[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

I definitely didn't know how heated people were towards .ml when I joined. istg I'm not a tankie.

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

third parties just can't win under the current system. we'd need ranked choice voting.

the way forward is through the primaries. that's how we got Zohran.

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

I thought the taste bud distribution thing ended up being kinda bad science.

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

also, people will assume you're a tankie just because your name ends with .ml 😞

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Different symptoms/mechanisms.

Spanish flu killed young healthy adults; the weak and elderly were actually safer. That virus triggered a cytokine storm - an overreaction of the immune system - that slagged the patient's body as collateral damage, like a twisted game of "stop hitting yourself." The stronger your immune system, the harder you'd hit yourself.

SARS-CoV-2 followed the normal pattern, and hit the weak and elderly harder. Admittedly, the original strain was a wildcard, and did take down some healthy 30yos at random while others never showed symptoms. It also tended to provoke micro-clots throughout the body, rather than hemorrhages.

Omicron evolved to target the upper airway rather than the lungs, which is the main reason why COVID is so much less lethal these days. I'm not sure how Spanish flu evolved, but I don't think it was an issue of the tissue it targeted as much as some immune pathway it hijacked.

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

All of this "evidence" boils down to "this is very inconvenient for my side, and very convenient for the other side, therefore it's obviously a false flag." It's the same logic that led Alex Jones to say Sandy Hook was faked by crisis actors: 1. the shooting would justify gun control, 2. the US government wanted gun control, so 3. the government faked Sandy Hook to justify gun control. in this case it's 1. the shooting would justify claims that pro-Palestinian activists are violent, 2. the Israeli government wants to portray activists as violent, so 3. the IDF shot their own diplomat.

Rational skeptics start with the facts and follow them to a belief. Conspiracy theorists start with their belief and find facts to support it. Do better.

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

Sleazy Musk, sleazy DOGE, will he let X go?

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

we're so past 5D chess that we've hit the Curse of Dimensionality..

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

yes, actually!

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 months ago

So tired of hearing that the right is a champion of free speech.

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago

uh I just picked lemmy.ml pretty randomly when I moved from Reddit, though I specifically picked it over lemmygrad because I'd heard lemmygrad was full of tankies. personally, I'm a left libertarian. I'm not auth at all.

I think you might be overestimating how much a user's home lemmy indicates their ideology.

[-] uuldika@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago

in a way, Trump is actually succeeding in getting NATO member countries to reach the 2% GDP commitment for military spending... by scaring countries into arming themselves against the United States.

it's like convincing your friend to install an alarm system by threatening to rob them at gunpoint.

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