Brock_Way

Brock_Way t1_jaov45d wrote

Even earlier than that the expression was used to indicate effort necessary to get something done. It was equivalent to today's expression "put your work boots on."

The meaning of the phrase has been changed by those who want the things done for them so they wouldn't have to put their work boots on, and who used the excuse that the task was impossible from the start to absolve them from not even bothering to try.

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Brock_Way t1_iuattjs wrote

ACTUALLY, if you look at the data, it clearly shows that CO2 emissions is causing us to have global warming, which leads to more unstable atmosphere, which leads to MORE EF5 tornadoes, not fewer. So these people at Fox need to consider that they need to "correct" their data so that it comes into alignment with the computer models.

The "corrected" data clearly show that we are having 1.6 EF5 tornadoes per day. This is a dramatic INCREASE in EF5 tornadoes.

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Brock_Way t1_iu55dvs wrote

Condoms in general. For example:

HIV sexual transmission risk among serodiscordant couples: assessing the effects of combining prevention strategies [AIDS. 2014 Jun 19; 28(10): 1521–1529]

Pay attention to the author list, because there is probably going to be quiz later on at some point.

EDIT: Condom and Nonoxynol-9 use and the incidence of HIV infection in serodiscordant couples in Zambia [25+ years ago now]

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Brock_Way t1_iu3c2p6 wrote

This is one of the many things I said 20 years ago about HIV in particular and got hounded into oblivion by the nutters talking about "you're going to get people killed; if you knew anything about science... "

Meanwhile I was QUOTING the science. All these variables were published in the sero-discordant couples articles. They even published the statistics related to seroconversion after single instance of vaginal sex. People thought wearing a condom reduced your chance of seroconversion from near certain to one in a million or some shit.

The truth turned out to be that wearing a condom changed your odds from about 1:1,000 to about 1:5,000.

If that is going to change your behavior fundamentally, okay....

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