throwaway_2009

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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
This comment does not represent the reality I live in. Nice try.
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
Attendance dropped due to lockdowns and the fear campaign. I was there, remember? The pubs were rammed, Boris started saying "don't do X", numbers decreased a lot, he said "we make this legal now", the world stopped
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
Is universal healthcare important enough to cede control over what we put into our own bodies? That's the only important question. As far as I'm concerned the answer is definitionally no, and I live in the UK where we arguably hav
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
I've addressed this in my comment already. If we don't lock down and you break your leg, you may not get medical attention. So let's lock down so that it's impossible to break your leg. I'm totally happy to accept t
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
If you want to lockdown, you can lockdown, and now you are safe. You don't need others to do so, the virus does not travel through windows and walls. As such the stance is definitionally illogical which makes it flippant - it falls apa
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
I disagree. It is not possible because it is not possible to arrive at the stance via logic. If not for the marketing campaign; certainly if not for the "original sin" of Italy's lockdown; we wouldn't even be speaking ab
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
I disagree that there's an issue, saying that I "fail to grasp" it is needlessly insulting.
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
Right, the fancy delivery apps aren't even ten years old yet. You couldn't even pay by card at all until ~2010 in the UK, I'm sure the odd weird pizza shop might have allowed you to read out details over the phone...?
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
Er, basically every takeaway I've ever bought? Is this a joke? Come to mine and we'll get an Indian in? lol.
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
Right, except with an atomic transfer this is impossible. You can literally stand at the door, check that the food is there, done. The worst case is that the restaurant scams you and it's not good food. This happens far far less than t
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
This sort of thing is why I still use cash as much as possible. That way you have an atomic transfer. I get food, you get money. It could easily work with card, just pay on arrival and show the driver the payment confirmation. But that woul
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
150K in the UK have died of coronavirus, we have 67 million, that's 0.22%, and most of that was pre-vaccine. I can't really be bothered to trawl US stats, but I imagine the figures are about the same. Let's say it's 0.3%
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
I don't really think that reading news improves my life. In some cases it directly contradicts my lived experience and understanding (loosely it could be described as propaganda, but often it's just nonsense for clicks). In other
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
Lobby to change the rules because they're ridiculous, or develop a method that makes it impossible for them to get caught? It just makes no sense to me on the face of it. What do you do if they have a chat in the pub after work, bug th
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
In the UK and US about 0.2-0.3% of the population have died of this thing and we're almost certainly over the worst of it (e.g. annual death rates will be lower going forward) due to vaccination. It doesn't matter how many times p
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
The headline here reads a bit like "person takes mask off to eat a sandwich". Obviously people use messaging software with their colleagues. The correct solution is to design systems in which that isn't an issue. If you need
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
I am in a fairly similar situation. Your issue is simply that you must learn to relax, after spending most of your life grinding it can be challenging to simply... be. You worked your arse off for money. And now you have it. It's compl
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
Why do others need to adopt it? It's a useful tool regardless of how widely it's used. Would it become better if others used it as well?
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
The entire idea that there should be a narrative is the issue here. "Fact checkers" attempt to produce a coherent narrative and force one side to win out. But not all issues can be decided in that way.
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
I'm not sure it's really considered a moral failing here in the UK, everyone gets it unless they're barricaded inside. The official Government stats claim that over 15% have had a confirmed positive test at this point[1], I&#
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
[citation needed]
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
Your doctor is, indeed, simply a fact checker. A real one. Much as I and you, I assume, are fact checkers; we attempt to determine the veracity of information we encounter. Your doctor is not a "fact checker" in the newspeak meani
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
So they "mandate" a third dose, nothing happens long term, so they do a fourth lockdown, close some businesses again, do some travel bans, tell people to put things on their faces, nothing happens long term, so they "mandate&
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
"Fact checking" is newspeak for censorship. If the Telegraph controlled the "fact checker" the Guardian wouldn't exist. If the Guardian controlled the "fact checker", the Telegraph wouldn't exist. If
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
It is censorship free because I can send you a million bitcoin and no-one can stop us without physical force. The same is far from being true via other means such as the legacy banking system or cash. I mean, you can try and send a briefcas
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
I'm equating standing on little circles and walking in proscribed ways with docility, yes. They are not safety measures, they're some bizarre form of religious ritual / cargo cult like behaviour. Motorcycle riders don't
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
Nah, it's about censorship-free finance vs censorable finance. If not for AML, KYC and basically the fact you just can't really use cash any more in significant sums for anything we wouldn't have had to bother. I have 200,000
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
There's a big rise in, well, everyone asking everyone to do stuff. People keep asking me to stand inside little circles, put things on my face, walk in specific directions, etc. The more you acquiesce to silly stuff, the more it happen
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
The idea that a wholly vegetarian or vegan diet is healthier than sometimes eating meat is extremely questionable. It completely flies in the face of common sense and only really makes any headway at all due to the "everyone should do
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by throwaway_2009 5y ago
edit: after reading footnote 2 my comment seems completely superfluous, so meh. There definitely exists a group of people who see the endless pursuit of technology without consideration of its' effect as being the solution to all issue

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