longhairedhippy

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by longhairedhippy 4y ago
+1 on this, folks with just enough experience to have strong, yet naive, opinions is the bane of my existence. It is almost akin to a religious discussion, whereas folks will back up their suppositions with blind faith and defend those view
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by longhairedhippy 4y ago
I have realized that a really good open world video game with lots of replay value has an amazing value. $60 at 200 hours of gameplay works out to $0.30/hour, which I am struggling to find anything else I am interested in that has a si
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by longhairedhippy 4y ago
So this is total anecdata but I have never been assaulted by someone that was stoned, and never seen someone become sexually aggressive or belligerent when stoned. I'm sure they exist, however those type of folks seem to be much less f
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by longhairedhippy 4y ago
Except for the fact that the Fed increasing the US money supply by 45% in 2 years was the cause of the inflation.
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by longhairedhippy 4y ago
If only it was the UBI and not the Fed increasing the money supply by 45% in 2 years that caused the inflation.
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by longhairedhippy 4y ago
It's not the checks that caused the inflation, it was the Fed increasing the money supply by 45% over 2 years.
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by longhairedhippy 4y ago
I don't think it was the stimulus checks and unemployment benefits but the Fed increasing the US money supply by more than 45% in 2 years.
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by longhairedhippy 4y ago
This is the real reason, why worry about people/orgs that don't have money? Plus, can you imagine blast radius of a bug in the system that could get a bad signal and shutdown your entire infrastructure? As a rule, I always try to
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
The real reason is us-east-1 was the first and by far the biggest region, the same reason that new services always launch there but other regions are are not necessarily required (some services have to launch in every region). The us-east-1
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
I agree with your sentiment but some of the quotes in the article from internal Google memos look pretty damning. One of interest says their "Jedi" advertising program, which was meant to subvert legitimate ad competition from oth
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
> In terms of time, these vaccines very much have not been fully vetted in the same manner as any other vaccine. This is a tired, out-dated argument, all 3 vaccines in distribution in the US have been fully vetted and passed all tests, t
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
As many folks as we have dog piling onto "vax bad" train, there is no shortage of people with incentive to dig in here. The fact the vaccine has been fully vetted in the same manner as any other vaccine seems to be lost on most fo
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
Much more nuance that the original post, makes sense. I don't think you conveyed this in the original comment, which I conflated with effectively "They keep changing what they say, therefore they are lying, therefore I am not gett
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here, it doesn't seem relevant to my comment. My point is that using the fact that science changes as new information comes in, thus the answer science gave us yesterday may be di
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
Adenovirus vaccines have been in use since the 70s.
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
> What does say about your WW2 mortality claim then? That statement doesn't even make sense. I'm refuting you statement that folks are not dying of COVID, their dying with COVID. It's just not true, if that were the case,
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
Science changes as new information becomes available, that's why it's so great, it's self-correcting on a long enough timescale. If you want a 100% verifiable, stake-your-life-on-it-this-will-never-ever-change, answer, scienc
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
I would venture a guess that some of that is due to the people sticking spoons to their faces, saying they were magnetized by the vaccine. Do we really need to give those people a platform? While we are walking a fine line here, people have
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
Seems like you owned yourself. By your own statement "But you can't prove this because we can't go back in time and run to separate Earths". Right now in the US, we don't have an answer to either question because of
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
I agree with the sentiment, however it does not appear folks are putting actual science forward in their arguments. How do you rank people sticking spoons to their face and saying the vaccine magnetized them alongside serious discourse? The
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
"Think of the children!" one of my favorite ways to see people trying to get out of an argument. Who could possibly argue for wanting to hurt children! I would love some citations here, as this seems to be the exact type of misinf
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
Adenovirus vaccines have been in use since the 70s.
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
> Age standardized mortality rate (that is, accounts for an increasingly old population) is at 2008 levels in the UK. This doesn't account the total lack of treatment early on, patients were denied anti-inflammatory medicine and put
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
I would be completely shocked if your "personal risk assessment" is accurate. There is no clear indications on which folks will get long COVID, "age, health status, lifestyle, and so on" are generalizations not absolutes
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
Have you watched Tucker Carlson? I would be pleased if they charged the man with murder after this is all over. Do you think it's odd he won't answer questions about his own vaccination status?
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
I call bullshit here. If you're that worried, get the J&J vaccine, it's just like all the others. Multiple orders of magnitude more people have died or come down with long haul COVID versus had these side effects so the argume
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
I would treat Democrats that refused a vaccination because it was Trump's FDA with the same disdain. The fact that this issue is divisive along political lines is what is so damn infuriating. This is science people, one of the few thin
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
I hate to be pedantic but the poll you reference was in 2020 and Trump said that in May of 2021. I don't think it had a measurable effect on either party.
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
I agree, however how do you deal with folks knowingly spreading misinformation for financial gain? Most of the "sources" have an active interest in having people listen to them and will say anything that will get more people to tu
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by longhairedhippy 5y ago
If only vaccine mandates were a new thing... I remember having to provide vaccine proof to get my kids into public school, when enrolling them into college. How is this a new thing? Why is it such a big deal now? Why are these people kickin

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