Posts by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
(DIR) Post #AE2DkDsCsBtJFCPXCy by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T18:15:37.359256Z
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@johnnyappleseed @deprecated_ii “So [Pajeet’s in high positions is] why the internet has gotten so shitty over the last decade.”This is certainly a major factor. They can be OK as peers but still generally have a disturbing failure to do the needful, like keeping database undo transactions in memory vs. persistent storage (real example from my career), but if you’ve ever have or might have one as a boss or above watch out.They don’t like whites, and will force us out even if it kills the company, and through ethnic networking will to replace you with more Pajeets, especially from their Jāti (one reason the subcontinent is so screwed up it that it has 30-40,000 endogamous groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jāti).For one particularly prominent example see the guy who played a major role in ruining Google when they tried to create a Facebook killer. He came from Microsoft back when it was an absolute snake pit due to stack ranking, killed Google Reader because it would have required extra work to keep it running with the changes made to Google’s stupid monorepo, he and Page made everyone’s bonuses depend on what they did to promote Google+, removed ‘+’ as a qualified in searches, and then see the nymwars that cost a lot of innocent people their Google accounts because they weren’t using their True Names, and threw away one possible distinction they could have had with Facebook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars).The best bit: this Vivek Paul Gundotra’s first name on Google+ was “Vic.”
(DIR) Post #AE2EQu0saX2G6Kop5E by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T18:23:19.257042Z
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@caekislove @Fullmetal4456 It would seem that “Biden” “forgot” to close the door to foreigners from our land border to the south….What’s happening now generally makes sense while Omicron’s properties are still being discovered, but “Biden” is only taking this action because his administration is massively unpopular, and due to “his” war on fossil fuels people already paying perhaps double to fill up their tanks will have their budgets slaughtered to keep their homes warm this winter. Oh, the head of the Fed has declared our “Bideninflation” is not “transitory.”If it’s cold enough, we’re going to have rolling blackouts again, because for some inexplicable reason gas companies have not been able to fully refill their storage reservoirs after they got drawn down so much last February with the middle of the nation down to Texas froze.
(DIR) Post #AE2Ea9hDeIMzLa2E88 by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T18:25:00.645499Z
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@deprecated_ii Where in the US are you seen software jobs at $50K salaries?How many for companies where it’s a cost center instead of their business?
(DIR) Post #AE2EyOixQVoguDPL0a by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T18:29:23.427251Z
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@tempestt0st @deprecated_ii Heh, but in all fairness Pajeet English is based on the King’s English, it’s sort of our fault we Americans don’t understand the base dialect to begin with unless we put some effort into it.TL;DR: Buy U.K. editions of your Harry Potter books.
(DIR) Post #AE2MwFYhKdsrX95zV2 by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T19:58:38.613431Z
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@Kyonko802 “I think it’s about aspiration.”While we should be careful about getting our science news from the MSM (but strangely enough The Daily Mail is pretty good about hard facts, certainly a lot better than almost all US media) the vaccines not including aspiration in their administration protocol has been suspected as a cause for the heart and heart lining inflammation problem, and here the article all but comes right out and says it (but maybe not, don’t forget capillaries, and you’d want to find out exactly what it reproduced while this class of vaccines can’t make viruses capable of infection).I think you’re wrong to blame the administrators because they’ve not been told to aspirate (that is, stick the needle in, then pull on the plunger a bit to make sure you don’t get blood). Sure, it takes a bit more time, I’m sure a bit more skill to do it without hurting the patient a bit more, but you can’t blame people for following what appear to be sensible instructions, and ones tested with large Phase III trials. 1 in 100,000 adverse effects won’t be found in US FDA strength 30,000 or more subject trials, although they U.K. demands about half that.And now we see why you should be suspicious of “new things,” but not take it to the point of insanity. Especially when, you know, the alternatives includes permanent injury and death. Adenovirus vector vaccines had only been tested previously by J&J’s Janssen unit for the first dose of their Ebola vaccine in a European Phase III trial, and both they and the Sputnik V crew use human ones.Oxford’s clown show uses one gleaned from chimpanzee feces (there’s a reason to try that), and never got beyond Phase I trials with no more than 45 people at a time. As I recall Janssen’s clotting problem is somewhat different and significantly more rare, but I don’t pay much attention to these because their complexity always made them theoretically more dangerous than the simple mMRA vaccines, why administer a whole DNA virus to get it to make some mRNA to make some target virus proteins when you can cut out the middle mane. Simplicity also makes a big difference in manufacturing, but mRNA vaccines aren’t so good for transportation and storage.@limpandazure Are you a young whippersnapper to not worry at all about morbidity let along mortality? And you’re not considering that variant development will happen no matter what we do. First of all Alpha and Delta happened without vaccines, and Omicron has too many mutations to be anything but the product of having passed through animals for a while or coming from someone who didn’t throw it off quickly, as we guess was the source of Alpha and Delta.And you fail like so many others to consider the alternative: let the virus rip through populations, maiming and killing many many more people, and then guess what? Variants that get around natural immunity as Alpha and Delta will to an extent still arise, as, you know, they in fact did.@smugumin
(DIR) Post #AE2NsgkKPIuUeNOw7s by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T20:09:12.428799Z
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@limpandazure @Suzu In “the states there is a vaccine injury fund to pay out settlements, but I think that’s only for formally FDA approved ones.”There’s a “countermeasures” “vaccine court” modeled on the one created in the 1980s for childhood vaccines when we were down to one company still willing to make whole cell pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. It very specifically covers anything that gets an Emergency Use Authorization for an emergency like this pandemic. You should file a claim with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_Systems_Bureau#Countermeasures_Injury_Compensation_Program
(DIR) Post #AE2OBwE156WA9vSzWy by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T20:12:40.937652Z
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@Kyonko802 @limpandazure @smugumin And this has exactly what to do with your personal decision to get COVID vaccinated or not??I’ve got another essay on this I’m going to try to get to today, but if you spend any attention on the insane and/or your enemies for these sorts of decisions (vs. fighting them if you choose or must) you are proving yourself to be very stupid indeed.
(DIR) Post #AE2OVK2YlFYpWTLoYK by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T20:16:10.636004Z
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@limpandazure “first, mucho texto”NO EXCUSE for anyone smart and educated enough to immediately recognize this is probably an aspiration problem. I mean, how many people even know about injection protocols??(My mother was an RN, and boy did I get a lot of allergy desensitization shots through sometime in my teens. Plus I find this sort of thing interesting.)
(DIR) Post #AE2OuGc8dWcu8Vt3eC by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T20:20:41.705763Z
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@Kyonko802 @limpandazure @smugumin “No vaccine has EVER been enforced with violence and mandates like this before.”It’s you who’s ignorant on the subject when you apply prior mandatory vaccination regimes with the context of a pandemic. Plus, you know, for the violence Australia isn’t the rest of the world, it was really badly run long before COVID. Anywhere else doing that sort of thing (responses to protests are in a different category).Plus why are you trying to pick a fight with someone who only supports mandatory vaccinations for healthcare workers (a standard thing prior to COVID)?
(DIR) Post #AE2Q1akaGjB8ZKtUWW by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T20:33:13.510198Z
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@Kyonko802 @rlier23 @limpandazure @smugumin 10% would be catastrophic, possibly technological civilization ending for countries like the US where we’re already in a civil war where the side that’s losing now is the one that keeps the lights on.Unlike the Spanish Flu, and I’m sure the plague, COVID has an age stratification in morbidity and mortality that starts to make it a big deal for people in their 30s. Lots of countries, well, I gather most people don’t live a whole lot longer so it’s not in a position to kill lots in them. Others have lots lots of young compared to old. So you really have to look at it by age and available healthcare, can you supply the minimum of high flow oxygen and a steroid for the more serious cases?If so, you’re not going to lose so many people, but per the study on US Veterans Administration unvaccinated (2020) patients who were necessarily hospitalized they will overall be four times worse off than those hospitalized for the seasonal flu. The other interesting factoid level top line result was for those not hospitalized, of the 30 days survivors 8% more of them died in the next six months than the control group: https://www.unz.com/isteve/when-will-biden-finally-shut-down-flights-from-india/#comment-4613645
(DIR) Post #AE2QxJIfJ4QRFAMEOe by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T20:43:39.227478Z
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@namedoesntfi @rlier23 @Kyonko802 @limpandazure @smugumin Citation on only 3% of the world population getting COVID?I don’t think you can get that unless you ignore all the countries where there isn’t much if anything in the way of public health surveillance. For example South Africa is a happening place for COVID and variants, do you think the story is any different to the north except that the (black) people there are not looking? Nor particularly have to given how young their populations are (suck to be an old politician, though).#2 population India actively suppressed statistics when Delta finally started a serious pandemic and basically let it rip through the population (anti-vaxxers will be happy the nation just didn’t give a damn about vaccinating the population until it was too late). #1 PRC who knows, are they telling the truth (not a chance), or enough of it? And is Delta’s increased transmissibility causing their non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs like “social distancing”) to fail??
(DIR) Post #AE2RtV5dd7ocba0m0W by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T20:54:10.274413Z
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@rlier23 @Kyonko802 @limpandazure @smugumin >Killing many peopleInst the fatality rate like less than 10%Let’s suppose it was 1% to make the math easy (as previous discussed it’s so age stratified that doesn’t work). Wouldn’t you consider the premature death of 80 million people to be significant, maybe world historical? If it was that high we’re talking in the range of the Spanish Flu in absolute numbers, somewhat less as a fraction for the whole world. But I’m guessing the US is going to get about there in due course, equivalent fraction of population being killed by each.Now consider that morbidity, including delayed mortality is a major issue, death is not the only metric.
(DIR) Post #AE2bMmUOuxP0YOdBDc by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-03T22:40:18.346761Z
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@limpandazure Believes “the moderna jab gave me autoimmune thrombocytopenia.”@Suzu replies “and is there any possibility to sue the fuck out of everything and everyone?”There’s a problem with this attitude, you’ll end up with no more new drugs getting developed and marketed and a lot will be taken off the market. And a lot of people you know will die unnecessary squalid premature deaths.Because the ugly fact is that when you give any drug or biologic to millions of people, here hundreds of millions, some will be maimed or killed. That’s just how it works because of the extreme variability of the human race.Don’t know how it’s done down there, but in Phase IV “post marketing” drugs are frequently given “black box” warnings in the prescribing info when enough people get them that the more rare side effects can rise out of statistical noise. I once took such a drug, later it was discovered it killed some people’s livers which kills them absent a transplant.So, yeah, it’s ugly to get autoimmune thrombocytopenia or blood clots, but it’s also ugly to die of a bacterial infection as the son of our President Coolidge did after playing some tennis without socks. Overall modern medicine from antibiotics to vaccines has been very good for us; I wouldn’t be here, I suspect a lot of others reading this also wouldn’t without it.
(DIR) Post #AE2kvMkhUyhoSEoyPo by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-04T00:27:21.185957Z
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@harbeau “anyong know how effective walking/marching fire was in the years up to World War 1”Completely sucked. Started sucking big time with the introduction of the Minié ball (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minié_ball), which made for fast loading muzzle-loading rifles, the US War Between the States has illustrations of that, as I recall at least one general in the South started using rifle pits in defensive formations. They could shoot a hunk of lead accurately for hundreds of yards.Fast forward to say the Mauser 1898 (but also see the movie Zulu), about as good a battle rifle as you could get until we moved to semi-autos or assault rifles, a strong bolt action fed by five round clips loaded from the top, closing the bolt removed the clip if you were in a hurry, and riflemen could put out a great deal of rapid accurate fire. For a while plus and minus this and other like rifles it ruled many battlefields.Another thing that I’ve read was much more responsible for the trenches of WWI than machines guns was a French ~75 mm field gun which had all sorts of advances, and of course other nations followed its lead. And of course machine guns were a thing before WWI.Another preview of what was to come was the 1905-6 Russo-Japanese War, the naval side usually gets top billing for how inept and vicious the Russians were and how good and decisive the Japanese were, plus it validated the dreadnought concept of capital ships with all big guns of one size, the rest small for different threats. But there was some very vicious ground fighting like in the Siege of Port Arthur. That’s a bit of background of the manga Golden Kamuy, the male protagonist was a survivor of that.Leaders should have really looked at all this, the products of technological innovations with industrial mass manufacturing of both weapons and ammunition, and done better. At one extreme I’ve read Russia spent way too much time, attention and money on fortress guns; while WWI wasn’t a mobile war like WWII (and that thanks to refinement of only two things used in WWI), it was completely wasted.
(DIR) Post #AE2vSYc7Px2mLAGxZQ by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-04T02:25:26.995887Z
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@Suzu @limpandazure “You can’t just, like in your example, put out on the market a drug (that will rake in billions of dollars for your company, BTW) that will kill people’s livers and then just go “tee hee, I did an oopsie” and leave it like that.”What’s your limiting principle? How much is “enough” compensation? How much is enough punitive damages? Where the fuck did you come up with “will kill people’s livers,” you’re imputing foreknowledge that can’t be had with the current state of the art. And how much is enough for practically every other country but the US where drug companies are forced to sell at near cost or they or countries like India will ignore the patents and just make them for themselves?The punitive damages is where things can get really bad, because people like you are demanding more out of science, biomedicine than the science can deliver. You really, truly, do not find out say 1 in 100,000 adverse effects when you give a drug or biologic to a maximum of 25,000 people in a Phase III trial; surely you can do that math??You’re also confounding responsibilities, if a government “metaphorically shoves it down people’s throats” it’s not the fault of the drug companies, but the government. Or circle back to my original point: if drug companies are going to be held accountable for what governments do with their drugs, they’ll stop developing, marketing, or making such drugs. And companies like AZ will tell governments to fuck off when they demand they make someone else’s witches brew at cost. A double fuck off when idiots like the EU demand it be made in their countries and for even less money.TL;DR: We’re getting a window into why Brazil is so poor, and why so many in the US are trying to get us to follow it. Envy is a cardinal sin, and the worse of them, gaining nothing for the sinner.
(DIR) Post #AE40rVoN1UF5ScTP7o by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-04T15:00:41.561955Z
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@jjetty @HotPolishTakes Have to agree about the negativity. After I stopped following one good poster who posted constantly, don’t have the time for that, then stopped following the blackpillers like Heartiste who should have stuck to topics he actually knew well, plus the two usual suspects who had nothing to say except that Gab sucks, there was almost no one left worth following. One day I noticed the tab was consuming way too much CPU for no real action and that was it.
(DIR) Post #AE44zxLOwMZUz9CmRc by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-04T15:47:02.651657Z
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@MisterRogersSnapped @11112011 “The liberals are all selling back their Covid guns unfired.”I wonder how many are “mostly peaceful protest” guns. COVID early on got people worried about the usual endlessly predicted since the 1970s economic/civilization collapse, but the threat of getting your house burned down was a lot more direct and immediate. On the other hand some moved out of cities and states that made it hard or impossible to own guns.A third factor was “Biden’s” and the Democratic leadership’s frequently expressed gun control desires, which have come to nothing because a few Democratic Senators don’t want to be sent back home to spend more time with their families.Don’t know how the market was in my part of very Red state America, but certainly anyone who didn’t think they were adequately prepared would have fixed that, especially if still employed (much more likely here) and with those stimulation checks.Another thing to note is that S&W’s sales were only down 7.3% and it’s possible some of that is from production halts while they move out of their home state of Massachusetts. They should be in fine shape for the foreseeable future, their stock moved a lot more because expectations for future sales changed so much.
(DIR) Post #AE4QxbOvkdTBLI8eem by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-12-04T19:53:07.850774Z
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@astatine The Fine Article: https://www.dailywire.com/news/supply-chain-crisis-leads-to-shortage-of-chicken-tenders-second-chicken-shortage-in-2021Key sentence: “The average price of a value pack of whole chicken breast tenderloins has risen nearly a dollar per pound since last year, from $3.02 per pound in 2020 to $3.99 this year.”Clearly this news was the reason Powell, head of the US Federal Reserve, announced inflation was no longer “transitory.”
(DIR) Post #AFTFjpsdCgnS2Lw2Xw by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2022-01-15T17:07:16.298973Z
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https://poa.st/@graf/posts/AFTFGfLYaMrOJd7jf6@graf “we don’t discuss moderation policies with people not on poast”Yeah, about that….(This poa.st account was my first Fediverse instance, even donated to the cause, and still check in every once in a while.)
(DIR) Post #AFVLTIXeNKr830XSYy by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2022-01-16T17:20:56.089943Z
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I read the complete thread and did not get that impression.I do request an answer because I need to know if I should get a different backup account.Scheduled for later since you just might be in a bad mood.