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Amd Twitter will be slammed in a bipartisan effort because everyone hates them equally, left and right.

Can't say I'll feel sorry when section 230 gets absolutely destroyed under Biden - these companies more than earned it.

This is what happens when you let extremists roam around with impunity for 9 months. Even if they were previously far-left, every action has a reaction of the same magnitude.

The sooner media and social media companies are held accountable for polarizing people on either end, the better for this country.

Very curious how monoclonal antibodies seem to be usable for a very wide range of applications.

I have been taking monoclonal antibodies every 2 weeks for more than a year now with Dupixent for atopic dermatitis. In my 30+ years on this earth only steroid creams ever worked to treat my eczema, that is until this monoclonal antibody treatment came along and for all intents and purposes completely cured me.

To know that a similar kind of treatment is used for covid is pretty mind boggling since both conditions have very little in common.

Infections are highly localized.

I live in NYC and know about 25 people who had covid, myself included, from pretty much every community.

Hi,

I am a LPR and applied for a GC for my spouse 1.5 years ago.

Our I-130 was approved last March, however NVC has never receive the file. It seems that USCIS just never transferred the file to NVC even after more than 4 months.

We have sent multiple requests to NVC Research, and recently made an Ombudsman request however this does not seem to help.

What are our options at that point if USCIS just holds our file hostage for no reason?

Thank you.

So because one of the "protesters" for BLM was literally holding a sign and going on live TV threatening to put fire to property, should we be equating all of BLM to that?

See how a strawman argument works?

This whole riots debacle being endorsed and justified by the media has done more for the cause of gun ownership that the NRA ever could.

I never ever considered owning a gun in my entire life, but I have one now and not afraid to use it if needed. Several friends have also done the same.

The debate for gun ownership is probably dead for 1 or 2 generations, and I do not want to see a single person blaming anyone about it when I was literally told by the police the other day that I am on my own during the night of looting in NYC.

So when we have notoriously violent neighborhoods, can we send all the social workers to spread love and friendship and solve the problem?.

If you believe police is not needed as a form of authority, you have been living in a privileged bubble for far too long. Travel, look around, and you will see the world is not as nice as you think it is.

Amen. I will never ever trust an expert's opinion again, and I know many others who are equally disgusted.

This is a sad day for science and these experts should be ashamed.

Wholeheartedly agree. I'm in my 30's with scientific education, but I will never take an "expert" opinion seriously after this.

Very sad to see science shoot itself in the foot in the name of dubious politics.

When I see health experts saying we can have groups of up to 12 people outside BUT protests up to 100 people, it really does not look good for the credibility of these experts.

Nobody denies that the pandemic is/was a real thing. But at that point it has been politicized ad nauseum and this is bad.

It will for sure have an impact on how much people trust experts, and general trust in experts was already bad before this. But now nobody should dare blame anyone for not believing an expert after the sham we have all seen.

Very sad that the pandemic has stopped being about science but moved to being about politics. Good luck getting compliance if there is, god forbid, a second wave or another more deadly virus in the future.

He only got it back because Elon Musk got involved and contacted Bezos directly. Check out Alex Bere son Twitter.

Coming from a country where police has been rendered completely toothless by the same policies some people in this country are trying to promote which led to literally lawless areas, I am completely against this movement that's currently for some reason trying to demonize cops.

I do not care if you're black, white, asian, gay, lesbian or anything - if you break the law, threaten a police officer, or simply ask completely irresponsibly around them, you should be punished appropriately.

What I DO agree with is perhaps greater transparency from the police. This is a problem that can be fixed. Anyone wishing to defund or even abolish the police clearly has lived a coddled life for way too long and doesn't know what happens when police can't do their jobs.

Be smart and don't let poisonous politics cloud your judgement - police are nowhere near as bad as some media would love to make you believe.

What is your evidence that children actually do transmit the virus efficiently?

I have seen multiple independent studies from different countries coming down with a very similar conclusion that children are not good vectors for this thing to spread.

I like Twitter, I really do. But Jack's statement make no sense.

If Twitter wants to step over its bounds as a platform, then it will absolutely be scrutinized as such.

What I find incredibly dishonest is that Twitter's head of "integrity" is a well-known troll who has on multiple occasions called Trump a nazi and more. How can we take their "integrity" seriously when it is led by someone with such an extreme political bias that there is no doubt this will impact what gets censored or not.

IMO this is not Twitter's role and a very slippery slope.

Not just per capita, but what we need to look at is the ratio of number of test done to number of positives.

Otherwise a country that does close to no testing might have the illusion of doing very well, just like a country doing tons of tests might have the illusion of doing very poorly (like the US, whose ratio of positive has been declining for 1.5 months but number of cases is rather flat due to ever increasing testing)

Of course, but we knew that weeks ago from various research studies.

This is why closing schools is an extremely poor idea. I suspect with the number of countries in Europe reopening schools, this will put pressure in the US on states still blindly refusing to do it despite all the facts.

Anecdotal evidence does not a trend make.

How about saying "Young, healthy people die of the flu every year"?

You have to look at trends. And it's been clear for a while that young, healthy people have a risk fo dying from covid trending towards zero in most (all?) countries.

I'm not sure how you go from this documentary selling out, to foreign occupation.

You may dislike the current administration but they were elected democratically within the process set forth by the United States. If Joe Biden is elected next Nov the same way I have no doubts the "other side" will just accept it the same way. That's how democracy works. So again things like civil war, fascism, I just don't see it.

We'll be fine. And it's certainly this documentary selling out that will bring forth the downfall of our civilization.

I can't think of anyone in my office who wants to permanently work from home.

We talk about it every week, and it's become clear that everyone is looking forward to the day where offices reopen.

I really don't see this trend of people relocating. And for those considering it, once they are made aware that salaries will scale with location it's probably going to be a strong enough deterrent.

I've seen at least 6 or 7 research studies coming to the same conclusion that vitamin D deficiency leads to more severe outcome. It's not just from a random channel.

I work in FAANG and I am really not convinced this is the start of a trend.

First Twitter was already moving towards permanent WFH before the pandemic, it only accelerated their plans. I highly doubt (m)any other companies were also seriously considering that move before the pandemic.

Second, working in a remote only team is very different from working in an office, or even from occasionally working from home. I have seen the best managers get completely clueless when managing full remote people.

Third you lose a lot of things by going full remote. You can no longer have hallway conversations, sharing new ideas over lunch, trying to pitch new ideas organically. You lose a lot of spontaneity by going full remote, which I fully expect to impact innovation potential. Some of the best ideas in my group are things that came up from organic conversations that we have been productizing.

Fourth has to do with company culture. I can't speak for every company, but I know that at my company there is a very clear favoring people local to where the HQ is located, probably at least in part for the reasons above. I don't see that changing easily. East coast to West coast in the same team means you have 3 hours a day where you can't have your whole team available at the same time.

What I expect to happen is most likely much greater flexibility for companies that were not open about it before, but full time remote for everyone seems like a huge stretch even over several years.

There are recent research papers supporting that theory, and lowering the threshold for herd immunity much lower to 30-40%

If that is the case then places like NYC are probably pretty close.

I can understand. I had it and got tested positive for antibodies recently.

I had symptoms but it honestly was more like a mild flu.

So please stop your fear mongering and holier than thou attitude, just because you had it and it was bad doesn't mean that everyone will be the same. In fact serological studies prove that the overwhelming majority barely have any symptoms, and of those who do even fewer develop into a severe illness.

People seem to forget that in this area of the world, the yearly season for corona viruses starts in June... Same for Australia.

So unless they can maintain this type of lockdown for the next 6 months, they will see a resurgence, just as they see every year corona viruses spread starting in June.

A lot probably has to do with temperature and general climate.

I ironically think that Europe and US east coast may be in the best position, they went through hell and some of their areas are probably very close to herd immunity.