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So, after creating a new member profile, you require every requester to unscramble polite words for 10 minutes before they post? Okay, that might work for day 1, but then the effect falls off when they return next week / next month. Even if the effect the persistent, the marginal ROI this would bring doesn't IMO seem to warrant the burden this would place on new members. It adds a lot perceptual friction to the process and a massive percentage of people will simply refuse and close their browser never to return. It's an interesting study, though.

Out of the 130,000+ troops Russia has amassed along the Ukraine border, Russia has CLAIMED they're going to pull back about 10K of them. They have not yet done so, so you (or at least Maria Z, the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation... obviously not an objective 3rd party commenter) seem to be putting proverbial carts before obvious war horses. Meanwhile, the US is relocating its Ukraine embassy Kyiv to the western city of Lviv, a city not stuck in the middle of the country and located roughly 50 miles from Ukraine's western border with Poland, "out of concern for the safety of the staff." We also know through hundreds of crowdsourced videos being shared across platforms that there are literally TONS of Russian military equipment and units still moving TOWARD the Ukrainian border. Things like Russian citizens sharing videos of tanks rolling through their local roads and highways. More Americans are also right now being deployed to Europe in response.

Or a Trump rally

So now you’re telling people what their gender actually is after they’ve explained that you’re wrong and have corrected you?

Like the NSA, for example? Or maybe in confidential nuclear weapon and bioweaponry research settings? Actually, I believe the word you're looking for is "hyperbole."

He continues to evade. His “excuse” is he’s not here in good faith

To be clear, I never said I would, nor is there any onus on me to do so. All I did was ask what it would take to change your mind. I never said I would bother trying to change it myself. Given the ludicrously tight questions you've asked, I see this as a complete and total waste of my time. You're the type of poster who will just dismiss any answers, misrepresent them, and instead pivot to some other justification for your preferred conclusion. Cheers.

This view is pretty insightful into why the court is currently made up the way it is. https://www.vox.com/2022/2/14/22925457/supreme-court-senate-confirmation-ketanji-brown-jackson-leondra-kruger-michelle-childs

An interesting take here that's extremely thread relevant (from Axios):

Depends on what you mean by valuable and in what context. An old tool that belonged to my grandfather is valuable to me, but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t get more than $1-2 if I tried selling it. Likewise, there’s certain sports memorabilia that would sell for tens of thousands of dollars, but couldn’t care less about it. My tool is worth more to me. If I need plants pollinated and honey to survive hypoglycemia then bees are more valuable, but if I have an issue with caterpillars eating my crops or insects and other pests making us ill, then the wasps are more valuable. The only answer is “it depends.” Value has many meanings, and rather often cannot be measured nor counted at all (I value my child’s health, for example, but cannot offer a number to explain how much).

Obligatory xkcd reference FREE SPEECH

Do you also arrive to a friends house when they invite you over for dinner, proudly proclaim how you’ve had dinner everywhere and bemoan their menu selection, then start shitting on their carpet and pissing on the furniture and condemning them for not decorating the exact same way you would?

https://www.grid.news/story/misinformation/2022/02/08/the-hacked-account-and-suspicious-donations-behind-the-canadian-trucker-protests/

Which government? Covid is a global problem, aka a pandemic.

You should aspire to generalizing and stereotyping less.

Please clarify. Are you suggesting here that when a diabetic gets covid and dies it was really the diabetes that killed them?

It seems Russian media is sharing fake videos claiming US troops are currently occupying Ukraine to drum up support back home for invasion.

Indeed. Meant resistance and ability to minimize need for hospitalization, not immunity. Thx for calling that out ✌️

Not entirely. It really depends on which variant is being considered. The vaccine seems to confer immunity to more variants and for longer than natural immunity in most cases. The very best possible immunity seems to come, however, from having both vaccine AND natural infection.

They’ve been substantiated repeatedly, even right here in this very thread. Pretending otherwise and lashing out at me and my character doesn’t change that. Which is obviously why I also mentioned Ayn Rand style selfishness and caricatured libertarianism. You know, the part of the quote you stripped out. Your problem is with the politics of how this is being handled. That’s totally fine, but you’re also trying to bootstrap your opposition with false claims about efficacy and by misrepresenting the data and pretending it doesn’t exist, even when the posts your quoting clearly confirm otherwise with the links contained right there within. It’s bad faith argumentation at best, or more simply just lying and spreading disinformation while accusing others of same like a good little Goebbels acolyte. It’s a type of trolling that isn’t new, specifically sealioning like TheVat already said (and he was upvoted for recognizing it accurately and calling it out). Strawman much? In case you care, your downvotes come from dumb shit like this, not your “questioning of the standard line.” Let’s start fresh: Name what evidence we could share that would change your mind on this topic. You’ll likely ask for something that’s already been shared, but if it’s a new request it surely could be.

And? Joe Rogan also has a large fan base. That doesn’t mean he’s correct when recommending horse dewormer for the treatment of Covid. Pretty sure small penises and weak insecure minds is a better explanation. What about the copious data I already provided in previous posts do you feel needs supplementing?

Your opinion means a lot to me. I’m broken right now. Downright shattered by your harsh views and dislike of this community. I may never recover. Rejecting creationism and acknowledging the validity of evolution… supporting the evidence backed consensus position of natural selection… does not mean there’s an echo chamber, bruised egos, nor closed mindedness at play. Dismissing deniers of anthropogenic climate change… supporting the evidence backed consensus position on the primary drivers of global warming… does not mean there’s an echo chamber, bruised egos, nor closed mindedness at play. In much the same way, having no more patience for this sort of anti-vaccination foolishness and Ayn Rand style childish libertarianism in now year 3 of a global pandemic… a pandemic that’s already claimed 6,000,000 lives… and supporting the evidence backed consensus position on vaccine safety and efficacy does not mean there’s an echo chamber, bruised egos, nor closed mindedness at play. We know your type. You’re not the first to come here acting this way. You won’t be the last. You’re simply on the wrong side of this one, and every one else is tired of your tired obstinacy, your willful ignorance, your type of selfishness, and your misguided ideological bullshit and disingenuous presentations of evidence. Summarized: Right. Whatever. Cheerio.

Right. Whatever. Cheerio

Think bigger. We’ve been saying this for 5+ years and have been wrong each time.

Maybe you can first explain your reason for doing down voting the entire thread. I imagine others have responded to that Anyway, I’ve given you one or two for arguing in bad faith, like bitching about nobody supplying citations when the post you quoted and responded to when making that accusation was itself full of citations. Indeed