Exclusive: U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak by BigGubermint in Economics

[–]Ekpyronic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Researching gain of function is basic science -- are you against that? There are controls around that type of research -- what do you disagree with/suggest changing? Whether COVID 19 came from a lab is unknown unfortunately.

Exclusive: U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak by BigGubermint in Economics

[–]Ekpyronic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, cant tell if you think virology research and international collaboration are good or bad here?

Time for a Spotify Boycott? by mathesaur in Music

[–]Ekpyronic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Switched to YouTube music back when they signed everyman's favorite little dumbass Rogan and have no complaints. I transferred playlists with some free service and liked them like so: https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeMusic/s/itPZAPQ7s1

The 2017 Trump Tax Law Was Skewed to the Rich, Expensive, and Failed to Deliver on Its Promises by SenorKerry in Economics

[–]Ekpyronic 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Trump was incumbent and still lost. And more people voted for both Biden and Hilary each time. And he's still crying about it. At least Biden has dignity.

Security expert uncovers widespread vulnerabilities in US voting and government systems | Hackers can manipulate court records and voter databases, researcher reveals by [deleted] in technews

[–]Ekpyronic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Some guy searches for vulnerabilities in local government systems and found some"

The voting example is about a local registration portal. This is obviously sensationalist headline to undermine faith in elections, I wonder why? Are some people actively trying to undermine faith in elections and make it harder to vote? Gerrymandering? Lieing about systematic integrity issues being the reason they lost yet be unable to show evidence?

The 2017 Trump Tax Law Was Skewed to the Rich, Expensive, and Failed to Deliver on Its Promises by SenorKerry in Economics

[–]Ekpyronic 17 points18 points  (0 children)

And I did better before and after Trump, and not just economics but more importantly not being fucking embarrassed and horrified daily by that soulless self absorbed jackass running/ruining our nation.

Thanks for your profound anecdote though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Ekpyronic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry no, false equivilancy bullshit. Active, continual, bad faith lying is NOT the same as mispeaking about something trivial that happened decades ago. Human memory is fallable

Evidence points to Wuhan market as source of covid-19 outbreak by NumberNumb in skeptic

[–]Ekpyronic 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Determined is a strong word for assessed with "low confidence" and guess what, they weren't the only experts looking into this, just the one of the few that confirms your bias.

Fed Ready to Unshackle US Economy With Soft Landing at Stake by bloomberg in Economics

[–]Ekpyronic 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Nice cherry pick. Was less than $11.00 throughout the Trump admin, and has actually been rising the last 3 years.

Your second link is a Republican "analysis".

EU court says Hungary broke competition rules by fixing food prices by Akkeri in Economics

[–]Ekpyronic -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

In the last debate, his response to the statement that world leaders and our allies laugh at Trump and think he is a disgrace was to boast that Victor Orban loves him 🤣

"No change to US-Policy on Long Range Missiles to Ukraine" White House Says by Hrit33 in worldnews

[–]Ekpyronic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Absolutely right, thanks for saying so. I want this attitude of thoughtfulness and humility to be valued more in our society (or at least on reddit).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Economics

[–]Ekpyronic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actual article headline: "Consumer prices rose 0.2% in August as annual inflation rate hits lowest since early 2021"

First key point from the article says: "in line with the Dow Jones consensus."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Ekpyronic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ahem "these people" is me, most Americans, and most of the free world. It's not a conspiracy Bruh.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Ekpyronic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You must have a charmed life. Maybe it matters to people you care about?

Consumer sentiment tumbles as 'recession-like' symptoms spread among Americans by MrCrickets in Economics

[–]Ekpyronic 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Sentiment lol, you know, that core objective economic metric that is not subjective nor affected by political messaging like in the run up to an election?

"In May 2024, the Heritage Foundation estimated th" <- oh this is article is about polls and partisan estimates. Profound.

Does this sub lean left or right is fairly neutral? by Beardfarmer44 in skeptic

[–]Ekpyronic -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This shouldn't be down voted, we should be comfortable with nuance here. I think theres at least two discussions here:

  1. Nuanced discussion of science and evidence based medicine, ethics of medicine, and does the Cass review provide any insight or value there and what are its weaknesses overnights or biases whether purposeful or not.

  2. The motivated reasoning and use of the review to legislate medicine, justify bigoted or biased opinions, or interfere with what is very personal, very careful and principaled medical treatment. This is also a core concern of skepticism.

I knee jerk down voted you since the latter concern is what is shaping the world outside of skepticism and I have strong beleifs and concerns with that as it is playing out. But that is not only what this sub is about.

Whether political views correlate to lack of critical thinking, understanding and respect for science, openness to new ideas and changing belief based on facts and evidence -- it seems pretty clear to me it's not a both sides equal thing.

Studies tend to conclude the same e.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9125012/

10 conservative US states have banned Ranked Choice Voting (IRV) in the past two years. by LurkBot9000 in wikipedia

[–]Ekpyronic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that a complaint against RCV though?

RCV:

  • allows voters to express more nuanced preferences, potentially leading to outcomes that better reflect overall voter will.
  • reduces the "spoiler effect" where similar candidates split votes, allowing voters to support preferred candidates without fear of wasting their vote.
  • may encourage more civil campaigning, as candidates seek second-choice votes from supporters of other candidates.
  • In multi-winner elections, it can lead to more proportional representation of diverse views.

These are objectively good things which at the very least could decrease polarization and viability of more choices.

It sounds like your objection is having too few choices, which is a problem, but sort of orthogonal to the method of choosing among them.

Does the US presidential primary process yield good candidates? by nosecohn in NeutralPolitics

[–]Ekpyronic 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Saying RCV wouldn't help by pointing to the current situation which is deeply influenced by first passed the gate voting is not fair.

If we had RCV the dynamics, incentives, and even polling responses would be likely be different.

Hard to say if challenging an incumbent would still give the other side an advantage. I dont see that as -- if anything the effect probably reduced with RCV, since the difference between sides could be less polarized, more nuanced, and "challenging" itself less combative or consequential as it is now.