Science is when you take evidence, create a falsifiable theory, and try to prove the theory wrong.
Conspiracy theories are when you cherry pick things that appear to support your theory, while deliberately ignoring alternative explanations.
Anecdotally, there are a ton of deaths a few days after people get vaccines.
But statistically, the death rate of the recently vaccinated is no higher than people who haven't recently gotten vaccines.
Statistically, if you died today, then there's a 1% chance you received a vaccine in the last day, which is simply calculated by 3-million vaccines per day divided by 300-million population of the United States.
If you died today, there's a 7% chance you got vaccinated this week
It's at this point in threads like this from me that @dakami would step with a completely different nerdy viewpoint on the philosophy of science from mine, making the thread even better.
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Sure, you have a channel on #americanpolitics, but how do you handle it when one person claims to shoot guns at the range every weekend, then several others complain to HR how they now feel unsafe at work.
Basecamp's solution to political toxicity was to discourage such discussion at work. Asana doesn't say how they deal with toxicity. Sure, they have spaces for politics, but they still haven't say how you handle it when it bleeds over to work. world.hey.com/jason/changes-…
Apparently the latest crazy conspiracy theory is that vaccinated individuals can harm the unvaccinated because they cough up evil proteins or something.
No, it's not how things work. The only animals with dangerous proteins are venomous snakes and spiders.
Why do we count the flu by calendar year, but the covid19 since 2019? Because the flu is endemic, happening every year. Outbreaks and pandemics are temporary, so treated as a single event even if it crosses multiple years.
Yes, yes, precise numbers are difficult because sometimes sometimes hospitals are encouraged to count things as covid19 related that may not be. But excess deaths gives us a solid numbers comparable across countries.
Well, yes, in 2000, Microsoft web servers were scalable and Linux servers weren't. It wasn't until a few years later that Linux added NAPI (scalable Ethernet drivers) and 'epoll()' (scalable TCP stack).
Microsoft already coalesced interrupts with NDIS and scaled TCP with IOC.
Today, Linux is ahead of Windows on scalability with thinks like DPDK. But in 2000, Linux was a fucking cult, because techies are far less technical than they claim and don't understand things like "interrupt coalescing".
BlackICE Guard (the first IPS) had user-space drivers on both Windows and Linux that handled it's own network stack, meaning, 99% of the CPU power was in BlackICE and not the operating-system, and people still told me "Linux would be faster".
I still haven't delved into WhatsApp code enough, but I suspect there is a flaw that the app leaks the SHA256 hash of the unencrypted multimedia content to Facebook.
This means they still can't decrypt the content. But, if they have a copy of the multimedia thing being shared, then they could in theory know that you shared it.
Thus, if 'chatty rat' sent an image/video with a distinctive hash, they could ask Facebook for who sent that hash.
This would be great way of catching child pornographers without actually being able to decrypt anything, for example, while generally preserving most privacy.
We are not morons.
99% of the people getting vaccines do not know how they work, they aren't "smart".
Instead of intelligence they simply have faith in their leaders. Yes, some leaders are often failing their followers, but both sides kinda suck at that.
No, it's not "listen to the scientists". Scientists get corrupted by politics like everyone else. The science is much more equivocal than people think. People aren't reading the science or listening to scientists -- they are listening to their political leaders claims of science.
People have legitimate and reasonable questions. For example, a friend gets stuck in bed for 3 days after a vaccine, which makes them worry. Nobody answers their concerns-- all they get is toxic responses "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET A VACCINE MORON".