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Comment · 1 year ago
Remote.com also compete in this space, and they have a pretty good UI and customer service.

Not cheap, but worth it for sure considering how much time they save you.

Comment · 3 years ago
This is an incredibly bad and short-sighted take.

This is not at all the same situation, and this sort of hubris is what causes public health disasters such as the Vioxx, Thalidomide or Dengvaxia scandals.

This is artificially created genetic material ending up in newborns after the manufacturer assured the public that was not possible.

I consider this incredibly serious.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Ah that's where the small print is important.

This isn't "mRNA" this is modified-mRNA (where the name Moderna comes from). Unfortunately they are allowed to abbreviate it as mRNA, which IMO is extremely problematic.

Modified-mRNA uses pseudouridine in some of its base pairs. As such, it is able to remain stable for orders of magnitude more time in many chemical situations.

This practice is incredibly deceptive and lead many in the medical profession to disregard some pretty serious safety issues.

Comment · 3 years ago
Ironic that nature publishes this despite being guilty of constantly promoting it.
Comment · 3 years ago
That's not really the case here. Gain of function research can not be justified using this argument.

There are so many potential mutations that putting specific evolutionary pressure on a virus in order to "prevent" only those specific effects has such low efficacy considering the size of the problem space.

GOF research has provided very little in terms of benefits, and many argue it's simply been a way to disguise bioweapons research after the Geneva convention.

Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe a fractional reserve banking system that allows banks to create money out of nothing through mortgage contracts and funnel it straight into the housing market, causing inflation and soaring debt, was a colossal mistake.

There, I fixed it for you.

Comment · 3 years ago
Banks create money out of nothing when they give you a mortgage. It's called fractional reserve banking. They're not "lending" you anything... your house becomes the collateral they use to create money from the mortgage contract itself.

This means a large amount of inflation gets funneled directly into the housing market. This skews economic signals and turns housing into a financial asset for the wealthy. The wealthy don't complain, because they are already on the property ladder.

So our entire financial system is fundamentally broken and this brokenness manifests most visibly in the housing market.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's interesting that we're not allowed to debate the existence of the crisis in the first place... it's just accepted as an a priori fact and anyone who provides even the slightest push-back is ridiculed and silenced.
Comment · 3 years ago
> As long as vaccine side effects cause less deaths and less harm than the virus, vaccination is still the way to go.

No.

This is the wrong criteria to judge by. Right now it takes ~30,000 injections to prevent one hospitalization from COVID, according to recent studies.

So the real criteria is, if there are severe side effects in more than 1/30k they should be pulled.

In Pfizer's own RCT more people died in the vaccinated cohort. They had ~4x the amount of cardiac arrest. There was no proven effect on all-cause mortality from the start. Anyone paying attention and not blindly listening to politicians and the sycophantic media knew this long ago.

Comment · 4 years ago
"mistakes"
Comment · 4 years ago
> only be given if the government's gotten a name / SSN / real-life identity to associate with that address

A.K.A. biometric vaccine passport

Comment · 4 years ago
Fasting.

You can train yourself to go from 8 hours (sleep) to 16 hours pretty easily.

Once you get to a point where you can one-meal-a-day comfortably, then extending this to a 48hr fast once a week becomes relatively easy too.

Comment · 4 years ago
Sites like Reddit, Facebook and Twitter can very easily become a political tool for manufacturing artificial consensus.

A large portion of the population do not go to specific news sites directly but instead rely on a link aggregator, Reddit being the most popular in the world (I believe).

If a political entity were to gain significant control of the censorship mechanisms, you would have a massive societal risk IMO. I have been following the censorship problem on Reddit for a while now and I think this has now become the case.

I can't say which entities are operating here, but it seems resoundingly clear something very inorganic is happening in Reddit's systems.

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