sjwalter

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by sjwalter 4y ago
There was not a second of doubt that the emails were legitimate. Here's proof: the Biden campaign and Hunter himself never denied they were real. As well, while nobody in the mainstream bothered calling any of the people in the emails,
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by sjwalter 4y ago
What about the hundreds of pics of Hunter smoking crack in a bathrobe? What about the emails wherein Hunter describes in some detail his influence peddling operation? "10% for the big guy." Everyone focusing on Hunter's nudes
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Asymptomatic spread is not nearly as prevalent as originally feared. Also, those who do not get symptoms (that is, most who catch covid) do not spread the virus in general, which is why it's now called "presymptomatic" spread
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by sjwalter 5y ago
> Yes the vaccine does improve outcomes BUT the hospitalization rate for unvaccinated people is still lower with Omicron than previous variants. Why "BUT"? Shouldn't the second part be, uh, a good thing?
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by sjwalter 5y ago
There always are. Average hospital staffing and resource levels mean at its minimum ICUs are at ~78% capacity. Come low vitamin-D season, January or February, most ICUs hit capacity every year. Google doesn't run its data centers at 5%
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by sjwalter 5y ago
> I am in no way saying masks don't work, in fact I think that they do. This is still so hilarious to me. It's pretty obvious that some masks work, that is, n95 or whatever actual respirator masks. It's pretty obvious tha
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Sure, but hospitals are run at a level to hit peak capacity at the point when vitamin D deficiency peaks. Here's LA County using overflow tents in 2018 because the flu season was particularly bad: https://www.latimes.com&#x2
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Wild. Here I am thankful that Montana recently reduced regulations and made it so small dairies can supply raw milk directly to customers without any inspection from a state or federal agency, so now my family drinks local, fresh, raw milk
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Can you explain what you mean with the German milk market? You can't buy fresh milk anymore?
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I never said violence. It's like this: I'm originally from Ontario. Every year, a few drunk teenagers drown while boating. It's a big tragedy, and I'd hate it if it happened to my kids. Now, Ontario's politicians re
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by sjwalter 5y ago
> This will mean more ... One thing particularly strange about climate change alarmists is that they are just so damn sure of all these horrible outcomes that are absolutely sure to happen. You're forecasting, dude. You don't h
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I think that's part of the problem. I think we're already living in incredibly safe times, and a focus on even more safety and security is what's causing some good chunk of the malaise we're all experiencing. I want my k
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Matt Taibi was on Joe Rogan a few days ago and during the interview Joe related a story about one of his Israeli friends. Joe went over to his friend's home for dinner, and hung out with his family, and the entire time the friend and h
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by sjwalter 5y ago
> Humans also generally agree that progressive taxation is a good idea. Fairly bold assertion. I'd say most humans don't even really know what progressive taxation means. > Rich people should pay more to fund the government.
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by sjwalter 5y ago
One of the tricks Robert Moses had when he was basically building modern NYC was he had on staff a top-notch crew capable of the end-to-end implementation of whatever project proposal he came up with. Designers, engineers, project managers,
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by sjwalter 5y ago
And omicron arose in vaccinated people and traveled the world in the respiratory tracts of the fully vaxxed.
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by sjwalter 5y ago
They're only arbitrary and pointless if you believe the goal is public health. Imagine seeing what's going on in eg Australia and still thinking this is about a virus!
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Why does vaccine-based immunity lack the durability of natural immunity?
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by sjwalter 5y ago
So that's not quite true. The CDC provides the estimate you're talking about which is what my post originally cites (~146mm Americans infected). That's their estimate based on the much smaller number of positive tests and hos
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by sjwalter 5y ago
A bit under half of Americans have already caught covid. Even without vaccines, that means nearly half of Americans already have natural immunity which is vastly superior to vaccine immunity. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus&
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by sjwalter 5y ago
The doctors here in Montana I've talked to about it are not exactly advertising it but are unvaccinated and have recommended to me to avoid the vaccine and one intimated it's insane to vaccinate children. So that's not the ca
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by sjwalter 5y ago
So silly. "Comply with us or you lose your job" is only semantics away from "forced". Especially galling since: a) Many frontline workers have superior natural immunity anyway. b) We're in a pandemic and this nuclea
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Uh, wat? Every single study done on the topic shows that natural immunity (not innate immunity) is vastly superior and more durable and more robust than vaccine immunity. Here's a study from the prestigious publication Cell: https:&#x
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by sjwalter 5y ago
This case in Butte is somewhat better than usual because BP is actually footing the remediation bill. More typical is having the taxpayers foot the bill, like with the fascinating example of Giant Mine, 5km outside of Yellowknife, the capit
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Depends on the animals. My cows are fed exclusively grass, right to finishing. My pigs and chickens are fed mixes of locally-sourced corn, oats, barley, peas, and lentils from organic growers. And they supplement with grasses and broadleafs
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by sjwalter 5y ago
When have factories ever made healthful food?
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by sjwalter 5y ago
How many animals does a 30 acre soy field kill? Have you ever seen how many foals are chewed up in a combine? IMO much more ethical to directly kill an animal vs. indirectly destroy its habitat or kill it accidentally (and then fail to use
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by sjwalter 5y ago
This is one of the problems with the mainstream obsession about climate change. The environmental destruction wrought by gigantic, inhumanely scaled monocrop farming is direct, immediate, obvious, and worthy of huge mobilization to resolve.
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I've tried it. It doesn't taste terrible. It's clearly not meat, however. I'm biased (chicken farmer), but to me it seems quite strange to think that some highly-processed factory-produced meatlike substance could ever c
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Do you see much difference between a fairly porous policy surrounding well-understood, olden vaccines and k-12 education and requiring a novel vaccine in order to engage meaningfully in public life at all? So weird that folks seem to think

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