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Title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it's still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses.


Transcript[Cueball, White Hat and Megan walking]

Cueball: I try to meet people where they are, but I have such a hard time with anti-vaxxers.

[Zoom out; a tree to the right is visible]

Cueball: The pandemic brought with it so much confusing stuff.
Cueball: Ambiguous data, weird tradeoffs, disagreements, dilemmas, and uncertainty.

[Zoom in on Cueball]

Cueball: It just feels like a miracle that the best and most effective intervention to reduce suffering also turned out to be one of the easiest and simplest.
Cueball: That never happens!

[Cueball, White Hat and Megan sitting around the tree]

Cueball: I hate that people are working so hard to make it complicated when it's one of the few things in this world that isn't.


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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'll use it anyways. Because, fuck it, I despise people like that

The problem is not about the person you intend to insult "earning it" or not, the problem is that by your choice of insult, you're implying that you also despise other mentally impaired people, no matter if they've done anything wrong.

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Does it imply hate, the term? Or just limited cognitive capacity?