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by barbacoa 3y ago
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Seriously would read each sentence then spend a minute just to letting the shattering existential realizations sink in.
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by barbacoa 3y ago
https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/pfizers-clinical-trial-had-... One would expect more deaths in the placebo group from all the people who died of covid. Which makes the data even more striking.
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by barbacoa 3y ago
What's even more alarming is that this increases in all-cause deaths were present in the vaccine clinical study data. The vaccine group had fewer covid deaths but had significantly more overall deaths that the non vaccine control group
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by barbacoa 3y ago
https://www.city-journal.org/article/approximately-zero I suspect this is the study being mentioned. Keep in mind this is at slowing population level spread. On an individual level masking may be different. The idea
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by barbacoa 3y ago
>couple in our late 30s who decided not to have kids I fear for people who choose this path. Being childless in your 30s sounds like a blast. But that's just one stage of your life. How fun is life going to be when you're 40+?
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by barbacoa 3y ago
>Even if there's a tiny increase in inflammation (which is doubtful: if this were real it would have been caught during clinical trials I'm reminded here of what happened with Vioxx. When the clinical studies showed a dangerous
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by barbacoa 3y ago
>Southern US's attitude to the federal government. People associate the US South with being poor. And it's true in that they get more federal dollars then pay, mostly from welfare. However the poverty rate in California beats o
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by barbacoa 3y ago
>In 2015, Congress rewrote the law that allowed the NSA to scoop up everyone's records. The U.S.A. Freedom Act now prohibits the bulk collection of phone records by American citizens. Leave it to NPR to run interference for the gove
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by barbacoa 3y ago
Alexander Acosta the US attorney who let off Jeff Epstein reportedly did so because he was told Epstein "belonged to intelligence". Turns out Epstein was an FBI informant. https://technofog.substack.com/p/conf
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by barbacoa 3y ago
It is a little ironic to think that people being patronaged by giant monopolistic mega corporations are fighting "against the system".
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by barbacoa 3y ago
Having a whole bunch of engines means loosing a few at launch won't end in disaster. That means you can pursue more high-risk, high-performance engine designs.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
It's worth mentioning that the former senator John Edwards was prosecuted for a similar hush money case. It ended in a acquittal on some and mistrial on other charges. The issue was that it is not obvious what he was alleged to have do
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by barbacoa 4y ago
The USA government absolutely had a hand in the Maidan revolution. There was even a leaked phone call where state department officials discuss who to pick for the new government.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
I think Ukraine is an excellent example. Contrast the media coverage of the USA/EU vs Russia proxywar in Ukraine vs the USA/Saudi vs Iran proxywar in Yemen. Both are horrible wars with untold civilian suffering. For obvious reason
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by barbacoa 4y ago
To be fair to WikiLeaks there is very little evidence that Russia had anything to do with the DNC hacks. The FBI never had access to the servers and the the whole Russia hacking narrative relies on the DNC's claim of "trust us whe
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by barbacoa 4y ago
Endless war, domestic surveillance, expanding government power. The modern left has become the neo-conservatives.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
The FBI were sending Twitter lists of pro-Venezuela, pro-Russian, etc "bot" accounts. Were they really doing forensic analysis to determine they were run by foreign governments or were they just flagging account with opinions that
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by barbacoa 4y ago
I'm sure ebay has their fair share of stolen goods. A lot of what you see sold as refurbished are returns and trade-ins. When you return an item for example, to Amazon, they don't restock it. Instead they throw it in a bin and auc
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by barbacoa 4y ago
As you can tell from the last few decades, winning wars is a secondary concern.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
The interesting thing is that Russia has been preparing their military doctrine for war with NATO since the beginning of NATO. Russia has operational hypersonic missiles capable of penetrating NATO air defenses. They also have the S-400 ant
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by barbacoa 4y ago
Without corporations coordinating with the government to restrict information, I fear for the health of our democracy.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
>How do you turn solar panels on (or off)? They probably mean there is an issue with getting approval from city/utility company to connect them to the grid.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
I believe GP was referring to china's social credit score.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B6wsujROvXg Missile videos like the one above are common. 1996 was soon after the gulf war, tons of missiles were broadcast in the news during that time.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
"10% to the big guy" If the vice president was really taking money in exchange for influence peddling to foreign oligarchs, then that is a truly staggering level of corruption.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
>COVID vaccination resistance has a direct correlation with a lack of empathy. That's some unintentional honesty. The vaccine did little to stop the spread and wore off in a matter of months, but it became a sign of virtue status.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
You can use Roth IRA contribution principal to pay for college. Then if you aren't limited to using it for education if you need a plan B.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
Houston doesn't even HAVE zoning laws. Companies in Houston can and do build industries like petrochemical processing plants in or near residential neighborhoods. For example: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/n
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by barbacoa 4y ago
I someday hope to see pihole like dns filtering built into residential routers.
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by barbacoa 4y ago
West coast is no where near dense enough to support mass transit rail system. You would have to get in your car, drive to a central rail station, park in a massive parking garage, ride the train to your destination, then rent a car when you

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