NoPie

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by NoPie 4y ago
Equally we have many studies showing that vitamin D helps to reduce risk from covid (hint: it doesn't). More studies show that ivermectin has a positive effect in covid patients. In fact, ivermectin has no effect or has only a very wea
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by NoPie 4y ago
Observational studies are rubbish though and suffer from too many problems. I don't have much trust in them. It might be true but we don't have good evidence that we could cover up.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Did you notice that you again talked about how other people view tweets, not that you personally couldn't switch to chronological view and enjoy only tweets from people you follow?
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by NoPie 4y ago
Usual Soviet tactics – if you dislike someone, you can always selectively find fault to prosecute even though most people have committed the same offenses.
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by NoPie 4y ago
It is not much different from Europe with many local languages. People in those countries study in their own native languages. Starting with Hindi in India would be a good start to give local languages more prominence.
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by NoPie 4y ago
I think that overall it is a good idea. Despite English being very popular in India, not all people speak good English, most patients would prefer using their native language. If a doctor cannot even say “heart attack” in the native languag
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by NoPie 4y ago
Because 0.15% is not a life-saving treatment but hoping for a miracle. And when people are immensely suffering they actually prefer to die than prolonging the sufferings. How could not money pay part in this? If the continued care costs, le
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by NoPie 4y ago
15% is clearly too optimistic. It is closer to 0.15% and it is usually not only about chances but that the person is experiencing extreme suffering despite pain killers that any therapy only prolongs this suffering.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Marshal plan helped to rebuild Europe after the WWII while the Soviet Union was left behind. The same could be expected of Ukraine and Russia after this war. The war has nothing to do with Ukraine joining NATO. It was a lame excuse by Putin
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by NoPie 4y ago
The Crimea will get food and medicines sent by ferries. It won't be as effective and some shortages could be expected but it will not be the end of the world.
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by NoPie 4y ago
Pfizer had this data from Israelis already in March 2021 but scientific publications appeared in July 2021. Most vaccine mandates were introduced after that which is very strange because we already had all the data that vaccines are not goi
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by NoPie 4y ago
No, he is not. In fact, Musk didn't even propose anything. He just asked if it would be a good plan. Noah Smith explains it much better why this plan is not going to work. https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status&#x2F
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by NoPie 4y ago
Any data how much worse Russian and Chinese vaccine was? Because if you look at this objectively all covid vaccines are shit. Vaccines that didn't stop infection after 3-4 months are shit. The effectiveness against severe disease and d
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by NoPie 4y ago
Just to clarify, I am not against those Russians who changed their minds and now wants to avoid draft. I certainly support that the EU accepts them because that means less people sent to fight in Ukraine. The access to good information was
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by NoPie 4y ago
I used to live in Russia for a few years and still have many friends and acquaintances there. It totally terrified me that many of them supported the war openly. In fact, my stay in Russia was related to religious organization, Hare Krishna
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by NoPie 4y ago
True, but some of those on vk are people I know personally and they were actively supporting it. Others were more reserved and said, the war massacres are wrong but Ukraine is still bad and it would be better if they capitulated to Russia.
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by NoPie 4y ago
It just looks that Russians themselves don't want to die in the war but otherwise supported it. I was reading vk.com and generally there was 1 post or comment against the war in Ukraine for every 10 or 20 posts pro-war. Now the ratio i
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by NoPie 4y ago
Basically the IMF discusses how the countries who get a lot of foreign currency from selling oil, can use this money in the best way. While others theorize that this is a system that the west uses to subjugate them and therefore needs to be
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by NoPie 4y ago
It is when you talk about the petrodollar as something important globally. It definitely is not something you could call a system. Here is wikipedia for a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_recycling “In
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by NoPie 4y ago
There is no petro-dollar system. The world economy consists of many countries, it is complex and moved by different interests. Some people just want a simple, contrarian explanation (for example, Russia vs. the West) but it leads to strange
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by NoPie 4y ago
Mostly among elderly and risk groups as these groups are the ones with high risk of hospitalization and death. But they also are at high risk of hospitalization and death from other sources, not only from covid. Although covid was more prom
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by NoPie 4y ago
1) of course, but it is not something that the west and Ukraine could do on their own when Russia was starting a war in 2014. 2) That's incorrect. It wouldn't have stopped Putin but only given him more than Ukraine. 3) Probably ha
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by NoPie 4y ago
I think you misunderstand both Russia and the West. Russia wants to conquer Ukraine and the EU wants to prevent it. While the ways to do it diplomatically may have been wrong and therefore failed, it primary is the responsibility of the agg
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by NoPie 4y ago
Probably not a troll, just someone who really roots for Russia and Putin. I have seen my Russian acquaintances and even friends to believe all kinds of nonsense about this war. Mostly it is due to blind nationalism when one cannot tolerate
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by NoPie 4y ago
Why would a country leave NATO and become a target to be conquered by Russia? I don't believe any such country is so suicidal.
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by NoPie 4y ago
The earth has stored nuclear elements for millions and billions of years. It is thought that in some places naturally occurring nuclear reactors have happened. Of course, the civilization needs more orderly storage and disposal, and nuclear
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by NoPie 4y ago
Thanks to nuclear Ukraine was (is?) selling electricity to the EU even during this war. Their nuclear power-stations has shown surprising resilience. Long term is exactly where nuclear rules.
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by NoPie 4y ago
This article has very good points and shows that things are more complex than just insulin price. Probably most activists demanding lower insulin prices haven't even heard about SGLT2 such as dapaglifozin or GLP-1 agonists such as lira
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by NoPie 4y ago
If you are a health young male then it is probably safe but it is not safe for some people (people with other medications, liver problems etc.). For example, someone taking immunosuppressants due to organ transplant may have treatment failu
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by NoPie 4y ago
Paxlovid for vaccinated non-risk groups most likely is useless and the suggestion to distribute it like candy is simply irresponsible. Initial studies were done with non-vaccinated risk groups and it showed a good efficiency. Since then mos

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