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Talk radio hosts are essentially self-appointed experts on pretty much everything.

I just wondered for a moment if they know as much about everything else they pontificate on as they do about Covid?

@loki said in How to end the pandemic in a month:

@aqua-letifer said in How to end the pandemic in a month:

@doctor-phibes said in How to end the pandemic in a month:

And I have seen some really, really stupid anti-vax shit out there. I'm sure we all have. If I'm not allowed to laugh at that, what is it for?

Getting pissed at the people who are by and large creating the biggest and completely avoidable strain on our health system is pretty natural, I think. It still pisses me off, but condemnation isn't going to change any minds, and I don't feel any righteousness from unvaccinated infection horror stories. I just want everybody to be able to ride this shitstorm out.

That's separate from the fact that a lot of the anti-vaxx nonsense is absolutely hilarious. I mean c'mon, it just is. It's about as humorous as my apparent incompetence with terlets, and I'm not about to take some kind of half-assed "life choice" moral stance on my stupidity there, unnecessary ignorance is always funny.

I think this captures my sentiment most closely. Yeah I started this thread with a snarky quote but it is certainly no worse than what is said of Hillary and Biden as examples. Not clear to me why some things are flagged as out of bounds.

I certainly don’t want to alienate anyone so that is a fair comment.

The differences between this and the political stuff with Hillary and President Uncle Joe are pretty clear.

As much as we joke about politics being a blood sport, it isn’t. It’s important, yes, but most people’s lives and long term health aren’t really affected too much by the results.

People’s livelihoods aren’t generally being threatened based on their Voter Registration status. They aren’t being denied entry to concerts because they are registered independent or didn’t participate in the last election.

If I’m not a positive influence on one person and their vote… Oh well. If I’m a negative influence on somebody’s decision regarding vaccination, it could affect countless others.

It's a mess. Finished it this week.

A good murder "mystery" must plant the seeds of solving the crime early on, and not rely on twists toward the end of the story. That's exactly what this did, and it was a disappointment.

Martin, Short (Martin Short?) are great. They play...themselves. The supporting cast is fine, but the story is sadly lacking inn anything original or inventive.

At least the episodes are short, so if you feel like wasting your live, 30 minutes at a time, go ahead.

I love it when people have strong opinions about something and try to project those opinions onto another, unrelated situation.

@lufins-dad said in Busy beaver:

I thought this was going to be another thread about @Aqua-Letifer s sister

And I thought (well, hoped) this was going to be a thread about computability.

I thought the Harris podcast and oddly enough, the CBS Sunday Morning

Link to video segment were two of the better pieces done on the subject.

Won't be the first line she's been a part of...

@aqua-letifer said in Unvaccinated pay more insurance?:

@doctor-phibes said in Unvaccinated pay more insurance?:

It's more of an academic exercise. Copper listed a big bunch of people he felt were at higher risk and deserved to be punished financially, I just added one I thought he'd accidentally omitted.

At least he made room for the gays.

We could do a Venn diagram. I wonder how many overweight gun owners are also gay hang-gliders. They'd make a hell of a mess if they crashed.

The savior of the republic gets fourteen more years.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/disgraced-lawyer-michael-avenatti-onetime-opponent-donald-trump/story?id=94509483

Yeah, it's concurrent.

@jolly said in 99.2% of recent Covid deaths are unvaccinated people:

It is what it is.

I don't think there are enough folks out there who have not had the disease or are not vaccinated, that they would swamp the system.

I also think as time goes on, you'll see a higher vaccination rate, as people come to grips with the vaccine side-effects. Which is also okay and very similar to how people approach the flu vaccine.

Which is also okay, since I think in the next 18-24 months we're going to have more variants than you can shake a stick at, and the initial vaccine may or may not be effective.

I’ve given quite a bit of thought to freedom and liberty and in some respects the public health and financial crisis has passed so maybe the imperative is not there to force the issue and give people the opportunity to make an “informed decision”. I still think from a public health point of view it’s important we continue to be vigilant such that the only person accountable for A Covid hospitalization or death is the individual choosing not to take the vaccine.

Which is why Dingy Harry should have been censured and made to publicly apologize. At the least.

@axtremus said in The Jan 6 “nothing burger”:

@horace said in The Jan 6 “nothing burger”:

Could we be doing more to make an example of the Jan 6 riots?

Definitely. An independent commission authorized by Congress to investigate the Jan. 6 riot, for example, is one of the things that we can and should do to make an example of the Jan. 6 riot.

By all means, let the left slake its tribal blood lust. It will only be all the more laughable to watch the contrast in reaction to the next oppression olympics riots.

@loki said in Does quitting your job make you happy?:

Could you all answer the same at ages 20 to 40?

Very much not at 20. I had high hopes for landing in a promising work life, but poor planning. By 40 those hopes had shrunk somewhat but not altogether. And so it went. I needed to think differently and know more than I did, and things just didn't work out.

Ha. RJR, Philip Morris.

I think that they need to resolve the G7 summit by a C Major summit.

:rimshot:

ProPublica is not disclosing how it obtained the data, which was given to us in raw form, with no conditions or conclusions. ProPublica reporters spent months processing and analyzing the material to transform it into a usable database.

I hope they lock these guys up.

And if the rich guys paid what they owed, the rest of it is OK with me.

@horace said in No Covid shot costs 1.6M:

Personally, I think they're mostly normal, just with some visceral revulsion to putting strange stuff in their body.

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