China covid policy is (was?) an immense success unfortunately the rest of the world is too inept and criminal to react efficiently to covid entry points and therefore millions of humans die ...
You're rewriting history. China locked down intra-Chinese travel in January 2020 but left open foreign travel until March(!). A reasonable inference is that the Chinese leadership knew how bad it was in January and dissembled and misled for months and either wanted the virus to spread internationally or displayed callous disregard for that entirely predictable outcome.
There is lots of data on efficacy of the different COVID vaccines, and Sinovac is mostly evaluated as among the worst.
reddit.com/r/sino is a cesspool of pro-CCP propaganda, and I am now skeptical of you for using it as an authoritative reference.
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2yr ago
Coding bootcamps are of marginal utility to begin with. I'd seriously consider not applying.
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2yr ago
Can the link to context in the janny duty link to an anonymized context? I guess you'd have to use pseudonyms in the context because a single poster can have multiple comments in the context. And it wouldn't help a dedicated de-anonymization effort b/c it's simple to just load up the site in another window, but maybe it would still help preclude casual biasing.
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2yr ago
How are you making sure it gets to the intended recipients?
Is fuel for the generator generally available?
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2yr ago
If you’d said Meta or Alphabet, I might have believed it, but reddit just strikes me as too incompetent on every level from the management to the programmers to pull off something like that.
Your first mistake is bothering to read anything on Twitter in the first place. It’s not a real place! Reading that thread reminded me why I mostly ignore Twitter - it’s not possible to make any non-shallow dismissal in under 140 characters. Case in point - you came here to write your essay response rather than on Twitter, where it would would have been impossible.
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2yr ago
Let's also add more sedentary behavior while locked down, and depression and stress from social isolation and job loss.
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2yr ago
The moral of that story isn't that you shouldn't covet material wealth, but rather you'll get even more of it later if you follow Jesus.
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2yr ago
Where do mixed race people go in your proposed racialist utopia? Have you written somewhere about this?
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2yr ago
My brother, you don’t have to question your fundamental beliefs if you get them right the first time.
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2yr ago
Yea. Date a girl you’re really into, and if you still have a low sex drive, only then is it a problem.
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2yr ago
You’re single and don’t watch porn. Low libido sounds well within the range of normal.
Can you expand on that? What makes a union worse if their employer happens to be the government?
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2yr ago
If you have a way to listen to Rogan without a Spotify account or app, I'd love to hear it.
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2yr ago
Spotify paid Rogan $200 million to stop releasing podcasts and instead release his content in their walled garden, which doesn't have an RSS feed. I used to be a regular listener, but I haven't heard Rogan's voice since the switch. 2 years on, and I'm still salty about it.
For a few days now, I've been volunteering for the Motte by rating comments, and I have no idea if I'm any good at it, but I realize the rating effort is changing how I read comments on the site. Where is the line between a crass joke and mean-spirited comments that don't belong here? Does that well-written effort post faithfully report the current state of knowledge and research? Or is it just a bad take that wears the skin of well-reasoned argument? Before, I would occasionally upvote or downvote, but the vast, vast majority of the time I would do neither, so I wasn't forced to have an opinion, I'd just chuckle at a joke even if it's bad without caring if it belongs here or note a novel idea without deciding if it's well-reasoned. Now, I find myself reading more carefully, even when I'm not rating.
I have a new respect for the moderators and admin. It's a tough job.
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