The push against Ivermectin is rooted in western science racism. The only doctors that have studied it and have prescribed a safe and inexpensive protocol for treatment are "brown people from Hindustan" therefore of no consequence.

Firefox has been broken on Reddit for like 2 years now. Just try cutting and pasting into the text box, no worky.

Over half of the guest wifi portals are broken with Firefox, you have to look up your network details, and browse to either the first 3 octets of your IP address + .1, or really dig for the router IP. Delta's in-flight Wifi really required effort to connect to.

And then Microsoft's InTune is pretty much actively hostile towards Firefox. It will force a version downgrade it whenever it gets a chance to, breaking the profile because Firefox won't load a newer profile from an older version. Haven't figured out a workaround yet.

Meh, I discuss technical stuff with my roommate all the time, we don't work at the same place

Hay now! Any opinions that may interfere with obnoxious corporate profits are dangerous misinformation!

What you're suggesting will result in a core labor force of have-nots (as far as personal time, added risk, stress)...tradesmen maintaining the automation landscape (farmers, technicians, engineers, doctors) and maintaining order (social workers, police, bureaucrats), and then everyone else who will have 100% free personal time.

That arrangement will be solidly rejected. Individuals will increasingly opt for the personal time instead of remaining in the workforce, and idlers will become restless and destructive when their services fail, resulting in societal collapse.

I think a better way is to draft the remaining idle adults, reporting to the tradesmen and the bureaucrats as indentured servants (same idea as the military) for say a month or a season per year, depending on demand.

Naturally, the full-timers will be older and the idlers will be younger, and forcing the idlers to participate gives exposure to the working community, and yield a percentage of idling younger individuals becoming interested in full-time status.

The amount of work may dwindle to the point where the average person may only need to work a week or two out of the year, but the need for intelligence and creative problem solving will never go away.

There aren't really any rational arguments against this.

That's not quite true.

-You have to sign a waiver, meaning if you get injured by the vaccine, you have no recourse
-Children are being excluded from the vaccine because they can't sign the waiver
-In general, pharmaceutical companies regularly injure people by releasing products prematurely and based on flawed studies
-There was a huge political and monetary incentive to push through a "fix", and many safeguards were discarded in that pursuit
-The long-term side effects are unknown
-mRNA technology is new and unproven

Well, sex in general is less interesting when you get older. But, in that line of thinking, they really need to introduce high-grade medical marijuana and AAA videogames to the nursing homes. I challenge anyone to feel depression of any kind while playing Skyrim stoned out of your mind. Yeah you won't get much done but terrorizing villiagers with shouts, but hey, what else is there to do in a nursing home

The big box news orgs have learned that taking a moderate position on anything is bad, so they turn everything into a this side vs that side issue. You're making this into a political issue as much as the other side! It's funny, in politics 90% of it is the pot calling the kettle black.

The problem isn't terms of service or conservatism, it's the fact that all information is corrupted by corporate influence and profit bias, and thereby all decisions are corrupted by corporate influence, public and private. If that wasn't the case, than malpractice insurance and medical lawyers wouldn't be necessary.

Because the pharmas dust problems under the rug, it puts people in danger because they don't know what to look out for. One problem no one is acknowledging with the mRNA approach is that a vaccine administrator can nick a blood vessel and inject into the bloodstream instead of the muscle, the blood cells will uptake the mRNA, grow spikes, and get tangled and form clots, and damage vessels. Leading to stroke, heart inflammation, tears in arteries that turn into plaques, etc.

If that didn't happen to you, great! But it could happen to anyone, and not acknowledging that risk puts your message directly in line with a pharmaceutical sales rep.

The reason older women were noted to have a risk with clots is simply mechanical. The bulk of super morbidly fluffy folks are older women, and it is difficult to get to a muscle to inject into when there is a large layer of fat, leading to more injection errors.

I dont get why smart people value mob education as much as they do. I remember being forced to spend 7 hours a day with stupid people, learning to "show my work" to demonstrate my ability to do things how the drooling morons can comprehend them, and then basically relearning the same dumb crap over and over again, and then yet again in college, only to get to the end of the process with most oof my colleagues having no marketable skills and deep in debt. Anyone doing literally anything else should be applauded, because our system is not doing anyone any good, and anything else is either the same or an improvement.

And then the folks who think they're smart drooling over the vax saying it is the perfect savior of everything. A lot of us already have had COVID and don't need it. And the people who have had the vax are silent spreaders...we've already had a massive outbreak at the local hospital because all the vaxed workers were carriers and infected a bunch of patients. Just because your immune system is protecting you doesn't mean it is protecting anyone else.

Cost per megabit went down from $1 to $0.20 in my area in that timeframe. If costs went up, then maybe people were piling into more expensive plans like gigabit fiber...which is exactly what people were doing! Discourse and beliefs of biased political lemmings != reality. Hence why we have the whole standard of evidence thing in the court system, because people in general have a vicious combo of being careless with details and love hearing themselves talk.

The only reason we're hearing about remdesivir, estimated to run at about $1000 per treatment, is that Gilead and friends can't make obscene profits on old unencumbered and dirt cheap standards that are showing effectiveness in the field, like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, etc. And since a lot of money is getting poured into this (we've all read the paid-for hit pieces saying chloroquine is "completely ineffective", etc etc), we'll never know if it actually does anything. Tamiflu is a great example of this. The only studies that show Tamiflu to be effective were sponsored by the manufacturer. Tamiflu is only effective at transferring money from patient to pharmaceutical company, however since it gives the doctor "something" to prescribe so they're not sending the patient away empty-handed, it is still commonly prescribed.

Your definition suggests microaggressions are others expressing a perspective different than yours without a self-conscious or self-deprecating attitude. If you have a problem with that, you are a bigot. And clearly a racist.

WOW. I was baffled how SQL injection is still even a thing let alone a top mention in security talks, and...there you have it. Java(TM) - the problems of yesterday, today

Evolution favors those who stand out, because they're more likely to attract a breeding partner. Hence the preponderance of annoying trendfags, loud assholes, and psychotic bitches. This problem isn't going away, it's only going to get worse :D

The Chinese government is being an asshole to these people...but....they've correctly identified the intractable grip that ideology has on people. You couldn't possibly "retrain" that. Technology people are typically fairly lax about their religion if they have one at all, but note nearly every tech Muslim is a full-on diet-obsessed prayer fanatic. Nothing wrong with that, it's just the way it is. And a geofenced license won't work anyway, since the Chinese give approximately zero fucks about licenses and intellectual property.