Then build new hospitals. Or learn to live with it. Authoritarianism isn’t somehow justified because current actions “haven’t seemed to help.” That’s the playbook of every oppressive regime since the beginning of time:…
Increase hospital staff? Encourage social distancing? I don’t know, anything other than creating second class citizens in a country with a horrible history of it?
Scary stuff. I think all of the authoritarian actions over the last two years can be traced to a single event: the fall of the Soviet Union. Without an enemy to compare itself against, the Western world has forgotten…
Try posting / searching here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/
Indeed. Any mild criticism is immediately flagged, downvoted, and deleted. I don’t care how serious the pandemic is, it doesn’t justify mass hysteria. As I said, I don’t see this changing anytime soon. Your best bet is…
Of course it’s horrifying, especially since these actions are supported by a majority of the population. There are a few countries with little or no entry restrictions. Mexico in particular is fairly close to Canada and…
This isn’t going to end. There is no point at which things will return to normal. If you think otherwise, I’m sorry but you simply haven’t been paying attention. If vaccine mandates bother you, I strongly suggest moving…
Tokyo has very few trash cans yet not much litter. It’s a cultural problem, not an engineering or city planning one.
John Oliver is a biased comedian out for laughs. You should never take his “investigations” as anything more than entertainment.
About the last thing people in small towns want are arrogant city folks coming in, kicking them out, and moving them to a nightmarish megacity. It might come as a surprise to denizens of coastal cities, but no one in a…
There is much more homogenization today which goes far beyond your point.
You can think of it as a hollowing out of the middle. As people have become more individualistic, they’ve lost interest in the “middle range” of power: neighborhood, town, city, state. This power structure has collapsed…
Reagan survived an attempt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ron...
Considering how the US government has spent its trillions in the last few decades, keeping money offshore might actually be an ethical move. If buying products from a company that exploits workers in X country is…
You’ve moved the goal posts about five times now. First it was our entire lives indoors. Now it’s just a few months a year in some parts of the world. First it was in the next 20 years. Now it’s by the end of the…
The author uses the word apocalypse at least five times in the article. I don’t think he was being hyperbolic.
Because absolutely no climate science says that increased CO2 in the next twenty years will lead to humans living entirely inside with AC’d units? Again, this is basic science. The real effects of climate change will be…
My complaint is that the author has forgotten what fiction is and seems to think it correlates to reality.
Do you honestly believe that everyone will spend their lives inside an air conditioned room and with CO2 scrubbers? My assurance is reality. Reality isn’t a science fiction novel. Interestingly you only get these absurd…
The exact same conversation could be had at an obscure religious cult ranch in the middle of the desert. Remember, these people are completely serious. “Dad, I’m depressed and unmotivated about going to college.” “Son,…
I will add more of the quote. The author was talking to his son, who was feeling unmotivated about going to college because the world was ending soon. The author's reply was the section I quoted.
Because for many people (this author included), this topic is akin to a religion, complete with holy literature (sci-fi) and a high priesthood (scientists and sci-fi writers.) So when a "god" like Stephenson (the word…
Incorrect. He would be hailed as the first African American Secretary of State with a decorated military career that resigned to protest lies and an unjust war. Textbooks a century from now will include his name. It…
The estimates vary, but between half a million and a million people have died from the war and its aftermath. Not including Syrian Civil War or Libya, which were absolutely consequences of destabilizing the region. No…
Imagine if he had resigned in protest at the decision to push for the invasion of Iraq. He would now be hailed as a hero around the world. Instead, he didn’t. What a waste of an exceptional career.
Then build new hospitals. Or learn to live with it. Authoritarianism isn’t somehow justified because current actions “haven’t seemed to help.” That’s the playbook of every oppressive regime since the beginning of time:…
Increase hospital staff? Encourage social distancing? I don’t know, anything other than creating second class citizens in a country with a horrible history of it?
Scary stuff. I think all of the authoritarian actions over the last two years can be traced to a single event: the fall of the Soviet Union. Without an enemy to compare itself against, the Western world has forgotten…
Try posting / searching here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/
Indeed. Any mild criticism is immediately flagged, downvoted, and deleted. I don’t care how serious the pandemic is, it doesn’t justify mass hysteria. As I said, I don’t see this changing anytime soon. Your best bet is…
Of course it’s horrifying, especially since these actions are supported by a majority of the population. There are a few countries with little or no entry restrictions. Mexico in particular is fairly close to Canada and…
This isn’t going to end. There is no point at which things will return to normal. If you think otherwise, I’m sorry but you simply haven’t been paying attention. If vaccine mandates bother you, I strongly suggest moving…
Tokyo has very few trash cans yet not much litter. It’s a cultural problem, not an engineering or city planning one.
John Oliver is a biased comedian out for laughs. You should never take his “investigations” as anything more than entertainment.
About the last thing people in small towns want are arrogant city folks coming in, kicking them out, and moving them to a nightmarish megacity. It might come as a surprise to denizens of coastal cities, but no one in a…
There is much more homogenization today which goes far beyond your point.
You can think of it as a hollowing out of the middle. As people have become more individualistic, they’ve lost interest in the “middle range” of power: neighborhood, town, city, state. This power structure has collapsed…
Reagan survived an attempt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ron...
Considering how the US government has spent its trillions in the last few decades, keeping money offshore might actually be an ethical move. If buying products from a company that exploits workers in X country is…
You’ve moved the goal posts about five times now. First it was our entire lives indoors. Now it’s just a few months a year in some parts of the world. First it was in the next 20 years. Now it’s by the end of the…
The author uses the word apocalypse at least five times in the article. I don’t think he was being hyperbolic.
Because absolutely no climate science says that increased CO2 in the next twenty years will lead to humans living entirely inside with AC’d units? Again, this is basic science. The real effects of climate change will be…
My complaint is that the author has forgotten what fiction is and seems to think it correlates to reality.
Do you honestly believe that everyone will spend their lives inside an air conditioned room and with CO2 scrubbers? My assurance is reality. Reality isn’t a science fiction novel. Interestingly you only get these absurd…
The exact same conversation could be had at an obscure religious cult ranch in the middle of the desert. Remember, these people are completely serious. “Dad, I’m depressed and unmotivated about going to college.” “Son,…
I will add more of the quote. The author was talking to his son, who was feeling unmotivated about going to college because the world was ending soon. The author's reply was the section I quoted.
Because for many people (this author included), this topic is akin to a religion, complete with holy literature (sci-fi) and a high priesthood (scientists and sci-fi writers.) So when a "god" like Stephenson (the word…
Incorrect. He would be hailed as the first African American Secretary of State with a decorated military career that resigned to protest lies and an unjust war. Textbooks a century from now will include his name. It…
The estimates vary, but between half a million and a million people have died from the war and its aftermath. Not including Syrian Civil War or Libya, which were absolutely consequences of destabilizing the region. No…
Imagine if he had resigned in protest at the decision to push for the invasion of Iraq. He would now be hailed as a hero around the world. Instead, he didn’t. What a waste of an exceptional career.