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In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Yeah, it seems to be gone now. LikeLiked by 1 person

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’m not going to reproduce it here, but Brennan has one of those memes up, supposedly applicable to me, which has me saying on the one hand that “#BlackLivesMatters and police are too violent,” and on the ot…

In reply to djr. Well, I just removed the link and re-embedded it in text. So hopefully that works. I possess no data to indicate that a virus is involved. LikeLike

In reply to djr. Ah. I will look into it, maybe have to remove that link and embed it some other way. I’m impressed that you didn’t simply do as you were told and log in to njtvonline.org. LikeLike

The “shitty” comment: Jason Brennan Mod Justyn Ess • 3 hours ago Of course. In the abstract, we can imagine this reasoning being correct. If we were in the middle of the Zombie Apocalypse Virus outbreak, sure. But applying this to COVID-19…

Should Police Kill People Who Violate Stay-at-Home Orders? Philosopher Irfan Khawaja–who has been posting obsessive rants about Phil Magness–thinks so. There is no moral reason why we must leave social distancing to voluntary persuasion or agreement. …

So far, the BHL crowd has had literally nothing useful–explanatory, action-guiding, otherwise illuminating–to say about the COVID-19 pandemic. They have mostly kept their counsel, and offered up a series of pointless, incoherent, ranting tweets masquerading as the latest wisdom in statistical modeling. Add it all together, and it amounts to less in the way of…

Except that if I click the link, I can view the video without the login screen. So it’s puzzling why I’m getting this login screen. LikeLike

There is something funky going on when I visit the main page of the blog; it asks me to login to njtvonline.org. I suspect there’s a link in one of the posts that is trying to take me there; I think it’s in the interview with Mark Maron po…