stdclass's comments

On: EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance

[stdclass]

> Oh and honestly game chat rooms should not be private. you are part of the problem

On: Ticker: Don't die of heart disease

[stdclass]

step 1 to avoid heart disease: do NOT inject yourself with untested mRNA gene therapy with questionable safety profiles

On: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

[stdclass]

> since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies

maybe you find a suitable board on 4chan

[webspinner → stdclass]

Lol or just create one.

On: Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

[stdclass]

there are multiple documented cases of motor doping - here you can see wout van aert using motors multiple times in belgian cyclocross races in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUGNKwcbbDw

[veltas → stdclass]

That video isn't conclusive and there's a lot of debate in the comments. Personally I agree with the people saying it's explainable.

[stdclass → veltas]

in 2 of the instances you can see (if you go in 0.25x) that the wheels start spinning before torque is applied by the pedals - physically impossible. also when wout is running with the bike, it starts spinning after losing traction on the ground

On: A new form of verification on Bluesky

[stdclass]

thats why 4chan will always be 100 more honest then all these platforms

On: Pope Francis has died

[stdclass]

your username is peak irony, considering your statement

On: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

[stdclass]

well you might get downvoted, but its still true, just look what Robert Maxwell did with the PROMIS software. That was also coincidentally Mossad.

On: How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”

[stdclass]

they in fact do not check every bike, especially if you are a domestique

On: Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records

[stdclass]

Stoicism in a nutshell

On: Show HN: How does the French health pass work?

[stdclass]

Which it certainly is not, if you look at the numbers.

[maxerickson → stdclass]

People sick with corona going to events will clearly cause statistical deaths, it's not ambiguous.

[idoubtit → maxerickson]

People who drive (especially SUV) will clearly cause statistical deaths, it's not ambiguous.

[gpderetta → idoubtit]

sure and we require them to have a pass (you might know it as driving license) to mitigate the loss.

If you do not think that driving license counts, from the health angle, people with visual impairments are required to wear glasses (or have corrective surgery) to drive.

[maxerickson → idoubtit]

Sure, we make all sorts of trade offs. The other poster is arguing that people should people able to choose for themselves whether they risk infection, which isn't the point of these passes, they are a community health measure.

[input_sh → idoubtit]

Cars don't infect other cars on the road.

[preordained → input_sh]

Neither do people anymore, or at least those who aren't comfortable with that risk, since the vaccine is widely available for all...

If the vaccine works, why in the world do you care who doesn't want to take it?

[input_sh → preordained]

> since the vaccine is widely available for all...

They sure as fuck aren't. There's three countries in the world where the percentage of fully vaccinated is over 50% (two of which have <1m people, and the third one being Israel that doesn't even pretend to count Palestinians). In France that number is 14%. In my country we haven't even reached 1%.

> If the vaccine works, why in the world do you care who doesn't want to take it?

Because there are millions of people that can't receive one due to the weaker immune system, which is where herd immunity is supposed to kick in.

[nanis → maxerickson]

> People sick with corona going to events will clearly cause statistical deaths, it's not ambiguous.

People with any kind of cold symptoms going out and mingling also clearly cause statistical deaths, it's not ambiguous. Yet, we lived in a world where people did that routinely and it was left up to parents to protect their children from influenza, something far deadlier than Covid19 for them.

Also, destroying economies, livelihoods, preventing socialization, travel will also clearly cause statistical deaths, it's not ambiguous.

But, I guess, Covid19 means the saint class never owning up to their mistakes.

Beatings will continue until morale improves, I guess.

[maxerickson → nanis]

You wrote this after I said in a sibling tree that we do make all sorts of trade offs. I agree there's lots of places that we could make better ones!

[nanis → maxerickson]

> we could make better ones

Who is the "we" deciding what tradeoffs are better?

[maxerickson → nanis]

Various different 'societies'.

I mean, humans have lived as groups with rules for thousands of years, I'm not sure what you are getting at.

[Tade0 → stdclass]

Ok so the actual alternative is a non-functioning healthcare system and routine procedures suddenly becoming an issue.

So perhaps it's not death, but definitely economical stagnation.