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Tribalism plus a desire for more socially acceptable ways to signal your racism, perhaps?

Shh. You’ve already said too much. There are eyes and ears everywhere. You will be contacted 30 minutes before the drop.

I’ll tell you, but you must first send me 5 BTC

Yeah, it really doesn’t resonate the way it’s intended until you’re over 160 years old

To test stuff. It's right there in the title.

Well, speaking of China and Taiwan: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/1076246311/chinas-ambassador-to-the-u-s-warns-of-military-conflict-over-taiwan

My take is slightly different. I think we have significant capabilities here, but also that we don't want to use this "smaller" Ukraine incursion to show the various tricks we have up our sleeves... that we'll reserve certain cyber capabilities for "bigger" issues. But predictions are hard, especially about the future. Meanwhile, KJU in North Korea has done six missile tests just this month — equal to all of 2021 — and has called on NK to prepare for “long-term confrontation.” Good times.

US is sending javelin anti-tank missiles into Ukraine.

No, it just softens the blow a tiny bit… like getting kicked in the nuts still hurts even when wearing a cup, but the cup does help… to MAYBE make Europe slightly less resistant to engaging or sanctioning. No pun intended, eh Nord Stream

US has agreed to supplement fuel supply to Europe in what seems likely to be an attempt by the US to blunt Putins threats to cutoff Russian fuel sources to Europe if they respond to his Ukraine invasion.

I’m not seeing evidence that loss of staff from resignations due to vaccine mandate will cause more deaths than unvaccinated staff being around vulnerable patients.

Which one confirms please?

Where exactly was it established that vaccine mandates worsen staffing shortages… so much worse, in fact, that mandating vaccines is more detrimental to patient wellbeing than allowing unvaccinated healthcare workers to continue working directly with vulnerable and immunocompromised patient populations? Asking bc I’m 99.99% sure you’ve evaded this question the other 7 or 12 times it’s been asked if you.

We have a shortage of truck / lorry drivers. We clearly MUST stop expecting them to get a proper license before heading out on to our roads and into our towns! Pfft... Expecting drivers to prove their skill and willingness to apply the brakes early and often before getting behind the wheel... Where will this tyranny end!!1!!one!2!1!

Words from the speaker are like a bucket of paint being thrown toward us. The receiver or listener is then a screen through which that paint passes. Each screen differs based on innate abilities and past experience, and it’s only after being screened that the listener observes the splatter pattern and colors in an attempt to decipher what the painter threw. Plato’s allegory of the cave. We don’t ever see the object directly, only the shadow it casts into our minds.

Others already correctly noted that this bogeyman argument hasnt come to pass in essentially any situation where it’s been discussed. I think less than 2% of those threatening to resign actually did. Same with NYC firefighters, teachers, and healthcare workers in other regions. How about you confirm quit rates are actually rising before using it as an argument against healthcare workers vaccinating? Reasons generally involve being misinformed and ignorant of the facts. Those who know most are most likely to vaccinate. Those who know least are most likely to avoid it. You mean the same government who already mandates other vaccines for those very same workers and has for decades? Actually, my view is that unhealthy people seeking care should not be subjected to unvaccinated healthcare workers and that healthcare workers who don’t get vaccinated ought to find another profession where their refusal to vaccinate isn’t further raising the risk for already high risk individuals. I guess it’s a good thing then that I’ve shared my reasons for that dismissal and presented reasonable arguments in support of it.

First of all, I’m not the only one correcting you,or offering replies. Resident experts here have engaged you repeatedly as well and they’ve cited multiple works in support of their stance. Those URLs aren’t there just to make a post look pretty or decorate them, you know. Second of all, what do you wish me to reply to? Happy to answer, but need to remind you that “conclusive” is subjective and as I’ve noted you very much appear emotionally attached to your conclusions. In those situations, more data doesn’t tend to change views… and lots and lots of data has already been provided to you… so forgive me for not taking your request too seriously.

Given the almost 12 different threads where your misconceptions and seeming inability to grasp scale or probabilities and how very many times you’ve already been corrected, and given how you just keep repeating the same silly claims over and over and over … yes. A little humor seemed appropriate.

Like I said: I’m fine with contrary views. I’m not, however, fine with willful ignorance and ideologically informed selfishness in the face of global pandemics.

Like moving into Taiwan or Hong Kong while we’re distracted, perhaps? I can see that, but feel they’re not that tone deaf and wouldn’t do that the same time global media is covering them nonstop with the Olympics.

I don’t feel like quibbling, but overall yes. I’d be comfortable calling those models. YMMV

The US has now put 8,500 troops across Europe in high alert and begun propositioning forces in allied countries. This signals a shift in our deployment footprint and is an acknowledgment that conflict is almost surely coming. The thing to watch next is air units like F-18s and related support like AWACS for early warning coming in to surrounding countries like Romania and Poland. If that happens, it’ll be a sign US is flexing and trying to look muscular, and more precisely that we felt the need to so.