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Review: 'JFK: What the Doctors Saw' eyewitnesses contradict Warren Commission(datebook.sfchronicle.com)
47 points by cempaka 3y ago|15 comments
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Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' makes clear the world is a fragile place(latimes.com)
123 points by cempaka 3y ago|60 comments
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There never was a band like Rush. Geddy Lee doesn't want to forget it(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by cempaka 3y ago|0 comments
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by cempaka 3y ago
There's one major power carrying out a quick genocide in plain sight and it's not Russia.
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U.S., European officials broach topic of peace negotiations with Ukraine(nbcnews.com)
16 points by cempaka 3y ago|5 comments
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Military briefing: How Hamas fights(ft.com)
1 points by cempaka 3y ago|0 comments
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by cempaka 3y ago
Even Huberman admits that the reason many need to, e.g., stare toward the sun for 15 minutes a day is because they are disconnected from normal exposure to nature by the demands of work. In fact he remarks upon systemic causes of the needs
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by cempaka 3y ago
I mean, it's right here: > I want to be clear that there isn't anything wrong with trying to make yourself better, healthier, or happier. But investigating _why_ we feel the need to optimize ourselves to cope with a system of
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Huberman Husbands and the rise of self-optimization(mashable.com)
10 points by cempaka 3y ago|17 comments
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by cempaka 3y ago
Atrocity propaganda of this sort is also very deceptive and harmful, used to gin up war fever and depict a chosen opponent as inhuman and beyond the pale.
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by cempaka 3y ago
The Kuwaiti incubators stuff wasn't just press accounts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
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Who was behind the Gaza hospital blast – visual investigation(channel4.com)
1 points by cempaka 3y ago|0 comments
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by cempaka 3y ago
Are you under the impression that a large number of people who refused the COVID shots didn't also already believe that the virus came from a lab?
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by cempaka 3y ago
This seems about as true as the theory that marijuana inevitably acts as a gateway to harder drugs.
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by cempaka 3y ago
Right, this is a common tactic once the conspiracy's effects are set in concrete and the opportunity for agitation or reaction has long since passed.
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by cempaka 3y ago
Epstein was on plenty of conspiracy theorists' radars, if maybe not the QAnon set's. There's a through line from the Franklin Scandal to the Dutroux Affair to Epstein, all of which conspiracy theorists have been citing as evi
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by cempaka 3y ago
The point is not that any given random conspiracy theory is correct. It's that these specific objections to conspiratorial analysis are spurious and disproven.
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by cempaka 3y ago
Yes, and this is one of the main problems with the "someone would have talked" objection. There are often witnesses or leakers, including to events like the JFK assassination, but as long as they can be kept out of the public cons
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by cempaka 3y ago
> I really hate the way events like that justified so much conspiracy-theory thinking. Probably because the people who theorized that there had been a conspiracy turned out to be correct, and the usual bromide objections ("someone
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CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic(nbcnews.com)
304 points by cempaka 3y ago|199 comments
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Tesla whistleblowers submitted complaint in 2021, but SEC never interviewed them(cnbc.com)
20 points by cempaka 3y ago|0 comments
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Right-wing psychedelia: Case studies in political pluripotency (2021)(frontiersin.org)
2 points by cempaka 3y ago|0 comments
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Michael Lewis Doesn't Do Villains(nytimes.com)
3 points by cempaka 3y ago|0 comments
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by cempaka 3y ago
"Did fighting the Soviet Union on the eastern front in WWII put you on the wrong side of history? Some nonzero number of atrocities was committed on both sides, so who can say?" Can we just make these people watch Come and See f
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Community Mobility and Depressive Symptoms During the COVID Pandemic in the U.S.(jamanetwork.com)
1 points by cempaka 3y ago|0 comments
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by cempaka 3y ago
I think it's really a shame that aspirin is not emphasized more as a COVID and COVID-recovery treatment, given that it's known to help reduce clotting which is an important mechanism of COVID etiology. Even Biden's physician
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When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed (2012)(theweek.com)
135 points by cempaka 3y ago|94 comments
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by cempaka 3y ago
A fun read along these same lines, about the origins of the Zimmerman Rule (which says that profits from improperly funded trades accrue to the broker): https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/busted-6/
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Nasdaq gets SEC nod for first exchange AI-driven order type(reuters.com)
1 points by cempaka 3y ago|0 comments
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Masters of Crowds: The Rise of Mass Social Engineering (2022)(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
8 points by cempaka 3y ago|0 comments

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