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Addendum: I'm as misanthropic as they come, but this idea that we will forevermore treat our fellow man as a biohazard is just NUTS. What is WRONG with you people?

I've had tons of medical appointments in the past couple years and the continued requirement to wear a mask seems like a no brainer, covid or no covid. No, it isn't. Masking has real downsides, particularly in hospital and clinic settings. Masking muffles speech, and irritates skin, noses, cheeks, ...

I guess I don't get what your complaint is. If you personally don't want to get sick, it sounds like you've nailed that one. Just wear your mask and live in your bubble. Why do you care what other people do? If you're complaining about the behavior of others, it's no longer about you personally. Do ...

The things you say just seem so stupid to me To the stupid, wisdom seems stupid. "Hey. I don't want to get sick. Could you wear a mask and keep some distance?" Both of you "Fuck you." Awesome. If YOU want to wear a mask and keep your distance, go for it. If those things work, th...

I don't know that you need the "if" clause. The question is valid regardless of the origin. But that said: I don't think they do know anything we don't, not when it comes to the desirability of zero-covid. It sounds like authoritarian hell to me. I heartily invite any Americans who think w...

Just thinking about this some more. Are you one of those people who believes "If only we had done X, we could have eradicated COVID?" Listen, you're starting from a flawed premise. COVID was never going to be and will never be eradicated. If you believe the official story, it came from ani...

"Hey. There's a virus going around and it seems to be killing certain people pretty easily. Like, in big numbers. How about we mask up and try to keep some distance from each other? Not a lot to ask, right?" ... Had people just put masks on and stood 6 feet away, we might not have needed ...

GORDON wrote: ↑Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:43 pm .............. which all sounds like bullshit, right?

Yeah pretty much

I would be curious to see the calculations here. For the lottery, the probability of picking the correct set of numbers is a straightforward combinatorics problem (I don't know it offhand but it involves factorials so the denominator gets REAL BIG). For the meteor, I assume it's something like this:...

Well you have to remember that something like 80% of statistics are just made up. But, we looked at the data... Thousands of years of historical records show people are likely struck by meteorites surprisingly often. ... Based purely on statistics, researchers estimate that a space rock should strik...

I believe you can watch it free on Roku....planning to watch this week.

lol I should have kept reading: Michael Burry has exited all his positions which as of March 31st, 2022 had a value of +$200 million. Private jail operator GEO Group was the only stock he held as of the end of the second quarter of 2022. This position brought his portfolio exposure down to only $3.3...

https://www.newtraderu.com/2022/11/06/michael-burrys-warning-for-the-index-fund-bubble/ “Passive investing has removed price discovery from the equity markets. The simple theses and the models that get people into sectors, factors, indexes, or ETFs and mutual funds mimicking those strategies — thes...

ICYMI:




Trailer looks cool

I make them maybe once a week, pretty consistently for the last 2+ years. Go through a 10lb bag in a bit under a month.

Note that she’s asking for forgiveness. But forgiveness usually follows an admission of wrong doing and at least a show of contrition. There’s none of that here. She is merely one example but have any of the people who actually admit they were wrong shown any contrition? All this lady says is “nobod...

It's scared LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY: We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID. Translation: everyone who was shouted down/banned/fired/ostracized for "dangerous misinformation" turned out to be right. But now the excuse is "...

https://mobile.twitter.com/johndrewmarkley/status/1586535402550304768 My favorite part was that "maybe the horrible coronavirus outbreak was related to the Institute for Horrible Coronavirus Studies next door" was somehow the "racist" explanation, while the officially sanctioned ...

It can't be the Official Story, though, because that would mean SCIENCE can't be trusted (US-govt funded SCIENCE at that).

And as we all know, we are ruled by SCIENCE. Otherwise Democracy would die in darkness.

You don't speak Jive?