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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
My point was that Science™ has done tremendous damage to its brand. The tragedy of our era is how Medicine™ forgot that oxygen is toxic. How many people would have been saved if Medicine™ used the antidote for oxygen toxicity? ® is Register
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Almost a year ago I had fun with a poll: Do you find Humanity's lack of science-faith disturbing?" . This got a decent number of comments and poll-votes, even though none of you voted it up as a submission: https://ne
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
My greatest success as a taxi driver was learning to follow my intuition. One passenger led to the next, until I'd met all the people I was supposed to meet for that day. At the start of a shift I'd ask myself where to go. When I
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
My brother recently moved, and was taking his USB-C powered cable boxes back to the cable company. I thought the cable company wouldn’t care if the power adapters were missing. The cable boxes’ USB-C power supplies do not charge my Sony USB
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
There was a comment on Slashdot years ago about making special vodka with hot peppers, vodka and Mason jars: chop peppers in half, put in mason jar, close mason jar, put at back of cabinet for a few months. I don’t consume this very often a
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Ingo Swann said at the talk I attended that the government managers always hated their remote viewing program, so they had to get results right from the start. As soon as the Soviet Union was no more they said ‘thank God we can finally get
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Isn't this a "worst case scenario" for Europe? How did the Russians convince Germany to make their economic machine dependent on Russian-supplied natural gas? Perhaps this is a chess move.
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Oxygen in excess is toxic. The implications of this science-fact has been mostly forgotten by Medicine, but is commonly known by SCUBA divers (whose enemy is Nitrogen). Just watched my mom's 98 year old friend get finished off with nas
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Supplemental oxygen usually causes hypocapnia (low blood CO2). Adding a little CO2 prevents hypocapnia.
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
The hn comment I linked told of how the company I drove for became the default cab company for the Phoenix area. One aspect was how passengers could file a complaint, and they'd look into it. I got taken for a ride by a taxi driver in
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
A lot of miles were not paid for. A typical shift in the cab (12 hours) would have maybe 200 miles, with half of those being paid. I drove for an owner-operator - I think I paid her $75/shift for the use of her car... Maybe $20 for gas
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
I started taxi driving in early 2012. I'd drive my little 1994 Honda Civic Hatchback to the taxi yard and check out a cab for 12 hours or 24 hours. It was a pretty good deal: the taxi company took care of complying with Arizona's
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
> The health care package is gold plated. Health care is gold for "health care providers", NOT the person receiving the services. I've a submission about how health insurance pays for the most expensive medical interventio
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
> [...] to help save human lives when standard ventilation methods are unavailable, as for example, during the recent coronavirus pandemic. The tragedy of our era is how Science forgot about the antidote to oxygen toxicity in the 1950&#x
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
I think the most important quotes from Feynman's address are the ones about being fooled, such as this one: > The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very care
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
The big taxi company I drove for was at the top of the food chain in the Phoenix, Arizona area because the cars were clean, cabs usually showed up promptly, and if there was a problem you could deal with the company and they'd look int
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
As long as someone else is paying the bills, health care will remain an exercise in extracting as much from the bill payers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
If only Science could figure out why people have drinking problems. Is that too much to ask? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395181 One of my passengers is doing much better with her drinking, partially on my account
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
You're talking about the U.S. invasion of Iraq, right? Where the Shock & Awe campaign killed ... between 0 and 6600 civilians [0]? Where 188k+ have died in the 19 years since the Neocons invaded [1]? [0] https://en.wikip
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
> massive improvement in care and containment practices between March and May 2020. This was 100% attributable to Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell's rebellion video to youtube, where he called out the academic doctors for giving doctors lik
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
Corollary question: How do you help people who've been tricked realize they were mislead by 'false prophets'? I also thought COVID-19 would be a nothing-burger, and told everyone about the time I tricked one of my passengers
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
The surest way to get your brain to slow down prematurely is to consume alcohol. One of my 'older' passengers (60-70 years old) pointed out to me that a lot of his 'old people' neighbors had drinking problems. Alcohol is
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
> I am surprised news outlets are still trying to give life to this manufactured crisis. The purpose of this particular manufactured crisis is to take out Joe Rogan, who does not kowtow to the COVID-19 zeitgeist. > who abuse their vo
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
> Also in todays age where nobody remembers phone numbers anymore ~7 years ago my passenger called me from jail, because he'd memorized my phone number. I went to visit, got his gmail password, tried to call a few people for him.
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
I don't think your analogy fits very well. Trauma happens outside the medical system, trauma surgeons attempt to patch people up. 'Iatrogenesis' refers to conditions that are caused or worsened by medical interventions. Barot
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
Anecdotally I've heard that oxygen is toxic at higher-than-atmospheric pressure. Your link does mention oxygen toxicity, but I didn't notice any discussion of the antidote. I wrote a blog post, which I intend to submit for fact-ch
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
> the healthcare system not being able to service that amount of load. At first the healthcare system was overwhelmed. Then Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell posted his rebellion video to YouTube, which said, essentially, “why are we following ter
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
> For example, if you don't understand the scientific method well enough to believe that Covid exists, Lots of people are completely immune to the SARS-CoV-2: they're exposed to the virus, but their bodies shut down replication
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
> This whole thing seems like flamebait rather than a sincere attempt at curious discussion. It's supposed to be lighthearted, though I suppose the downvoters I refer to as "Dark Helmets" won't appreciate the referenc
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by taxicabjesus 5y ago
Farid Jalali is a gastrointestinal doctor who was an early advocate of cyproheptadine for COVID-19. His tweet-threads about why the SSRI Fluvoxamine and anti-serotonin drugs are helpful to treat COVID-19 are very informative: https:/&

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