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by kleton 2y ago
Silicon dioxide is not chemically toxic. But you can put microfiber crystals of it in a mammal's lungs and get tumors that grow around them. It is not a huge stretch of the imagination from there to hypothesize that nano- and micro-par
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by kleton 2y ago
If there were two things going around January 2020, I would have gotten both of them. This is common sense to anyone who has had school age children.
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by kleton 2y ago
In previous generations there was a sense that the elderly had already lived their best years, and the young should be prioritized in emergencies. "Women and children first" The American Boomer generation flipped this on its head,
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by kleton 2y ago
You literally said "isolate". Now you have retreated to the motte of common sense hygiene that nobody ever objected to.
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by kleton 2y ago
One thing remained clear from the time I got Covid the first time- people with natural immunity should be allowed to return to going about their normal lives.
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by kleton 2y ago
There was only one thing going around in the Bay Area in January 2020, and the symptoms clearly lined up for everyone in my network.
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by kleton 2y ago
If you lock down everyone, or just lock down the elderly, what is the difference to the elderly person locked down? Either way they are isolated.
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by kleton 2y ago
I'll stay home
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by kleton 2y ago
I had recovered from it in about January 2020, so it was not one bit uncertain to me.
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by kleton 2y ago
Quarantine, voluntary or otherwise, the elderly and at-risk then. In the Bay Area, anyone who had children in daycare had already gotten Covid and recovered from it before the lockdowns began. A rational policy needed to recognize natural i
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by kleton 2y ago
It was clear to people paying attention to the hard numbers by February 2020 that Covid was no threat to children and non-elderly adults without risk factors like obesity, which led to the rational decision to treat it as a non-risk. If som
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by kleton 2y ago
About one third of China's politburo, including Xi Jinping, have degrees in Engineering. The West's leadership is all attorneys or finance.
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by kleton 2y ago
They could have gone with northern asian hornet, to follow proper taxonomy of including general and specific.
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by kleton 2y ago
This is the Asian giant hornet. Apparently they had to make a euphemism that would obfuscate the continent of origin, when being from the wrong continent is precisely the reason it needed to be eradicated.
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by kleton 2y ago
What kind of anarcho-tyranny is that?
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by kleton 2y ago
Acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation was itself a critical WWI technology, as cordite required acetone. That fermentation process requires only sugars and an acetobutylicum strain. The first president of Israel developed this process.
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by kleton 2y ago
Common core was rammed through to prod without proper a/b testing or canarying. All the criticisms of the "New Math" of the 1960s are just as applicable to it today. See Morris Kline's «Why Johnny Can't Add» on arch
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by kleton 2y ago
It was deeply ingrained by their internecine conflicts. When factions would fight in their internal wars, they would expect the losing side to commit suicide if they happened to be defeated and not dead by enemy hands. Their military class
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by kleton 2y ago
The usual Ramadan regimen for Muslims involves carbo-loading with dates and sugars in the morning, so it is unlikely to get to ketosis by iftar.
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by kleton 2y ago
The exact quote > The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capa
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by kleton 2y ago
They probably have ancient oral history that that's a bad idea.
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It is difficult to entirely avoid contamination by DNA. https://x.com/p_j_buckhaults/status/1861083163868672204
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Egyptian is afro-asiatic but not semitic, like Berber, somali and others
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A sham marriage (get a prenup if you want) is sufficient to have parents' income not counted by FAFSA.
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by kleton 2y ago
You actually wouldn't need any stats classes to do this particular analysis, the sample sizes are quite large. You only need to know four values, the size of the groups of all vaccinated or unvaccinated, and the numerators, the number
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by kleton 2y ago
There exist several US federal bureaus, such as the census and labor statistics ones, that have built and maintained widespread trust in publishing accurate tabulations. It is not an impossible problem.
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by kleton 2y ago
> hodgkin's lymphoma from The Vax. Rather than censorship, a better way of combatting this sort of rumor would be a government agency, for example, one that would be put in charge of food and drugs, collecting and publishing k-anony
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by kleton 2y ago
If they are sequestering by reducing (in the sense of donating electrons to) carbon, then that will, by thermodynamic necessity, require more energy input than oxidizing that carbon originally provided. Converting to ethylene, as they menti
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Russians now pay a third or less what you are probably currently paying for eggs.
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Cooter is a Black dialectal term for a turtle originating from the Mandinka language, and you can see a turtle on the logo of that product.

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