dbsights

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by dbsights 2y ago
While they're at it, seperate out the social justice books from the science fiction, because I'm absolutely sick of it all. Hugo awards used to be a great way to source new, high-quality books, now it's just more activist slo
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by dbsights 2y ago
I think Fox News is just more honest about their bias than most; its certainly not true that CBC, CNN, etc. are unbiased lol. There is a distinct bias in wikipedia that is unavoidable if you happen to disagree with the NYT on a controversi
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by dbsights 3y ago
That's a good position to have on a new drug, actually.
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by dbsights 3y ago
Its also enough time for them to accept their body the way it is. Yet that doesn't appear to be what ever happens, why? Prior estimates were 90% would desist.. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fps
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by dbsights 3y ago
There's some crazy stat, that 98% of kids put on puberty blockers continue to cross-sex hormones. Which clearly tell you, whatever the puberty blockers are for, its not temporary and its not 'time to think'... https:/&
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by dbsights 3y ago
Agreed. When I was a kid, I would look for the award winners as a shortcut to find new books to read, but lately its been disappointment after disappointment. I don't feel like the winners reflect what I consider quality (e.g. I love
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by dbsights 3y ago
> wouldn't want to continue accumulating it as they know it's purely at the expense of other people > Therefore, having a billion dollars is a clear sign that millions of people have been exploited by that billionaire. When
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by dbsights 3y ago
Ok, but inflation is not cost-of-living and the CPI doesn't measure either of those directly. Its often convenient for government to conflate the two; cost-of-living is a very flexible concept and so there are lots of way to get an ans
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by dbsights 3y ago
And if the prices for good B go down, and people buy more of it, then it will be weighted more in the calculation. CPI is structurally biased to report lower inflation.
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by dbsights 3y ago
I think the portraits of the downvoters would fully explain this phenomenon
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by dbsights 3y ago
Are you Canadian? Even asking the question feels ridiculous: yes, absolutely. He shredded the Charter to fabricate a wedge (interior vaccine passports, firing civil servants) to win a few votes in the last election. This is absolutely in
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by dbsights 3y ago
I thought this was quite a good interview, summing the rational, skeptic position. https://youtu.be/l90FpjPGLBE?si=v8fwGFWT-yLPpKgC
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by dbsights 3y ago
that depends on the temperature.. Burn it hot enough and the result is water + co2, perfectly clean energy
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by dbsights 3y ago
Maybe there is no conspiracy and the note is just wrong. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...
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by dbsights 3y ago
"Capitalists aren't as bright as ppl think." As opposed to communists? Those paragons of intelligence? Funny how the solution to climate change (and covid, and inflation..) is always strict top-down control. Just eliminate
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by dbsights 3y ago
About that negative 18 degrees for equilibrium, does that take into account the heat radiating from within the earth as well? Radioactive decay, the core is quite hot.
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by dbsights 3y ago
Yes, they were defending in an urban area, but I think this matters less than you might expect. Russia's strategy was to saturate the Ukrainians with artillery, and they undoubtedly have superiority in this area. This kind of warfare
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by dbsights 3y ago
My guess: its a tactic designed to embolden the enemy and keep them committed to a failing strategy. Bakhmut was a meat grinder, but as long as the hope of victory could be kept alive in the Ukrainian army, they would keep sending their tro
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by dbsights 3y ago
The killer feature imo would be a forum with moderation that only moderates and doesn't censor. Right now Reddit is unusable if you have an opinion contrary to the hivemind. Go on any r/country or r/city and you would be as
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by dbsights 3y ago
Covid-19 is actually a great example. The spike protein was highly conserved until it became advantageous for it mutate to evade the highly-specific immunity created by mRNA vaccines. Then we got Omicron.
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by dbsights 3y ago
Stable across mutations? On what timeframe.. Its been stable so far. However, create a population with narrow immunity based on a single protein, and you create a selection pressure that incentivizes mutations in that protein. Once a succe
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by dbsights 3y ago
That doesn't really make sense. Target specifically, and it only takes a minor mutation to escape. A less-specific vaccine would create immunity against multiple targets, and would logically require more simultaneous mutations to crea
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by dbsights 4y ago
The cohort used for the study was overwhelmingly white and female (95%+ for both), so I think your first point is fair, its not possible to generalize to the population from this one study. That said, in these groups, that study did defini
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by dbsights 4y ago
I'm in favour of free speech, without censorship from government or private entities. Which is why I think censoring the laptop story was wrong. So tell me, how is that anti free speech?
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by dbsights 4y ago
Conspiring to suppress true information to influence an election seems worse.
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by dbsights 4y ago
> Associations were stronger in men younger than 40 years for all vaccines. In men younger than 40 years old, the number of excess myocarditis events per million people was higher after a second dose of mRNA-1273 than after a positive SA
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by dbsights 4y ago
The nonsense is that it's 'irrevocable', not that the lack of exposure leads to a debt. It's consistent with the headline.
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by dbsights 4y ago
For the average age at death to be above life expectancy, virtually everyone who died "of" covid must have been elderly. And because humans don't live that long, the numbers of elderly who died must massively exceed the numb
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by dbsights 4y ago
For covid: average age at death > average life expectancy. Really think about what that means. If we counted flu deaths like we counted COVID deaths (i.e. anyone testing positive who died, died of covid), you would have a similar, terri
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by dbsights 4y ago
Explain heartbeats?

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