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by wavepruner 6y ago
It's not your place to decide whether Sean was "taken in" by charlatans. It's Sean's. And there is not one quote in the entire article from him. And that he didn't want to see his girlfriend while dying does no
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by wavepruner 6y ago
I'm sorry you lost your friend. It sounds like that was a long battle and it has weighed on you ever since. I am glad you were there to support them. I know from personal experience how obnoxious it can be to be bombarded with this-and
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by wavepruner 6y ago
Because the sick person clearly did not view these people as charlatans. It was their choice. Not yours. You are taking one case where the patient chose to follow bad advice, and using it to suppress the voices of hundreds of thousands of s
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by wavepruner 6y ago
"The general public is not capable of determining what is good advice" I strongly disagree. Making choices for other people is tyranny. Edit: If you're referring to the term "ableist" as in insult--it is not. It is
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by wavepruner 6y ago
I'm going to assume that you've never been in a situation where someone was offering you a course of treatment that had a chance of being 50% successful. Those are absolutely terrible odds. To act like it's the obvious choice
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by wavepruner 6y ago
To the numerous posts in this thread. "If it becomes ableist to critique those who follow fake medical advice from the internet..." This is ableist because it claims that sick people are incapable of determining what is good advic
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by wavepruner 6y ago
edit: (I say all this as a sick person who was bed-bound for years. I was able to reverse the course of my illness after studying the work of biochemists that is considered "alternative") The attitude in this thread is ableist. Si
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by wavepruner 6y ago
If you don't need or even want a new house then what good does it do you or society to buy a new house? Consumption for the sake of consumption is not a good thing. If you're buying houses solely as an investment then you get situ
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by wavepruner 6y ago
"This means that people with money have zero incentive to spend..." Except for food, housing, healthcare, entertainment, and well, pretty much everything people spend money on. You can't be alive or enjoy that life without th
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by wavepruner 6y ago
"Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest, most straightforward, and the least innovative ones: voting in policymakers who craft empathetic public policy" This gets extraordinarily complicated because many political groups re
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by wavepruner 6y ago
Clothing, night-time, and shade all make their exposure far less than 24/7. Also higher melanin skin blocks?/absorbs? radiation.
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by wavepruner 6y ago
From the comment: "For what it's worth I've reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don't collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikTok does, and they sure as hell aren't outrigh
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by wavepruner 6y ago
You need more data to input besides just the price time-series. Successful human traders balance and synthesize a myriad of data sources to make decisions. I depend on an in-depth understanding of human psychology as one of my data sources.
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by wavepruner 6y ago
Standing outside in the sun all day everyday is absolutely deadly.
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by wavepruner 6y ago
I wouldn't mind if they fixed the problem where my old profile picture keeps appearing in gmail and calendar. It's been changed for over a year now.
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by wavepruner 6y ago
I've seen multiple videos now from the recent riots of people being beaten either to death, or near death. I didn't see anything like that from the 2A protests.
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by wavepruner 6y ago
Any good reading suggestions regarding the idea that global variables are harmful?
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by wavepruner 6y ago
I can verify that driving for Uber can be very profitable if you find the right niche and only work during busy hours. My city has a huge restaurant & bar scene and when you hit the right times $20-30 profit is not very difficult. That&
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by wavepruner 6y ago
Twitter's translation of one of the tweets in the thread: "Considering the complexity inherent in our logistics activities and the fine of one million euros per infraction imposed by the court, the risk of contravening the decisio
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by wavepruner 6y ago
During the Great Recession my industry was hit particularly hard (environmental engineering, pollution remediation). I remained on unemployment for the full 2 years while pursuing about 5 real job opportunities per year. 80% of the time emp
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by wavepruner 6y ago
Terrible things happen to people all the time that are difficult to predict. Yet the legal system holds them accountable for the contracts they are involved in. This needs to be equally true with large corporations, otherwise contracts lose
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by wavepruner 6y ago
Looks like they are selling just the test for $249: https://rootmd.com/covid-19 I doubt insurance companies would cover something like this. Not a whole lot the company can do about that.
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by wavepruner 7y ago
People who do not work in healthcare are perfectly capable of learning how to doff properly. Qualifications and training in ancillary issues does not matter. Training in mask donning/doffing is what matters, and anyone can be trained i
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by wavepruner 7y ago
"The safety of thimerosal is entirely possible to evaluate. It was in a bunch of childhood vaccines; it now is not. Has there been any demonstrable difference?" If you don't believe that proper clinical trials are important t
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by wavepruner 7y ago
They could just as easily say, "Data reviewed did not demonstrate convincing evidence of safety from doses of thimerosal used in vaccines." Placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trials have never been completed to evaluate the
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by wavepruner 7y ago
"...to a significant portion of the population." Including health experts: "...depending on the vaccine formulations used and the weight of the infant, some infants could have been exposed to cumulative levels of mercury duri
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by wavepruner 7y ago
"Key findings: For the 62 COVID-19 patients, 46.8% (29 of 62) were male and 53.2% (33 of 62) were female, the mean age was 44.7 (15.3) years. No difference in the age and sex distribution between the control group and the HCQ group. Bu
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by wavepruner 7y ago
Yes, the liposomal form facilitates better absorption. They are structurally identical to vesicles used in cells for transporting materials. They can merge with your intestinal cells and release their contents, bypassing the usual limited t
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by wavepruner 7y ago
Sci-Hub link: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1001/jama.2019.11825 See Figure 3 on page 1268. As an anecdote, I've been experiencing symptoms in-line with COVID-19, mostly sore throat and intense fatigue. I've been usi
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IV Vitamin C reduces mortality in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome patients(jamanetwork.com)
2 points by wavepruner 7y ago|3 comments

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