andrewclunn

That's because the point of this article is "Don't trust these scam artists!" because collective action motivated by hatred of elite rigging the system... is dangerous to those elite.

Am I the only one who misses ALL CAPS RAGE COMMENTS and horibly mispelled wrod sallad comments? Oh, and remember link comments? And what about those ascii art ones that you had to click on "see more" to get the full effect from? Oh or how about, substantive comments that disagreed with the the content of the video? Yeah, those were great, back before every video was watched mainly by subscribers who would become the echo chamber for content creators, even if they and YouTube mods (see the algorithm) didn't purge you first. Yeah, YouTube comments are great if you never want to be challenged by anything.

Few things are worth the destruction of our natural environment. Ice cream, leather, and surf and turf most definitely are though.

I recall when YouTube used to refine the "best answer" to a question based on distributed popularity. Ask it, "How do I screw in a lightbulb?" and the video at the top would be one which had received numerous views and likes, crowdsourcing its usefulness in answering the question. Then the algorithm was changed to prioritize more recent videos. This gave rise to the churn of the novel and new over the time tested and approved. This was better for ads, but worse for users. One cannot expect the ad driven model NOT to have an impact on usability.

> Unfortunately, viruses don’t change to become less severe. It’s true that Omicron is less severe than Delta. And, it’s an obviously attractive scenario if this virus continues to mutate to be less and less severe. But it’s not guaranteed. That’s because mutations are random.

Nope. See Cholera that spreads via contaminated water supply versus Cholera that spreads person to person. Given random mutations, natural selection and emergent pressures take hold. That so many people who ostensibly believe in evolution don't actually understand the mechanisms of it is a continuing personal frustration of mine.

Not while connecting to Google Play Games (which tracks and synchs account saves and trophies).

Will it connect to my google account? Also, targeting Windows only, but they do say not "yet" available for Mac, so perhaps in the future. Really odd that there's no linux support considering you would think ChromeOS (based on Linux) would be a prime target for this.

I already got Covid. If you spent a little less time assuming other people's positions (and their motivations), you might find the space to hear them instead.

Speaking as a Republican who has not gotten vaccinated, yes.

> “The only way to get compliance from people and get accommodation [is] if we demonstrate the ability to withdraw these [mandates] in the same manner in which we put them in,” Gottlieb added.

Nope. That line was crossed a long time ago. I can't imagine people suddenly regaining trust in pharma companies and health care agencies now because they backed off at this point.

In about 40 years, the last remaining boomer will slip away. Then of course the universe will end because a world in which they are not at it's center is impossible.

It's getting to the point, that when a mainstream outlet starts pushing for something on moral grounds, you can almost guarantee there's some shading pharma pay off behind the PR stunt, then when you dig a little deeper, the very standards of evidence have been perverted and agencies are blindingly corrupt. Then, rather than need to convince people or fool you or your doctor, the push is to use legislation and taxpayer based payment to compel people to be stooges, even if they weren't fooled themselves.

That real treatments can be shortcut by basically government guaranteed placebos is the icing on the cake. Multiple people in my family have developed Alzheimer's, fading away before dying, having completely lost themselves. I am livid.

Ah, so people have the choice not to take them if they think they'e unsafe? https://www.citizensjournal.us/covid-concentration-camps-for...

The data regarding their vaccine safety is all readily available and not kept secret? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/critics-outraged-by-fda-re...

The companies behind making these are legally accountable for damages if they do harm you, yes? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...

And these are reputable companies that we can trust? https://abcnews.go.com/Business/pfizer-fined-23-billion-ille...

I just picked Pfizer fro these examples, but please let me know if you want one for Johnson and Johnson (and I'll be happy to provide).

EDIT (The below quote is form the science based medicine blog post linked above).

> Dr. Mandrola is right that this trial was not large enough to fully “inform the safety of a vaccine that will be given to many millions”. It was too small to detect rare events, such as myocarditis from the vaccine or serious complications from the virus. However, only the largest trials can detect rare events, and the rarer the event, the larger the trial must be to detect it. The adult vaccine trials, which were about twenty-times larger than the adolescent trials, also did not detect rare events, such as blood clotting with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The inability to detect rare events is a fundamental limitation of clinical trials, not a flaw of this particular trial.

Rare events can usually be detected once a vaccine or medication is taken by large numbers of people. This is why post-marketing surveillance, called a phase IV trial, is so crucial. It’s a fact that no serious safety signal emerged during the trial. The authors were not only justified to report this finding, the data from their study required it. They didn’t claim that rare side effects would not emerge once millions of children received the vaccine.

All of this makes me wonder. Other than a trial that enrolled hundreds of thousands of adolescents, which would be required to meaningfully detect a rare event such as myocarditis, is there anything a trial could do so Dr. Mandrola wouldn’t feel he had to put “positive” in quotes? Did he make his objections known when the plans for the adolescent vaccine trial were announced or only after it was completed? Has he been similarly critical of other randomized-controlled trials, or is this the only trial he has singled out this way? As he does not feel someone getting COVID-19 is a “clinical outcome”, what would he call it? Why didn’t he inform his readers that the vaccine prevented COVID-19 in adolescents? Would he have been similarly silent had the vaccine been significantly less effective at preventing COVID-19? We can only guess.

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So basically, yeah these clinical trials aren't big enough to catch these side effects, but the motivations of any doctor pointing that out must be suspect!

Wait, we're using terrestrial telescopes for this? I would have assumed that satellite based ones would be favored for this kind of thing.

Daughter and I both had covid last week. Omicron is gonna get everyone. There's no way to flatten this curve. At least it had the decency to hit its peek in January, after full time workers got their sick time replenished for the year.

You're totally right. This article is garbage. It fails to do anything to identify the differences between ideologies or a meta framework by which we can evaluated them. It assumes all ideologies work at a group level, when emergence and applied meme theory would suggest that the individual carries the ideas (in the same way that evolution only acts on groups through the genes of individuals). Some ideologies spread parasitically, and other symbiotically, but this article makes no distinction between the two, or has any grasp of the underlying "hows" of ideology. It's pseudo intellectual clap trap for the "oh I'm so smart" person who dominates downvoting, simple coherent comments such as yours because they're not capable of identifying the simple flaws in this piece's rhetoric.

The number of people who will share when you appeal to woke ideology + those who will hate share in order to ridicule any such instance = more engagement.

So how is advocating for a system that removes all social pressures towards healthy lifestyles a fix or even improvement? You assume people are incapable of nuanced discussion, yet you appeal to a vague "it's complicated" approach that merely avoids the issues.

Some other people were taking advantage of work form home, and their slacking was pissing me off, so I looked. Then I got an offer which amounted to a 50% raise.

Every other alternative: Epic, Origin, Microsoft's shop, etc... is far far worse. Valve reinvests in core technology and open source development. Privately held companies (such as Valve) will always have hit pieces thrown at them, in the same way famous (but independently minded) celebrities will. Meanwhile publicly traded companies role out the PR campaigns (I recall an article posted here with Bill Gates talking about his dead dad, and so many users here lapped that propaganda fluff piece up).

I support Valve because they offer a great consumer experience and have made (and continue to make) PC gaming (on window, mac, and linux) a better experience. I certainly trust them more than EA or Blizzard in that regard. I vote with my dollar and they will continue to get it, so long as they continue to do good things deserving of my business.

Insider trading for EVERYONE! The market is already part scam part gambling. Let's give private business a shot by making publicly traded ones little more than a pyramid scheme.

The ministry of truth cries out in pain as they staple your mouth shut... to protect you of course.

So because I said that "the vaccines" themselves made the claims at immunity, you are interpreting that as false, based on the notion that the approval was not contingent on them providing immunity. This does not seem like a misunderstanding to me. It sounds like the painfully obvious interpretation of "Authority figures representing scientific institutions, with credentials, promoted these vaccines, claiming they would grant immunity." I think the only way you don't interpret it that was is if you are trying to obfuscate things (perhaps to yourself because recognizing corruption in scientific institutions is a direct attack to some people's egos and identities).

I respect that you are replying, (who cares about karma though? Internet brownie points are dumb). How is pushing vaccination under the auspices of achieving herd immunity NOT representing that these shots provide immunity? Goal post shifting by saying, "The US is not the whole world" does not answer that question.

Those evil nazis and their matinees! If Spiderman has the decency to wear a mask, then they should too! But really, I'd almost assume that was a sarcastic post you made... if it weren't that NOT conforming to a "papers please" mentality now got you labelled as a "nazi" by the good boys and girls who do what the authorities tell them.

Gotta get those economy numbers up before the delayed State of the Union address in March, in order to not lose horribly in the midte... oh perhaps I'm being too cyncial? Nah.

Wasn't sure which of these responses to shoot down, but prior to the definition change of what a vaccine was (which happened last year, well after the release of these "vaccines") that was precisely the definition. And all these claims now that no medical authority ever claimed the vaccines were going to make you immune... I understand that the "memory hole" is a real thing, but gosh, this is seriously not difficult to find:

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https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-herd-immu... > "If you have 75%–80% of the people get vaccinated, you create an umbrella of herd immunity — that even though there is virus around, it is really almost inconsequential because it has no place to go, because almost all of the people are protected," Fauci says.

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I mean they're even now just distorting the term "immunity" to mean something new, but still pushing it in relation to vaccines:

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220111/Third-dose-of-mRN...

At home taking care of my daughter. She has covid, and now so do I. I mean when this is all said and done, I will be what the vaccines (falsely) claimed they would make me: immune... at least to this variant... for a while. If it's endemic, mutates faster than even rushed through emergency medical interventions can stop, and is now so infectious that all our present restrictions aren't holding it back, then what is the point? Never mind discussions about the costs; where's the benefit in this cost benefit analysis?

tick talk watches exist largely for this reason, though it requires hardware per person (child), and isn't open source or cheap.