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Open borders means open to illegal immigration.

No one is arguing that immigration isn't good.

You can have taco trucks with legal immigration.

That's not proof, it's the ramblings of a conspiracy theorist trying to put loose connections together.

They even threw in a tirade about Trump to top it off.

But yeah, let's throw away an entire country's election because of the ramblings of Victor Ilie.

Thank God he put it all together and saved Romania. No investigation needed, he figured it out.

Yes, as I said, as of right now they have not been held liable, only the voters have been punished by having their votes revoked.

The voters were apparently too stupid and got tricked by scary russian ads, so we must re-do the elections until they come to their senses and pick the correct candidate.

It's TikTok's fault for letting Russian ads in, so we'll take some of their money and we'll also stay in power. Win-win for the establishment.

It couldn't possibly be that the voters knew exactly what they were voting for... They're too gullible, that's it.

Okay, so where is the proof he asked for the help?

No those two things are clear to me.

First, yes they will be re-ran, and it's doubtful the winning candidate will even get to run. Also, where does it end, do we keep re-running it until we get the right candidate? What if it was the candidate you voted for, how would you feel?

Second, yes apparently you can, it happened. If the whole country was able to be swayed by TikTok ads but apparently no politicians noticed then they aren't very good at politicking or governing. If they noticed an issue they should have dealt with TikTok earlier.

So far TikTok hasn't been held liable, only the voters who choose to vote for this candidate.

He's not talking about getting someone elected, the inverse actually.

An analogy would be buying github stars or reddit upvotes for an adversary to get them banned.

Elon companies spend $0 on traditional advertisements and only advertise through word of mouth, viral/social campaigns, etc.

Many celebrities do the same as well via their social media presence.

So next time Russia should buy ads for the candidate they want to lose.

1. Buy ads for opposition.

2. Opposition reports invalid figures not accounting for russian ads

3. People accuse opposition of being helped by russia and misreporting funds.

4. Opposition wins, recount stays the same, courts annul it because russia.

Am I missing something here?

When people talk about mosquito eradication programs, they're talking about subspecies that suck blood and carry the major diseases like malaria. Not all mosquitos.

Developing X allows villians to use X to do Y.

Yes and you still get bit in the US but malaria is a thing of the past.

The point is not to get rid of all mosquitos, just the disease-carrying ones.

> One could say that it's the intent which varies between a heart transplant and an Azrec blood sacrifice.

Heart transplants are from consenting donors that have recently diseased, not living victims murdered solely for their organs. Blood sacrifices do not involve taking the heart and saving a live either. So no intent is not the variance there.

Your guardians consented to the shots because your brain wasn't developed enough to make your decision.

For mosquitoes, nature doesn't require consent, but humans are put on another standard.

Or do you think that because nature does something, humans are free to do it to themselves, like murder?

A wild bear will kill you, so therefore a human can kill another human right?

They're not putting shots into the mosquitos. They're modifying the parasite the mosquito injects that lives in your liver.

When you were 7, did you yearn for modified parasites?

Alright, now go ask all of your neighbors if they want a genetically modified parasite injected into them. If everyone is okay with it, then proceed.

Yes, we've been doing it for awhile in the US.

Thailand has also done it with great success.

It seems to me the people here think it's a good idea because they know they won't be dropped on them, they'll be dropped in other countries.

The countries they live in are malaria free because they eradicated the disease-carrying mosquitos and developed their healthcare system.

Developing the healthcare system of a country helps with more diseases and keeps consent. It also doesn't open you up for a potential biological weapon if some entity decided to misuse it (Russia, CIA, etc.)

Do you know the extent of injecting modified parasites on the human population?

And yes, many places have eradicated mosquitos with no shift in the ecosystem.

It's pretty much the one creature that all animals would love to have eradicated or at the very least mitigated.

Do you think it's okay to kill a human because other animals kill humans?

Just because nature does something, doesn't mean it's okay to allow humans to do it.

Thailand and many asian countries have eradicated the troubling mosquitos (not entirely but with great success, especially in urban areas)

The US has also had great success in their eradication and mitigation programs.

We can get rid of disease-carrying mosquitos, many countries do it.

You can modify them to not reproduce if you're modifying them already for this instance.

If it's a matter of "won't" then we should ask "why not", instead of allowing someone to do this.

Yeah and some animals kill humans, does that mean it's okay to kill humans too?

Right now you can consent to get a malaria vaccine, no covert parasite needed.

If the counter that it is for poorer populations, I'd still say you may want to ask them if they want to be injected with a genetically modified parasite. If one single person doesn't want to be in the area, you shouldn't do it. Would you support them dropping these in your neighborhood?

How is it great? It's the equivalent of someone coming up to you with a needle full of something and stabbing you with it (that they already stabbed other people with) without your consent.

I just don't see how injecting people with genetically modified parasites without their consent is "great".

Yeah let's not do this. I'd rather we eradicate the mosquitos themselves.

What could go wrong with nonconsensual, covert, forced mass injections.

Today it's used for malaria, tomorrow?

When releasing these mosquitos, will they be getting consent of everyone in the area?

It's not really complex, GP is correct.

High energy prices cause high transportation and manufacturing costs which causes everything else to rise.

But the main cause of inflation is printing of money, especially when you introduce such a large amount in such a short time.

People used to know that, they either pretend it's not true now or they're ignorant.

And yes the "bad faith" parrot line is really annoying and doesn't contribute to the conversation. It's what people say when they don't have a rebuttal.

tldr: stress

When I was teaching my wife how to play shooters I had to study how I was using my left hand on the keyboard.

I noticed that the WASD placement excluded the middle finger. Once you lift it up and keep it hovering, the pinky hitting A, the ring hitting W and S and the index hitting D, it's very easy to dance them.

I find the middle finger much less responsive than other fingers due to tendon connections (it is much stronger though as another user noted for bowling)

I am left handed but I do use the PC like a "normal" person. She is right handed and she played noticeably better once doing this.

The other major thing was to avoid cross talk between hands. Full aiming related things on the right, full movement related things on the left. (grenades, aimed abilities, etc. on mouse keys)

Related note: in paintball, you feather the trigger with the index and middle finger as they are the fastest. The pinky is also fast but the ring is so slow that doesn't work. Middle and ring is slow for the same reason.

TLDR: ring is your muscle finger, other fingers are more agile.

metal spatulas scrape. there's non-stick dishes to worry about.

and I thought of the sunny episode when I read your comment.

"just in case is as good a reason as any to believe in something", whether it's monkey paws, throwing salt over your shoulder, knocking on wood, etc.

headless browsers won't work by default for cloudflare captchas.

open source stealth plugins don't really work now either.

you have to use real browser fingerprints.

It sure does have consequences.

Easy to split the atom, not so easy to vote (correctly) apparently.

I guess we'll keep shipping it around and storing it onsite, even though a massive facility is already built to house all of it.

Maybe one day people will realize the establishment you keep voting in doesn't want cheap and unlimited energy.

Until then, let's keep talking in circles about it.