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Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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Certainly it's Big Tech that knows who should you mate with. Never questions our overlords please.


You can easily disprove your theory by using the number of vaccinated vs unvaccinated that were exposed. We are talking about severity and not spread, that is easily done.


It's not the commenter's theory, it's the theory proposed in the article itself and that the commenter quoted. It's somewhat possible to account for the vaccination rate, but not really for resistance due to prior exposure because there are so many unknown variables in that.


No wonder Tesla is leaving California, over and over again you see corruption and government control taking over inovation.


Asking why the DMV is allowing beta-quality autonomous driving systems on public roads is “corruption”? Lol.


Who determines Beta-Quality ? What you complain here is something all developed countries already allow, anyways .. let the lobbyist bribe whoever they want.


Tesla does. The program is literally called “Full Self Drive (FSD) Beta”!


Shouldn't the government ask why a "beta" software that's being sold as "full self driving" is operating with seemingly no oversight?


while using it you are required to be fully in attention, keep your hands on the steering wheel and ready to take control at any time. What is not clear about that?


What's not clear is if that's good enough. I doubt it is.


I'm not willing to die for someone's "inovation."


Absolutely, I find this claim of "created santa" is so silly that it sounds like revisionist history. Kazakhstan, Lithuania and other regions have "Santa" traditions that go back over a hundred years and it is mostly indistinguishable than the "propaganda" version.


Almost all Kazakhs are Sunni Muslims. If you've meant Christian populations like Russians, then I would be interested to see what's special about Russian Kazakhstani's Santa traditions.

I'd also like to see a hundred or more years old Lithuanian Santa version similar to the Unionist one.

This is not to dismiss your claim that this might be revisionist (I'm not sure), but your examples on Kazakhstan and Lithuania lack evidence.


Not an answer, mostly a hint :) But could it be that the folklore of Odin / Wodan came there through the Vikings? The Dutch Sinterklaas is partly based on the Wild Hunt of Odin. Odin might have inspired more civilisations with the same concept.


There are some people that are susceptible to the idea of new information being more canonical than the prior information they were initially exposed to, as opposed to merely an alternate amongst many alternates.


The Netherlands has something called "Sinterklaas". But I think celebrating children and giving presents to them is something that goes back to the very origin of mankind and can be found all over the world.


Sinterklass is just how the Dutch pronounce Saint Nicolas.

Americans bastardized it to Santa Claus. As we do.


Didn't you know? All culture of the world revolves around the US /s


Let’s not forget the fine German tradition of the Christmas pickle.

That no one in Germany knows about… https://youtu.be/Sb0qu_RjQ6I


At this point, I find it remarkable that people use the term “found studies” as anything but self selection. You can prove anything including that the earth is flat and that video footage in the moon landing is fake.

Don’t forget that the ancient alien theory is a phd research with published papers


Ah yes, the theory that since bad papers exist all papers are bad. Reading one study is not the same as reading (and then citing) many studies. Common sense is frequently wrong, for a lot of well-studied reasons.

There's also a large difference between one lone study which finds a thing using dubious methods and a cohort of studies which independently replicate the same results.

There is no shortcut for actually reading and understanding studies if you want to learn what a study does and doesn't show, but discounting science because some history is paper are bad is... tenuous.


Part of the challenge is that must people lack the education to differentiate between a good study and a bad one, so we just throw our hands up in the air and cede to confirmation bias.


It also means that deep learning algorithms will soon deserve more rights than humans.


It’s still a gradation, “as complex” is obviously a stretch. The whole argument is silly, soon turning off my Deep Learning algorithms because they are more complex than lobster.


500 years ago the argument that black people should have rights was just as silly.

We'll live to see some sort of AI rights protection laws.


No it wasn't, the argument was as silly as it is now, for a non-subjective definition of "silly".

500 years ago science was less mature, and unable to determine what was objectively silly, and what wasn't.


Boiling is supposed to be painless and it’s meaning behind “boiling a frog alive”.


My small experience with being burned by hot or acidic liquid tells me exactly the opposite.


The anecdote is specific to frogs (and animals with similar sensory systems), and specific to boiling by increasing the temperature in small increments.

It's also a myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

Interesting that early experiments involved removing the frogs brain as well.


A steam bath was considered to be one of the most painless forms of suicide for Roman patricians.


I have just heard about Seneca dying in a stem bath, but that was more by accident (he committed suicide by cutting his wrists but that was taking too long so he wanted the heat to speed up blood extraction. He however died of suffocation)

How was that suicide supposed to work? (suffocation like Seneca did?)


Language is not about correct or incorrect, just about what people use. Please don’t obsess about it.


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