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@hauptmom Name calling is not a valid argument. Before you use that silly phrase again, may I remind you that in March 2020, Bill Gates said in an interview that vaccine passports were just a baseless "conspiracy theory". You would probably have agreed with him back then. Now they are in operation throughout the EU, New South Wales, Victoria (Australia), Canada, New York, Israel, in fact in some stage of use in over a hundred countries, including here.
If you think that only anything which agrees with the government is correct "information", then you obviously have a major issue you need to address in yourself. That is a very dangerous way of thinking. Democracy, and indeed science, rely on debate, not censorship and monolithic thinking like yours.
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@brianbrown6806 You're N. O. T. African mate. You're certainly not Shona or any of the other groups who are native to Zimbabwe.
You're clearly another Yank who can't distinguish between countries and continents. I have family from Nigeria, they've got black skin and they've got no more claim to that part of south east Africa than you do (because you don't come from there.)
Your history is also as bad as your geography. Some Boers have sickle cell because they have black African ancestry, just as you probably have white ancestry, and this more-African-than-thou is a form of Adlerian compensation mechanism for that. When I watch Tariq Nasheed's documentaries, it's notable that the lightest "black" people try hardest to be anti-white like Valentine. He's so light he could "pass". A bit like your Boer friends hide their black ancestry.
Being black doesn't give you a right to dictate to any part of Africa just as being a white American doesn't mean you have the right to dictate to Europe.
Here's thing. I think blacks should farm Zimbabwe. Unlike you who pretends to love black Zimbabweans but in reality wants them to live under a shiddy corrupt government that tortured and murdered native Zimbabweans (which you are not).
You realise Mugabe took land off black farmers as well, right? No, because your cognitive dissonance would make your head explode. You like the exploitation of black people when it is done by black people, as if it is any better.
p.s. My point about sickle cell still stands and you've been stupid enough to prove it. Mediterranean Europeans have black ancestry, like North Africans and African Americans have European ancestry. Way to undermine your own argument. 👏 Think you're welcome in South Africa? Half of them would laugh in your face, some of them can't even speak your language fluently. Bring some money, then you might get some instafriends.
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@NoName943210 It is VERY uncommon normally. Yet it is happening regularly now. I know of at least seventy sportsmen who have issues recently.
Here are a handful from a wide variety of sports:
* Boris Sádecký, 24, forward with the Bratislava Capitals ice hockey team, took heart attack during a match. Dead.
* Jérémy Chardy, 34, professional tennis player. Heart trouble, still alive. Says he regrets choosing to have the jag.
* Greg Luyssen 22, cyclist. Hospitalised. Not the only Belgian cyclist to have developed issues days after his second. Yarno Van Herck, Greg Van Avermaet and at least two others are known to.
*Viktor Marcell Hegedüs, dies at 18; Giuseppe Perrino, 29, Italian footballer (Ebolitana, Battipagliese, Bellaria Igea Marina), heart attack. Dead. Also Charles Vardis, dead at 35; Georges Christian Lenglolo, dead at 39; Franck Berrier, dead at 37 (football manager, not player, at the end), Edin Šaranović, also a manager, dead at 45; and many others in soccer including Eriksen and Sergio Aguero of Barcelona FC. Nicky Dalibor and Ryan Bowman still alive but collapsed during matches.
* Markis Kido, 36, Indonesian badminton player, Olympic (2008) and world champion (2007, 2010), heart attack. Dead.
* Avi Barot, 29, Indian cricketer. Dead.
* Richard Harward, BYU basketball. Has had to retire after developing cardiovascular issues eight days after having his jag.
* Whitnée Abriska, handball player, dead at 19 while waiting for a flight.
* Volleyball coach Dirk Splisteser of SG Traktor Divitz collapses dead on sidelines of match.
Numerous others but I don't have all day to list them. Some of them are/were teenagers.
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@Richard-ib3kp I've heard all this. My grandmother used to say, "you need money to make money." She was right, but most hard working people don't make much money, may face crippling debt and all the rest. There are better ways to make money - marry it, inherit it (like Gates, Musk, Trump etc), invest it... and of course, underpay your employees and overcharge for your products.
Even at "grunt" level, a stripper or a reiki therapist can often make better money than someone who works in the mines or the sewers... even though they do less work. At higher levels, you can get paid more for a five minute cameo in a film or an advert than running your own small business.
In my experience, I've found it easier to make money by buying things in and reselling them at a higher rate than sweating away on a building site, even though that was harder to do. (And I still pay for it physically.) Work and income are not as interrelated as people think they are.
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@magavelli420 I know. It's rough. I'm in the UK and there are adverts everywhere for downloading the "Kvd" app (which is nothing but surveillance for various reasons), QR codes and constant friggin' swill on the front of newspapers.
My family history alone should give me an exemption to this. My mother took a, well let's call it a "brain leak" (because I can't name it on here) younger than I am now, and had trouble with her monthly cycle. My father had trouble with his "blood pump" most of his life. So did my uncle, my aunt, my cousin, my grandmother and grandfather and that's only the ones I know about! They all died of this, except my cousin, who only ended up in a wheelchair after his leg was amputated! It's all over both sides of my family, and continually being told it's 100% safe is BS. Nothing , not even a jag of Vitamin C is 100% safe. They think they can blind people with such statements which are blatantly untrue, whereas I have serious family concerns I don't need some robot to wave away.
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@christopherfanelli8821 No, I'm seeing what I don't want to see, that was the whole point. I don't know which of the 137 comments above you were replying to (because YouTube has no tree system in replies.)
There is a lot of anti-Christian propaganda in mass media, outside of specific Christian media itself (which is a kind of ghetto/sealed system). One of these is that in recent years, it is very uncommon to see rounded Christian characters - they are often negative caricatures with little resemblance to most of their real life counterparts I encounter. For example, you will rarely see uncloseted gay Christians on screen, or gay friendly churches. Even though gay marriages happened in churches for years before governments got round to it. You won't see Christians who are tolerant and kind, even though I regularly meet such people. You won't see ecumenicalism on screen 99% of the time either. This is a contrast to the past where such people did appear in films. Clergy especially tend to be represented as terrible hypocrites and monsters. Usually with their hand in the till. Now, I know what you're going to say here. I do not support those clergy who have done terrible things to children or whatever... and no, I am not a Roman Catholic (before you try that argument on me) but I had to point out to someone recently that the majority of such incidents occur in state run schools and state "care" (whatever you call it in your part of the world)... the governments of this world are more responsible for it in some way than any other entity.
You can see other more subtle examples of it elsewhere. Some of it is stupid like "Lucifer" pushing a cool idea of the Devil, who is so misunderstood, but ends up taking over heaven, because obviously he must be better than God? You can see it in throwaway comments that characters make too numerous to mention. One bizarre notion that crops up in science fiction is that finding intelligent life off Earth would completely destroy Christianity.... why would it? It's an issue which theologians have discussed for hundreds of years. The culture shock is unlikely to be purely religious either.
That's just off the top of my head.
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@sheldoncooper8199 "What's the point of dealing with dying?" We can take it from that comment, you've not seen much of it in your life. That's a luxury most people have never had in this world. When you're faced with death, either your own or someone else's, it puts things in perspective. Yes, atheists do cry at funerals, but their notion that you're just snuffed out like a candle is not very comforting to anyone at all, except perhaps if someone has been in physical pain just beforehand. But even then - it implies that the death of a small child, say, was a short life of no consequence. Also, if you know you're going to die in the near future, you start to think about things very differently too. It's easy to be flippant about death in your teens, not so much if you're in your late nineties. A lot of people do not want to go, and do not want their loved ones to go. A lot of people are very frightened of death, no matter what their mindset.
If you think I'm just talking about the afterlife here, I'm not. Buddhist meditation is partly a psychological preparation for death, by getting people to understand that "nothing is permanent" etc. That's an aspect many people miss.
Also, I have to admit, I look around me and despite the beauty of this world (in some places), I find it incredibly depressing to think this is all we have... especially if you're a wage slave or unemployed, and that has been true in the last two years, and that thinking has killed some people I know. Contrary to the thinking that religion takes one's focus off this life, I've actually found it makes me happier in it. I spent many years irreligious - that aspect was never positive for me, and insurmountable.
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@stewy2909 It's a state broadcaster, and state broadcasters' market share is declining across the world. One of their main challenges is competition, since many of them emerged before most other channels, and they still think they hold the monopoly... they also tend to push the narrative of whichever government they work for, while pretending to be neutral.
I'll never forget the time I saw a BBC employee accuse someone from Russia Today of being state propaganda. A case of the pot calling the kettle black. I watch RT occasionally, but am under no delusion that it is anything but a state broadcaster. The BBC, ABC, Al Jazeera, DW, RAI, RTE etc etc all pose as neutral, but are anything but.
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@AZ2PM You're dead wrong, Andrew. Youtube is going to be clamping down on that very hard soon, according to their own press releases.
The whole point of democracy, and even science (in the real sense), is the ability to hear contrasting viewpoints... rather than just one state mandated one. I know it is far easier for you to think all criticism of the current situation is from quacks and morons, but it isn't. For example, I had a link to the New England Journal of Medicine removed recently from Youtube, because it didn't fit. Apparently some spotty unpaid intern at their "independent" "fact checking" service knows better than one of the best respected medical journals in the USA. Likewise, I've had a link to an article from Israel's Ministry of Health removed, because it too suggested that there were issues. (Even though Israel one of the states which is most supportive of this medical programme.)
So yes, I'd love to say it was all bare-foot doctors and Neonazis being censored, but the simple fact is that it isn't. We're seeing articles from respected medical journals and government ministries being stymied. Even here on Youtube, spambots and pyramid schemes can post links with impunity, but we cannot have open democratic and scientific debate on here.
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@Scrat335 I was discussing the whole issue of Soviet Communism last year with someone, and it's interesting that many people think Russians were the most committed to the whole project. In actual fact, East Germans and Chinese seem to have knuckled down more with it (although both groups did protest in large numbers)
With the Russians, they have a slightly rebellious streak to them, so they managed to come up with numerous workarounds or ways to deal with such a system. One of them was to go camping, because it meant they were away from spies. Another was to harvest mushrooms, since they come up overnight and couldn't be stockpiled by the authorities. Many of them used alcohol, but others had all kinds of tricks, and I think despite all the horrors of the nineties they came through that too better than westerners would. So yes, without belittling what they went through, Russians are tough.
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@fluffynator6222 No, that's gaslighting. Gaslighting is when you try and persuade someone that they are just imagining something.
This isn't an imagined feature of Kindle, it's a real one. As I said before, I work in publishing and one can alter details of a book after it has been downloaded. There are practical reasons for this, but they are not always sinister.
Ironically, you're the one trying to rationalise all this, e.g. when you say "the author is altering the book, not Amazon". The reality is that a) Amazon is capable of altering books as well, and b) it is the publisher, not the author who is altering the book. Many books are self-published these days, so publisher and author are one and the same, but that is irrelevant to the argument.
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@happyhaze1526 Humans are driven by emotions. Even autistic people. We are not computers. Most of our decisions are rationalised after the event, not before. We spend most of our lives in an illogical state – over a quarter of the day in unconsciousness on average (6,7,8 hours), and even during the waking day we do not spend most of our time in rational thought (even when we think we are). Some people take drugs or drink to suspend that part. A considerable portion of the adult day is often taken up with thoughts about sex, various relationships, worries, money/food, and a host of other things which are not based around logic.
Of course, a completely logical person would be something approaching a psychopath, because they would judge other people's lives or interactions with them on a callous and somewhat "cold" basis.
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Scrooge McGruel No, they really don't. I know more people who have moved to Dubai, Turkey and Spain from where I live. The US has some good aspects, but also deterrents such as gun crime and expensive health care.
I have no desire to live in the USA. There is no historical depth to most of the place, I have no roots there and most of the towns are pretty ugly - miles and miles of sprawl. Not really my thing. I apologise for being blunt, but the US is not my thing. I have spent time there but would never want to live there.
There is one main reason why people want to move to the US and that is money. Some will come because of persecution elsewhere, but there are plenty of other options including Europe, Australia, Canada etc. In fact Europe is getting inundated at a faster rate, every time western forces attack Syria or Libya you get wave upon wave of them coming to Europe. It backs onto Africa and the Middle East, whereas the USA is fairly isolated in comparisom.
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@davidcat1455 If you are a vet or even an ag worker, then surely you are aware that it has also been administered to humans by doctors for years. The packaging and dosage will be different, but it will be the same drug.
This story has been blown out of all proportion to create ridicule against those who do not accept everything the authorities tell them. I know plenty of people who are alarmed by what is being done to us, some injected, some not, but not one of them takes this stupid stuff.
In several years' time, we won't be talking about this sillynpaste. We'll be asking why we allowed the Second Great Depression to become so bad, and why we have to have a government app to allow us to buy a cup of coffee or get our hair cut. And that's just the mild version. Everyone will know people who have committed suicide, drunk themselves to death, gone bankrupt, taken heart attacks from stress or found out that certain things were not as "safe and effective" as first claimed.
p.s. I am not a fan of social media. I only have it for work. But a lot of people do communicate through it. Particularly when we're all under house arrest.
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@davidcat1455 It's always Alex Jones. The thing is, I can't remember the last time I watched that man... I am however hearing many bad things out here in the real world. There are a lot of issues which are repeating after people have had their jags, and we're not allowed to talk about it. I can only get away with it here because the Scots word "jag" isn't in the filter system yet. I'm sure it soon will be. I already have to avoid certain terminology.
As I was just saying to someone elsewhere I had to record everyone who was attending our church thanks to our local guidelines. We had a limit of fifty, or even twenty, depending on what the Scottish Government felt like that week. Nearly everyone is onboard with the programme, they all think it's hunky dory. We're a mainstream, trad outfit. There is only one guy in the congregation, who won't take the jags. Yet every week, for months on end, we had people who couldn't attend because they felt ill. And no, not from the Big Bug, but from the supposed cure. Some of them felt sick from it nearly a week after having it. Two weeks in one or two cases. I had to swap them out for someone else due to limited spaces. No one thought this was abnormal at all. Others complained they felt foggy or had twitches, but apparently this was normal.
By pure accident, I have had a chance to observe what is going on firsthand. We only had one congregation member to be horribly affected with the bug - three weeks for him. In contrast, there have been dozens having problems with the supposed solution.
When I was at boarding school years ago, I remember we would all get jags for flu, measles etc. I don't recall anyone being knocked out for days on end by them. Some of those I noticed had issues recently are in their twenties, so not old at all.
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@Ss23803 That doesn't matter... Regarding charity, Jesus tells the story of the Widow's Mite, where she gave a tiny coin, because she was poor and that was all she had. He says that was worth more than what the rich people gave. Now whatever one thinks of Jesus, he was right here, since the widow gave far more in terms of what she had. BG doesn't give away that much money proportionately, for the simple reason that he makes far more.
What he gives away comes with strings attached. He uses that money to buy influence (hence you see him here) and to make more money (his climate work is linked into his investments in renewables).
It really doesn't matter where the bug came from in some ways, BG has exploited and directed this situation. The WHO takes advice off him and national governments. His solutions have involved increased ςεnsοrshιρ/crushing independent voices, monetising the treatments, linking them to digital ΙD systems (I am referring to mobile phones here, not any alleged thing in the body), and economic warfare on small business. At the same time he has been keen to keep international travel going, which is complete hypocrisy in this situation. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could kick him.
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@mahendraa98 It's not resistance, our world is being deliberately re-engineered for the benefit of a few rich and powerful people. They know almost all jobs will be automated, so there will be a lot of angry unemployed peasants who will want to overthrow them.
So they've introduced the so called Fουrτh Ιnδυsτrιαl Rενοlυτιοn Ρroject, which is being run by the World Economic Forum While technology can be used for good ends, this project revolves mainly about spying on people (smart devices, everything do online), genetic engineering (while pretending to be green), satellite surveillance etc. This crisis is being used to forward the 4ΙR.
They are complete hypocrites, they claim they want us to cut carbon while using more electronics, and hide behind democratic governments while endorsing more censorship and surveillance. The endgame may be transhumanism, which is what Elon Musk's Neuralink project is about, basically being able to access your brain.
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@dinodinoslav And you approve. You are what is known as an "enabler". Just because something happens, doesn't mean that it should. I avoid most smart devices, and like most people if I get one that does not mean I condone or support what they do, in fact I try and switch off as much of their tech as I can. If it makes any difference. If we actually had proper political representation, they would ban most of it.
Yes, like I said, you employ the "boiling a frog" argument, as they call it, and you enable this crap by saying "it's already happening, support it." You could apply a similar logic to other situations like police corruption, river pollution or overpricing of goods, and it would be equally wrong.
Nice attempt at gaslighting with the "tin foil" cliché. I knew people who grew up in East Germany. Were they "tin foil", because they resented the Stasi?
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@fluffynator6222 I work in publishing, mate. I know a lot more about this than you do. Yes, they do alter books, in fact Kindle advertises the fact one can. It is not always a bad thing. If you use a Kindle, you can flag up spelling and content errors, which will then be forwarded on to the publisher and then corrected. That is the positive side of the phenomenon, and I know a number of people who do that on a regular basis... however, your gaslighting, i.e. trying to persuade me this is all in my mind, is pretty pathetic, so please quit it.
Also, don't bother lecturing me on physical books... I own hundreds of them.
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@Fr00stee The stuff I've mentioned is all non-conformist. Most people are conditioned to think of the ludicrous examples, because it suits the establishment. In actual fact, a number of non-conformist ideas have ended up mainstream in the west, like vegetarianism, feminism, freedom of religion, cannabis legalisation or environmentalism; or have substantial support in the public like pacifism, self-suffiency, decriminalisation of drugs etc..
Even in these times, it is easy to divide people into "sensible" and "anti-vaxxer", but it isn't that neat, because many people criticise the economic handling, but have had the shots; or have been vax'd before but reject the current shots; or have had the vax but respect the right of others to refuse; or support the vax but oppose digital tracking ID ("vaccine passports"). There are numerous positions.
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@Fr00stee The majority of the population is V'd here, so if they work, what is the point of these apart from spying on the general population? That isn't compatible with democracy, in fact even East Germany never had that level of public surveillance (not an exaggeration - my ex grew up there, so I heard all about it).
Here is the point: once you introduce these, they are NEVER going away. Governments around the world will stoke up this or some other thing. Twenty years ago, they used "tear wrists" (as Dubya used to call them) to strip away freedoms, in the Cold War it was Communists. Same trend, different excuses. The European Union was discussing this type of ID ten years ago, now it has had the excuse to introduce it. Not only do these things track you, they can also deny you entry to certain locations. That is not a future we need or want.
"Everybody is already being tracked by the government"
The boiling a frog argument. Just because something is already happening, doesn't mean it is right. Besides which we aren't required to take our phones everywhere. That's currently optional.
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@hherpdderp You believe that? I don't know which rock you're hiding under but Facebook won't allow discussion of it. I don't use FB for info like that anyway.
The west is supposedly democratic but we cannot even discuss certain issues on most platforms even when it comes from OFFICIAL sources. All the latent totalitarians and opponents of liberal democracy are coming out of the woodwork. You know, people like you who don't care about people dying from other things, poverty, stress etc...
Seven out of every ten people I know are having "unexpected results". That's the ones who support it. Some of them are in bed for a week. At least one has had internal bleeding (intestinal). Others are complaining about feeling foggy for days on end etc. This is repeating across the world, and isn't localised, but the only way I can talk about this without being nixed is circumlocutions, euphemisms, slang etc.
The Israeli ministry of health admits for example that over 250 men in their teens and twenties have had enlargement of their "blood pumps" after this and some have died.
The UK government is hesistant to release info, but admits reporting of "unexpected results" from it is under 10%.
I know plenty of people who have been seriously sick from the "cure", more so than the original issue. I know one guy who was hospitalised for three weeks due to the Bug. I know no one under forty who spent more than a day or two in bed with the bug, unlike this thing. I know more people who getting sick from the "cure"... Which doesn't even prevent you giving it to someone else or protect against others.
People are dying from your solutions, but you're so blinkered you can't see past it. If harvests don't get collected and economies are destroyed, far more will die from that than this.
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@earlwyss520 Even then there would be something to fight and die for, i.e. the Communist ideal, which is unfulfillable and which Communists can't agree on. (They're actually a fractious bunch if you've been around them.) Is Communism vegan? Does it require a leader? Squabbles galore about this.
I believe that bizarrely that Stalin and Mao etc, actually wanted rid of some of the more ideologically Communist types in their society, and just wanted loyal drones... Real Communists questioned the methods of Lenin, Stalin and Mao etc, for example, Marx wrote that a country needed to develop an industrial bourgeois society before a proletarian revolution, and it is arguable whether most of the Russian Empire or rural China had developed any such thing. (Although oddly enough, there is a case for saying both Russia and China have that now - the Baltic Republics certainly do.)
When Communists did enter more bourgeois countries like Central Europe after WW2, Communists could not claim they had a popular uprisng like Russia did - it was more a foreign invasion and occupation... So bona fide Communists might argue about that. Communist infighting is actually really severe, I think Mao's Red Guards were the most extreme version. But many of Marxism's victims were not just rich people but actual Communists.
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@ozymandiasultor9480 it doesn't- "absolutism" means that only one point of view is considered correct. When you have that, then anyone who disagrees with it is in trouble. Its other problems are "the end justifies the means", and seeing people as blocs not individuals, meaning that individual suffering is seen as meaningless and sometimes necessary. (Even though societies, class etc do not exist without the individual.)
Because it cannot succeed, shortly after a revolution, it has to look for scapegoats, to explain its failures, often people within the movement itself. It can either do that, or water down its policies, which the NEP did and China has.
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@KingMinosxxvi I've read all three books you mention at the bottom there. Nabokov is a good writer, but he does repeat a lot of fancy words! I became aware of this because I read the book in my teens and noted down words I didn't know... Several popped up again and again. He's good, and I've never felt so.guilty for liking a book. Never understood the big deal about Bukowski, a former friend of mine republished some of his books, I was just underwhelmed by them...
As for the other two, never read any Follett (nearly did). Sphere was okay - again many years ago. I wouldn't rush back to read it.
If you want bad, I mean textbook bad, look at Fifty Shades of Grey. I've only ever dipped into it, but every page is dripping with bad writing. But she sells well and has a film deal, so if you're going by those metrics, she's successful.
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@NeilCWCampbell Two years or more in normal times. If I factor in referrals before the actual waiting list, then it was probably three and a bit years. If I had stuck with the NHS, the entire process may have taken at least four years (including Covid related restrictions)
The screening is a lot more geared towards diagnosing children. I had raised concerns with my local medical practice many years ago and was given antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication. At no point was the issue of autism raised by my doctor.
I had to initiate the process entirely by myself which started with my private psychotherapist who referred me to a charity who saw me twice who then referred me to the NHS for a two year waiting list, who then after two years said I could go to a second charity...
Socalised medicine is great for some things but not for others. A friend made a suicide attempt in 2019, and had a quick response. Emergencies are well handled, lifetime issues less so.
We are probably twenty years behind the USA in picking up mild autism, especially in adults. Even when I was screened, I was asked questions about my early childhood i.e. three and before, which is difficult for most people to remember. The vast majority of autistic people are undiagnosed in Scotland and the UK. If you are over thirty five, you are unlikely to be diagnosed. If you are female, you are also less likely to be diagnosed. Yet I frequently meet older people who appear to have it, but have no idea that they do. And yes, a large number of women. I believe my mother had it, possibly her own mother, and some of her sisters.
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@testep02 "literally throwing his entire fortune" - No he isn't, he makes more money each year than he gives away so that is blatantly a lie. Charitable donations are also tax deductible under US law unlike some countries.
Either you are being paid to write his hagiography, or you aren't. I'm not sure which is worse. He is and remains one of the richest people in the world, and he continues to invest millions each year in non-charitable projects, so he's hardly going broke as you claim.
Bill Gates has regularly lied about aspects of his life and that is provable. For a start (like Elon Musk), thirty or years ago he used to try and claim he had come up from notning, which is a total lie as both sides of his family were already multimillionaires in the seventies. His business practices at Microsoft were so corrupt even the US government hauled him in (look it up). He also ripped pff the inventors of various things, including the Helvetica Font, which he had an inferior copy made of called Arial.
He is not medically qualified in any way whatsoever. In fact the man never even got a.
degree (excluding honorary ones given to him later in life).
I notice you drag out the "conspiracy theorist" tag - maybe you should look a bit closer to home before you make nonsensical claims about him "literally" giving his wealth away. The man has at least six private jets, and who knows how many homes in several countries, and makes major business investments every year, yet you claim he's giving it away. Jesus wept.
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@yasminesteinbauer8565 Those who choose security over liberty will get neither, as one person once said. (Slight paraphrase.) If you want to influence your government, your vote will mean little difference at all - the way to do so is to give large sums of money to the governing party (preferably one or two of the others to be on the safe side.)
We live in a plutocracy, not a democracy, and an increasingly authoritarian one at that. In fact, oligarchical plutocracy is the best description. Our rulers often go to the same universities or even schools, and spend years being groomed. We have different parties running different countries yet they all have the same policies, e.g. the gradual phase out of physical money, compulsory ID based on QR codes (introduced at different rates), and very similar policies regarding issues such as economy, personal liberty and the arts. These don't come from public demand, in fact, the reverse- they have to convince the public of them.
Environmental policies revolve around carbon taxes which punish the poor, while built in obsolescence (i.e. goods which can't be easily repaired and don't last) is allowed to continue, producing ever more waste.
p.s. I rarely watch RT and certainly haven't this year. I trust it as much as I do the BBC, another biased arm of the state. Most TV news is tendentious and misleading.
p.p.s. You know that there has been little "protection of others" recently, don't you? Suicides, overdoses and domestic abuse went through the roof. Bankruptcy has helped cause this, as has an authoritarian regime. The suicide rate went up by 4x recently, killing far more people than the you know what. Cancer deaths are also high since many people could not see a doctor early enough or were told not to go. So much for "stay safe".
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@janklaassen6404 Why is it happening in mulitple countries? That is provable. Do not ask me to post links, because that will result in this reply being taken off.
Your government and others have helped undermine the economy. Many people already struggled to pay rent, bills, loans, taxes etc, and the governments did little to protect them when they were forced to stop working, and still pay these bills and their taxes were not lowered. Also why were small shops forced to shut while large ones were allowed to stay open? That's economic discrimination not "science".
Supermarkets operate according to a system called "just in time", i.e. much of the stock is not stored for very long... especially not fruit, vegetables and fish. When that chain is disrupted by whatever, for even a couple of weeks, you end up with issues.
By the way, my country is Scotland, not the UK - that is the entity which took over my country, and I do not wish to remain part of it. The UK is not a country, it is a state, with multiple countries/nations in it, like Spain or the former USSR & Yugoslavia. I voted to remain in the EU, although I hate the way it is run. (The UK's political system is even worse) The EU would have done better to take Switzerland as a model, but instead it seems to prefer something like the USA. I like the idea of a Europe of friendship and freedom, and high culture, not an authoritarian Europe where the state monitors your every move, and where fear of various different things is used to control the population.... and the culture is pap designed to shut up the masses.
I would quite happily leave the UK with its feudal idiocy... but the EU needs major reform and 2020-22 has proven that. I had hoped the UK would vote to remain but the EU would abandon centralisation and authoritarian tendencies which counteract civil rights.
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@yasminesteinbauer8565 Parties win elections when they are well funded. I'm aware Belgium has a different funding model, but in most western countries, parties are funded by large corporate interests. They buy policies. Google still pays a fraction of the tax percentage that small to medium businesses do. Ditto Vodafone and numerous others.
A number of European countries operate as tax havens - some EU members, such as Luxembourg and the Irish Republic, and others non-EU members such as Switzerland, and the British crown dependencies (Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey etc).
Why have 120+ countries suddenly decided we all need QR passes for everyday life? They didn't do so independently or coincidentally - it was obviously decided behind closed doors, and a pseudo-scientific rationale cooked up for it to make it contemporary. The concept was being discussed in Brussels at least ten years ago. It benefits large corporations since they have the infrastructure to implement such radical changes, whereas it is costly and difficult for smaller businesses to introduce.
These 120+ countries are supposedly run by parties which pretend to be from different parts of the political spectrum, and many of them pretend to represent their people. The thing is that there was no popular demand for this. They had to try and create one. This is just a lead in to a digital wallet. Everything will be in it. Not just your health status. Wave byebye to any concept of liberal democracy, we're heading straight for techno-feudalism.
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@yasminesteinbauer8565 Some journalism in Europe is propaganda (often state broadcasters like RAI or RTE etc), some isn't. Unfortunately we now have phrases like "misinformation" and "fake news" being bandied around by politicians to discredit anything which does not agree with their line. Certain subjects are very much off limits for news media. This is done under guise of "protecting" us from one thing or another.
As for focus? We now have problems everywhere since 2020? I have only talked about the tip of the proverbial iceberg. This period has impacted the tourist industry, public transport, office rental, farming, freight, addiction recovery groups, cafés, bars, restautants, theatres, cinemas... and many more other jobs now under threat.
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@olmostgudinaf8100 Denial of what?I don't support Brexit, because I'm a Scottish nationalist (hence my user name) and don't think it's in Scotland's interests to be even more dominated by England. The EU for all its faults provided some protection for Scotland, and supported infrastructure development. (Although they are even keener on these nutty totalitarian QR IDs than Boris is.)
However, there are multiple factors here - some discussed in this video - and the same issue IS happening in the States and Australia. Shutting down the entire global economy for months on end, sending people away for two weeks when they're not ill, adding multiple barriers such as IDs to prove you've taken the medicine, and internal movement restrictions... none of these help. Augason Farms' closure is not "denial", it is fact. It's happening stateside, yet supposedly they have free movement across a huge chunk of North America- Canada is largely off limits these days.
The obvious issue with Brexit is stricter border control, but even after Brexit it is in the interests of much of Northern Europe to have some kind of trade with the UK. Especially places like northern France, Benelux etc. The EU continues to trade with Switzerland, Norway and places like Andorra no problem.
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@animalcol1 I agree that Brexit issues may well be permanent, but that is the reality we now live in even if we don't like it, and it is not in the interests of either London or Brussels to make it worse. Or places like Calais, Zeebrugge, Europoort in Holland, the ROI etc which rely on regular trade with the UK. In Ireland, tens of thousands commute between both parts of the island everyday or did until recently.
However, not the bug that has caused most of the problems, but the crass, cynical and inconsistent response to it. The problems the response has caused are permanent - one in seven shops in Scotland are now out of business thanks to it, nearly all wee ones, never the big ones. That is probably not the final figure, but this happened within months of these shut downs. I could wander around in a supermarket with hundreds of people around me but I couldn't get a new key cut in a small shop or buy new shoes. Utterly disgusting. I also saw planes coming and going to the Gulf, Italy etc but I'm not supposed to talk to my neighbour over the fence.
It is a disproportionate response since very few people even know they have the wretched thing. But it has been allowed to destroy the economic system worldwide. This "Build Back Better" slogan the Tories used at their conference pops up with Biden, Trudeau, Morrison, Ardern and even in Pakistan. Where do they get it from? They obviously didn't invent it. Nor did they invent these disgusting IDs they are gradually bringing in for nightclubs and sports matches. In some countries you are denied basic human rights if you don't have the QR ID. It's evil and needs to stop. It doesn't even prevent the bug.
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@aquaticcactus9897 You're displaying incredible parochialism. I was watching clips from Mission Impossible III recently, and they kept on with this nonsense, e.g. Berlin, Germany and Shanghai, China. Again, these were the only Berlins and Shanghais of any consequence. The only people who needed the country names tacked on for them are ignoramuses and small children. I'm sure there is a Shanghai, Illinois (pop. 50), or a Berlin, Queensland (pop. 12), but they are of no consequence. (Unfortunately, I have to spell this out for literalists, but I made up those last two examples.)
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@dreddzeppelin8234 Nothing that didn't already happen to England, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the Soviet Union, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Persia, Turkey, Mongolia etc etc.
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William Scott I'm aware of a lot of this wilder stuff, but there are issues.
Firstly, even if we consider it to be true, it doesn't really help solve our (ordinary people's) problems right now.
Secondly, some of these ideas contain contradictory elements or flimsy ones, and others are almost impossible to prove.
Take the idea that Mr Bates is related to the Rockefellers (which I've heard) - short of a DNA test, I don't know how you'd prove it... Let alone how one proves a Pharaohnic or Babylonian bloodline. Most Iraqis (and probably most Middle Easterners) will have Babylonian ancestry. Most western Europeans have Merovingian ancestry via Charlemagne - since I have a tiny bit of Frog ancestry on my mother's side, monsieur, I almost certainly do myself. (And a fat lot of good it's done me in life... I'm still waiting to be anything but a suburban nobody with artistic pretensions.)
The basic truth is that we are run by a group of cynical, manipulative capitalist bar stewards. And yes, they are cliquey (while pretending otherwise). But anything else they do (allegedly) such as occultism or black ops is just an extension of that. I don't think one has to go that deep to see we are exploited, and the problem remains the same even if one gets into deeper theories of varying merit.
So even if you spend a lot of time researching ceremonies or history, or whatever, with things that can or can't be easily proven... You end up just reinforcing what is obvious to most of those who never bothered - rich people rule this world.
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@blondezeke6640 I'm not "nihilist". Unlike you, I don't believe humans are just machines. However there are those who do, and if the whole transhumanist show gets on the road, then your theories will be as meaningless as mediaeval philosophers discussing how the supposed celestial spheres.
The bourgeois vs proletariat binary is an increasingly dated concept as AI comes in and (manual) labour disappears. There are predictions that could happen by 2040 or 2050, if not earlier.
These apply as much to modern capitalism as Communist theory:
First step: stop thinking of people as economic or social units, and see them as capable of things that can go beyond mere economic production. Art and culture are sterile if tied purely to such a philosophy.
Second step: admit that if the rights of individuals are abused, then so are the collective's, because there is no collective or mass without individuals.
Third step: admit that absolutism, and the inability to look at points of view other than your own, inevitably leads to tyranny. You have no right to micromanage the lives of others.
Fourth step: there is no "inevitable" flow to human history, we can be back to the Stone Age or extinct by the end of this century.
Fifth step: the idea that the end justifies the means will also lead to cruelty and murder. If you condone that or commit atrocities, they will be with you until your dying breath.
I suspect this is wasted on you. But try thinking outside the box, that may be what saves us.
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@mergendy This is an international scheme, and is being introduced in a hundred states. In many of them, as with the UK, there is mission creep, i.e. it starts with big things and works down to smaller things. That is exactly what is happening in the UK. It started with travel, has worked down to sports games, and now to nightclubs. The infrastructure is already there in many British pubs to scan in - it only needs a minor change to facilitate that.
Some of the countries which have introduced this across the board are already finding that it is causing chaos. Here is another link about what is happening in Israel with this, and what could happen here. I suggest you read it - this is from the Telegraph
"Theatres, pools, sports events, bars and restaurants [in Israel] were instructed to deny entrance to those not carrying a Green Pass."
http://web.archive.org/web/20210612103310/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/27/vaccine-passports-backfire-case-israel-shows/
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@mergendy a) This is not what you had in Austria in 1987. It isn't "paranoia", it is a current fact. This is something that restricts where you can go (an ID card can't do that), is hooked up to your phone and also monitors who you meet (also not possible with an ID card.)
b) It is utter BS to dress this up as a "health measure", since it isn't actually any good at preventing the spread of disease. It has, however, been discussed by politicians on and off for the past decade or so. Many countries were proposing this system for driving licences
How do one hundred countries come up with the exact same idea independently at the same time? We'd best not be paranoid, though, eh, it must just be a "coincidence".
We have three parties trying to force this through - Conservatives in England, Labour in Wales and the SNP in Scotland. Why bother voting if you get the same policies off different parties? This is not the logical solution to this crisis, and is going to hammer folk economically even more since small businesses will have to pay for the equipment.
I'd rather not take Austria as an example. You guys walked into three dictatorships - Dolfuss, Hitler and then Communist influence for a short period (although you managed to wriggle out of that last one unlike your neighbours). Austrians have a poor track record in sticking up for their personal freedoms in the past century or so.
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@mergendy Even Homer nods. You have tried repeatedly to gaslight saying it's all just paranoia, even though digital ID is here. It was being discussed in Brussels way back in 2010 or so, long before Сονιδ was ever dreamt of. (Yes, I know what you're thinking, but I actually voted to remain in the European Union, despite all its issues.)
However, my points stick. This is not a temporary measure. It is not a new idea nor a "раssроrт" It is being implemented across the board in various countries, including the entire EU, and the UK, and various developed countries.
My apologies for saying Austria, I blame "the Ausweis". However, it's not like Germany has been a beacon of personal freedom since 1945... east or west, but especially the DDR, which my ex grew up in - even little children had to report on their neighbours back then, including her... This need of our supposedly democratic governments to monitor everyone now reminds of the old Stasi mentality. Zu viel Ordentlichkeit. I can't see any of it ending happily for Germany or any of the rest of us. We've actually had advertisements over here telling us to inform on our neighbours. Some people have done so. People don't learn from history.
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@mergendy @mergendy You gaslight me every time you call me "paranoid". That is exactly what happens in the film "Gas Light", which the term comes from - the main character is continually told that her fears are imaginary, her memory is faulty and that she is basically insane. So, yes, that is gaslighting in a real sense.
In this case, you're calling me paranoid even though I see some of the actual infrastructure is already in place. I already have to record my every visit to a pub or cafe, and have the option already of scanning a QR code there. You also tell me I'm paranoid while Boris Johnson is introducing them to nightclubs (good luck with that, Boris), which are attended mostly by an age group which are barely affected by this bug.
We have been lied to continually throughout this whole crisis. We were told "three weeks to stop the spread" (I imagine something similar over there), but there is no evidence that lockdown was ever intended to be that short, they just didn't have the courage to say it outright. Віll Gатеs, who for some bizarre reason was the main spokesman for all this claimed in March, last year that these passes were just a "conspiracy theory" yet here they are in reality. We have also been presented with discriminatory and inconsistent policies, which benefit certain businesses e.g. Amazon and punish others.
You've never explained how a hundred states come up with the same idea independently. The EU, I can understand... It shares a parliament, but that doesn't explain all the others.
Yes, a lot of my points do stick, for the precise reason that they are to be found scattered around the place. These passes have been introduced gradually, as I predicted months ago, and their use extended to more and more areas of life. This has been done under the cover of a crisis, and under the influence of undemocratic and authoritarian influences... All for a disease which leaves the vast majority of the population untouched.
I remember twenty years ago that authoritarian elements in the west used Islamic terrorism as a means to forward their aims. Even though historically we had more of a problem with left wing terrorism in the west (Baader-Meinhof, R.A.F. etc) and groups like the I.R.A. than we ever did with Islam.
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@mergendy You asked about my age. I don't really hand out that kind of info online - but put it this way... I broke up with my East German girlfriend around twenty years ago, so your estimate is way out. I really liked her, but she did have one or two very German faults which led to some issues between us. I still think of her sometimes and hope she is happy wherever she is these days.
I like many of the Germans I've met, but many of them do defer to authority. I notice this even among "Green" types, and supposed anarchists. I suppose this is because like most of Europe, their ancestors only left feudalism in the recent past.
No, I'm afraid I don't see post-war Germany as a beacon of liberty. A large chunk was an open dictatorship in living memory.
The West was under military occupation into the nineties, and it too was heavily infiltrated by Communist agents of influence, especially in areas like education and politics, not just in more obvious places like Brandt's government, and universities, but also in the supposed right wing parties, the arts and the green movement. This will have left a mark, I'm afraid.
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@DGraham9721 It's romanticised BS. The Royal Navy used to press sailors from all over. When Nelson fought the French at Trafalgar he had French and Spanish men below decks.
The narrator also implies the War of Independence was ongoing, when it had long finished. Any prisoners still remaining from the original War of Independence on these boats (as the narrator also states) would have been in prison for around thirty years at this stage, so unfit to fight, and probably expensive for the British to keep (even on starvation rations).
In 1812, the British did take Washington and burn the White House... mostly acts of piracy, like the Americans committed under John Paul Jones elsewhere. But at the time they were more concerned with France which was closer and more powerful.
The US was seen as a rebel colony by them, and the British Empire didn't want other colonies to go the same way, especially Canada and even Jamaica. But conquest? I think even the British knew that would be difficult. They could beat them hands down at sea (and nearly did in the War of Independence, until the French intervened), but a landwar would be too difficult. They could take some smaller coastal towns, but inland areas such as the Appalachians weren't worth their while fighting over (and the Americans would have held them).
There was never a referendum of American independence (unlike Scotland, Quebec or Catalonia), so it is hard to say how popular the idea really was. It was probably a lot less popular when Washington started the uprising then after the war. We do know about a third of Americans upped and left for Canada and probably a significant percentage were disinterested either way - they always are...
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@matthewhuszarik4173 "Science is not an abstract concept. It is a method ...." – Your second sentence contradicts the first. Science does not exist in the same way a quasar or a fossil does, it is an idea and a practice, not an object. Science exists either in the way sport does (as a temporary proces/system with rules/methods, not an object), or a school of philosophy.
When many people talk about "science", they are not talking about a thing, they are talking about a system or an ideal . In many cases, that ideal is not fulfilled at all e.g. peer review is an ideal, and yet there is a dearth of proper peer reviewing going on, due to a lack of peer reviewers and/or time to do so. A significant proportion of claims made in academic papers are never properly verified around the time.
p.s. Zen Buddhism does contain observation through meditation, as do some other religions. Zen attempts to analyse the mind and the processes within it, alongside the perception of reality. It is enmeshed with other stuff, but there is observation in it.
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@henrylootens6578 Sabotage was a favourite of Stalin's. Maybe there was some sabotage, but I suspect it was greatly exaggerated. When things break down and bureaucracy fails, it is easier to blame sabotage, because the system is claimed to be infallible. When it came to the carrot and the stick, Stalin seemed to be more one for the stick.
Yes, I am aware of how the Americans stole technology, as did the Soviets. In the long run it is not a good tactic as it stifles innovation, and there are also issues with missing details/research. Some Soviet projects were notoriously similar to their western counterparts such as their versions of Concorde and the space shuttle, Buran. Buran had some strengths of its own, but unlike Soyuz (a Soviet original), it did not have staying power. Soviet computing, on the other hand, fell way behind. Soviet computing experts made several proposals that would have been years ahead of their time like a version of the WWW, but bureaucracy and the control of information hindered them.
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@ugyentshering4589 I think you have an idealised idea of what democracies are. We know what they should be, but I don't know any which fulfil the definition, and India, by the way, is probably nowhere near the worst country calling itself a democracy.
Bribery and corruption is widespread. Western countries are better at hiding it than India, but why do you think so many American presidents, British etc prime ministers become so rich after they leave power? Prime ministers don't get paid very much when they are in office, but they are owned by big business.
The Chinese government lies routinely. It claims it has fewer deaths than the UK. Do you genuinely believe that? It is a dictatorship in which officials alter figures to impress those above them, and the government itself has to lie to stop its population rebelling. We do know for a fact that China allowed people to travel out of the country, while it stopped travel between provinces. So Beijing knowingly allowed Cvid to spread throughout the world.
Some people say the Chinese deaths are at least 10x higher than they are admitting.
By the way, I do not live in the USA. But QR code ID are a form of enslavement, as is what they lead to. The government should not be allowed to follow people everywhere or control what they can do. That's even worse than Communism, and it will.get worse as time goes on.
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@paulsmart4672 I do have some familiarity with the Darwin vs Creationist squabble. But here's the thing, Darwin was very much a racist, as was KM. (Charles Fort once quipped that Darwin just discovered "the survivors survived".) KM tried to base his ideas around CD's (in the form of the time), but by applying them to large groups of people rather than individuals. He was very much a social Darwinist, but applying that CD's ideas to humans can take us to very controversial places. (Why are some peoples more developed than others? Especially when they live in similar environments. Books such as "Guns, Germs and Steel" try and make such questions more palatable but don't always succeed. Jared Diamond's historical theories as post hoc, much like KM's.)
The difference is that the successors of CD don't all hero worship him, and they do display flexibility. They don't all continuously quote or interpret "the Origin of Species" as holy writ. It's seen as outdated. There are some serious issues with evolution, by the way, but that's a whole other discussion. Some of these are answered by lateral gene transfer, but others aren't. Despite what some people say, I don't think intelligence and complexity constitute adequate survival advantages... the humble amoeba and bacterium are much better at that game than us. In fact, the vast majority of the biomass on Earth consists of microorganisms, yeasts and fungi, plankton etc... not sophisticated organisms.
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@jacketrussell To become a US citizen you have to pass a test. You have to answer a series of question. The big joke is that many of the people who sit that test know more about US history than some of the more simple minded people who live there.
I suppose if you come from a place, such as most of England, where most of your native culture has been replaced by a disorganised sprawl of shopping centres, industrial estates, multiplexes and Wimpey housing, then yes, you're going to think it's easy to swap over your culture. If you come from somewhere with a stronger sense of place, richer culture connected back hundreds or thousands of years, then yes, you will have a different perspective.
When I talked about English people in Wales, I'm talking about the fact they can't be bothered to learn how to pronounce local names properly even after living there for decades. Welsh names are actually pretty easy to pronounce - only the vowels are a bit different from English. Most Welsh don't speak their own language due to centuries of discrimination against it, going into the 60s and 70s.
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@earendil261 I've tried a few thought experiments on how it might be possible. Most of them consist of the device producing a hot stream of water, which in turn melts ice wherever it flows. The nearest analogy I can think of is Iceland where they have jókullhlaup (I think that's right), where a volcano melts the glacier above it, sending out a massive flood. Obviously, that would be a much bigger heat source, and would work more rapidly. I think Mount Saint Helens did something similar... But you are right, it is hard to think how this could happen.
However, the device is a concern because it is supposedly lying near the top of the watershed for a major Indian river, which means there are serious contamination issues.
p.s. Thanks, my name is stolen from an old Scottish poet who named himself after two towns. I had to think of something. I used to have anon as part of my name, but then people started accusing me of being a Trump conspiracist, so that was that!
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@varyolla435 Can you tell me where I used the phrase "alternative vaccine"? Oh that's right. I didn't. Another person trying to get me to defend something I didn't say.
There are several varieties of the current shot, and most of them are not based on traditional vaccination techniques, therefore it is questionable if they can be called or defined as such. They are based on radically different premises, regardless of what one thinks of their efficacy. That is by the admission of those administering them, who say the tech in them has been under development for years.
It would have been more honest to call them something else, but most of the time the public have been treated like cretins through this whole crisis, so why confuse their pretty little heads even more? So no, doesn't walk or quack like a duck, as your metaphor goes. It's more like a seagull, since one can go around saying it's a bird that nests near water, and eats what lives in it, but it's not closely related at all.
You fell straight into the trap mentioned in b) above, because you think in black and white terms about this matter, and prefer to use a one-size-fits-all label. The stupidity of such black and white thinking is made all the more obvious by the fact that dozens of countries have put restrictions on one of the shots, while continuing to adminster others. It is also made even more complex by the fact that some people have had their Covid shots but oppose the tracking IDs most countries are bringing in or the political shenanigans going on just now.
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@varyolla435 Doing it again. Please quote me where I mentioned a "conspiracy theory" in those posts?
What you list as c) is not a vaccine, it is something new. . That is regardless of what one thinks of it. Using your metaphor above, your argument is that because a seagull has webbed feet and eats fish, it should be called a duck. They're both aquatic birds, but they are not both ducks. C) is an injection against an illness, but it is not close enough to a) to be a vaccine (which is old hat.)
In real science, the names for things are very precise, and highly categorised, and you have essentially portrayed two very different things as the same. But one shouldn't be surprised because you seem to do the exact same thing with people as well.
But it is funny see people bandy around the word "science" as a kind of trump card while clearly demonstrating that you do not agree with scientific principles. If you are qualified in some area of STEM yourself, you have even less excuse for this.
Science is not a monolithic belief system - that leads down the road to stupidities like Lysenkoism and Welteislehre. Any respectable scientific or medical journal, will feature scientists debating one another, criticise each other's methodologies and so on. Real science requires peer review, some disgreement over details and constant improvement if problems are found in the methodology, practice or interpretation etc, it certainly aims to rectify problems, not to diminish them or deny them outright.
The scientific ideal is also certainly not something to be passed down from on high by governments or corporate sources. Nor is it something to be used for profiteering or undermining the right to free expression (which runs counter to liberal democracy).
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@varyolla435 Quibbling? Have a word with yourself! Most of what we have seen recently in the mass media & social media is concerning because it disallows the multiplicity of opinions that both real science and a democratic society need to function. We're lucky if we hear 275 "young men" in Israel have had severe heart trouble after the jag even though that figure comes from their Health Ministry, and if we do, we're told it's "neglible". That is an unacceptable rate for any drug usually and no comfort to those affected and their families.
Your techniques are not scientific at all. Firstly, you exclude the middle and lump together all people who disagree with you. Science is not something to be handed down from the political authorities, yet that is exactly how you present it. I take it you know that at least twenty countries have placed restrictions on AZ? The same concerns have emerged about others. Yet if a private citizen in one of the other countries voices some of those exact same concerns, you label them CT, Flat Earther, AV or whatever.
I am extremely high risk for strokes and heart disease due to age and genetics. These can be found on both sides of my family, all of my father's siblings, both my parents, and at least one cousin - probably more if I look into it. This is much worse than the general population and often occurs in our forties and fifties. I have dodged that bullet so far, other than angina... Yet you patronise me for being concerned about this. I was offered AZ with no alternative, and when I express concern I'm poopoo'd by folk like you, even though some places are withdrawing the same drug for younger people under the same concerns, and others already have. (There are also similar issues with at least one other.) Thanks to people like you, I am supposed to put myself at risk from something some governments have already banned. I bet you probably also accept these digital IDs as well even though they have no convincing scientific backing and are a form of authoritarianism. They're causing chaos in Israel too and a hundred other countries want them.
As for Flat Earth, as I've said elsewhere, those folk have been around all my lifetime, but one almost never heard of them. Then suddenly ?ten or so years ago, they get mass coverage and their previously obscure groups seemed to become mysteriously well funded. No idea why all that happened, but they are a very useful group in the sense that anyone who falls out of line with the status quo can be claimed to be associated with them.
p.s. I do not profess to know much about Gulf War Syndrome (and nor do you by the way), but it was certainly real, not just some CT, as many have died from it. The authorities and media denied its very existenxe for a long time, before finally trying to blame it on battlefield contamination of some kind. The only problem with this is that some of the victims were never deployed to the Gulf. Therefore, one should look for environmental, medical, food etc causes for it nearer to home, and see what links all these people together. Militaries are always loathe to admit their mistakes.
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@G1NZOU Why oh why do you people come out with the same clichés? The whole correlation/causation thing. Well, riddle me this - why is there no liabilty on these in most countries? I can't sue if I have an issue with them, because the British government waived liability as did many others. One can sue for nearly everything else in the medical field. My cousin, for example, had a botched operation which cost him one of his legs, sued and got a six figure sum.
So save the correlation/causation midwits' mantra for elsewhere, the legal situation alone is a red flag. They were obviously expecting problems, if only due to the sheer scale of the roll out.
By the way, some of the info is already on various national governments' websites if you can find the relevant pages. For example, the Israeli Ministry of Health published info (in English) on the matter way back in early 2021, because Israel rushed through their programme to get it done before Passover. They recorded 250 or so young men having issues related to their "bloodpumps" shortly afterwards. I wish I could post the links, and use the proper terminology on here, but that's not allowed.
Also the fact that said jags don't really work is amply proven by all the parts of the world that have had them and still have issues with positive results, hospitalisations and death. For example, Gibraltar and the Seychelles, two of the most jagged places on Earth have had to deal with these issues.
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