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Cocaine Bear posted:Don't do it, Angela! I'm pretty sure that Merkel won't be doing it because she has been out of office and retired for several years at this point.
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Content to Hover posted:I shall henceforth refer to the Flynn effect as bigbrainification, I honestly think Jim would have appreciated it. I listened to a few podcasts that Flynn guested on and I'm pretty sure he would have.
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That mean undergraduate student should get a serious talk about bullying, whoever they are
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Bird in a Blender posted:Can't tell if that is sarcasm or stupidity. TBH I've only seen this post quoted so not sure who the author is and what she thinks. So it could be sarcasm, but having seen The Expanse, I think the themes are integrated well enough into the story that they can fly under the radar. Considering that people missed the point of Robocop or Starship Troopers, which couldn't possibly be more in your face, there got to be millions of chuds out there not getting it either.
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The person seems to have missed that a woman of color is a lead character, so either it's a joke or they don't even understand what being woke or not means
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haveblue posted:The person seems to have missed that a woman of color is a lead character, so either it's a joke or they don't even understand what being woke or not means It's okay because she's the straight love intrest of the lead.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Here's one: of course they have a line up featuring EVERY COLOR. TOKENISM! WOKE CRAP!
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Scratch Monkey posted:of course they have a line up featuring EVERY COLOR. TOKENISM! WOKE CRAP! And is that a rainbow? They've turned my TV gay!
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haveblue posted:And is that a rainbow? They've turned my TV gay! Nah it's fine, that's the conservative approved straight rainbow, for when, for what ever reason you need to include a rainbow of colours in something . Ideal you should just not include a rainbow at all, but sometimes it is unavoidable (Despite decades of research conservatives have yet to be able to stop nature making them). So that people will not be confused into think you are purposefully including the woke gay rainbow in your work all vibrant colours have been removed.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:It's okay because she's the straight love intrest of the lead. It's really not ok. All of my conservative relatives enjoy the expanse, but they will always add some side comment about "but I don't really care for that woman".
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PittTheElder posted:Lol how hard do they relate to James "I am profoundly boring" Holden God, he's really just the worst
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 Nice to see two people who both completely pissed away their reputations having a meeting of the minds like this.
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Rebel Blob posted:Nice to see two people who both completely pissed away their reputations having a meeting of the minds like this. Silver seems right, Musk seems like a baby who doesn't understand Genocide or how people make family decisions. zoux posted:Holden's great because everyone on the show thinks he's the worst too. You can just imagine any Earth or Mars government briefing opening "So James Holden.." and the entire room of bureaucrats audibly groaning. <Holden_glaring_slight_frown.png>
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StumblyWumbly posted:Do we hate Silver now? I thought he was just a good statistician? 
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cat botherer posted:He started doing punditry, leading to this situation: It's a funny thing how he gave Trump a better chance than any of the other major predictors, but it was still under 50% so he became the primary laughing stock to people who were so sure she would win that they treated the 2016 general season as a referendum on what should happen after her inevitable victory.
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StumblyWumbly posted:Do we hate Silver now? I thought he was just a good statistician? Silver is also a conspiracy theorist that argues to this day against actual virologists and epidemiologists that COVID was lab-created, and that they privately know the truth but are lying to the public. He likes to pick academic/journalistic fights that expose his ignorance and unwarranted self-confidence in fields outside his expertise, but those incidents are too convoluted to easily post. https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1739696892362002442 https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1630330690469330946 https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1740203415907758317 Nate Silver's Blog posted:However, I have also become more estranged from what you might call the progressive political class over the past several years. One reason is that this class has rapidly become more left and less liberal — compare the Democratic presidential platforms of 2020, which began with a land acknowledgment, with Obama’s in 2012, which began by talking about the American Dream. I also strongly disagree with the left’s elevation of “misinformation” as a category of concern over free speech. Nate Silver's Blog posted:So what was the reaction from SJLs after an anti-Semitic terrorist attack that killed thousands of Jews? Well, there certainly wasn’t much sympathy. Instead, we got Harvard students defending Hamas. We got people tearing down portraits of hostages, hanging Palestinian flags on menorahs and polls showing an alarming rise in Holocaust denial among young people. Have some other stupid takes: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1478138124425482240 https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1188563803174137856 https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1740893598491746754
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At this point I honestly have no idea where Covid originated. Last I heard different governments agencies were publishing differing reports, and I didn’t care to try to parse it out.
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Folks could have used Covid to encourage China to be more open by digging into records to look for evidence of accidental lab leakage (ie from testing naturally mutated flus without proper safeguards) or digging into their potential underreporting of Covid, which may have delayed initial response (This may have been done but its been buried under other junk). But how do you have a good investigation when a world leader has openly made up their mind about what the result is? How much extra time does a journalist need to spend evaluating evidence when people are fabricating poo poo to support their China hate? Nate sounds extremely dense, he's essentially saying "Lets just calmly explain the facts to Anti-vaxxers", which is not a great way to be productive.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:At this point I honestly have no idea where Covid originated. Last I heard different governments agencies were publishing differing reports, and I didn’t care to try to parse it out. I thought it was still through to of most likely to over originated from a wet market in china? I haven't read up on it for quite a while, but asian wet markets were always known to be a high risk for new flu like viruses, and seems to of started spreading from around one, so 
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StumblyWumbly posted:Folks could have used Covid to encourage China to be more open by digging into records to look for evidence of accidental lab leakage (ie from testing naturally mutated flus without proper safeguards) or digging into their potential underreporting of Covid, which may have delayed initial response (This may have been done but its been buried under other junk). Nah, China covers up EVERYTHING that makes them look bad, even slightly. For example, some bridge collapsed due to lovely construction, and they put barriers up around everywhere to prevent people seeing and taking pics of it. Another was a roof collapsed at a school gym killing a team of basketball or netball players. They wouldn't even tell the parents of the kids what the gently caress happened, and erecting barriers to block it. Social media got around the ban by finding a flower shop with the same name as the street or gym, and started ordering flowers to raise awareness of it. The govt shut down the innocent shop. With Covid, China would no way be transparent about it if it was the creator.
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Isn't that what this discussion is about? The two origins I have heard are the wet market or a leak of something synthesized in a lab.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Isn't that what this discussion is about? The two origins I have heard are the wet market or a leak of something synthesized in a lab. No, there are three ideas floating around: that it spread naturally from a wet market; that it was a natural virus that was being researched in a lab and escaped; and that it was synthesized in a lab and escaped. Pretty sure that this debate is about the first two options, as the third is pretty out there but the second has been widely debated for some time, including by reputable investigators and journalists.
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happyhippy posted:Nah, China covers up EVERYTHING that makes them look bad, even slightly. I hear you, but what I'm saying is that this would have been a great time to push China for more transparency, especially regarding the initial onset of the pandemic, like when people started getting sick. I think past a certain point they were very open about what Covid was doing, but it took a while to get to that point. LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Isn't that what this discussion is about? The two origins I have heard are the wet market or a leak of something synthesized in a lab. I'm not sure if this is what you're saying, but to be clear there's no reason to think this was an engineered virus. We have tools to engineer viruses, but they leave markers, and the folks who can use those tools without leaving the markers would not be hiding in a govt lab. Maybe someone was mutating viruses and it got out? Maybe there was a weird sample that got out? Probably not, but if there were honest investigators it would be nice for them to go through and check what was going on with any genetically similar viruses, just so there's no questions.
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StumblyWumbly posted:I'm not sure if this is what you're saying, but to be clear there's no reason to think this was an engineered virus. We have tools to engineer viruses, but they leave markers, and the folks who can use those tools without leaving the markers would not be hiding in a govt lab. Cool, I was not aware. Thanks for the clarification.
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StumblyWumbly posted:I'm not sure if this is what you're saying, but to be clear there's no reason to think this was an engineered virus. We have tools to engineer viruses, but they leave markers, and the folks who can use those tools without leaving the markers would not be hiding in a govt lab. What exactly does this mean, that they would be working for the private sector?
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Bensa posted:What exactly does this mean, that they would be working for the private sector? Yes. If you can convince a military you can make a virus useful to them, you could also convince Big Pharma you can make a virus to treat cancer or a number of other things.
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StumblyWumbly posted:Yes. If you can convince a military you can make a virus useful to them, you could also convince Big Pharma you can make a virus to treat cancer or a number of other things. This sort of misses two points; nationalism or the government giving you an offer you can't refuse, both of which apply even more so in China.
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Bensa posted:This sort of misses two points; nationalism or the government giving you an offer you can't refuse, both of which apply even more so in China. you're saying the government pays scientists in china better than the private sector? and that nationalism is stronger in china than other countries?
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