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It's an interesting question in this case because last month a consortium of banks made a big show of depositing $30B "uninsured" as a show of confidence, and it's not clear whether it's still there.

> There are virtually no new applications enabled IMO with 5G speeds vs LTE speeds/latency, assuming they are both not congested.

5G will enable the sorts of edge computing needed for stuff like facial recognition. It's fundamentally a policing/military/counterinsurgency technology being laundered as consumer tech.

https://twitter.com/2youngBadazz/status/1364621468999409666?...

Oh I'd say Palantir and the U.S. military understand quite well how many people, especially our own soldiers, find what we're doing unethical, which is why they're so keen to replace human soldiers with amoral robots.

> "Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did. I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the C.D.C.’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that."

Reminds me of the buck passing I saw from the local school board when I attended a meeting to oppose mask mandates during the public comment session. The superintendent was absolutely thrilled that the policy had just been handed down from the governor's office, so he would not personally have to defend forcing young children to strap completely useless bits of cloth across their faces day in and day out. "It's out of our hands!" And today, I'm sure that if you pressed the governor on that decision, he would pass the buck to the state health department or whoever.

My favorite explanation for the remote viewing stuff is that it was cover for advanced spy satellite imagery and transmission. Explaining away new capabilities you want to keep unknown to the world as "magic." https://twitter.com/mmabeuf/status/1371213766734573569?t=lrW...

The other theory I've encountered is that it was cover for ongoing mind control research after MKULTRA had to be wound down.

For something of its size and influence very few people have heard of SRI, but it comes up frequently in 'noided online discussions about the overlap between Silicon Valley and military/intelligence. A lot of the things that PARC was credited with creating in the first place were really dreamed up at SRI, so it makes a certain sense for them to be merging:

https://squamuglia.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/67/#more-67

https://squamuglia.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/yes-kids-cookie-...

Yeah SRI was what emerged when military/intelligence related work needed to be separated from Stanford University proper as a result of campus protests in the 60s over the university's involvement in chemical weapons and counterinsurgency research.

Yeah de Garay is an interesting case because there are no articles deboonking her particular case as having been caused by the vaccine. I've been surprised they didn't at least find some tout doctor somewhere to say, "there is no evidence that de Garay's symptoms were caused by the vaccine," but maybe in this particular case the usual denials would just be too flimsy and suspect. But it should be a huge slap in the face to anyone operating from a mindset of "if there were any big issues I would have heard about them" -- the adolescent trials were so small that if her adverse event had been properly included, the vaccines clearly would have been too hazardous to administer in that age group.

> A genuine question - how is the notion of a serious side effect dismissed and considered "correlation", yet anxiety is absolutely ruled as "causation"?

Even better: the same side effects are invariably attributed to post-infection sequelae in anyone who had a breakthrough case!

Didn't the Saturn V rocket make it to orbit, and without obliterating its launch pads?

It's pretty amazing that after it has become unambiguously clear that there are no herd immunity benefits at all to be realized from the COVID vaccines, many still have the perspective that there is some communal protection benefit that one contributes to by taking the shots.

> everyone I know in Mexico who got it came down repeatedly with COVID after vaccination

This is a pretty common story with the mRNA and DNA/AAV vaccines as well. Did any of them wind up in the hospital?

The skepticism was waaaaayyyyyy off from a "healthy dose," for most of 2021 the standard line was something like "a billion doses of this vaccine have been administered and there have been absolutely zero deaths." Almost every patient who suffered side effects in the first year or so has a story to tell about their doctors insisting that--if it wasn't all in their head to begin with--it must have been caused by anything but the pristine COVID vaccines.

And that's without getting into the manufacturers rigging the safety results of the trials by e.g. yanking Maddie de Garay from the adolescent cohort after she was paralyzed.

Yep, in an extremely small handful of test subjects, and they were having huge problems with safety signals pretty much that whole time.

The mRNA vaccines are an abject failure, every jurisdiction which made heavy use of them has seen higher levels of excess deaths persist for far longer than would be expected after a pandemic runs its course.

A horrendously uninformed comparison. It's extremely tedious to still be reading this Pfizer/FDA copypasta at this point. It's more like if Ford wanted to release a car with some kind of completely new engine or propulsion type while having done almost no safety testing at all. And if, at the same time, they were telling you, "this is just like every other car we've ever made, what's the big deal?" it would be as good of a hint that they were hiding something as it turned out to be in the case of the mRNA vaccines.

Even in the case of traditional vaccines, it was generally expected pre-Covid that years of testing would be undergone before a rollout to the general public, so even putting aside the question of novelty, the more apt comparison would still be something like "Ford pushes out a new model car with a significant body redesign while doing a bare fraction of the usual crash safety tests."

"Incompetence" has been used as the justification for broadened power so many times at this point it would be surprising if they aren't feigning it from time to time.

After decades of propaganda on both sides, the period just after World War II where the Western/NATO countries and the Soviet Union both enjoyed very high rates of affection for one another are now totally unknown and alien to people.

It wasn't just Patton, there were a lot of other psychotic generals high up in the U.S. command structure like Curtis LeMay (inspiration for Jack D. Ripper) who wanted to go fully off leash in fighting communism, use nukes in Korea, etc. In the end we did use biological weapons and kill 5% of North Korea's civilian population, so one could argue that besides "no nukes" there wasn't all that much restraint in the end after all.

The people (and even military personnel) of the United States wouldn't have tolerated capriciously dropping atomic bombs on Moscow three years after we helped them defeat the Nazis. But perhaps something in the nature of AGI will allow its "discoverers" to act more unilaterally evil and with fewer fetters. An army of amoral robots would certainly remove a lot of checks on certain kinds of behavior.

Safety and efficacy for whom? Numerous European countries have already begun significantly dialing back the demographic groups to whom they are recommending booster shots, so I'd say it's looking pretty unsettled.

I had in mind PEG-coated-mRNA and adenovirus vaccines which cause the body's own cells to express a close analog to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein antigen, a thoroughly novel approach which was rolled out to the general public roughly nine months after the very first tests were administered in humans, and in the case of mRNA vaccines more broadly, was described in articles as late as 2017 as potentially having problems with toxicity especially in repeat dosing.

What "disinformation which led to staggering loss of life" do you have in mind, specifically? The vast majority of high risk groups for SARS-CoV-2 were fully vaccinated very soon after vaccines were made available, so (assuming their protective benefits were actually all they have been cracked up to be) there couldn't have been some huge impact of "disinformation" there. There also couldn't have been a "staggering" additional loss of life in the less vaccinated lower risk groups because COVID wasn't a particularly lethal threat to them in the first place. And the vaccines had marginal-to-zero ability to reduce infection so any question of lost herd immunity is out the window. Is there something else I'm not thinking of that you have in mind?

Definitely a good heuristic for deciding whether to support a particular piece of legislation, one which will surely never come a cropper in spectacular fashion.

What about the case where new, largely untested therapies are being pushed on the public before they have even been around long enough for peer reviewed data on their long-term effects to become available, and the only peer-reviewed data on their short-term effects comes from trials run by the manufacturers themselves?

"Why Did So Many Doctors Become Nazis?": https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/fernande...

Been using the webcam with my FreeBSD desktop for job interviews over the past couple of months. Unfortunately Zoom eats up a ton of CPU and then crashes when I open it in a browser tab, and there isn't a packaged binary that I've given a try yet. On Google Meet the browser also doesn't support blurring out the background. So, while it's not totally broken or anything, I don't rely on it for important video meetings.

The FreeBSD installer provides out of the box options to put the root filesystem on an encrypted ZFS partition. The last I looked into doing root-on-encrypted-ZFS on Linux it was a lot more involved.

Given that 1 in 1,000 deaths would be a far higher fatality rate than what SARS-CoV-2 causes in many health demographics (and the vaccines don't even prevent infection anyway), no, that would be pretty far from "safe." This was all well understood until everyone completely lost their minds over SARS-CoV-2, of all things.

By the same token, if the vast majority of doctors and even people who take the shots are (completely unjustifiably) certain they can't be the cause of any issues, then problems will tend to be under reported. And indeed this is exactly what is going on, helped along by financial and professional/reputational incentives being almost 100% aligned in favor of the foregone conclusion that "the shots are a net risk benefit."

Your comment is a great example of this sort of bias: you haven't heard of severe heart pain being linked to the vaccines, despite the fact it is a very common symptom of myo/pericarditis, which are known to be caused by these injections.

Something about the greyed out text makes troll comments like this extra funny.

Ever heard of the Match King? This is not an uncommon pattern in history as late stage bull markets turn to bear and reveal which of Wall Street's favorites were just frauds riding a wave of liquidity the whole time.

If I was to look for some kind of conspiratorial hints in Musk's past I'd probably focus on how he was allowed to skate for committing blatant multi-billion dollar securities fraud with the "funding secured," tweet, or what was going on with Jeffrey Epstein getting tours of SpaceX facilities and advising him on whom to pick for the Tesla board.