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CountDrewkuon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

The only thing I mentioned that has anything to do with a study is the 3-6 month boosters.

The rest is my personal choice to not take a booster.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0620 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34706170/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114114?query=fe...

It looks like it possibly starts waning at 2 months. So if we're requiring everyone needs to be fully vaccinated with mandates then boosters start at 2 months to be safe. By that measure large portions of our population are not fully vaccinated at this point. No thanks...

CountDrewkuon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

Why should I assume it won't?

I'm not in a high risk group. I do not need to worry about COVID. Until like a few weeks ago there was no one telling me I needed a booster no data backing up anyone taking it in a low risk group.

CountDrewkuon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

You're straw-manning.

I didn't say it was data for anything. I said personally I won't be taking a booster for those reasons. Data for what it does on average to everyone else is not data for what it does to my system.

CountDrewkuon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

Yes I had a horrible reaction to the 2nd dose. So did everyone I know. Yes it's possible the real thing might be worse for me but I'm going to take my chances. I will not be taking a booster. I'm healthy, exercise regularly and I'm not in the age group that's high-risk.

There are studies showing the vaccine isn't even effective at 3 months. There's no way I'm dealing with that shot every 3-6 months.

CountDrewkuon Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

The /s means they're being sarcastic.

CountDrewkuon Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand

Mine's at +3 and I just assumed my hearing was shit so stopped there. Glad to see it's not me it's streaming. I might actually consider going back to in mail Netflix blu-ray for better quality.

CountDrewkuon What This Professor Wishes People Knew About the Real Causes of Low Back Pain

McGill is the man. I suggest his book Back Mechanic to anyone dealing with back issues. I blew my back out last year. I assume it was either a very bad bulge or herniated completely. I could barely walk for 2 weeks, excruciating sciatic pain every time I stood, to the point I was in tears.

Granted, my mother went through similar issues at the same age so I kinda knew what I was dealing with. Anyway, suggestions from the book I'm back doing squats and deadlifts in the weightroom. I ski and mountain bike regularly as well. I get occasional pain but if I take a day off as soon as I'm aware it usually feels better quickly.

He's very against surgery except in emergency situation where you can't go to the bathroom or lose feeling/motion in your legs. In most cases your back will heal in a similar amount of time without surgery.

One suggestion I have is DO NOT SIT FOR LONG PERIODS. Sitting is awful for you. Walk and stand during your breaks at work if you're in an office job. If you can get your employer to buy a desk that allows you to stand at least some of the time that is also very helpful. Follow his big 3 exercises or get to the gym and do something to strengthen the muscles in your back.

CountDrewkuon Crypto unlikely to survive as investment if unregulated, SEC chairman says

Isn't the entire appeal of crypto is that it's not regulated? Why the hell would I want it if it's controlled just like a fiat currency. That means it's susceptible to idiotic government decisions right?

The only reason our regulatory masters every say this shit is because they want a piece of the pie for themselves. You see it in every industry where they're not getting a cut.... oh gambling very very bad! Regulate the hell out of it and now it's fine to have sports betting and all sorts of other "sin" pleasures available.

Then there's always this "guarantee" that the tax dollars will go to the children except they pull the rug out on other money that was previously going there.

CountDrewkuon Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order

It's gonna increase as these streaming services continue popping up for every single network and forcing you to pay ridiculous rates to see everything you want. I'm now back paying exactly what I did for cable/dish back in the day.

CountDrewkuon Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order

Nah HotBot and AskJeeves didn't have a problem back in the day. Google sounded just as ridiculous when it came out.

CountDrewkuon Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?

Speaking of bubbles I think you're stuck in a bubble that only applies to your career choice.

I highly doubt your emergency services just get the choice to work when they feel best.

CountDrewkuon Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?

Are you on a 32 hour or 40 hour week? I would not go back either but 10 hour days are exhausting. I go work out and eat when I get off work and then I pretty much have to go to bed.

CountDrewkuon Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?

Yeah I don't understand this mentality. You're paying for finished work not hours. People cannot seem to separate themselves from the hourly concept. If you want finished work faster then who cares about the hours?

All you're doing by requiring a certain amount of hours is ensuring the employee stretches out the time it takes to get things done.

CountDrewkuon Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth

I don't think I'd ever give this to a kid but it looks like a great gag gift for adults.

CountDrewkuon Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?

Are you suggesting the employer never sees your face? This response makes no sense. They will see you at some point in the process regardless of whether it's on linkedin or in person at the interview. Physical appearance is part of life, it's no more discriminatory than refusing to hire stupid or mentally deficient people.

CountDrewkuon Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?

>My physical appearance should have nothing to do with my hireabilty

I don't necessarily agree. There are jobs where appearance is important, especially customer facing ones.

And I'm sure I'll catch flak for this but if you're obese, slovenly, or unhealthy looking that kinda has to factor in. I would certainly question how well you could handle a job if you can't even handle your personal life. Discrimination sucks but it's just a reality. Everyone does it, and sometimes it's a necessary "evil".

I think if you've got good resume showing your aptitude most places are going to care less about your appearance. Besides, they're going to see your face in the interview anyway. So, if you think your appearance is causing companies to avoid you they're not going to suddenly change when you show up for the interview and you're probably just wasting your time.

CountDrewkuon As calls to ban books intensify, digital librarians offer perspective

Depends on how they're being taught. If they're being used as examples of what a religion is then no. If they're being used like Lawn Boy to brainwash kids into thinking pedophilia is acceptable then no. Maybe you should ask whether you'd be ok with a religious class where we teach that everyone should be a good Christian?

Let me know when the ACLU takes the same stance on LGBTQ books because right now I'd put them squarely in the same category as religion. People have a cult like adherence to LGBTQ ideology.

https://www.aclu.org/other/statement-bible-public-schools-fi...

CountDrewkuon As calls to ban books intensify, digital librarians offer perspective

See above. Plenty of easily found examples if you actually do research and don't accept the MSM narrative that it's only a legal theory and not found in public schools.

CountDrewkuon As calls to ban books intensify, digital librarians offer perspective

https://thepostmillennial.com/25-public-school-districts-use...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-worst-examples-of-crit...

There's the first lovely one that literally has a picture of devil equating it to being white. Yes it's a conservative source, feel free to disprove it.

Ibram X. Kendhi race grifting CRT stance has been implemented into curriculum in several school districts as well.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/24/north-carolina...

The 1619 project has been accepted in many school districts

https://www.newsweek.com/u-s-schools-have-openly-taught-1619...

Oh and you have this lovely teacher that accepted these racist ideas and decided to segregate her classroom based on race

https://news.yahoo.com/atlanta-elementary-school-segregated-...

And don't bother with the CRT is a legal theory only taught in colleges. Yes that's the original source but all of this stuff present in k-12 is a downstream effect of that same thinking. Label it whatever you want, it's racist and needs to stop.

CountDrewkuon Clothes from 8k Years Ago Were Made from Trees, New Research Suggests

I'd argue that having some light clothing to wick away moisture is better than wearing your birthday suit. Additionally having a bit of protection for certain parts is a good idea when you're running through brush and doing things that are likely to do abrasive things to your skin.

CountDrewkuon California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide

You're most likely not going to get concrete evidence from China. So, we go with the facts we have which all point to a leak in the Wuhan lab. If you have a better theory feel free to posit it. This is how science works, you draw a conclusion based on evidence. If other evidence disproves it then you change. The animal/bat patient zero theory hasn't produced any evidence.

CountDrewkuon California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide

What in the world are you going on about? That's a pitiful attempt at gaslighting.

In this example you're the creationist denying the ever growing evidence. You'd be the one out there calling Darwin a scam artist.

There's one of two things going on here:

1. You're ignorant of what's actually going on. 2. You're malicious

You can be forgiven for #1 but you really need to take your blinders off and maybe consider some different news sources.

CountDrewkuon As calls to ban books intensify, digital librarians offer perspective

k-12 students are not adults. We ban and censor all sorts of things for the the underage crowd, look up CIPA. There are borderline pedophilia books available at school libraries. I've also seen several examples of incredibly racist CRT books in classrooms.

I don't think young kids should have unfettered access to this stuff. They're not able to process it correctly.

If communities are saying they do not want this is classrooms then I think that's the way it should be. Schools don't get to be an authoritarian decision maker on how everyone's kids should be raised.

Aside from the censorship issue I'd rather my tax dollars go to more useful stuff than smut books.

CountDrewkuon California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide

All indications point to it coming from a laboratory even if they cannot pinpoint the exact one or 100% prove it. Statistically it's likely it came from the WUHAN lab, you know in the town it started. The correlation is too high to be ignored.

The NIH has been caught funding gain of function there.

So, sure go ahead and dismiss it as conspiracy but at this point you're the one sounding more like a conspiracy theorist by denying the ever growing evidence.

CountDrewkuon California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide

The alternative is that the people doing it are complete imbeciles. Which is it? Do you think they're so mentally deficient they don't understand what they're doing? Or are they doing it for a malevolent reason?

I happen to think it's the latter. It may just be as simple as wanting to stay in office or to bump their numbers up and appear to be doing more than they are. I refuse believe there are this many clueless individuals in high ranking positions.

CountDrewkuon California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide

And that's a completely racist argument. The irony in the people pushing these ideas is astounding. They've basically taken an easy political out and instead of doing the hard work and realizing that African Americans can meet the same standards they've basically just said "nah they're too stupid so we'll lower our standards to make their grades look better."

CountDrewkuon California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide

>After what we have learned the last 30-50 years from cognitive sciences one has to wonder what schools are actually for, nowadays. There are most certainly not optimized for "learning" by any means.

They're daycares and increasingly being used to spread propaganda.

This idea that ANYONE will be helped by giving them a free pass needs to stop. No minority will have an improved life by saying they are too mentally deficient to learn hard things. This is a political game where politicians refuse to recognize that fixing this is not an easy slap a bill in place an everything will be better. I think what they're hoping is that they can "fix" the numbers to show higher achievement by lowering standards and get voted back into office. We'll certainly be feeling the negative effects of these sorts of policies in a few decades if this bullshit continues.

CountDrewkuon Winamp

Form over function. So, yep not what Winamp is about.

CountDrewkuon Toyota Forms ‘Team Japan’ to Help Keep Combustion Engine Alive

Beaten? Do you think we're having some sort of pissing contest here? Go to Facebook if that's your goal. I stated from the beginning this issue is that the batteries cannot provide power long enough to sustain off-road trips or long distance towing. You'd know that if you actually read the comments instead of worrying about besting me.

Why aren't you replacing all of the ICE vehicles right now? What happened is I pointed out the obvious EV flaw and you completed avoided it by discussing other irrelevant issues, like high torque. Try some hubris. Being in the military certainly doesn't negate ineptness these days.

CountDrewkuon Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

Yeah that totally flew over my head. I hear stuff like that enough though that it isn't far off from what a lot of people actually believe.