dguaraglia

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by dguaraglia 5y ago
The only people whose mental health I'm really concerned about are those who are obsessed with trying to get rid of masks. If you are vaccinated and feel comfortable not using a mask, don't wear one. If you don't feel comfo
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
I love the magic of Hacker News: posting a reply agreeing with someone describing a problem? WELL, THAT'S A DOWNVOTE FOR YOU! This place sucks. I wish there was a way to delete my account.
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
Same
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
That's an oversimplification. The first thing to consider is that there's two types of masks: * N95 masks * Everything else We knew N95 masks worked because that's what professionals use in hospitals. Unfortunately, there was
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
As I explained in another post, originally the consensus was that only N95 masks were somewhat effective. There were no studies on the effectiveness of other masks. Recommending people use masks could've given people a false sense of
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
Oh, I knew. I was just pointing out that even in the scenario he described it didn't even approximate to what you describe as happening in Belgium (which to be clear, I completely believe).
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
So basically what you are saying is that you drew your conclusion back then - who knows based on what data - and you are so set in your ways, there’s nothing that will change your mind. Sounds like a super healthy way to approach life.
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
So, nothing like Belgium then, and exactly what I described: people being asked to wear a mask and not doing it. I don’t know the circumstances of the situation you mention, but it hardly qualifies as security theatre. Also, I doubt they sc
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
It's honestly been fascinating to watch the conspiracy world twist themselves into logical pretzels to fit their narrative to both reality and the political landscape. At some point, Alex Jones - who unfortunately is a weather vane for
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
There's almost a year between the time we originally went into lockdown to 'flatten the curve' and the time a significant part of the population got vaccinated. You can't pretend that not using a mask now - once someone
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
You are kind of proving my point by reading 'unless absolutely necessary' (meaning: they don't want to use a mask and they don't most of the time, except when there's a rule saying they should) as 'THEY TOTALLY
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
I have no idea what happens in Belgium, but nothing like that happens here in the US. They barely ask people to wear a goddamn mask, and they are all up in arms about it.
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
So you are salivating at the idea that businesses that cared for their employees' safety go under just because you disagree with them politically. Very nice.
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
This is such a bullshit strawman. Most of my friends are family are very liberal. Most of them are already vaccinated. Not a single one of them wants to wear a mask unless absolutely necessary and everyone is ready for this to be over.
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
You can't flatten the curve and then immediately throw away all caution and go back to the behavior that made the curve a geometric progression.
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
Meh, I understand your point, but as someone who follows the conspiratorial world passively, I can tell you the whole 'but they told you masks were useless' thing is a post-facto rationalization to gain some common ground with the
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
First, this is a straw man. Nobody is saying that the CDC's guidelines are infallible. They've been widely criticized for botching the Covid-19 crisis. Second, the difference between CIA, FBI and CDC is that usually when the CDC m
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
Would you have rather waited until hospital capacity was overwhelmed? Spikes in hospitalizations follow - like clockwork - spikes in contagion. By the time hospitals were overrun, that'd mean you'd be looking at another two or thr
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
I remember hating the idea when the PEP was at first accepted. I hated the thought of refactoring tools breaking, typos leading to empty replacements, etc. In reality, f-strings work really well and are super elegant. I'm a convert now
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
Arguably, the dominant OS nowadays is whatever your phone runs, plus whatever serves the websites you consume. Microsoft Office reigns unchallenged though.
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
Because propaganda works and Hollywood has been America's biggest cultural export?
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
So what you are against is rich people not paying the taxes they are supposed to be paying, not against 'higher taxes'. I used to think like you, until I realized that the people sinking millions of dollars in every electoral camp
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
Yeah, I guess I took it the wrong way. I still feel the OG's point about violence against animal is valid.
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
But... that’s actually a product of the industrialization of meat production. It’s like justifying climate change because ‘oh well, we’ve done until now so might as well keep going’. In reality people are OK with violence against animals be
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
That was, indeed, how cattle used to be raised back in the day, with maybe some grain added to their diet to make up for seasonality of plants (after all, cow eating is a year-round business). Nowadays, most cattle lives confined in a pen,
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
What you are missing is that Bison lived off whatever plants naturally grew in the land, and that their numbers declined and increased with the available food supply. The loss of natural habitat and biodiversity alone should be a cause for
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
Let's not overlook the fact that most cows raised in massive farms are fed a horrible diet and most beef based products - even raw beef - are also processed and have additives. I'm not saying that Beyond Burger is better or worse,
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
The cow that you ate today most likely lived its whole life in a cage no much bigger than its body, inside a huge facility reeking of feces and death and ate an atrocious diet, only to be killed at the perfectly calculated time to maximize
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
It all boils down to what benefit you get out of the ecosystem. One could make the same argument about buying a Apple devices or a Tesla, or even Le Creuset pans. And yet, all of those are highly successful businesses that built a loyal con
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by dguaraglia 5y ago
Yeah, well, all you need is a single baby to die to get a huge lawsuit so saying 'no one was even hurt' is hugely understating the problem here.

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