Modding this up for those who are still in doubt as to whether a cult with bizarre tenets is rising to prominence. Wokeness is kind of like Scientology, except it's so powerful that you have to look over your shoulder…
I wish we could actually bet on it. It's a funny thing about this alleged "crisis" -- it's a "crisis", but it's also so vague and slow that nobody's willing to place any bets that could actually be resolved in a…
> every family's weird uncle refuses to get a vaccine Suppose I thought you should get some injections, and you researched it and concluded they almost certainly wouldn't benefit you, and might harm you. Would you be OK…
For the preservation of (inauthentic) harmony, HN has a special rule that says you can't mention the roving mob of the HN equivalent of Twitter blue checkmarks who don't have any substantive rebuttal, but just don't…
> we just knocked it out into a non-linear chaotic region What was supposed to have done that? Adding 100 ppm of CO2?
I can't say what I'd do if I were a rich misanthrope. But if I were to have a conversation with a rich misanthrope, I might urge them to take up some kind of spiritual cultivation practice like loving-kindness…
The Club of Rome is some odious stuff. It seems to be a group of academic doomsayers who like to play around with toy models in order to justify quasi-communism and other goals related to neo-Malthusian beliefs. They…
Anyone interested in the topic of humans living for years without hearts might be interested in Justin Trudeau's autobiography.
If you feel any need to do that, you should probably consider looking for some different job. There's a karmic burden for making a living in an immoral way.
> A pandemic ravaging the globe doesn't seem clear? A fear campaign ravaged the globe. If there hadn't been a fear campaign, I don't think anybody but doctors and immunologists and such would have been aware anything…
> If it's virtually zero risk It would be great if we knew that, but we don't. We usually have long testing periods, but we didn't this time, for reasons that remain unclear. > Stop trying to make out like this is some…
> At an individual clinical level they may not be at significant risk, but the justification for vaccinating them is not about individual clinical risks but public health. This is a very serious mistake. The duty of a…
I have a movie in my head about how and why "progress" happens, and what its true nature might be. I imagine someone maybe a thousand years ago, living in primitive conditions, holding the body of their loved one who…
Are school-age children at risk from this virus? If not, what is the medical justification for performing a medical procedure on them?
> This will not go on an on At what point would you be willing to admit you were wrong? If we're still doing whatever-variant this time next year, would you reconsider?
It's definitely not everyone in the US. I keep thinking that it's around a third of the population that is extremely susceptible to propaganda. There's huge overlap between wokeness and vaccine eagerness, and there's…
It seems like people think this is sad or poignant. I don't, not really. Step by step, choice by choice, we came this way from where we were. You want to go back? You're free to do so: just get a place out in the woods,…
The planet is not on the brink of climate catastrophe due to human CO2 emissions. Why? The atmosphere has established a range from about 10C to 25C over the last 2B years or so. It gets warm, it gets cold. Global…
The fraction of the population that's prone to closet authoritarianism also seems to suffer from this peculiar, mutant strain of humor. It's essentially cultists trying to intrude into the health decisions of others,…
I don't think innocent repetition does much harm. What I'm saying is harmful is reporting some current event as if it is new and startling and unprecedented, when in fact it's not that unusual, and has even been…
The Washington Post is a propaganda outlet, and this is fear propaganda. This type of organization has learned a wonderful trick, and they use it all the time: they report current events without checking for precedent.…
Modding this up for those who are still in doubt as to whether a cult with bizarre tenets is rising to prominence. Wokeness is kind of like Scientology, except it's so powerful that you have to look over your shoulder…
I wish we could actually bet on it. It's a funny thing about this alleged "crisis" -- it's a "crisis", but it's also so vague and slow that nobody's willing to place any bets that could actually be resolved in a…
> every family's weird uncle refuses to get a vaccine Suppose I thought you should get some injections, and you researched it and concluded they almost certainly wouldn't benefit you, and might harm you. Would you be OK…
For the preservation of (inauthentic) harmony, HN has a special rule that says you can't mention the roving mob of the HN equivalent of Twitter blue checkmarks who don't have any substantive rebuttal, but just don't…
> we just knocked it out into a non-linear chaotic region What was supposed to have done that? Adding 100 ppm of CO2?
I can't say what I'd do if I were a rich misanthrope. But if I were to have a conversation with a rich misanthrope, I might urge them to take up some kind of spiritual cultivation practice like loving-kindness…
The Club of Rome is some odious stuff. It seems to be a group of academic doomsayers who like to play around with toy models in order to justify quasi-communism and other goals related to neo-Malthusian beliefs. They…
Anyone interested in the topic of humans living for years without hearts might be interested in Justin Trudeau's autobiography.
If you feel any need to do that, you should probably consider looking for some different job. There's a karmic burden for making a living in an immoral way.
> A pandemic ravaging the globe doesn't seem clear? A fear campaign ravaged the globe. If there hadn't been a fear campaign, I don't think anybody but doctors and immunologists and such would have been aware anything…
> If it's virtually zero risk It would be great if we knew that, but we don't. We usually have long testing periods, but we didn't this time, for reasons that remain unclear. > Stop trying to make out like this is some…
> At an individual clinical level they may not be at significant risk, but the justification for vaccinating them is not about individual clinical risks but public health. This is a very serious mistake. The duty of a…
I have a movie in my head about how and why "progress" happens, and what its true nature might be. I imagine someone maybe a thousand years ago, living in primitive conditions, holding the body of their loved one who…
Are school-age children at risk from this virus? If not, what is the medical justification for performing a medical procedure on them?
> This will not go on an on At what point would you be willing to admit you were wrong? If we're still doing whatever-variant this time next year, would you reconsider?
It's definitely not everyone in the US. I keep thinking that it's around a third of the population that is extremely susceptible to propaganda. There's huge overlap between wokeness and vaccine eagerness, and there's…
It seems like people think this is sad or poignant. I don't, not really. Step by step, choice by choice, we came this way from where we were. You want to go back? You're free to do so: just get a place out in the woods,…
The planet is not on the brink of climate catastrophe due to human CO2 emissions. Why? The atmosphere has established a range from about 10C to 25C over the last 2B years or so. It gets warm, it gets cold. Global…
The fraction of the population that's prone to closet authoritarianism also seems to suffer from this peculiar, mutant strain of humor. It's essentially cultists trying to intrude into the health decisions of others,…
I don't think innocent repetition does much harm. What I'm saying is harmful is reporting some current event as if it is new and startling and unprecedented, when in fact it's not that unusual, and has even been…
The Washington Post is a propaganda outlet, and this is fear propaganda. This type of organization has learned a wonderful trick, and they use it all the time: they report current events without checking for precedent.…