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tbf, most papers that issue retractions get this kind of BS excuse. Academia is chock full of huge egos that refuse to acknowledge they're wrong.

Is this the ivermectin paper that suggested it might have value against covid in humans, but only at lethal doses? If you're making up datasets, you could at least make it actually support your argument.

CRON posted...

If this exchange happened in real life, it would take Elon a solid minute to softly mumble the joke

He'd totally agree and say how important Bernie's policies are and then make the joke to himself in the shower a week later.

AlCalavicci posted...

Are they not doing Rampage as part pf Dynamite?

Or does it depend on the night?

Rampage is usually after Dynamite, but once in a while (once a month or so IIRC) its live on Fridays.

JlM posted...

Okay, so I haven't really kept up with AEW. I remember back when it first started up, no one really wanted Hangman to win the title and people were saying he was forced.

What changed?

A really well done slow-burn storyline building him up over the past 2 years.

Kenny's reign has honestly suffered a bit since its been obvious since last December (when Kenny won the title) that Adam Page was the only acceptable choice to win the title.

I don't want to sound hyperbolic, but I will literally never watch AEW again if Hangman doesn't win tonight.

AlCalavicci posted...

i hope this isn't a super long match

It can't be that long because one team really needs to be carried by Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page, but its also a Jericho match so it'll probable go longer than it should.

Bare minimum, the show isn't ending until midnight.

Flockaveli posted...

What the hell is next I thought only Hangman vs. Omega was left.

The Jericho/American Top Team who cares match (that will undoubtedly have Sammy taking a crazy bump) and CM Punk/Eddie Kingston still.

Like show is going until Midnight, at least.

AlCalavicci posted...

Still 3 more matches after this women's title match

AEW has fallen hard into the WWE "Make our PPVs way too long" approach. Except its just making every match like 5-10 minutes longer than it needs to be instead of cramming 15 matches on the card like WWE.

AssultTank posted...

He looks suspended to me.

lol what did he do to get suspended in the last 40 minutes?

joe40001 posted...

I did not mean to snub my nose or be perceived as talking down in any way. I am sorry if it came across in that way. I disagree that these statements are facts. In theory, I am open to a civil discussion about the merits of anti-mandate and of Peterson etc, but this is likely not the best topic for it. And further, I'm pretty stressed/burned out/busy as of late so it likely would not be a good use of my current time and emotional energy.

So I think I'm going to leave it at the statement I made before:
"You always need to acknowledge the possibility that there are valid counter arguments.

IMO you can never learn, grow, or evolve your opinions if you aren't willing to acknowledge the existence and theoretically validity of counter opinions."

And move on.

Well, no. Not everything has a valid counter argument. The argument that the earth is flat doesn't have valid arguments for it. The fact that the arguments against the covid vaccine are pretty dumb doesn't really have a valid counter argument and the fact that vaccine mandates actually seem to work very well doesn't have a valid counter argument to it.

Just saying "yeah but there are two sides to everything" and then refusing to elaborate just makes it sound like you want an excuse to act like you're the smartest person in the room.

I think the PS5 does a better job of delivering on the "NEXT GEN" experience so far, since the Xbox in many ways is really just a beefed up XBone.

Though I think that also is a better thing for the XBone in the long run, and Gamepass is more than good enough to make up for the few exclusives the PS5 has right now.

AlCalavicci posted...

Brian vs. Omega. Can't see Page winning at this point

I love that throughout his AEW run, Brian has finished people in several different ways

Bryan/Omega needs to move away from the title, and Page winning the title, and Omega costing Bryan his match is probably the best way to do it.

Revolution is probably gonna be Page/Miro and Omega/Danielson IMO.

Also, Is it just me or have the Bucks gotten vastly worse since they turned heel? Like I don't care the slightest bit about what they're doing right now.

What is wrong with Japan that "Pokemon-themed donuts" means "donuts resembling poke-buttholes"?

The young guys in AEW (like MJF/Darby/Sammy) seem to have a bad tendency of insisting of shoving really dangerous and huge-ass indy spots when something much safer would work just as well.

I don't think we needed a Coffin Drop to the Apron, the tombstone to the apron, or the Coffin Drop to the outside.

joe40001 posted...

"There isn't an argument that..." is shorthand for "I've never seen a good argument for, and do not expect that there is a good argument that...". And if it is, I can understand and approve of that.

But if people are saying things like "The COVID vaccine mandate is the right choice, and I do not acknowledge the existence of the possibility of a valid counter argument against it." Yeah that's bad. You always need to acknowledge the possibility that their are valid counter arguments.

IMO you can never learn, grow, or evolve your opinions if you aren't willing to acknowledge the existence and theoretically validity of counter opinions.

Do you have a counter argument? Or do you want to snub your nose from your high horse?

There are counter opinions and there are facts. And one of those facts is that Jordan Peterson is, at best, a grifter, and another fact is that his statement about vaccine mandates is dumb.

joe40001 posted...

Reasonable people can disagree about this. Personally I'd much rather make people feel safe/confident about getting vaccinated than I would forcing them to do something they (often for unfounded reasons) feel unsafe doing.

Well, why would you disagree with it? And how would you make people feel safe/confident about getting vaccinated while there is an active smear campaign against the concept that is based in absolutely nothing?

And I mean, the point of this topic is very much "dumbass says something stupid" because that's exactly what this is. There isn't an argument that Jordan Peterson is at best, a dumbass (and at worst an actively malicious grifter who doesn't care for the well-being of others) and that what he said was in fact, stupid.

joe40001 posted...

So what is the point of a topic like this?

It pretty clearly operates from the premise of "mandates are good, and anybody who is against them is a dumb dumb. Also let's dunk on JP".

Because I see bad points and bad comparisons being made, and I want to object to them. But it feels like any objection to this mutual affirmation of correctness and moral superiority wouldn't be welcome, and may not even be appropriate.

So is the point of this topic then just "we are right/smart/superior, people we dislike are wrong/dumb/inferior, now let's all meme and affirm that so we can all feel good feelings."?

Well its a dumb person making a stupid point that is potentially dangerous. Except he's not the one putting himself at risk here, he's encouraging other people to go out and be unsafe and potentially harm themselves.

Vaccine mandates are flat out a good thing because its basically the least authoritarian way to get out of this public health crisis. Saying "okay, you all were willing to make a sacrifice when it was most needed, and now while we're getting out of the hole we want to reward the people who were willing to make those sacrifices while not needing to regress back into dangerous territory since some people don't give a **** about others"

This topic is just pointing out that a con-artist is trying to sell his snake oil, except this con artist doesn't give a **** that the snake oil he's selling is actually somewhat poisonous.

Ehh if you like it then who cares. You do you.

DirkDiggles posted...

Dave Bautista: f*** that kid.

Really, even if you think he's innocent, there's nothing he's done that means your opinion should be anything less that this.

Background_Guy posted...

So they're anti medicine but they chose to become nurses? lol
I don't know if it's the same everywhere, but when I was working at a hospital I needed to get vaccinated for everything under the sun. Chickenpox, TB, etc. And I wasn't even working in a medical role, it was administrative.

It seems many people have only decided they have deep personal reasons to be against vaccines when it started being a slight inconvenience to them.

As if its not something about medicine, but a thing about narcissism?

tbf, McBrayer has been in like a dozen children's shows. He was literally the main character in Wander over Yonder.

I hope McBrayer gets to be a world-renowned childrens character that nobody could possibly hate just like Mr Rogers.

Because you can't pause real life. Sure in real life you may not be fighting the great Grey Wolf Sif, but you might be fighting the Sif of poverty, or injustice.

Wait until someone repeats this and his fans will insist the statement has been taken out of context.

Also, Jordan, you live in Ontario Canada. Vaccine mandates are literally nothing new. They were required for your children to go to school.

You'd think actual nurses would understand how important a vaccine is...

They did that one special with Loki and Bart I think...

I think Family Guy has made fun of the fact that they're owned by Disney now more than Disney really cares to do anything with them or the Simpsons.

It was just Pokemon in general, since for a long time my DS was also my GBA, but I guess Heartgold/Soulsilver.

lilORANG posted...

The games have undoubtedly been made easier over time. The "they're kids games" argument doesn't hold water when the first 5 gens were also kids games but had trainers who carried more than one Pokmon. Kids aren't morons, and don't need the level of handholding modern gens have.

If it'll help, the changes made to BDSP would probably make them the hardest in the series, if you count optional post-game stuff.

I mean, I feel like 90% of the arguments that actually get thrown at them are in bad faith.

The BDSP boards have been pretty toxic for months, and its all just the same 3 talking points from people who were never going to enjoy the games to begin with who are only there to ruin it for everyone else. And the problem there is that it lets the actual reasonable criticisms get forgotten because the majority of complaints are basic BS just to whine.

I wouldn't be surprised if by now Pokemon has taken the approach of "its all BS so why bother" with how much mindless garbage is thrown at them. Especially when with the upcoming games that are coming out are basically Pokemon directly responding to what fans wanted and asked for, and are still getting nothing except toxicity.

On the other hand, this is also almost entirely because of really poor marketing for Sword and Shield. So you could say some of this is definitely on Pokemon.

VitalGetPrank posted...

I voted not informed enough but I'm leaning towards no. The more interesting aspect of the trial is how grossly incompetent the prosecutor seems.

Definitely the big idea. It seems like the prosecutor is terrible, the judge is biased, the entire thing is a complete ****show and probably never should've gone to trial if not for it being used as a pedestal for Culture War BS.

Arcanine2009 posted...

if you were in his shoes, with you admit you were wrong? I don't think your lawyers would tell you to say you were. That would be admission of guilt. And considering the footage showed him shoot in self defense, why would he admit he was wrong?

Its not an admission of guilt to say he shot people and is remorseful. He made a tough choice in a stressful condition, and that's understandable.

I'm saying he should have remorse for killing someone, not that he should admit guilt.

I mean, he's clearly guilty of murder. Strictly speaking, nobody is debating that he killed those people.

The actual question should be "is what Kyle did defensible?" which I think is a much stronger argument in his favour. I could see a reasonable argument for like, 2nd or 3rd degree murder, but not what he's been charged with.

Being as generous as possible to Kyle, he still had a gun he shouldn't legally have, and went to a protest with the express intention of stirring ****. That at best, still makes him a POS. You shouldn't go to prison for being a POS though.

The problem is that this probably never should've gone to court to begin with - its obvious Kyle killed people and obvious it was likely self-defence - so Kyle should gotten a slap on the wrist and like, community service or something. But instead its been blown up into more culture war BS where the prosecution is terrible, the judge is terrible, and the only real conclusion anyone is going to take from this is that the white supremacist looking for an excuse to hurt people will be perfectly fine so long as they don't hit first. Its a very bad conclusion to be making so public.

The real issue isn't whether Kyle killed someone or not, its that under testimony, he thinks he did nothing wrong. And that's scary, since he is also responsible for people dying for little reason beyond high tensions and a political disagreement.

Maybe TC just really likes the town of Brandon, Manitoba. Or is an alumni of Brandon University. Or is a big fan of the Killers and really wants to show his support for frontman Brandon Flowers.

All of these are better answers than pretending its a funny way of saying "**** Joe Biden"

TheVipaGTS posted...

So is this a case where they wanted the game packaged and shipped by a certain date but weren't done so they shipped what they had and hoped to hell they would be done with the rest by release date so they could drop the patch?

Theres a lot of really weird things in the leak that personally make me think its some part of Pokemon's weird hatred of leakers (like they've hammered down hard when previous games have leaked) and the day 1 patch is about the same size as the actual game, so that's a lot of stuff to have in to not be ready by when they shipped, but ready by a week before release.

Some of the weird stuff in the leaks include...
The entire battle area being blocked off (inaccessible, but clearly there)
The post-game legendary area is just inaccessible
theres no intro screen
some of the area's music is literally just the DS music (some of these areas had remixed music we've already seen)

So idk, there's clearly some actual in-game stuff that's at least going to be checked so you can use them so far, but who knows.

I think the bigger question is wtf did Big Bird take so long to get vaccinated?

averagejoel posted...

now I'm wondering if any creationist talking points stem from pokemon's misrepresentation of what evolution is

Those creationist talking points long precede Pokemon, so I think its more like Pokemon adopted the misinterpretation of what "evolution" actually is.

Man its weird to hear the CW superhero shows are all coming to an end. I was so into most of them back when I was in high school/starting college and then I just kind of stopped. Its a whole end of an era going on here. I know there's still Batwoman and Superman and Lois now, but those feel like completely separate things.

Am honestly surprised to hear Legends of Tomorrow is the last one from around 2015-16 still going, even though its obviously the best one.

Rayman2943 posted...

Not knowing the 6 million number in itself isn't denial unless you intentionally lower the number.

But yeah those stats arent good

True, I think the 63% of people not knowing that might be more of a question of the sample taken rather than suggesting there's a lot of holocaust denial - just to put a little asterisk on the whole study since a number like that seems a little sus.

HairyQueen posted...

Dont pull numbers out of your ass like that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47015184.amp

Five per cent of UK adults do not believe the Holocaust took place and one in 12 believes its scale has been exaggerated, a survey has found.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/survey-finds-shocking-lack-holocaust-knowledge-among-millennials-gen-z-n1240031

There's also this one for 18-34 years olds in the US, though it has some pretty big claims, like 63% didn't know 6 million jews died, over1/2 thinking the number was closer to 2 million, and over 10% of respondents saying they had never even heard the word "holocaust" before. Or 22% of people thinking the holocaust was a WWI thing, not a WWII thing.

And 10% of the people surveyed said they either didn't think the holocaust happened, or weren't sure if it did or not.

Nintendo makes all of their games follow the system gimmick, and the PC doesn't have those, therefore Nintendo can't release their games on PC.

... yes, I know that's not true, but its close enough for if Nintendo ever needs to make an excuse.

Supposedly yea. you can just turn it on/off... somehow. I'd assume similar to how you could turn it on/off in LGPE.

Though this question would probably be better solved putting up with the toxicity of the BDSP boards.

They should just make GTA 7, and claim its so big they had to skip GTA 6.

Well if you have a vaccine, Covid will likely be less of a problem for your immune system and you will likely not get as sick from it. Its not a magical forcefield surrounding you, so you can still get "infected" with Covid-19, you're response will just be better.

The better your immune system can effectively stop Covid before it can establish itself in your body and "get you sick" the less of a chance it has to mutate into something that can possibly bypass the vaccine or cause more damage to people.

If I am vaccinated and spread Covid to you who is also vaccinated, both of our bodies know exactly how to deal with Covid and can stop it before its a problem to either of us. But if I'm vaccinated and spread it to you who isn't vaccinated, the virus can replicate a billion times in you while you get sick, allowing it a better chance of mutating into something that you can then spread back to me. And this likelihood multiplies with every non-vaccinated (and a few vaccinated) people who also get sick with Covid-19.

The vaccine mandate is just a way of saying "for health concerns you needed the shot and to stay away from each other, and now that we have some benefits of that we can ease restrictions, but only if you are willing to play along and also help, otherwise we'll just be getting each other sick and end up back at square one" So the people who actually tried to help (how they could - getting the shot, wearing masks, etc...) should be able to benefit from the work they put in and not suffer longer just because some narcissists or misinformed people weren't willing to do their share and help.

Ive pretty much moved past physical for everything but my Switch. I got a little disillusioned when any game I bought on my PS4 or Xbone would take an additional hour to install stuff because the disc was basically just a license key anyways. And then Id still need the disc to play the game, even if it was installed onto my system! Digital was just way more convenient.

gamepimp12 posted...

the music isnt done and its a whole post game section missing, is everything thats known at the moment.

ILCA could not finish in time.

Its also entirely possible this is just a dumb way to try to prevent leaks (which would also make sense, given how Pokmon has responded to leaks in the past) in which case its literally just gatekeeping a bunch of content so nobody can see it till release.

I dont exactly know why it was necessary, but I think this is at least as reasonable an answer as the devs just couldnt finish it in time.

I got it as a christmas present on PS3, and then when it was free on Epic.

I've still never actually finished the game.

Yeah. I love how it looks and the leaks that have come out the last few days are pretty cool.

The pokemon boards are hella toxic right now, but its become a place for people to ***** for years at this point.

PerseusRad posted...

Wind Waker

This. A Close second was SSX on Tour, NBA The Street, and any other games that randomly had Mario and his friends shoehorned in (I think they got a DDR game?)