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Reading some reports here (Netherlands) that the situation in Texas/Houston hospitals is getting out of hand. And will likely reach max ICU capacity in the coming week(s). Good luck over there. And stay strong.
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Given a certain "pommepusher" episode in a distant past, I don't expect anything to come from this. There's no charming TJ into doing favors for his fans. Or rather, some of his overly critical and moaning fans who largely ignored him since he went ebm. Would I be willing to shove some green paper into the hellish kickstarter pits? Yes, of course. Don't be so silly. It's just... Not gonna happen. Would be surprised if you hear anything. Also, even if Warp contact TJ about this, what are the odds TJ even responding? Close to nil, imoooooo. Sorry, ima disbeliever. Lovely idea though!
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You're living in a fantasy if you seriously think it's simple as that. https://ebm.bmj.com/content/22/3/88
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again, if that's your standard, a lot of what is considered regular care is snake oil as well.
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that's quite the generalisation. especially considering the importance of the placebo-effect in regular medicine. if it works, it works. there's so much that isn't understood well in medicine. much of regular care hasn't even been proven. don't dismiss something purely because it says "homeopathy" on the box. don't blindly believe anything either, of course.
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Big overlap? Small?
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this is a nice one.
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Republicans or Trump voters? I'm tempted to think there's a difference between the two. The Republican wears face masks. The Trump voter believes in conspiracy theories.
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My intuition expected the list to be comprehensive. So it's not. OK, sure. Nice way of presenting these data I guess.. Ignore all the stuff below the average. The "whites" and all that.
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Native American!? Euh, call me a silly European, but the Natives are not the caucasians, right? Looks silly to distinguish Latino and African and consider the non-spanish europeans as natives. I'm confused. I'm thinking of those Indians and the likes as the original natives. But if so, they decided to ignore the caucasians as a group? Anyways...So, if your grandparent came from Ireland, you're considered a native. But if your grandparent came from Africa, you're not considered a native. Sure. No institutional racism whatsoever. Just some European idiot not understanding what the hell is the thinking behind that graph.
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Loving the Conway tweets atm
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Tbh, the number of confirmed cases at itself is quite meaningless. It depends on the number of tests done. And the percentage of positives from those tests. And then there's the obvious: look at the per capita to assess whether the highest count also means the highest per capita. There's not much to conclude from this graph, if you ask me.
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just a point of critique. institutional racism goes beyond what the law says. there's also the stuff which could be summarised under "policies and procedures". or standard practise, of you will. even with perfect laws, institutions could show signs of institutional racism just by how they operate. hypothetical example: if the law says stealing is illegal, but the police only (systematically?) goes after people of a certain race, there could be a bit of institutional racism involved. nothing wrong with the law. and potentially something wrong with policies and procedures. other than that: yeah public discussions are mostly oversimplified. By definition. That's how language works. It's inescapable.
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Loving this summary:
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too easy
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*prays Darwin will take care of these fruitcakes*
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Getting in the mood for some post-Trump memes ;D
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Enjoying the social media trolling of trumpster by lincoln &co.
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I feel terrorised watching that. But sure, she's not a terrorist.
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Some interesting info in this youtube on cop training. With some explanation about procedures and what goes on in peoples (including cops) minds. At points he is critical wrt current habits. Also note how he warns cops about bringing this stuff up in their unit. It's basically a guarantee to get another job.
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for numbers and stats, go here: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data other than that, it's just silly to reduce this issue to a single indicator such as you're doing. not only are you ignoring the fact that the virus started spreading at different moments in time in different regions. you're also ignoring the underlying context of why numbers are higher in one location over another. much of the underlying causal relations are still unknown at this point, so this whole measuring dick-size nonsense is just that: nonsense. if you want to compare policies, you might want to compare those "are we bending the curve?" stats in the link i posted. there's a couple of them. also note that there's evidence this virus is very sensitive to superspreading events. which means that a relatively small amount of people infect a relatively large amount of people. (note how the R0 is just an average which ignores this factor) if true, most policies might not be as effective as assumed. (not saying you should ignore them, btw. you shouldn't!). most effective might be just to avoid crowds, and thats it. but we simply dont know at this point in time. (again, not arguing you shouldnt follow current national policies! whatever they are)
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nothing better to do with your time? it's still apples and oranges to make comparisons such as that. no matter the math. please go make some more tunes, or something.
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LOL Lynch and his dark sense of humor ;D
