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• On the post: Trump Campaign Is So Pathetic It Claims CNN Poll Is Defamatory; Demands Retraction

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2020 @ 11:50am

  Re: Defamatory Polls

  If a push poll was defamatory for what its questions stated/implied, it would defamatory regardless of the results. The demand letter seems to be saying that the results are what's defamatory.

• On the post: Chicago Mayor Says City's Police Officers Will Be 'Stripped Of Their Powers' If They Turn Off Their Cameras

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2020 @ 06:30am

  Re: Re: and...

  And now my friend will be YOUR FRIEND as we CRUSH these LEFTIST TRAITOROUS SEDITIOUS RAT BASTARDS (Techdirt). Thank you Bill Barr for your Terrorist Designation of Techdirt.

  Can't tell if this is meant as parody/satire of how leftists view you, or if you're being completely serious.

• On the post: Sheriff Goes All In On Violating The First Amendment After Assaulting A Protester For Carrying A 'F*CK TRUMP' Sign

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2020 @ 05:49pm

  Re: So you would be fine with...

  I wouldn't demand anyone be arrested for that, much less be shot. I'm certain the author of the article wouldn't either. And I don't think many (if any) of the regular commenters here would want any of that.

• On the post: #NoRightsMatter: US Postal Service, Law Enforcement Team Up To Seize 'Black Lives Matter' Facemasks

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2020 @ 06:03pm

  Re: Not what it seems

  Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is antifa?

• On the post: Trump, Twitter, And Free Speech

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 27 May, 2020 @ 11:22am

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  Exactly which emergency power available to the President would allow Trump to force Twitter to accept that particular conspiracy theory as fact?

• On the post: Yes, This Site Uses Cookies, Because Nearly All Sites Use Cookies, And We're Notifying You Because We're Told We Have To

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 May, 2020 @ 05:11pm

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  We've been talking to them for a while trying to get clarification and we've been unable to get any real clarity beyond "this needs to be done." It's been very frustrating.

  A guess: some moronic manager or exec came up with this interpretation of reality and passed it down to all employees. Said manager/exec refuses to ever admit to being wrong, the frontline employees can't tell you "it's because a higher up is being a moron", and the manager/exec won't take calls from clients like you to explain their reasoning.

• On the post: On The Same Day The FBI Claimed No Vendor Could Crack IPhones, Another Way To Crack IPhones Made The News

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 May, 2020 @ 05:03pm

  I think you're misinterpreting Wray

  I think he means that no vendor has the ability to crack an iPhone if the phone's user is unavailable/dead. The exploit this article covers requires that the phone's user be available.

• On the post: North Carolina Supreme Court Overturns Awful Decision By Appeals Court, Says Giving The Finger To Cops Isn't A Crime

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 May, 2020 @ 05:01pm

  Re:

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• On the post: Why Is The US Trying To Keep COVID-19 Vaccine Data Locked Up? Share It With The Whole Damn World

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 May, 2020 @ 09:48pm

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  Or are you implying that the only way to damage bacteria is to damage their DNA?

• On the post: Why Is The US Trying To Keep COVID-19 Vaccine Data Locked Up? Share It With The Whole Damn World

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 May, 2020 @ 09:45pm

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  And even assuming that everything I said in point 3 is false, that doesn't mean that viral vaccines (inactivated or attenuated) are less effective than bacterial vaccines.

• On the post: Why Is The US Trying To Keep COVID-19 Vaccine Data Locked Up? Share It With The Whole Damn World

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 May, 2020 @ 09:42pm

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  Descendants of damaged bacteria won't be healthy? Are you asserting some form of Lamarckian evoluition?

• On the post: Why Is The US Trying To Keep COVID-19 Vaccine Data Locked Up? Share It With The Whole Damn World

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 May, 2020 @ 08:32pm

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  Which parts aren't true? My comment had multiple claims.

• On the post: Why Is The US Trying To Keep COVID-19 Vaccine Data Locked Up? Share It With The Whole Damn World

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 May, 2020 @ 07:43pm

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  1) Not all vaccines are of "weakened" (attenuated) variety. Many are of a killed (inactivated) variety. 2) Yes, making a weakened/attenuated strain of a virus isn't easy. But once it's been made, replicating it is for vaccine production is no harder than replicating the wild/normal variant, because being weakened is a heritable trait. And once you have a vaccine made from an attenuated virus, there's no reason I know of for it to work less well than an attenuated bacterial vaccine. 3) Making a weakened/attenuated bacteria isn't any easier. Making a weakened bacteria for a vaccine does NOT consist of damaging the bacteria without killing it. If you damaged bacteria without killing it, then when they replicates their descendants will be healthy. If the bacteria are damaged so much that they can't replicate then, from the point of view of using them in a vaccine, they aren't that different than bacteria have been killed. To make weakened bacteria for use in a vaccine you have to create a weaker strain of the bacteria, just like you do for viruses used in attenuated vaccines.

• On the post: Why Is The US Trying To Keep COVID-19 Vaccine Data Locked Up? Share It With The Whole Damn World

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 May, 2020 @ 07:21pm

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  Sources/citations for viral vaccines almost never working?

• On the post: Why Is The US Trying To Keep COVID-19 Vaccine Data Locked Up? Share It With The Whole Damn World

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 May, 2020 @ 03:54pm

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  There is no ... virus vaccine. They are not physically possible.

  ????

• On the post: Arrest Numbers Show The NYPD Is Handling Pandemic Enforcement With The Same Biased Enthusiasm It Put Into Stop And Frisk

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 May, 2020 @ 02:18pm

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  How can you keep distance while taking a 4-foot-wide hallway to a small elevator

  The police would have to be staking out areas inside of apartment buildings to catch that.

  to a narrow sidewalk,

  I live in a well-to-do area with sidewalks which are narrow enough that two people can't pass while maintaining six feet of separation. The solution is that one person temporarily goes out onto the street to walk. There's undoubtedly streets which are too busy to do that, but streets with that much trafic have wider sidewalks.

• On the post: Arrest Numbers Show The NYPD Is Handling Pandemic Enforcement With The Same Biased Enthusiasm It Put Into Stop And Frisk

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 May, 2020 @ 12:52pm

  Maybe for reasons other than race (like economic factors as a possible) more people are not practicing social distancing as much in minority (potentially lower economic ) neighborhoods because they can't due to closer living situations?

  Maybe I'm missing something, but as far as I know "closer living conditions" would refer to either inside of people's homes or inside of things like apartments. Social distancing laws don't apply to people living together, so if police are arresting people based on looking in their homes and seeing that the people inside aren't keeping six feet apart there's a problem. And for people living in apartment buildings, maybe the apartment buildings for poorer people have hallways that are so narrow that people can't pass each other without breaking the law, but for that to account for the distance the police would have to be spending their time staking out the hallways of low income apartment buildings waiting for people to pass each other.

• On the post: Secret Service Sends FOIA Requester A Redacted Version Of A Public DOJ Press Release

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 May, 2020 @ 03:47am

  Alternate explanation: they're just fucking with Emma Best. "Lets send her a press release and redact part of it! Har har har". And they either picked the paragraph to redact at random, or picked the paragraph that would confuse people the most.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Prosecutors Who Issued Fake Subpoenas To Crime Victims Aren't Shielded By Absolute Immunity

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 06 May, 2020 @ 01:05pm

  But these fake subpoenas were sent to witnesses whom prosecutors seemingly had no interest in ever having testify in court.

  Wait, what?

• On the post: How Can Anyone Argue With A Straight Face That China's Approach To Speech Online Is Better Than The US's During A Pandemic

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2020 @ 04:06pm

  Heya, Godfree!

  Care to take a crack at extolling the virtues of China's Social Credit System?

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