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The ideas in the blog post are good, but the title is terrible; deplatforming is a synonym for censorship, which is a weird thing for the CEO of Mozilla to advocate for. The ideas would be better received if they were presented as an alternative to deplatforming.

> vaccination.

One of the vaccines was recalled due to causing potentially fatal blood clots: https://www.pfpdocs.com/jj-vaccine-recall

We used to think that the idea of humans wiping out species was absurd; after all, there are so many animals out there that us puny humans can't possibly kill all of them. Maybe its the same with interstellar resources; once we master space travel, our energy needs will grow to an absurd amount.

I'm currently alive, and I still don't know what they're used for.

> it’s unclear if Van Sabben knew exactly what he was doing, but his family said he appeared to have panicked at around the time of the Stuxnet attack.

It was his family who said that he started panicking, so he was probably involved.

I'm pretty sure you can pay cash in most gas stations. You just have to pay to the clerk, instead of at the pump.

Based on that article, it doesn't sound like Harvard is allowing them, it sounds like they have no power to stop them, since they're protesting near Harvard.

What do you mean "Harvard allows the Westboro Church"? Harvard has no power over the church.

If someone at Harvard was publicly advocating for killing black people, I have no doubt that they would be immediately expelled. So freedom of speech doesn't apply here.

> copying the random image from the internet into photoshop and start modifying it could lead you into trouble

That's only if you intend to sell the resulting image, right? If you just post it online for free then it should be fine

I suspect the number is that high because Chinese people are scared what their government would do to them if they criticized it.

Looking into it, there's a theory that this parasite started out as a cancer cell of a more complex organism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6343361/

I must be missing something here; if I understand this right, the woman set her dad's house on fire in 2013, the police ignore her for 10 years, and then suddenly they decide to investigate her? Are New Zealand police that backed up that it takes a decade for them to complete an arson investigation?

> you can extract the dna from a strawberry and poke it

You can extract some sort of goo from strawberries that your teacher claims is DNA, but I don't think there's any actual way for a high schooler to verify that it is DNA.

So, you use the salt as a rinse aid?

Isn't that how the first internet started? I assume most early adopters were also based in NA and Europe.

It looks like the people the author complains about are pretty intolerant, and they promote hate speech by calling the people they disagree with Nazis. So following the paradox of tolerance, they are the ones who should be banned, right?

So if I brought African food to work with me, and ate it during lunch with my co-workers, that would be cultural appropriation?

> Furthermore, for many cultures, the clothing that most recognizably signals membership is related to some form of cultural or religious ritual, and wearing it outside of that context can be very disrespectful

Fair enough; it would be wrong for me to wear a soldier's uniform if I've never served in the army.

Still, I can't help but feel that complaining about cultural appropriation is just a way to maintain USA's cultural dominance. The message seems to be: It's fine for Americans to spread their culture, but it's wrong for other countries to do the same.

What's so special about food? Why is it cultural appropriation to wear African clothes, but not appropriation to cook African food? Both are important parts of their culture.

I don't think we'll ever find out. There's no incentive for the Chinese government to investigate this issue, and plenty of incentives to keep it hidden.

It's also a more convenient theory for the Chinese government. Its much less embarrassing to say "The virus came from rednecks eating weird things" than it is to say "The virus came from a government funded lab".

Eh, it's easy to say that someone else should risk their business to do what's right, it's a lot harder to actually do that yourself.

If it helps catch other bugs, that seems like a good thing.

> Turns out when you hunt large mammals in a group, the statistical physical advantages men have don't really matter all that much

Even if women and men are equal in their hunting skill, it would still make evolutionary sense for women not to participate in the hunts. Hunting large mammals is dangerous, and men are more disposable than women. If a tribe loses most of its men, it can still survive since a single man can impregnate multiple women. Whereas if a tribe loses most of its women it is far more likely to die out.

> it was never claimed that the vaccine prevented catching covid The president of the United States made that exact claim: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-governm...

Here is a paper that claims that there was no correlation between vaccination rates and an increase in covid cases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/

> Great, they're on track for 150k EV sales this year. Tesla will sell ~2M units, 4x total Mercedes Benz annual volume.

What does that have to do with autonomous driving? The statements "Tesla makes more electric vehicles than Mercedes-Benz" and "Mercedes-Benz has a better autopilot program than Tesla" are in no way contradictory.

I assume the poster meant that the infected are more social before they start having symptoms

Sanderson's villains do have their own shades of grey, even if it isn't quite as emphasized as in GRRM's books. The villain of the first Mistborn book was genuinely trying to keep the world safe; he was just terrible at it, and he had an evil god whispering in his ear for a thousand years. The Parshendi are first shown as just villains, but later books show their side of the story and they become far more sympathetic.