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Comment Re: Replace the WHO, no more nefarious influences. (Score -1, Troll) 186

You can't put the genie back in the bottle. It's with us now, forever.

The time to (potentially) stop it was likely in November, maybe December. Back when the WHO was covering it up.

Lucky for us, it's not that deadly and is very treatable. It's highly infectious due to novelty, but that will fade as more get exposed.

The WHO is not the way to combat it, even if we could, as evidenced by their cover-ups (see my post above for links).

Comment Re:Replace the WHO, no more nefarious influences. (Score 0, Troll) 186

The US is putting it's own interests before those of other countries? Shocking. Totally unexpected. No other country would ever do that, right?

America first. Globalism has been proven to be a terrible idea. Bush/Obama interventionalism and empire expansion has decidedly failed. Foreign slave labor is immoral and self-destructive..

Comment Replace the WHO, no more nefarious influences. (Score -1, Troll) 186

Good riddance.

See here, here, here, and plenty of other issues.

The WHO has been heavily politicized for years (decades).

Tedros, who is unqualified and not a doctor, is a stooge.

It's nice to finally have a president who stands up for the best interests of his citizens.

Comment Twin studies have shown... (Score 1, Troll) 221

Studies of identical twins have pretty conclusively proven that IQ is mostly a heritable trait. I won't cite anything here, because it's a very taboo subject, and academia is no longer allowed to speak of it..

At least, the upper limit is set by the parents, from there, some environmental factors can drag it down.

One likely conclusion from this wishy-washy paper is that the smarter parents flock to suburbs. They want, and are capable of getting, high paying city jobs, but they don't want to live in the city.

It's isn't that the green-ness of the environment makes the kids smart. It's that the smart parents choose to live in the green areas with the convenience of a nearby city.

Comment Re:We have our standards for a reason. (Score 1) 106

once there's enough to get a search warrant

The evidence was fake. The FBI lied to get the warrant.

Besides, this isn't about "going through all his possessions, communications, and personal spaces". This is a routine subpoena requesting documents on a specific subject.

You may not care about civil liberties, but others do. In case you didn't know, Watergate was about Nixon's goons illegally tapping the phones of his opponent's campaign. Obama's people tapped Trump's phones, acccessed his emails, and had every other means of electronic surveillance available. It applied to anyone within 2 hops of Carter Page and was retroactive.

Are you saying that President Trump has something to hide? Of course. He probable says things to Melania he doesn't want broadcast. Should Barr be able to go through all the communications of every one associated with the Biden campaign? Did Hillary have anything to hide in the 30,000 emails that she deleted while they were under subpeona? Let me guess, your double standards are kicking in right about now.

but let's believe it because... why?

I am not 100% sure what is true. The fact that one (Shokin) is making the claims under penalty of perjury and one refuses to comment further (Biden) definitely lends credibility to it being corruption. There are also the obvious motivations to consider, there was a lot of money on the line for the Biden family. Why do you automatically believe one side of the story? Follow the money.

I've read or at least skimmed pretty much all the research on this (the actual studies, not news reports about it). I'm guessing you haven't.

You haven't read much. Did you read the retracted Lancet study? Did you look into why it was retracted? I read it, prior to the retraction and was shocked it got published, it was so clearly full of junk data. That's the case with most of the hysteria-induced, Trump-deranged, anti-hydroxychloroquine papers. I've read them, and I know you haven't. Did you read this? Since you aren't very scientifically literate, did you read Risch's article in Newsweek (linked in your quote)?

Comment Re:Fact checkers? Bear in mind... (Score 1) 106

I hate to chime in on a dying thread, but your dangerous misinformation shouldn't be left unchallenged.

Wow, the Senate Republicans just said it wasn't as Manafort had a working relationship with a suspected Russian spy.

You mean Paul Manafort and Tony Podesta (brother of the chairman of Hillary's campaign), right?

Mueller knew about Konstantin Kilimnik and said there was no evidence his relationship to Manafort was tied to "election interference".

What about Oleg Deripaska directly employing Christopher Steele? What about US-based Igor Dachenko acting as Steele's primary subsource and the FBI stating they didn't believe any of what Steele was peddling? What about Sen. Mark Warner (vice chair of the SSCI, de-facto head with Burr's recusal) trying to get off-the-record backchannel access to Deripaska?

A lot of people were dealing with the Russians. Trump and his campaign weren't. Mueller and the Senate have said so, clearly.

Speaking as someone who knows an EMT trainer

What you don't know could fill a few thousand encyclopedias. You "heard from a friend" how things happen, so now you are an expert. Sure. Put that expertise to work, get out on the street and save some lives. What are you waiting for?

That's great so if on the campaign trail Joe asks for a favor from Ukraine, or someone else, it's just a favor.

Trump wasn't on the campaign trail. He was well into his presidency. He was duty bound to request assistance with law enforcement.

Oh and that prosecutor was widely seen as avoiding their duty to charge oligarchs, so multiple countries were behind the removal.

You are an expert? I suppose you know someone who is a Ukrainian prosecutor, along with an EMT trainer? Multiple sources have gone on the record, under penalty of perjury, to say the dismissal was corrupt and intended to stop unwanted prosecutions. We can debate the veracity of that, but you aren't engaging in good faith, you are just reciting your pre-programmed talking points that you don't fully comprehend.

Which even the Rethuglicans, in very fine print, and they have avoided like the plague mentioning it, in the same report, admit it didn't matter in getting the FISA warrant.

Carter Page was a CIA informant AGAINST Russians. The FBI told the court that he was not a CIA informant. Had the court known he was an informant, they would have not issued a warrant against him. So, the FBI lied. The FISA was renewed under Mueller, which is when the actual lying occured, so it's on Mueller and his team.

I think you are confusing this with the phony Steele dossier. That was discredited and was instrumental in getting the warrant, the IG and Mueller both admitted as much in testimony. Multiple attempts were made to get a warrant, and were rejected, until the Steele dossier was added (with circular corroboration engineered by the FBI).

Bunk? No. Try again sweetie.

Michael Cohen was never in Prague. There is no Russian consulate in Miami. Steele's primary subsource (a Russian working in DC, with no access to the claimed information), said that Steele misconstrued everything his said, the FBI lied about this as well.

Oh please, that one has been debunked multiple times, even by the Rethuglican Senate in a small footnote.

That was the lie you were told. But, declassified notes from Whitehouse meetings show otherwise. Biden suggested the FARA tactic. Yates only learned about some of what was going on through Obama. Rice wrote a bullshit cover-your-ass email to herself minutes before leaving her office in January. It went all the way to the top. They were all in on it.

Uh-huh. Keep thinking that sweetie. I encourage *every* conservative to believe this and demand a combination of Azrithromycin, Zinc, and Hydroxychloroquine exactly like Trump says he did and to refuse those durty librul vaccines and other so-called librul treatments.

I trust my own ability to interpret data and I trust experts who aren't deranged.

Why did The Lancet publish, and later retract, obviously garbage data? Clearly, an agenda is being pushed and it isn't about the science.

Comment Theater quality home projection? (Score 1) 90

I have a couple projectors. It can get close to approximating the theater experience, but not quite. Does anyone know what I would need to really replicate it?

I have an older LED projector (not changing bulbs is quite important) that can throw a decent 80" image on a screen at the foot of my bed, which works pretty well in a darkened room.

I'd like something that can work sufficiently to fill the field of view in a room that seats 2-10 people. I'd be open to trying to achieve an IMAX-style wraparound effect.

I haven't looked into the resolution specifications for professional theater projectors, is there anything small scale that can match it? Can I reasonably and cost effectively set up the polarization-based 3D on a small scale? Any estimated price targets?

Advice, recommendations, and experiences would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Comment We have our standards for a reason. (Score 2, Informative) 106

Absence of proof is not proof of absence, particularly when the executive deliberately invokes executive privilege to hide from the subpoenas intended to uncover said evidence. This is like shooting someone in broad daylight, hiding the gun, and saying, "I didn't kill him, because you can't find the gun."

I have it on good authority that you fuck kids. Some Afghans said you were partying with them, cornholing 10 year old boys like a freight train.

Now, prove your innocence.

In the meantime, let me go through all your possessions, communications, and personal spaces to look for evidence of anything else I can accuse you of doing wrong. Oh, and I get to go through the communications of your associates too, because those same Afghans made [redacted] claims, so it's a national security matter. Don't worry about the fact that I disagree with you politically, that doesn't affect any of this.

Biden pushed to get the prosecutor removed for being incompetent and refusing to pursue corruption cases.

That's what Biden says. The prosecutor says something different in an affadavit. Will Biden make his claims under penalty of perjury too?

At a minimum, it is plausible that Biden wanted him removed - Hunter had a no-show job paying way above industry norms (he got way more than Exxon board members) while having zero relevant experience (other than daddy being VP). Ukraine has been a funnel for the siphoning of aid money at least since Obama let Putin annex Crimea and kick off a war in the eastern part of the country. Arguably, the graft goes back before that, but it definitely didn't diminish since then. The deep state has been getting a taste of that money and were looking to protect their goose and golden eggs.

provably ineffective

See my other post(s) about the topic. Or, just look here or here. There's lots more data available. Now, ask yourself, why weren't you already aware of this? Why has the fake news hidden it from you?

Why did they publish a wildly fraudulent study in The Lancet to try to discredit it? I read that paper and saw it was garbage immediately, why did the reviewers let it through? Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Comment Re:Fact checkers? Bear in mind... (Score 2, Informative) 106

-The report found Trump's campaign welcomed and received help, then obstructed justice. Hardly a hoax.

Had they found that, they would have charged someone for it. Not one charge for electoral fraud, campaign finance violations, treason, or other related crimes was charged against anybody. The DOJ position about not charging a sitting president does not apply to anyone under the president (except, perhaps the VP?).

The "potential obstruction" stuff is such a joke that only a comedian can address it. Again, if it were real obstruction, they certainly could have charged out any underlings that were complicit, but they didn't do that, because there was none. If there indeed was a case to be made, why did they need to fabricate evidence to obtain a FISA warrant? Why did they need to employ Halper and Downer to generate an appearance of impropriety? Even the honest lefties like Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges, Aaron Maté, Jimmy Dore, and others will admit it was all a hoax. It wouldn't be the first time in this generation that the media has teamed up with the intelligence community to defrauf the public (Iraq WMDs).

-George Floyd had fentanyl and meth in his system, making an overdose from respiratory depression exceedingly unlikely. In law, there's something called the Eggshell Skull Rule; that a healthier person would not have died from what you did is not an accepted defense to murder.

George Floyd had an extra-lethal amount of fentanyl, particularly when combined with co-intoxicants. Meth is not an antidote for fentanyl, no matter what you try to tell yourself to justify mass looting and mob beatings/murders.

He was claiming he couldn't breath before they got him on the ground (all suspects claim that now, to try to weasel out of arrests). He was diagnosed by the police with excited delirium. He needed to be restrained, for his own safety. He was alive when the paramedics took him away. He died of heart failure, due to pre-existing conditions with contributions from the drugs. He admitted, on video, to "hooping" (hiding drugs up his ass when the police came). Neck trauma does not cause heart failure.

Watch the full video.

-Not familiar enough to say. Sure is a shame police have entirely destroyed their credibility to such an extent the first presumption is a bad shoot.

Get familiar.

-There absolutely was a quid pro quo, as established by the transcript and many witnesses.

Every witness was directly asked if they could testify that Trump comitted a crime. Every single one said no. Vindman, Sondland, Yovanovich, Kent, not one could name any action that seemed impeachable while under oath. And, of course, Ciaramella's testimony was kept hidden, because it blew up the whole charade.

-Doesn't effect the outcome even if the "falsified" information is excluded.

Evidence collected with a warrant that was based on falsified information is legally inadmissable. But, that aside, if they had such a strong case, why would they need to falisfy evidence? Why was the FISA rejected multiple times, until they added the Steele dossier? It was even rejected once with the dossier, if I remember correctly, which is why they set up the circular corroboration scheme with Yahoo News.

-All but the most salacious claims have been verified, and those stand at lack of evidence rather than disproven.

You read too much fake news. Cohen was never in Prague. The FBI decided the primary subsource was in no position to have any information, and that Steele lied about what he claimed anyway. It was all bunk.

-And of the many, many actual Russian contacts, like the Republican-led Senate just found Manafort had?

Manafort had many contacts in Russia and Ukraine, due to his work for both Democrats and Republicans, in large part while working with Tony Podesta. So what? Carter Page had Russian contacts because he was an informant for the CIA, which the FBI later covered up to get their warrant. George Papadopoulos had no Russian contacts, but Stefan Halper, George Mifsud, and Alexander Downer worked very hard to make it look like he did.

-Targeting individuals for suspected crimes is not targeting "the campaign". You don't gain immunity from all laws during your time working on a political campaign.

Targeting individuals because of their connection to a campaign, despite no evidence of any crime, is serious malfeasance. Carter Page was a CIA informant and they tried to paint him as a Russian asset so they could use a 2-hop FISA warrant against the entire campaign. And, despite the FISA spying, despite Mueller's subpoena power including access to Trump's taxes, despite years of the entire media being on the case, and despite being in the public eye for decades... nobody can prove any crime. That makes Trump the most investigated, and cleanest, man in the history of the world.

-The weight of the medical evidence suggests this is a false statement.

The dean of public health at Yale would say otherwise. I am in science myself, but a different field, and the data is quite clear. I had been getting reports direct from Italian doctors early on about this, before Trump suggested it could be effective and the derangement made you all deadset against it.

Fox News

Who cares what they say? They are mostly anti-Trump, just markedly less so than CNN and MSNBC. The GOP establishment hates Trump for being an outsider, just like the media overlords that have programmed all the NPCs.

Comment Fact checkers? Bear in mind... (Score 2, Interesting) 106

Self-proclaimed "fact checkers", such as The Washington Post, the failing New York Times, Snopes, Politifact, and numerous others have gotten most things wrong over the past 3-4 years.
  • - Russian collusion was a hoax.
  • - Brett Kavanaugh was not a serial gang rapist.
  • - George Floyd died of an overdose.
  • - Rayshard Brooks was passed out, drunk behind the wheel, then attacked the police and stole a weapon before he got hismelf shot.
  • - The Covington Catholic kids were the ones being intimidated.
  • - There was no mythical "quid pro quo" between Trump and Ukraine, just normal diplomacy. While Biden bragged about using US tax dollars to strongarm the removal of a prosecutor threatening his son's do-nothing job.
  • - FBI lawyer Clinesmith, detailed to the Mueller investigation, admitted to falsifying evidence to get a warrant.
  • - The FBI knew the Steele dossier was bunk from top to bottom, but used it and planted media reports for corrobration, to get a warrant to spy on a political campaign.
  • - Stefan Halper, known CIA asset and political operator with a history of stealing campaign documents, worked with compatriots to create false rumors of Russian contacts.
  • - Obama and Biden knew and encouraged the FBI activities against the Trump campaign and transition team.
  • - Hydroxychloroquine is generally safe and provably effective in significantly reducing Chinese coronavirus deaths.

Need I go on?

Comment It has already been tested, multiple times. (Score 2) 380

The results have not been thrilling. Not total chaos either, but a massive rollout would bring in inflationary effects that are almost entirely absent from these small scale tests. As far as I know, the two primary knocks against the idea are inflation and encouraging laizness.

Welfare is a close proxy for a lot of how UBI is likely to play out. So, interpret that as you will.

Comment Re:Waiting for the other show to drop (Score 2) 242

The racists cop theories a. do not lead to illegal actions, b. have a ton of evidence. and c. are at least internally consistent.

a) See here. Roving, violent mobs destroying property, assaulting, and killing people are illegal actions.

b) Not in the cases of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, or Michael Brown. There are many others as well. But, those are some of the bigger lies that acted as catalysts for your violent mobs.

c) I don't follow Q stuff. Not sure what you consider inconsistent or not. Given the above two points though, you seem like an idiot, so I wouldn't trust your opinion on what is or isn't "internally consistent". You likely suffer from severe cognitive dissonance yourself. What about anyone that reported on Russian collusion as anything other than a deep state hoax and attempted coup? Should they no longer get a voice?

Comment Hydroxychloroquine works, but Facebook disagrees? (Score 1, Troll) 102

I am in neuroscience/biophysics at MIT, so I am not the top expert on the subject. But, I am scientifically literate, I can interpret data, I understand methodologies, I work with viruses, and I know people involved.

Harvey Risch, MD PhD, Dean of Public Health at Yale has been making the case that politicizing medicine is killing people.
Other upstanding people have had the guts to stand up to the mob as well.

Just look at the data from Switzerland.

Fuck you "Orange man bad" idiots and your reactionary bullshit. The fact that, as of yesterday, you hate Susan B. Anthony should be enough to show you are unthinking morons.

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