Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

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  1. purr1n

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    WTF man? That's so disrespectful. It's obvious you aren't a parent and don't know how hard it is to be one.

    Time out for everyone.
     
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  2. purr1n

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    Holy cow. Xi Jinping ain't gonna like this:


    (Not sure how many in the West will get it all. I'm pretty sure I didn't get everything myself).

    P.S. Some context to NMSL
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    Malaysian pride (Namewee is Malaysian) XD Our politicians hate him too. Love him to bits.
     
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    Okay... can we talk about how comments on youtube are handled? So many of my comments get auto-plucked, I don't understand why, and I'm beginning to think this is a big serious problem that just goes unseen by people who aren't like me, crazy enough to want to go back and edit every single comment he makes. A lot of times, you just don't know you've been filtered out. You'll see the comment go up, and only find out it didn't actually post if you go back to the page later, or try to edit the comment before leaving the page. It'll vanish when you hit save, after giving a generic notification message about it not posting.

    Thing is, post a comment like immediately after saying something like "This video is great!" and it will go through every time. You can f'ing spam the shit out of that and they'll all go up. But no matter how many times you post what gets dropped, it won't post. So it is the bots moderating. They just don't tell you it is.

    I was on a Rittenhouse video. Understand this, I DO NOT want to get into that issue. I don't want a shitshow. I had seen a comment on there suggesting it was wrong that he went to court, calling it terrifying. To me, this is just basic ignorance of how self-defense works. It's highly misleading of something that every single person carrying a gun for defense needs to know. So I quickly threw this comment together:

    I'm really scratching my head trying to figure out what about this isn't appropriate for a video talking in-depth about the highest-profile self-defense case in the country. I feel like if I just post a transcript of a major news report on the case, it'll probably get filtered because of the things it describes and the way it describes them. Makes it real fuckin hard to have any sort of conversation about news in the places where the most people go to talk about it.

    I just don't get it. What about anything I wrote up there is just "too much" for the conversation? I see comments in there that are straight up nuts. Violent and angry, with profanity and a lot of really harsh, dark wording. They fly, but this is too much? If I'm incorrect, that's fine. I'd rather it be up there and get corrected, bring it to my attention. But I feel like that's about the worst thing you can say about my comment there. I think a lot about tone on sites like that, because people have twitteritis and will jump on the smallest things you say.

    I don't think these AI bots can work that crap out. I think they just see certain words and shy off. They can't see context, they can't detect messaging. The problem is, I think, a lot of those words are irreplaceable in what are often important conversations to millions of f'ing people, and in themselves are not harmful in the majority of actual uses they have. It's hard to know, because they don't ever tell you. They don't even really tell you they've filtered your comment. And it's probably burying tons of voices in big discussions around difficult subjects.

    Like, man, as much as I can't stand a lot of the complaining about censorship from extremists out there... I do see where social media platforms have terrible attitudes about what regulating their platforms looks like. This solution in particular strikes me as a glaring issue that rarely, if ever gets brought up. You don't even know when or why you're being silenced. And yeah, after putting in the time to give some basic advice and push the ignorance ratio back in just the smallest possible way and just getting shut down again, I got mad as hell. I feel like I can't have conversations with people in the comments on that site because we all have to dance around our words and then, half of them don't even make it through and nobody even realizes.

    I dunno, I think it's pretty bad. In my mind I'm second-guessing things I say on there, wondering if I will be heard, or if it'll get scooped up. So I change the wording and lose part of the message. And it's not like the original message wasn't sincere, compiled with effort, or intended to add value. I don't shitpost like that. I just wanted to be a part of the discussion, like many other people do. Honestly, more than anything it just bums me out in a big way.
     
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    What about no comments on YouTube? There's a reason why so many platforms (including WSJ) allow comments. It's because it encourages engagement (not necessarily the good kind) and thus pageviews and profit.

    Facebook can fix its problems instantly. No access to your FB by anyone by default. Second choice below that should be only friends and family. Allowing friends of friends should require hoops to jump through.

    Twitter and Facebook aren't even real places. They are virtual town squares for the outrage of the day. Heck, even our newspapers are the same. NY Post and CNN have seen massive drops in readership now that every other post on the front page isn't about Trump doing this or that. These papers had ample resources to actually do investigative reports like WSJ, but chose the easy way of sucking in readers by focusing on lowest common denominator politics for four years. As such they deserve their massive declines in readership and profitability.

    We don't even get real news. It's just shit regurgitated over and over, like how Chappelle is a transphobe (from "reporters" who obviously did not watch the special from beginning to end).

    Now watch Reddit turn into a ad-ridden shit platform after the IPO.

    Anyway, back to my point: don't allow any comments. People who post don't get that most no one else gives a f**k about their opinion.
     
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    The social media I use are audio related. I do not even know how to post a comment on YouTube. Probably needs an account and I would rather get a rash than creating a YouTube account. At least 99 % of the content is completely irrelevant for me. I would rather have a conversation with people I know.
     
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    It's more than 2 sentences and thoughtful. The AI bot correctly deduced that it doesn't belong on youtube.
     
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    I share similar views with @purr1n, Comments/Opinions just generates a big eco-chamber that provides more profits on news/forums/etc.

    I avoid the Comments on WSJ with a passion, since I 99.9% know what the general opinion of a news piece will be. That's the part that sucks, regardless if WSJ/Youtube/PornHub/etc. I can guess the opinions about 99.56% of the time, and it is kind of sad. I am super glad that you are unable to view WSJ comments on their mobile apps, so you just get the news. Yes you can read the WSJ Opinion section, and yes we know how their Opinion section tilts. However, no one forces you to read that stuff. I know people diss on WSJ for their ring-wing Opinion tilt, but the News side is super duper good and it kills my wallet for my digital subscription with WSJ.

    Reddit is already the left-wing eco-chamber nowadays, which users mostly downvote someone with a different view. I see it often at my local Jax Reddit page, which I mostly stop following since it is the same crap over and over (GOP kills Housing Market, GOP is Evil, GOP don't give a f**k about poor people, GOP is racist yet we have two black GOP city councilmen in Jax, etc.) I'm also glad I'm not on Facebook anymore, dear lord that is one giant eco chamber.**

    I actually have an YouTube Premium subscription, since one the Content Creators that I follow actually get more revenue from Google if more YouTube Premium users subscribe to them. Also I like the headphone only mode. Yes I can use Youtube Vanced and cheat the system, but I kind of wanna support Content Creators. Of course I avoid the Comment sections for the most part. I also hate YouTube got rid of the Dislike Count, harder to tell if the video is BS from the users.

    Life is better without comments. But watch when people will get rid of the comments when/if Section 230 (Trump wet dream) gets repealed (which honestly I do not believe it will happen since no one have the balls to do it, maybe DeSantis if he becomes President).

    **I actually follow new pages on Facebook/Reddit/Twitter. To avoid going to these sites, I use a RSS Reader Inoreader to see all of the pages/feeds that I care about, without going on the platforms. It does require you have a Pro subscription to Inoreader, but the time-savings is huge without going through crap. It even allow you to follow all of your YouTube Channel subscriptions where they list in order the videos from a Content Creator, since the YouTube App/Website sucks when it comes to new videos being hit on the platform.
     
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    That's pretty direct and you are ahead of your times. But not much. It is happening, the main propaganda excuse for creating ghettos in 18 century was that Jews were spreading the disease. Germany and Austria, lots of experience in this area, they are doing it now. We have seen this before we know how it end.

    The litmus test for the credibility of health "experts":
    1. If they recognize the natural, after COVID, immunity
    2. If the people tested for COVID receive pre-hospitalization treatment early, during the time when monoclonal antibodies are the most effective. In short, the focus on therapeutics
    If the vaccine is the only "salvation" then obviously we are dealing with very specific type of "scientific" approach
    the best summarized by @blackintheempir:
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    If you don't believe in vaccines, why the hell would you believe in monoclonal antibodies?
     
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    Many nations in the EU certainly recognize it and will allow it to count towards a vaccination. Personally, since I've been vaccinated twice and will be getting a booster soon (need to travel), I would love to get infected. There's scientific evidence that this method (vaccine + infection) yields super resistance, including to new strains.

    Anyway, the fact that we won't accept infection (but will accept the now next to useless J&J vaccine) tell me that we're a nation of science hacks that has gone full retard.

    No wonder people seek conspiracy theories about Pfizer and Moderna lining their pockets.

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    Another full retard stance: thinking that we can get 90% of people vaccinated. Never. This wouldn't even happen in Taiwan. Vaccine hesitancy exists everywhere - not just with the "deplorables" in the USA as Hillary would say. The proper course is to assume there will be vaccine hesitancy and plan for it by protecting the most vulnerable and ensuring adequate resources for health care workers.

    If we recall, not too long ago Fauci said 70% needed to acquire resistance. We are most definitely there now with vaccinations and people who actually gotten SARS2. Yet still, in some states, even heavily vaccinated states, the numbers have been going up.
     
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    Better research and tests on the antibodies. Better results among the infected. No reports of death from it's use vs the 1289 deaths in 2 months pfizer reported to the FDA prior to issuance of the EUA. Pfizer's own documents released by the FDA by court order. Not hard not to like them unless you already had the jab and survived.
     
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    Google it. There's one from WSJ.

    Also, note how FL and Nueces County in TX have close to zero infections? This is because fewer people decided to get vaccinated and more people actually got SARS2 because everything was kept open with no lockdowns. The downside is that more people needed to die. No one I know personally has died from SARS2, although there are two people who are two degrees of separation from me who have died from it.

    This is the nature of universe. However much we want to win with vaccines, nature's gonna get us one way or the other. Keep things open, have more people die, the rest become stronger. Or be like Taiwan where barely anybody died, but which is kind of in a fucked situation because they have no idea when they can open up. Maybe another two years from now, and even then, there are going to be deaths when they do open up.

    I've been looking at the COVID numbers for each state since this thing started. I'm convinced the only way for herd immunity is for a certain percentage of people to actually get the disease. Vaccinations only won't work. All those herd immunity projections from a year ago didn't pan out.

    I mean look how fucked Colorado (add state of New York too) is right now considering its higher vaccination rate compared to FL. The real reason California is doing OK is because it got hit early and no one in LA county took things seriously and continued to go to COVID rave parties and dinner parties including Governor Newsom.

    Good public policy for a democracy is this:

    Encourage vaccinations
    Assume vaccine hesitancy
    > Keep high-risk people safe
    > Provide resources for health care now (the Green shit can wait until later)
    I don't know why it's so f'ing hard for government to be pragmatic instead of being right.

    Here's the kicker: SARS2 hasn't been all that deadly in the USA. It's a royal pain for those who work in hospitals, it's deadlier for older people and people in bad health, but at the end of the day it just ain't that deadly. It's been a blip here and there (specifically winter 2020-21 and fall 2021) if we look at excess mortality numbers. Not a popular or politically correct view, but it's the truth. Something to chew on: we each have a 1 in 100 chance of getting killed in a motor vehicle accident in our lifetimes. I already have high-school two friends who died this way.

    To think that human mortality numbers will always remain steady when we have way too many f'ing people on the planet - the universe don't work like that.
     
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    Google what?

    and since we're ninja editing,
    so, $1.5T to hospitals? or $3T? $6T? If it's through insurance, i can't wait for my premium to go up!
     
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    Four billion people have had the jab and survived. I did have a sore arm though.

    People are not dropping dead of vaccination. People are still dropping dead of COVID.
     
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    Regarding Youtube comments disappearing, I've had that happen multiple times with super mundane/generic comments. After posting the same thing several times, it eventually sticks. Honestly I think there's a coding bug somewhere. Just the other day it happened when I asked a reviewer "how come nobody is reviewing preamps?". It kept disappearing until the nth time I posted it.
     
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    I generally agree, but to be fair it is really hard to ramp up health care when the shortage is not of beds or equipment, but of qualified people to staff them. Everywhere in the world has a shortage of health care workers so it is not like there is some hidden pool to be tapped. It takes years to train new people, and frankly seeing how the ones we have are treated in general I'm surprised if many people are going to choose that as a vocation going forward.
     

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