Neil Young threatens to pull songs off Spotify over Joe Rogan: report

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  1. Fangbeer

    Fangbeer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    This is the npc brain on misinformation. Any idea which button I press to skip the horse worm side quest?

    Maybe take a Stromectol and it'll clear up in the morning.
     
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    If those numbers are indicative of national averages, it would be very much a cause for concern. 9000 lost employees, among 51 facilities, is about 180 gone from each, which is 4.5% of even a hospital that started with 4000 employees. But I have a feeling that your research is more indicative of the limited number of states, where these institutions are located. For what states did you check this data?
    How do these states' immunization rates compare with national ones?

    From having to bring my own mother to the hospital, not too long ago-- after what I'd heard, & been expecting, as far as burn-out, and frazzled medical personnel nerves-- I was actually shocked at what good spirits, everyone there seemed to be in. Connecticut has one of the country's highest immunization rates. This is a factor, in 2 WAYS.

    First, the opinions of one's community, exert a pressure upon one's own opinions/attitudes, as well as one's actions, even despite one's beliefs. So in a state in which there is a lot of resistance to immunizations, not only would it be expected, to find more, personal resistance, among staffs; but the staff is also going to have to deal with a higher proportion of unvaccinated patients who, unfortunately, cannot be anticipated to be as reasonable & open-minded, as content to just live & let live (& willing to do what is necessary to comply with the prevailing rules), as you seem to be. Instead, these healthcare workers, it must be believed, are going to be facing more irate, irrational, & out of control, opposition, and that will wear more heavily on that state's workers, even the ones who didn't object to getting vaccinated.

    Another point worth noting, is that, if you are going by full hospital staffs, there are a fair number of people in addition to doctors, nurses, & hard to replace medical staff: there are housekeeping services, the cafeteria ("dietary") staff, supply-room & instrument sterilization people, patient transporters and other low-skilled (but hard-worked) employees (as aides). It would be interesting to know what portion of those who've left, were both directly involved with patient services, and highly-educated professionals.


    I think you are over-extrapolating, here; that is, it seems not unreasonable to think that people might opt for other employment, for a variety of reasons. No doubt, for some, it is a simple acknowledging of the high Covid-risk environment, in which they are working. And when staff gets sick, that forces those who show up, to carry on, short-staffed, which means more work, more aggravation, more stress. It probably has also led to more hours, which not everyone wants. So you have to assume that worker-exhaustion, a worsening of working conditions, and scheduling issues, all have contributed to the worker bleed-off. I'm fact, a significant %, likely resulted, not because of their work, itself, but because of school closings, which has required any with younger children to stay home (as has affected other businesses).

    I'm short, it seems unwarranted, to speculate that these lost workers, for the most part, are indicative of hospital staffs being in the know, privvy to some disturbing things, not realized by the general population.

    Or, at least, that would be my analysis.
     
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    They don’t get to dictate. You can say it all you want. But most of society understands and you may face consequences from it. But you won’t go to prison.
     
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    https://www.npr.org/sections/codesw...pW6UNLpUGnXcOYQK3-JpPKh9R4QLQkGgvYzeSIIdnAdAM
    You like NPR yeah? You playing Ostrich doesn't change the etymology of the word. Words have meanings.

    "Cracker," the old standby of Anglo insults was first noted in the mid 18th century, making it older than the United States itself. It was used to refer to poor whites, particularly those inhabiting the frontier regions of Maryland, Virginia and Georgia. It is suspected that it was a shortened version of "whip-cracker," since the manual labor they did involved driving livestock with a whip (not to mention the other brutal arenas where those skills were employed.) Over the course of time it came to represent a person of lower caste or criminal disposition, (in some instances, was used in reference to bandits and other lawless folk.)

    It is inconsistent to demand that only one race's pejorative racial slur be foregone from usage, or to imply that the use of such a term is less offensive to such a person than any other racial slur would be to any other person.
     
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    I agree that it's a pejorative but I would not be offended if a black person were quoting a white person saying it. Especially if they meant no offense, which is easily detected by context and tone. Funny that context was left out of the Rogan montage, right?
     
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    Agreed, you can discuss an insult without lobbing it at someone.
     
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    I think you again misunderstand what other say.
    If you're referring to the post just above your reply to me, he says you can't tell others how they should feel about what offends them. Not that I can't say I am not offended by a saltine cracker.
     
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    I am not playing ostrich. I just don't give a rats patooty about the word. You seem upset that I don't get offended??
     
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    You played ostrich about the meaning of the word. Don't be coy dude, its all in writing.

    I'm not upset you don't get offended. I'm upset you freely use a racial slur and expect people to have no reaction to it, even calling it not derogatory.

    Then you want to have this charming concern troll about it.

    Its all very disingenuous
     
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    racial slur? LOL.
     
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    http://www.rsdb.org/search?q=cracker
    "
    Cracker Whites This term is said to have originated in England before the 16th century, refering to the lower class whose diet primarily consisted of "crackers", actually biscuits. Many of their descendants were sent to the Georgia penal colony, hence "Georgia crackers." White people had invented this name for themselves before the first slave was brought to America, although it is still in use today by mostly older blacks referring to whites. Was probably redefined in the days of American slavery by the slavemaster's "Crack" of the whip."
     
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    Go learn what the term references then get back to me.
     
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    ~ The same marketing plan may be happening with Joe Rogan ... ? :aww:'
     
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    Israel Adesanya, a black man, just said "that's my *****" about Joe Rogan. White liberals spend their whole lives hoping they are referred to in such a way.:roflol::roflol:
     
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    LOL - Now THAT is funny....
     
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    Disney and ESPN just deplatformed Joe Rogan from UFC271.

    This is a direct shot at free speech by the power elite. If you doubt me, do this:
    Go to Yahoo finance and search for Disney and see who their majority investors are. Then do the same for Pfizer, Google, etc... Same people. Joe Rogan is not on point and he does not follow the narrative of the drones on MSM. This will not stop. They are going to do everything in their power to deperson him.

    The man in charge of BlackRock is a woke fanatic. Many of my mutual funds are Vanguard Index Funds. There are millions of people like me who have hundreds of thousands invested. These criminals are using the power of millions of investors to FORCE their ideology on to corporations. This is the reason my own company had to take on CRT training. We are in the market and it was a demand from the woke capitalists.

    Disney:
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    Pfizer:
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    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...dden-dangers-of-the-great-index-fund-takeover


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    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/resp.14191
    There's many.

    Psychological projection
    Confirmation Bias
    Cognitive Dissonance

    It's good that you can recognize them in others...

    All? Or just parts that are? What's it called when one denies evidence of what actually is wrong, differentiating from what isn't?
     
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    Your question/answer was a bit vague, but I'm going to go with, "what is stereotyping?"
     
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    How about what is your imagination doing right now?
     

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