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Lol all of y’all are interpreting my comments in terrible faith but because you support the narrative it’ll be accepted.

Never mind friends. I just wanted to make people think a little, but that’s always a mistake here.

For the record: I’m quite skeptical that the lab leak theory is true.

“ Now realize that publicly stating your lab had a protocol failure of this magnitude and you face career death, the possible eradication of your lab and it’s connections, etc.”

From my previous comment.

It wouldn’t be the least bit surprising that these researchers wouldn’t say it happened even if they had strong evidence it did.

The downsides are obviously not good for them nor their careers in any way. God forbid they themselves could be found connected to the responsibility and would inevitably become a scapegoat.

And if they did come out and nothing happened to them - what positives would occur? “Reforming safety protocols”? All that would do is create more red tape in the future and inhibit research even more.

I think you should better evaluate the context of what a scientist in that position would face and think. You really quickly see there’s a lot of grey area, and we can’t think very highly of our typical standards of proof.

Of course, i’m not saying “absolutely it was a leak”. Simply that you’re holding the theory to such high standards of proof as to be, imho, unreasonable.

“scientists who believed a lab leak idea was plausible couldn't muster up an argument that would hold up under peer review”

Scientists work with covid viruses, scientists accidentally contract virus when one of a thousand technical protocols accidentally slipped, scientists unknowingly spread virus.

I worked in a clean lab for years with, presumably, much lower tolerances than you would want at a lab studying deadly viruses. We had leaks all the time even with protocols in place. Scientists are smart, they aren’t perfect and make mistakes.

Now realize that publicly stating your lab had a protocol failure of this magnitude and you face career death, the possible eradication of your lab and it’s connections, etc.

You’re saying no lab leak claims “held up under peer review” and it’s “not supported by facts”. I’m not sure if you get this, but if this did leak from a lab then there would probably be zero way to trace that without speculation. You’re not going to go find a covid virus with a time stamp and location of where it came from or where it moved. How on Earth would one ever prove this?

I have a feeling that your terms of proof a priori make it impossible to ever conclude a lab leak was the cause…

On the other side of the spectrum - code reviews have never, not even one single time, given me any real opportunity to learn something of value. They have only ever been someone else shoving their preferences onto my coding style (for better or worse)

I was shocked at my first job to realize the code reviewer didn’t even read my code, merely glanced over and demanded style changes (which were not consistent from review to review in the slightest)

It really felt more like how you hand your advisor your thesis with obvious easy to fix errors so he doesn’t compulsively decide “well something must need improvement” and make you fix something difficult

“ I look for readable, maintainable code, and try to make sure the writer is doing appropriate testing. But whether or not it works and is correct, that's not my job, that's the developer's job.”

And I personally refuse to work with this style of workflow anymore

Does the code do what it needs? That’s objective and it either does or doesn’t. I can manage that kind of review.

Does the code look pretty enough? This is subjective and guarantees i’ll waste hours of my life every month bc someone else felt anxious/neurotic/masochistic and wanted to dump a chore on me.

No thanks, if you have style guidelines i’ll follow them. I’m not your whipping boy that will ask how high when you say jump.

Yeah, this is an issue with way more science than anyone (esp scientists) is comfortable acknowledging

In grad school I encountered experiment after experiment, paper after paper where the authors went around emphasizing the parts which were statistically “sexy” while ignoring glaring issues like this

It’s almost like the methodology for creating science is more rigorous than the science itself

Sometimes the sample is too small. Sometimes they assume a correlation that doesn’t exist. It’s troubling and was a large part of why I left academia

“Powering cities”

Hyperbole isn’t good

Alcohol was used by more people. The governmental play that had to be carried out to make the people tolerate the tyranny was minimal.

Remember it’s not about what a piece of paper says the rules are - it’s what you can get away with in power.

Lol this point is true but it’s downvoted.

I love how the IQ of this place keeps spiraling downward.

That would take will power and fix the problem.

In the modern world we download another app and then feel better despite nothing having changed.

Um how do you figure?

Gravity cares about distance and mass, and as large parts of the planet move their density distribution shifts affecting both of those factors

I don’t really follow. There are billions/trillions of these creatures who are eaten alive every year in the wild. Why is it so significant that humans also do this?

Are we trying to make reality fit our wholesome romanced version of reality?

Not that I could stomach it myself, but I don’t really see this as much of a moral issue.

Devour to survive. So it is, so it’s always been…

people who take this emotional and illogical approach is exactly why the homeless suffer to the extent they do

stop virtue signaling and start thinking or kindly avoid this topic because you’re only causing harm

lol people would rather be poor in the US than mexico yes.

your dichotomy is a false representation. and a poor one at that