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Comment Re:You know (Score 0) 81

Such a sweeping, logical sounding generalization. So how is it that in the 2020 Election that Trump (who lost to Biden) broke Obama's record for the most votes received??

Why exactly would that many people vote for a 'psychopathic conman'. And the other question is would even more people would have voted for the 'conman' if they understood the gravity of the contents on Hunter Biden's laptop implicating Biden in a bribery scheme involving China and the Ukraine?? Something that *twitter* banned and suppressed weeks before the election? There have been a large number of things that Trump said were true but were scoffed at and dismissed as false (like the laptop) which would indicate it's primarily his political opponents calling him a conman. I do think he's the very definition of boorish and maybe some of his policies are wrong but perhaps he's actually less of a conman than liberals want to make him out to be??
 

Comment Re:No one is saying that (Score 1) 216

The greenwashing is severe though. Rather than banning an ad hardly anyone will even care about maybe twitter could have released a report on Earth Day whether Twitter is carbon neutral or not and their future plans for adressing climate change issues!

I do know that private jets that board members use are never good for the enviroment and it seems that the most ardent advocates for climate change all use them.

Greenwashing needs to be used to distract from that reality.

Comment Re:Don't check them out if you don't like them. (Score 1) 264

The "nuts" have been with us since the beginning of the republic. I submit that to suddenly worry about "nuts" right now is more about a power grab to silence critics than whatever a "nut" may or may not do. And I'm sure the scare of "the nazis are everywhere" will similarly be used in order to find ways to silence the unwanted.

The ideas fall flat so their promulgators need to manipulate and cheat to acquire political power by other means.

Comment The problem (Score 1) 125

The laws vary widely from state to state on how you may or may not record phone calls, even if you are the primary party to a phone call.

People who download an app are not going to pay attention to what laws that may be applicable to them either.

This is lawsuit avoidance in my opinion, and too big of a can of worms for google. If you need to record a phone call you probably should talk to a lawyer first about what you are trying to achieve anyway.

Comment Re:The ever-present refrain "Accept Less!" (Score 1) 267

They already know what's best for you concerning you and your children's health, and you're going to obey whatever they say concerning that regardless what your doctor may suggest.

The pandemic was just "training wheels" for any other perceived emergency which climate change is for many.

I submit look how well they did with Covid to get an idea how well they will tackle climate change. You can be sure that there will be well monied corporate interests that will need to get paid and of course they'll do massive amounts of advertising to help keep the dissenting press quiet and under control.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 278

The sad fact is Bill Nye is a sellout. As is other so called "science presenters" that glom onto him like Youtube's "Veratasium". Bill felt compelled enough to edit his old TV shows that discussed the rudimentary established biological fact that gender exists in two forms for the primary purpose of reproduction. Presumably he did this to make the producers of his Netflix show happy so they could make the show about My Sex Junk song.

The thing is it's just not about 'gender issues'. People need to ask themselves where else these so called 'science' presenters are taking money from in order to influence public opinion. I'm sure that there are consumers who feel better about buying that plastic bottle of water now rather than tugging along the truly 'eco' refillable nonplastic steel container. Why doesn't Bill Nye do a video about those??

The reason is because Bill Nye needs to make a buck. By definition this makes him truly a 'shill' whose willing to bend the truth just a bit to make his handlers happy. If he has a sponsor that's willing to pay up then he'll talk about the miracle of modern plastics.

Popular 'science' youtuber 'Verstasium' has done much the same thing with the sponsor Waymo. See the video Veratasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda

Because someone is able to wrap something in a layer of 'sciency' doesn't make it true. It makes it 'propaganda'. Sadly, that makes Bill Nye really a shill. It's not the first, and likely won't be the last. Bill Nye's science soul is up for sale, playing off his earlier earned reputation.

As I see it, shills deserve the derision they get. Ask yourself dear reader, where else is 'science' thrown into your face to change your opinion??

Comment Re:Kids waiting for the bus in the dark (Score 1) 307

No. They walk along completely dark roads in rural areas where the roads will never be lit every inch because it's either impractical or impossible to do so.

A few kids were hit and killed on a dark road while walking to school a number of years ago in my area (during dst) and the news didn't report it was because the frickin' road was black in the morning!!

F$sk the big lie daylight savings time and everything having to do with it.

Comment Re:Love me some Lead (Score 1) 111

Actually what you liked was the smell of the pine rosin flux mixed in with it. What you should do is see if you are "neuro-diverse" (a polite way of saying you have a learning disability) such as attention deficit disorder (ADD). Especially if you find yourself forgetting things around and being absentminded, distracted. Look on youtube for channels that address adult attention deficit disorder.

There's probably countless people that spent unusually large amount of time building electronics and inhaling copius amounts of lead based fumes on top of all the leaded gasoline they were also breathing. And if you think you are safe from this because you were born after the "generation" this simply may not be the case.

Copper pipes, while not lead, may not be safe either. Not only because they were soldered together using lead solder, but excessive copper in the water could possibly be as bad as other known heavy metal risks.

Additionally, if you live in a large city that existed during this period and want to grow a garden, keep in mind that the lead exhaust fumes dissipated onto the nearby ground and is still there. Lead being an atomic element did not "decompose". So there is the potential that your grown food might have excessive levels of lead.

I'm glad that someone got around to studying this. The question is why didn't anybody do so 30 years ago??

Comment Re:good reasons... (Score 1) 170

No, there's actually good technical reasons too. This phone actually was/is a dog of a cell phone with numerous problems, some of which undoubtedly required specially written/unplanned software modifications/patches to help fix. As an example, after an update this phone would have a tendency to "boot loop" on it's own. It's easy enough for the reader to search engine the other numerous problems this particular phone had.

Google at this point decided it was in their and the customer's best interest to deprecate the phone rather than shove out a new rom for it and then not have it meet customer expectations.

I actually agree with Google's decision that it's better to move people to a better phone rather than have them hang around on a busted one. I suppose this kind of thing happens with many products. It's a shame that Google managed to hide it all so well with this crappy phone. Where everybody probably deserved a coupon for the next iteration in return for putting up with all the crappiness the Pixel 3 had!

Comment Good science, bad science, slashdot (Score 1) 314

Their username checks out. The study is seriously flawed and really does not prove its hypothesis. My biggest and primary gripe that has yet to be addressed (generally speaking) is the efficacy of medications given relative to the time of infection. I.e., in many instances a medication may not work when given when the illness has progressed to being in the severe/last stage and/or the patient has commorbidities which lessen their chances of recovery beyond what an intervention might be capable of doing.

But the sad truth is that this is a drug that has been politicized with an agenda against it. So any hack can wrap himself in so called science but yet throw b.s. meat on the pile for the laughing hyenas to devour. Brandolini's law indeed.

Do you reader, believe in objective truth??

Well puzzle me this then. If you came down with Covid, using this bogus study's very own numbers which group would you prefer to be in???

The group where Ivermectin was used along with the standard care, out of the severe 6 cases that were in the ICU, 3 presumably recovered and 3 died. In the group where there was standard care alone, all 10 people in the ICU died.

What this points to is either the study's own deficiencies and that further investigation should actually be carefully done, and/or the study is poorly constructed and not really valid in the first place.

I have an idea. Maybe because human life actually might have some value and is worth saving, people should pause laughing it up with the likes of "VoiceofSatan", stop slandering any therapeutic that comes along with names like "horse dewormer" because it doesn't fit their "one size fits all, vaccine for everyone" agenda that Big Pharma is ramming into peoples arms. Do research, and acknowledge that the pandemic has and continues to be terribly mishandled for any number of reasons. Then contact their representatives and point out how our health authorities (and msm) are letting people down by promulgating bad practices and bad science.

From my understanding, the doctor who found the bacterial cause and treatment for most ulcers (and subsequently won the Nobel prize) was unfairly ridiculed and dismissed for years.

Ridiculing probably is also interfering with good science here. At the least, don't do it.

Comment Re:Might be true, might not be (Score 2) 379

I know this will be a mind-blowing concept for many. But instead of focusing on one and *only* one thing for every single person - that being a vaccination for every single American that is born, apparently a shot we need every six months now (even with scientifically provable diminishing returns)- why can we not focus on therapeutics that don't necessarily stop infection but rather stops hospitalizations?? Apparently there is an asthma inhaler that has been proven effective - in other countries of course!

The virus has escaped the vaccines and they now do not do more than that now anyway. Additionally in this light, why are US legislative bodies forcing Covid vaccinations on children to the detriment of children and science when other European countries like Denmark and Sweden do not do so???

Comment Re:They are working on a war now (Score -1, Troll) 379

Fauci likely was the instrumental person that arranged funding for the Wuhan lab to provide "gain of function" research. The NIH was able to find a way to sidestep independent review of the money sent to the Wuhan lab. Whether the money was used for coronavirus research (which ostensibly it was) is irrelevant. The fact that Fauci essentially schemed to get the money to the Wuhan lab without any oversight review is a serious lapse of ethical judgement by itself.

But, as many should know, it's just not the crime but the cover up that follows. The emails where Fauci steers/schemes about virus origins are particularly damning. The problem is/was that Fauci controls everyone's purse strings in and around NIH. Why this person continues to be in charge of pandemnic with his obvious conflicts of interest is unfathomable. What's horrific is that the lapses in judgement clearly continue.

Could knowledge that have shaped how we responded to the pandemic early on?? Possibly. The delay at the CDC in developing a working Covid tests when other countries had a working test on the table is especially troubling whether it is related or not because that provably led to the loss of life. What's more, these problems with testing *continues*.

There definitely needs to be 9/11 style commission to investigate all this. They say absolute power corrupts absolutely. We have an individual who managed to garner it with several presidents and who either can not see the shortfalls here or does but is in a position to cover them up to the detriment of the American people. That is unacceptable.

Comment In other words, only certain people are allowed (Score 1) 40

Being able to downvote was and will be abused by people. This was done by Hillary Clinton and her actblue minions during the 2016 election in notable online forums including reddit's r/politics. What's worse is the fact that they really didn't hide the fact and reddit administration failed to hold her or her campaign accountable.

If you dared to counter the prevailing liberal opinion you'd be instantly downvoted 100 points in a flash as the hired boiler room lackeys spotted your post. And, because you received that number of downvotes your ability to post was restricted.

Essentially it became a tool for censorship and propaganda. It's truly no wonder the cesspool known as Twitter wants to implement it.

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