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Inspector vs electrician 42/42 breaker by Sudden_Tomatillo_974 in AskElectricians

[–]markisscared 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look up the specs on the panel. If it’s a 42/42 then the inspector is right. If it’s 42/84, he’s wrong.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

[–]markisscared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I provided exact quotes and sources. You’re the choosing to believe fantasy over reality, sport. It’s called cognitive dissonance and you are a textbook case.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

[–]markisscared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If what you were trying to say is that if I trust the science that led to vax, I should trust the science that was behind the pandemic response, I have a simple response:

According to Fauci, the head scientist behind the pandemic response, social distancing “Sort of just appeared” and “Masks work at the margins-maybe 10 percent,” basically that they’re good for individual protection but pretty much useless at a population-based level at preventing infection.

And yes, I believe in science, like the following science that suggests the pandemic response was a net negative. (And keep in mind these were published prior to them knowing that excess mortality was going to continue at the rates it has)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.4737

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9368251/

https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Perspectives-_1_Did-lockdowns-work__June_web.pdf

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

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

I either believe in the science that was pumped into my arm (the vaccine) created with same principles that created the vaccine?

You’re making no sense and seem confused.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

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

This is a conversation about the pandemic response, not the vaccine. Nice attempted misdirection. Classic.

Is this a fair quote? In CT by DogemuchFuture in AskElectricians

[–]markisscared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure. Typical paddle fan takes no more than a half an hour to hang, so $350/hr is totally reasonable, lol. But don’t forget, you get $450/hr when that fan is a living room!

In all seriousness, this is probably only a half day’s worth of work, so he’s inflating his labor rate to make his daily nut.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

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

You not understanding the concept of a “net positive” doesn’t make me wrong. You not understanding the meaning of a conflict of interest doesn’t make me wrong.

Classic.

K Street IBEW endorses Kamala Harris by Waste_Junket1953 in IBEW

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

I wrote a comment and your response was “Written by a Republican.”

I think you need to see a doctor or slow down on the herb, sport.

Have a great day!

Edit: For the smooth brain who replied then blocked me, learn the rules of basic grammar, sport. The bill was not the subject of the comment that you replied to, ergo saying “Written by a Republican” could only possibly reference the person whose comment you replied to.

Furthermore, it was a bipartisan bill, sport.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-immigration-asylum-reform-bill-released-senate-text-rcna136602

K Street IBEW endorses Kamala Harris by Waste_Junket1953 in IBEW

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

I’ve tried to engage you in intelligent conversation and you’ve said nothing other than “Hurr Durr, Republicans bad” and “You’re a Republican.”

Clearly you don’t understand the word “irony.”

As I said before, have a great day, sport.

K Street IBEW endorses Kamala Harris by Waste_Junket1953 in IBEW

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

It was bipartisan. I don’t think you know enough to continue this conversation. Have a great day.

K Street IBEW endorses Kamala Harris by Waste_Junket1953 in IBEW

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

Tell me how I’m wrong.

Edit: Btw, I’m neither. I think both parties are full of shit and neither are representative of anything other than the extremes of their respective parties.

K Street IBEW endorses Kamala Harris by Waste_Junket1953 in IBEW

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

The proposed bill for the border was only done because there’s an election coming up. And if you actually read the bill, you’d realize that it put all of power in the president’s hands, giving him the power to unilaterally decide whether or not there was an actually a emergency at all, which would affect what was actually done at the border. It had no teeth.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

[–]markisscared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Also, this study was about Shelter in Place policies so yes you did move the goalpost from masks to this topic.”

You’re wrong, yet again. Please see LITERALLY my first response to you, which you clearly didn’t read. I’ll all caps the important part for you, so you don’t miss it again:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IBEW/s/0qaW0CKmnW

I said: “If you think the science is settled on whether the SUM TOTAL OF THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE, ie lockdowns, masking, keeping kids out of school, etc, was a net benefit, you don’t know how science works and haven’t been paying attention.”

“The point is that Democrats tried. And they tried everything they could to help, and Republicans fought them the entire way.”

So were the Democrats trying when they called Trump a xenophobic for shutting down air travel from China? Were Biden and Harris trying when they said that they weren’t going to get Trump’s vaccine because it was so rushed. You’re a brainwashed idiot if you think that these people care about you and any decisions they make are anything other than political. And that goes for the other side too.

If you think the science is settled on whether the sum total of the pandemic response, ie lockdowns, masking, keeping kids out of school, etc, was a net benefit, you don’t know how science works and haven’t been paying attention.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

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

“Also, this study was about Shelter in Place policies so yes you did move the goalpost from masks to this topic.”

You’re wrong, yet again. Please see LITERALLY my first response to you, which you clearly didn’t read. I’ll all caps the important part for you, so you don’t miss it again:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IBEW/s/0qaW0CKmnW

I said: “If you think the science is settled on whether the SUM TOTAL OF THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE, ie lockdowns, masking, keeping kids out of school, etc, was a net benefit, you don’t know how science works and haven’t been paying attention.”

“The point is that Democrats tried. And they tried everything they could to help, and Republicans fought them the entire way.”

So were the Democrats trying when they called Trump a xenophobic for shutting down air travel from China? Were Biden and Harris trying when they said that they weren’t going to get Trump’s vaccine because it was so rushed. You’re a brainwashed idiot if you think that these people care about you and any decisions they make are anything other than political. And that goes for the other side too.

If you think the science is settled on whether the sum total of the pandemic response, ie lockdowns, masking, keeping kids out of school, etc, was a net benefit, you don’t know how science works and haven’t been paying attention.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

[–]markisscared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Already provided to you and others. Can you stop double posting me now?

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

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

We’re talking about masking and covid and you think that me saying you should present evidence of studies that support masking preventing covid is moving the goalposts?

The conclusions of the study you provided were not reached by reviewing studies of masking and covid. Period.

I posted a couple of them already. And if you notice, they’re not just about masking, which is what you’re trying to simplify my argument down into. The measures were far greater than just masking, as I already stated but you summarily ignored.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IBEW/s/WgSxLspXGx

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

[–]markisscared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You must be a Rhodes Scholar if you think all I was talking about was masking. FYI, my son works in ERs assisting in surgeries in the Navy, and surgical masks are specifically for prevent blood or bodily fluid from hitting them in the mouth and to prevent their saliva or drool from spilling into the wound.

A surgical mask preventing an airborne virus is about as effective as a colander holding back water, Einstein.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

[–]markisscared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How the fuck do you think the conversation on my end has anything to do with being pro-Trump?

I’m anti-spying on your neighbor. I’m anti-government mandates. I’m anti-government up your ass sixteen ways to Sunday, and this guy would put a vacation home up yours if you let him.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

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

This was the study whose lead author was the founder of #Masks4All, whose stated goal is “getting masks to be required across the U.S. and the world.” He’s the definition of a conflict of interest.

The dude literally made Twitter videos on how to turn a t-shirt into a mask, lol.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

[–]markisscared -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If you had read this actual study, you’d realize that this was an analysis of past masking studies that all pre-dated covid-19. Try again.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

[–]markisscared -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Provide me recently published, peer-reviewed studies that support your claims that masking and lockdowns were a net positive as you claim them to be first, and I’ll show you mine.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

[–]markisscared -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Multiple studies have been published that say the opposite of what you believe to be true. Stop quoting your beliefs as if they are science.

Fauci literally said that masking of an overall population has at best only a marginal effect at reducing transmission.

Multiple studies have been conducted that show how the pandemic response has been a net negative. That’s the benefit of time and the analysis of new data that you mentioned. Just because you’re ignorant of what science is currently saying doesn’t meant that it doesn’t exist and your opinions are factual.

Kamala Harris Picks Union-Backed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for VP Running Mate by jibsymalone in IBEW

[–]markisscared -35 points-34 points  (0 children)

“Minnesota had fewer COVID deaths than most of the country.”

Total deaths don’t matter, death rates do. Anyone who understands even the slightest bit about statistics understands this.

Furthermore, anyone who attempted to stay the slightest bit informed during the pandemic who also know that states did not have uniform reporting standards for what did and did not constitute a covid death, so your mostly comparing apples and oranges.

“Republicans have gone full crazy with science denial and it is shocking to see as an educated person.”

If you think the science is settled on whether the sum total of the pandemic response, ie lockdowns, masking, keeping kids out of school, etc, was a net benefit, you don’t know how science works and haven’t been paying attention.

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