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- Comment on National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Abortion: September 13th, 2025 4 days ago:
looks like there is at least one such event for general gun violence awareness every june
- National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Abortion: September 13th, 2025nationaldayofremembrance.org ↗Submitted 4 days ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 3 comments
- Comment on Does Anyone Know What The Fediverse is Doing In Response to Age Verification Laws? 1 week ago:
It did but if you check the OP link as an example, some U.S. states have been passing laws to try to regulate social media (because allegedly lots of children are exposed to NSFW content via social media platforms)
- Comment on Does Anyone Know What The Fediverse is Doing In Response to Age Verification Laws? 2 weeks ago:
I think that could work initially but I don’t know how sustainable that approach is
I’m thinking maybe in practice they will end up dialing the scope of this back some to make it more workable
- Comment on Does Anyone Know What The Fediverse is Doing In Response to Age Verification Laws? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really know but am guessing this will end up being a little difficult in practice and that it will force even people supportive of the move to amend the bills with changes to make them more workable
- Comment on Does Anyone Know What The Fediverse is Doing In Response to Age Verification Laws? 2 weeks ago:
yeah I was wondering what people on nostr or on here were thinking should be what HC does or what other platforms should do in response
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- Comment on "copyparty: Turn Almost Any Device Into a File Server" 1 month ago:
interesting emoji response, didn’t get as many bites when posting this elsewhere (maybe because I posted in “quotes”?)… and yet this seemed like one of the top software pieces I’ve encountered in a while… perhaps ever!
some youtube comments were fascinated with this software being dropped: yewtu.be/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0
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- Comment on Downvotes - let's discuss 6 months ago:
I’m fine with keeping downvotes out because bots will swarm downvote content
yet, if on the other hand you wanted to enable them for the lulz, it could be tried
- Trump says Ukraine has ‘essentially agreed’ to allow the US access to $500B in rare earth mineralsnypost.com ↗Submitted 7 months ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 0 comments
- Comment on White House confirms 'Politico' received $8 million USAID funds: 'DOGE will cancel those payments' 7 months ago:
go on to reddit: they’re all complaining about usaid aid being cancelled
right wing spaces online: displaying all the fraud done with usaid
are leftists unaware of the fraud or is the right lying about the fraud, I guess is the question
- Comment on Astonishing rise of autism explained after figures left Trump shocked 7 months ago:
I was gonna do a post on vaccines
Lack of Clarity With Terms
I think some confusion comes in when people use the word “vaccines” when they really mean “all vaccines” or “some vaccines”, or “vaccine theory”
Some Vaccines Harmful
It should be an uncontroversial statement, to claim “some vaccines are harmful”. Some people today consider covid “vaccines” (which are thought to be slightly different than traditional vaccines) to be in this category of the “some vaccines [that] are harmful”. That can be debated, but it does not logically imply that if one believes covid vaccines to be harmful, that they believe all vaccines to be harmful.
Vaccine Theory Versus Vaccines Available
Thus for example also, one might believe “vaccine theory” to be sound, but for “all vaccines” available today to be harmful. This would be like believing food to be healthy (generally accepted), but if there was only a contaminated source of food available to an island, that that island might argue “all [their] food is unhealthy”. Does this mean they are denying that food itself is unhealthy? No, just that all the food they’re getting is unhealthy.
“Vaccines are Harmful”
So when some people are saying this phrase (“all vaccines are harmful”), they might mean either they believe vaccine theory is wrong, that all vaccines available today are harmful, or that some vaccines available today are harmful. There really isn’t a clarity on what is expressed; likewise then the “other side” may argue against positions that they are not taking.
Problem of Verification
Overall one of the big problems with vaccines today is the lack of ability for the average person to confirm the quality of the vaccine being offered to them; many of us do not have access to labs to test things ourselves, hence would be dependent on the opinion of alleged experts to determine if the vaccine is healthy or not, and such people’s opinions can be wrong. This makes vaccines often a kind of unexaminable “black box” to the average person.
Amish as an Example
Fueling such further speculation about vaccines, we have “control” groups like the Amish who have low vaccination rates, and also low autism rates: www.insidermonkey.com/blog/…/3/
Correlation does not imply causation, however it does prompt questioning.
Conclusion
The discussion on alleged health benefits of vaccines should maintain clarity to work to get to the root of the issues and should be open about limitations. For example, the flu shot prior to covid was thought to be the “weakest” in effectiveness in recent years… and in looking to link to this story, I see a fresh story about how weak the vaccine is for this year’s flu season: scientificamerican.com/…/flu-vaccine-selections-s…
To the contrary, the placebo effect of getting vaccinated should also be considered… but, if vaccines were to only offer a strong placebo, then we could substitute placebos for vaccines.
The roles of sanitation (quarantining) shouldn’t be downplayed in preventing the spread of disease, versus the effectiveness of vaccines: covidcalltohumanity.org/…/study-shows-sanitation-…
- Comment on Why is the majority of Lemmy So woke? 7 months ago:
we had a couple instances before this (yeah, you remember EH), not sure if any others popped up and if there is a network of conservative federated instances
- Comment on How many of you guys are conservative? 7 months ago:
“”“yes”“”
- Comment on Why is the majority of Lemmy So woke? 7 months ago:
lemmy was created by actual communists I think (the main devs)
it has seemed to attract those further left than reddit (reddit not left enough for them)
the right is probably on more centralized platforms (is currently the mainstream U.S. politics) or maybe something even more decentralized like nostr
so, the right isn’t here as much, the more moderate left on major social platforms like reddit, the woker got attracted to lemmy and such
- Comment on Trump announces up to 30K illegal immigrants will be sent to Guantanamo Bay 7 months ago:
well so what’s to be made of this?
I think a lot of of people simply want the illegals sent to the country they’re from
however some questions come up like what to do with people the countries refuse, what to do with people who we’re uncertain of where they came from, and what should we do if they just come back?
countries refuse
I thought Trump was basically gonna force 'em to take 'em back, with tariffs or something
uncertain
maybe an agreement with certain countries to take them if it’s a close enough guess where they’re from?
come back
agreements with countries to jail them since it’s their people offending (offloading the cost of detainment / prison to the other countries whose people are committing the crimes, maybe as an incentive for the other countries to deter their citizens from illegally entering other countries)?
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- Comment on Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht 7 months ago:
also didn’t expect to see this, although I do remember him promising it
imo ross seemed to be actually guilty… (according to existing laws)
but I saw a rand paul writing arguing the punishment was disproportionate and that sounds sensible to me
- Comment on Trump pardons nearly all Jan. 6 defendants on inauguration day 7 months ago:
finally released the “hostages”
- Comment on Trump Begins Selling New Meme Coin Days Ahead of Inauguration 7 months ago:
fresh “melania meme” coin dropped as well I hear: Melaniameme.com (from trump’s truth social)
- Comment on Israel approves ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas, beginning Sunday 7 months ago:
took too long but good if true
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