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Nice. :cool:

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I think Chester got frustrated at the idea of having to argue using facts and reality and decided leprechauns would work better. Each to his own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cLmMqbhYtA :heart:

I never specified a "two-week" lockdown and the article says a "few" weeks. New Zealand did five and did them early and there are no new cases today, ...

You still haven't read this right or you've just lost touch with reality? https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be933709...

No, the lesson is that if you lockdown early and lockdown hard, less people die. And you don't fuck up your economy as much.

Guess what? It worked. Just like we kept telling you it would. Early lockdown = less time needed on lockdown = less deaths + less economic disruption ...

Stick with it. It suits you. :up:

Nice avatar. Makes you look a lot smarter than your posts would suggest.

Holy shit, you mean vox got this wrong. :scream:

What are you going to do, force people to have kids? Below the replacement rate, the English are dying out. That's fine by me, but I thought for some ...

It's the demographics not the numbers. E.g. http://aei.pitt.edu/11030/1/20090203155203_SCOPE2008-3_2_JoanMuyken.pdf You don't hit the replacement rate...

Seems to me the prevalent mood of philosophy is deflationism and silentism on the big questions rather than nihilism/relativism. "Whereof one cannot s...

@"Chester" Without a lot of immigrants your country will die, not just economically, but in every way. Like most Western European countries, you're no...

Yes, our friends the insurance companies value FREEDOM too. All AMERICAN FREEDOM. :death:

Why wouldn't the PEOPLE want a healthcare system optimized to make profits for insurance companies that costs twice as much as one optimized for provi...

Yesterday, the IHME model (the one Trump keeps quoting) was predicting 75,000 total deaths in the US from COVID by August. Today, it's at 135,000. htt...

We couldn't work it out either.

There has never been an instance where N-word flaming hasn't led to a ban and there probably never will be.

Just want to add that if anyone loses it and flames wildly and the flame contravenes the racism/homophobia/sexism guidelines, the most likely result w...

Yes, I'll put it this way, on the information we have to date, lockdowns appear justified and appear to be working. But there are too many variables t...

We're too drunk to find shops after 5.

Ireland's behaviour pre-lockdown affects their caseload now. I'm hypothesizing that if they had had better behaviour pre-lockdown they'd be more like ...

Not sure where the point of disagreement is. I don't trust Google with my data, but I trust them to provide me with my cake recipe. Am I wrong on this...

When we Irish were asked to voluntarily social distance, we threw coronavirus parties in pubs and the streets of Dublin were crowded with shoppers. Th...

Think climate change denial on a smaller scale. Similar motives, similar backers, similar tools.

Yeah, they did. On Blyth's analysis, Keynesian in that form was unsustainable anyway, but there were conscious efforts by monied interests to concentr...

Not that this has anything to do with Joe Biden, but he's too boring to talk about anyway.

There's a sense in which a company can be seen to have agency. Loosely, we speak of companies making decisions and so on. But they're better viewed as...

There's confluence but not concordance. Bill Clinton was a neoliberal too, but not a neocon (Hillary, on the other hand, hmm.) Well, as you no doubt s...

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Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century. Mark Blyth.

Cheers bro'.

@"Pfhorrest" @"jkg20" is spot on. Sushi made it obvious from the start he didn't give a shit about your feelings and was just going to say what he was...

@"csalisbury" Thanks for keeping this going. This is my 10,000th post and if I could distil from that mass of writing as much wisdom as can be found i...

Thanks :up: Not wasting my 10,000th post on you though, so don't expect an encore. :fire:

On the positive side, in Georgia you can now get a haircut and spread a potentially lethal disease to your neighbor at the same time. Pandemic multi-t...

Four posts to 10,000. Who wants to tempt me into wasting my 10,000th post on them. @"Shawn"? Want to talk about Hydro or whatever the freak it was?

Companies are even more predictable than the weather as long as you know what feeds the bottom line. You can trust Google as long as its profits align...

Yup. Edited. Firstly, trust in general is not limited to an assessment of veracity. I trust the military not primarily because they tell me the truth ...

For ROI per unit time/cognitive effort invested best explanation of "why-we-got-into-bed-with-neoliberalism-and-why-we-need-to-get-the-fuck out-now" I...

https://youtu.be/uHAdhekKayo :strong: :clap:

Pretty much.

@"Metaphysician Undercover" @"Hanover" @"unenlightened" Some insightful analysis there. Putting it together, does something like the following schema ...

Then it doesn't need to prepare to defend itself from China as per: Re: OK.

Saw that one. :up:

Having looked deep into Johnson's heart, I'm of the impression he hasn't got one.

There's more chance of Martians invading Europe than China. It'd be like Amazon bombing the post office.

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