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by lurquer 5y ago
The analogies used to understand living systems always track technology. In the 1800’s when ‘fields’ were the new thing, folks assumed cells (or, more generally, tissue) has invisible vital forces that dictated morphongenesis etc. With the
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by lurquer 5y ago
> But the statistics themself are fact. ex: number of case and hospitalization for vaccinated people vs unvaccinated people. I wish that as so. The ‘factual’ statistics can be stretched however one wishes. For example, what does it mean
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> If you were watching their lives out the window of your spaceship you’d see them in fast forward vv. they’d see you in slow motion. Everything is relative. Both observers, looking at one another, would see the other moving near c. Neit
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> Your math is rather suspect; 1 in 5000 daily chance [. . .] for 10 days [. . .] that's a 1 in 500 The poster was correct. A 1/5000 daily chance is about 1/7 chance for a two year period. Your math, on the other hand, is
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by lurquer 5y ago
> Don't do this. Do not do that.
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Or, you could just keep some silver leaf around. Place it on the wound, and your chances of infection are greatly reduced. Apparently, many of the bacteria that cause us problems can’t tolerate being in contact with silver.
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> But Moderna and Pfizer are not among them. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-... I suppose if the company involved in the largest health care fraud in US history doesn’t disappoint y
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> I think he seriously thought these circular-filed complaints carry the same weight as a protesters in front of government buildings. They do carry the same weight. They are both useless. Standing around holding signs and marching and c
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> who all happen to be full of misinfo, like Eric Clapton, et al.) Eric Clapton took both doses. He suffered some severe adverse reactions. What’s the misinfo?
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The FDA was created because of the nefarious unethical conduct of doctors/pharma. Yet some HN posters seem to think the organization exists to protect us from skeptics. What a twisted view.
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by lurquer 5y ago
In regard to the Lyme disease vaccine issue, you are glossing over a very important component of the story. Due to public pressure, the FDA reconvened to take another look. While the FDA did not change its opinion (except for requesting som
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by lurquer 5y ago
If the system is susceptible to anti-vax propaganda thwarting approval of a good vaccine, doesn’t it also follow that the system is susceptible to big pharma lobbying for the approval of a bad vaccine? If this wondrously robust multi-layer
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> This is less likely than dying of COVID in any age category. 0.00025%. Is this not apples and oranges? The odds of a Covid patient dying from Covid is higher, is it not, than the odds of a person dying from Covid? That is, one must tak
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by lurquer 5y ago
You seriously overestimate the intelligence of the general population. I would wager a sizeable percentage of people don’t know that dairy milk comes out of a tit.
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And a peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.
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> Nearly anyone who is capable to go to a bar can easily go get vaccinated. It’s too risky to themselves and others for unvaccinated people to drive to a bar to drink alcohol. Ha. Similar to swabbing the injection site for lethal inject
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It’s from the article (and study cited therein) cited in the post I responded to. Apparently few actually read the ‘evidence’ they knee-jerk cite to. Specifically, the Brown study examined mussels who were kept in containers with 0.51 g&#x2
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Ha. Let me know when the ocean has .5grams of nano-sized plastic particles per Liter. That would be around 300000000000000 Tons of plastic, all in the form of nano-sized particles. Then — and only then — would you begin to see an effect on
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by lurquer 5y ago
Bits of plastic can form blockages? Says who? I seriously doubt it. A bit of plastic — to a fish gut - is no different than a pebble, chunk of coral, bit of bone, etc. Littering is bad. And litter that doesn’t naturally decompose is annoyin
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> The point is that plastic takes many centuries to degrade So? Is there a shortage of centuries? Do you really think—300 years from now—they’ll be using plastic?
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They are not held to a higher standard. But, they have certain rules they are to follow if they wish to be a priest. If you swear to follow the rules, you should do so. If not, quit. It had nothing to do with Catholicism. If you’re a Rabbi
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by lurquer 5y ago
I don’t care about sin. My comment was about using the term ‘courageous.’ The use of that term is just knee-jerk virtue signaling merely because it involved a gay guy. Priests are to be celibate. If you don’t like the rules, don’t be a prie
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What is so courageous about violating one’s oaths? If you want to go to gay bars and pick up guys on Grindr, leave the priesthood. If you want to be celibate and follow church teachings, quit going to gay bars. But, there’s nothing ‘courage
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He should see what they’ve done to Manhattan Island.
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You may be correct. I got sucked down that rabbit hole years ago. The ‘death’ explanation was in the minority. A quick Google shows that at least one guy — some person named Nick on Twitter — and his followers subscribe to the suicide versi
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by lurquer 5y ago
Indeed. Face-palm. Reminds me of another ‘joke’ I never got which, for all I know, might have been obvious to everyone else: “Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.” I never knew that “the other side” was referring to
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by lurquer 5y ago
Levin’s papers are wonderful. I got sucked into morphogenesis last year and wrote an entire simulator. I was able to simulate a flatworm splitting its head: the greatest day of my year. (Granted, it was a very boring locked-down year...) Th
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by lurquer 5y ago
> We have already realized that it is unprofitable to go to war. Who is this ‘WE’ to whom you refer? War is immensely profitable to many companies and individuals. When those interests have the reins of power, there will be war.
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More difficult, but feasible. One way is to demand that a smaller amount of money be wired to 1,000 accounts throughout the world. You — the bad guy - own merely one of them. Difficult to trace them all before you empty your particular acco
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Someone should make a game out of it. Create images based on a string of five random words. The players then guess what words made it. The player with the most right wins.

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