JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
11mo ago
Vertical tabs are nice, btw, recommend to try it out. Takes a bit of time to adjust but surprisingly more convenient for a tab hoarder as myself.
Brave + Kagi
There's no point in going on the internet now without an ad block - that's like going naked for a run over a landfill full of medical waste. Thus Brave + Privacy Badger.
Google as the search engine has been going down in quality lately. I've used duckduckgo and brave search, but Kagi seems to be cleaner and results for me are better, and I like the search engine when I'm the customer, not the raw material to be processed and sold.
JarJarJedi
11mo ago
is that Israel passed back-channel threats to retaliate with tactical nuclear strikes
That sounds like conspiratorial BS. Israel does not need nukes to kick Iran in the nuts (they have demonstrated excellent far strike capabilities before) and nuke usage would annihilate pretty much any relationships they had with EU and dems in the US. That would be a massive stupid and useless move, a well aimed rocket strike against an oil refinery or a port would hurt much more and cause much less civilian casualties. Also, Iran has massive number of proxies capable of striking Israel (such as Hezbollah, for example) - so you assume they told Iran they'd nuke Lebanon too? And Gaza (now that's an idea...jk) This doesn't sound even remotely plausible. I don't believe any such thing ever happened.
JarJarJedi
11mo ago
Unlikely. Modern nuclear force, outside of terrorism uses, requires pretty wide support and maintenance, you can't just ship it in a car. In Cuba, there was substantial Soviet military presence, and planned to be more. Deploying those in Iran makes little sense for Russians. And, they will be exposed to being destroyed by Israel, since Israel have declared nuclear Iran to be unacceptable, and probably would declare any Russian nuclear site within Iran a legitimate war target. Why would they need all this trouble for no visible gain?
JarJarJedi
11mo ago
Because the dominant narrative from the MSM is anti-Russian, and the easiest way to be hip is to just say the exact opposite of what the MSM says without looking too much into the details.
JarJarJedi
11mo ago
George Zimmerman was reported exclusively as "White Hispanic" because otherwise the main narrative of the story did not hold well. The term existed before but I don't think I saw a lot of usage of it in MSM prior to that.
I am reading a lot of reporting now about "fentanyl vaccine". I am not sure what's going on there, can anybody explain it to me? Specific questions:
I understand that vaccines work by training the immune system to recognize certain proteins associated with pathogens and have other immune cells to bind to them and destroy them (not quite sure how but maybe not important). But fentanyl is a relatively basic compound, wouldn't training immune system to grab on something this simple also have a danger for it to react on many other simple compounds and disrupt the normal function of the body chemistry? What happens to fentanyl once the immune system recognizes it - is it broken into basic hydrocarbons? Somehow captured and expelled? How does that work exactly?
I assume it is supposed to somehow fight fentanyl addiction. However, assuming it's effective all it would do is make the addict not to be able to get high from fentanyl. They however still will stay addicted, both physiologically and physiologically, not? Wouldn't they immediately seek to get high on some other drug, of which there are dozens? Wouldn't they still suffer withdrawal since their body still craves fentanyl but now is not getting any effect from it - wouldn't that make them take higher and higher dose? Also, would any drug addict voluntarily undergo treatment that would leave them as addicted as before but without any ability to get a fix? How is it supposed to work to solve the problem?
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