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the_nybbler 3 points ago +3 / -0

Joe Manchin is a Democratic politician.

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the_nybbler 10 points ago +10 / -0

Delta is more infectious than Alpha and ancestral variants, but not any more dangerous to those infected.

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the_nybbler 9 points ago +9 / -0

Since Delta, the efficacy of the vaccine has been in doubt. It seems to be completely worthless against infection with Omicron (and despite claims otherwise from both sides, there isn't enough data yet to determine whether it works against serious disease with Omicron). The booster is a scam; you're boosting your levels of antibodies with very poor affinities to current variants, but since antibody levels decay exponentially, you won't get those high levels for long, so the booster advantage will fade quickly.

The promise of mRNA was quick adaptation to new variants. They haven't done that -- we're still using vaccines based on an extinct virus strain -- so the advantage has been squandered.

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the_nybbler 18 points ago +18 / -0

Doesn't say how many black students were admitted on merit. (I'm pretty sure it's a very round number).

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the_nybbler 1 point ago +1 / -0

Unless you're an employer, you can't ignore it. The HR drones at your employer insist you give show them a vaccine card; if you don't, you're fired, no recourse, no unemployment.

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the_nybbler 4 points ago +4 / -0

Bing has censored it also; was there a cheese pizza infestation?

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the_nybbler 15 points ago +15 / -0

OK, violent threats work. Not the way I'd prefer things, but you have to deal with things the way they are, not how you'd wish them to be.

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the_nybbler 2 points ago +2 / -0

I know the real or fake reason for most of these, but "brainstorm"? Do they think it comes from the Daily Stormer?

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the_nybbler 3 points ago +3 / -0

And the store did the right thing and refused to fire him. But most stores have strict policies against defending the store from robbers, because they're afraid of liability. They made their choice; let them stew in it.

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the_nybbler 4 points ago +4 / -0

"Free society". Concentration camps for COVID patients. Exit restrictions. Intranational travel restrictions. Uh, no.

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the_nybbler 7 points ago +7 / -0

Ah, yes, the power of the question. Tomas de Torqemada would approve.

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the_nybbler 3 points ago +3 / -0

Less than half a million Japanese got nuked to death, and that was an act of war, not a mass killing by a ruling government.

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the_nybbler 3 points ago +3 / -0

The unions even filed several last-minute cases in lefty circuits to increase the chances that someplace like the Ninth would get to hear the case.

Didn't matter, though; they did the lottery with equal chances for each circuit, not each case, and cases had already been filed in every circuit from the state attorneys-general.

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the_nybbler 11 points ago +11 / -0

They consolidated all the cases from all the attorneys general, plus the private cases (like the one into the Fifth Circuit), into one and gave it to the Sixth Circuit by lottery. An unusual but not unprecedented procedure.

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the_nybbler 21 points ago +21 / -0

I'm sure it's perfectly reasonable to expect London to be full of Australian aborigines, but I'm not sure why.

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the_nybbler 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah, I know, but even for the rulers, the economic model was crazypants. You don't want to have to be literally fed by your capitalist pig enemies, the way the USSR was.

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the_nybbler 11 points ago +11 / -0

Probably someone salty about the RIttenhouse verdict.

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the_nybbler 3 points ago +3 / -0

He was never charged with anything related to bringing in the rifle from Illinois. The only people who accused him of that were leftists.

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the_nybbler 2 points ago +2 / -0

That's pretty crazy. Most people who grew up in the USSR sensibly want nothing to do with its economic model, even if they enjoy the whole totalitarian thing.

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the_nybbler 1 point ago +1 / -0

At a minimum, the item has to actually be lost with the owner unreachable. You don't get to see someone drop something then pick it up and keep it while making no attempt to return it.

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