Posts by lmrocha@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #AUTK4UQ8jgXWHKVFXU by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T09:57:18Z
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@freemo @mike805 alas, science is not based on the criteria *you* set forth. I've sent you a large list of peer-reviewed papers from the best medical journals in the world. You say they don't meet *your* criteria and don't send me any paper that remotely validates your claims. Well, good luck with the Dr.Freemo journal!
(DIR) Post #AUTKezAnsLuI55jSJk by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T10:03:54Z
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@freemo @mike805 the papers I sent are not irrelevant. They are precisely on topic, well performed analyses. You just don't like their results. That's a different matter. Hell, I think that gravity is a bitch, but won't waste time arguing against newton and falling apples.
(DIR) Post #AUTKyLv3WxvK82bL0q by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T10:00:40Z
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@mike805 @thatguyoverthere @freemo @pj wow, so we do have the Gun-Jesus figure after all. Who needs the cross when you have the guns....
(DIR) Post #AUTOOBdSghqJcrNk2q by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T10:44:47Z
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@thatguyoverthere @mike805 @freemo @pj "be prepared" is not the same as "be armed". I was raised Catholic, and the idea of using a Christian conception of God to defend gun-based self-defense is, frankly, diabolical---especially when we know it leads to incident children being killed over and over again.
(DIR) Post #AUTPgLzyzowcvw8u9o by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T11:00:09Z
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@freemo @mike805 I posted papers in response to you saying there is no evidence that more guns increase mortality. The papers I posted are 100% relevant to the discussion. In both individual households and society at large, greater availability of guns leads to higher mortality (after controlling for all sorts of demographic factors) , not just in suicide but also in homicide rates.You want to argue that such analysis is irrelevant to our discussion, which is absurd. It is very much the central point. You also want to argue that those papers are not considering the whole gestalt of the problem, because they don't account for crimes guns may have prevented. First, that is an orthogonal problem. Even if guns were shown to prevent some crimes (no evidence of that in gun use by civilians), the papers I referred show that, OVERALL, more guns, more death. That is, any putative reduction in crime due to guns, is not sufficient to prevent an increase in mortality with more guns. Now, if this is a topic that interests you, by all means go ahead and publish research that shows that guns reduce some forms of crime, if you can. But a loose hypothesis you have without evidence, does not invalidate the overwhelming conclusion of the papers I showed you. Your dismissal of those, without any peer-reviewed counter evidence is, to use the expression you so like to use, dishonest.
(DIR) Post #AUTSXal33JTBxqfe2C by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T11:08:44Z
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@thatguyoverthere @mike805 @freemo @pj there is much context, and prophecy parallelism, in that passage to make that such a simple case. The sermon on the mount is much more relevant to understand Jesus' moral teachings, than confusing/ambiguous (”two swords are enough”) prophetic statements just prior to arrest. Personally, and this is just me, I read that passage as an indication of the futility of the few arms his disciples could buy from selling their clothes, in the presence of the might of the Roman army. Certainly two swords weird have both been enough... So, I interpret this as as call to focus on what matters about his message, which is the opposite of swords.
(DIR) Post #AUTSXcMJ6Grqvh6ukS by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T11:31:14Z
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@thatguyoverthere @mike805 @freemo @pj I meant: "certainly two swords would not have been enough."
(DIR) Post #AUTSmURUoar2imd4qG by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T11:34:53Z
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@freemo @thatguyoverthere @mike805 @pj that is just patently false. All data points to the opposite. No evidence whatsoever (from all other similar countries) that regulating the use of guns leads to people dying en masse. That's just silly and totally false.
(DIR) Post #AUTTYfQ1JDUsfBuZk0 by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T11:43:36Z
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@freemo @thatguyoverthere @mike805 @pj I don't have to provide data for what *you* are arguing. That's your job. Go ahead and publish it. I gave you published evidence in strong support of my claim: more guns --> increased mortality. If you have evidence against the current scientific evidence, which can sustain peer-review, by all means publish it. Restating your beliefs without proof (beyond your own mind) is not enough and it is dishonest to claim your belief invalidates current peer-reviewed and replicated studies without demonstration.
(DIR) Post #AUTTotVog3sh0UMPRY by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T11:46:32Z
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@freemo @thatguyoverthere @mike805 @pj yes, the statisticians who publish in the new England journal of medicine and lancet areb known to be rookies... #fantasy
(DIR) Post #AUTWXw6M648pye3ZNw by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T12:16:57Z
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@Moon @mike805 @freemo that would apply too, but, no, I meant reification (including it's Marxist "Verdinglichung” connotations.)
(DIR) Post #AUTWuUIPdwSAOsRwGm by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T12:21:09Z
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@freemo @thatguyoverthere @mike805 @pj I thought you were better than this.
(DIR) Post #AUTYT2ufXnpbYyO0xs by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-09T12:38:37Z
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@freemo keep playing fantasy science. I'm out. @thatguyoverthere @mike805 @pj
(DIR) Post #AUTfaLLc6QDYRXPrU0 by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-06T21:25:10Z
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@mike805 @freemo the founders were not gods. Their conception of guns, militia, armies, people (who they thought mattered), rights (for those they throughout mattered) bear absolutely no relevance today. All of those have changed dramatically since then.
(DIR) Post #AUTjPAU8Y4PvNvKUmO by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-03-30T12:03:15Z
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"Israeli politics will remain fundamentally unstable as long as the occupation persists as a putatively temporary military dictatorship that Israel upholds indefinitely. "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/30/israel-hasnt-been-a-democracy-for-a-long-time-now-israelis-need-to-face-this-fact?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_OtherL
(DIR) Post #AUXU4MbpYSoyE3ODL6 by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-11T10:08:10Z
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@freemo That is just completely false. Compute all statistics you want. Your odds of dying from a gun (suicide or homicide, together or separately) in Europe are lower than in the US. And if your US household has guns, you are much more likely to get shot than if it doesn't (after controlling for income, neighborhood, etc ). Guns don't make you or society safety. They just make you feel that way. But feeling is not science. Don't bother saying you computed this otherwise in some data savvy way, if you have not published it. And don't insult us with saying we don't know statistics. I have been doing AI and data science professionally since the late 80s with the resume and published work to back that up.@pj @thatguyoverthere @mike805
(DIR) Post #AUXlC4Scc471TbLKvQ by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-04-11T13:20:02Z
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@freemo that is very silly. Vaccines demonstrably save many lives (with antibiotics the key reason for population explosion in xx century). In contrast there is zero, zilch, nada evidence that guns save lives ---the net effect in killings is demonstrably more death as you acknowledged, while the opposite is true for vaccines. You think they do, but, alas, no demonstration. This comparison with anti-vaxxers makes no sense at all @pj @thatguyoverthere @mike805
(DIR) Post #AW4zgIwefvAiE57EtU by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-05-27T11:59:56Z
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@tiago from the phone I can't read the whole thing, but I wonder what version of Pascal they used that is slower than Java. Way, way back Borland (object) Pascal (later Delphi/Kylix) produced compiled C++ code.
(DIR) Post #AW6oZWSvIW4cx6gzBo by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-05-28T09:04:52Z
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@tiago the republican party is now openly a death cult in more ways than one....
(DIR) Post #Ac2hR6Z3Rtb1osH9xw by lmrocha@qoto.org
2023-11-21T20:36:05Z
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"Netanyahu has a salient interest in the war continuing until Donald Trump ousts Biden from the White House. That would help him implement his three “noes” – no acceptance of responsibility, no elections and no Palestinian state."https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-11-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/is-it-good-to-die-on-the-altar-of-netanyahus-lifes-work/0000018b-ee64-ddc3-afdb-fe75c6600000