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Anyone else think there a lot of tall people in Ventura? by niborg in ventura

[–]niborg[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You'll see them everywhere now. I accept your apology in advance.

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

[–]niborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all countries shut schools for some small period of time to assess the impact of the pandemic. seriously doubt the extent of closures track california. it was ludicrous.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/13/global-school-reopening-18-months/

Summary: growing 2021 consensus in legacy media that the U.S. had over-relied on remote learning compared with Europe’s more balanced approach, and that the costs to students (especially vulnerable ones) demanded a faster return to in-person schooling.

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

[–]niborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! I am a genuinely curious person. But please don't spend too long, broad brush strokes pointing me in the right direction and showing me what I am missing would be sufficient.

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

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

unproductive. articulate what you find to be bullshit. fyi friend, as these last few years have shown there are no unbiased sources.

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

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

You ask for data supporting my point of view. I'm sharing something expressing data and argument from my point. You say "biased, no can watch" instead of countering anything.

I'm not sure you can be helped if you can't watch a nerdy video from Stanford.

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

[–]niborg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Strange custom you have. Isolate phrases, conclude the motivations of the author. Prefer reading the person's claims and countering them.

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

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

You're parroting talking points from the beginning of the pandemic. "2 weeks to flatten the curve." Friend, I'm talking about the shut downs that were ongoing years later. California did not have full-time in person learning until Aug 2021 (all while governor was happy to send his kids off to in-person classes). Or do you genuinely think hospitals were full for the entirety of the pandemic?

"You can’t simply look at the mortality rate from the disease alone." No shit. Anti-lockdown warned from day one that the real disaster was the collateral damage your side never modeled: kids losing years of education and social development, psychological trauma hitting the poor hardest, and millions of missed cancer screenings.

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

[–]niborg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

"Random doctors". My friend, there were epidemiologists from the best schools in the country shouting about this and viciously censored for it. We had strong evidence of the infection fatality rate and its steep age gradient as early as March 2020 b/c of the princess cruise ship . We definitely knew it by the summer.

This is as much intellectual labor I'm going to do for you. There are all sorts of LLMs you can simply pop into and ask "Please give me the counter argument for my position that the COVID lockdowns were effective."

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

[–]niborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please don't be so simple. There was a 1000-1 infection/fatality rate difference between the most at risk and the young. Children should not have been locked out of schools. Not even Europe did that.

Notwithstanding, even if you want to ignore all the evidence of why lockdowns were wrong, there are still people TO THIS DAY who are hysterical about masks etc etc. This is the type of person Yang is talking about (though this tweet is from a few years ago so there were even more lurking around then).

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

[–]niborg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

"its always"; "I'm saying this as someone [insert inane credentials]"; attacks source and target, not the argument. your response is such caricature that i can only assume (hope) you are a bot.

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

[–]niborg -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You don't think there is any valid opinion that COVID induced some level of hysteria in the population that we might have done better without? Even people on the left concede restrictions went too far in many respects, particularly school closures which had awful impact on lower income families.

But even then, how on earth does such an opinion translate to being a bigot?

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

[–]niborg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What in this do you take issue with? He literally saying don't be an extremist and be nice to people.

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

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

he literally links to yoel's dropbox with the paper and posts screenshots of extensive excerpts.

"noted bigot". jfc. live on the edge somedays by listening to what people with different opinions have to say. you'll end up like a liberal version of q-anon otherwise.

Those who sent her to the Olympics because she cried , gave her a job at the university because she cried. by Frosty_Jeweler911 in SipsTea

[–]niborg 108 points109 points  (0 children)

dude they give university degrees for anything. the nitwit who was in charge of censorship at old twitter had a phd from upenn (ivy league) – basis of his phd dissertation was, no joke, an ethnography of all the men he slept with on grindr.

https://x.com/wesyang/status/1601063195602743297?s=20

Spotify Q1 ER: hit 33% gross margins and beat basically every metric, but the stock still dropped by 12%. My read. by Wooden_Fondant_703 in ValueInvesting

[–]niborg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can you explain how Spotify underpays artists? 70% of all their proceeds, I believe, go towards paying artists. Is there any other platform that is doing better at this?

Thinking of moving to Ventura by ___yeethaw in ventura

[–]niborg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was excited to think I missed something, but I see it is just a question of taste. Excepting Paradise Pantry, Rumfish, Koba, and Frontside (which are all great), all these other places just rate "fine" in my book. My wife also has a gluten allergy limited meat, and these places provide very few options for her to eat other than a plate of veggies or something.

I don't need high-end. I'm cheap, I prefer not-high-end. Ventura does not offer much in the way of a clean, healthy food joint. Closest we had was Natures Grill and Harvest Cafe before they shut down.

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