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Please mr sack. Try to hide your excitement of another cop getting away with the murder of a black man.
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2 minutes ago, GringoSalado said:
That was a cursory google on my part, so I'm not sure, the article I referenced is paywalled, makes it sound like they both have this issue.
I retract my prior characterization of J&J.
FWIW I did find a bloomberg article that out of 5 million shots in arms in the US, three recipients did have the described bloodclotting so there's some minor risk there. But I'm ok with risking a less than one in a million problem to protect myself from severe COVID illness. And I just got the J&J shot this morning too so that ship's already sailed lol
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17 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:
Here’s the censored transcript, hopefully I don’t go to jail for posting it. Btw it’s political.
https://www.aier.org/article/great-barrington-declaration-scientists-with-gov-desantis-in-florida/
I never actually watched the video, but just doing a ctrl+f for "mask" holy shit they talk a ton about how "If we went back a year, a lot of the experts would say that wearing masks for the general public is not evidence-based." Which is complete and total antimask bullshit. They're arguing that because wearing masks didn't 100% stop COVID in its tracks, that they should have never been required. And also quite a bit of peripheral discussion on how cloth masks are ineffective.
Those "credentialed speakers" are giving straight up bad advice. "Dr. Gupta: I suppose, given that I would recommend most non-immune persons that they shouldn’t wear masks or engage in social distancing, you can imagine what my answer would be to people who know that they are immune."
Youtube taking the video down is in line with their terms of service on medical disinformation. AIER famously advocated for a "herd immunity" strategy in October of 2020, and was frequently cited by scott "HCQ" atlas as an authoritative source while defending trump white house policy decisions that led to HALF A MILLION DEAD AMERICANS.
So yeah, it makes more sense now why the braintrust felt so victimized by youtube enforcing its terms of service.
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8 minutes ago, Poe It Up said:
Yes, he cried to the mods that I was mean.
Mods have put me in timeout for playing too rough in the kiddy pool as well, welcome to surly. But yall are welcome to keep calling me names since you apparentlyt have literally nothing else you can add to the conversation.
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41 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:
So YouTube can silence professors because they’re a private platform and you’re OK with it...but you hate that Blacklab only moderates one side in DT threads even though he’s on a private platform?
Who said anything about hate for surly or its admins/mods? It's their site to do with as they please, I'm not gonna cry about FASCISM and CENSORSHIP because they can do what they want with their site. If I don't like it I don't have to keep posting here (or sending them tree fiddy).
But if yall want to echo unsupported and inaccurate ted cruz rhetoric about MONOPOLISTIC BIG TECH CENSORSHIP then I'm more than happy to tell you you're wrong
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2 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:
For someone who hates politics in DT threads, you sure do post a bunch of politics in DT threads.
I'm not the one crying, claiming facism, and talking about policy/legislation because a video got deplatformed off youtube.
It's just funny how if it's right-wing it's non-political, but if anyone posts anything that wasn't from fox or gab or jack posobiec or andy ngo then it's political?
I don't hate politics in DT threads, I hate that blacklab et al only moderate against one side in DT threads and let the rest of yall circle jerk
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4 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:
It takes a nano-second to see Google, the owner of YouTube, gets billions in Federal subsidies. Jesus Christ.....
Those federal subsidies are the same tax breaks that every other large corporation receives thanks to the TCJA of 2017 - I recall you were all for those at the time?
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1 minute ago, BabaYaga said:
As it ties back, when you have monopolistic tech companies controlling narratives that align with a single political party, they cease to be "private". This trial seems very black and white. But what about the next? Or ones after that? This is a dangerous, dangerous precedent.
Flyin' Ted Cruz called, he asked for you to stop stealing his hollow talking points. If you'd like to talk policy I hear there's a special board just for that!
But I am curious to know why you think youtube is a monopoly in a world where it's pretty easy and cheap to host and serve videos over the internet. They don't meet the statutory or plain definition of a monopoly - they just have a large user base and a large service.
Yall are just throwing out all these rhetorically charged terms, not supporting that claim at all, and then melting down over whatever shit you heard on fox/oann/gab/facebook. You wanna talk about monolopies in big tech? Let's talk actual hard facts and information and quantify before we talk about how to get your antivax and qanon bullshit spread wide again.
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Just now, BabaYaga said:
Sure, or a roundtable with Harvard, Oxford and Stanford epidemiologists.
Don't forget scott fucking atlas, the HCQ king! No idea why a discussion around why facemasks aren't necessary may not be something that youtube doesn't want on its platform.
Again, there's nothing stopping them from putting that talk on other platforms - it's not illegal speech. But youtube as a private entity has no compulsion or requirement to host any video no matter what. If you don't like it, don't use youtube. Easy peasy.
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Just now, BabaYaga said:
When a private company is aligned 100% with a certain political party and parrots out their agenda, it's no longer a "private company" when it's weaponized to silence opinions that are counter to their narrative, which is exactly what is happening.
I can see how youtube's crackdown on antivax and Qanon content could make you feel victimized
4 minutes ago, workswithseed said:Google?
AFAIK, they don't receive any more corporate welfare (which means tax breaks) than any other large corporation does. If you've got sourced and cited information to show otherwise I'd love to see it, but a farmer crying foul about government subsidies is always good for a laugh.
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47 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:
Everyone on the left seems to be in complete agreement with tech censoring views from the right because they agree with tech's position. Problem is, as history has shown us time and time again, they will come for them in time. They always do. After all, everyone knows that great science is advanced and diseases are cured by silencing doctors and scientists you don't agree with
"misinformation"
This is dangerous stuff from Big Tech.Flyin' Cruz called, he wants his talking points back. Those people still can get their message out through other means - they have press offices and can host the video themselves.
Why should a private company be compelled to host content that they view as harmful?
17 minutes ago, workswithseed said:Iirc US Government gives big tech tax subsies, right?
The government doesn't subsidize youtube you fucking chuds. Dial back the victimhood
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3 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:
Plenty of people in this thread apparently think we should not even bother with a trial.
Well Chauvin certainly felt that way about Floyd. Which is why this whole mess is happening.
Everyone deserves their day in court, even if they're a murderous piece of shit.
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6 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:
Why already jump to this conclusion? It's like when talking to your children, don't you advocate and develop them so they eliminate negative self-talk? Why already catastrophize and create a hypothetical and treat it as a reality? It's an absence of hope, which I think is unhealthy and I've seen it a lot lately.
There will be time enough to wring our hands and be upset and get mad/sad about the injustice yet. I just don't think "pre-gaming" is a good use of energy and emotion.
It's not "pregaming", it's anticipating the same outcome every time a cop murders someone under color of law. Not an absence of hope, it's an awareness of how this shit goes in the US.
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J&J one and done at NRG park. Mood:
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DT brain trust is a fucking riot these days
Jan 6 insurrection led by the outgoing and losing president to "stop the steal", overturn a fair election, and murder elected officials? Not fascism.
A private company enforcing their terms of service on their private platform? Fascism.
Lolk
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1 hour ago, lmao said:
There is a difference between a piece of paper and a data tracking app.
Then don't hide your meaning in an intentionally vague wording. In my first reply in this thread I described what a well implemented "digital passport" could be. A simple, static, cryptographically signed document from your healthcare provider that gave you the vaccine is a super easy, decentralized, and cost effective method that retains privacy AND data assurance.
But your concerns on data tracking are also superfluous. Your ISP sells your internet usage information, damn near every webpage you visit tracks you, your realtime location data from the cellphone in your pocket is up for sale from your cellular provider. We currently don't have any sort of privacy online.
Chosing to frame your privacy concerns with anti-vax talking points isn't exactly accurate or a useful basis for discussion.
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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
We really should be coming up with something along the lines of qanon to grift the fuck out of TexAgs.
I thought texags WAS the grift? A conspiracy that they've won dozens of championships and that a BOMC is keeping aggy down? Lines up pretty well lol
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18 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:
I don’t know about racket but they can run like hell. I’ve witnessed that firsthand.
So you're saying you've watched chickens run themselves to death? Doesn't sound like the beheading REALLY did them any harm[/sack]
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8 minutes ago, Lurch said:
It was a common troll/recurring joke on 4chan for someone to claim to be an insider. There were dozens of similar claimants before Q, but this one was given life, probably coordinated to further the joke.This is my read too, it's a 4chan meme that got co-opted by a political movement. When you frame it that way, it's at least slightly more understandable how things went down the way they did
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28 minutes ago, lmao said:
Schools require you to have a digital passport?
Schools and school districts already require records of vaccination, yes. I don't get why you're sticking to a vague and rhetoric term like "digital passport"
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The question of "digitial passports" is a SUUUUUPER broad question where the nitty-gritty details matter pretty significantly.
Is it a cryptographically signed locally-stored copy of your vaccine record from your healthcare provider that's just a static document with a seal of authenticity? That sounds A-OK, really no different from a physical document at that point.
And voter ID laws are a solution in seek of fraud. There is not any evidence of widespread voter fraud, just ask trump's lawyers while they're under oath.
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28 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:
And you're wrong about the effect of Citizens United on transparency. The decision specifically upheld the provisions of the BCRA requiring identification of the funder, and held that disclosure requirements for campaign contributions were constitutional.
I'm not saying CU changed transparency - I'm saying that the already existing LACK of transparency combined with the opening of the floodgates that was CU has made things exponentially worse. I mean, superPACs didn't get going until after CU and those are far and wide the biggest flow of dark money into politics
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4 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:
We the people form associations, which are called "corporations." The right of free association is right there in the Constitution, and it was a right well understood by the Framers. The legal effect of incorporation and corporate personhood was also well understood at the time.
What were the framers thoughts on multinational corporations with anonymous shareholders and zero transparency to the source of their speech?
Honestly, the most caustic aspect of CU is that the corporations can spend money (aka speak) without attributing their speech. The complete lack of transparency combined with unlimited and unrestricted spending has heightened the imbalance
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9 minutes ago, Borachio said:
I was up in Detroit for a week a couple of weeks ago and people were masked up everywhere, even outside in most cases, especially in a couple of the college towns where they were required on campus.
Lots of the museums were doing temperature checks and each restaurant I ate in required patrons to fill out a form with name and phone number for contact tracing. I felt like they had their shit together. Something ain't working.
In my experience here in TX, big cities and urban areas tend to take COVID seriously, and the smaller towns tend to have more political flags flying than facemasks on faces. I wonder what the breakdown is geographically on the Michigan case data
The Trial of Derek Chauvin
in Daily Texan
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Just got caught up on today's court proceedings, it would appear that the ME's testimony disagrees. Specifically, the ME said that interaction with the police killed Floyd. They found no pill fragments in his stomach, but did say that his health issues were a factor towards his weakened heart. So it would appear that the whole "he was swallowing drugs and quickly overdosed" thing is not backed by the evidence.
Based on what's said in court under oath so far: but for chauvin's knee on his neck for 9 minutes, Floyd would not have died. That meets the requirement for murder.