airrow
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- Comment on Downvotes - let's discuss 2 days 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 3 weeks ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 0 comments
- Comment on White House confirms 'Politico' received $8 million USAID funds: 'DOGE will cancel those payments' 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
“”“yes”“”
- Comment on Why is the majority of Lemmy So woke? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
finally released the “hostages”
- Comment on Trump Begins Selling New Meme Coin Days Ahead of Inauguration 1 month 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 1 month ago:
took too long but good if true
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- Comment on Donald Trump Sentenced in Business Records Case 1 month ago:
idk what this is but he posted about some other lost case:
“The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt. I was given an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE. That result alone proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE, THERE WAS NEVER A CASE, and this whole Scam fully deserves to be DISMISSED.”
As many of the cases fail it does just make the left look biased with political motivations and without a case
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- Comment on Python [Snake] Meat Could Be a Sustainable, Nutritious Food Source, Scientists Say 1 month ago:
article:
After studying more than 4,600 Burmese and reticulated pythons on commercial farms in Vietnam and Thailand, they found the snakes had a more efficient food conversion ratio than salmon, pigs, cows, chicken and crickets. The snakes went long periods without eating but did not lose much of their body mass as a result; they also required very little water. On top of all that, they ate food that would not have been used otherwise, known as waste meat, such as wild-caught rodents and stillborn pigs.
says more in article like that. and yet:
Scientists also say more research needs to be conducted on the nutritional content of snake meat, as well as the broader environmental implications—and potential ripple effects—of commercial python farms.
- Python [Snake] Meat Could Be a Sustainable, Nutritious Food Source, Scientists Saywww.smithsonianmag.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 8 comments
- Comment on What Are People Using LLMs For, Over Other Tools? 1 month ago:
maybe it’s possible to use LLMs to create “fluff” that has substance
- Comment on Online dating is about to radically change 1 month ago:
sounds kind of dystopian although expected
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- Comment on Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne dies aged 32 1 month ago:
one often speculates drug overdose is at play in untimely deaths like these; this person apparently struggled with addiction according to this link: the-independent.com/…/the-vivienne-i-still-get-30…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
> “terrorists”
2.5k sounds kind of genocidal, and attacking a hospital? Aren’t “terrorists” usually more like military?
I guess the headline just sounds wrong. Other side would probably say this is a “genocidal attack”
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- Comment on The Murky Right-Wing Politics of the Alleged UHC Shooter 2 months ago:
a new kind of centrism emerges? horseshoe theory of sorts? an independent populist of sorts (against uniparty)?
(tea party, back in the day) current right: against big government
(occupy, back in the day) / current left: against big corporations
?neu-populist-centrist?: against big government and big corporations
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