mcgt

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by mcgt 6y ago
> What is going to be the impetus for this war? Who are the belligerents? Probably white nationalists. I'm not a subscriber to the idea of a full-scale civil war either but with the trends in growth for extremist groups and continue
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by mcgt 6y ago
My thoughts were the same, but nothing I've seen (yet) would suggest that. Though deaths by dementia seem to be up far above the 5 year average (especially in the Southern US). Total mortality up to Aug 15 is up at least 580k over the
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by mcgt 6y ago
I'm looking into this gap right now. In the US for example, deaths from dementia so far this year are much higher than the average for the past five years (up until ~Aug 15). There's also a not insignificant amount of notes saying
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by mcgt 6y ago
Those scientists must've felt some appeal going on Rogan's show, despite guests like Jones. That's probably why they agreed to it. How does that feed into a culture of anti-intellectualism?
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by mcgt 6y ago
>But instead we're lazy so we just want the president to be a dictator instead of safeguarding our republic. Funny. I wrote my senator months ago about that encryption bill going around then. Just got a canned response back today, a
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by mcgt 6y ago
Bacteria fix nitrogen, not legumes.
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by mcgt 6y ago
There's a better way to add nitrogen to soil and it's through the nitrogen cycle. The US Midwest (which grows a lot of corn) used to be highly populated with ruminants who did exactly this. We killed them all (well, most) and now
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by mcgt 6y ago
Wouldn't the data we have on mental health show that contemporary wisdom on its treatment is failing? Given spikes in rates of anxiety and depression over the past century, among other adverse effects, this isn't an unreasonable c
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by mcgt 6y ago
>in my experience QAnon is the political arm of 4Chan This is a spurious claim to make. Do you have any evidence of this? 4chan and 8kun have different owners who both hate each other. Spreading gossip about problems as big as this does
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by mcgt 6y ago
As president of the US, it would be hard believing Trump's only ability to make this kind of case is on Facebook.
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by mcgt 6y ago
>Because I believe it's the latter, and if you ban it, the hate campaigns don't vanish, they just start using other mediums. While true that it may not be a source per se, Facebook enables those ideas whereas they would normall