Thread: Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!
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04-15-21 11:49 #4512
Posts: 537Originally Posted by Pistons [View Original Post]
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04-15-21 07:13 #4511
Posts: 22245Originally Posted by Mursenary [View Original Post]
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04-15-21 06:25 #4510
Posts: 2207Originally Posted by Gino02 [View Original Post]
Or wondering why the virus didn't disappear for Easter or for summer as promised.
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04-15-21 06:18 #4509
Posts: 2207Originally Posted by Mursenary [View Original Post]
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04-15-21 04:19 #4508
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by PahllusMaximus [View Original Post]
Playing the game is the most important factor for the middle 80 percent of the world's people. It's pretty damn important for most of the human race; reality, facts. The focus on assets is fine, but that's actually the easiest part which can be built in a single generation; in the US, it's still relatively easy to go from $0 immigrant to 7 figure net worth in half a lifetime. Hell, you can do it in less than a decade.
The criticism regarding the decline of America is really not reflective of reality and history. America's success was never built on a educated and cultured populace. There was never anything intrinsically special about our society. In our history, we have always benefited from the position of abundance and playing the Ace card. The average in our society has always been pretty below average in my opinion. Our greatness comes on the shoulders of a few great people operating in a deregulated society. That's why, as great as European and East Asian societies can be, America still holds a higher ceiling.
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04-15-21 03:54 #4507
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by Clodius1 [View Original Post]
That is what the educated points us towards. If something unforeseen occurs, well, our most educated clinicians cannot foresee it with the information we have at hand.
If you are privy'the to more enlightening information, then you would be quite an asset to the world.
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04-15-21 03:46 #4506
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by BigBuddy69 [View Original Post]
Dude goes from high T Lymphocytes to low T cells, not understanding the difference between -cytopenia, -cythemia, and -cytosis, has no idea what a blod clot really is, confuses B_Lymphocytes with T_Lymphocytes, goes from mRNA to DNA, cites papers based on a single line while ignoring the main thesis, on and on and on.
The worst is that he speaks so confidently about it all. If given the chance, I would let him speak at our biweekly rounds. Let him present his case and have every single senior attending rip his ignorance apart. It's Goddamn absurd the shit he puts up.
I have pity though. The dude just needs a friend. Unfortunately, he is his own worst enemy. He never addresses his personal flaws. Is Socially off-putting, yet too prideful, too arrogant to admit that he has a problem.
Ever met a girl who is a 5 but thinks she's an 8? Yeah, it's like that.
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04-15-21 03:01 #4505
Posts: 250Originally Posted by RockyV [View Original Post]
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04-15-21 03:00 #4504
Posts: 250Originally Posted by Mursenary [View Original Post]
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04-15-21 02:06 #4503
Posts: 539On winners, losers, conspiracy theories
It is true there is considerable nihilism that has been exponentially increased by social media that amplifies and validates - or even celebrates - ignorance. Some yearn for religion, a 1950's white America with a quarter acre block, guns with all sorts of delusions; other crap on about trans-gender soy beans and pet lefty causes with big "In our America" virtue signalling wankery. All use cliches and ask rhetorical questions. All hate hard science and critical thinking and allowing evidence to lead.
But. There are huge areas where things really are rigged, like LIBOR, REPOS, bank bailouts and pay-for-access to change government policy, rich kids somehow always get into the Ivy league and so on. Structural inequality is real. Being black in America is no joke, malnutrition and hunger exists, and crap access to medical care. The tax system is definitely rigged. W2 earners simply have no concept how it works and neither party will breath a word about tax free capital. Blaming the victims is a straw man argument. People can do hard work, but if they have fetal alcohol, poor nutrition, crap role models and crap education, they start way at the back. The winners at Goldman Sachs are at the apex of a very corrupt rigged capital markets and tax system. I'm pretty high in in the APEX, but it is an accident of birth and yes, some hard work. But mostly access to opportunity and expectations. "Playing the game" or money is not a good measure of worth. Neither is virtue signalling and herbal tea leaf / patriarchal bullshit, just as confused at the other side grab bag of nationalism, gun rights, religion, racism. Whilst they fuck around, the real game, the property party, really does party whilst the population in fights.
These are highly corrosive to institutional trust, and this in turn fans the flames of almost universal distrust of the "government", meaning puppets of the elites. We had the Capitol invasion. The first of many meltdowns as the USD collapses as a reserve currency, inflation and global warming because we have too many people. It will get ugly. COVID is a major inflection point in history that just put things about 20 years fast forward.
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04-15-21 01:49 #4502
Posts: 2366Originally Posted by Mursenary [View Original Post]
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04-15-21 01:45 #4501
Posts: 2366Originally Posted by Sirioja [View Original Post]
Again irrelevant argument, since in Switzerland the concept of "Halterhaftung" applies in the case of speeding fines. I have quoted before the Swiss law and case decision in the Swiss Federal Court.
BTW, the law is similar in the authoritarian oppressor states of Austria and Netherlands. An example litigated in the European Court of Human Rights in Falk vs Netherlands 2004.
"A person's right in a criminal case to be presumed innocent and to require the prosecution to bear the onus of proving the allegations against him or her is not absolute, since presumptions of fact or of law operate in every criminal-law system and are not prohibited in principle by the Convention (Falk v. The Netherlands (Dec.), concerning the imposition of a fine on a registered car owner who had not been the actual driver at the time of the traffic offence)."
So, is your point that the law does not apply to you because of claimed unproven superior driving skills?
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04-15-21 00:04 #4500
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by Sirioja [View Original Post]
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04-15-21 00:02 #4499
Posts: 2344Conspiracy theorists can't read, make too many assumptions.
Obviously B_Cells are white blood cells. Things we learned in 9th grade.
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04-14-21 20:45 #4498
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by PahllusMaximus [View Original Post]
Contraceptive group:
27 per million within 2 weeks of starting medication.
JnJ group:
0. 85 per million within 2 weeks of vaccination.
General population:
4 per million annually.
The point was to put perspective on the JnJ headlines.