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"This study provided in vivo evidence that inadvertent intravenous injection of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may induce myopericarditis. Brief withdrawal of syringe plunger to exclude blood aspiration may be one possible way to reduce such risk."

In fact the doctor advocates taking the vaccine. Also, the method the doctor is advocating for is what the drug makers recommend. It just isn't what the CDC and WHO recommend.

The doctor links to an actual medical study.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

Oxford Academic

If you want me to spell it out, it is quite simple. The US committed genocide against native Americans.

The US is an imperial power and there is a power struggle between it and China.

There is no morality. There is mostly propaganda on both sides.

The US government did round people up, torture them, and put them in concentration camps. How do you think the WHOLE country was built? We living in this country benefited and are CONTINUING to benefit from it.

Ever hear of the Indian reservation system? The US government rounded people up, took their land, and forced them into concentration camps. If they left the reservation, they were hunted by the US cavalry.

It is so rich to conquer a people and then show remorse while continuing to occupy the land.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

How would you compare that part of American history to the Nazis? Or how about comparing that to the Japanese in WW2? Is the US really any better?

Given how the US is allies with Saudi Arabia, has conducted wars killing over a million people the last 30 years, do you actually think the US changed its ways?

Entrenched special interests driving policy is what the US is. Even an erstwhile democracy can fall into a stuck state.

Democracies can be perverted and also have a history of destroying themselves. See Greek history.

That adversary is that of the state that you identify with. Neither state cares about you one iota.

And all the protests accomplished jackshit. Can't you see that that is the point? Your opinion and protests have no effect. Your protests are just plausible deniability.

https://youtu.be/UqMaYuVvqGo

Weapons of mass destruction

LOL

Nope. All the major outlets were pushing it. ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox. Also go find out how many representatives were for the war.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190823053520/https://www.cbsne...

296-133, 77-23

The second invasion was on a false pretense of WMDs. The government in concert with the media manipulated and deceived the public.

You are a pawn. Pawns have NO value in of themselves. They are used solely to advance the cause of a side. They will be sacrificed to do so.

You can take solace in identifying with an entity that cares for you not one iota.

Waitbutwhy writes extensively about this phenomenon. It is called tribalism and delusion.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

us vs them, good vs evil

It has all the hallmarks.

"A superglue story also jacks up the Us > Them values. The story needs to be all about good guys and bad guys, with a crisp, clear distinction between the two. The good guys must be good in every way—in knowledge, talent, motivation, and virtue. They’re good now, they were always good in the past, and they’ll continue to be good in the future. The bad guys are the opposite—they are and always have been stupid, ignorant, malicious, and morally backwards. Strife between the good guys and bad guys is always the fault of the bad guys"

The US is a set of entrenched interests that are now working in concert with the government. The government doesn't have to do things directly. They just have the companies do it.

Stop focusing on the government and look at how the whole system works. Post something critical of a government official and it gets censored. It happens on Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Hacker News, Nextdoor, YouTube, etc... We aren't talking Trump or antivaxxers either.

A pawn has value to the state as a tool. One such example is to be used as cannon fodder.

The US democracy is fake. Entrenched interests hold virtually all power.

You have 6 trillion dollars and thousands of lives lost over fake wars. Where are those WMDs? Why didn't we pull out after getting bin Laden in Pakistan?

Go back a generation to the Vietnam War. 50k American lives lost.

History keeps on repeating itself and people are oblivious.

They aren't your partner. You are a pawn. Stop identifying with entities that have no interest in your welfare.

Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, how the FBI treated MLK, trying to get Black Panthers to kill each other.

How do you think the US government gets access to Internet and phone traffic? The exchanges give the US government direct access including letting the government install their own equipment.

You are right.

https://steipete.com/posts/calling-super-at-runtime/

I wasn't clear. It is dynamically constructing an API call that Objective-C allows. The objc_msgSend stuff.

I speculate that GameKit is basically abandonware by Apple. They even got rid of the app a few years ago.

There probably hasn't been hardening of it in years and the initial work was probably developed in haste.

This is systemic. Apple has a bad habit of abandoning software that isn't a priority. So, one shouldn't be surprised that Apple hasn't fixed these exploits. And I wonder if the author has fully mined GameKit for exploits yet. Perhaps there are more to be found.

The architecture of iOS and OSX isn't conducive to security AFAIK. It is more of an add-on as one can see instead of being architected in.

No. Those static analysis tools don't catch everything. There are relatively well known and somewhat widespread tricks to avoid being caught by them.

Yeah, it wouldn't be too hard to write an interpreter. It is a lot like compiler class.

I think the behavior is very Russian.

Hacker: You have a vulnerability bounty program. Well here are three. Pay up.

Apple: [silence]

Hacker: [interprets this correctly as a fuck you.] Fuck me? Fuck you!

Me: Love it!

Don’t update your apps till after Apple releases a patch. The first two are API calls that apps can make.

An exploit wishing to exploit these vulnerabilities has to be coded to make these calls. Most apps don’t dynamically construct arbitrary API calls. In fact, you can’t do that in Swift AFAIK. You have to drop to Objective-C or C to do that.

So most apps need to be updated to exploit the vulnerability. The only exceptions would be apps that are intentionally constructed to call arbitrary APIs or at least with arbitrary parameters. The first would be a violation of developer agreements but that hasn’t stopped people in the past. Also, these aren’t even private APIs. These are public APIs that got exploited due to not properly checking parameters/entitlements.

I wonder if Apple isn’t running static analysis tools right now to look for these vulnerabilities against all apps.

The country is going through an increasing blue/red divide. It is working both ways.

Does this remind anyone else of the pre Civil War period?

Both sides are using cultural hot button issues to consolidate their base.

It isn't just big tech. It is that big tech decided to join fully with the rest of the power structure of the country: government, military, military industrial complex, media, law, health, education, etc... Those are the groups that actually run the country.

Now you have censorship by tech instead of just by government, propaganda by tech in addition to media, mandates by corporations and by government.

Before, tech just told government to compel them via law. Now, government works with tech and corporations to achieve governmental aims without writing laws. It is extrajudicial.

I don't think the USA is a democracy or it is less and less of a democracy.

You must not remember those Congress people who traded in stocks after COVID-19 briefings. Wonder if you find that ok.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_t...

AI is applying a gradient (loss of bonus) of a loss function to organic neural networks (human drivers) to train them to optimize against the AI’s value function (how the AI thinks is the optimal way to drive to minimize running stop signs, accidents, etc… for the company). Each paycheck is a training iteration. The organic neural networks (human drivers) are complaining that the valuation function (a machine neural network) has poor performance. The irony! It sucks to be slave to the machine.

Yes if you agree to iCloud terms as far as I can tell.

iCloud Terms and Conditions include

If you agree to the terms of service, they can change it at any time and not tell you if there are governmental reasons.

Furthermore, you agree to not use the services for things that Apple seems unlawful, harassing, threatening, harmful, abusive, tortious, defamatory, libelous, abusive, violent, obscene, vulgar, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise objectionable.

What's up with the iCloud terms and conditions?