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Comment Re:Life/Work Balance (Score 1) 200

"Working with classified materials? You are at a workplace. Working with hardware? You are at a workplace. Working with physical humans?"

At least 2/3 of these are untrue. I've worked on SCI programs from home before. I've worked with hardware remotely; either I log into it or have it shipped to me.

Comment Re:It's more than just "predatory acquisitions" (Score 1) 206

"What happens is that consumers get subsidized initially, and get a false idea of the real cost of new services. When prices inevitably go up, that's seen as enshitification when it's more like the law of gravity"

This is the correct take.

"Avoiding enshittification" is just another way of saying "mommy government please subsidize things so I can buy them below cost".

Comment Re: I think opinion vs fact needs to be distinguis (Score 2, Insightful) 271

lol

Your post on supporting Ukraine gets people killed. Youâ(TM)re censored.

Your post on supporting Russia gets people killed. Youâ(TM)re censored.

People so easily fall for what you did

Better that these things are fought in the marketplace of ideas before you have to fight them kinetically.

Also if you censor Nazis then they gain power the censorship machine you built gets turned against you

I engage with lots of Nazis, there is some really interesting history I learned that I wouldnâ(TM)t have otherwise

Comment Re: Grabs bucket of popcorn (Score 1) 274

> ROFL they are egregious high profile examples of how the numbers were inflated and used to fear monger. Just saying that in aggregate they are under the margin of error is a baseless cope that you made up. You know this but continue to spread bullshit.

You don't know shit. Refrigeration semis backed up to the hospitals to hold the dead and people dying in the hallways were marked as covid, without a test, but only if there were significant reasons to believe that contributed to the death.

You're a waste of oxygen and a terrible excuse for a person... which I'm starting to doubt. How's putin's anus taste? I'd call you an asshat, but you're wearing someone else's ass.

"Unknown causes" during covid showed that, if anything, covid deaths were vastly underreported. How about that? A scholarly journal article full of the opposite of the shit coming out of your mouth.

We estimated COVID-19 unrecognized attributable deaths, from March 2020—April 2021, using all-cause deaths reported to NVSS by week and six age groups (0–17, 18–49, 50–64, 65–74, 75–84, and 85 years) for 50 states, New York City, and the District of Columbia using a linear time series regression model. Reported COVID-19 deaths were subtracted from all-cause deaths before applying the model. Weekly expected deaths, assuming no SARS-CoV-2 circulation and predicted all-cause deaths using SARS-CoV-2 weekly percent positive as a covariate were modelled by age group and including state as a random intercept. COVID-19–attributable unrecognized deaths were calculated for each state and age group by subtracting the expected all-cause deaths from the predicted deaths.
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We estimated that 766,611 deaths attributable to COVID-19 occurred in the United States from March 8, 2020—May 29, 2021. Of these, 184,477 (24%) deaths were not documented on death certificates.

Comment Re: Grabs bucket of popcorn (Score 1) 274

> Most of it was older unhealthy people.

And the rest were older, very healthy people made unhealthy by a virus.

> We locker down the entire country instead of just telling old people to stay home

In this case, "older people" is over 45 and comprised a significant amount of the workforce. Whining that you can't go to a movie because you don't care about the massive deaths from "older sickly people" is you in a nutshell. Not a monster yourself, but you clearly have followed fucking monsters in the past few years.

Comment Re: Masks are effective... (Score 1) 501

Wearing a mask to prevent harm in himself and others, is like wearing a super effective seatbelt. He's not wearing a seatbelt out of fear, but out of responsibility. You should look up the meaning of this "projection" word that escapes your vocabulary.

And smelling a gas through a mask, which masks do not remove, is different than a particle, which masks are designed to remove. Nice straw man, but fortunately people here are generally smart enough to laugh at you. Yeah, that's how dumb what you just said is. We are laughing.

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