Hitler believed the technique was used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist and antisemitic political leader in the Weimar Republic.
Hitler claimed the technique was used by Jews. We have no way to know what he actually believed.
Sure! It's as easy as getting our two rival political gangs to stop slinging shit at each other, come together and agree to spend trillions of dollars on the commoners instead of enriching their own lives and feeding their true masters, The Donor Class.
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One last thing; no one, has this virus "under control". NO ONE. Nothing is "well understood" other than perhaps some treatments that are helping this a little.
I guess you haven't heard of New Zealand.
No one saved the drive-ins either.
Drive-ins have undeniably the worst movie-watching experience. The screens aren't nearly as good, and they all suffer from light pollution. The sound is whatever you've got in your car. The food is no better than an indoor cinema and often much worse. The weather is unpredictable. The seats can be good, if you deck out the back of your station wagon or minivan appropriately.
But they have social aspects you just can't get at home or at an indoor theater. I've gone to drive-ins where we could show up an hour before showtime with 5 carloads of people, set up a grill and have a cookout before the show. There are still some that have a playground up by the screen. And of course there's date night in the back row if that's what you're into. And all these options are available to different guests at the same time. It's as private or as communal as you want it to be.
Indoor theaters have a better sound system than I'll ever have at home. That's the whole list in their favor.
"It took a little bit of work on their part -- I think they had 11 days of catch-up to do -- and they completed their task."
I can't think of many jobs or tasks where 11 days of catch-up from a single incident is considered "a little bit of work".
And now it is your logic that is flawed, since you cannot tell me just how many deaths have been indirectly caused by excessive lockdowns and shuttering of entire industries and millions of jobs worldwide.
Not precisely, but there are numbers if you care to look.
NEARLY 300,000 MORE Americans died from late January to early October than expected during an average year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in a report published Tuesday.
The majority of the excess deaths – 66% – are due to the coronavirus, the report found.
So we're talking about ~100,000 excess deaths possibly caused by the lockdown. But can we tell if they're caused by the pandemic or by the lockdown? From that same source:
"These disproportionate increases among certain racial and ethnic groups are consistent with noted disparities in COVID-19 mortality," the report said.
The report had several limitations, including the possibility that "estimates of excess deaths attributed to COVID-19 might underestimate the actual number directly attributable to COVID-19, because deaths from other causes might represent misclassified COVID-19–related deaths or deaths indirectly caused by the pandemic."
So these excess deaths may be caused by the lockdown, but they are demographically similar to what you would expect from missed diagnosis of COVID-19 as the cause.
We have managed to largely avoid that many excessive deaths, but that only lasts as long as government checks keep flowing during a pandemic.
That makes it easy then. Keep the government checks flowing - we can easily afford them - while at the same time taking measures to actually get the pandemic under control. And those measures are by now well understood from watching other countries that have done it.
Also, then you have something dangling off your phone all the time.
If I'm sitting in a seat not moving and the phone is plugged in, what difference does it make whether it's plugged in to a brick in my bag or an outlet in the wall?
Why not just have a bigger battery in the phone?
Sure, that would be great. Tell me where I can find one.
Oh, and I don't have sex in front of cameras.
That you know of.
Its interesting that while many people are happy to post all sorts of details about their lives on FB, easily attached to their real identity, many are concerned about possible nude or pornographic videos, that I have to imagine would be almost impossible to associate with an actual identity.
Maybe you're not familiar with this thing that's typically used to associate identity: a face.
As if external battery packs for phones aren't a brutal enough solution, now you're suggesting them for cars.
What's "brutal" about power bricks for phones? I have one that I take when traveling since I can't rely on access to an out let in an airport or rest stop. And when I'm on a plane I'm much more likely to watch movies for 6 hours straight, which lots of phones will only marginally handle.
knee/back pain after 4-5 hours of continuous driving is just known as "you're not as young as you used to be" where I come from
As true as that is, if there's one seat that gives me knee/back pain after a day of driving and one seat that doesn't, I still want the better seat. And that's not something I'll identify on a test drive.
A leap second will be added Tuesday to keep our clocks more closely synced with the Earth’s rotation, per the International Earth Rotation and Reference System Service in Paris. Universal time says the Earth completes a full rotation around the sun every 86,400.002 seconds. The “.002” is what causes the leap second.
According to NASA, the “Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing down a bit, due to a kind of braking force caused by the gravitational tug of war between Earth, the moon and the sun.”
So if 1-second precision is important in your embedded device, how do you make it account for manually-added seconds?
And since when was it the job of social media to play the job of journalists? No, really, name me a date. Why should I trust Twitter more than the New York Post?
If they're not playing the job of journalists, then why are we talking about censoring news?
Consider... why did Twitter and Facebook not block a single news article that contained Trump's personal tax data, but they did block the article related to Biden?
Because they determined that the tax data was most-likely true, while the Biden story was most-likely disinformation.
Journalism is not blindly parroting everything that anybody says. It's finding and sharing the pieces that you believe are true and relevant and explaining why.
This is where someone complains about using "journalism" when talking about Facebook and Twitter. But the issue is whether they spread a news article, so that seems to apply.
Weakening the liability shield will result in the companies blocking *more* posts
How do you figure that?
In the days of printed newspapers, the publisher chose what to include. That didn't work online, because comments are posted on their site until and unless some person or mechanism takes action to remove or prevent it.
This is flipping the posture from "default deny" to "default allow". So instead of holding a (print newspaper) publisher accountable for what they choose to print, the potential now was to hold a site liable for what they choose to remove.
Section 230 was designed to protect sites for removing offensive content, so they could crack down on people spamming sites with - among other things - porn, which happened a lot in the early days of online comments.
Removing the protections of Section 230 would make open comments untenable for providers, meaning they would be forced to adopt the default-deny posture of print publishers.
It takes childish short-sightedness to think that repealing 230 is a "win", and that providers won't do anything in response.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
