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nrjk1 10 points ago +10 / -0

As someone who's been around academics and written and read academic writing, I can surely say it is 90% filler. Imagine a room full of Michael Eric Dysons at typewriters cramming out nonsense24/7. That is academia: saying a lot while saying nothing.

I'm a classically trained musician, so I consider myself somewhat balanced verbally and mathematically (I also fly airplanes and have a woodshop). Music is both mathematical and verbal (rhythm and melody, to over simplify).

I have friends on both sides of the spectrum. The ones who excel at math can't write worth a shit, and the ones who can write have trouble with basic statistics, etc. That said, I wpuld much rather read a technical book written by a physicist than some gobbledygook by a SJW who is pulling words from her ass. The difference between the two is one can just pull stuff out of thin air and the other has to have a foundation in reality.

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nrjk1 1 point ago +1 / -0

They piss & moan about the evil 1%ers then they go and create one out of thin air.

Not sending their best, folks.

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nrjk1 5 points ago +5 / -0

In Florida. I know several people personally who have/have had it.

Two were sick for about 3 weeks but are now getting better.

A bassist in one of my bands and his girlfriend had it. He's a big pot smoker (to avoid prescriptions) and he said it never hit his lungs, he just had some kind of clots(?) in his neck and bad digestive problems.

The guitarist in another band has a daughter who has it and she's currently getting better. She has multiple sclerosis, as well.

Also, another bass player had some kind of bad illness with many similar symptoms back in Janurary. He said it was like nothing he's had before (fluid in lungs, sleeping upright, flu but much worse). So he's a maybe.

And myself I put in the maybe category. I was very sick for 5 days back in April. I never had any respiratory issues (I smoke 4-6 cigs a day, pot occasionally), but it felt like I had been hit by a truck in my lower abdomen. Very bad fever and could barely walk for several days. Slept for about 18 hrs a day for 3 days. I get 2-3 coldsba year that I manage with some Dayquil and soup. This sickeness was crippling.

All that said, I'll be interested to see the final tally. I believe there are (by some estimations from antibody tests) 10,15, 20x the amount of people who have had it and it never affected them enough to even realize it. If the mortality rate is similar to the flu, then it's real danger lies in it's 2 week incubation period and ability to spread.

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nrjk1 4 points ago +4 / -0

Maybe they'll at least think a few seconds more before pushing their fake news propaganda

(They won't)

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