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Skylab
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1yr ago
Technically, in most Western countries, it is nigh impossible for a woman to legally rape a man.
In the USA, a woman can drug you, tie you up, and force you to have sex with her, but the FBI only considers it rape if she penetrates your anus.
Similar in UK and India.
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1yr ago
Thanks. And it looks nothing like a controlled demolition or like WTC7.
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1yr ago
Does GDP get adjusted for inflation?
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1yr ago
I believe a certain inevitability was granted to the Grand Inquisitor's program, and in 2022, it's hard for me to disagree with that. While I believe personally Dostoyevsky opposed it, he acknowledged its unstoppable inevitability- the cold iron logic of history.
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1yr ago
I think MSNBC viewers might have a strong class action lawsuit for brain damage caused by weapons grade military propaganda.
There was a breakthrough in Balakliya, although Russian contigents continue fighting within the city.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n7AlWYKc4Qs
To my understanding this represents an escalation of the war, wherein NATO forces commanded by Nato leadership are directly involved in a major offensive for the first time.
Will be interesting to see how Russia responds.
I do think we are in danger of overestimating the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Yes they have had initial success, but so did the Germans at the Bastogne. I think by the end of the week it will be more clear.
EDIT:
It appears Russian forces withdrew from Kupyansk late last night.
As a staunch far right conservative, I unironically support the trans-officer in this situation as I did the Rosenbergs, who were time travelers, sent back to spare us from the darkest timeline, even though I do not believe that men can magically become women. (But when in clown world...) I do believe that humans are a sexually dimorphic mammalian species and that time travel is rare.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4320656
Edit: Futurists will hate me for this but my position is that time travel should be safe, legal, and rare.
I'm getting downvoted by blackpilled neofuturists and entrenched believers in the technological singularity because they shun their outgroup.
So much for rationalism.
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1yr ago
You're getting downvoted but I absolutely agree with this. Bravo!
Apparently a Pfizer executive acknowledged to some European council of wise elders that, due to moving "at the speed of science," they never tested for transmission reduction in the vaccine.
Did I miss something in the last 2 years? Why did they declare the "vaccines" to be 100% effective if they were never tested for transmission reduction? (and yes I am putting the term into quotation marks because they don't appear to be what is commonly thought of as vaccines, instead working as a kind of therapeutic with alleged short term effectiveness that must be dosed in advance.)
What does "vaccine efficacy" mean?
Why did some countries roll out a vaccine passport?
Why were people fired from their jobs and as recently as last week members of the US military were "other-than-honorably" discharged because they didn't inject the "vaccine"?
It seems people were fired for their own health, since the jabs didnt prevent transmission.
What is actually going on? I understand the argument of vaccine mandates if they prevent transmission, (even though I dislike it, and disagree, I understand the argument.) But if they didn't substantially stop the spread then why are we firing people from their jobs? For their own health?
There was also the weird never-before-tried bookkeeping where nobody was considered vaccinated until two weeks AFTER the second dose. If I dosed millions of people with two shots of saline water and only counted them as vaccinated two weeks after the second saline shot, the statistics would appear such that the "saline vaccinated" were less likely to get Covid.
On Twitter, I see many many people now claiming that noone ever said the vaccines would stop the spread, they merely reduce the severity. But that feels like a bad plot forced retcon for a soap opera. Why did we shut down schools? Why did the leaders of France, UK, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the USA all say horrible things about the "unvaccinated" and the "Antivaxxers"?
Again, I don't like it, but I could almost understand it in the context of a 100% efficacious vaccine that stopped infection and transmission. But if it never substantially stopped transmission then
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None of the mandates make any sense, (except perhaps in terms of financial profit.)
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Geert Vanden Bossche claims that you should never ever vaccinate during a pandemic, especially with a leaky vaccine because very bad things happen. I don't pretend to know the science but he also claims that this was generally accepted knowledge up until 2020.
(Geert's website: https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/)
Just for transparency, I am a staunch antivaxxer. My wife pressured me to get the jab in summer of 2020. I asked for more time. The argument of social responsibility did carry weight with me at the time. But in July of 2020 the Israeli data showed that the jabs did not prevent infection.
It feels like the push for the vaccines was a huge motte and bailey. They never really prevented transmission, that was the bailey. And the motte is that they make the infection less severe, which in theory is a falsifiable hypothesis, but I'm not convinced.
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1yr ago
And a Reddit Admin got involved and deleted the comment?
Because that sounds kinda outgroupy to me.
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1yr ago
I'm getting downvoted but I absolutely agree with my comment. Bravo!
This would explain the total catastrophe of Western medicine as seen by almost everyone with eyes in the last two years.
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1yr ago
Speaking as a reverse doomer, (I believe that Covid deaths were exaggerated from the beggining with extremely high threshold PCR tests that give many false positives along with counting people who got hit by a bus but tested positive for Covid 59 days previous as a "Covid death." {With versus from.} Not to mention the flu completely disappearing from 2020, that was weird.)
So, having established my bona fides, speaking as a reverse doomer, I see Biden's statemement as the rankest hypocrisy. The emergency use authorization is still in place. Many places still have mandates for the neovaccines. Biden hasn't broached the subject of excess deaths in highly neovaccinated countries or the concomitant rise in cancers. The new mouse "vaccine" is a case in point. If the pandemic is over, then why are we approving medicine that was only tested on a dozen mice to be used on humans?
So I feel anger. This is a limited hangout.
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1yr ago
Better to destroy an entire generation than to allow a conservative approach to erudition.
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1yr ago
I just want my account back which was permanently banned for criticizing mRNA jabs and declaring war on the CIA.
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1yr ago
Reminds me of people who get offended on behalf of a hypothetical person who might theoretically be offended.
"Everyone agrees the Holocaust was bad."
Mod: "Please refrain from consensus building."
This forum is way over moderated. I'm going back to Reddit.
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1yr ago
Muh wage gap denialism.
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1yr ago
I will die on this hill!
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1yr ago
All of your points are great and you're probably right.
But if you wanted to cheat, you would merely need a mechanism to delay likely opponent's votes, i.e. areas where their constituents live.
Basically, anonymous voting already has a trade off of less security in exchange for anonymity. But it allows backdoor attacks since a voter cannot check to who their vote was finally counted for. Combined with the security tradeoffs of mass mail in ballots, a sophisticated agency could cheat the vote, and while suspicions might be raised if it didnt go smoothly, the anonymous voting means there is no means to check the final count by the backdoor.
I cannot say for certain if there was cheating only that the current system is vulnerable to it.
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1yr ago
Von Der Leyen went beyond warning, she threatened the people of Italy if they voted for Meloni. The only thing worse than nationalism is globalism. I love Meloni and I understand why the evil politicians in Germany and France hate her, but I don't understand why ordinary people do, unless they just go with the media flow.
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1yr ago
"I believe the lasts time I looked into it I saw that the average IQ of a public-school teacher in the United States is about 102. These are not cognitively impressive people"
Being above average IQ would be impressive, especially for such a low playing job. What am I missing?
edit. I am nitpicking and was impressed by your steelman of activist teachers.
Is there anyone arguing that the last two years was NOT a "shit show"?
I thought pretty much everyone agreed that it was indeed a shitshow, but that the specifics were still being debated. (Happy to be shown I am wrong. Please point me to the person who thinks the pandemic went off in an exceedingly well-ordered manner.)
Otherwise, are you not moderating for an imaginary hypothetical person?
Secondarily, it's a fairly common phrase. You don't really think I was trying to build a consensus, do you? (I wasn't.)
For my own clarification, is it "consensus-building" idioms and expressions that are outlawed, or actual consensus building?
Thanks for the links. I'll look into them when I have time.
Edit: They are both short pieces but great reads.
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