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Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert by ggm on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:47PM (#31454851)
39 day old low karma account. Normally, I think "what the hell let's have this conversation" but RU/UA are in a hot war, and comments of this nature to speculation of war's widening effects need to be read in the context of active disinformation and destabilising behaviour online.

Why would a low karma account be used to make this speculative statement?

Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert by hadeohedron on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:54PM (#31454878)
Some people are genuinely fairly new to HN. I only became aware of this place a few months ago in following the ACOUP blog.

But that's indistinguishable from astroturf accounts to an outsider so tell you what, I have a reddit account I've used for over a year and post regularly on. I've posted a link to your comment as a self-post on that account:

https://www.reddit.com/user/ADotSapiens/comments/uue2sb/yo_v...

Feel free to let that additional internet footprint act as some kind of bona fides.

Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert by ggm on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:57PM (#31454890)
An interesting approach. Actually, quite smart I think because you have a deep high karma post history in there.

Well done.

Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert by hadeohedron on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:11PM (#31454948)
I've got an older account if you still want to establish my sincerity although I lost the password and never was able to recover it. That doesn't count for much but if you chuck the corpus of it and /adotsapiens in an authorship verification program it'll spit out a match.

https://reddit.com/user/malariadandelion

You'll find it's all consistent with a white British politically opinionated nerd between the ages of 20 and 25, employed in a succession of blue-collar jobs, because that's the real deal.

Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert by Jerrrry on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:23AM (#31467910)
"dont feed the trolls,"

tell him to go fuck himself, you make everyone else look "like a russian troll" by kneeling to these ungenuine, discussion-destroying idiots.

Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert by throw1230 on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:49PM (#31454865)
bit of ad hominem. They already gave sources, so anyone can take a look and make their call
Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert by ggm on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:56PM (#31454881)
Yes, absolutely acknowledge it's a bit ad-hommy. But, the question stands: "the Russians diddit" had to be seen in the context we're in. Remember, a shitload of buuut Chyna is washup of US domestic politics and not actually about Covid.

Anyone can take a look and make the call is "do the research restated" btw. That's a Q call. Maybe that's ad hommy too? All getting very meta.

Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert by Jerrrry on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:20AM (#31467888)
whataboutism is whataboutism.

judge comments on their own standing merits.

OP shouldn't have to tie together identities because you're too short sighted to "do you own research" and evaluate a comment without reverting to lame fucking dog whistles.

"someone with a checkmark tell me how to feel about this talking point" - you

Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert by cma on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:59PM (#31454898)
They presented a false dichotomy though. With no evidence yet that this one has ability for enhanced spread, both alternatives they gave imply that it does.
Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert by hadeohedron on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:02PM (#31454911)
Thank you for pointing that out, as a guy who excelled at physics and failed biology I just assumed it had an enhanced spread. I'll edit the post to reflect that.