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    I'm guessing that many of these people you are talking about are the ones described in the above study. Basically, these people make a decision based on whatever, and the part of their brain that is supposed to gauge how confident they are in that decision just doesn't work like the rest of us, and they're stubbornly overconfident about that decision, even when presented with clear evidence that their decision was incorrect. This was measured in a simple counting task that had nothing to do with politics, so imagine what it's like when the decisions involve more emotionally-charged subjects.
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    ...except from some nerds on an IDM forum.
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    On vacation this week in obx North Carolina, was called a Yankee for wearing a mask out to the local shops. I loled. People are 50/50 with masks in the grocery stores but about 10/90 everywhere else.
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    Yeah well any "skeptics" watching that "exposé" should first question why there is an advert for the dude's pillow business plastered on the screen.
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    These vaccines will likely be a stopgap so that we can avoid overloading healthcare systems and minimize variants until we can get to a point where we can have highly effective vaccines that may last years or more. But if we do nothing, it's almost guaranteed that variants will continue to emerge and we'll need to make more "quick" vaccines and boosters to deal with each one. So if you're concerned about having to take a booster every six months, do your part to help get this thing under control and get vaccinated so that the scientists can have less of a moving target to shoot at.
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    I feel like DeSantis is just trying his damnedest to appeal to the Trump base across the country so that he can make a run for the R pres. nomination. It's sickening that the way he is choosing to get attention for this, by so publicly defying reasonable COVID mitigation measures, is going to flat out kill people.
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    Oh you're probably right, but since they have no sense of history they're gonna get behind it being un-American like they invented it.
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    How long before dumbass Rs label this as "un-American" and socialistic?
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    If your facts are rigorous enough, faith doesn't matter.
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    Just heard about this study today. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2018/dec/radicals-arent-good-knowing-when-theyre-wrong It seems these people who hold these radical beliefs are "metacognitively impaired" (my made-up description), which means it's innate and very difficult for them to realize and admit when they're wrong about anything. Basically, they'll always be fucking it up for the rest of us with COVID and there's little we can do about it outside of mandating vaccines or providing much greater invectives (my take, not the authors').
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    I blame the internet and social media. In the past, these yahoos were not able to organize and connect enough to cause any appreciable damage.
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    I have a feeling that this is a grift to keep those donations rolling in and to try and stay relevant. I'm guessing he's already strategizing on how to eventually avoid running but make it seem like he's being held out against his will.
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    I discovered SFA on the Rings USA tour, a friend dragged me to the show and it was one of the best shows I've been to. Show was amazing, then we hung around after the show and the band invited me and some of my friends backstage where we hung out while they smoked some weed and spun some records. Really nice dudes. Got a tour poster signed and it's one of my prized possessions. Because of this experience, this album will always have a special place in my life, not to mention it's also awesome.
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    https://superfurry.backstreetmerch.com/ To celebrate the announcement, they released the audio of Paul McCartney chomping on celery and carrots that they used as percussion on receptacle for the respectable (lol):
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    I'm sorry It's a bad show.
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    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/07/tom-brady-joins-president-biden-at-white-house-to-mock-trump.html
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    Counterpoint, don't 'rona my lungs, brain, liver, kidneys, bloodstream, etc.
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    What's up with the other thread, man. Enough with the cancel culture!
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    Did dis dude jus did dis? -John Starks
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    I'd prefer details to trickle out.
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    I do it for the rush, the adaptation, and the general backwardness of the act.
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    What do you get when you play a country song backwards?
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    I work in a relatively narrow field of research that almost nobody has heard of (rheology). Been studying and working in that field for 16 years. I go to the annual conference every year and there's still tons of shit that I don't understand. My colleagues at work call me the rheology "expert". Sure, to them I am an expert but even in this narrow field, it takes a lifetime to become a true expert, and even then the expertise may only be in 2 - 3 subsections of the field. This is precisely why we can't just listen to one or two sources of information and form a rigid opinion, especially about something as serious as covid. You will have to trust the network of scientists and peer reviewers who have put huge amounts of human-hours into this problem.
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