CableMonster
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- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 3 days ago:
You can look down on gun owners and disparage them all you want, but it is irrelevant to what I mentioned. Let me put it more concisely - the benefits to taking away peoples guns will have 100x or more worse impact from trying to take away guns. It literally would not work.
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 3 days ago:
Its silly if you dont know people with guns and how many they have. I really do think its a cultural thing and you just are not aware of the other people. Cue “I grew up around guns and…”
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 4 days ago:
Its not short quips its unsurmountable facts. It doesnt even start to get into deeper arguments about what people should or shouldnt be allowed. Its literally impossible to take away guns without huge country destroying impacts.
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 4 days ago:
I explained why you cant in a concise way and your response is the standard NPC mockery.
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 4 days ago:
We have too many guns, all you will do is take away guns from people that are not going to do anything wrong, and then make tens of millions of law abiding people into criminals.
- Comment on Ok. Now they've done it. 1 week ago:
That is a two way street, there are many people that wont be friends with trump supporters.
- Comment on Ok. Now they've done it. 2 weeks ago:
For example; you should always love your kid, but you should not necessarily accept what they chose to do or what they become.
- Comment on Ok. Now they've done it. 2 weeks ago:
Its never about “loving everyone” its about “accepting everyone”. Those are different things.
- Comment on A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up 2 months ago:
The problem is I dont know what you mean by a depression, we have had a series of recessions, and we are kicking the can down the road. And most of the dams and bridges were made BEFORE we went off the gold standard.
The problem is that you are just repeating modern monetary policy talking points and you probably will just hand wave away all these charts to some other random thing. But what you should notice is how poor people are having a hard time affording food and housing and other basic necessities. And to pretend that fiat currency isnt exactly what the rich want is just silly and makes no sense.
- Comment on A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up 2 months ago:
This is one of those unfalsifiable statements that is just used to mislead. I dont know how to answer the question.
Why are you okay with the rich getting richer at the direct expense of the poor and middle class?
- Comment on A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up 2 months ago:
Thank you for asking, as for the above example, the rates that people have on mortages are due to direct government manipulation of the interest rates and the money supply in general. As far as the other things, the big one would be the inflation they cause with harm to the middle class and poor.
- Comment on A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up 2 months ago:
This is just another example of how the government controlling money causes damage to all of us.
- Comment on What firing your PR team does to a motherfucker 2 months ago:
This should be a lesson on how culture and media shape how you feel about people.
- Comment on Jon Stewart Deconstructs Trump’s "Victimless" $450 Million Fraud | The Daily Show 2 months ago:
Because it was a bullshit case that should never have happened and people like stewart are just cheering the end of the US. I understand how people love their R or D team, but this case is so obviously nonesense that I cant understand how its not obvious.
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
Cool, I dont really know how this relates to the overall effectiveness of masks. I am going to guess that you were very cautious and took all kinds of precautions.
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
You read this far so… I think you seem to care
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
And yet here you are…
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
Great, can you quantify how effective they were? So the issue is that if almost all infection happened not in public and cloth masks are marginally useful, what the point of wearing them in public if there is no measurable benefit?
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
So wouldnt that apply to facebook also? And question are a good way of clarifying things, and pointing out flaws in people ideas. I also dont want to be smarter than anyone because that is not really controllable, I want to be wiser and more accurate in what I believe.
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
That was really the big question back in the day, and when I see spotty evidence at best for mandating something that really is the key question.
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
Is Lemmy and Reddit not cesspools?
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
I think this is the most important part of the article “Yes. When used with measures such as getting vaccinated, hand-washing and physical distancing, wearing a face mask slows how quickly the virus that causes COVID-19 spreads.” It essentially says do all the things and it will be impactful.
At what level of impact do you think masks should have been forced on people?
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
So you think that google is unbiased?
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
From all that I have seen and heard its at best split or the impact is so small that it is not noticeable. I think most of the ones that say it worked involved healthcare setting where trained people used good masks, not me at home depot with a mask from a box.
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
The issue here is that people pretended masks were very affective, and I have not seen any actual data that they were very useful. I have seen a lot of memes like the one above that pretend they were essential when the only data I ever recall seeing was they were overall 4% useful, by a pro-mask source. And if you look around there are lots of sources that said they did nothing, I dont know which is true, but lack of solid evidence seems to point to it was pointless.
Do you think masks should have been mandated indoors if they had a 4% impact? How about 0.1%?
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
They had no idea if it would work or not and had no reason to believe either way. Do you believe in checking hypothesis?
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
Yes, but that number was not related to what might work or not , it was just a number they liked based on no science.
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
Thats great, but did they actually prevent spread is the question to ask. We can start out with the hypothesis that they do work, then we need to actually confirm if that is true.
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
Most people didnt use N95 masks, they used random cloth ones and the surgical looking ones. The N95 masks are actually really good for dust, I use them all the time.
- Comment on Public trust 3 months ago:
Someone that takes in data and comes to a data driven conclusion, not an ideological driven solution.