spazrunaway

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by spazrunaway 4y ago
We do punish mechanics and airlines who cause crashes through financially-motivated negligence, though.
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
I did an overnight oximetry test for that a few months ago, it was apparently fine.
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
I had a similar situation, and definitely had anxiety, but I absolutely do not believe that explains everything. I had a temperature of 99.5-100.5 for several months after having "recovered" from covid, and none of my doctors beli
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
Prions are basically immortal. https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/06/researchers-make-surp... "...in 1985 when the Colorado Division of Wildlife tried to eliminate CWD from a research facility by treating th
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
What's the risk of contact with bats outdoors? I often go for twilight walks and see them flying from tree to tree. But I sometimes wonder if a rabid one could swoop by, scrape me with its teeth, and I'd never even know. Maybe
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
You're comparing completely different statistics. The 3% is the infection hospitalization rate; in other words, the odds of being hospitalized once infected. The rates from your source are the total number of people per 100k who are
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
Data shows that being vaccinated divides your odds of dying and being hospitalized from covid by about 10. There's no evidence I'm aware of showing that the vaccines create additional risk anywhere close to outweighing that benef
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
I'm guessing they didn't damage your organs, though.
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
I'm excited to hear the results of the pill among the vaccinated. Cutting the risk of severe symptoms among high-risk vaccinated people, and the risk of long covid for everyone is very important. The vaccines are great, but not silver
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
No, they're pro-vax because they observe that it's the socially and professionally high-status position to take.
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
What can the United States really do? They produce 15% of global CO2 emissions. China produces 30%, and is building new coal plants every year. Its coal consumption has tripled since 2000. Aside from Japan, Russia, and India, no other s
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
You still haven't provided a source.
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
Source? It doesn't seem to be true for homicide. The US white rate is consistently between 3-4 per 100k, and the UK black rate is often above 5 per 100k. Either way, all this proves is that the UK is overall a safer country than the
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
Citation badly needed. https://news.sky.com/story/amp/black-murder-victims-and-susp... 3% of the population and 13% of the murders in the UK. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
From your source: "Judging from exonerations, innocent black people are about seven times more likely to be convicted of murder than innocent white people. A major cause of the high number of black murder exonerations is the high hom
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
>Regardless, any system by which 8 percent of adult black men are in prison clearly has bigger problems Agreed. Any chance they're committing more crimes? Or over half of all murders? We can control for poverty, which has been fou
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
I'd love to lock them up too.
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
Yes. >The entire system is built around punishing people for the rest of their lives, after having placed them in facilities with a social structure that encourages repeated issues. The problem is, we're not doing that anymore, and
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
Because an enormous swath of its population is dangerous, unfortunately. The only way in recent history the US managed to lower its violent crime rate was by locking up more people via the 1994 crime bill, which is now panned as "raci
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
I'd rather all the people gaslighting the public by saying the vaccines are completely safe, totally worth any risk, "trust the experts", etc - when in reality young people seem to have a better chance of dying from CVT than
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
Put your life on the line for the community, comrade! And sign away your right to legal recourse should you die as a result. You're on your own! You owe the community your life, and the community owes you nothing!
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
Yes. We need a hell of a lot less destructive criticism that leads to war.
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
What a mistake this all was.
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
The problem is that it's very difficult to target trans people for being sucky without being accused of the former.
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by spazrunaway 5y ago
Conspiracy theorist. Trust the science! /s
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by spazrunaway 6y ago
Extremism is relative. The opinions of an average American in 2008 would be labelled "far-right" today (see: opposition to gay marriage, transgenderism, support for colorblindness, I could go on). Sooner or later, people will se
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by spazrunaway 6y ago
> "the traveling faster than light means information about an event can be received before the event happens from the perspective of the observer" Why is that a problem? So let's say I'm on the moon and you're o
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by spazrunaway 6y ago
I've never seen this explained in a way that made any sense to me, ELI5?