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Teever

19 hours ago

The last time I saw this topic come up on HN it was flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039391

add-sub-mul-div

18 hours ago

Yes that happens often with articles that discuss consequences of The Current Administration.

Teever

18 hours ago

To paraphrase Bertrand Russell:

Politics is whatever happens to irritate some detached and ignorant tech bro.

There needs to be CVEs/KEV for public misinformation vulnerabilities. APTs have been using social media channels to spread disinformation, the CDC has been disabled by another APT, and we're failing to immunize people against health misinformation.

atoav

20 hours ago

Nah, you need a decently funded education system.

kian

19 hours ago

You mean decently-funded students. The education system compared to pretty much anywhere else on Earth is extremely well-funded, it just goes to administrative parasites.

estearum

17 hours ago

No, that's actually not true. The US is not "extremely well-funded." It's pretty much on-par with other advanced nations adjusted for PPP.

kian

13 hours ago

There are a few Nordic countries that are at about 80% of California. California students have an average of $27,418 per student projected for 2026-2027, and $25k in 2025. I'm finding nearly half of that for UK, Europe. Perhaps you could peruse some statistics and cite yours? Taking into account PPP Norway and Austria get close (22k and 20k respectively). Germany and France after taking into account PPP still are around 15-17k.

https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/education-financing.html

Far from from 'most', we find literally none except for Luxembourg ($33k), which being an extremely wealthy and tiny nation is not that much of a surprise; and is otherwise an extremely outlier.

On the other hand, the UK, France, and Germany are all beaten by Alabama [yes, that bastion of education], at $15k PPP (you can't, of course, forget to apply PPP calculations to the US states you are looking at if you're going to apply them to European countries). This is, btw, very consistent with the average income in these areas, too - Alabama is around or wealthier in PPP terms than the UK, France, and Germany as well.

CharmingFrock

19 hours ago

That is a forlorn hope.

user

19 hours ago

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jmalicki

19 hours ago

WTF is an APT

bcrl

17 hours ago

Once upon a time when a document or posting was written, the first use of a TLA (Three Letter Acryonym) or ETLA (Extended Three Letter Acryonym) would result in its expansion immediately following in parenthesis.

Jtsummers

18 hours ago

"Advanced persistent threat": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat

takeitwhen

6 hours ago

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elmer2

a day ago

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totallygeeky

a day ago

You are actively re-writing the recent past, ignoring the way that vaccinations work, and how they've been required in many settings for decades. Do better.

Jtsummers

a day ago

They're a troll, read their comment history. There's nothing of value in any of their comments, and they only post so they can stir up controversy. Flag and move on, stop feeding them.

superxpro12

a day ago

hey look more claims with zero evidence.

Stop misinterpreting "my body my choice" as permission for those with infectious diseases to purposefully spread deadly diseases.

If you have AIDS, you do not have blanket permission to spread that disease to anyone else. Thats a violation of consent, bodily autonomy, and inflicting direct harm.

My Body My Choice means YOU do not have the RIGHT to infect ME with your deadly disease you contracted. It's my body, and you do not have permission to take your gunk, and infect me with it. Wear a mask.

And stop spreading misinformation with zero cited sources.

malfist

a day ago

Yes if the government spread more misinformation, misinformation would surely be less prevalent.

ceejayoz

a day ago

> This could have been avoided if the government was just more honest about the negative affects of the Covid vaccine.

Someone's being dishonest here; vitamin K conspiracy theories long predate COVID.

2014: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.15749

2015: https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/newsroom/news-releases/2...

> There were calls to force people to get vaccinated against their will.

We've done this for decades (https://www.kff.org/other-health/state-and-local-policies-on...) in all fifty states. If you went to public school, you were forced to get various vaccines. Many states even require it for private/home schooling.

> The 'my body my choice' crowd quickly changed their tune.

That's what happens when your choice impacts others.

You'd be pro-choice, too, if pregnancy was airborne.

soon_to_be_sb

19 hours ago

>We've done this for decades..

"We" do it because governments want to reduce the cost managing an outbreak. Not because it is good for everyone who takes it in some absolute sense. I mean, such measures are enforced without taking effort to assess individual RoI, because that would be more costly than managing the outbreak.

Governments and establishments ("We") don't give a shit about your health beyond your ability to vote and pay taxes.

ceejayoz

19 hours ago

> Not because it is good for everyone who takes it in some absolute sense.

Yes, that tends to be the case for policy that impacts several hundred million people. We know what a world without vaccination looks like; it wasn't that long ago.

> Governments and establishments ("We") don't give a shit about your health beyond your ability to vote and pay taxes.

Antivax influencers, though, are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.