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It's not society. It actually starts with the individual. In order to have nay kind of decent society, each individual needs to recognize that they are responsible for themselves and their own society. Going outside, exercising and consuming nourishing foods are the literal starting place. Then seek to find things you like doing and become competent in them. Find a good wife or husband. Don't cheat on them. Don't take alcohol to excess, etc. etc.

The point is, you cant start from the outside and work your way down the the individual. It starts with the person.

Your comment is the most sensible I hav seen so far. I have seen lives utterly decimated by SSRIS. Suicides and murders caused by its side effects. Violent and suicidal tendencies are on the warning labels on many of these drugs.

What I am really interested in is they're going to disclose the targets of those first images tomorrow. So we can prep our "before and after" slides.

Non paywalled version: https://archive.ph/u7s5R

> it is a man-made change

Can you substantiate that claim with verifiable evidence?

New England used to be under a 10-mile thick ice sheet during the last ice age. I think the Earth has been warming for a very long time.

But this isn't only about the climate. The article also mentions COVID-19 shut downs which were mostly pushed by the left. The IMF is mentioned as some sort of savior and is definitely saturated with left wing ideology.

This article is full of unsubstantiated claims and generalities. Not to mention plenty of left-wing talking points. Global warmi--oops! I mean "climate change", etc, etc.

It seems like the Economist is running point for the current administration's intentional food crisis. I wonder what freedoms we're now supposed to give up to the government so they can save us from the scary food monster?

Money is a representation of energy. If you used it like you would electricity you would be better off. Sure, store some in batteries but know that they dissipate over time. Stocks should only be purchased when you want to literally invest in a company or industry because you think it has major growth potential, not for speculation. Non-cash assets could also mean precious metals as they have conversion power over any fiat currency. As we're watching the neo-liberal global world order collapse with the war in Russia I think gold and silver will win out over any other non-cash asset. However it still doesn't make any money. The way to make money with money is to buy things that appreciate in value over time. Real estate is one of the most available things that fit this category. My parents bought a house in Florida last year at the "top of the market" and their property is now worth about 20% more. And if they rented it out they could recuperate some of the capital outlay that they invested.

How is this even remotely a good idea? People generally expect that a government agency would be sure of the information its releasing.

I think my comment was conflated with others' sentiments about Google killing their RSS reader and other products. That is not my rationale at all. My hesitance for using Google Cloud or AWS stems from my mistrust of these behemoths and their track record of baseless censorship. From what I have seen, both of these companies have stepped out of their place as neutral platforms.

I understand not all large companies have the luxury of picking their service providers but I do believe it's in everyone's best interest to diversify web service infrastructure. One, to hedge against catastrophic failures that may arise from their platform going down and two, to better balance the distribution of power on the internet as a whole.

Who would trust Google with their infrastructure these days anyway? Personally I do need to work with Google services occasionally but always experience default anxiety about it.

I got the vaccine. Does that make me anti-vaxx? I'm anti-mandate for an experimental drug that is not fully understood.

I am ok with the MMR and tetanus and the older traditional vaccines. They have been very rigorously tested and proven. I got all those for school and whatnot and I'm cool with that.

The mRNA vaccine is not your grandpa's vaccine. This is a new and experimental technology that is not even close to being fully understood. And there is no data on very long term adverse events.

The trial data will not be released by the FDA for another 55 years or so [1]

The J&J Janssen vaccine is a more traditional vaccine and it's not pushed by the media or the governments almost at all.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants...

That's a fair point. I'll engage.

My point on that is the Boiling Frog analogy. [1]

We all brush our teeth (mostly) because we want to preserve their health. And we wish to avoid the pain of abscesses and the dentist's drill.

The government doesn't MANDATE that we brush our teeth.

They have worked hard to make us think that the mandates are not for you but your neighbor, meaning they protect your neighbor from you. But that just isn't the case. We know that the vaccine will not stop infection or spread, and the only useful masks are the ones that will protect you from inhaling the aerosolized infective agent.

So this would come down to personal choice.

What we're seeing on a global scale is an infrastructure being put in place ever so slowly based on shocking and jarring events. Piece by piece. This has been going on since the turn of the 20th century. Maybe earlier.

DO you think the infrastructure being built for vaccine passports is going to be limited to vaccines or travel? If legislation like the PATRIOT act and dark projects like Prism have taught us anything it's that once the foot is in the door it will not retract.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

Exactly. "What's the big deal?" right?

> "The fact that masks aren't mandatory in public in the US is honestly unbelievable to me"

I'm glad you don't run things here. We have a constitutional republic that makes it impossible for the federal government to unilaterally mandate such things as masks and vaccines. Biden tried to mandate vaccines through OSHA but the Supreme Court determined that was an overreach.

What kind of masks? Cloth masks are proven to be worthless and only well fitting N95 masks may help prevent infection.

I think what's going to happen is COVID will be less and less damaging as time goes on (like all novel diseases) and we will go on to live our lives as free people.

I don't see any citations in this write-up. Colds and flu also cause direct cell damage. I haven't seen any concept of "long flu" anywhere.

The vaccines are not going to prevent contraction or transmission anymore. And per this article, you can apparently be asymptomatic but still get long COVID? So why is "get you vaccine and booster" in the first sentence?

It goes on to state that "10% to 30% of people might get long COVID." Not only is there no citation for that, what does that mean exactly? Isn't it 100% of people who get COVID may get long COVID?

This piece isn't real science or medicine.

Well that's a good point. I only speak English so I speak for my language. On the point of Brave vs DDG I think my main point is that Brave has its own index and DDG is based on ... Bing? ... I'm not sure. At any rate I don't think there's a comparison there.

Maybe you should try an opposite approach. When kagi gives you useless results switch to Google.

I'm going to second that. Since switching off Google a couple years ago I have had fewer and fewer "failed" searches which required me to go back to Google to try the search.

The more people who use Brave Search (they own their own index), the better it will become. And right now I'd say it's orders of magnitude better than DDG and the others.

I wonder how big the star in the image actually is without the glare and if Webb would be able to capture direct images of exoplanets. That would be truly astonishing.

This may be too meta for this forum, but I would like to point out that the brain theory as a whole has become so incomprehensibly complex that I am beginning to think that the brain has little to do with intention and memory storage.

Point in fact: as we are now hundreds of years into medical research and we still can't figure out how the brain stores memory. Or what physical structure a memory even is. And I am supposed to believe this all happened by accident? Who is driving the upward development of life if the physical universe tends toward chaos?

Clearly it would take a quantum leap of your humor to understand this joke.

> “Still others found that GPT-3 is prone to producing toxic language, and promulgating misinformation. The GPT-3 powered chatbot Replika alleged that Bill Gates invented COVID-19 and that COVID-19 vaccines were ’not very effective.’”

I wonder what sort of input would create that output? Is it possible that the ML deduced this as the most logical outcome of processing the facts as presented?

Is it a feature as opposed to a bug?

ANTIFA and BLM riots caused billions of dollars of damage, destroyed buildings, including federal ones, burned down multiple businesses and involved extensive looting. There were also multiple cold blooded murders and rapes during the riots as well as occupations. The US and Canadian governments did not enact anti-terrorism measures as they did with the truckers.

The Canadian truckers picked up the trash. I never saw a cleaner protest.

Is "cracking down on coordinated bs" not also censorship?

How about letting people simply evaluate the information for themselves?

- Why Stacey Abrams is still saying she won. (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/28/magazine/stac...

- Abrams defends lack of concession after 2018 gubernatorial loss (CNN) https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/03/politics/stacey-abrams-conces...

- Stacey Abrams is running for Georgia governor in 2022 (AJC.com) "Abrams lost to Kemp by less than 1.4 percentage points in 2018, the closest Georgia gubernatorial election in decades, and her refusal to concede defeat because of what she called an “erosion” of voting rights" https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/breaking-stacey-a...

Her whole platform for her new gubernatorial race is predicated on the "fact" that she was cheated out of her last election.

Nah, Huxley. Netflix is our Soma.

In Canada you get arrested for peacefully protesting: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-freedom-convoy-protest-a...

Note all the attempts in the article to paint them as "armed" and "extremists". There was no violence, no destruction of property. It was a legal demonstration until it was made illegal by invoking the Emergencies act. And this use of the law in my opinion was an abuse as it clearly is for terrorist threats. Not Canadian working class people peacefully demonstrating.

You are right about the first part. You won't know you have a dead raccoon in your basement until it starts stinking. I was hearing the conservatives complain about the mass mail-in voting rules and Trump himself also, long before the actual election.

On your second point: If a state holds an election contrary to their constitution and it's proven that it was contrary to their constitution, the votes wouldn't be constitutional. In other words they're illegal. So wouldn't it be sensible to hear calls to count only the legal votes?

There are many, many more irregularities that are too numerous to list but here are a few:

https://rumble.com/vhj5at-2020-election-irregularities-compi...

“Racially motivated patterns of voter suppression are responsible for Stacey Abrams not being governor of Georgia right now.”

— South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D), in remarks in Bow, N.H., Oct. 25, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/30/did-racia...

Also don't forget about Bush v. Gore. It's apparently a "historic" moment when Gore finally conceded the election to Bush.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/al-gore-concedes...