deathgrips

The 1st amendment isn't the issue here. The issue is Facebook pretending to be a publisher when it is in fact much more like a newspaper editor. You don't get to run a private company with unparalleled influence over US politics and not play by the rules of other media companies.

If you take an anti-depressant pill everyday and it solves your problem, why is that bad? Are you hostile to medication in general?

Proxy wars and spying kills less people than world wars. It's objectively better.

He should have picked Fastly or Applifi instead

>they could have given it to him for a short time to at least allow him to sadly speak in front of the German government

Do normal people in Germany actually care about privacy? Do they take basic steps to protect their privacy?

How many people died in WW2 vs all wars after WW2?

Instead it should have one dysfunctional government :)

Psychopaths often excuse their behavior by saying that if they don't take advantage of others, someone else will do it instead.

Why do you think that?

No. The job of a parent is to raise a child so they can know what's best for themselves and be able to handle problems without you. Most adults think with little evidence that they know what's best for their child. I've talked to many adults who think that their child should go to Harvard, or should go into a trade school, or shouldn't hang out with risk-taking friends, or shouldn't be gay, or should go to church. Outside of the very obvious situations where immediate safety is at risk, I don't see the evidence that most parents know what's best for their child. It's just arrogance. You should be trying to raise a capable adult rather than be protecting a foolish child for 18 years.

This is also the primary motivation in censorship, from social media companies to authoritarian regimes. You believe that you know better and must censor wrong information so that stupid people don't consume it and get hurt because of it.

All the bad parts of San Francisco with none of the redeeming qualities.

Sounds about right. You'd have to pay me at least $150k extra before I'd consider living in the 8th circle of Hell, Spokane.

Cultural genocide is genocide as defined by the UN.

No one cares, it's the concept that matters. This is on the same tier as saying "haha hey buddy looks like you typed 'there' instead of 'their' haha #rekt".

Without the Mongols no one would have discovered the new world to this day?

>The most similar is definitely Italian

Funny how even though I'm fluent in Latin and can understand a third of spoken Spanish (having never studied Spanish), I can barely understand 10% of Italian regardless of the accent I'm listening to or which city the speaker is from. It's also funny that several other fluent Latin speakers (and some professors) I've talked to agree about this.

>Also, you're referring to "cives romani" and obviously a person that didn't live in the city of Rome wasn't a roman.

No, not obviously. Romans thought of themselves as a separate ethnicity with a distinct language, culture, and religion from Italians. They are descended from a distinct tribe that settled the city. A Roman family who had lived in Gaul for generations would still be called Roman. An Italian family who had lived in Roma would still be called Italians and cives Romani. Romans settled throughout their conquered territory, which included Italy, Hispania, Britannia, and Gaul. Like it or not, those regions have as much demonstrable Roman blood as modern day Italians whom are mostly descended from Italic tribes, not from Romans.

>it's not my job to educate you

Thank heavens my education of the Latin language and Roman history doesn't depend on you.

> people under 50 mingling with each other are deadly threats to people over 50

This is why those at risk of death should self-isolate.

>the chance of suffering serious damage to lungs and other internal organs that takes months to recover is a bit higher

Do you know where I can find the statistics for the risk of permanent lung scarring by age, or something approximating this? This is something I hadn't considered but would like to explore more.

>The chance of dying for everyone goes up several times if the medical system gets DDoSed by COVID patients

It's almost entirely getting DDoSed by old people.

>employers can no longer fire people who wanted to protect themselves

Employers are firing everyone. We're hitting some of the highest unemployment levels in American history. This is a moot point.

I'd like to remind people that the pandemic does not significantly increase the risk of death for healthy people under 50. It makes little sense to force young people to stay at home and get fired when the healthy are at little risk of dying and such a lockdown will not completely eliminate a pandemic.

The CDC wasn't circulating the same facts that South Korea and Singapore were dealing with. Do you remember what Asia was doing in February? The CDC basically created this disaster. We could have shut down air traffic, told the public to use masks in February, and allowed universities and private labs to conduct testing. Instead the CDC lied.

Really cool, thanks for the link!

>The right choice was shutting things down . . . You know full well much of the rest of the executive didn't show remotely as much competence as the CDC about the disease itself for months despite being repeatedly warned even after the outbreak had already occurred

This is some "we have always been at war with Eastasia" doublethink. The CDC told people for a long, long time that masks were harmful and using them was stupid. The CDC shut down private and university covid19 testing in Washington.

> and now you're lashing out at the CDC for not having predicted when the first side effects would start to occur in some cities within 1 day of when you heard the news?

Ask your doctor if job loss and isolation from friends and family is a risk factor for suicide. I talked to a doctor back in early March who predicted that more people would die from suicides than from covid19.

>You say that as if we've known this since January or something

Yes, who could have possibly known about covid19 in January? [0]

>and as if you have inside knowledge of what those people are investigating right now. Do you? The news on this has just come out. Maybe give them a chance to react before judging?

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that forcing people to stay at home, to socially distance themselves from their social support network, and to quit earning a living would have a significant impact on their mental health and a dangerous impact on the mental health of those with mood disorders. Every doctor has been educated on mental illnesses. The CDC had chances to make the right choices in January. It had chances to make the right choices in February. It had chances to make the right choices in March. How long until you think we can judge the CDC?

[0] (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testin...)

>"We all share a concern for the health of our community whether that is COVID-19, mental health, intentional violence or other issues. We continue to actively work with our Behavioral Health Center, County Health and community organizations to increase awareness of mental health issues and provide resources to anyone in need. If you are in a crisis and need help immediately, please call 211 or 800-833-2900 or text 'HOPE' to 20121 now. We are all in this together, and ask the community to please reach out to anyone who you think might be in need during this challenging time. Thank you."

Translation: we will do nothing to help you after isolating you from your support networks. Call us when you want to kill yourself.

It's not really a paradox because it's understood. Isolation signals to your body that you are being excluded from your tribe or low on the social ladder, which means your world is now more threatening than it used to be, so you need to use more energy to be hyper-vigilant and responsive to stressors.

No one in the CDC or state health departments seem to be taking this into account. They're only optimizing for one variable: number of infected and number of covid19 deaths.

At what point are more people killing themselves than are getting saved by quarantine orders? No one is seriously making this calculation.

>Without the mongols, we don't have the italian renaissance and modern europe and without modern europe we don't have modern civilization. The empire created by the mongols is why marco polo went east. It's also why christopher columbus set sail. Without the mongols, we don't have the new world.

I'll take whig historiography for $500, Alex.

>Our language is also the closest to the type of Latin romans spoke during the empire (which itself evolved).

Wrong. Modern Galician is the closest extant language to Latin, the next closest being Spanish.

Romans fought wars against Italians for centuries, who after being conquered were regarded as allies, then as citizens, but never as Romans. The French and Germans have just as much Roman in their blood as the Italians.

Romans would have felt insulted at your insinuation.