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INSPIRATIONAL: A great vision for now and in the future
Thursday, June 3, 2021
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VOCABULARY: Dismisinfoganda
Wednesday, June 2, 2021https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dismisinfoganda
“Dismisinfoganda”
BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2021 – 01:40 PM
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Misinformation, i.e., wrong claims innocently made
disinformation, i.e., wrong claims willfully made
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dismisinfoganda is the politicized spreading or squelching of claims without, or counter to, adequate empirical evidence.
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Therein lies the true cost of runaway dismisinfoganda. Many Americans once believed government officials unless/until they had good reason to doubt them but increasingly they disbelieve officials unless/until they have reason to believe them. Maybe that is a good thing as it will eventually induce Americans to ask why they continue to pay the salaries of people they cannot implicitly trust to do their respective jobs.
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Remember EPA Christie Whitman: “Ground Zero Air Is Safe”?
NOTHING any politician and | or bureaucrat says can be taken for fact at face value. Ditto for “news media” or “celebrities”!
Argh!
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HEALTH: Are COVID Vaccines a Good Bet? (NO!)
Tuesday, June 1, 2021https://ncc-1776.org/tle2021/tle1115-20210530-04.html
Are COVID Vaccines a Good Bet?, by L. Reichard White
Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise
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Everything’s a gamble, even crossing the street. That’s clearly the case with the COVID-19 vaccines, bum-rushed into production in less than one-sixth the normal time.
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Given the facts, should these experimental vaccines be bums-rushed off the market?
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Make up your own mind.
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TINFOILHAT: Life Insurance and Covid-19; no added financial risk?
Tuesday, June 1, 2021Life Insurance and Covid-19; Something Doesn’t Make Sense
The Ron Paul Institute or Peace and Prosperity ^ | may 26, 2021 | jeff harris
Posted on 5/28/2021, 3:10:21 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
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You would think that during the worst Pandemic since the 1918 Spanish Flu life insurance companies would be hedging their bets to avoid major losses from Covid-19. I haven’t written a life policy for several years so I was wondering what was going on? I called one of the brokers I deal with that interacts with hundreds of big life insurers to get an inside look into how the Covid crisis has changed their business.
Imagine my surprise when she said it was pretty much business as usual! Last year when the hysteria was just getting ramped up she did say the companies temporarily tightened up underwriting and reduced the amount of coverage they would offer. But as time went by and the hard data came rolling in those same companies went back to business as usual.
I asked her specifically if life insurers wanted a Covid test as part of the underwriting process and she said none that she was aware of. Hmm, that’s pretty interesting isn’t it? The most lethal pandemic in decades descends on the globe with deadly mutations taking millions of innocent lives and the life insurance companies couldn’t care less.
I also asked if the cost per thousand of coverage had increased due to Covid and again she said no. Rates were pretty much the same as they were before the Covid Pandemic ravaged the earth. Life Insurance companies are very risk adverse. They don’t like losing money to unnecessary claims. The fact they’re treating Covid as a nonevent should be an indicator that something is very wrong with the whole narrative.
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Is this like Sherlock Holmes’ the dog that didn’t bark?
I can’t imagine that the Life Insurance Industry would fail to adjust for this risk. If it was a risk at all?
Something is rotten in Denmark.
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HEALTH: Decide about the WuFlu vax?
Monday, May 31, 2021FROM AN EMAIL TO A FRIEND:
I sympathize with everyone because “knowing” what the right thing to do is currently impossible. There is so much “noise” from “experts” that seems to change with the time of day.
As far as healthy children taking the new “vaccines”, that seems “unnecessary” given that the data suggests they don’t get the WuFlu and if they do it’s very mild. But, each parent must decide what risks they will and won’t take.
I’ll never criticize anyone who makes one choice or another. You pays your money and takes your chances.
For me personally, I’m not very keen on the whole decision process. Seems unsubstantiated and rushed. Even my doctors have said privately “wait and see”. One suggested that with my various blood chemistries (i.e., high levels of D, B1, C; lack of any severe medical problems) that I may be naturally immune. (Surprised me?).
I’m not an anti-vaxer by any means — just finished the shingles vax and planning to get the pneumonia vax in mid-Jun — but i never get the flu vax because it’s low benefit for the risk — but I think one must be extremely careful about what we do is for the right reasons. There’s no undo button.
Every time I hear a “public service announcement” by anybody, I think of ex-EPA Christie Whitman: “Ground Zero Air Is Safe” and all the mesothelioma lawyers on TV.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/10/epa-head-wrong-911-air-safe-new-york-christine-todd-whitmanSo to, I try to be charitable to those who have drank the Kool Aid, taken the blue pill or are making imho a “big mistake”. I’m not a doctor, lawyer, or Indian Chief and I could be very wrong. If I suffer harm following my opinions, then I know who to blame. If I follow the herd, ignore my own opinions, and harm befalls me, then who do I blame.
I can state my opinions and reasons relatively firmly but everyone has to chart their own course.
As far as interference with God’s design, that’s so far above my pay grade that I can’t see it. I do think that we are like children playing with guns — we know so little, we don’t know what we don’t know, and have no concept of the consequences — it’s a bad gamble.
In twenty years, maybe the TV commercials will be “if you took the J&J vaccine and had all your hair ingrown, you or your estate can be eligible for a large cash settlement.”
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VETERANS: Remember and recover ALL the Vets
Monday, May 31, 2021https://nypost.com/2021/05/15/honored-at-last-the-heroes-of-flying-tiger-line-flight-739/
Honored at last: Remembering the heroes of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739
By Jane Ridley
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The Sargent family, including Judith (from left) and Clifton and daughter Jennifer Kirk, lost Clifton’s brother, Donald, when Don’s military flight disappeared.Six decades after their loved ones vanished into thin air, relatives of the victims of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 — 93 soldiers aboard a secret-mission flight chartered by the US Army in the buildup to the Vietnam War — want answers.
They gathered together Saturday for a ceremony in Columbia Falls, Maine, organized by the non-profit Wreaths Across America at a memorial to honor the fallen.
“The memorial ceremony offers some closure,” Marie Mull, 82, told The Post of her brother, Sgt. Clarence Ganance of Rensselaer, NY. “We’ve always wondered what happened . . . probably always will.”
Nobody knows exactly what happened on the morning of March 16, 1962, because no bodies nor debris — not even a single piece — have ever been recovered.
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Some sources claim the elite team of Rangers aboard Flight 793, mostly communications specialists, had been hand-picked by President John F. Kennedy as part of a covert operation involving the CIA. It has since emerged that in early 1962 — three years before American ground troops “officially” entered the Vietnam conflict — the US had advisors training indigenous tribes in Laos and Cambodia. As the agency was trying to determine if America should join the ongoing war in Southeast Asia, the situation was politically sensitive.
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Repeat demands from legislators, including Maine Senator Susan Collins, led to Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests and the release of heavily redacted military documents — but that has only caused dissatisfaction among bereaved family members frustrated by the absence of clarity.
“It’s called the runaround,” concluded Crumpler. “Nobody [in the political system] has an answer so they just keep sending us elsewhere.”
Neither the government nor military has taken an official stance on the mission or what might have happened to the flight. A report by the Civil Aeronautic Board released after the crash merely stated that “the board is unable to determine the probable cause.”
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Right now, she said, “It’s as if James and the other men never existed.”
The appeals have so far been thwarted by the Department of Defense which claims those aboard Flight 739 were not participating in an “official” combat mission.
She, along with the other grieving families, believes the unveiling of the Maine memorial is a step in the right direction.
“The Rangers’ creed says ‘Leave no comrade behind,’ but these men were left behind,” pointed out Monica Young, whose father, John C Wendell, Sergeant First Class, disappeared the day before her 15th birthday. “Thanks to this [Saturday’s] remembrance, they’ve no longer been left behind.”
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Sorry, but the Gooferment’s “official mission” is just bureaucratic “new speak” for “we don’t give a s#$%”!
I think as part of every vet’s “celebration” — Independence Day, Decoration Day, and Veterans’ Day — we should take the opportunity to demand that “our representative” account for the Gooferment’s past actions that cost good men and women their lives, happiness, and posterity.
Argh!
I will; will you?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS:
Sunday, May 30, 2021HOME
ACCOUNTABILITY
WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE
By Mary Lou Lang
Updated: May 29, 2021 – 11:13pm
Pelosi district gets $2.1M to remove wood-fired devices as Congress offers tax credits for wood heat
- Emissions reduction program spends taxpayer dollars to replace wood-burning stoves, fireplaces with electric heat pumps in district represented by House Speaker, who shepherded through Congress relief package that incentivizes wood heat.
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“It’s duplication nation,” said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO & Founder of the public spending watchdog group, OpenTheBooks.com. “Thoughtful and careful legislating is a thing of past. Simultaneously giving tax credits to install wood-burning devices and grants to replace them (to save the environment) is a great example of congressional insanity.
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Here’s yet another example of incentivizing to install and at the same time to replace.
And the insanity continues.
What if “we” did neither and gave the money back to the taxpayers?
How many more programs like this are there?
Argh!
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QUOTE: Another RAH gem
Sunday, May 30, 2021“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”
Robert A. Heinlein
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HEALTH: Reopening Texas ‘100 Percent’ Had “No Impact”
Saturday, May 29, 2021A New Study Confirms That Reopening Texas ‘100 Percent’ Had No Discernible Impact on COVID-19 Cases or Deaths
Reason (analysis)
“Anthony Fauci, Biden’s top COVID-19 adviser, said lifting mask mandates ‘is really quite risky,’ because ‘when you pull back on measures of public health, invariably you’ve seen a surge’ in cases and deaths. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said she had a ‘recurring feeling’ of ‘impending doom,’ warning that premature relaxation of ‘public health prevention strategies’ could lead to a ‘fourth surge.’ More than two months later, the public health disaster predicted by Abbott’s critics has not materialized.”
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“Well, I’m not a <insert profession that requires a lot of study>, I have never played one on TV, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but here are some simple thoughts.” (My standard disclaimer!)
But putting on my “infectious disease” costume, white coat and all, and I think it is factual to say that we don’t know squat about the WuFlu.
And certainly should be taking “medical advice” from new readers, celebrities, Gooferment bureaucrats, or politicians.
Safest is to decide for yourself, with input from YOUR doctor, what risks you want to take.
I have; I urge you to do likewise.
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Oregon Is Proof That Leftist Politics Ultimately Lead To Tyranny And Decay
Friday, May 28, 2021If the experimental mRNA vaccines actually work, then why do we need vaccine passports at all?
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Peter Schiff: Inflation Crashes The Party
Friday, May 28, 2021*** begin quote ***
Recent calculations by Bank of America estimate that workers who earned $32,000 annually before the pandemic could receive more money on unemployment than they would from actual work.
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Ah, yes, Gooferment stupidity!
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SECURITY: Is all secure in the Apple ecosystem
Friday, May 28, 2021Someone hit my Apple Card for 150 $ in music so I had to change its number.
No one has access to my phone. And I mean no one!
So the implication is that they have an info sec problem.
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LIBERTY: Half of academic publishing is controlled by only five publishers?!?
Thursday, May 27, 2021https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/activists-mobilize-fight-censorship-and-save-open-science
Activists Mobilize to Fight Censorship and Save Open Science
BY RORY MIR
MAY 24, 2021
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Major publishers want to censor research-sharing resource Sci-Hub from the internet, but archivists are quickly responding to make that impossible.
More than half of academic publishing is controlled by only five publishers. This position is built on the premise that users should pay for access to scientific research, to compensate publishers for their investment in editing, curating, and publishing it. In reality, research is typically submitted and evaluated by scholars without compensation from the publisher. What this model is actually doing is profiting off of a restriction on article access using burdensome paywalls. One project in particular, Sci-Hub, has threatened to break down this barrier by sharing articles without restriction. As a result, publishers are going to every corner of the map to destroy the project and wipe it from the internet. Continuing the long tradition of internet hacktivism, however, redditors are mobilizing to create an uncensorable back-up of Sci-Hub.
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For example, there are federal bills like the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), or state bills such as California’s A.B. 2192, which can require government-funded research to be made freely available. The principle behind these bills is simple: if the public-funded the research, the public shouldn’t have to pay again to access it.
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Sounds like EFF has heard the “kittens” all in a row.
I’m going to make “my” politicians “aware” and get them to make the same rule as FAST and CA, if the taxpayers paid for it, then it should be OPEN!!!
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HEALTH: Scientists predict the maximum human lifespan
Wednesday, May 26, 2021Scientists predict the maximum human lifespan – and suggest 150 is the oldest age we’ll EVER reach
- Researchers used extensive medical and fitness data from UK and US volunteers
- This included blood test results, daily steps taken and information on their DNA
- This was fed into an artificial intelligence system to calculate maximum lifespan
- The authors found that resilience and biological age play key roles in lifespan
- Finding that the maximum a human can live naturally is from 120 to 150 years
By RYAN MORRISON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:00 EDT, 25 May 2021 | UPDATED: 11:36 EDT, 25 May 2021
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Oh boy, a scientific prediction that there is a chance I can steal back all my social security money!
“We’re all walking backwards into the future!”
‘The abdomen, the chest and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.’ – Sir John Eric Ericson, Surgeon to Queen Victoria, 1873
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TINFOILHAT: Are the WuFlu “vaccines” time bombs?
Tuesday, May 25, 2021Covid Vaccines May Bring Avalanche of Neurological Disease
LewRockwell
by Joseph Mercola
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How Can You Protect Yourself From the Vaccine or Exposure to Those That Were Vaccinated?
Indeed, that is the question of the day. We talked about shedding from the vaccine. Obviously, the vaccine does not classically shed virus particles but it can easily cause people to shed spike proteins, and it is these spike proteins that may cause just as much damage as the virus.
While Seneff’s paper didn’t delve deeply into solutions, it provides a major clue, which is that your body has the capacity to address many of these problems through a process called autophagy. This is the process of removal of damaged proteins in your body.
One effective strategy that will upregulate autophagy is periodic fasting or time-restricted eating. Most people eat more than 12 hours a day. Gradually lowering that to a six- to eight-hour window will radically improve your metabolic flexibility and decrease insulin resistance.
Another beneficial practice is sauna therapy, which upregulates heat shock proteins. I have discussed this extensively in previous articles. Heat shock proteins work by refolding proteins that are misfolded. They also tag damaged proteins and target them for removal.
Another vital strategy is to eliminate all processed vegetable oils (seed oils), which means eliminating virtually all processed foods as they are loaded with them. Seed oils will radically impair mitochondrial energy production, increase oxidative stress and damage your immune system.
Seed oils also are likely to contain glyphosate, as it is heavily used on the crops that produce them. Obviously, it is important to avoid glyphosate contamination in all your food, which you can minimize by buying only certified organic foods.
Finally, you want to optimize your innate immune system and one of the best ways to do that is to get enough sun exposure, wearing in your bathing suit, to have your vitamin level reach 60 to 80 ng/ml (100 to 150 nmol/l).
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I don’t understand it all but I understand enough of it to believe that we are messing around in God’s territory,
Hopefully “we” have not created our own “extinction event”.
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MEME: If it disagrees with your experiments, … …
Monday, May 24, 2021
So simply put.
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INTERESTING: TIL sign language as an official language?
Monday, May 24, 2021r/todayilearned
•Posted byu/GQveracity
2 hours ago
TIL There are 41 countries that recognize sign language as an official language
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FUN: From the “why can’t they keep drugs out of prison” file!
Sunday, May 23, 2021https://www.boredpanda.com/people-share-dumbest-school-rules/
#28
My highschool had “coordinates”, not a uniform. But they stopped selling the shorts like a decade before I started there… So me and a bunch of buddies tracked down used pairs and started wearing them.
Next year, shorts were banned outright… So me and a bunch of buddies on the rugby team started wearing skirts, because the rules said skirts were acceptable, but didn’t specify gender. So you had a bunch of guys with hairy, hairy legs walking around in skirts we deliberately hiked up a little to show some thigh.
Shorts were allowed again in a week.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Why do politicians get credit for things they didn’t do?
Sunday, May 23, 2021Things I wonder about, things I do, and some random links I’ve collected lately (with an emphasis on weirdness)
Published May 17, 2021 10:54 am by Claire
AKA “A Monday Ramble.”
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Why do politicians and social movements get credit for things they didn’t do?
“FDR ended the Depression.” (Yeah, only eight+ years into his administration, and then with a war and new forms of privation.)
“Street protests ended the Vietnam war.” (Lessee: Begun in 1964, 1968 was their biggest year, U.S. didn’t get out of Vietnam until 1975. Nope.)
“Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.” (Only if you believe we really had to be the only nation on earth to conduct a bloody war to do what the entire civilized world was already coming around to; only if you believe the Emancipation Proclamation was anything other than a PR gesture meant to undermine the South’s war effort; only if you pretend not to notice that Lincoln continued to preside over four slave states himself and excluded them from the so-called emancipation.)
And once established, these gigantic urban myths never seem to get debunked.
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Because he who writes the history books gets to control the “narrative”.
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Don’t depend on ANY Google product ever
Saturday, May 22, 2021https://www.makeuseof.com/google-products-discontinued/?utm_source=MUO-NL-RP&utm_medium=newsletter
Google Fails: 10 Google Products Discontinued in 2021
BY JOY OKUMOKO
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If you have used some of the above Google products in the past, you will agree that some will be missed. We hope that Google will shape the lessons learned from these failures into better products in the future.
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Unless YOU can see the “value equation” (i.e., how does a service pay for itself), do NOT commit yourself to using it.
Perhaps, it’s unique or serves you well, then just make sure you can get your data “out”!
Note how many of the ten “products” just “silently” disappeared!
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ECONOMICS: ‘The Great Reject’?
Saturday, May 22, 2021Atlas Is Shrugging: Forget ‘The Great Reset’, Here Comes ‘The Great Reject’
Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden
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It won’t work, and it brings to mind a particularly vivid example I once heard about a balloon disaster that still makes me cringe when I think of it:
A group of people were embarking on a balloon ride and as they were just a foot or two off the ground, the burner erupted into flames. The balloon pilot realized immediately what this meant and he leapt from the gondola which was still only a few feet off the ground.
One or two of the passengers were quick witted enough to realize what this meant and followed him. This set off a feedback loop: as the fire expanded, its hot air forcing the balloon higher, combined with the weight reductions as the first few people bailed out, the situation very quickly escalated past a point of no return.
The balloon had accelerated very rapidly to heights from which it was no longer possible to leap safely. The unfortunates who had hesitated and were trapped in a gondola being propelled higher by a fireball, to their inevitable doom.
That’s what our entire situation feels like today. The balloon is still hanging a foot or so above the ground, the canopy is on fire, and the people who have figured out what this means are bailing out while they can and in doing so they are accelerating the ultimate burn-then-crash of the entire system.
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Economics is called the “dismal science” for a very good reason.
It’s based on the idea that ALL resources are scarce and there are “laws” that describe how resources are used
It’s “dismal” because rarely are there enough resources to satisfy everyone’s “wants”. (Notice I didn’t say “needs” because that’s a much lower standard. (Think what passes for a “good life” in a Third World country and you’ll have my idea of “needs” versus “wants”.)
In today’s economic climate, the “wants” have outstripped our Gooferment’s ability to supply the resources need to satisfy them. (Note the tax & borrow to spend on “wants”.)
So like the balloon example above, get off before the disaster.
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VOCABULARY: Meatspace is the opposite of Cyberspace
Friday, May 21, 2021Meatspace and Cyberspace
The word “meatspace” refers to the real-life physical world that we inhabit. The term was invented as a contrast to the emergence of “cyberspace,” which is the interconnected virtual world of computers that we interact in. Within a modern context, cyberspace would be everything online, while meatspace would be everything offline.
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TECHNOLOGY: Podcast will disappear behind paywalls
Friday, May 21, 2021https://theconversation.com/apple-threatens-to-upend-podcastings-free-open-architecture-160318
The Conversation – Articles (US)
Apple threatens to upend podcasting’s free, open architecture
by John Sullivan, Professor of Media and Communication, Muhlenberg College
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A medium that exploded due to the lack of institutional gatekeepers is now seeing big tech companies act like traditional media networks, signing popular hosts and shows to exclusive contracts. Of course, other publishers like Slate and Stitcher have offered subscriptions to their shows via their own websites and mobile apps. But the m
uch larger audience share of Apple Podcasts and Spotify has much greater potential to move the podcast ecosystem in the direction of premium paid content.
This presents a potential long-term threat to the free, open architecture of podcasting, though projects like The Podcast Index are aiming to preserve the medium as platform-agnostic.
One thing is for certain: Apple and Spotify have given us a glimpse of a podcasting future where the walled gardens of platform-exclusive, premium content become the norm.
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The Podcast Index are aiming to preserve the medium as platform-agnostic.
Guess that’s all that can save us from paywalls and the Apple Tax?
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INTERESTING: Here’s a crazy behavior
Thursday, May 20, 2021r/todayilearned
•Posted byu/YourOwnBiggestFan
15 hours ago
TIL of William Lyttle, the “Mole Man of Hackney”, who spent around 40 years digging a network of tunnels up to 59 feet (18 m) long beneath his home. When the authorities discovered the extent of his burrowing, he was rehoused on the top floor of a high-rise to prevent digging.
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That’s strange behavior!
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HEALTH: A statin intolerance?
Thursday, May 20, 2021How Common Are Muscle Side Effects from Statins?
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM May 3rd, 2021 Volume 53
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When asked why, most former statin users, or discontinuers, cited muscle pain, a side effect, as the primary reason for stopping the pills. By far the most prevalent and important adverse events, up to 72 percent of all statin side effects are statin-associated muscle symptoms. Taking coenzyme Q10 supplements as a treatment for statin-associated muscle symptoms was a good idea in theory, but they don’t actually appear to help. Normally, side-effect symptoms go away when you stop the drug, but sometimes can linger a year or more. But there is evidently growing evidence that statin intolerance is predominantly psychosocial, not pharmacological. Wait; meaning maybe it’s mostly just in people’s heads?
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Placebo effects are positive consequences falsely attributed to a treatment
Nocebo effects, kind of like the opposite of the placebo effect, are negative consequences falsely attributed to a treatment
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12:40 p.m., Sunday May 9
ferdinand reinke: wrote:
Interesting. I’ve been complaining for a while about “stiff legs in the morning”. I never associated with the statin drugs that I have been taking. So it’s not nocebo in my case because I observed the sympton having never associated any connection to the drug. I’ll be interested if the “mystery” is ever figured out — if ever.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Judge Judy for SCOTUS
Wednesday, May 19, 2021https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/judge-sheindlin-ending-judge-judy-1234950880/
Judy Sheindlin on Ending ‘Judge Judy,’ Her New Show and the Legal System’s Biggest Flaw
- After 25 years, television’s highest-paid host — and The Hollywood Reporter’s Unscripted TV Player of the Year — is walking away from the show that made her an icon, but she has no plans to put the gavel down anytime soon with ‘Judy Justice’ in the works for IMDb TV.
BY MIKEY O’CONNELL
MAY 13, 2021
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As someone who’s openly defied the “PC police” throughout her career, what is your take on the trend of people being shamed for past comments?
If you’re a bad person, if you’ve done something wrong, you’ve got to be prepared to pay the piper. And there are people who have done just that. They’ve paid the price with their good name, their footprint. That’s a good thing. But to have a fear of speaking your opinion, for fear of being put on somebody’s list and canceled? It’s a frightening place for America to be. And you’re right. I’m not a big fan of the PC police. Is it PC to say to people who are 19 or 23 years old, have no job, no prospects and six children, “Find something else to do with that organ”? No. But where I come from, I’ve seen the ravages of that kind of neglect.
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I like her no BS attitude. Other than faulting her back of Bloomberg, which she was well within her rights to do, I can’t remember when I found her “disagreeable”.
Maybe she and I could get along.
Laugh!
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