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HoaxWhisperer

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Renzy said:

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Reparations for Slavery Could Have Mitigated U.S. Covid Infections, HMS Study Finds | News | The Harvard Crimson

Reparations for descendants of enslaved individuals in the U.S. could have reduced Covid-19 transmission among Black Americans, according to a peer-reviewed study published online last Tuesday by Harvard Medical School researchers.
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Whites need to pull out their checkbooks and start shelling out money to non-whites because "science":
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It's always the same playbook: 1. Create computerized simulation of data they want to convey. 2. Have scientists publish "research" using this custom made simulator. 3. Praise the "findings" as truth. They did this for coronavirus (and unsuccessfully, with half a dozen other "pandemics" in the past 20 years), global warming, the list goes on.

Also can i just add:

"Bram P. Wispelwey — a hospitalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who was not involved in the study — said this is the first study to use modeling to show that “reparations can have a health impact directly.”
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Just look at this. They found some schmuck to state a benign fact about the mechanics of the study (and even still, distancing his statements from his employer) and they then spin this as some sort of authoritative endorsement of the thesis.

Also, wtf is a "hospitalist"? I just noticed that
 
Thomas More

Thomas More

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HoaxWhisperer said:
It's always the same playbook: 1. Create computerized simulation of data they want to convey. 2. Have scientists publish "research" using this custom made simulator. 3. Praise the "findings" as truth. They did this for coronavirus (and unsuccessfully, with half a dozen other "pandemics" in the past 20 years), global warming, the list goes on.

Also can i just add:



Just look at this. They found some schmuck to state a benign fact about the mechanics of the study (and even still, distancing his statements from his employer) and they then spin this as some sort of authoritative endorsement of the thesis.

Also, wtf is a "hospitalist"? I just noticed that
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I looked this up. It's a doctor whose primary work is at the hospital. They don't have office hours, they just treat hospitalized patients.

I wasn't familiar with the word before, but now that I am, I recognize I dealt with some of these during my wife's treatment. I have seen some pursue problems tenaciously, and find a solution when nobody else could. Absolutely tremendous, exceptional people devoted to helping the sick. Very admirable. I suppose not every hospitalist is like this, but I've seen some that are.
 
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integrated

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HoaxWhisperer said:
It's always the same playbook: 1. Create computerized simulation of data they want to convey. 2. Have scientists publish "research" using this custom made simulator. 3. Praise the "findings" as truth. They did this for coronavirus (and unsuccessfully, with half a dozen other "pandemics" in the past 20 years), global warming, the list goes on.

Also can i just add:



Just look at this. They found some schmuck to state a benign fact about the mechanics of the study (and even still, distancing his statements from his employer) and they then spin this as some sort of authoritative endorsement of the thesis.

Also, wtf is a "hospitalist"? I just noticed that
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You've hit the nail on the head - COVID-19 appears to be a model-driven scam. They announced the "variants" based on a statistical model and also "sequenced" the original "virus" rather than purifying and isolating it. Zero empiricism.
 
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grenade001

Robin
kazz said:
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Apartment defect heartache for Melbourne buyer prompts new education kit

A Melbourne schoolteacher thought she’d done all her homework when it came to buying her first property. But two and a half years on, she’s got spiralling legal fees and is facing financial ruin.
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In the old Roosh forum there was a saying getting around basically dont go around thinking your automatically Entitled to anything.

Some snippets from the article.....

“This should have been one of the greatest achievements of my life, buying my own place. But I had no idea that the whole process was a game with changing rules, and I could end up having to sell the apartment to pay the bills and special levies.”



“I realise now I was naive and badly informed,” she said. “But I don’t think I’m alone in that. Apartments are often bought by younger people, or older people, and there’s so little information available in an easily digestible form.



“The government needs to protect us, empower us and give us more information so we can make informed choices.”:hmm:
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The "checklist" mentioned in the article would have been a minute long keyword search online.

Considering how significant an expense purchasing a home is, the absence of major due dilligence is bewildering. While not everyone is an expert, it is not cost prohibitive ($2-$3k max.) to pay for the advice of someone who is - ie: a buyers agent.

Despite the "legalese" in legal documents, they are generally quite readable for most people. A person who attended university would be able to obtain some inferrences from such documents.

Another victory for feminism!
 
kel

kel

Ostrich
I'm no Bill Gates fan, and I'm not promoting that particular technology because I don't know anything about it, but waste water treatment is a fascinating topic and an incredibly important service in society. It's often overlooked, if not straight up disdained, because it's dealing with gross subjects that people would rather not think about despite it being crucial that it be done. Similar to how garbage men are held in low esteem by people who would go bonkers and revert to early hominid behavior if the trash ever stopped magically disappearing from the curb every few days.

There's no such thing as new water - all the water you drink has been excreted and reimbibed by many creatures before you, by many other humans even perhaps.
 
budoslavic

budoslavic

Owl
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The Linux Foundation and IBM Announce New Open Source Projects to Promote Racial Justice​

The Linux Foundation will host seven Call for Code for Racial Justice projects created by IBM and Red Hat employees

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it will host seven projects from Call for Code for Racial Justice, an initiative driven by IBM and Creator David Clark Cause to urge the global developer ecosystem and open source community to contribute to solutions that can help confront racial inequalities.

Call for Code for Racial Justice launched in October 2020, and facilitates the adoption and innovation of open source projects by developers, ecosystem partners, and communities across the world to promote racial justice across three focus areas: Police & Judicial Reform and Accountability; Diverse Representation; and Policy & Legislation Reform. The initiative builds upon Call for Code, which was created in 2018 and has grown to over 400,000 developers and problem solvers across 179 countries, in partnership with Creator David Clark Cause, Founding Partner IBM, Charitable Partner United Nations Human Rights, and the Linux Foundation.

"Open source technology has an important role to play in addressing the greatest challenges of our time, and that includes racial justice," said Mike Dolan, senior vice president and GM of Projects at the Linux Foundation. "We are excited to host and support these projects at the Linux Foundation, and look forward to how they will develop and deploy through contributions from the open source community."

As part of today's announcement, the Linux Foundation and IBM unveiled two new solution starters, Fair Change and TakeTwo:

Fair Change is a platform to help record, catalog, and access evidence of potentially racially charged incidents to help enable transparency, reeducation and reform as a matter of public interest and safety. For example, real-world video footage related to routine traffic stops, stop and search or other scenarios, may be recorded and accessed by the involved parties and authorities to determine whether the incidents were handled in a biased manner. Fair Change consists of a mobile application for iOS and Android built using React Native, an API for capturing data from various sources built using Node JS. It also includes a website with a geospatial map view of incidents built using Google Maps and React. Data can be stored in a cloud hosted database and object store. Visit the tutorial or project page to learn more.

TakeTwo aims to help mitigate bias in digital content, whether it is overt or subtle, with a focus on text across news articles, headlines, web pages, blogs, and even code. The solution is designed to provide a consistent set of language recommendations, leveraging directories of inclusive terms compiled by trusted sources like the Inclusive Naming Initiative, which was co-founded by the Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, and VMware. The terminology is categorized and can be used to train an AI model to enhance its accuracy over time. TakeTwo is built using open source technologies including Python, FastAPI and Docker. The API can be run locally with an Adobe CouchDB backend database or IBM Cloudant database. IBM has already deployed TakeTwo within its existing IBM Developer tools that are used to publish new content produced by hundreds of IBMers each week. TakeTwo is being trialed by IBM for the IBM Developer website content. Visit the tutorial or project page to learn more.

"Viewed from an etymological perspective, language is a manifestation of our inherent viewpoints about society. Many phrases and words may be used in harmless contexts but bear a history that does not support our diverse, multi-cultural engineering community today. To that end, it gives me great pride that the TakeTwo project is leveraging the Inclusive Naming Initiative to provide language guidance to anyone seeking to write consciously across all platforms. By expanding beyond developers with solutions like TakeTwo, Inclusive Naming is becoming essential to a diverse and resilient community of doers and we are very honored," said Priyanka Sharma, General Manager of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

In addition to the two new solution starters, the Linux Foundation will now host five existing and evolving open source projects from Call for Code for Racial Justice:
  • Five Fifths Voter: This web app empowers minorities to exercise their right to vote and helps ensure their voice is heard by determining optimal voting strategies and limiting suppression issues.
  • Legit-Info: Local legislation can have significant impacts on areas as far-reaching as jobs, the environment, and safety. Legit-Info helps individuals understand the legislation that shapes their lives.
  • Incident Accuracy Reporting System: This platform allows witnesses and victims to corroborate evidence or provide additional information from multiple sources against an official police report.
  • Open Sentencing: To help public defenders better serve their clients and make a stronger case, Open Sentencing shows racial bias in data such as demographics.
  • Truth Loop: This app helps communities simply understand the policies, regulations, and legislation that will impact them the most.
These projects were built using technologies such as Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud, IBM Watson, Blockchain ledger, Node.js, Vu.js, Docker, upstream Kubernetes and Tekton. The Linux Foundation and IBM are asking developers and ecosystem partners to contribute by testing, extending and implementing them, and adding their own diverse perspectives and expertise to make them even stronger.

"These applications emerged from an internal IBM program called the Call for Code Emb(race) Challenge, where Black IBMers, supported by Red Hat's Blacks United in Leadership and Diversity (B.U.I.L.D.) community, and allies designed technology solutions to address the problem of systemic racism," said Ruth Davis, IBM Director of Call for Code. "Since we released the original five projects in October, we have received enthusiastic support from the open source community. In collaboration with the Linux Foundation, we are committed to working to develop and deploy these solutions to help combat racial injustice."
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The Linux Foundation and IBM Announce New Open Source Projects to Promote Racial Justice

/PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it will host seven projects from...
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McDonald's Execs Will Have Bonuses Cut if They Hire Too Many White Men for Top Positions

McDonald's new hiring policy is being derided as 'McQuotas,' since executives will get a pay cut if they don't meet it.
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Allyship through Accountability

Allyship through Accountability
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