I thought Rakudo was "Perl 6.x"? Now we'll have yet another Perl?

JWZ is just your basic leftist. Of course he'd be against crypto and be a supporter of establishment govt. fiat currency.

... has Woke Mind Disease.

And there's a provision in the bill to trace where all that money actually ends up. Oh wait. No there isn't. Business as usual. Ka-Ching for Pols, 'crats, and cronies.

The study indicates that the the comparison was of COVID infection rates, which was a secondary goal of the study, the primary being to investigate methods of promotion of mask wearing, was not a true control group, but a group which received "no intervention".

This means that the control group could voluntarily wear masks, and many likely did. They just didn't receive free masks, or weekly reminders promoting mask wearing.

The study primarily proved that you could increase mask wearing by 1) giving away masks for free, 2) promoting mask wearing through various means, including personal visits to homes by mask-promoters. Secondarily, it proved that mask wearing caused a reduction in infections, which makes sense.

What I'd had liked to know is how many of the "non-intervention" group also wore masks.

A generation which never heard the word "NO", who received participation trophies, and was never criticized. Everything is a deep, end-of-the-world offense to them. In an effort to buoy their self-confidence, which was seen as highly important in child rearing trends at the time, more important than competence and responsibility, a generation of emotionally incontinent, weak minded fools was spawned. They throw tantrums just like children whenever they don't get their way. Witness the riots, vandalism, burning. Witness Cancel Culture. This is all a product of these practices, as well as Marxist infiltration of our society and institutions in an effort to destroy therm and the country by our enemies.

In other words, the free expression of ideas is BAD. He should F off to a Marxist country. He'd love China.

Nice strawman. He never claimed that "racism is over". The election of a black president was a watershed in US history. It was a significant event which showed how far that things have come in a relatively short period of time. A racial minority was elected by a racial majority. It proves that the US isn't as racist as it used to be, and not anywhere near as racist as the left claims it is. Racism, inequality, prejudice, etc, is something the left needs to stay in business/power. Careers depend on it. There are entire university majors dedicated to it. There are politicians whose elections and lifestyles depend on it. So they will always down-play things that show progress and amplify and overplay things that show decay. They need it to go on in perpetuity, so they will always find a way to keep the victimhood olympics going.

This. But they're not interested in truth. They're interested in being self-important SJW superheros and circle jerk with their fellow SJWs while feeling like they are special. It's one of the cheapest ways to feel superior.

hear hear!

Hear hear! It should be about equality, and by equality I mean equality of opportunity, not outcome! People should be judged as individuals, not groups. Identity politics is poisonous. And as you say, certain people and groups are taking advantage of well meaning but naive people by turning them into SJW "superheros".

What you do by "walking away" is something that the left can not do. They must bludgeon you until you conform to their correct opinions and world-view. If you don't conform, you are a bigot. Yes. The very definition of bigotry accusing others of being bigots. It's ridiculous, but it's the state of the world right now thanks to the leftists'/marxists'/globalists' march through our institutions and the effective propaganda organs they have turned them into.

Exactly. This is the reason for the left's victim-hood/oppression Olympics. To give these sorts of privileges to certain groups while denying them to others based on their level of victim-hood/oppression. And of course, these groups will always be victims, so that these privileges are preserved in perpetuity. And people labeled as "non-victims/oppressors" will always be oppressors who already have "privilege", regardless of reality.

This allows the leftist elites to control things by being the middlemen, pitting these groups against each-other, maintaining power by convincing one group that they are on their side so that they vote for and contribute money to them, and that the other side are evil oppressors who they are protecting your side against. Just let them control everything and take most of your money and everything will be fine. Same game played by elites throughout history. Divide and conquer.

It doesn't matter how things progress either. There will always be grievances, indignities, and outrages they can drum up no matter how good or bad life is for the "oppressed". The actual reasons life might be bad for the "oppressed" will never be addressed. The leftist elites don't care about their lives, whether they're rich or poor, live or die. In fact, they enjoy the schadenfreude and elitist vanity of looking down at the non-elites living in filth and squalor. All that "their" people matter to them is that they vote to keep them in power (until they solidify their power to the point where voting is effectively nullified), contribute money in the form of donation and taxes, and can be used as a guilt-device to recruit naive well-off people to the "cause" of preserving the elites' power.

Yep. And they won't let you try before you buy.

The whole premise is ridiculous really. It's going to operate like wikipedia where anyone can edit articles, etc. In other word, mob rules. That means that whoever has the biggest brigade, and whoever has the most free times can put out their propaganda and silence others.

The only true way to do this right is to allow everyone to have a voice, even racists, bigots, etc. Then crush them in debate. But that's just not the leftist way. It's all about control and authoritarianism, not liberty.

I'm Gen-X, and been called a Boomer. Boomers are my parents. :-)

Grumble.