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This is a gross misconception. People just keep repeating each other that the EU is not democratic. It is, in fact, more democratic than some European...

Wrong. https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-reshaping-race-debate-21st-century/ Edit:

Yeah, not interested. You can find plenty on the internet.

No, they obviously don't. It's getting downright moronic now. Is closing down air traffic a stay at home order? Oops.

ahahaha, it is definitely polarised and getting crazier by the year. We're lucky we have a lot of political parties which means the extremes don't hav...

You're obviously not aware about my opinion on lockdowns and vaccines because your representation of it is wrong. I take issue with the falsehoods you...

Second comment that just underlines you don't know what stochastic models are and what you can and can't do with it. The model is fine and you can rel...

I already look forward to tell you I told you so.

You don't think there's a fundamental difference between how information was searched for and reached us before Google and Facebook and now? We've got...

You might want to read a bit about the information apocalypse to get an idea how far this goes and how insidious it works. The polarisation these poli...

I do and that reply is silly as can be. You apparently don't understand how stochastic modelling works.

Yes, which is completely transparent isn't it? I've read the studies you shared because I don't care about articles that are already coloured by the b...

I'm listening to Schubert Fantasie for 4 hands now and it updated instantly. It's all classical music now. Much better than anime. But bloody fickle.

Dude, I read everything. Edit: why else do you think I noticed dead links and links to non-peer reviewed papers? Because I didn't read it?

Already sounds more interesting than my current youtube feed.

Of course you are. You can't even muster the respect to actually read what's shared with you.

It's not about the conspiracy theory per se. It's that if I look at a video of Mario Brothers, the next video suggested will be about Mario Brothers I...

How have I lost an argument if there are several studies with conflicting conclusions? I've looked into why they conflicted and gave you my view based...

How is this censorship? I'm just prohibiting Google from offering you another conspiracy theory video in Youtube just because you looked at one a seco...

What's tendentious is submitting papers and not reading or understanding them.

Yes. You're welcome to actually read the research and the caveats they offer if you don't believe me. This includes some of the stuff you shared by th...

I dived in a few of the different papers to get a better understanding of the different conclusions. So what does the research tell me? Comparing diff...

I seriously think that large part of this problem can be solved by prohibiting any type of targeted advertisement, news, videos, links etc. and break ...

Pretty damning and in a way still missing the point. His solutions are still technocratic, a tweak here and there, but the problem seems now fundament...

Probably had to do with my firewall settings at home because I managed to open the first now as well. It's also a trustworthy source so let's dive int...

you know what's annoying? People who just randomly link shit because it agrees with their view without actually reading them. So I dived in the footno...

Your inability to understand the research papers is noted as is your inability to share research papers that argue the opposite. I guess we're done?

I can say because the effects of lock downs in the Netherlands lead to reduced hospital admissions. Wrong. Try actually reading what they did. They tr...

Hospital admittance was and is real.

It's irrational not to reduce risk, just as it's irrational to eat crap when you know it's bad for you. Perfectly human but irrational nonetheless. Yo...

It is normal behaviour and I don't deny this - it is, however, irrational. One important difference as well is that many of the choices you give as an...

What's curious though that you insist on making the riskier choice. If you have a risk of something happening for sure and you can cut that risk in ha...

She's not in the statistics. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/monthlymortalityanalysisengl...

Based on the UK ONS numbers that's an infinitely higher risk than dying of a vaccination since exactly zero people, regardless of age and BMI, have di...

Can you do the same for the vaccine?

I explained why, I didn't say you should believe it because a doctor said it. But without explaining the causal mechanism between vaccination and inju...

What works and what constitutes an argument are two different things. Persuasion obviously isn't all about arguments.

No, I've indicated my source of information was the explanation of a doctor. I haven't said it's safe because doctors say so. I've said it's safe base...

Give me an actual argument where you appeal to common decency without it being a rational argument. My imagination must be failing me because this see...

I disagree. There are plenty of situations where mutual trust is absent and we're still possible to navigate out of those situations. Almost every neg...

The only thing I've argued for is that people understand that they are not being rational but employing a heuristic here on both sites. Hell, the assu...

So bodily integrity is only a right that can be granted by governments? Interesting. You're always free to break the law. But we generally agree it is...

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I'm not immune to it myself especially with people I consider lost causes. A non-rational argument is a contradiction in terms so I have no clue whats...

If a theory is predictive then it is presumed correct until it is falsified. Scientists are trustworthy. Therefore the theory is correct. :chin:

Trust isn't rational at all. It's a rather obvious point really. I could be right 99 times, that's no reason at all to trust I'll be right the 100th t...

I totally agree that it makes little to no difference telling people they are irrational. I do think it helps, if you're intent on changing minds, to ...

The R-factor is much lower in Norway because it isn't densely populated. So a 68% vaccination rate is sufficient to reach that. Different regions requ...

As I tried to demonstrate with the Apple example, it's hardly rational to assume that because you had a bad experience with the government in one area...

No, that's just a heuristic approach that you confuse with making a rational decision. There's an important difference. If I have bad experiences with...