[QUOTE=Turgid;2594123]I think freedom to eat when you're hungry and to fuck when you're horny are the greatest freedoms.[/QUOTE]I think freedom to think and decide are a bit more important.
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[QUOTE=Turgid;2594123]I think freedom to eat when you're hungry and to fuck when you're horny are the greatest freedoms.[/QUOTE]I think freedom to think and decide are a bit more important.
[QUOTE=Pessimist;2594154]"The general dumbing down of the population and ADHD explains how someone like Trump rose to POTUS. " - MCA.[/QUOTE]The context was that people in general are getting dumber. I then cited the above example. One, I can only cite world leaders that I am actually aware of (less than twenty). Montenegro might also have a reality TV star leading their country but I would not know that. Two, I believe it is better to cite examples that everyone would know, whenever possible. For instance, I once made an argument that not all rich, successful, handsome, alpha men leave their aging, ugly, overweight wives. Yes, I could cite my cousin as an example of a handsome man that chose not to optimize for beauty, but I went with Hugh Jackman and his wife to illustrate my point. Three, the leader of Montenegro's sound bites would likely be in his native tongue, so unless he has complete dementia, none of us would be able to assess his intellect.
[QUOTE=Pessimist;2593520]I don't know the attention span itself has changed that much over time, but 30 years ago technology had not advanced sufficiently to provide the perfect distraction to the user as efficiently as they can do today.[/QUOTE]Some of those distractions are not intellectually stimulating. Some of those distractions are anti-social. A teenager playing video games 8 hours a day is not going to reach their intellectual potential. And his social intelligence will also be under-developed.
[QUOTE]IQ scores have been steadily falling for decades, but genes are not to blame. Their environment is at fault.
New research published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America examined the IQ scores of men born between 1962 and 1991. Researchers found that scores increased for men born between 1962 and 1975. However, they decreased steadily among men born after 1975.
Ole Rogeberg, co-author of the study and senior research fellow at the Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research in Norway said studies conducted in [b]Denmark, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia have all demonstrated this similar downward trend[/b].
"The causes in IQ increases over time and now the decline is due to environmental factors," Rogeburg told CNN. "It's not that dumb people are having more kids than smart people, to put it crudely. It's something to do with the environment, because we're seeing the same differences within families."
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2018-06-14/study-people-are-getting-dumber
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[QUOTE=Pessimist;2593520]Apps like tik tok know exactly how many times users open their app, how long they stay before moving on, what they are doing when they open the app, are they in the car, in the train, in between classes in school walking to a new classroom, sitting on a toilet, sitting on the couch watching sports on TV but tuning into the app between commercial breaks, WG checking into the social app while taking a break with the John, whatever. They commission studies to study every aspect of these details; the end goal is to bring the user more frequently to the app, keep the user engaged for longer time on the app, and of course show them more targeted ads and making them buy stuff, then and there.[/QUOTE]Based on what you write here, it seems that the social media giants can calibrate the effectiveness of their advertising in away that was not possible even a decade ago. Subliminal messaging repeated over and over again by traditional media and social media may not be able to brainwash us completely, but they have the ability to influence our opinions in ways that we cannot consciously detect.
[QUOTE]Jennifer McKendrick and colleagues at the University of Leicester found that simply playing French or German background music led people to buy wines from those regions. When asked, however, the subjects were completely oblivious to the fact.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150324-the-hidden-tricks-of-persuasion.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Pessimist;2594251]It speaks so much about your character that you bring in family members. Unlike your pretended job, my spouse is a real doctor who has helped hundreds of patients immensely in the last year alone. Shame on you. But then again, a CCP turd that got smuggled into this country in a fishing boat is expected to behave like a lowlife plankton.[/QUOTE]Bring up family versus being a racial bigot, blah blah blah. You? A race-insulting, easily-emotionally provoked, adulterer bringing up character? Get the fuck out of here. I bet your kids are giant dorky douchebags too.
Unless in the past year, your wife has managed several hundred patients, intubated more than 100 patients this year, put in several dozen chest tubes, central lines, arterial lines, had the death / withdrawal of care talks, I've probably helped out a ton more people and families than your sexually bored wife. But still, good for your wife, she seems like a nice lady. One deserving of a loyal spouse.
But what the fuck have you done with your own two hands. Not a god damn thing you office working, out of touch with the common man, rigid recipe life living waste of 70-100 odd years of human existence. Just divorce her so she can move on to a better man. Hell, maybe she you'll get some alimony from the woman who wears the pants in the house.
Fun-fact, plankton floats to the top and is the base of marine life. What a poorly thought out metaphor to use as an insult.
[QUOTE=Pessimist;2594247]Whatever. Your first attack against me came in the form of a race warrior diatribe. You have vented extreme prejudice against practically anyone who is not a CCP turd like you. You have a running feud with at least 20 different people here. Speak about hobbies, this squabbling is it for you. OTOH, other than you, I don't have a problem with (m) any others. Yes, I call out McA when he posts obviously America bashing comments (which he does occasionally), but I don't have any problem with him either in general. You are just bitter that you had a tough upbringing and keep flinging that race charge against people here (and probably in your real life) constantly, and most people ignore you as they should but I didn't, and hence you have been at my heels like a blood sucking leech.[/QUOTE]What's funny is that some of those other people have obvious clinically defined personality disorders. Others like Shoo is just a pediatric troll, HT and Gino just being overly social-political.
You seem to have some sense of societal awareness, to your wife's credit no doubt. But that's actually an insult as you are given the tools to be aware but are completely unable to transcend to a higher level of thinking beyond the cookie-cutter modus operandi. No mojo whatsoever, no uniquely, insightful thoughts. If you were an NBA basketball player, you would be the nut-hugging shorts wearing Jerry West. Hey, do you own a pair of white New Balance Shoes? The worst thing, when prodded, you easily dive into the worst habits of an average frustrated chump. Fuck, you're a pathetic tool of a human.
[QUOTE=Turgid;2594123]I think freedom to eat when you're hungry and to fuck when you're horny are the greatest freedoms.[/QUOTE]There is generally too many tldr posts here on the forum, so I skip most. But this one has the correct length, and sums up a whole lot. Certain other posters must learn to cut down on their wordcount!
[QUOTE=HammerTime96;2594099]By the way, since when is a "think tank" known for objective medical science? Think tanks are hired guns, churning out 'reports' and 'studies' that big corporations, news outlets and corrupt politicians use to advance their agenda.[/QUOTE]Actually, you got it mixed up slightly. Most of that is the work of pr companies. Think tanks strategize more, while the pr companies do the heavy lifting. And politicians just get told about what's going on as a side story. So they can relay the message in order for the commons to believe their votes still count.
[QUOTE=McAdonis;2594313]Based on what you write here, it seems that the social media giants can calibrate the effectiveness of their advertising in away that was not possible even a decade ago. Subliminal messaging repeated over and over again by traditional media and social media may not be able to brainwash us completely, but they have the ability to influence our opinions in ways that we cannot consciously detect.[/QUOTE]Fuck that dude. Stop being civil. That fucker sucks donkey balls.
About Pfizer and Moderna efficiency, when AZ was rejected by EU, after Israel and UK, now big number 1 US decide after less than 9 months third dose needed for everybody when now under delta and some vaccinated are badly sick or die. Nobody is able to control anything, medical is really not a exact science, one new dose for each new variant to come? Pfizer and Moderna will become very rich with their low efficiency vaccine. But I never said not to vaccine, and soon we won t have right to have a normal life if not, when real efficiency seem to fail a bit.
[QUOTE=Sirioja;2594277]I think freedom to think and decide are a bit more important.[/QUOTE]Its more difficult to think and decide when you're starving.
[QUOTE=Sirioja;2594484] ... some vaccinated are badly sick or die... [/QUOTE]Some, but very very few. In Switzerland since 27 January 230.000 covid cases, out of which 782 breakthrough infections.
If by some you mean 0.34 percent, then, yeah.
Oxford University study destroys vaccine "efficacy:
[URL]https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/covid-vaccines-are-less-effective-against-delta-in-u-k-study[/URL]
Keep on getting "jabbed" and "tagged" like a sheep you suckers! Every time you take a gamble with your long-term health and on top of that the shit barely works.
[QUOTE=HammerTime96;2594626]Oxford University study destroys vaccine "efficacy:
[URL]https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/covid-vaccines-are-less-effective-against-delta-in-u-k-study[/URL]
Keep on getting "jabbed" and "tagged" like a sheep you suckers! Every time you take a gamble with your long-term health and on top of that the shit barely works.[/QUOTE]Third testicle starting to drop. Damn vaccines.
Oh well, more for the hookers in these "closed" clubs to suck on.
[QUOTE=PaulInZurich;2594601]Some, but very very few. In Switzerland since 27 January 230.000 covid cases, out of which 782 breakthrough infections.
If by some you mean 0.34 percent, then, yeah.[/QUOTE]What I say is only 2 doses of ARN or AZ for UK are now known as not enough to be efficient now for delta, how many doses will be? 1 per new mutant? When still 0 dose for me and still kissing, datying, all over FKK land and cleaning my lungs climbing. I will only to buy my freedom with pass to be allowed to breathe, but after my Summer tour and only strict minimum to get free, I don t want 50 doses to make Pfizer business with their water, kind of placebo? Unfortunately, Janssen with only 1 dose seem quite rare.