of the mill personal power switch, and the only notable things about it are it's on a country th…

> it's on a country that has been extremely stable before The US is a known bad design, nation builders working for the United States stopped trying to use this design for new countries in the 20th century, it doesn't work. It's inherently unstable and you previously got very lucky, although you have had a civil war and numerous close calls. It's like oh, why don't we make coal-powered cars. Well because it's a known…

And the bad design has severely limited our ability to self-correct.

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Post by libertarian1 »

bongodongobob wrote: post #55
diggan wrote: post #20

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> Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management Suddenly I feel out of the loop when it comes to US politics, how come Musk is suddenly seemingly seizing control of parts of the US government? I don't recall him being on any ballots or anything?

The US is undergoing a fascist takeover basically.

Lmao. Nope. US is reclaiming the common sense

Re: CDC data are disappearing

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Post by cmxch »

Insanity wrote: post #90
bmitc wrote: post #65

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That doesn't matter anymore. No one believed the CDC data to begin with. You think they're going to believe it when it comes from third-party backups?

I think the benefit is not just from regular people having access - but other researchers who do need/trust the data.

The problem is that the provenance of that data will be questioned. It’s one thing that researchers will trust and use that data, but that citing these archive sites will fall flat when their conclusions have to exit academia and be subject to extra scrutiny.

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Post by bmitc »

mort96 wrote: post #99
bmitc wrote: post #73

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How is this not all illegal? How are cease and resists not being put into place? An illegal immigrant, narcissist, billionaire, and many other things is taking over federal agencies and actively purging them for his own ideologies.

I see these kinds of comments regularly and am curious: what is your thought process? What makes you think that it's not illegal? What makes you think that legality matters here?

Can you just state what you would like to?

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Post by Spooky23 »

Dalewyn wrote: post #164
Spooky23 wrote: post #150

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The good news is that as a Trump voter who is a MAGA believer, you’ve established that you’re ignorant and open to emotional manipulation. You’re the political equivalent of the old lady who talks to the scammers. So when your glorious day comes, and your State asserts their rights and levies your bank account to pay for your parents medical bills as your filial responsibility, (or whatever your personal tragedy ends…

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Cool. The Russians would call you “polezniye duraki”.

Hopefully someday you’ll ask yourself why you paid heed to some misinformation nonsense about African condoms and got upset about it.

In the meantime, try to stay away from power tools.

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Post by southernplaces7 »

renewedrebecca wrote: post #184
hypeatei wrote: post #21

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I would just like to point out that Musk is the richest man in the world and is now directing critical areas of the U.S. government. Surely he doesn't have ulterior motives and is looking out for the average person?

I really hope you're being sarcastic.

Sort of obvious sarcasm, no?

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Post by Gigachad »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #60
Tyrubias wrote: post #3

It’s terrifying that data US taxpayers paid for, collected and analyzed in the name of public health, can be removed on a whim. While there are a lot of efforts to archive said data, it would still make it unavailable to Americans who are not tech savvy. Unfortunately, that seems to be the idea, I think.

Isn't this data already inaccessible to those who are not tech savvy? My grandma isn’t visiting any of the data download sites provided by the federal government. She doesn’t even know why she would, or even that such data is available. And if I provide it to her, she hasn’t the skills to do anything with it.

A lot of the user facing pages with general info about stuff like HIV has been deleted too.

Re: CDC data are disappearing

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Post by breadwinner »

Data is the ultimate Fact Check. This is a President that's adamantly opposed to fact checking [1] and has even coerced Facebook to drop fact checking. Of course they don't want data on government sites that disprove their "alternate facts".

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4920827-60-minutes-tru...

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