The root cause I don't want to speculate short of getting banned from HN also for having opinions about when people should start having sex or be allowed to watch videos of adults having sex.
And if you ever looked through videos of TwitchCon you would not question what I'm saying at all. This is the event that still required everyone to wear a mask late 2022 only after Twitch was guilted into it.
Oh no, they bowed to people whose livelihoods depend on staying healthy and realized that masks actually do help when everyone wears them.
> The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/yes-masks-reduce-risk-spre...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/opinion/masks-work-cochra...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/16/cochrane-...
At least, unlike the other person in this thread, you didn't do the gaslighty thing of acting like 'we all know' masks don't work.
The intensity of the push for masking was not at all matched by the effectiveness of masking. From most people's perspectives, if the rate of infection with masking is 90% the rate with no masking then masking doesn't work in layperson's terms.
The Cochrane review was not incorrect; it was not retracted. The "apology from Cochrane" was not about the paper itself, and they didn't say that the conclusions were wrong. The NY Times and the Washington Post and Gavi are just wrong, and they're lying. Full stop. By literally the same standards of evidence they are using ("the lower bound of the confidence interval crosses 1.0, so we can't exclude the possibility of benefit"), Ivermectin and HCQ "work" against Covid. So you either accept both claims, or you reject both.
We have two political teams, each advancing separate-but-equal forms of pseudo-sciencey twaddle, and neither side is willing to admit that the actual data doesn't back their opinions:
Similarly, I don't know anyone who has died from wearing a mask.
This is not even to mention the numerous other studies, experiments, and demsonstartsions of all sorts of respiratory protective gear that show effectiveness against particulates smaller even than COVID-19.
Quite literally, the evidence for both is equally good (or bad). Citing mechanistic or laboratory studies is absurd, when we have actual RCTs.
Could I get a citation for this please? Just about every source I've seen has since admitted that masks did absolutely nothing for the purposes for which they were advised to be used.
Not spreading a deadly virus at convention filled with strangers from all over the world is now considered "leftist extremism". The last 8 or so years really have done a number on people.
We're also seeing more people rallying behind JK Rowling these days too, perhaps after seeing through the lies and realising that, actually, she bravely put herself out there to stand up for women's rights, knowing this would make her a lightning rod for the abusers and harassers of the pro-gender movement.
And most ignored that BS. Twitch has a very loud radical left community, but I think it's also far smaller than they appear. Most people are just somewhere in the middle, with a bit more left leaning for natural reasons. After all, most people on the platform are quite young.
> This is the event that still required everyone to wear a mask late 2022 only after Twitch was guilted into it.
Cons were already a deathtrap before the pandemia. The After-Con-Flu was not just a running joke. Taking the chance and making sure that your lifehood stays healthy, seems more pragmatic than leftist to me.
Incel culture: I don't agree with this one, I don't think it's something widespread
Softcore porn: The whole hot tub/asmr categories. Amouranth herself says she uses twitch as a billboard to get people to her onlyfans[2]
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/06/nothing-fore...
> “I’m thinking about doing a bit about how being transgender is actually a mental illness,” Larry said on the clip. > > “Or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone. Or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society.”
Where's the joke?
Also a temporary ban. "Leftist Extremism", or just "capitalism where advertisers have content expectations". If "just shouting insults into the void" is jokes, I fear a bit for the future.
"It's an AI!" is not really much of an excuse! You're the one generating garbage and throwing it onto Twitch, it's your responsibility to figure out what's going on.
There are definitely more nefarious things out there on the platform in general, just funny how every rant about "leftist" bans fails the most basic scrutiny.
He used to work for The Young Turks, hosts streams with AOC and Ilhan Omar, is quoted as saying, "On Crenshaw, Piker said, "What the fuck is wrong with this dude? Didn’t he go to war and like literally lose his eye because some mujahideen, a brave fucking soldier fucked his eye hole with their dick?"
And
"In the same stream, Piker criticized American foreign policy and made controversial comments relating to the September 11 attacks, including "America deserved 9/11, dude.""
This is literally just skimming his wiki. Do you know anything about the guy? He's a gigantic PoS
* Edit: no idea what are these called, but sometimes they moan and lick the left side, sometimes the right so you can hear it in your corresponding ear.
Hot is probably the right word. Well done if they make money from that I guess.
the fact wearing a bikini at the beach is not sexual does not mean streaming yourself wearing a bikini in a hot tub while making moaning noises is not softcore porn. the intention is what matters eg attract teenage simp boys.
I'm not commenting on whether it's good or bad, I'm just stating something that anyone who has ever been on twitch is well aware of and would never argue. It's a thing.
One's not sexual. The other one super-duper obviously is, to everyone involved, even if the bathing suit stays on.
At some point you must ask yourself if you're the CEO or work there how it is you came to be in a position to spend your day working on something that has become as dystopian as Twitch has become.