As a daily runner: it might be because of the high you get after running/exercise. You’re never desperate for the drinking high because you can get it naturally running the next day.

I run a lot and it used to be like that, but now I'm desensitized so that sometimes even after I run a lot I still feel down. It's also hard if you're injured or tired.

I don't see why you're downvoted though: runner's high does give me something to look forward to / some way to relax so I wouldn't need to do something like drink excessively.

Yes, though in my case I would say its more a slight mood lift or relaxation than a “high”, but the effects of exercise and alcohol are very similar and not cumulative, so if I’ve already done one its kind of redundant to do the other.

I like listening to Joe. And I always wonder what everyone complains about.

But then I heard an anti-vax rant he did that was completely ill-informed. Made me a bit sad. https://youtu.be/tiwsv51Il4k I think he gets a bit too high sometimes.

But I still like listening to him.

The title feels incorrect grammar to me. Is it?

> don’t do very well at stopping spread

It‘s probabilities. The vaccinated kid who dies after getting infected because of transmission via unvaccinated.

Although interestingly, not everyone gets the annual flu shot. So maybe this will turn out to be the same.

But how long would you have us wear masks for?

> “I decided the risk was worth it”

It’s funny though how you say this phrase for a vaccine and not for the hundreds of other riskier situations you face daily. “I drove a car…risk was worth it I decided”. It sounds a bit self-important. Vaccines are just something you do. For me it was not a decision. It’s an interesting exploration in psychology where people oppose something mostly because they are told to do it. Like a teenage rebellion attitude. I get this feeling when I feel like I am being taken advantage of or have been recently.

I can imagine it’s tough being a Google employee in the SJW era. There are a thousands ways they tell you you need to change. New language, etc. Constant unrelenting bullshit that you cannot oppose.

I think this is a way for people to take back control of something because they feel a loss of control in other areas.

Just like brexit, people want to go against things because of the people telling them to do something.

Google shouldn’t tell me. The government shouldn’t tell me. SJWs shouldn’t tell me.

But sadly I don’t think there is a way around this. But I do think the SJWs and vaccine/mask crusaders make things much worse.

> It’s funny though how you say this phrase for a vaccine and not for the hundreds of other riskier situations you face daily. “I drove a car…risk was worth it I decided”.

epistemic risk is fundamentally different from empirical risk

you started off strong with the max level condescendence and ignorance

but I do agree with the rest of the message, roughly at least

Thanks, had a good read up on epistemology.

Of course you made a decision, unless you are an automaton? (ignoring the question of free will here). If the vaccine killed 90% of those who took it, you would of course take it, because "vaccines are just something you do"? No, you evaluated the risk.

And yes, driving a car absolutely is a risk, as is just about everything.

> If the vaccine killed 90%

Yes I would take it. Because if there is a vaccine available and recommended to the general population that has 90% kill rate, the thing it’s protecting against would undoubtedly have a higher kill rate then this. End of days scenarios we would be talking about nonetheless.

So you are the type of person who will always do anything the authorities tell you to do. I suppose we are not likely to see eye to eye.

No the implication is a vaccine mandate in itself implies a calculated risk assessment that is sufficiently obvious it doesn’t make sense to use it as a basis for discussion.

Precisely.

That's true, but they are the foot soldiers for the technocrats. Like Mao's Red Guard, they are the ones enforcing it on the ground, ousting dissidents and running the struggle sessions. They humiliate, bully, ostracize, get people fired, destroy reputations. Without them the technocrats would have far less power.

No, I don't think so. The radical extremes give energy to each other. They're a problem for centrists.

It's been interesting to watch the center attempt to embrace enough of the (further) left to address the legitimate concerns (and remove fuel from the fire), without swallowing the poison.

It's also been interesting to watch Trump et al conflate the radicals with the center. They say nonsense like "Nancy Pelosi's far-left agenda", and people believe them. What absurdity.

“I am vaccinated. Look at this unvaccinated person. I am not like them. They are not like us. Lets go find more of them. Let’s throw stones at them. We’re not usually allowed to throw stones, but we can because they are bad. And I am now doing good, and it brings me satisfaction and purpose.”

4 billion people have been vaccinated. Don’t oh think you have your risk numbers wrong?

Do you think you are consistent in your risk judgement across all parts of your life? E.g have you ever taken drugs? Illicit or prescription?