A lot of US govt propaganda being repeated here. In the past 24 years since Putin came to power, Russia has improved in every measurable way. The life of the average citizen, from median income to life expectancy to healthcare coverage to education to even little things like how the subways operate and the amount of (or lack of) trash on the streets, drug use, homelessness, violent crime... has improved. It is a society on an upward trajectory.

I'm a pretty old fart, so I was already an adult in the year 2000, and I remember life in USA vividly. Things over here have declined in every way possible since then. There are streets where I grew up in, where I used to go to school, go to work, and they are filled with human feces and drug addicts sleeping on the sidewalk. Median income (real income, adjusted for cost of living) has plummeted. Press freedom has completely disappeared in USA, whereby every newspaper is just a govt stenagrapher repeating what they're told. Entirety of Congress and the federal government are just bought and paid for agents of the military industrial complex and big pharma.

And yes, the US govt blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. Personally ordered by President Biden himself and carried out by US Navy Seal divers planting C4 during the BaltOps exercises, then remoted detonated later. Read Seymour Hersh's report.

TikTok itself is banned inside China. Many western social media and news organizations are also banned there. The precedence is already there.

The difference between trolls and bot farms and manipulation directly from the social media platform is gas lighting is significantly easier. The platform has all of a user's graph data and can directly measure engagement with manipulative content. If they detect any engagement they can push less subtle manipulative content and accelerate as they measure increased engagement.

Trolls and bot farms don't have the same level of feedback. They're certainly not ineffective but their targeting is not nearly as precise. TikTok in particular is problematic in that Chinese intelligence services have direct access to and influence on the platform.

This is concerning not just with telemetry and graph data but also influence campaigns. Because the weighs in "the algorithm" of any social media feed are completely opaque to the end user there's no way to know the difference between organic content, stuff the user engaged with knowingly, and content inserted to wag the dog. This is used by platforms for advertising but works the exact same way for manipulating for any reason.

is humans. The average human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat.

He mentions why it looks old on the home page, point number 12.

That was US government mantra drilled into the heads of the citizens of USA (including you and me) for decades and decades. China is evil and Russia is evil because they're evil communists.

Now that China has completely embraced capitalism and market economy and become so good at it that it's burying US corporations, China is once again evil.

It ain't all about cheap labor. Labor costs in China now are far higher than places where US corporations have a strong manufacturing presence such as India and Vietnam. The #1 driver of Chinese manufacturing domination is that they've become very, very efficient. It's the same story we've seen before, with the likes of Toyota in Japan when they were far behind USA in the 1950's, but kept learning and improving until they surpassed the stagnant US companies.

In the last 20 years USA has spent 12 trillion dollars dropping bombs on villages in the Middle East that benefited no one except the military-industrial complex and some senators in the payroll of Blackrock. Meanwhile in the same 20 years China has spent exactly zero dollars waging foreign wars. Instead they spent trillions on improving their infrastructure (see all those new roads and bridges?) and automating their factories with robots. In fact the amount of industrial robots China bought in the past 4 years since COVID is astounding.... it's higher than all of USA Cananda and EU combined. *THIS* is the biggest driver of how China manufacturing has become so efficient.

I find projects and problems that interest me, and write code (and, mostly, make it available). I don't actually care whether no one else finds the projects/problems/code interesting. It keeps me somewhat sane in a world that has essentially forgotten what it is like to be a human being.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The problem with that whole talk is it pre-supposed the observed phenomena are in fact objects. If the "Nimitz" UFO was indeed an object it had 5000Gs of acceleration and used a terawatt of power. If you pumped a terawatt of power into an object the size of an F/A-18 it would turn into plasma.

So your hypothetical object has completely unsupported "engineering" requirements to simply exist. You don't need to understand all "physics" to know that your hypothesis that a UFO is an actual object and not a mistaken measurement is unfalsifiable. It's basically saying a UFO is magic. Further such hypothesis is not skeptical. It makes unsupported assumption ls because an observation doesn't match an expectation.

It's far more rational to approach UAP from the position that they're measurement error. Instead of crazy logical leaps assuming these objects run on essentially magic, it only relies on a much more prosaic understanding of the mechanisms of measurement.

A reflection inside a telephoto lens can look like all sorts of things. The depth of field further transforms in-lens illusions. Lenses designed to correct chromatic aberrations can have an effect on the transmitted image. The projection onto the flat plane of a CMOS sensor further amplifies the odds of optical illusions. Also the fact many cameras are monocular again increases the odds an optical illusion being seen in the output.

An out of focus moth close to a camera moving at very boring moth-like speeds can look like a much more distant object moving at ludicrous speeds. Camera movement can make a close stationary/slow object appear to be moving quickly. A distant object moving at boring speeds relative to a moving observer can appear to be making crazy movements.

At the core of these illusions is the fact a monocular lens is projecting rays from any numbers of things at a variety of distances onto a single flat sensor plane. The rays aren't tagged with a distance value. The planar sensor has no idea where a photon originated from. Without good references it's hard to judge the actual size and distance of objects. There's precious few good references in the sky for judging the size of distant objects.

Jumping to conclusions phenomena are in fact objects is not scientifically rigorous and intellectually lazy. Assuming an observation must be some unknown physics is just god of the gaps logical fallacies. A jillion measurements of different phenomena doesn't really help since the same type of sensors (monocular CMOS cameras with refresh rates of tens or dozens of Hz) will just misidentify the same class of phenomena the same way.

Reputable sources -- government organizations and medical groups -- have a long and distinguished history being completely wrong when it comes to nutritional science. Actually even non-nutritional medicine.

Ever since the USDA food pyramid was released in ~1973 and pushed to all schools and hospitals, recommending eating less fat and less protein and more carbohydrates/sugar (which are just glucose molecules and basically the same thing), obesity has risen every year until it reached our current insane levels (majority of adults are now obese?? wtf) Just watch any old footage of a shopping mall or a street corner from before 1970 and notice how thin people are compared to today.

And not too long ago every child who ever caught a cold or a flu was pressured into getting a tonsilectomy by their doctor. Because that was the established, settled medical science. They really thought it was beneficial to the patient. I think as recently as 1970's they were giving out tonsilectomies like candies on otherwise perfectly healthy children who caught a cold.

Well today virtually no one gets a tonsilectomy just because they caught a cold. "Science" finally realized that all those decades of giving out tonsilectomies did not do a damn thing for the kids, they still ended up getting colds and flu at the same rate and it didn't make them any less sick either. It was just a completely unneeded procedure brought about by poorly done research.

Anyways you have group A saying PUFA is good for you and another group B (younger generation of doctors and scientists) saying it's horrible. Pick your poison.

Here's a few links to videos that are helpful. Of course internet videos are not proof of anything, but they do present the case for group B and you are welcome to judge for yourself.

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Good question. I've asked this before myself.

PUFA is unstable. Light hitting it breaks it down. High temperature breaks it down.

In nature, PUFA does not exist naked in liquid form in a bottle. It only exists inside the liver of a fish (OMEGA 3) or bound up in the plant fibers of, say a walnut (OMEGA 6). In both cases the PUFA oil is protected by the living organism's cellular walls and its antioxidant defenses. Same as how piece of meat sitting outside will rot and decompose rapidly, but inside a living orgranism it will not rot because of the organism's defense against bacteria.

If you only eat PUFA oils directly from fresh fish or fresh walnuts that you cracked open yourself, then it would be healthy because the PUFA hasn't had a chance to get oxidized and break down. But if you were to bottle up the fish oil in a concentrated form and then let it sit for months, it will have oxidized noticeably.

As for PUFA oils that were extracted from plant fibers such as soybeans in a processing plant, it has already been subjected to extremely high heat (100* celsius+) and high pressure and petrochemical solvents. It's already oxided to all hell beefore the product even gets bottled up, before it even gets to the supermarket.

That is a plausible scenario... except for some solid research done in the 20th century that indicate otherwise.

There was a famous Norwegian doctor/scientist who visited the Inuit people living in Greenland in the 1930's. At that time, these people still lived the same way they've been living for thousands of years, eating the same things, and "modern" foods hadn't reached them yet. Literally every gram of fat these people ate came from animals, mostly seal meat. Seal is a mammal and seal fat is nearly 100% saturated fat. And what he saw amazed him. No heart disease found on anyone, not even the oldest village elder. Exact opposite of what "modern science" predicts, which is to say that saturated fat causes heart attacks and PUFA unsaturated plant-based fats are very healthy. What this guy observed in 1930 was the opposite... zero plant-based oil consumption, zero heart disease.

Actually, it was about 25% more contacts for the Morse code contest last year... I should learn to check my numbers before posting.

Indeed, in last year's running of the American Radio Relay League-sponsored amateur radio contests in which US and Canadian ham radio operators contact the rest of the world, the Morse Code contest recorded about 12% more contacts than the radio telephony (i.e., speech) contest. In years with fewer sunspots, there are typically about twice as many Morse Code contacts as telephony ones.

Ultra processing doesn't neccessarily mean the food is bad for you. But it just so happens, due to economics of making shelf-stable low cost packaged foods, that these ultra-processed foods all contain lots of sugar and lots of toxic oil. It's these two ingredients that are killing people, not the fact that the food is processed in a machine.

Sugar you all know about.It causes type 2 diabetes and metabolic disease which leads to obesity, and obesity causes a whole host of other problems (heart disease, cancer, fatty liver disease, etc).

But the other big problem, toxic oil, lots of people still don't get it. Toxic oil means soybean oil, cottonseed oil, rapeseed oil (AKA "Canola" oil), corn oil, etc. They are all very high in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), which unstable and oxidize rapidly and become toxins which then lead to heart disease over time. These oils are frankenfoods.... they do not exist in nature in the pure liquid that we think of. There's only a tiny amount of oil in a soybean, and it's all bound up in the fibers and it's hard to isolate and concentrate it. That's why industrial processes using high heat and hexane (a petrolchemical solvent similar to gasoline) are used to extract and concentrate the soybean oil. It's then bleached to get rid of the gummy residue and to get rid of the smell. All this processing breaks down and oxidizes the PUFA, which is already unstable to begin with. That means the bottle of soybean/corn/rapeseed oil you buy from the supermarket is already oxidized to all hell and is going to be a major source of inflammation and irritation to your arteries and other things.

The only reason companies use these toxic oils is because they're very very cheap.

Prior to the 20th century, before the invention of these cheap toxic PUFA seed oils, everyone ate butter and tallow and lard, and maybe olive oil in climates where olives can grow, and heart attacks were nearly unheard of. Then beginning with the invention of hexane-extracted cottonseed oil (which were first used as industrial lubricant and not even considered for human consumption due to their dubious origin), heart attack rates rose and rose and rose until by the late 20th century, heart attack became the #1 killer of adults in all the "western" nations that switched over to these cheap oils.

Monounsaturated fats and saturated fats are what you should be eating. It's not that these good for you, it's just that they are stable products and are not toxins and they are not bad for you and they don't cause heart disease. So don't eat oil thinking it's good for you, do the opposite. Avoid the toxic shit.

Back to the original point of the article. There are some ultra-processed foods that are not bad for you at all. Think of freeze-dried egg powder. No sugar added, no PUFA oils, just normal regular eggs that are freeze-dried in a giant vacuum chamber and then ground up into a fine powder by industrial grinding machines. It's highly processed, but also it's perfectly healthy to eat it. Because it's got no sugar and no toxic oil.

When they load you into the trains, Iâ(TM)ll be taking photos to feed my Ai so folks never forget.

Until the next generation of you calls for censorship and forced speech.