Horrible idea to allow governments to have more power for this duty to “care” for future generations (as if they did any sort of a good job taking care of the present).
We can't know what he means, or what is in his heart now, but his actions are definitely suspect and he appears to have a bias. I think he should have been imprisoned or fined into oblivion years ago for his anti-competitive actions and gross ethical violations.
Since the media and intelligence agencies are great at vilifying any dissent (see "Capitol Riot" and how difficult it is for them to even get representation), there is no hope. The US is not going to get better as corruption is rampant and most are in the dark or powerless.
Politicians like Bernie Sanders give hope, but they are few and far between, and muzzled.
Perhaps the migration away from centralized news sources that are filtered by advertisers & intelligence agencies (see Manufacture of Consent) could help move us towards actually having information in the mainstream so that we can have a say, since our election system is rigged by the two right-wing parties, but there are too many decision makers still reading NYT and WSJ.
Social media is clamping down on "fake news".
The majority in the House/Senate are trying to push censorship for this reason, and now they are even trying to change the judicial branch to suit their whims.
Sorry for late reply. You'll find very low cancer rates in cultures that eat predominately meat -- of course they also tend to hunt and are therefore more active, get more sun, live less stressful lives, etc. Combining a high animal diet with processed food seems to be much worse than just a high animal diet. My vegetarian diet was mostly vegetables and minimal processed food, besides faux meat when trying to socialize. I tried going vegan for a year and had so much brain fog that I can barely remember anything that happened. I was eating a lot of home-made cheese, salads, raw foods, and supplementing with B-12 and lots of pea protein. Now I eat high protein, mostly animal, work out, and intermittently fast. I find it works for me. I will keep an eye out on cancer but my vitals are very good and I don't yet see much research on my particular niche diet.
As someone who's been coming out of a lot of sexual trauma from my early childhood, I feel it's important to take a multi-pronged approach to alleviating the anxiety & pain, psychologically and physiologically. For me, pelvic pain was a huge impediment to having a healthy sex life. Left untreated, it got worse and worse, to the point that I had constant pain my body. Now I am seeing a pelvic floor physical therapist who is teaching me how to relax the muscles, and a psychoanalyst who is helping me deal with reframing the traumas that got me where I am.
The Body Keeps the Score is a pretty good book that covers how much trauma affects the body in myriad ways.
It's naive to think that my eating vegetarian made a difference in the grand scheme. Much of what I ate was still requiring needless death and destruction of the environment--it just was invisible to me. Now I accept it, and try to eat from local farms (less fossil fuel waste), and organic (less destruction of the soil). I'm not going to risk affecting my health so that I can call myself a vegetarian. I think the most ecologically sound way of eating is to make your own food (hunting & killing it for carnivores, or growing it for vegetarians) yourself.
Sorry, I should have said animal-based rather than meat, to include milk, eggs, brains, organs, etc. And yes, I eat basically nose-to-tail now, mostly pastured, and feel a hell of a lot better than I did before
Rather than conflating waste with animal products, how about tackle the reasons for waste, and perhaps the other 90% of emissions, before trying to take away my steak and eggs? Please and thank you.
It would be nice to get rid of factory farming, and have community farms focused on regenerative agriculture and sustainability, but I will violently oppose anyone who tries to make me eat veggie burgers ever again.
-Former vegetarian, who tried for years to eat that way for ecological & ethicalreasons, and who switched to a 80% meat-based diet and will never look back to what I view is naive in hindsight.
I would prefer to have some level of control over how my corp(s) will be taxed at the local level where I have some semblance of control by voting for X political party. Letting tax rates be controlled by an even bigger, global quasi-government makes it less likely for me to have any agency. This is just further eroding the control of the individual and the sovereignty of nation states.
My main squeeze and I wanted black rings, and we just got Oura Rings, which track sleep and activity. This way they actually have utility, and we get to ask each other in the mornings, "how'd you sleep?", and have data to back it up.
There's still skepticism that cloth masks prevent spread of the virus because these experts lied several times, and there was a chilling effect stopping the debate due to the cancel culture against those who pointed out, with data, that masks probably are somewhere between barely effective and actually harmful. Who really knows now?
I share your skepticism. Vaccines are a relatively new technology, with various buggy vaccines coming out that were actually more harmful than helpful. Time will tell if the mRNA "Vaccine" will be a net positive. I am totally okay with other people injecting whatever they want in their bodies, as long as they don't try to make me do it, too. I would rather die of natural causes than a rushed-to-market product.
Until you get busted for drug possession in, say, Texas, and have to go to jail and are at the whims of a conservative court. Just remember that there's risks to everything.
You're right. I could spend the hours of time to write a thesis here, as if it will make any difference, but I prefer to just play the contrarian while I blow off from work for a few. Take it with a grain of salt, or just mark it as spam, etc. I wonder at what point I will just have this account banned off HN.
Big Corporations and centralization of power in the hands of few is bad, and should be obvious. I didn't think one would need to provide evidence that Big Tech/Media is canceling conservatives, libertarians, liberals, greens, and surmise that it is not just because of benevolence or public safety. These are advertising companies deciding what is truth. That some people still cheer as more people that disagree with them are wiped off the de facto public forums on the internet should be scary to the masses who are just one wrong idea from being similarly muzzled. US Government is bought and paid for by these interests, so the logical hope would be for a technical solution by neoanarchists and other disenfranchised groups. It's just a hope, sure... but with the growth of crypto for decentralizing infrastructure (Filecoin, for instance) it seems all but inevitable.
This is the mainstream thinking in the US, and why everything is rapidly going to shit. There is no "we" giving people a microphone -- it is a select few oligarchs who wield exceptional control to take away the voice of people whose views run counter to their and their cronies' interests. There is no democracy, representation, or transparency. The coming antithesis will be bypassing the control of the few on the voice of the many, and an Internet 2.0 which will be resistant to the censorship of tyrants and warmongers who comprise the faux-woke... if we still have the electrical grid & network infrastructure to support it...
Canceled Netflix when I read about the content of the Cuties movie. The 3 other people who used my Netflix account were a bit bummed, but nobody paid for Netflix for themselves after I canceled. Plex + Sonarr/Radarr & a VPN is the way to go.
What about the CO2 impact of fiat currency in practice by governments & central banks? War has costs, so does welfare, and the electricity used to spin propaganda, etc. These are externalities that nobody is looking into, unless they have tinfoil hats on.
Why take a vaccine for something healthy people like me fight off in a day or two? It doesn't make sense.
I can take a Zinc tablet, and some Vitamin D, or HCQ, etc.
Now older and sicker people should think otherwise, or those who interact regularly with those populations.
And yes, I know asymptomatics allegedly, potentially, in some rare cases, might possibly spread it to people who may get seriously ill. That is what we called "nature" before 2020.
Sunblocks often have chemicals that leach into the brain/blood with alarming effects... and more people suffer from Vitamin D deficiency than skin cancer from prolonged exposure...
Have you tried them and not had results? Because there are a lot of N=1s anecdotes about it working for people, hence the large following he has. Wim’s techniques helped me quit medical marijuana, and drastically improved my productivity and general wellbeing, including my sex-life due to stress-induced ED. It is only one flavor of breathwork, but I think you could be doing a disservice to yourself to label it all a pseudoscience, as if only narrowly-defined “science” has merit for human life, which has existed and thrived long before the double-blind RCT...
The harm is in the psychological manipulation to illicit germophobia for short term profits, which ends up causing more people to distrust the news outlet once they get better information...