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> That very act of avoiding the topic/suppressing it and pushing “specific science” makes lots of people - many who are very intelligent and aware - suspicious. Suspicious of what exactly? The COVID vaccines aren’t very profitable,
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> Tesla fandom is such a bizarre phenomenon So are Tesla haters. It's a company with good and bad things. Praise the good, criticize the bad. Why is that so hard?
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> Wife and I ran out through the backdoor to the garden For future reference, during an earthquake if you’re inside it’s usually far safer to climb under a desk or table, stand in a doorway or up against a wall in the center of your hous
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> There's simply no situation where the opportunity cost and actual costs of a child through ages 0 to 18 are anywhere near what I am willing to spend You’ve moved from language implying insurmountable expense to admitting that you’
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> it's too expensive to realistically consider Too expensive under what constraints and how impossible is violating those constraints? For instance, does the UK have cheaper areas to live with childcare costs in-line with incomes? C
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> Basically it comes down to choosing between buying a house and having a kid. If you already had a kid but everything else in your life was the same, what would you do?
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Giles Yeo is a great source of popular information along the lines of this topic. I recommend his books, but here is a recent youtube from his talk at The Royal Institution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQJ0Z0DRumg
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> God is an entity outside of what we perceive as reality, meaning his reality must be used to run our reality That’s not the understanding of God and creation presented in Scripture. God is not presented as part of a separate reality bu
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> According to the Bible god created a simulation with humans and stuff. We live in it and have to fulfil the goals of the simulation or God will interfere or even shut it down. Genesis begins with God creating the Universe not creating
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> Having a billion dollars is like having a dozen children You mean being a billionaire is like making up for ~5 childless couples not contributing to the next generation? Could be!
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> they looked at humoral immunity—also called antibody-mediated immunity—to measure the body’s defenses against the coronavirus. The title is misleading. Humoral immunity is not the only aspect of immunity but it was the only aspect meas
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> The trick is figuring out whether the "trusted" person is really unbiased It’s impossible to avoid bias, however whether the bias is bad or not depends on the bias and the situation. My go tos are people whose biases I think
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> Why is this a "pass"? Not the OP but I’m not reading 109 pages of analysis from 9-11 truthers in order to work out whether their conclusions are correct. That’s not the genetic fallacy either, I’d love someone else who I trus
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> And that cynical portrayal of politics is itself part of the exact ideology that Thatcher tried to promote Putting aside the fact that if that were true Thatcher would still be lampooning herself, the show isn’t purely cynical about go
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> Thatcher loved because it suited her ideology She liked it because she could laugh at herself. It might have given a voice to her ideology sometimes, and rightly so because it was prominent at the time, but none of the characters givin
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> Yes Minister and the follow up series Yes Prime Minister are the most rewtchable TV shows I've ever seen. It had a brilliant and ideologically diverse writing team meaning no side was singled out. The principal actors were comedy
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> this was at a time when masks were in very short supply and I took this as misinformation to keep medical providers from having to re-use masks. Which has to be one of the biggest ever public health blunders. Now people are thinking “w
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> They're doing okay on the TFR front compared to South Korea, Taiwan, or Japan. According to highly suspect official Chinese statistics. > The misallocation of resources associated with the debt fueled fever is a spent cost. It’
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> China has a vast hinterland of rural Chinese, much larger than the Phillipines or Vietnam could supply Whose fertility has for the last several decades taken a historically massive hit from one child, sex-selective abortion and the pol
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> I’ve always wondered how hard it would be to start your own country Really really hard. You have only a few choices and they're all terrible. First one is revolution, see history for how that tends to go. Second is conquest and th
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opshine
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> Cheap cost of labor is a distant third benefit of manufacturing in China. Increasingly distant as labor costs continue to soar in China that their demographic crisis will only exacerbate. China speed now is only possible due to a never
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> There is no big lobby interest for Ibuprofin at this time, so the financial incentives there are not suspect. Clearly Ibuprofen is a product of big pharma, therefore if it were merely distrust of big pharma then using it and all other
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> A lot of it is simply narcissism Im sure it’s involved to some degree but I don’t think anyone has sufficient data to know by how much. It could be insinuated that the demonization of the unvaccinated and the call for the use of force
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> I don't trust big pharma and I don't trust the vaccines. Should be reason enough. This is a good example of what I was talking about. You don’t trust big pharma? Most people who say that will still pop some ibuprofen etc when
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> “if it increases the chances of Trump being president in 2024". Or "if Covid killed my wife and some, but not all, of my kids" These are too sophisticated reasons. More realistic renditions might be “that other tribe get
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> it might not be the true one or the sufficient one. Unless you’re dealing with an extraordinary individual or the issue is relatively trivial then you won’t be told sufficient reasons. A lot of what motivates us is deep down and dumb a
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> The Federal Reserve Bank, for example, responds quickly to changing market conditions The Fed was established by Congress and the Chair is appointed by the President, however the Fed is still a private institution. That independence ma
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> I did find Six Thinking hats useful The biggest impact life lesson I had from that book was to be upfront with my feelings (red hat.) Unacknowledged emotions sit in the background and strongly influence thinking while often being quite
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I’ve bought so many products from Amazon over the last year that were damaged, incomplete, or which never showed up after “shipping” that Amazon has been seriously tarnished as a brand at this stage. What happened?

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