I posed my relevant questions further up in the thread but I can try it again in simplified terms:

• 100,000 unvaccinated Americans of average health, age 18-49 walk into a bar.
• Every single one of them somehow catches Covid simultaneously.
• Statistically, less than one of them will die from this horrific disease.

With those numbers, would you say the following is a reasonable response to the situation at hand as I first responded further up the thread?:

I'm not sure how people can claim to be "scientifically-minded" if they aren't first "basic middle school math-minded".

But that's the thing. Take your 18-49 data: literally less than 1 in 100,000 unvaccinated people that catch Covid are dying from it. The fact that the vaccines turn that into 1 in 1,000,000 or even 1 in 1,000,000,000 is irrelevant. A billion times 0 is still zero. From best that I can tell, that data still doesn't even account for complicating conditions that I had mentioned. So it still does show what I asked for.

To be clear, this isn't an argument against vaccinations themselves, it's an argument against the absolutely absurd idea that being unvaccinated is some sort of a death sentence. It's an argument that people should be able to consider the risks of vaccination against the risks of Covid and make that decision for themselves.

There might still be an argument if the vaccines had proved to be highly effective (say, 90+%) at stopping transmission to protect vulnerable populations but we know the rates are much, much lower than that and continue to drop as mutations occur. This should come as no surprise to anyone.

For the record, I'm vaccinated. My livelihood was threatened unless I got it. Joe Biden asked what I was waiting for when he signed the mandates. I was waiting for a dead or attenuated vaccine to be approved after going through the proper trials. Why? I knew the risks. I had already recovered from Covid before that point (it was very mild for me) and saw no point in getting the vaccine. If anything, the vaccine was likely to harm my body's learned ability to fight the disease. I got very sick from the second injection for about a week. Much worse than from Covid itself. My injection spot is still sore and twinges months later. You better believe I'm angry.

Right now, what percentage of the unvaccinated population under 70 years of age that have no other complicating conditions are dying of Covid when they catch it? How about the vaccinated? How about under 50? These are very simple questions. These are the types of questions literally everybody, independent of their political leanings, should care about.

We were considering rolling it out at our company at the time. Everyone testing it eventually arrived at the same conclusion, however. "This is the coolest new piece of tech that there isn't a single plausible use case for."

A lot of the co-authoring functionality it offered eventually made it into the MS Office apps, anyway. People take that experience for granted at this point.

Ironically, an NFT with this backstory will probably be worth even more than the hypothetical real thing. "Fake" is quite subjective here.

I mean, you're not wrong but if you can't (or simply refuse to) see the progression of how we got here, I don't know what to tell you. Political flamewars are all that you're going get when you insist on making everything political. Slashdot needs clicks to survive, so do try to act surprised when the only thing left is disgusting political clickbait.

To be honest, I'm not even sure it's possible any more. Once one understands Post Modernism and Critical Theory, it becomes entirely clear that those that adhere to it absolutely aspire to inject their politics into everything. Logic and reason are out the window. It's all about (control of) language and systems of oppression. Moneyed interests are more than willing to help push this and Reddit is the worst platform as it is extremely easy to manipulate. Though Twitter and YouTube aren't that far behind.

Stop caring about the useless internet points. You're being downvoted by bots that have a financial interest in the situation. Call out bullshit when you see it.

In case you haven't noticed, like nearly everything else in the tech world, Slashdot is basically a zombie of its former self at this point. The only posts that get any attention these days are those about woke ideological nonsense. The only posts that ever get over 100 comments are always political in nature. There are literally zero stories about cool new tech on the front page right now. None. Go ahead and look. It's extremely rare that there are. msmash loves this garbage.

Is it reasonable to expect documentation in order to practice any constitution right?

Wow, I mean if you can't trust the Chinese Communists, who can you trust? I don't know who to believe any more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ideas so perfect they're mandatory

We've seen how this works before. A state will start subsidizing the creation of these vertical farms until the consumer cost of the food coming out of them is the same as a traditional farm. This will happen quickly because those subsidies will be funded by a new tax that only affects traditional farms. After enough vertical farms are built, the government will set a mandate all traditional farms be phased out within X years (because traditional farms are suddenly bad/unethical/immoral/whatever). Once that deadline approaches, the vertical farm subsidies will be dropped and the food costs will still be many times that which was coming out of the traditional farms. The variety of crops grown will be reduced substantially because it is found out that many do not perform well in vertical farms but are suddenly too expensive/illegal to grow traditionally.

If you dare question whether any of this even makes sense, or are just not entirely lockstep with this plan, they will attempt to publicly sham you with whatever "-ist" word is the cause du jour. They will call it, "progress."

Not true. Some men cut off their penis.

It cannot be understated that they've declared objective reality incompatible with their product. Proceed accordingly.

False.