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2rafa
3m ago
I'd either go for a run or play some vidya.
Running I can understand, but games? Even the best can put me to sleep if I’m actually tired.
WandererintheWilderness
3m ago
Scott had an extraordinarily in-depth lab leak post in 2024, I'm not sure there was anything more for him to say on the topic unless he'd changed his mind about it. Naturally, saying "everyone knows that gain of function research caused this" is putting it way too strongly: Scott isn't convinced and neither am I. But I think about this very often -
(…) for the first time [this debate] made me see the coronavirus as one of God’s biggest and funniest jokes. Think about it. Either a zoonotic virus crossed over to humans fifteen miles from the biggest coronavirus laboratory in the Eastern Hemisphere. Or a lab leak virus first rose to public attention right near a raccoon-dog stall in a wet market. Either way is one of the century’s biggest coincidences, designed by some cosmic joker who wanted to keep the debate acrimonious for years to come.
…and it does follow that we should probably treat gain-of-function research as if it had caused COVID, because "we can't ever know for certain if it caused COVID, but the two hypotheses are neck-to-neck" is bad enough if we're talking about future caution.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5m ago
By national law, not until you have 50 employees. State law may be more strict.
ToZanarkand
Some day the dream will end
6m ago
Sweden and its neighbours are much less densely populated than most of Europe, meaning the virus generally has a lower transmission rate in those countries. I'm not sure lockdown lessons from Sweden can necessarily be applied to e.g Germany.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6m ago
Why would it be the responsibility of the Capitol police to handle an unprecedented riot better than the rioters themselves.
Because they're the police. Rioters are expected to be irresponsible, it comes with the territory. Police are supposed to handle them, it comes with the job. And no, a riot at the Capitol is not "unprecedented".
The fact that Trump had given orders to protect the rioters
He gave no such order. The order he gave, ahead of the protests, was
"Fill it and do whatever was necessary to protect the demonstrators that were executing their constitutionally protected rights"
The "it", in this case, was a potential request by the DC Mayor to bring in the National Guard. The Guard was not, in fact, brought in until long after the demonstration became a riot; I do not know whether this is because the Mayor did not make the request or the order was not followed, but in any case this is just the opposite of Trump trying to cause or exacerbate a riot or keep the Guard away, and it is dishonest to imply otherwise.
HaroldWilson
8m ago
mostly old people died now so low QALY losses compared to say, Spanish flu
He literally talks about this in the post.
You forgot massive self-inflicted economic damage (inflation, shuttered businesses, layoffs) caused by the lockdown ands insane money printing. All for basically nothing other tha our leaders indulging their "don't just stand there, do something!!!" impulse. I think about that every few days and I'm still angry about it. Really fucked up my plans, and I think I got off better than most.
Oh, and the insane powegrabs by literal-whos at all levels of federal, state, and city bureaucracy. Pencil necked losers in gubmint jobs suddenly issuing edicts about what free citizens of republic can and cannot do. And people obeyed. I will never be able to unsee that.
RenOS
Technology giveth, Sociology taketh
43m ago
I agree - but to them, the situation in Gaza was sufficiently bad that it doesn't count. It's just a fairly simplistic moralistic view that doesn't really account for agency on the alleged victims side or pragmatic solutions.
Dean
Flairless
47m ago
Such purges of the digital past are an increasingly common part of the American electoral cycle.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
49m ago
It’s damning for the state enforced lockdowns which most other states were eager to implement. I think a lot of states used it as a compliance test *just how long can we get people to obey arbitrary rules and be shut in their homes without creating a backlash. Rather frightening to now understand that if you make the situation sound bad enough, you can get this sort of thing to go on for a long time. More than a year.
And other states were actually pretty upset that Sweden didn’t go along because it did provide an alternative to arresting people who dared to leave their homes.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1hr ago
I'd actually consider cutting down on coffee and seeing if that helps. Could be a caffeine crash.
sun_the_second
3hr ago
Why would you call God "good" if it's explicitly not the same thing as human good, and you explicitly cannot understand what God's version of it is? When a blind man hugs an elephant's leg, is he right to conclude that an elephant is like a cylinder, except perhaps not the same kind of cylinder that we know?
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
3hr ago
This article is a good top level summary. This post was unverified but the reasons seem to match other reporting that the most recent model is a massive sunk cost. The head and VP not only both resigned last month but also asked their names not to be put on the eventual release. “Most of the team” probably overstated sorry. I accidentally took out of context the still notable fact that 11 of 14 of the authors of a major paper on the fundamental AI research team at Meta have left since publication and formation in 2023. Either way, Meta is behind absolutely but everyone is slowing. IMO we need another theoretical leap, probably about implementing “memory”, to keep progress rolling.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3hr ago
Not to forget being primed before that by loads of disease-related apocalyptic fiction (sure, that stuff generally doesn't show lockdowns as something that works, but there's still indications that they would work if you just locked down earlier and harder).
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3hr ago
The closest comparison here is the influenza vaccine, and I don't recall anyone saying that the influenza vaccine makes you immune from influenza.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3hr ago
I'm not sure why there are so many people insisting that we should have used a more inexact name for this disease just because it fits a certain naming scheme (or geopolitical interest).
2rafa
3hr ago
Not that the advice of a random internet stranger should mean anything, but I think you should take the camper trip with your dog.
OliveTapenade
3hr ago
What might have come of it if the man had been educated - or even brought up in a decent society?
This one?
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
4hr ago
I'm fortunate enough that nobody in my extended family outright died of COVID, but it put a family member in the ICU and others were severely sick. It absolutely wasn't a normal year by those standards.
A med student, who happens to be my brother's best friend and also my pupil, lost his dad to a fungal infection following an ICU admission after COVID. On a more extended basis, I certainly saw plenty of people die in the ICU I was responsible for during the worst of the pandemic.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
4hr ago
I understand not remembering who specifically said it, but why are you acting like the idea is out there that you're literally unable to come up with a motive for it?
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
4hr ago
Flu is almost always symptomatically indistinguishable from COVID. Not very many people need to know or care about the exact taxonomy of a moderate respiratory infection, and frankly speaking, most don't doctors don't either. To the minor extent that treatment might differ, we'd mentally just keep that bit in mind. It would hardly be the worst name in the world.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
5hr ago
Maybe you're thinking of Biden? https://youtube.com/watch?v=ciwyYnwYFaQ?si=nEANKgR7xGw6h2Vk
FtttG
5hr ago
Certainly Sweden's excess death toll was lower than the European average, which seems like the most damning statistic for the efficacy of lockdowns.
I’m not suggesting that is the primary benefit. But if the stated rationale for the human rights violation doesn’t produce any benefits as evidenced by Sweden, then that’s even stronger argument against those violations.
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