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Zero999:

--- Quote from: JohanH on March 11, 2023, 07:43:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 11, 2023, 06:34:09 pm ---
The whole Soviet experiment can even be argued to be a form of affirmative action, but based on class, rather than ethnicity.

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The policy didn't last long. Korenizatsiia was forgotten in the later 1930's and every different ethnicity from white ethnic Russian speaking Russian was treated as non-equal. Even when they were "integrated" and started speaking Russian and eradicated their own culture, they were still treated as they were from the colonies, which they were (I've read what some Kazaks have written). But Russia has a good history of erasing and totally destroying other cultures. For instance, already in the 1700, Russians tried to commit genocide on the Circassian people. This continued in Soviet times and today's Russia still has these imperialistic and colonialist ideas. Just look at Georgia and Ukraine. I'm not saying other nations haven't done similar things. Just that the Soviet system didn't help, and today's Russia has learnt nothing from history (they deny it) and continues as usual, where at least western nations have learnt something and in many cases apologized for colonialism.

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China has been doing it for longer.  I could have also mentioned Zimbabwe, or South Africa. It's not worked there either.

Anyway, you're just proving my point. The kind of affirmative action carried out in the US and parts of Europe will also harm minorities. As I said, universities in the US have already faced legal action from Asians who have no doubt been discriminated against. It's also anti-Semitic because Jews generally do better academically, than other ethnic groups.

And who would you rather receive treatment from: a doctor who got there because she's a woman, from X minority, or a man who's there purely on merit?
james_s:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 12, 2023, 10:14:17 pm ---]I think Trump's biggest weakness is not thinking things through before he opens his mouth. It's also a strength because he doesn't hide his true personality, like other politicians do. I sit on the fence as far as Trump is concerned. All politicians are A-holes, but Trump doesn't bother to hide it.

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I do think he is his own worst enemy. He simply has no filter, at all. He runs his mouth, insults people, makes an ass of himself, when called out on it he doubles down, he just can't shut up, never could, never will. When he finds himself in a hole he can't stop digging. Some people love him for that, he speaks his mind, he's transparent, in a sense that's true, but I would call it belligerent. He behaves similarly to a person that has had too much to drink. It's not against the law to be a belligerent asshole and he's certainly far from the only businessman with that personality, but as an American it was embarrassing to have a person like that holding the most prestigious job in the land. The president is, among other things, the main spokesman, the face of the nation. Personality and diplomacy are not everything, but they are very, very important, and they are areas where he just utterly failed. Another trait of great leaders which he has totally lacked is humility and the ability and willingness to take responsibility when something goes wrong, even when it is not their fault, again Mr Trump utterly fails at that in every situation, his is simply incapable of being humble or ever admitting fault for anything. 
Someone:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 12, 2023, 10:14:17 pm ---My point was making a non-sterilising vaccine a condition of work, or to go to public events was the issue. The vaccine is very good at preventing severe disease and death. People get infected, but it's much milder, than it would've been had they not had the disease or vaccine, so it's definitely useful. It's just questionable whether it's beneficial for all.
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If it wasn't mandatory, the uptake would have been too low to keep the hospitals from collapse (which did happen in the UK and some other countries). Pretty much all the public health measures were just to balance hospital capacity and continues today. Isolation and/or Vaccination, one of those is much easier to sell politically.

You're communicating your position much better than Dave (who dropped some barely coherent "point" and walked away), and there is considerable evidence that natural immunity is as good (or probably stronger) than the vaccines available:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02465-5
So here in Australia the current recommendation is 6 monthly jab or infection, treated interchangeably that we'll probably agree is a reasonable balance on the known data. Now that there is enough protection within the community almost all mandates for workplaces are lifted/gone (healthcare remains, due to high interaction and with vulnerable groups).


--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 12, 2023, 07:41:58 pm ---Then why were people who had never been infected and more vulnerable, put before those with natural immunity? It didn't make sense to vaccinate a 60 year old who had the disease a few weeks ago, before a 50 year old with no prior infection. :palm:
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I was disappointed that Australia being 6-12 months "behind" the UK didn't take more from their experience and data showing the effectiveness of single doses (instead holding rigidly to the manufacturer trials). Same thing here with a rigid short interval double dose working from old people to young despite it being pretty clear by that point the population would have been better off (and the old people slightly worse off) if they had prioritised first doses and a longer interval to the second.
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 12, 2023, 06:21:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: PlainName on March 12, 2023, 11:10:34 am ---That is Trump's MO, presumably used to prevent any negative comeback. "Some smart people have said he fiddles with kids. Maybe he does - I don't know." Of course, he says that kind of thing not because anyone has actually said what he purports but to plant the idea, and then reiterates that he's not saying that "but maybe there's something in it".

Specifically to the bleach thing, there is surely a time and place to ask things and suggest things, and when speaking as The Official Word in front of the entire world is surely not it. He did it then to a) bring his idea forward where it couldn't be dismissed, and b) make sure everyone knew he owned it. But, again,  he gave himself an out, just in case.

Trump is actually a great example of how 'just asking' is really not that at all.

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Trump is a blathering idiot, that much has been obvious for as long as he has been involved in politics. I really hate being forced to defend the guy because I absolutely cannot stand him and cringe whenever he flaps his gums, but he did not suggest anyone inject themselves with bleach. He was pondering whether it is possible to inject something that would disinfect a person and kill the virus, it's an idiotic thing to ponder if one knows anything about medicine but he's an idiot and doesn't know anything about medicine. If somebody is stupid enough to take that idle speculation as an instruction to actually inject themselves with disinfectant then they win the Darwin award.

I don't really see it much differently than someone with a poor understanding of engineering and physics pondering if we can "just do xyz" to fix a free energy machine so that it achieves over unity. People speculate about things they don't understand all the time.

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Normally, people in such positions as the one Mr Trump occupied have learnt to not "run off at the mouth" about things they not only don't know anything about but have not done even a minimal amount of research about.
Amongst his supporters, his comments have much more influence than if he was just the "dumbo down the road."

We may say "more fool them", but do they deserve to die for their mistake?

EEVblog:
Can we please stop the Trump stuff.

The last Dilbert was just published on the website. From today (13th Mar) Dilbert Reborn will only be available on the Locals platform.
I want Dilbert, but not at US$70/year. And I don't use Locals for anything else.
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