Engdawg69
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I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.
This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.
Austria loses its WHO status as measles-free, too, together with Armenia, Azerbaijan Uzbekistan and Spain. This comes as no surprise, considering the rise in numbers in recent years and the decline in MMR vaccine coverage
#VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection
#VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection
January 28, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.
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god bless none of this is true for the vast, vast majority of Chinese workers.
Then they should deliver China's employelment benefits with it.
Your vacation days follow you throughout your career.
The company is required to pay for your 5 mandatory social insurances: medical maternity, retirement, unemployment, and workplace injury.
You get a House fund.
etc
Your vacation days follow you throughout your career.
The company is required to pay for your 5 mandatory social insurances: medical maternity, retirement, unemployment, and workplace injury.
You get a House fund.
etc
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
god bless none of this is true for the vast, vast majority of Chinese workers.
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9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
January 29, 2026 at 8:39 AM
9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable
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I hope that folks in European democracies understand that there are no longer friendly nations, but friendly political movements. It's our job to support liberal democracy around the world, especially when they're under assault from anti-democratic movements at home.
Die AfD-Landtagsfraktion Thüringen hat heute Rechtsextremist Sellner in den Landtag eingeladen, um über seinen verfassungswidrigen “Remigrationsplan” zu referieren.
January 26, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I hope that folks in European democracies understand that there are no longer friendly nations, but friendly political movements. It's our job to support liberal democracy around the world, especially when they're under assault from anti-democratic movements at home.
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i do not know why people think it is illegal to kill retreating combatants who have not surrendered.
January 28, 2026 at 7:42 PM
i do not know why people think it is illegal to kill retreating combatants who have not surrendered.
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"Forget it, he's rolling."
December 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Forget it, he's rolling."
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american conservatism is not the preservation of fire but the worship of ashes
January 28, 2026 at 9:38 PM
american conservatism is not the preservation of fire but the worship of ashes
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look, i don't know if there will be history graduate students in the year 2073, but if there are, you need to know this: colonel lockjaw was not a satire of greg bovino.
one battle after another was filmed entirely before he was a public figure.
one battle after another was filmed entirely before he was a public figure.
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
look, i don't know if there will be history graduate students in the year 2073, but if there are, you need to know this: colonel lockjaw was not a satire of greg bovino.
one battle after another was filmed entirely before he was a public figure.
one battle after another was filmed entirely before he was a public figure.
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See also: people who attempted to die on the self-driving car hill because Elon Musk constantly lies about Tesla's capabilities to get richer (hmmm, sensing a pattern here), only to get completely blindsided by Waymo's capabilities and forced to argue against it purely due to negative polarization
if your position is that the tech is worthless, will go away on its own, is inherently bad, etc etc, you are going to die on that hill. there are absolutely bad actors in the space and you are passing over the bad actors to stake a losing position about the code
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 PM
See also: people who attempted to die on the self-driving car hill because Elon Musk constantly lies about Tesla's capabilities to get richer (hmmm, sensing a pattern here), only to get completely blindsided by Waymo's capabilities and forced to argue against it purely due to negative polarization
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the real separation is between ai being a bubble (undeniable) and ai being useless/going away/unpopular/etc (completely false)
if your position is that the tech is worthless, will go away on its own, is inherently bad, etc etc, you are going to die on that hill. there are absolutely bad actors in the space and you are passing over the bad actors to stake a losing position about the code
January 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM
the real separation is between ai being a bubble (undeniable) and ai being useless/going away/unpopular/etc (completely false)
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we’ve got a ways to go until 2030 so this could change but it’s pretty much an across the board disaster if it doesn’t
building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics
building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics
#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026).
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
January 27, 2026 at 4:59 PM
we’ve got a ways to go until 2030 so this could change but it’s pretty much an across the board disaster if it doesn’t
building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics
building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics
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#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026).
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
January 27, 2026 at 2:50 PM
#NEW: 2030 Apportionment Forecast based on 2025 Census Bureau Population Estimates (January 27, 2026).
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
Forecast prepared by Dr. Jonathan Cervas (CMIST) at Carnegie Mellon University
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This stuff is hilariously dumb and it says a lot about why we lost in Afghanistan if SF WOs with multiple rotations can't distinguish between insurgents and protestors...
...but I suppose maybe a primer on the continuum of insurgency/COIN to protest strategies might be worth doing.
...but I suppose maybe a primer on the continuum of insurgency/COIN to protest strategies might be worth doing.
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:40 PM
This stuff is hilariously dumb and it says a lot about why we lost in Afghanistan if SF WOs with multiple rotations can't distinguish between insurgents and protestors...
...but I suppose maybe a primer on the continuum of insurgency/COIN to protest strategies might be worth doing.
...but I suppose maybe a primer on the continuum of insurgency/COIN to protest strategies might be worth doing.
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to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
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I don't care if the Seahawks win, I just want the Patriots to lose. #NFLPlayoffs #SuperBowl
January 26, 2026 at 4:44 AM
I don't care if the Seahawks win, I just want the Patriots to lose. #NFLPlayoffs #SuperBowl
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More and more people are saying that the center-left political elite has its own omnicause reactionism problem centered around personal grievances against pro-Palestine students and transgender people.
the atlantic has been like this for a long time but man, it really blows that the flagship publication for american liberalism has abandoned *liberalism* wholesale because of trans athletes and woke student governments
International law no longer serves as an instrument of global stability—and the U.S. should use this moment to argue for a different approach to the rules of war, John Yoo argues.
January 25, 2026 at 9:47 PM
More and more people are saying that the center-left political elite has its own omnicause reactionism problem centered around personal grievances against pro-Palestine students and transgender people.
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a big reason they're mad is that USAID was supposed to be the source of all wokeness and Elon unplugged it last year, so now they're looking around trying to find the backup wokeness generator
January 25, 2026 at 3:40 PM
a big reason they're mad is that USAID was supposed to be the source of all wokeness and Elon unplugged it last year, so now they're looking around trying to find the backup wokeness generator
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So someone on BlueSky called me the c-word for posting about a football game. Others are critical of posting about something as trivial as football when so many awful things are happening. So we shouldn’t post photos of pets, flowers or sunsets either? C’mon. We can resist AND live our lives.
January 25, 2026 at 3:56 PM
So someone on BlueSky called me the c-word for posting about a football game. Others are critical of posting about something as trivial as football when so many awful things are happening. So we shouldn’t post photos of pets, flowers or sunsets either? C’mon. We can resist AND live our lives.
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It’s incredible how much shit people talk, even though the largest conflicts of the past 200 years--the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, and World War II--were won by massive coalitions of allies pooling resources against a common enemy.
So far no one has demonstrated an actual good reason as to why anyone should claim that it was primarily the Red Army that beat fascism. Two of my great grandparents served in it, I still don't see why you would say that.
At a certain point you gotta ask why this is so desperately necessary to "admit."
January 17, 2026 at 1:48 PM
It’s incredible how much shit people talk, even though the largest conflicts of the past 200 years--the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, and World War II--were won by massive coalitions of allies pooling resources against a common enemy.
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A lot of Somalis currently facing the threat of pogroms came over here in the 1990s and it was entirely uncontroversial. It was just accepted that the US act as a refuge to people fleeing from horrific wars.
January 22, 2026 at 2:15 PM
A lot of Somalis currently facing the threat of pogroms came over here in the 1990s and it was entirely uncontroversial. It was just accepted that the US act as a refuge to people fleeing from horrific wars.
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Read Theory! ( @jamellebouie.net sure does)
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Read Theory! ( @jamellebouie.net sure does)
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strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November
January 25, 2026 at 3:49 PM
strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November
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I have pretty severe ADHD. I don't hide it but I don't really talk about it much either because I don't really have anything that interesting to say about it. It fucking sucks and makes my life notably worse. I wish I didn't have it. That's about all there is to say.
January 23, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I have pretty severe ADHD. I don't hide it but I don't really talk about it much either because I don't really have anything that interesting to say about it. It fucking sucks and makes my life notably worse. I wish I didn't have it. That's about all there is to say.
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This is a conversation for later, but after this disaster is over, let’s destroy the idea that rural conservatives are the lone authentic expression of American identity.
The people keeping this country from ruin are non-white urbanites, lesbian moms, bisexuals with stick & poke tattoos of frogs.
The people keeping this country from ruin are non-white urbanites, lesbian moms, bisexuals with stick & poke tattoos of frogs.
remember when an armed group of right-wing insurgents seized and occupied federal land for weeks and only one of them got shot after literally charging at an officer with his handgun drawn?
January 25, 2026 at 6:11 AM
This is a conversation for later, but after this disaster is over, let’s destroy the idea that rural conservatives are the lone authentic expression of American identity.
The people keeping this country from ruin are non-white urbanites, lesbian moms, bisexuals with stick & poke tattoos of frogs.
The people keeping this country from ruin are non-white urbanites, lesbian moms, bisexuals with stick & poke tattoos of frogs.