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by guscost 6y ago
No. I am saying it is not at all a coincidence that these are the biggest/baddest “existential threats” prompting political activism. The solution to both is to enslave you, ultimately. Not a coincidence!
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by guscost 6y ago
It is information warfare, but real talk, what’s the difference?
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by guscost 6y ago
“In its purest essence”
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by guscost 6y ago
There’s a huge gap between any of this, and a “climate emergency” that justifies slavery to the state.
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by guscost 6y ago
You exhale CO2. You exhale viruses. The campaign to remake society in response to these threats is, in its purest essence, a campaign to redefine the free human being as a toxic animal. If successful, it will then be used to justify slavery
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by guscost 6y ago
Sure, but then so is the whole “climate emergency” in the first place. Glad to see the Trotskyites and Stalinists start to turn on each other. If they’re fighting amongst themselves, they’ll never get around to enslaving the rest of us. Goo
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by guscost 6y ago
I like this take. I’d place a (small) bet on it.
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by guscost 6y ago
Well the CIA isn’t technically supposed to operate on US soil, but this happened at sea, loads of people think that claim is a total joke anyway, and PSYOP is one of their specialties. Or it could have been highly compartmentalized within t
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by guscost 6y ago
Sounds like something a couple of CIA operatives (plus support) could do easily, without leaving a trail. And then the only other thing to risk might be to relay “anything in this sector is with our boys, wink wink” to one person in command
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by guscost 6y ago
So they declined to engage, and this incident left zero physical evidence at all? My honest guess is it was staged, to “help” congress approve the new drone defense budget (which is probably not a terrible idea). Next!
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by guscost 6y ago
“Objectives: To define the epidemiology and outcomes of non-influenza respiratory viral infections in hospitalized adults.”
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by guscost 6y ago
Paraphrasing: “The academics who claim that we narrowly avoided a SARS/etc holocaust, have a fatal conflict of interest, and are completely full of shit.”
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America Is Now in the Hands of the Vaccine-Hesitant(msn.com)
3 points by guscost 6y ago|0 comments
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by guscost 6y ago
Exactly! Colds are poorly understood, and can be very dangerous. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181476/
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by guscost 6y ago
I have been saying this for many years, and have been condescended to a lot (by friends, even) for saying it. We clearly don’t have the faintest understanding of the long-term dynamics of something like SARS, when all the conventional model
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by guscost 6y ago
A wild bully appears! > skepticism that we’ll hit millions of deaths worldwide Here’s the exact quote from the blog, in case any bystanders suspect that this person might not be arguing in good faith : “Personally I don’t think that mil
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by guscost 6y ago
All human coronavirus diseases, including COVID-19, are colds. Always have been. This one from 1890 might have been caused by OC43: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889–1890_pandemic
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by guscost 6y ago
Funny, I’m the opposite. I would have no significant reservations if it wasn’t for the creepy fascist vibe oozing from beneath the facade of “science”. As it stands, I’ll go to war today and die to guarantee my and your and everyone’s right
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by guscost 6y ago
Oh and also, nearly killing a US representative with a semiautomatic rifle.
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by guscost 6y ago
What do you think about the claim that LBJ’s great society effectively incentivized breaking up black families, with tragic consequences? Seems another good reason to “walk away from the left” if even their apparently sincere projects keep
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by guscost 6y ago
Rant about COVID and the death of (popular/political) science is linked in my bio. You will probably either hate it or love it.
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by guscost 6y ago
From an environmental perspective, petrochemical industrial activity is certainly not trivially comparable “by weight” to the industrial activity for using lithium, cobalt, neodymium, etc. That said, I still like this comparison because it
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by guscost 6y ago
That practice of “not publishing all code and data” really sets off the BS detector.
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by guscost 6y ago
Only after you have co-authored several papers with the very people you are trying to question, and earned a credential, it seems.
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by guscost 6y ago
Comments from the /r/COVID19 subreddit are usually pretty good: https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/lj9o0o/comment/gna... > The public health bar for officials to start recommendi
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Giving hospital-admitted patients Vitamin D could cut Covid deaths 60 per cent(telegraph.co.uk)
6 points by guscost 6y ago|3 comments
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by guscost 6y ago
Academically, a virus is a kind of parasite, one that cannot reproduce (or really do anything at all) independent of its host. All “parasite” means is that the organism depends on a host, but yes outside the academy it is often used in plac
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by guscost 6y ago
The problem happens when you start picking and choosing your preferred set of facts, as you are doing here. “What we label disinformation is always X, what we label dissent is always Y.” Many of what you would probably call “facts” I would
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by guscost 6y ago
In this instance the Electron VM/etc matters a lot less than the “(re|en)codes in software” part.
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by guscost 6y ago
Yikes, can you say “white people problems”? Imagine how one of the millions of Americans who never knew a father at all would feel reading this.

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