Unemployed Creative technologist and eternally a budding young scientist who is forever curious and constantly researching and learning new things while trying to have a positive impact on the world and others.
Last I heard Bush approved the pill for purchase over the counter in the early 2000s for those over the age of 17 and in 2016 a judge declared the age restriction should be lifted. Not sure where the prescription requirement came in.
All selective breeding is eugenics. If you believe in aborting babies with Down Syndrome, you're a eugenicist. If you believe in choosing a sperm donor based on genetic fitness, you're a eugenicist. If you selectively breed cattle, or your dog, you're a eugenicist. There are rare but debilitating genetic diseases that can arise from mixed race procreation as anyone who's watched Discovery Health may know. Before people judge, they should study the topic and motivation thoroughly. Eugenics does not means racist or genocide, nor does it mean a eugenicist is motivate by hatred or racism. The word for that is racist. There's a whole field of Genetic Counseling that exists for the purpose of eugenics and catering to the biological health of offspring that have emerged since our science has advanced enough to understand the role genes play in biological, physical and mental health. Read up on the topic. It's quite revealing.
If you want to stay on top of Omicron/Coronovirus info, follow Dr. John Campbell on YouTube. He is the most up to date source I am aware of and covers things you often never hear anywhere else and if you do takes weeks or longer before anyone else talks about it.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/videos
This isn't entirely the corps fault, but legacy legal licensing agreements on each. and every. piece. of content. Not to mention all the unions you ave to deal with to make sure all the talent in the content gets paid. Clearances AND tracking can be a nightmare. A lot of that has improved in the pat decade as digital/streaming agreements are now standard, but getting content (like the music in a show for example) cleared for all territories can still be a headache.
It's just another interface. It's simply moving from 2D to 3D. The innovation/revolution will be federating the system and tools, but since that hasn't effectively happened for the 2D/social networks yet, it's just compounding a corporate evil (again) for the time being. The Social Network could have been created in a way that empowers and enables the individual rather than exploit them. It didn't. Until corporations start paying you to view their ads instead of paying Google or Facebook, users are just being farmed.
Or when they are being paid by the government, which is indeed the case with covid messaging, just like they do all other MSM. Hence the lawsuits against Facebook for censorship because they are acting as agents of the state.
Reduced from 14% to 7% risk. Would be nice to see how it compares to other off-label treatments such as Ivermectin which has had great success in India.
You mean, like the reason hypertext was created? "News" organizations don't even verify their own reporting, so how are they supposed to provide sources? Alison Morrow, former NBC correspondent who now has her own YouTube/Locals/Odysee/Rokfin channel talks about this all the time. The internet has made the news cycle so fast they not only don't have time to give stories the time and nuance they deserve, they simply "trust" who they see as being experts or authorities whether they are or not (mostly those whose narrative the corporations agree with because it doesn't upset advertisers) without verifying anything.
Go to the top of the food chain -- put a cap on property taxes, rent and utility prices. When the cost of living is $42K a year, that doesn't leave people much room to prepare for long term living expenses let alone retirement.
And don't forget to factor in age group, meaning the national average last week per capita for 18-74 was 5.x and Florida has a lot of old retired people, many moving out of places like NY this year. Then there's Texas with greater than 1M illegal immigrants most of whom were said to be infected, which I'm going to guess these factors skews the numbers for this year.
Isn't Ninatic the company funded by the CIA's venture fund? And call me when when VR glasses are lightweight glasses and not head gear. I have a hard enough time using reading glasses as I get older.
The algorithm doesn't prevent me from sharing posts on my private Facebook page from a professional ethics blog because they aren't PC enough for the Facebook stasi. Imagine if the phone company or your email host prevented you from communicating.
How does their user base want them to be stricter as it applies to private communications? They censor posts on private pages and private messages. How is anything beyond what the law requires in that case not the policing of thought?
" since everyone else is happy with Youtube and other centralized services."
I also respectfully disagree, because YouTube consistently:
- recommends pop-culture content that can be found elsewhere, most specifically on cable
- recommends content I've already watched even though I'm logged in and they should know I've already watched it
- buries the content most relative to my interests
- gives me no means of adding or removing tags to help me filter my content
- has search functionality that constantly breaks when one applies filters (so you do a search, get a million results, sort by upload data and it returns 'no results found' W.T.F.
Hell I'd even settle for someone to just abstract the AI/tracking/algorithm and link to content on all of these sites so I don't see content on any ONE of them and can search across all of them. Why hasn't anyone done this? If someone has, please promote it more.
My advice is to read Neil Postman's works, specifically
1) Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 2) How to Watch TV News, and especially 3) Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology if you think legacy/boomer media has any more credibility (especially today) than some random in their bedroom.
I'd also recommend reading Sharyl Attkisson's
The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
and
Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington
That random in their bedroom is the fourth estate now.
Great idea, but I wouldn't trust Google. How about using a DAT protocol service and just making it secure P2P? That's all I want. Get rid of all these censoring spying online services and let the people talk to each other and give permission only to those they want without anyone playing thought police/stasi.
Kind of stagnant, but I liked the IDEA of what was being done with the Beaker Browser using the DAT protocol to run a self-hosted P2P web. I just wish someone would take the project to completion/usability. It would really disrupt things.
https://beakerbrowser.com
If my blood is on the touchscreen, it shouldn't break my car or prevent me from getting to the hospital. Who needs more controls? I want physical levers and switches on the dash. Case in point, Ford Mustangs have electronic controls to pull heat off the engine, but the valve only opens when the thermostat says it okay so when it breaks (and costs $250 to fix, and breaks regularly) you're stuck with cold air in the winter until you exceed 50MPH. Just give me a freaking lever that manually/physically opens the valve to and pull the heat off the engine. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The part about how companies destroy autonomy demonstrates a lack of understanding of one's place. What they are describing is what people expect in a leadership position, not an individual contributor position. Expecting the construction worker to have the autonomy to decide the design of the house is simply moronic. That's the difference between being a developer and being the product owner. Granted, the product owner needs to know what they are doing, which is the actual problem they are not identifying in this article. It's all about leadership, and people starting as individual contributors who first learn to lead themselves and their egos, growing in their role through the five levels of leadership, being mentored and becoming a mentor before becoming someone with the power and authority to be a product owner. Know it all developers haven't mastered level 1 yet, let alone their egos. They are simply the kid who wants to horde all the toys and haven't learn to respect the toy owners let alone that the toys aren't theirs.
They don't seem to understand what TARP was, or how what is happening now is completely different. There would be no mortgages if it weren't for the government involvement in 2008, because no bank would be willing to take the financial risk that was imposed upon them by Dodd-Frank. The government guaranteed bad loans back then that the banks were forced to make, so when the banks went overboard in taking them of course they were going to be bailed out.
Similarly, this forced shutdown by the government is killing businesses, and to save the businesses from the government action the government must compensate them in order to compensate the population they have severely damaged. It's not just jobs that are being lost along with businesses, it's people's futures as retirement plans are being devastated. It would have been cheaper to require citizens all wear masks and gloves or painter's suits than to shut down everything for what amounts to a bad flu. Now we have Congress requiring trillions of dollars of our money and requiring hundreds of millions of dollars for arts programs be included in the bill. The oversight needs to be over congresses priorities as they are openly abusing the crisis for their own ends.