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8to24 t1_jad878u wrote

Reply to Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins by asdf3

>The Energy Department has now concluded with "low confidence" that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely began after an unintentional laboratory leak in China, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited a classified intelligence report provided to the White House and members of Congress. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/02/27/covid-lab-leak-energy-department-theory-explained/11357354002/

This is a game where people are cherry picking the data they most want to be correct. No federal agency has a high confidence that Covid came from a lab.

Those running around screaming that this low confidence assessment proves something are ridiculous.

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PEVEI OP t1_jad7zgl wrote

Reply to comment by Littlebotweak in Isla Bryson: Transgender rapist jailed for eight years by PEVEI

This is one of those "read the article" moments, she wasn't trans when she committed her crimes so that isn't even a factor. This is not a right wing "gotcha" in the slightest. This is the person who started transitioning after they were in custody, which led to he row over where they should be incarcerated, a women's prison or a men's prison. At first they were placed in a women's facility.

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adsfew t1_jad5q2k wrote

Reply to comment by rayinreverse in Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins by asdf3

I'm not an investigator and I don't have their facts or finding, so this is all just an extremely uninformed opinion.

I absolutely think a leak is plausible. But if 96% really is the similarity to the closest lab strain, then I just wanted to put in context how dissimilar that is genetically. I think it's one of those times where 96% sounds really high, but genetically it's pretty divergent imo.

It's still totally possible that it's a leaked strain and maybe the lab just destroyed the records of that strain or something. But taken on its own, 96% isn't that high in this context.

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Littlebotweak t1_jad5lr5 wrote

Reply to Isla Bryson: Transgender rapist jailed for eight years by PEVEI

Frankly, I don't care if it was a Lesbian Eskimo Midget Left-Handed Ninja Albino Rapist. The only term I'm concerned with is that last one. No need for all the other identifiers. That's just meant to make people believe there's anything different, but there's not. A predator is a predator.

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Meowdl21 t1_jad3sm2 wrote

Reply to comment by windsostrange in Canada bans TikTok on government devices by EvangelineOfSky

It’s a gulf between making a dollar and disappearing or controlling people who don’t agree with you. American apps are not setting up operations like this but the CCP, owner of TikTok is. It’s very clear they want targeted information to commit harm. Even their own social media apps are setup to control what the user sees and think. There is a huge gulf between using my information to show me targeted ads and using my information to harass me for saying something bad about Xi Jinping

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