I sort of feel like the exceedingly casual posting on Facebook about this very world-wrenching moment in his life is proof enough for me that he’s made a few horcruxes in his time and has a maimed soul.

If I was in his shoes, those 3 words would be on loop in my head, and I’d be curled up in a foetal position bawling, insensate, forever. Like the end of a particularly disturbing Black Mirror ep.

Yeah, but don’t you think he still, even if it is just subconsciously, believes it up to a degree?

It must be gnawing at him.

If this is real, I would absolutely feel for him. She would be an adult, though, and capable of making her own decisions.

It’s far worse when it’s someone’s child.

Narcissism is a helluva drug.

Is the dude still an antivaxxer or was there a redemption arc? I feel like we need some before and after posts.

What’s the context?

Edit: I didn’t know what any of this was in reference to. I wasn’t trying to ask for context in order to defend anyone. Apologies.

But I’m not. Antivaxxers need to appear infallible. They can’t be seen being wing or to blame for anything.

There’s no way one would admit that a loved one blamed them for their death.

It’s just too weird.

One that he would bother to admit it.

Two, even if he had the self awareness to reflect upon it, how “coy” he was being.

• First a vague reference that no one could possibly react to except to ask for details if they had their interest piqued.
• Then a follow-up to make it more pointed, but still conspicuously omitting the actual meat of the situation. Seemingly calibrated to try to elicit engagement after the first attempt failed
• Finally sharing the meat of the situation only after a little engagement and direct question

Yup. I used to follow a YouTube channel run by a couple, then they had a harsh breakup and she left the channel. Some time later she comes forward with allegations of abuse against him, and I’m like “okay but this is just her side of the story, what if it’s all bullshit?”.

Then he addressed the allegations. The way he addressed them, to me, was exposing himself FAR more than anything she said. It was like watching a movie villain monologue. Really scary how skewed those people’s perceptions are.

Absolutely correct this post comes off as “This is the bad thing my wife said to me before she died and I’m too oblivious to realize it was my fault”. I’ve seen the same shit with couples looking for validation after a nasty breakup.

I treat vaccines like pokemon…gotta catch em all. If someone offers me a vaccine, I’ll take it, even if it’s for something rare. I just want to be immunized against as many things as possible.

You still need that card. My kid would not be allowed into school without it.

Collect them all like Thanos and the infinity stones

It’s a popular phrase already

Wearing a mask, quarantine and distancing protected your neighbor. The covid vaccines only protected yourself.

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As much as I like to make fun of the US, in this particular case I have to point out that a lot of other countries have antivaxxers.

Here in France we have an epidemic of them, and the numbers shows they really made covid worse. My own dad is one of them, and he told me dead serious he’d rather get sick than get any vaccine and that’s his choice and nobody should force him. He, and I guess most other antivax too, either does not understand the concept of herd immmunity or doesn’t care about other people.

As an American it is horrifying to not be able to argue with this directly, because for every outward appearance it might as well be true.

But the argument I would make is that Americans are not the dumbest people in the world, Americans are simply allowed to survive and visibly prosper in spite of, and sometimes because of, their obvious stupidity. And combining this with the entitlement inherent in ‘just happening to be born here’ and the relative complete lack of suffering most of them experience, makes it easy for them to publicly hold opinions that people in most countries would either have to keep to themselves for their own personal safety, or just because few others are willing to join arms with them.

Basically it’s a constantly building bubble that could happen anywhere, and to smaller degrees probably happens all over the world in small communities, but here it’s a bubble that for some reason has been resistant to popping, to the point where any attempts to pop it are easily avoided due to it’s mass and ridiculously protective userbase.

Look at the UK and Brexit, or Russia and the mass of people outwardly supporting Putin, or the Middle East and apparent support of honor killings. Even if the majority of the people living in these areas don’t agree with this outward support, fear or resignation or something stops them from being the loud voice in the space. In the US it might be closer to resignation or hopelessness, but across the world we’re all really the same when you sit down and talk normally…there are stupid people everywhere you look, here we just don’t have a good way to embarrass them into shutting up.

To be fair, America has a health system that gains from keeping people ill and medicated, and after Tuskegee there is little trust in the government either.

Fuck off. You think tik tok and social media is reality? The reality is that there have always been willfully ignorant people and there always will be. In every population. Your generalizations really reflect yourself huh?

They’ve become very anti freedom in fact. Unless it has something to do with a major lobby like guns, or letting corporations pollute air and water, they pretty much are pro restrictions on most things.

you can’t buy alcohol in some counties.

“I wanna make a medical choice about my own body…”

The Right: “Ummm…hold on now…”

“And skip my vaccinations!”

The Right: “Oh! You scared me for a second! Carry on then.”

You can’t get them in school liberties, they’re still available everywhere else

Because it lessens the severity of the illness?

I’m so glad to live in a country with mandatory vaccination where conspiracy theorists aren’t given a platform

2024 and I’m still seeing this shit? Shut the fuck up.

how stupid are you

In this study, vaccinated Omicron index case-patients seemed to have the same transmission capacity as nonvaccinated persons. We did not find this increased transmission capacity for the Delta variant, where significant differences in SAR were observed in global, household, and occupational settings (Table 1) within groups.

How one variant interacts with vaccination does not describe how every variant does; your own study is, at best, documenting an exeception to the rule that vaccines work.

Yeah it makes more sense for vaccines that are, well, better at being vaccines. Something like MMR that actually is effective enough to create hurd immunity. Small pox vaccine was so good it eradicated the disease completely. Covid vaccines are more like flu vaccines - sometimes they work sometimes they don’t. It’s still better than nothing for >95% of people. There are those who respond badly to the covid vaccine too, so it’s technically a gamble either way. While the science says it’s better odds to have the vaccine than not, I can’t force people to take that risk with me.

Was a great sub in its heyday.

Make a lemmy version?

It’s not a shit post. This really happened.

There’s literally apps for redacting screenshots.

The best one I’ve seen is where people scribble over it but it’s in a slightly transparent color so you can still easily read the text underneath. I can only assume that they were in a very bright environment because otherwise it’s blindingly obvious.

Sure, but user can always remove their message and don’t want others to know they wrote that. And yes, I know that if you put something on the internet, you should be aware that it may never disappear, but publicly displaying regular people’s names on different website with context is a big no-no in my opinion. Also in EU there’s a right to be forgotten, and while I am not sure about exact details (I am not a lawyer), this might be illegal here as well.

One of the other tools in the photo editor. Or just increase the pen tip size.

I don’t know. Maybe select rectangle tool, or big pen with no transparency effect? How am I supposed to know exactly, I probably use different phone than yours, which has different set of built-in tools.

You have to use a crayon.

Putting three instances of names as layers on top of each other with transparency effect already uncovers a large part of the most common name there, so I definitely disagree.

If you know the exact typeface and font size used, you can just try to put letters top of the image to guess them as well (so you try to match parts of the letter with one exact character to be precise). And I am pretty sure there are some tools that make this even easier (or at least made internally by some U.S. security agencies :) ).

It’s a fine post, I just hate the content.

It’s always the wo man

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If I recall correctly Trump did originally, but back-peddled the moment he faced the slightest push-back from his mouth-breathing constituency.

The weak man’s idea of a strongman, indeed.

Survival of the fittest on display. If you’re dumb enough to believe what a Cheeto tells you, then you get what’s coming to you.

He could have sold red masks to match his hats, he would have made a killing, the Jan 6 insurrectionists would have covered their faces. turns out his stupid countered his evil.

The good trolls go where their voice can be heard.