Youtube comments of Theodore Shulman (@ColonelFredPuntridge).

  1. That's not just any heckler. It's Randall Terry, who used to blockade abortion-clinics' doorways in the 1980s. A piece of classic history of the loonie Christian right.
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  2. Actually, I recall reading that there is a biochemical benefit we get from NOT having the enzyme which would catalyze the final step in synthesis of vitamin C. I can't remember where I read this or what the benefit is, and in any case it's technical and wouldn't mean anything to most viewers, but the enzyme which used to catalyze the final reaction in the multi-step biosynthesis of vitamin-C, which lemurs still have, also catalyzes another reaction which is in some way a little bit harmful. So IF a species or population has lots of vitamin C in its diet, and doesn't need to make its own vitamin C, then it's BETTER for that species or popuation to have that final enzyme deactivated by a mutation. So nature selects FOR that mutation, so long as the species or population can get vitamin C from its food. And THAT is why our mutant gene which makes us unable to make our own vitamin C has survived and persisted, even though we have to drink orange juice now. So maybe we get the last laugh on the lemurs. They are paying a price for keeping their ability to make their own vitamin C.
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  3. My dad was a cryptanalyst in the Korean War. The high-security intelligence complex where he worked was color-coded, everyone wore photo-ID and the color of your ID determined which buildings you were allowed to enter, and the guards had orders to carefully check IDs every time you entered a building. When my dad first arrived, during the orientation, the officer in charge (General? Colonel? I don't know what his rank was) emphasized the importance of security and encouraged new arrivals to undertake personal projects to improve security on their own initiative. Well, my dad was buddies with the guy in charge of making the photo-IDs (using a primitive laminating machine), and he got this guy to make him an ID with a photo of Stalin! And my dad wore this ID and went in and out of buildings for MORE THAN SIX MONTHS before a guard noticed. (Guard: "Wait a minnit, you don't have a mustash!" --Dad: "Well, I shaved it off!" --Guard: "Lemme see that!") So dad went before the disciplinary committee, and said "The [Guy-In-Charge] said to undertake personal security-projects, and that's what this was, and I'd say the security here needs some work!" We asked Dad several times whether that was a true story. He always confirmed that it was.
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  4. An episode from Brazil, where the nuts come from.
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  5. Polio was a fact of life too.
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  6. It’s actually more than 20 years, because when fda approved it here, mifepristone already had a big track record of safety and effectiveness in France and other countries.
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  7. And why were birth-control pills first tested on Puerto Rican women? ANSWER: Because that is where the pills could be tested without violating any state law. Not because Margaret Sanger hated Puerto Ricans or any particular nation's women.
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  8.  @lemurianchick  Yes, it was RT, he's quite recognizable. Not sure what you mean about organ harvesting and satanic rituals.
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  9. Trying to eat minestrone soup for this guy must be a terrible strain
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  10. "Badges? We don' need no badges! I don' have to show you no stinkin' badges!!"
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  11. Well, she didn't think any races were inferior, and she said that everyone should decide for themselves how much to reproduce. Freedom. Imagine it!
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  12. Suppose you transplanted a beating heart, with a supply of nutrients to keep it beating, into a corpse. Then the corpse would have an audible heartbeat, until the supply of nutrients ran out. During that time, would the corpse with the beating heart inside it be alive? What if you transplanted the beating-heart-plus-nutrients into a manikin? Would the manikin be alive, until the nutrient-supply ran out and the heart stopped beating?
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  13. Not just 2024. Young people don’t forget the elections of their youth. My generation voted first in 1976 or 1980 and we still, to this day, associate the Democratic Party with incompetence and helplessness we felt during Carter’s presidency. That’s why Bill Clinton had to work so hard to show that he was a different kind of Democrat in order to win in 1992. The kids will be voting against Trump and the intruding right wing for half a century.
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  14. Criminal alteration of business records in order to conceal an underlying crime, which in this case was paying hush-money in excess of campaign restrictions on how much a campaign can spend, and without paying taxes on it.
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  15. It’s difficult for me to imagine ObAma saying “I’m the smartest [… etc.]” He never seemed that arrogant, (and he never seemed clever enough to conceal such arrogance from us if he were that arrogant). He was too smart to say something that obnoxious.
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  16.  @classicalaid1  Dostoevsky's book is called Crime and Punishment. It's very long, and depressing; the protagonist is a student who is dirt poor, and his family is dirt poor, and he murders an old woman. He's not trying to see if he's smart enough to get away with it; he thinks that he might be superior and above the ordinary moral laws, and he's trying to test himself to see whether he can break the moral law against murder, without being punished by God or by his own conscience. (SPOILER: He can't. He almost kills himself but eventually confesses. The detective who takes his confession was the inspiration for the creators of the detective Columbo on the TV series of that name.) There's another book which explores a similar theme - an independent adolescent who commits murder just as an experiment to learn more about the nature of morality, but this one is kind of the opposite of Crime and Punishment ; it's a short, fast-moving comedy about an independent streetwise adolescent who inherits a large fortune. Part of the plot involves a gang of con-artists who pose as priests and raise money from gullible aristocrats by telling them that the Pope has been abducted by Freemasons and been replaced with a puppet/fake-Pope, and they (the confidence-men, posing as priests) need money to try to rescue the real Pope. This beautiful book is called Les Caves du Vatican and it's sold in English translation under the titles The Vatican Cellars and Lafcadio's Adventures (Lafcadio is the name of the protagonist-boy.) The author is Andre Gide, who later won a Nobel Prize in literature for another book. But these novels are both very different stories from what this guy allegedly did, besides being works of fiction.
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  17. The court is usually more lenient on defendants who plead guilty. If he had been found guilty in trial he probably would have gotten more than three times more time.
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  18. This is just how Cornel West talks. It's always this kind of word-salad. Has been all his life. He learned very early on that he could snow his professors, graders, and even other academics with it.
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  19. A friend of mine long ago described Houston thus: "Imagine being in a bathroom, where someone has been taking a hot shower for two hours, and someone else has been revving a motorcycle during the two hours."
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  20. “It is possible to commit no mistake, and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life!” —Captain Picard
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  21. It was already thoroughly corrupt in the 1970s.
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  22.  @juliodiaz7249  You didn't go to law school, and you didn't talk with anyone who did, I see.
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  23. Why didn't the owner of the rifle he stole secure his rifle so that it could not be stolen? Sounds like the owner of the rifle may have been criminally negligent.
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  24. How does he hold his video camera so steady? You can see from the reflection in his mirror glasses that he’s actually holding the thing and yet the background scenery doesn’t wobble or wiggle or anything even though while he’s talking, he twitches his head and moves his body. How is the camera so steady when he’s not???
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  25. He's a fake, you know.
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  26. “The GreenPeace Faction”??? I don’t get that. Why not call them “The Groucho Faction”? Groucho Marx sang: “ I don’t care what you’ve got to say; it makes no difference anyway, whatever it is: I’m against it! Your proposition may be good, but let’s have one thing. Understood: whatever it is, I am against it”
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  27. Don’t overlook Lem’s novel FIASCO. It’s about first contact-with a planet whose inhabitants are so hostile to each other that the protagonists cannot get any reliable info about any of them.
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  28. But he's not telling the truth.
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  29. This has happened before - it just means the people who live in the surrounding buildings get tired of the noise of late-night partying.
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  30.  @rosalindmartin4469  It's still a scientific, respectable notion. There's nothing wrong or evil with eugenics, provided it is done in a voluntary way with the consent of the participants, and no coercion from the government, and, that is based on sound science. The problem with the eugenics of the early 20th Century is that it was enforced by government and based on errors about the science of inheritance.
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  31. Mike Tyson for President!
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  32. And he went on to try to solve the inflation problem at the shortage of gas with price controls and wage controls – the most direct government intervention in the economy, And one of the biggest failures in economic history
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  33. You should read the history of why the vaccine-makers were protected from lawsuits.
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  34. She looks like Cruella de Vil.
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  35. You need to learn more about this subject, immediately
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  36. If they had any bawls, they'd have set themselves on fire deliberately, like the Tibetan monk who protested the Vietnam War by immolating himself.
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  37. “We have proof, a lotta proof….” 140 proof, I’d say.
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  38.  Don Nwzad  Read his resume (If you can.)
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  39. But you cannot be pro choice from that perspective. Pro-choice means she will decide whether to abort it. Not you.
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  40.  @psier11  And burnt her books.
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  41. That is not what they are refusing to do. They are refusing to serve in the military generally. They think that Jehovah wants them to spend all day every day reading the Bible, and breeding.
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  42. But not all iron mines are rich in rare earths. Only some are.
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  43. Keep in mind that in the UK, women are having babies later and later in life. OF COURSE there are more complications! Don't worry about the jab - it won't hurt you. Have your babies when you are in your early 20s. Don't wait for your early 30s.
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  44. IS there a solution to the homeless problem?
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  45. Nominate her for SCOTUS when Long Dong Silver retires or ages out!
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  46. RE: "I hope the authoritarian healthcare bullies are held to account." I hope the dummies who think they know enough to opine on policy when they don't (which is you) get held to account. Even if YOU don't have symptoms, you could still pass your infection on to someone else who might.
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  47. Do you know why the law against blocking clinic entrances and against trying to intimidate abortion patients and abortion workers at clinics was passed?
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  48. These women whose fetuses have defects incompatible with life ex utero should videotape all their consultations with doctors, and the birthing, and what happens to the newborns, any and all heroic efforts to save the newborns, the whole experience, and make documentaries. Show exactly what they and their babies have to go through, and keep asking "why should I have to worry about what some loop-a-dupe ideologue kook thinks I ought to do?"
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  49. Were the Democrats really “trashing their incumbent?” Or were they raising legitimate concerns about their incumbents health ?
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  50. If anyone here has NOT read Isaac Asimov's short-story "The Last Question", now would be a good time.
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  51. Trump promised to drain the swamp. But he seems to have swamped the drain.
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  52. It's not binary. You write as if crime were gonna be 100% gone or totally unchanged. That kind of thinking is a recipe for bad policy. The hidden-camera system won't stop all the criminals, partly because of court-flaws like catch-and-release, but it will make some possible-criminals less keen to commit crimes. And, it will help identify repeat-criminals. Not only spectacular repeaters but also repeat-minor-offenders: serial-pickpockets, serial-gropers, serial-scam-artists, even serial-litterers. There are plenty of numbers between one and zero.
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  53. Why do we still have geographic voting districts? Why not let voters in a state decide what district to be in when they register, just as we decide which political party (if any) to register in? Then we wouldn't have this embarrassing, unjust gerrymandering problem.
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  54. Peter, fix the sound!
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  55. There are plenty of people alive today who haven't been inside their mother's body against her will. I, for instance, was welcome inside my mother's body, from conception until birth.
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  56. And a third person said: "I am an American; votes are my weapons."
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  57. Because the murderer caused the fetus to die against the will of the womb-owner.
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  58. But paying a large amount of hush money without reporting the payments to the IRS, is a crime.
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  59. Of course he will run. He doesn't care about his party. He cares about the one thing he has always cared about: getting his cult members to send him more money sooner and faster. (By the way, Gelernter is pronounced Ge-LAIRNT-er. I know because I took a computer-science course from Dan's father, David Gelernter, at Yale.)
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  60. That is because the authors of the book know some things about her which you do not know.
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  61. Is it fair to blame that on common core? The math you need to know in order to be literate today is not the same as the math you had to learn when I was a kid. I went to one of the best math-and-science magnet-schools - one you've all heard of - and graduated in 1979 near the top of my class, but I didn't learn any statistics or epidemiology until college. I didn't know what a "95%-confidence-interval" is. It wasn't considered as important as calculus or even abstract algebra - rings and groups and that kind of thing.
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  62. 13? Think big. President Harris should Get Roberts, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Long Dong Silver in a room and tell them “either you resign now, or we will add 40 new seats to SCOTUS. Do you want to be four members of a 49-justice court???
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  63. Be clever and bold: Diversify, and hold!
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  64. Yes, he's great at replacing eye-lenses which have cataracts with artificial eye-lenses. Not so great at understanding statistics, virology, immunology, or epidemiology, of course, but one can't have everything.
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  65. That may be, but what would FDA have one to the pharmacist if the pharmacist had filled your prescription? ANSWER: Nothing. FDA has no power or authority to punish, sanction, or harm, a pharmacist.
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  66. How are you gonna stop gain of function research? (First step: you would need to start by learning what gain of function research is. But even then, how would you stop people in other countries, who don't take orders from us, from doing it?)
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  67. I’m glad the building I inhabit Won’t be invaded by Ashli Babbitt.
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  68.  @kisha4040  Same here in NYC, mostly.
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  69. Trump calls it 'kung flu" but if he were really clever he'd call it "Flu Manchu."
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  70. Well, I'm not 65 quite yet but I'm getting there and I have two diseases which are normally diseases of the aged, so I feel entitled to chime in here: for me Joe Biden's age is a favorable feature, not a detraction, because it reinforces the idea that being a senior person doesn't rule out the possibility of accomplishing great things and/or having exciting experiences. His defiance of age-ism inspires us aged people. Power to the geezers!
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  71. Are you enrolling in grad school at Trump University, too?
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  72. i've been saying for years that Jodie Foster ought to run for President.
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  73.  @usernextuser5385  She wanted to stop women dying in childbirth. "How is that contempt for human life"???
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  74. "Gain-of-function" is one of those terms whose meaning depends on the context in which it is used: who says it, when, to whom. Like the terms "radical", "stochastic", "orthogonal", or "synthetic biology". Some scientists would say that breeding Dachshunds was a form of "gain-of-function" research. The Dachshunds have an ability which their forebears didn't have, right?
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  75. It won't help unless we can win the runoff in Georgia. We don't have to hold the Senate by much, but we do have to hold it, for the judges.
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  76. Personally, I think that someone who doesn't know anything about epidemiology or virology but thinks he knows enough to say whether or not another person who does know about these subjects is lying about an outbreak is a lil thing I like to call "stupid".
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  77. FIASCO is another great novel by Stanislaw Lem.
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  78. RE: "... it seemed, at that time, that regular, normal people would solve their disagreements with their fists or a set of gloves." Or, perhaps, by talking.
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  79. No, he did not give any money to a progressive organization! The newscasters have already announced: that was a different person, a 69 year year-old registered Democrat, who happened to have the same first and last names.
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  80. The important thing is not to confuse scabies with rabies. If you're a doctor, and a patient comes in complaining of scabies, and you treat him for rabies, you're done, your career is finished.
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  81.  S C  How long ago did you take the vaccine? And how do you know that you wouldn't have headaches even if you had not taken the vaccine? Maybe your headaches are being caused by something else. Look up the "post-hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy.
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  82. Who cares when life begins? If the life is inside my body, being sheltered and sustained by my organs, then I will decide how long it gets to stay there. Its life may have begun, but so long as it is inside my body, I will decide when its life ends. And I'm not gonna worry about what you think about my decision.
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  83. RE: The Dunning-Kruger effect. Suppose a creditor tries to collect a debt from Freddie the Sleep-Demon in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise. Then would that creditor be dunning Kruger???
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  84. “Legislate from the grave” Excellent phrase
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  85. Brava!
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  86. No, dear. Clarence Thomas is an Affirmative Action hire.
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  87.  @debbied7035  If, as you say, she said, "over and over how bad she thought blacks and other races were", then you should be able to cite at least one book in which she writes that, or one lecture in which she said it. Date, and location, of the lecture, or, title, and chapter, of the book, please, no un-sourced quotations. I'll wait.
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  88. Your comment is a thing epidemiologists call "an anecdote". And anecdotes are things which epidemiologists call "worthless garbage which proves nothing at all either way".
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  89. The Senate should make it a policy to ask every SCOTUS nominee the following question: “Do you understand clearly, and can you explain to me in simple terms, the difference between the job descriptions of a Supreme Court Justice and a high-end prostitute?”
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  90. She's damm lucky. She got shot in the shoulder. The shoulder has lots of vital/mortal target-points. The sub-clavian artery and vein - normally are protected by the collarbone, in a fist-fight or a knife-fight, but that won't stop a bullet. Someone who gets hit there is 60% likely to bleed out before he gets to the ER.
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  91. Heparin is contraindicated because besides having clots, these patients also have low platlet-counts. These two results appear contradictory, because platelets cause normal clotting (in wounds). Since platelets are already low, the worry is that heparin on top of low-platelet count could cause runaway bleeding.
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  92. People trying to pay their bills don’t much care about the law of gravity, either, but the law of gravity goes on being correct even so.
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  93.  @notyourtypicalcomment2399  When a life is taken, and that life is inside your body at the time, then YOU get to decide whether or not taking that life was a crime. Inside your body there is no right to life for anyone except you, except if (when) you say there is one. Inside another person's body, the right to life is conditional on that person's will. Inside my body, you wouldn't have a right to life unless I said you had one, and if I did, I'd have a right to switch your right to life on or off like a bathroom light. "Now you have one!" "But now, you don't!" "And now, you do again!" "And now, it's gone!" Wheeeee! You see? Inside my body, I decide who has rights, and which rights they have, and when, and why, and how long. Because the inside of my body is the inside of my body. So I decide who gets to stay there. And other people's opinions don't matter. Including yours.
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  94.  @PenneySounds  It's one of the ways it can work. Look at what happens, for instance, with government aid to students. The government (and/or voters) say: "Tuition is too expensive; the kids are graduating with huge debt. Let's make the government give students some money to pay their tuition fees!" And the government votes to give x dollars to each student. Then the university says "Now each student is getting x dollars from the government, so we can charge x dollars more for tuition!" And the money ends up not helping the students at all - it all goes to pay for price-increases.
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  95. TWO criticisms (I'm sure you won't mind): 1. Rare earths are common, and present in waste from other mines, but not very densely so. Deposits dense enough to be useful are unusual and important. 2. The fact that China has gained control of the industry by subsidizing it so that rare earths are cheaper, doesn't really help us all that much. What I mean is, history is full of situations where making something cheaper makes society more dependent on it even though the guys who make it cheaper are doing us a favor, not hurting us, by doing so. Your argument about this is like saying if the car companies stopped making cars (or started overcharging us for them) we could just go back to using horses and make the car companies back down. OR, like saying if the makers of laparoscopic surgical instruments went on strike, we could just go back to doing heart surgery by cutting people's chests open and breaking their ribs. Sure, we didn't lose anything when the laparoscopic instruments came out, but we would still lose a lot if they were taken away now. Returning to a previous status quo can be much more painful than never having left it would be.
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  96. One of the doormen in my building is a very sweet guy, always pleasant. Everybody likes him. He’s from the Dominican Republic, but I’m pretty sure he’s an American citizen, just because he’s been working here for such a long time. He didn’t like Trump at all; Used to crack jokes about how Trump was going to end up in prison. Then, when it looked like Biden was going to be Trump‘s opponent, this Doorman shook his head and said he’s too old. And then when Biden dropped out, and Kamala Harris became the nominee, I asked him what he thought Was gonna happen now and he said “I don’t like her she’s a woman.“ He said this without meaning to give offense, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
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  97. Tito Gobbi is the only baritone I have ever heard who really understands the personality of the Count in THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO.
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  98. Her eyes flashed fire.
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  99.  @hansdampf6916  One or another. If you think we've already seen the worst, I disagree with you. (And I do know a little bit about this....)
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  100. Cecily: "This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade, I call it a spade." Gwendolen: "I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different." ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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  101. You (we) should stop saying "the Trump indictment". We should say "These Trump indictments" or "The Trump indictments so far." These 34 felony charges could easily turn out to be only the first wave. Who knows what else may be coming down the pipe?
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  102. Was it really an airstrike? Current evidence seems to favor the hypothesis that it was a rocket fired from somewhere within Gaza. And I don’t think we know yet how many people were killed. If it had been an Israeli airstrike, it probably would’ve destroyed a building, not a parking area.
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  103. What would Clarence Thomas do?
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  104.  @FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL  You know that everything in this video is a lie, right? All your quotations are taken out of context. You are like someone who says that the Apostle Paul supported modern gender-fluidity theory because he wrote "In Christ there is no 'male' and 'female'." (Galatians 3)
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  105. “Irregardless” is not a word.
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  106. The money you send to the tax-man is not your money. It is the government's money. If it were your money, then you wouldn't have to send it to the tax-man. There is no such thing as money or property rights without laws to say what they are and a government to enforce the laws. Without a government, the words "mine" and "yours" would have no meaning.
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  107. Brand new report in WSJ by Sarah Toy Friday March 18 2022 7AM Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date Patients who got the antiparasitic drug didn’t fare better than those who received a placebo MY SUMMARY: The study looked at patients who had COVID symptoms and a positive rapid-test, and a co-morbidity like diabetes, cardiovascular problems, lung disease, or high blood pressure. It divided the patients randomly into two groups and gave one Ivermectin and the other placebo. Then tracked admission rates, length of hospitalization, ventilator use, death rates, how fast they got better, and how fast they cleared the virus. They did several analyses, including one which only included patients who said they followed the prescribed instructions carefully. RESULT: No observable clinical benefit.
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  108. Why not? Physically, 18 to 19 are the years when you are best capable of handling the physical challenges of childbirth. All the arguments for waiting depend on cultural conventions like, having higher income later in life and having small families rather than larger ones.
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  109. "... The Biden administration destroyed [Russia's] currency." The Biden administration, alone, did not, and could not, do that. It's a world-wide thing.
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  110. Why do we still have geographically-determined voting districts? Why not just let every voter choose which district to belong to when he registers to vote, just as we let you decide which party to register in (if any)? It seems arbitrary ans silly, in the age of the internet and social media, to require me to be in the same district as my neighbor who just happens to live in a nearby building.
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  111.  @drsomeone1  It doesn't matter anyway. What a fetus is, doesn't matter. What matters is where it is, and there is no scientific or factual debate about where it is. It is inside the patient's body - there's no debate about that - and therefore subject to her jurisdiction and decisions, not to yours.
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  112.  @crispypudding  Murder has nothing to do with this. This is a discussion of abortion, not a discussion of murder. Anyone who equates the two is speaking a language other than English. (Except when right-to-lifers murder abortion workers.) What if someone said "using a screen-name 'crispypudding' is a form of murder, so you should go on trial"? What would you answer? The answer would be "no, using a screen-name 'crispypudding' is not murder, you loonie!" That is the answer to you.
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  113. You can believe in "my body my choice" and still require vax in order to go into public places. "My body my choice" only applies in the privacy of your own bedroom, not in the public square.
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  114. RE: "I'm not talking about my sex life with Ben Terris." So he admits that he has a sex life?
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  115. "They said it couldn't be done. So we didn't do it!"
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  116. He doesn’t really exist at all! He’s like George Kaplan in NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
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  117. There is no one definition, and never has been. The term "gain of function" means different things to different listeners, and at different times. It's like the terms "directed evolution", "Marxist argument", "logical", "eugenic", "cyclic", "fugue", "picaresque", and "elective" in that regard.
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  118. If he were a man of true science, not political science, then he wouldn't be speaking to a YouTube show like "Rising". He'd be a professor somewhere or a senior investigator in a national lab or an industry scientist, and he'd be busy doing his job.
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  119. Even better: read Schopenhauer. Besides being a fascinating philosopher, he also explains Kant's ideas better than anyone else, including Kant himself.
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  120. The world has a serious problem with statistical tricks. We need to improve high-school statistics and probability. More kids know the Pythagorean Theorem and Fermat's Last Theorem than know the Central Limit Theorem. More kids know the definition and value of π than of e (Euler's number). When I taught high-school statistics and probability, the rumor was afloat in the school that Calculus was hard and Statistics and Probability was easy, and that the kids who hated math should take Statistics and Probability for an easy pass. I did my best to undeceive my pupils, without much success.
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  121. Joseph Ladapo? He's an unscrupulous for-profit cultist.
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  122. 1. For an interesting case, look up the case of Peter G. Schultz, the missing notebook, the blackmail attempt, the expanded genetic code, and the glycosylated amino acid. 2. "These bad ideas fell through the safety net" How many bad ideas were caught by the safety net? How many good ideas went through at the same time? Without these numbers, there's no case.
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  123. "Flu-Manchu" would have been better.
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  124.  @AA-cg3gd  I think you are confusing what the non-science/non-medical/popular media said that WHO said, with what WHO actually said. You can look this stuff up, you know.
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  125.  @grimjoker5572  That doesn't matter. Generally, your opinions don't matter. Know your place, and don't trespass beyond your proper sphere. You decide what to value for yourself, but not for the rest of us.
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  126.  @juliebaker6969  She wasn't a member of the KKK, genius.
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  127.  @WatchingyouWatchingme-p5s  Perhaps because the knowledge could lead to cures for addiction, chronic pain, and wilful ignorance?
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  128. True dat! But you should add: "[...] And when the lies become obvious, they cease to matter at all. They only delay the ultimate knowledge and truth by a short time, and make the discoveries a little more expensive."
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  129. Re: “Whenever the White House and Congress are in different hands, whoever is in Congress tries to use this issue as leverage to get political concessions in one way or the other” Refresh my memory: when was the last time Congressional Democrats tried to use the threat of default (refusal to raise the debt ceiling) as leverage to get concessions from the Republicans???
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  130. I think this election is more likely to be about Trump than about Biden. Have to wait and see, but to me, at this point, the air smells like 1980.
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  131.  @TheOfficialOzClub  Right you are! If Baum was trying to convey a secret message with the Oz books, the message is revealed in the third one, OZMA OF OZ. And the message is: Wagner's operas are lots and lots of fun!
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  132. The trend of women becoming mothers later and later in life in UK has continued steadily since the 1980s. In 2022 the average age of new mothers in UK passed 31. THAT is why the complication rates are increasing, and it's not at all surprising! It has nothing to do with vaccination or COVID. Dr. Campbell is an obvious charlatan.
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  133. I'm sorry, but what exactly is the lie supposed to have been? And I'm quite sure Dr. Fauci has more important things to do with his time than be harangued and constantly interrupted by this posturing clown.
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  134. Israel should raze the site of the Al Aqsa mosque/temple mount, and build a synchrotron radiation light source on the site. Every nation which inspires to be a top-tier member of the scientific/tech innovation community should have its own synchrotron radiation light source on its own territory. The site dimensions are just about right, and the dome over the electron storage ring would resemble the dome which is there currently, and the gold in the dome would be useful for electronic and mechanical components of the light source. And then it would not be an epicenter of religious conflict as it is now. The experiments it would make possible would bring genuine tangible benefit to humankind. It would be a win win win win.
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  135. He has suffered from very bad ACID REFLUX all his life. Even when he was POTUS he had to sleep on an incline, with his head and neck elevated. The stomach-acid digests and erodes your vocal apparatus. In view of this, it's actually surprising that his voice is as good as it is.
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  136.  @TheFifthWorld22  I'm not sure what you mean.
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  137. Whirled peas
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  138. "Fungible" means "tasty in mushroom sauce". The root is fung, as in "fungus". The Italian for "spaghetti with mushrooms" is "spaghetti con i *funghi*".
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  139. When the Moon is in the Seventh House, And Jupiter aligns with Mars. (Never. There is no basis to charge him with any crime, and everyone in Congress knows this. The Republicans are tricking their loop-a-dupe followers. Yes, that means you.)
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  140. Typical.
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  141. USA's interest in helping Ukraine survive (and win) is obvious, but no one ever seems to talk about it. We are hoping that the Ukrainians (especially their government) will be grateful to us, and will grant preferred-buyer status when the bidding begins (renews) for access to Ukraine's rich deposits of rare-earth metals, precious metals, lithium, nickel, and neon gas. These are essential for our green-technology; also, electronics, and organic chemistry (pharma), and right now the Chinese government has near-monopoly control of them. So Ukraine is a pocketbook issue and a geostrategic issue and an environmental issue.
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  142. OK, but you might just as easily have had something much more dangerous. What would you be writing now it you had had something really dangerous, and they had sent you home with antibiotics, and you hadn't learned about the real problem, and you had died of it? What would you say then, eh? (Not much.)
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  143.  @beno.9958  Inside my body, yes I do.
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  144.  @beno.9958  Why don't we force people to donate blood, tissues, and organs for transplant? Who gave you the right to condemn to death a patient who needs a transplant from your body, by refusing to donate? Write the answer here: _____________ Now copy your answer here: ______________ also gave me the right to get an abortion. Either you are entitled to decide which lives to sustain and shelter inside your body, or you're not.
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  145.  @beno.9958  I decide whom to sustain and shelter inside my body, and when, and how long. If you can't live without being sheltered and sustained inside my body, then you only get to live as long as I'm willing to allow access.
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  146.  @beno.9958  The problem with that bit of advice is that the patients who need abortions are already pregnant. What we need is a time-machine, so we can send someone - a gynecologist or a chaperone - back in time to prevent the conceptions. Get to work on this! Invent one!
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  147. ​ @francescapoteet5481  Don't focus so much on what the patient should or should not do. Focus more on what you should and should not do. You should not meddle inside the patient's body where your meddling is not welcome, and you should respect the boundaries on your authority. No matter how much you disapprove of what the patient is doing inside her body, inside her body is off-limits for you; you have no legitimate authority to intervene there. Mind your own business and know your place. Be grateful that if you get pregnant no one will try to force you to get an abortion if you don't want one. There are plenty of people in the world who cannot take the privilege of deciding whether or not to get an abortion for granted. The government which can force you to keep your pregnancy can also force you to abort your pregnancy.
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  148. As I recall, and I’m not an historian, so I could be wrong, but as I recall last time, Germany, invaded Poland, they did so, with the blessings of a lot of the Polish people by promising to protect them from the Soviet union and from the Jews. So, if Poland is requesting that German be stationed in Poland, that’s not very reassuring.
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  149.  @PenneySounds  That would cause inflation. The basic income would soon become worthless.
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  150. The Jones Act was passed in 1999. It says that if you sue the president for sexual harassment, then you have to fight Tonya Harding on celebrity boxing. (That’s the Paula Jones act, I mean)
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  151. Ukraine has great mineral wealth
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  152. But John Campbell does lie about what the numbers mean.
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  153. What you have read is wrong. If the injection isn't successful, the doctors try another injection, again and again until one IS successful.
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  154. Re: “you can’t change the keys” I agree that you can’t introduce fully new keys like “this time the VP choice matters”. But as I understand it, the keys are based on the idea that voters will vote a referendum on The incumbent. Doesn’t it make some difference then that in this particular election both candidates are in a sense incumbents? Have we ever had a race between a sitting incumbent and a recently ex-president?
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  155. On the other hand, there are birds and animals which benefit from war, too. Vultures, and kites.
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  156.  @sjetong  I got terrible headaches from taking the vaccine, but the headaches began one week before I took the first dose. The doctors at my local hospital said cases like mine - temporal retroactivity in vaccination - do sometimes happen, although it's quite a rare thing.
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  157.  @letmeexplain1816  Severe migraines are not a very bad reaction; they tend to go away after one or two episodes if they are a reaction to a one-time or two-time stimulus, and, getting the disease can give you migraines as well as the vaccine.
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  158. RE: "I'm a 40 year old Republican that started listening to Rush Limbaugh in the 3rd grade." And did you finish 3rd grade?
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  159.  @kylorenkardashian79  I'm glad to hear it! Let me venture one more remark: I went over the list of "language exemplars" in Common Core - the reading list, in other words - and much to my surprise I find I agree with almost all of it. There's lots of great stuff left out, but the literature one can teach is limited by the fact that human beings are mortal and doomed to die sooner or later. Limited reading-time, I mean. The list includes: - THE ODYSSEY, and Ovid's METAMORPHOSES (maybe excerpts?) - HAMLET, and MACBETH - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - COMMON SENSE (Tom Paine) - JANE EYRE, and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - Ronald Reagan's speech to the students at Moscow State University in 1988 - Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" - The Bill of Rights (first ten amendments to the US Constitution) - NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDRICK DOUGLAS - FRANKENSTEIN (Mary Shelley) - CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Doestoevsky) - A TALE OF TWO CITIES (Dickens) - BRAVE NEW WORLD - "The Raven", and "The Tell-Tale Heart" - "The Nose" (Gogol) Well, I could go on a long time, but I'll just close with my very favorite of all the fantasy stories for children ever written: THE THIRTEEN CLOCKS by James Thurber. This hardly seems like a brainwashing exercise! I don't see what the problem is. It often seems that when people say "Common Core is baaaaaaad!" is nothing but code for "I hate Barack Obama!!!!"
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  160. If he wants to make abortion (or anything else) unthinkable, he'll need to establish the Thought Police.
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  161. It’s a nice slogan. In real life, frightened criminals will arm themselves better, spend more of their time training, and become more proficient shooters, than you.
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  162. Right! Before COVID, no one ever neglected the elderly. They all died clean and well-attended, with happy smiles on their faces. (/Sarcasm)
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  163.  @theresagomez2605  Not all were neglected before COVID, and not all are being neglected now! Unknown pandemics are, as a rule, dicey. Go review some of what people put up with in 1918 with the "Spanish" flu. And like almost all diciness, it tends to hit the elderly disproportionately. This is especially true now, when so many elderly are so much more elderly (and weaker, and naturally more vulnerable) than ever before. The best way to respect the victims is to describe the situation rationally and accurately, not to promulgate loopy conspiracy-theories. (Jean Amery (that was his nom de plume ), who survived the Holocaust and also survived interrogation under torture by Third-Reich agents, wrote: "when one speaks of torture, one must be careful not to exaggerate.")
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  164.  @iraobryansmith9700  For some of the 34 counts, it was failing to declare the payment on tax-related documents, and for others, it was paying more than campaign-finance law allows.
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  165. Maybe he uses a CPAP.
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  166. We already voted out the guy who did it - the guy who called for Operation Warp Speed.
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  167. Not everyone knows this, but if you can’t get mifepristone (aka RU486 aka “the French abortion pill”), the long-standing, popular medication METHOTREXATE can be used instead. So instead of mifepristone followed by misoprostol you prescribe methotrexate (low dose) followed by misoprostol. Methotrexate has been around since the 1950s. Any attempt to ban it would encounter fierce resistance from the medical profession. See the work of Richard U. Hausknecht; also the work of David A. Grimes.
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  168. Well, not all the bio labs, but many of them. The Department of Energy funds a lot of chemistry research, including biochemistry.
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  169. Wrong, and wrong.
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  170. You haven't learned anything about her! You have been reading a bunch of lies about her.
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  171. That's a stupid lie. The doctor wouldn't rely on the patient thinking that she had worms or did not have worms. Obviously, if the doctor suspected she had worms, he would test her for worms. They're not that hard to diagnose. (Doioioioi!)
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  172.  @huntersdealer  Right you are! It's a Chinese bio-weapon, and the reason why the Chinese unleashed it when they did is very obvious to anyone who was up-to-date on the trends in classical music. There's an opera-- Puccini's last opera-- which is very challenging and not performed all that often, except by the really top-level companies, because it's so difficult for the singers. Puccini never finished it, but other lesser composers have composed endings. It's called TURANDOT and it is set in ancient Peking, or rather, in Puccini's fantasy of what ancient Peking was like. Now,TURANDOT was experiencing renewed popularity early in 2020; it was a big fad in the opera world. The Met was scheduled to do it in April, and several other opera companies like San Francisco Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera were gonna do it, and even the "little-grand-opera" companies like Regina Opera in Brooklyn and West Bay Opera in Palo Alto -- companies which cast young, still-unknown singers to give them a start on their careers, and which perform in small venues for audiences of fewer than 150 people, were getting ready to do it. It was also trendy in Europe. (These trends come and go.) This opera TURANDOT is very offensive to Chinese nationalists, because it depicts the Chinese people as superstitious, bloodthirsty barbarians ruled by a sadistic tyrant. But because of COVID-19, the companies had to cancel their performances. This was obviously what the Chinese government was hoping to accomplish by unleashing the virus at that particular time-- to prevent TURNADOT from being performed in Europe and USA. That is cui bono in this case.
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  173. With horror movies, you have that luxury, because you're not actually in the horror-story. It's not happening to you; it's only happening to the fictional characters in the movie.
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  174. You're safer without the gun. Your family is, too.
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  175. Hey, Dr. JC, are you going to post anything about the study from Brazil described in the March 18 issue of the Wall Street Journal, the largest randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial of Ivermectin in patients who had symptoms and a positive rapid-test and pre-morbidities like diabetes, lung-diseases, chronic cardiovascular problems, or high blood-pressure? Or have you already posted something which I missed? Unlike the very large study also in Brazil which you posted about a week or so ago, this one did not offer the test subjects any choice whether to take the drug or be part of the control-group (ie this one was randomized). And this one found no statistically-significiant benefit from the Ivermectin.
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  176. I'm not OK with it! But if it's happening inside another person's body, then it's none of my business and none of yours.
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  177.  @rhondamcmiller-diop2996  A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
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  178.  @hotchowder  Who was married to a Jew? Not Margaret Sanger. She was married to a lapsed Catholic. An Irish Catholic!
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  179.  @freechair4890  Then let it be removed from the womb where it is not welcome, and go develop its own organs somewhere else, if it can.
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  180. Praeliora T: so are you saying the armed forces will mutiny over this question? And if they do, will it be mutiny on the bounty?
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  181. What I keep not hearing, in these talks about Ukraine, is any discussion of chemistry. It’s pretty important (I think): if Ukraine manages to survive because of our help (USA’s help) then we will have special-buyer status for mining Ukraine‘a rich deposits of lithium, palladium, platinum, neon gas, and, above all, the rare earth metals in useable forms. We need rare earth metals, in types of ores from which they can be extracted in bulk, for green technology, and for synthesis of organic chemicals like medications, and for modern electronics. We need to break China’s near-monopoly on them. That is why the war in Ukraine is not a purely-ideological issue, and why deterrence is not the only reason for supporting Ukraine.
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  182. Dr Campbell cited the spike in reports to VAERS as reason to worry about “dangerous” vaccines. But VAERS says themselves, on their own website, that they do not even try to verify their reports, and that no inference or conclusions can be made or supported by the number of reports they get. The obvious reason for the spike in reports is that anyone who has a computer can file reports, and when Fox News made its viewers aware of VAERS, they all started filing reports.
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  183. Do war-crime laws actually prevent war-crimes? Does obeying the laws prevent or dissuade the enemy from committing war-crimes against the one who obeys the laws?
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  184. We have had this type of response. Back in 1918.
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  185. Not extensions. Substitutes or replacements.
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  186. Lifelong history of type one diabetes, symptoms began at age 7. You can live with it by taking good care of yourself, but not much past 70. If she’s still alive and able to work six years from now, it’ll be a statistical miracle.
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  187. Hmm! A friend of mine got the vaccine, and the next day, his hemorrhoids stopped itching and his acne cleared up, and three days later he won the lottery. Now he's retired and drives a Lamborghini.
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  188. No it wasn't.
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  189.  @toolegittoquit_001  Strange that she never said so, nor wrote anything to that effect. Most people who believed that some races were inferior were not shy about saying so! In her heyday (the first third or so of the 20th Century) bigotry had not yet become a thing to hide or be ashamed of.
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  190.  @BCc249  Scientifically sound eugenics wouldn't be based on race or skin-color. It would be based on, for instance, the CF mutation which causes the recessive illness cystic fibrosis. The eugenicist would work to prevent carriers from passing the mutation on to their offspring, by using IVF or CRISPr to prevent it. They would do so freely, in order to spare their descendants the horror of cystic fibrosis. This would be eugenics - breeding strategically in order to prevent bad genes from afflicting your descendants - but it would also be freely-chosen, and scientifically sound, and, therefore, not evil.
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  191.  @grimjoker5572  What are you talking about (if anything)?
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  192.  @grimjoker5572  Reproductive decisions should be up to the ones who are reproducing. Not up to you. Freedom. It's not complicated.
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  193.  @dhonda250r  I know better than you, dear. I have studied (off and on) Margaret Sanger's life for more than four decades. I have read everything she wrote, and transcripts of all her speeches. A very close family relative of mine was a professional historian, who wrote several books about Emma Goldman, who was one of Margaret Sanger's mentors, so the books included a lot of stuff about Margaret Sanger as well as Emma Goldman. So by the time I turned seventeen years old, I knew more about Margaret Sanger's life than you know now. (And when I turned seventeen, Jimmy Carter was President.)
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  194.  @grimjoker5572  Margaret Sanger devoted her life to fighting the Comstock laws, which made it a crime to send any information pertaining to birth-control through the mail. Since advances in rubber chemistry led to the production of the first reliable contraceptive devices, sending information about it through the mail incurred legal risk to the sender and the recipient. That is why the subjects are not "random and unrelated". You just need to know a bit about history and technology to see the unrandomness and the relationship!
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  195. If the rest of the world comes to think that we're about to default on our debts, we will be living the same way the Brits are living, in less than six months.
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  196.  @super_hero2  Of course it's intentional. The guys who write these laws are professionals. They don't write ambiguous laws by accident.
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  197. 1.8 million people in USA have type 1 diabetes.
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  198. Only if his felony convictions get pardoned.
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  199.  @everythingisalllies2141  Margaret Sanger? No. Irish Catholic, both parents.
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  200.  @deborahmurray6872  And to serve the Son of Man.
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  201. Integral calculus is bacterial plaque which covers the entire surface of a tooth. Differential calculus is bacterial plaque which covers some parts of the surface of a tooth with a thicker layer of plaque than other parts.
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  202.  @tonifonseca9178  It's not that the anticoagulant would cause problems with the vaccine. The danger is that low platelet count means that the patient is in danger of NOT CLOTTING ENOUGH. That's the paradox about this: the patient is having blood clots (too much clotting) but also has low platelet count (which usually causes too LITTLE clotting). So giving heparin may reduce the blood clots, but, since the patient also has low platelet count which usually means too little clotting, giving heparin to reduce the clotting even more may risk uncontrolled bleeding with no clotting at all (like in hemophiliacs). It's very weird, but the weirdness comes from having blood clots and low platelet count at the same time. Usually they are opposites.
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  203. No you’re not. And no it didn’t.
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  204. Russian third-graders are pretty smart, on average, relative to ours in USA.
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  205.  @carrite  Acid reflux, actually. Life-long.
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  206.  @maggiebannenberkowitz9254  His life-long acid-reflux is already well-known. It erodes your vocal apparatus.
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  207. That is generally true in microbiology. You tame a bothersome species of microbe by deploying some chemical or practice which stomps the bothersome species, and the species dies out, except for the mutant members of the species whose mutations happen to enable the mutant strains to thrive even in the presence of your chemical or practice, and after some time those mutants grow and reproduce and spread to the point where they're numerous enough to bother you again, and then you invent another chemical or practice which stomps the mutant strain, except for a few mutant members whose mutations happen to enable the strains to thrive even in the presence of both your chemicals or practices, and on and on it goes, until by deploying all your chemicals and practices you have selected some mutant strains which are able to thrive in the presence of all your chemicals and practices. We're already almost there with some horrible microbes like mycobacterium tuberculosis. And it's not because microbes are clever or cunning. It's just because mutations happen and in time, all possible permutations occur, and some of them happen to be good at resisting the chemicals or practices, and those are the ones which survive and grow.
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  208. Right you are, so long as you are willing to stay away from others so they don't get the pathogen you are refusing to vaccinate against. Be un-vaxxed, in the privacy of your own home.
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  209. As I recall, Fauci was always careful to say that lab-leak was possible but not, in his opinion, likely. He never said it was impossible. He was very careful about that.
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  210. My doctor diagnosed a vitamin-D deficiency.
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  211. RE: "We as Americans have the rights to worship the religion we choose ..." Including Satanists.
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  212. Freedom is not slavery. And especially relevant to you : ignorance is not strength.
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  213. Yeah, it was as warp-speed.
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  214.  @mariag.8242  My sentiments exactly. I never understood why he appealed so much to so many readers.
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  215. Yup, that's a nice summary. Also: Ursula LeGuin is fundamentally good, a good person, while Heinlein is an arrogant prick and not nearly as clever as he thinks he is.
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  216. No moah lawbstuh fuh the insurrectionist! Ay-yuh.
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  217. No, that's not antisemitic. Just delusional.
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  218. The pigs are interesting but I can do without the anthropomorphic description of Nature. We're not in trouble because of having made Mother Nature angry. Mother Nature does not feel emotions. We have a mechanistic problem, with mechanistic causes.
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  219. "It's called 'acting', dear boy." - Laurence Olivier
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  220. ​ @ronaldosalazar1994  Really? What company's stock did he illegally buy or sell, based on what inside information?
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  221.  @JaneOnTheJourney  He probably wanted to get caught. He was caught by DNA, and video-surveillance, and using an Uber to get away from the neighborhood where he committed the murders. He must have known that he'd get caught.
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  222.  @imhere653  I don't like a lot of blood. I'd be more likely to use poison or a blunt instrument. Or, just talk and bore the victim to death. Or force him to listen to me singing until he committed suicide rather than hear any more.
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  223. But did he really say that? I think he is too smart to say such a stupid thing.
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  224.  @notyourtypicalcomment2399  The spouse is not located inside the husband's body. So the two situations are not analogous at all. RE: "Well, the mother can wait 9 months...." The 9 months are not the main problem. The main problem is what happens at the end of the 9 months. But even if it weren't, sure, the patient can wait 9 months, if she is willing to but if she's not, then you have no business trying to force them on her. Oh, and murder is entirely irrelevant to this discussion. No one here is talking about murder.
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  225.  @beno.9958  RE: "What problem occurs at the end of nine months?" Childbirth (doioioioi!). You shouldn't murder anyone, but you don't have to share the inside of your body with another person longer than you choose, either.
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  226.  @notyourtypicalcomment2399  A woman can also get an abortion in a moment of strength. And having respect for someone is very different from sustaining and sheltering him by allowing him access to the inside of your body. "I respect you, but I'm not going to give you access to the inside of my body longer than eight weeks; after that you'll have to do without" is a perfectly valid position to take.
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  227.  @notyourtypicalcomment2399  So long as the innocent child is inside a patient's body, the patient can do anything she likes to it.
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  228.  @notyourtypicalcomment2399  Because the event you are trying to interfere with is happening inside another person's body, and she has not invited you to interfere there. Here's an illustrative example (note: htis is not a metaphor or a simile or anything like that; just an illustrative example): suppose you were going to have your appendix taken out, and I thought (for some reason) that removing your appendix would be murder - a special, unusual kind of murder, but still, murder. (That sounds weird and delusional, but there are plenty of weird, delusional people in the world.) Like, suppose I thought that the individual cells of your appendix were human lives (they actually are, in a sense: they are alive and they are human) and that by removing them from your body your surgeon would be murdering them. And suppose I purchased some state legislators with big bribes/donations to their campaigns, and got them to pass bans against doing appendectomies. How would you respond? One possible way: you might try to convince me that I was wrong, that individual human cells of the appendix are not human beings. But the point is you shouldn't have to worry about what I would think, at all, because the appendectomy would be done inside your body. You should be able to say "even if removing my appendix really were a form of murder, even so, what I do or get done inside my body is none of your business, so go away!" You should be able to take for granted that inside your body the only opinion which should matter is your opinion, and that no one else be allowed to interfere with what you decide to do or get done inside your body, no matter what they think about it. And that is what we demand for the abortion patients: the right to make their own decisions about their own insides, without having to worry about what you or any other medically-illiterate loop-a-dupe has to say about the question.
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  229. It appears very odd, until you recall what the alternative was.
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  230.  @wakinglife7065  You live in fantasy-land. You know that, right? You ought to put an "n" into your screen-name.
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  231. I think it's David Frum. This is the kind of thing he would do.
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  232.  @karaokehammick5215  How would you know who is right? Do you know anything about viruses? Do you know the difference between t-RNA and m-RNA (without looking it up)? Can you explain the difference between the life-cycle of a coronavirus and the life-cycle of a retrovirus, and what effect the difference has on the course of a typical infection with the one or the other?
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  233.  @karaokehammick5215  NO, dear, you cannot do virology with "common sense and gumption" and bravery to form her own opinion (about subjects which she knew well enough about to have an opinion). That is why my grandmother, bless her heart and memory, never invented a vaccine or discovered a virus, even though she had plenty of common sense and gumption. You don't know enough about viruses to think for yourself about viruses. Just as, no matter how many popular astrophysics/cosmology books you read you still don't know enough to understand black holes unless you know how to do the math. There are probably a hundred different possible reasons why the virus might have originated in a cave somewhere and only been discovered at the wet market. The Chinese may well be covering something up - that would not be surprising as a general thing. But to infer that the virus originated in a lab and leaked is mere guesswork.
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  234. Jim Jordan can't even understand the simple questions, let alone the harder ones.
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  235. She was Irish herself! Both of her parents were immigrants from Ireland.
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  236. Maybe the doctors and nurses are right, and the meatheads were wrong!
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  237. RE: "The Russians did not want a war. In fact they did everything possible to avoid a war!" Right! It's all the fault of those Ukrainian aggressors who invaded Russia! Oh, wait a minute............
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  238. She talks as if she were talking to an anxious child. When asked “what do you say to someone who doesn’t see himself in your plans,” she should reply with increased energy and say something like: “You are American! We Americans are problem-solvers. We get it done whenever there is opportunity.” Then talk about the opportunity economy. Don’t talk about “my vision” or “my feelings” so much.
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  239. Or maybe they do know, and you don't.
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  240. Enduring full-term labor and delivery is harmful to health, not just to convenience.
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  241. Minding your own business is the answer.
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  242. Whether you're a teacher, a dean, or a don, It's better to get fired than to get fired upon.
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  243. Not “eating the dogs”; “eating da dawgs”!
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  244.  @penelopebirnstingl7837  Always remember to wash your mouth out and gargle three times after you vomit. Protect your teeth from the acid!
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  245. You'd have to do more than that to get on their list. They won't list you just for practicing Catholicism. They will only list you for behaving in a way that makes them believe that you might be planning to do something illegal and violent.
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  246.  @gamehengeful  The main thing about COVID is the amount we still don't know. And more variants keep popping up, and there's something very alarming about certain ones - and I don't mean that they cause alarming symptoms. I mean something other than the symptoms they directly cause.
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  247. Because he is a federal judge
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  248. 1. Florida's surgeon general is a well-known cultist anti-vax for-profit quack. 2. And VAERS own web site warns readers that it does not even try to confirm all the reports. 3. In 2020, Fox News and social media started publishing VAERS web-site, so that any hempen-homespun lack-brain could report anything. Dr. Campbell cannot be unaware of these three points. The fact that he doesn't say anything about them shows that he's a liar.
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  249. FDA has always allowed off-label prescriptions of all approved drug-regimens in at least the past 35 years and maybe longer than that. Something like 35% or more of all prescriptions written in USA are off-label (which means the drug is being prescribed for some indication other than the one it is approved for). As long as you don’t exceed the allowed dosage, no problem!
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  250. Nuts. Most prison gangs survive because they work with the guards. It’s much easier for guards to keep order in a prison when the leaders of the gang are on board with them. So you get this kind of transaction where the guards don’t interfere with the gangs, and in return the gangs keep the inmates in line.
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  251. Worry about overpopulation is NOT “misguided”! It depends on perspective. From the point of view of the whole world, overpopulation is still a grave danger and a serious problem. Low birth rates are only a problem for the individual countries in which they occur. And they’re only a short term problem. Once the baby boomers, die off, it won’t matter that their successors are fewer in number than they were.
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  252.  @markedid5818  Can you see antibodies with your own eyes? Virions? B-cells? T-cells?
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  253.  @JackHaveman52  In some cases, the patient's has some underlying condition which makes natural delivery, and c-section (which is a major surgery) too dangerous to the patient's life. Congestive heart failure, for instance. Then you need to remove the contents of the head in order to make it easier to remove, and reduce her risk of dying. This isn't very common, but neither are third-trimester abortions.
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  254. Why is Tookhas Carlson getting so riled up?
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  255. The system was never designed for political parties as they are now, where all the state governments and all candidates belong to one party or the other and work in coordination with one party or the other. If the Founders had anticipated this, they would not have put the decisions how to count elections into the hands of the state governments. They would have foreseen: the current system we have, where a state government can, without restrictions, ultimately degenerate into a situation where each state government simply passes law saying "our state goes to our party [Republican or Democratic], no matter how anyone here votes". Then the party which happens to have more than half of the state governments will have a majority in every Senate election and most presidential elections. The House majority will depend on which party has the state governments in the states with more districts. But there will be no change except when the state governments change, so the whole idea of having elections - a way for the people to get rid of the sitting administration without violence - will fail.
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  256. “The event which determines the outcome may not have happened yet” It may just have begun last week when a judge in Florida released for publication the transcripts, Including a grand jury transcript, which were taken some years ago in connection with a lawsuit by a woman identified as “Katie Johnson” Who testified, under oath and supported by other women, to having been raped at the age of 13 by Donald Trump, and his now-deceased buddy Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has successfully weathered, many kinds of accusations and exposures of sexual improprieties. But raping a 13-year-old girl is another question altogether.
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  257. Ok if he doesn’t describe the diet in the next 30 seconds I will leave
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  258.  @MrMajikman1  Yes, it's a Chinese bio-weapon, and the reason why the Chinese unleashed it when they did is very obvious to anyone who was up-to-date on the trends in classical music. There's an opera-- Puccini's last opera-- which is very challenging and not performed all that often, except by the really top-level companies, because it's so difficult for the singers. Puccini never finished it, but other lesser composers have composed endings. It's called Turandot and it is set in ancient Peking, or rather, in Puccini's fantasy of what ancient Peking was like. Now, Turandot was experiencing renewed popularity early in 2020; it was a big fad in the opera world. The Met was scheduled to do it in April, and several other opera companies like San Francisco Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera were gonna do it, and even the "little-grand-opera" companies like Regina Opera in Brooklyn and West Bay Opera in Palo Alto -- companies which cast young, still-unknown singers to give them a start on their careers, and which perform in small venues for audiences of fewer than 150 people, were getting ready to do it. It was also trendy in Europe. (These trends come and go, usually in tandem - the fads typically originate in Europe and spread world-wide.) This opera Turandot is very offensive to Chinese cultural sensibilities, because it depicts the Chinese people as superstitious, bloodthirsty barbarians ruled by a sadistic tyrant. But because of COVID-19, the companies had to cancel their performances. This was obviously what the Chinese government was hoping to accomplish by unleashing the virus at that particular time-- to prevent Turandot from being performed in Europe and USA. That is cui bono in this case.
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  259. She was Irish herself! Both her parents were immigrant Irish from Ireland. (Doioioioioi!)
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  260.  @reyhudson563  The woman's life (the patient's life) is the one which matters.
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  261. Why isn’t this a command? Because it’s a piece of advice.
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  262.  @DrEmerson84  That would surprise me very much, if it were true! Have you read him? Lem, I mean. His tone remains consistent, not shifting like you'd expect from a committee with different writers working on different bits of a book. His characters, too - except for natural growth-of-character, they don't change suddenly or abruptly or without reason. And his central themes are often subversive, about institutional failure and absurd misfortunes, not what you'd expect from a Stalinist committee which is blunt-edged heroes dedicated to a central authority. Also, his work is not formulaic as committee-written communist stuff often was. There are almost never trumpets of triumph, and on the relatively few occasions when things turn out well, it almost always turns out to be because of some lucky circumstance, not because of the protagonists' ingenuity.
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  263. Ronald Reagan proved that near-total dementia is not an obstacle to success as President.
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  264. No, I wouldn't say Eric is evil. He's kind of full of himself, but you can hardly blame him for that. And, of course, like all top-level academics, his real-life personality is very different from the persona he presents to the public and to his undergrad students. He's very demanding, and ruthless. Getting between him and something he wants is extremely unwise. Besides everything else he has done, he's largely responsible for the existence of the Innocence Project, which uses DNA evidence (and other forensic analytical-chemistry) to exonerate wrongly-convicted prisoners. He was an expert witness in a trial which relied on DNA back in the 1980s when DNA evidence was a new thing, before the Clinton-Lewinsky affair and the blue dress brought it into the public eye, and he quickly realized that neither side understood what DNA evidence means or how it is analyzed or how to understand it. So he gently explained to the lawyers on both sides that they all had their heads up their asses, and clarified the issues for them, and then two of the defense lawyers took his message to heart and founded the Innocence Project. He was on the project's board of directors and may still be.
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  265. What should we do when the baby has birth-defects which make it unable to live after birth? I ask because those are the only babies we "allow to die" - the ones which cannot be saved.
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  266.  @earlthepearl4161  Just the facts. Which, by the way, I understand better than you do. Isaac Asimov: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' ”
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  267. FDA can advise whatever the hell it wants. What FDA cannot do is punish you for declining to take its advice, and FDA has never claimed the authority to punish doctors for off label prescriptions. So I don’t understand what this doctor is yapping about here. The FDA advised that ivermectin is not a proven cure or treatment or preventative for COVID-19. Some doctors prescribed it anyway. Now FDA has reminded everybody that these kinds of off label uses are perfectly legal. Why is this news? What’s the fuss all about?
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  268. Beware of short-term thinking. Try to imagine what this will look like 10 or 20 years from now.
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  269. Trump is not crazy. He's doing the smart, correct thing, for his goal. It's just that his goal is different from all other presidents (in my lifetime) so far. Until now, they've all wanted to do as well as they could, either for the country, or for their party, or for their big donors, or for their voters, or for the world, or for their future reputations. They had different ideas of what was good and whose benefit was most important to them, and different ideas of how to achieve the good they wanted, but they all wanted to accomplish something for a community. In contrast, Trump doesn't care about the country, or about his party, or about his big donors' interests, or about the voters, or about the world, or about his future reputation. Trump's goal is to maximize the amount of money his cult-members send to him (and/or his various corporate avatars), in the very-short term. The theory which best explains, and best would have predicted each thing he has done since he first started his campaign, is: he counts the money his followers have sent in the past two weeks, ("$ received from day -14 to day zero") and compares it to the amount from the preceding two weeks ("$ received from day -28 through day -14"). If the most recent two weeks' takings are more than the takings from the two weeks before, then he thinks to himself "that's good," and he'll go on doing and saying what he was doing and saying, maybe ramp up the volume and intensity. If, on the other hand, the most recent two weeks' takings are less than the takings from the two weeks before them, then he thinks to himself "that's bad," and he will change what he's saying and doing. This explains why he talks so much about liking authoritarian leaders, but didn't do much to actually make USA more authoritarian. He talked as if he wanted to put journalists in jail for opposing him, but he didn't actually jail any journalists, did he? And it explains why he has so little staying-power. Where's the wall? Where's the funding for a mission to Mars? etc. The talk is what makes the cultists send money. The follow-through doesn't matter; by the time anyone asks about it, he's moved on to some other stimulating fantasy to shout about. Now, continuing to shout that Biden cheated and he (Trump) really won, motivates his followers to send more $ than conceding would motivate them to send. So he'll go on shouting that Biden cheated, until somehow, his people stop rewarding him with donations. Same with his promises that he will somehow be reinstated: his followers hear that and they send money. That means that in view of what he's going for, what he's trying to achieve, his decision to keep shouting that he won and he's gonna be reinstated, is not crazy. It's a smart and effective way of doing what HE wants to do, which is, to keep those cult-members sending him their money.
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  270. The number of papers is less important than the correctness of the concepts in them. Everyone who evaluates scientists knows that one important paper is much more valuable than a few bits of garbage, or even many.
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  271. OUTRAGEOUS! No one should be allowed to choose whom to reproduce with. The government should tell everyone whom to reproduce with.
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  272. And impose a special tax on ammo in order to pay all those real officers.
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  273. That’s the paradox: more kids would be better for our country, but worse for the world. It’s a matter of perspective.
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  274. And the answer is: who cares? If it's inside my body, then I'm gonna get rid of it when I want to, no matter when human life starts. And I'm not gonna worry about what you think.
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  275. Posturing as a tenacious bulldog.
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  276.  @annmalleybooks  Far and away the most effective way to prevent people from getting abortions later in pregnancy is to make it easy for them to get abortions earlier in pregnancy. Since Dobbs was decided and Roe overturned, clinics in free states which happen to be near anti-abortion states are seeing big jumps in the number of second-trimester abortions, because patients in the neighboring anti-abortion states are finding it difficult to schedule their abortions for times still in the first trimester.
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  277.  @drsomeone1  Exactly. Doing an abortion on a patient who requests one is a form of righteous, justifiable homicide, not murder, because the person killed is inside the body of another person, and unwelcome there.
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  278. * No they're not demonic, * and the march toward transhumanism has been underway since the 1970s, and won't be stopped or even slowed down by you refusing the vaccine, * and if you get infected by the virus then your body will make the same mRNA as is in the vaccine, PLUS mRNA which codes for all the other viral proteins as well as mRNA which codes for the "spike" protein (which is what is in the vaccine), * and there's no need to stay away from them, * and you are an idiot.
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  279. Most drug addicts can't get themselves together long enough to undertake a crime like pushing someone onto train tracks. It takes nerve and focus to do that if the target is at all aware of his/her surroundings.
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  280. The problem is not that ivermectin is a horse medicine or a cow medicine. The problem is that ivermectin is only proven effective against parasitical worms not against viruses.
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  281. I've been saying for years: every candidate for elected office, every nominee for any seat on any Federal court, every candidate for any job in the Federal government, should be required to publish his entire financial history, going back to the money his parents left under his pillow when he shed his baby-teeth. And the same information for his entire family and for any corporation or company he has ever directed, consulted with, or owned significant stock in.
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  282. No. He's also very depressed because he found out that Daniel Arthur Mead used a prosthesis.
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  283. Tax Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow!
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  284.  @annmalleybooks  Because battered women, and abused children, are not located inside another person's body. So it's ok to intervene. If a woman were being battered inside my body (somehow) and you wanted to intervene, then you would need my permission, approval, and authorization.
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  285. Don’t roll the dice if you can’t pay the price!
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  286. Bill Clinton was fantastic at unrehearsed, impromptu, rapid-response talking.
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  287. Lewis Carroll said that when people asked him what he meant when he wrote THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK. He always answered something like: "I'm sure it means something, but I don't know what."
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  288. The courts are often gentle with defendants who plead guilty. Trials, even short ones, are surprisingly expensive.
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  289. RE: "I took all these personality tests. What does that tell me?" It tells you that you have a compulsive need for approval which finds relief in taking tests.
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  290. You are taking a rational approach. This is what the voters rejected in 2016. Yes, Joe Biden gave a fact-based answer, but he also spelled "billion" "b-i-l-o-i-o-n".
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  291. I'm glad that the building I inhabit Won't be invaded by Ashli Babbitt.
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  292. If you are an airline employee, and COVID comes up again, you'd be better off retiring regardless of whether or not the airline issues a mask-mandate.
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  293. New York does more and better scientific technology development than any other state except California and Massachusetts.
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  294.  @jackmeoff9299  So far the public high school in NYC which I went to has produced: * Four Nobel Laureates (three in the sciences, one in Economics) * One Fields Medalist (the Fields Medal is like the Nobel Prize, but for math--there is no actual Nobel Prize in math) * Several winners of the Wolf Prize, which is one step below the Nobel * At least one winner of the Breakthrough Prize, which is BIGGER than the Nobel (more money) * Several members of the National Academy of Sciences * Numerous high-ranking academics and tenured professors in STEM fields, including the first female theoretical physicist ever to win tenure at Harvard, and the most influential geneticist alive today * Numerous successful entrepreneurs, lawyers, engineers, inventors, and physicians * Numerous successful writers and journalists * At least three actors whom you have almost certainly heard of and very likely seen on your screen (unless you are one of those people who never watch movies). And it shows no signs of slowing down. ("Nothingburger." ROTFL)
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  295. It's not new. It has always been so. The good news is, when we really need the truth, we check the lies, and they get exposed and corrected.
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  296. The two most important philosophy books of the Twentieth Century being Being and Time by Heidegger and Being and Nothingness by Sartre, it's obvious that the first really important philosophy book of the Twenty-First Century will be called Nothingness and Time.
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  297.  @micixduda  Nonsense. The technology is too prone to error and self-sabotage for anyone to implement 1984. The now-past futurist who most accurately predicted our time was not George Orwell; it was Stanislaw Lem.
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  298. He made a generation of know-nothings, including you, imagine that you could understand epidemiology well enough to be worth listening to. He deserves some penalty for that.
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  299. Too much toxic emission.
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  300. Are you sure that the ones who deleted your posts are the government, not wealthy owners of personally owned media platforms like Twitter?
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  301. The most promising recent (2022) development concerning rare-earth markets is the successful bulk-synthesis, in the lab, of tetrataenite, using a phosphorus catalyst. I'd love to hear what effect you think that will have on geopolitics and chemo-economics. (Tetrataenite doesn't contain rare-earths, but it may replace them in many applications.) UPDATE: the reason is tetrataenite can be made into very powerful magnets, competitive in power with magnets made of rare-earth alloys which are the strongest permanent magnets in the world but which require rare earths. Permanent magnets are essential to (almost) any device which converts electrical energy into mechanical energy or vice-versa : motors and turbines. If we can iron the bugs out of the process of making tetrataenite into magnets, instead of using rare-earth alloys for our magnets, then we can reduce our need for rare earths big-time.
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  302. RE: "My 37-year-old daughter is currently 19 weeks pregnant with her second child." That's why the complication rates are going up. More and more women are having babies later and later in life.
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  303. Right you are! It's a Chinese bio-weapon, and the reason why the Chinese unleashed it when they did is very obvious to anyone who was up-to-date on the trends in classical music. There's an opera-- Puccini's last opera-- which is very challenging and not performed all that often, except by the really top-level companies, because it's so difficult for the singers. Puccini never finished it, but other lesser composers have composed endings. It's called Turandot and it is set in ancient Peking, or rather, in Puccini's fantasy of what ancient Peking was like. Now, Turandot was experiencing renewed popularity early in 2020; it was a big fad in the opera world. The Met was scheduled to do it in April, and several other opera companies like San Francisco Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera were gonna do it, and even the "little-grand-opera" companies like Regina Opera in Brooklyn and West Bay Opera in Palo Alto -- companies which cast young, still-unknown singers to give them a start on their careers, and which perform in small venues for audiences of fewer than 150 people, were getting ready to do it. It was also trendy in Europe. (These trends come and go.) This opera Turandot is very offensive to Chinese nationalists, because it depicts the Chinese people as superstitious, bloodthirsty barbarians ruled by a sadistic tyrant. But because of COVID-19, the companies had to cancel their performances. This was obviously what the Chinese government was hoping to accomplish by unleashing the virus at that particular time-- to prevent Turandot from being performed in Europe and USA. That is cui bono in this case.
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  304. The solution is obvious. It has two parts: 1. Big tax-cuts for upper-bracket income-getters, and 2. More guns.
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  305.  @kkdoc7864  It's not a question of safety with Ivermectin; it's a question of efficacy. No, it wasn't a conspiracy. Because Fauci has a nearly-unique skill: advising how to deal with a pathogen before we know much about it .
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  306.  @kkdoc7864  What does endocrinology have to do with this? And whoever said that Fauci was an endocrinologist? He has never claimed to be an endocrinologist. And if you think I don't know how to interpret epidemiology papers, you're wrong.
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  307. There is no such thing as a ghost gun. The serial numbers are too small for you to see but they are still there.
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  308. And Trump is obese (I’m using the technical medical definition based on height, weight, and age- Trump is not morbidly obese but he is obese.) This bumps his risks up to the same level as Biden’s.
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  309. Who cares if it's alive? If my organs are sustaining it and sheltering it, then I will decide how long it gets to stay alive. And when I decide, I'm not gonna worry about whether or not you approve.
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  310.  @3Betanzos  Life has lots of value in and of itself. But not enough to justify forcing a pregnant patient to shelter it and sustain it inside her body by use of her internal organs against her will. You are not allowed to do that even though your life has value.
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  311.  @charlesjohnson3625  Yes, of course I am pro-choice. And pro-life.
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  312. Ronald Reagan? Or do you mean real conservatives who are still active? How about John Bolton? Judge Michael Luttig?
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  313. And one Supreme Court justice.
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  314. If she hated black people, then why did she work so closely in partnership with so many black leaders? Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., WEB DuBois, Mary McCleod Bethune, Dean John Lawlah of Howard Medical School, James Hubert of the Urban League, ... the list goes on and on. And why did they work with her???
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  315. The argument that we should test the Paxlovid on patients who have been immunized (either by vaccination or by infection and natural immune-response), is good. By all means, test it on them! BUT it's reasonable to assume, until large tests are complete, that Paxlovid will benefit immunized patients in the same way it benefits those who have not been immunized. I'll explain why: Paxlovid is a combination of two medications. One of the two is Ritonovir, which doesn't do much by itself, but is useful for prolonging the lifetime of other protease-inhibitors. You can think of Ritonovir as like the linemen on a football team whose purpose is blocking the other team, to protect the guy who has the ball from being tackled by them. The other drug in Paxlovid is Nirmatrelvir, which is like the guy who has the ball. It inhibits the virus' protease enzymes which are essential to make the proteins it needs in order to control the host cell. Without those protease enzymes, the virus can't do its bad viral thing to you. The point here is, both these effects - the Nirmatrelvir inhibiting the virus' essential protease enzymes, plus the Ritonovir preventing the host from removing the Nirmatrelvir - both these effects are completely separate from antibodies and what antibodies do. In fact, as far as anyone knows, they are separate from the entire immune system. They inhibit the viral protease enzymes in the presence of antibodies, and they inhibit the viral protease enzymes in the absence of antibodies. Given what we know about how well they work for patients who have not been immunized, and given that their mechanisms of action have nothing to do with immunity or antibodies, it's reasonable to predict that they will also work well to protect patients who HAVE been immunized. This is not proof - of course, only big tests on previously-immunized patients would prove the benefit in those patients. But it IS a good reason to provide the Paxlovid unless and until large studies or surveys prove that it DOESN'T help those patients. The fact that Paxlovid has such great results on patients who have not been immunized, plus the fact that the mechanism of action is independent of antibodies, shifts the burden of proof to the skeptics, at least largely.
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  316. Do you have training and/or work-experience, in physics, chemistry, and biology? If not, who teaches these subjects to your children?
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  317. Even today, our knowledge of HOW exactly the catalyst makes it possible to break the N-N triple bond is not as complete as we would like. In 2007, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Gehard Ertl, for being the leader in studying this but there are still many unanswered parts of the question.
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  318. The very first thing she says about eugenics is: "Well, I suppose that something like that [whether to have babies, and how many to have] is so personal that it's entirely up to the parents to decide." She supported eugenics (like almost everyone in her time) but not coercive eugenics. She supported eugenics by consent of the parents, chosen freely. “[Some] eugenists imply or insist that a woman's first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her first duty to the state. We maintain that a woman possessing an adequate knowledge of her reproductive functions is the best judge of the time and conditions under which her child should be brought into the world. We further maintain that it is her right, regardless of all other considerations, to determine whether she shall bear children or not, and how many children she shall bear if she chooses to become a mother." --Margaret Sanger, "Birth Control and Racial Betterment," Birth Control Review, Feb 1919. Freedom. Just imagine it!
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  319.  @FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL  Your quotes with references in your episode are taken severely out of context. You can make anyone appear to mean anything that way. For instance, the Apostle Paul wrote "in Christ there is no 'male' or 'female'" (Galatians 3) but if someone were to claim that he therefore must have supported modern gender-fluidity, I don't think that person would be right! And some of your quotes are just well-known fabrications. Margaret Sanger never said, for instance, "Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race." That was a calumny which circulated widely on social media in 2015 but has no basis in anything she said or wrote.
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  320. What this nurse didn’t tell you is: the cells which get mRNA will indeed express the antigen, but only for a very short time! Not long enough for the body to mount any significant auto immune response against the cells expressing the antigen. By the time the immune system processes the antigen and responds to it, the cells have cleared out the mRNA and have stopped making antigen on their surfaces. Also, as a general thing, only a very small fraction of the cells distant from the injection site express antigen at all. Sure if you want to be superstitious and squeamish about new medication’s and new classes of medication, that’s up to you. But this kind of knee-jerk anti-vax alarmism-for-profit is not persuasive. (I suppose I should put this in for full disclosure: I am a retired small-pharma antibody-chemist. I retired many years before COVID, and no longer have any financial skin in the immunology game.)
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  321. No. WHO said PROBABLY not from a lab, and it’s still more likely natural origin. There have been plenty of similar events (viruses changing from one host to another) in the past.
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  322. He was right, though! She said "Sin-see-YAIR-i-ty" which is not a word. The word "sincerity" is pronounced "Sin-SERR-i-ty", as Biden, correctly, pronounced it.
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  323.  @long-hair-dont-care88.  Then the abuse would be evil, not the eugenics.
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  324.  @debbied7035  But Christians who say "chapter and verse" have a good point, if you accept their Holy boook as a source of truth. You don't get to make sh1t up and pretend that Margaret Sanger said it. If you're gonna quote her, you need some backup. For instance, she never said "Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to [any] race".
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  325.  @KeithMarshman  No, she didn't speak at any Klan rallies, only at one secret members-only indoor-meeting after dark (not a "rally") of the Women's Auxiliary Branch of KKK. And she didn't enjoy lecturing to them very much.
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  326.  @debbied7035  That's what everyone says when they know that they are making sh1t up, or quoting out of context and changing the meaning of the quoted lines. The fact is she never expressed any disdain for any race, religion, nation-of-origin, or ethnicity (although she did express disdain for some religious institutions, such as the Catholic Church, and for some national institutions, such as the Third Reich). You cannot find any evidence to the contrary because there is none.
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  327.  @grimjoker5572  Not a "rally". A rally is a public, outdoor, daylight event. Often with marching, music, and flags. Not a secret, indoor, members-only meeting.
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  328.  @grimjoker5572  RE: "You didn't take an action you knew would make another person dependent on your circulatory system. There for this is a false analogy. " It's not an analogy at all! You brought up the issue of not losing your uterus. My point is it doesn't matter whether you lose part of your body by sustaining the other person. Lose or not lose, it's your body and you get to decide whose life to sustain and shelter inside it, and when, and how long. You keep trying to portray the aborted fetus as a victim of wrongdoing. That's wrong. An aborted fetus gets a few days or weeks of womb-time, during which its life is supported by the insides of another person's body, without it (the fetus) having to put in any effort or do any work. That's not a harm; that is an affirmative benefit. If the woman gets an abortion, the time from conception to abortion is still an affirmative benefit, a gift to the fetus, just not as big a one as you might like. So you are like someone who gets a gift of ten dollars, and curses the giver for not having given a hundred. "But I needed a hundred dollars, you bastard!" The right answer is : that may be, but you're only getting ten dollars from me. My gift, from inside my body, so my rules.
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  329.  @grimjoker5572  The difference between speaking at a rally and giving a lecture to a private meeting is not a trivial difference. A rally implies the speaker agrees with, endorses, and supports the cause of, the rallygoers. A lecture, in contrast, doesn't. Margaret Sanger was willing to speak to the KKK, once. She did not support or agree with them. That is important! If you pretend that she spoke at a rally because she once lectured to a private meeting, you are lying about her position.
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  330.  @grimjoker5572  Yes, that is true, scientists make mistakes from time to time. Sometimes bad ones. Call me naive, but I always think the answer is to do science better, not to stop doing it. Sometimes doing nothing has bad consequences too.
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  331.  @grimjoker5572  And how exactly does making birth-control legal, available, and well-known, violate anyone's rights??? Whose rights? Which rights? Were the people who first developed vulcanized rubber violating someone's rights (in your view)?
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  332.  @grimjoker5572  You are not terribly educated in any subject apparently. History: do you really not know that Margaret Sanger opposed abortion? She was quite outspoken about it. How can anyone who is interested in Margaret Sanger not know this???
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  333.  @grimjoker5572  But you'll admit that it's nice to be able to discuss it with a pen pal without getting put in jail - and we can thank Margaret Sanger for that.
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  334.  @ellielynn8219  Yes, you can look up her quotes, and when you do, you will see that in context they mean something entirely different from what they appear to mean when quoted out of context. For instance, the line about "the most merciful thing a large family does with a newborn baby is to kill it" is a sarcastic comment about the enormous child-mortality rate in families which have more children than they can afford to raise and look after. You wouldn't know that unless you read the essay it appeared in. And the line "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the N* population" doesn't mean that she wants to exterminate anyone; it means that she is concerned that someone might think, wrongly, or say, falsely, that she wanted to. (As this video does!) There were plenty of people who did want to, in her time, and she didn't want to be mistaken for one of them. This is obvious in context. Real history. Just imagine that!
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  335.  @hollygolightly8048  No she didn't. She worked enthusiastically with African Americans. She did not tolerate racist talk among her employees. The "human weeds" meant anyone whose parents had too many kids and could not raise them properly. A family, in her view, should be like a garden, not like a wild weedy patch of unattended land. She never associated the term "human weeds" with any ethnic, religious, national-origin, or racial group. Try again, if you like.
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  336.  @murderalphabetinc.5162  RE: "Go look up her letters." No need; I read all her letters more than three decades ago.
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  337. The goal is (probably) to learn why the animals are so excited on cocaine. Surely even you can see why that would be useful to know.
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  338.  @zachariah1990  Yes, I knew that. But how is it relevant to a discussion of funding basic science?
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  339. Not all true basses have dark voices! Some of the lowest bass voices have golden timbre — Like, for instance, Kurt Moll, and Hans Sotin — or grey, like Josef Greindl. And, some of the darkest sounding male voices are not basses at all. Listen to Gustav Neidlinger, who sang baritone parts but had a darker timbre than most low basses.
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  340. One of the main reasons cops are leaving, especially in bad neighborhoods, is, there are so many small guns on the streets that any bystander or victim at any crime scene has to be assumed to be carrying, and possibly dangerous. This is why we get cops shooting so many kids who turn out to be carrying phones or toys: the cop has to assume that anyone - absolutely anyone, from a six-year-old child to a 90-year-old guy in a wheelchair, is armed and dangerous. This is part of the price we pay for our right to keep and bear arms: frightened, angry, hair-trigger cops.
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  341. The stockpiles are certainly helpful.
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  342. In chemistry, we have trends and fads, but even so, more bad science comes from communications-failures within the hierarchy than from evil or careless scientists deliberately lying about their work.
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  343. Why? Why would their superiors tell them not to?
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  344.  @ComplicatedBot  I'm talking about blood vessels UNDER YOUR COLLAR BONE. Look up: "Subclavian artery" and "subclavian vein".
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  345. Close! I think it's not so much the oil and gas - remember, USA has plenty of oil and gas now. It's because of the lithium and the rare earth metals which are richly deposited in Ukraine.
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  346. I heard he was caught using the nuclear football as ... a football.
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  347.  @DanMorgan-bh5fv  The answer is: their lives also subsidized like living on welfare. In fact, most of them are living on welfare, with no "like".
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  348. Well, you're half-right.
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  349. "It's a cookbook!"
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  350. English is also very popular in Sweden spoken everywhere. So when are the Swedish troops expected to enter the United States?
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  351.  Galva Tron  No, he took credit for his predecessors' accomplishments. David Dinkins did most of the work which enabled the cleanup of (for instance) Times Square; some of it was even begun by Ed Koch! Rudy Giuliani was on Letterman once and Letterman kept teasing him, saying, again and again: "My guest is Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the man who SINGLE-HANDEDLY CLEANED UP TIMES SQUARE!!" And each time he said it, Giuliani looked more and more annoyed, until you could see he (Giuliani) was having difficulty resisting the urge to punch Letterman in the face.
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  352. All scientists are official scientists, today.
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  353. That's very nice, but this video seems to be about vaccination and natural immunity.
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  354. He's never been afraid to admit he was wrong! That's part of what he means by calling himself an exponent of "science".
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  355.  @mitchbrown6652  This gun is designed to be compact (Taurus G2c). It's five inches high by 6.2 inches long.
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  356. When an agency changes its position in light of new discoveries about the subject, that shows that the agency is MORE credible. The ones with zero credibility are the ones which DON'T change their positions when new data emerge.
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  357. Adverse events reported by whom? To whom?
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  358. I ask because in USA we have VAERS which anti-Vax loop-a-dupes cite all the time even though it’s self reported and almost entirely unconfirmed and it warns readers that it doesn’t prove anything at all and should not be cited as evidence for anything.
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  359. Trump’s response to this problem would be: impose a big tariff on insulin imported from abroad.
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  360. Re: Fox is even admitting that their policies are not popular Of course! Their goal is to make the base anxious and willing to donate.
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  361. Not quite. It's a little more complicated than that. More like "I don't need a small farm in my own back yard because I can get mass-grown food in the grocery store." There's plenty to be said against factory-farming, but there's also a lot to be said in its favor, including, it produces much more food for your money than small individual farms. It may not taste as nice, but it keeps you alive longer for less money. That's why factory-mega-farms are so successful.
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  362. Many biologists would hesitate to define “woman” too. I know; my profession was in bio-science.
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  363. Very good. Now, try posting what she really said.
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  364.  @wesleyashley99  That depends on what you were trying to achieve (on what your definition of "success" is). It was not correct, though.
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  365. Probably because you don't understand statistics. You know, math.
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  366. Your plumber has a lot of power over you. If he doesn't know his job, you're in deep trouble.
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  367. The definitive book about this is In the Name of Eugenics by Daniel Kevles.
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  368.  @The-Contractor  Good luck proving that he committed any perjury. You can't, because he didn't.
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  369.  @domb8448  My favorite recording (including studio and live recordings) is a live one from 1955, featuring Otto Edelmann as Sachs (he was most famous for buffo roles like Leporello and Baron Ochs, but he can also be very serious when the occasion arises) and Hans Hopf, conducted by Hans Rosbaud. Rosbaud pays as much attention to detail, and varies the tempo and volume, as much as anyone - KNA, Karajan, Furtwängler - but he does it subtly, so you don't notice how effective it is. My favorite video is the one with Wolfgang Brendl, Gösta Winbergh, Victor von Halem (RIP), Eva Johansson, and Eike-Wilm Schulte, who absolutely nails his role which is Beckmesser. Although Brendl unfortunately lacks heft and doesn't adequately portray how old and craggy Sachs is.
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  370.  @domb8448  In MEISTERSINGER, he actually makes new shoes. We see him doing it, in Act 2.
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  371. The nearly-final question was why don't we waive the vaccination-mandates for people who already have natural immunity. One obvious problem is that testing for natural immunity is expensive! Even testing for antibody-titers would cost non-trivial amounts of money, and that is a very easy test to run. (Even I can run it.). Add in the cost of counting patients' memory B-cells, memory T-4s, and memory T-8s, and remember: you're not just counting total memory B, T4, and T8 cells; you have to count the number of memory B-cells which target the virus, and the number of memory T4 cells which target the virus, and the number of T8 cells which target the virus. (It's nice for a patient if he has a large number of memory T8 cells which "remember" that he once was exposed to, say, rabies, or Yersinia Pestis, but those cells will not also protect him from SARS-CoV-2, so you need to count only the cells which "remember" his previous exposure to SARS-CoV--2 which gave him the natural immunity.) Counting these cells is much more expensive than antibody-titering (which is why so many scientists rely on antibody-titering even though it doesn't always correlate with total immunity.) I suppose we could have a policy of waiving vaccination requirements for people who have natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2, but, if you want to apply for the waiver, then you have to pony up the money for the tests. Which will certainly cost more - A LOT more - than just taking the damm vaccine!
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  372. No one who knows anything about virology would say what you just said.
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  373.  @alanjm1234  Q: Where do they get virgin wool? A: From ugly sheep!
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  374. RE: "What’s the first thing the doctor does when he turns to you and says your grandma has passed away ?" He checks to see whether or not her insurance plan will pay for his services. That's the first thing he does.
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  375. Don’t you want people to read what you post?
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  376. Thank you. Margaret Sanger was an abortion-opponent. She turned women seeking abortions away from her clinics, and she described abortion as “sordid,” “abhorrent,” “terrible,” “barbaric,” "vicious,", "the wrong way", "taking a life", a “horror” in the same category as infanticide and child-abandonment, and "a disgrace to civilization." She called abortionists “blood-sucking men with MD after their names." She said that the rights of unborn babies to protection were "no less imperative" than the rights of already-born children. She circulated an advertisement for her birth-control clinic which said: "MOTHERS! / Can you afford to have a large family? /Do you want any more children? / If not, why do you have them? / DO NOT KILL, / DO NOT TAKE LIFE / BUT PREVENT." She never advocated in any way for legalizing abortion. Planned Parenthood did not start doing abortions until after she had been dead for more than three years.
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  377.  @FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL  For abortion? Nope. She opposed it and PP never advocated for it until she was getting senile, semi-retired, and serving mostly as a fund-raising figurehead for PP. PP didn't do its first abortion until after she was dead more than a year.
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  378. He’s also wearing a really nice necktie.
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  379. "A pig, an ass, a dunghill, the spawn of an adder, a basilisk, a lying buffoon, a mad fool with a frothy mouth." --Martin Luther, describing Henry the Eighth
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  380. Thomas Kuhn Later disowned pretty much everything had concluded in his book THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS. When I was an undergraduate, way back in the 1980s, I got into trouble for not knowing that.
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  381. Robert Heinlein has been described as "the Norman Mailer of sci-fi."
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  382.  @kellikelli4413  The meaning of the term "rare" means it doesn't depend on how many cases there are total; it depends on how many cases there are per person who gets the treatment. A rare side-effect is still rare even if we see more of it because more people are getting the treatment.
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  383. ​ @mariecurie7491  But you do go out walking, where you could be attacked by dogs, and you don't bother to take precautions.
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  384. Somewhere in the afterlife-world, Stanislaw Lem is smiling. (You try to answer a simple question like "does it really superconduct" and all you get are more questions.)
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  385. Why? The point of posting on social media is to get people to read what you post, isn’t it?
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  386. "The Twilight Zone" was nowhere near the first instance of someone being surprised by his own ability to read minds. It happened, hilariously, in Wagner's opera SIEGFRIED, which premiered in 1876. Here's the scene, Siegfried reads the mind of the evil dwarf Mime (pronounced "Mimmy") who is trying to poison him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y2-aiKrvAw&t=8100s
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  387. Liar
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  388.  @perseusarkouda  Yes, that's how we lost our ability to make vitamin C!
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  389.  @sandie1112  For what crime?
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  390. Or, maybe he's acting.
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  391.  @bobomaigret5430  RE: "He (Eric L) regards Trump as a complete failure on the health front, of course." You don't have to be a genius like Eric, in order to understand that!
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  392. And here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsoN-dk-Nvw&t=49s
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  393.  @notyourtypicalcomment2399  You're right that the fetus is not violating the woman's rights. Right-to-lifers are the ones who are violating the woman's rights. The fetus is an innocent beneficiary of the violation which the right-to-lifers' violations. Just as (here's a clarifying analogy) when Robin Hood broke the law by stealing from the rich and giving it to the poor, the poor were not guilty, but they benefited from Robin Hood's violations. The poor should not have been punished, but they shouldn't be allowed to keep the money either.
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  394.  @francescapoteet5481  RE: "That child is separate from the mom although inside her body." Then let it be removed from her body (if that is what she wants) and be separate in a separate place (for as long as it can, which is usually somewhere between ten seconds and five minutes). Own the separateness! Celebrate the separateness. Maximize the separateness! Let there be separateness in great abundance, since it is so important to you. RE: "... it is a living human being on its own and has rights as well." Yes, but like your rights and mine, its rights stop at the barrier defined by the patient's skin. Inside your body, there are no rights for anyone, unless you say there are. Inside my body, I decide who has rights, and what rights they have, and when, and why, and how long. Inside my body, I can switch everyone else's rights on and off like an electric light. Inside my body, if I decree that you have rights during odd-numbered times of day and no rights during even-numbered times of day, my decree makes it so.
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  395.  @notyourtypicalcomment2399  No sir. Laws against abortion don't only require us not to kill anyone. They require that one person be forced, by the government, to grant access to the inside of her body when she does not want to. Enduring a whole pregnancy, and childbirth, is not a passive, nothing kind of thing. It's an affirmative undertaking and a bloody great imposition. Like submitting to a major surgery for someone else's benefit, not yours, and not resisting,
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  396.  @beno.9958  How the woman became pregnant does not reduce or invalidate her right to choose how long to remain pregnant. Her responsibility is to choose wisely, and it is a responsibility to herself. You complain that it's not fair to the fetus. Well, the fetus which gets conceived and aborted gets to live a short life between the time when it is conceived until the time when it is aborted. If she had been more careful to avoid conceiving it, then it wouldn't even get that short time! And that would be worse. A short life is better for the one who lives it than no life at all. So I find it very difficult to feel sorry for the fetus. Sure, it would be better to get more life than it gets, but the short life it gets is better for it than no life at all. Nobody gets to live as long as he wants to live. Especially, nobody whose living requires the use of the insides of another person's body gets to live as long as he wants. He only gets to live as long as he can get the other person to authorize the use of the inside of her body to keep him alive. Too bad for him!
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  397.  @helenn6061  "Natural" doesn't matter. As far as morals, ethics, and philosophy go there is no "natural" and "unnatural". Any moral or ethical predicate or imperative which applies to natural things or in natural situations, applies equally well to artificial things and in unnatural situations. To argue otherwise is to commit the "Naturalistic fallacy" or the "Appeal-to-nature fallacy". Undergraduate philosophy majors learn this, usually in Freshman year.
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  398. Why not? Why wouldn't we be in this mess, if Trump were still in office? What would he have done to prevent it?
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  399.  @michaeljbadeaux  1. The pipeline deal wouldn't make a difference; it's longer term. 2. No the border wouldn't have been secure. The wall was doomed from the start. Why? Because to build an effective wall, you'd need to eminent domain a lot of border land away from the wealthy guys who own it, and in USA, an owner who also has money can stop eminent domain: he just sues to prevent it, and if he loses, he appeals, and keeps appealing until the president who is trying to eminent domain it loses an election or hits his term-limit. 3. Are you kidding? When the Fed was thinking of raising interest rates, Trump threatened them. Trump did everything he could to keep the money easy, for short-term gain, and that is largely how we got where we are. 4. Putin doesn't fear Trump. Putin owns a big piece of Trump. Putin might have delayed invading because he hoped Trump would weaken NATO. And if Trump were still in office, he would. 5. No, China wouldn't "have to" make good on any deal with Trump. What's Trump gonna do if they don't?
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  400. Not such a good book. The definitive go-to textbook is Daniel Kevles' In the Name of Eugenics.
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  401. So you think Pfizer should be pfined?
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  402.  @maureennewman905  Greeat idea! Let the Chinese (or EU, or Koreans, or Indians) capture our position of preeminence in the biotech world. We're ceding everything else to them, why not hand over biotech as well?
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  403. Lol no it’s not. Can you say “reporting bias”? Look it up.
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  404. If he was right, he was right the way a stopped clock is right twice per day: random good luck.
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  405.  @tobesmith7632  If Fauci were lying, how would you know?
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  406. First of all, no, it's still an hypothesis, not "a bit more". Secondly, Dr. Campbell is speaking as if it went without saying that the only possible reason to redact information about the virus were something embarrassing in it. But there might well be something dangerous in it. Everyone is quite sure that this virus SARS-CoV-2 was not purposely engineered or released as a bio-weapon, but the next one, or the one after that, could well be. It's getting easier and easier to engineer new variants (if anyone wanted to do that) and there could be some information which the Brits don't want to release, for very good reason. The fact that the virus stores its genetic information in the form of viral RNA rather than DNA, and the unusually large size of the RNA (30 kilobases), were obstacles for a while, but we seem to have overcome them (see the work of Volker Thiel in Switzerland) and it is getting uncomfortably easy to mess with the viral genome. We can make, for instance, variants of the virus which cause infected cells to glow in the dark (by cloning in a gene for a jellyfish protein which glows, called Green Fluorescent Protein, "GFP"). That means we can likely also make variants which would do other, less harmless things. If we release all the information, quite soon some apocalypse-minded guy with a bit of knowledge and too much of money (think Osama bin Laden if he had taken a PhD in virology and worked in biotech for a few years) could produce something very nasty indeed (imagine a variant virus which made 20% of patients go permanently blind). So don't be so quick that every redaction is for the sake of avoiding embarrassment! It could be something to protect you. Go review Isaac Asimov's short story "The Dead Past". Money quote: "Nobody knew anything," said Araman bitterly, "but you all just took it for granted that the government was stupidly bureaucratic, vicious, tyrannical, given to suppressing research for the hell of it. It never occurred to any of you that we were trying to protect mankind as best we could."
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  407. Sure, but it's not a doctor's job to respond to hecklers. How would you respond if someone burst into your examination room while you were with a patient and started trying to question you about your research?
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  408. But sometimes doing nothing is even more harmful. There was a doctor who saw a guy with his foot caught in a railroad track. The doctor could have freed the guy but he didn’t; he just stood by until a train arrived, and watched him get killed by the train. When asked why he did nothing he said “if I had tried to help, I might have injured the guy‘s foot and violated my oath to do no harm!”
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  409.  @joemcdermott1213  LOL!!! Wrong.
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  410.  @joemcdermott1213  Let's get something straight: I don't care about "credibility", and I don't care whether you think I'm "disingenuous". Someone asked a question and I answered it. If you don't believe me, go read the transcript of the trial for yourself. The instructions to the jury make it quite clear what the underlying crimes were. And it doesn't matter that the underlying crimes were not brought to court before this. I understand that you think it should matter, and it may seem counterintuitive that it doesn't, but as a matter of law and jurisprudence, it doesn't.
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  411.  @joemcdermott1213  The fact is, felonies are often very complicated and not intuitively obvious or simple, and anyone who has ever interacted with the criminal justice system knows this. You can commit a felony without even knowing that you are committing a crime. And I don't care at all whether you think it's a "powerful move". I decided to give you some information out of the goodness of my heart, not in order to make any kind of move.
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  412.  @joemcdermott1213  I explained the crimes to you six hours ago!
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  413. What's all this fuss about the Shroud of Turing? Alan Turing was the father of mathematical computer science, but I'm not aware of him having any shroud. And why is it a Christian icon?
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  414.  @waggishsagacity7947  Jodie would make a great candidate if she could be persuaded to run. She has everything: household-name-level recognition, demonstrated ability to speak the language of poor people, a dedicated following among white suburban women, connections, money, devotion to her family, and a kind of masculine grit that would likely neutralize the usual sexist attacks that women in politics often get cut down by. The right wingers would try calling her "haughty" and "arrogant" and the voters would remember The Silence of the Lambs and laugh at the right wingers. In fact she'd be a female counterpart to Ronald Reagan.
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  415.  @LTVoyager  Who? Obama???
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  416. Also the manufacturer and the store where she bought the gun. Hold everyone liable. That's how problems get fixed. We don't need government to micromanage the problem. Just give someone who is in a position to do something about it some incentive, and let them solve the problem. They are the experts on guns, right? The incentive should be: if you figure out how to prevent a gun you sell from being used in a crime, you get rewarded by being able to stay out of prison. Now you say "But how can I tell who's gonna misuse the gun I sell? I can't read my customers' minds!" The answer is: That's your problem. Don't whine about how challenging it is. Solve it. That's what Americans do. We solve problems. We didn't get to the Moon, or create the computer-industry, or sequence the human genome, or win the Cold War, by whining about how hard the job was. That's what losers do. "Boo hoo, the problem is so difficult, what can I do?" The answer is: "You can act like a man." Rise to the occasion. Be a winner, not a loser. Or else, you will find yourself having to solve a different problem: how to survive a long prison sentence.
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  417.  @reloadNshoot  In order to motivate them to fix the problem. Today technology exists that could have prevented this - smart gun-handles that can read palm-prints and not fire if the gun is being held by someone other than the rightful owner. The seller is culpable because he sold a gun which was not outfitted with this technology. That's how we motivate the experts to solve the problem - not my mandating smart gun handles, or small magazines, or whatever, but by motivating the experts (the sellers) to solve the problem. Or to put the same thing another way: the store and manufacturer are liable just because they haven't solved this problem yet. That fact, all by itself, makes them liable.
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  418.  @elenac.sd.978  You're absolutely right. And this is just the beginning. It's gonna happen again and again - statistically, there's no reason to expect it not to happen again. We have too many guns in the hands of too many idiots. And sooner or later, in one state or another, a single-digit-age child will shoot his teacher to death. If the people don't rebel then, they never will. We will live in SecondAmendmentistan for the duration.
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  419. Ronald Reagan proved that senile dementia is not an obstacle to a successful presidency.
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  420. I can tell you what her answer would be: "Senator, changing the law will not be part of my job. That is YOUR job."
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  421. There you go. That's right! Your comment deserves ten-million up-votes. The error people make is they think they can figure this kind of stuff out for themselves, or, learn quickly by reading a few articles. It's funny, because they don't do this with other esoteric specialties. No one thinks they can referee a professional boxing match after reading a couple of books, or a few news articles, about boxing. No one thinks they can conduct an orchestra by reading about it. No one even thinks they can learn to drive a truck, or be a chef, by reading a few manuals and articles. But with virology, epidemiology, statistical analysis of surveys and studies, and immunology - subjects many times more complicated than boxing, orchestral music, truck driving, or cooking - they think they can become as proficient as Dr. Fauci by reading some articles by science-journalists. Good old American know-how only works if it is accompanied by a large side-order of good old American humility. The characters Ronald Reagan played (usually) understood this. Reagan knew how to find out why the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up: call in Professor Richard Feynman and turn the question over to him!
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  422. There is no racist who started planned parenthood.
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  423. A technical point: palladium and platinum are NOT rare-earth metals. The rare earth metals are scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, samarium, gadolinium, europium, ytterbium, lutetium, erbium, holmium, thulium, cerium, and promethium. Not gold, platinum, palladium, or rhodium.
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  424.  @sophiophile  None of the "rare earths" are really rare! What is rare is to find deposits which contain them in useful form from which the metals can be purified. This, by the way, is what we are hoping to get out of Ukraine if we manage to help them win their war: preferred-buyer status on their mining franchises. They have lots of potentially valuable rare-earth deposits; also lithium, neon gas, nickel, and mercury.
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  425. By issuing an injunction ordering FDA to de-approve the drug.
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  426. The schtaffer schould have schlapped him.
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  427. I told my boss that I had a concept of finishing the project
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  428. I don’t think this loss is because of anything the Dems did or didn’t do. Authoritarians are winning all over the world, in the long term and in the short term. Part of the reason for the short-term is during COVID, center-left governments embarked on huge inflationary spending programs, and now we’re paying with noxious inflation, which voters hate. But even without that, I fear that center-left candidates are currently on the wrong side of history.
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  429.  @d0fabur5st82  Well, I for one wouldn't mind having my butt muscles deformed a bit, at this point.
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  430.  @bobbobertson6249  No. People get migraines for many different reasons, some of which are very poorly understood. It's basically unpredictable (well, there are circumstances which one can reasonably expect will cause a migraine, especially if you know the patient well, but there's no way to be sure someone is not about to get one. The fact that a given person has not had one before does not guarantee that he won't get one tomorrow or later today, and we often don't know what the cause is.)
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  431.  @Srekwah  Well, when I was in third grade, I listened to what we now call an audiobook - a set of vinyl records of an actor reading aloud - of Alice in Wonderland a lot. I didn't get into politics until later. And I think I didn't get into Tom Lehrer until later. But I do remember that my third grade teacher used to read aloud to us sometimes. She read "Rikky-Tikki-Tavi" and also recited some poetry by Ogden Nash: "The Adventures of Isabel". You remember: "Isabel met an enormous bear; Isabel, Isabel, didn't care, the bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous, the bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous." Childish, certainly, but a damm site more thought-provoking than Rush Limbaugh.
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  432. Re: “ The rising interest rate can surely control inflation, but won't prevent erosion of the purchasing power of the US dollar.” That is what inflation is – erosion of the purchasing power of the US dollar!
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  433. 42 arrests but no murders. Probably for minor crimes. It should have been possible to neutralize this guy without killing him. Non-lethal force, that's what was needed. We should be training people to use it.
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  434.  @gamehengeful  I'm an experienced monoclonal-antibody guy.
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  435.  @tylernicholson5319  Please provide a link to the study. (And it's only one study.)
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  436.  @glerp10000000000  That's because you don't know enough about genetic engineering and molecular biology to imagine what I'm talking about.
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  437.  @stephenpmurphy591  I'm a retired monoclonal-antibody guy. My profession was making monoclonal antibodies (actually, making hybridoma cells which secrete monoclonal antibodies) and then doing chemistry (or protein-engineering) on the monoclonal antibodies to make them suitable for whatever purpose the clients wanted them for (monoclonal antibodies are very versatile - they can be used for many different purposes, when properly prepared or modified). So although I'm not a virologist or an epidemiologist or even an immunologist (I was an immunochemist, which is not the same as an immunologist although there's plenty of overlap) I know more than enough to read and understand the real papers and the science behind COVID (as it emerges). And what are your actual credentials?
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  438.  @deborahfreedman333  Absolutely! I'm not saying that he should be able to issue the ruling he has issued. He shouldn't. I'm explaining that he actually is able to make the ruling he has made, because he is a federal judge, and that means he actually can issue rulings like this, which will affect the whole country, unless it gets overturned or modified. (I was an antibody-chemist until I retired, and I worked for some years in small-pharma, with guys whose job was to design clinical trials and get our inventions through FDA. I agree with you, FDA is/was unpopular, but very competent in real life, and very serious about protecting the consumers.)
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  439. Putin was waiting for Trump to further weaken NATO before invading Ukraine.
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  440.  @astounded4546  Trump and Putin are members of the same club - the informal alliance of wanna-be autocrats. Trump would undermine NATO in order to help Putin, and Putin would give Trump permission to build Trump Tower Moscow.
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  441.  @natepoodle9132  And the criminals will win, because the ones who are only as serious as ordinary folks will get weeded out of the crime business.
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  442.  @natepoodle9132  Well, that's what I would do. Then again I don't carry very much money on the street, and my dwelling is guarded.
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  443. I have been in several situations where the absence of a firearm averted a confrontation! And others in which the absence of a firearm prevented a confrontation from becoming a shoot-out.
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  444. From VAERS own web site: Anyone, including Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public [including ideologically-driven loop-a-dupe anti-vax cultists and their for-profit enablers] can submit reports to the system [including fake reports, which don't usually get checked or exposed]. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. Vaccine providers are encouraged to report any clinically significant health problem following vaccination to VAERS even if they are not sure if the vaccine was the cause. In some situations, reporting to VAERS is required of healthcare providers and vaccine manufacturers. VAERS reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. Reports to VAERS can also be biased. As a result, there are limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind. […] The number of reports alone cannot be interpreted as evidence of a causal association between a vaccine and an adverse event, or as evidence about the existence, severity, frequency, or rates of problems associated with vaccines. Reports may include incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental and unverified information.
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  445. Three years ago we didn’t have enough evidence to justify the inference. We still don’t, you know. Hence the declaration “low confidence.” Most likely we never will. And whichever way it originated, sooner or later something similar will happen again, and we need to get ready. Saying as Dr Campbell does “we should stop working on this” is very unwise (IMHO). Either nature or some crazy apocalypse-minded bad-guy with too much money will create something worse. We need to learn what can happen, in order to be ready for what ever does happen.
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  446. If someone tries to collect a debt from Freddie the Sleep-Demon, and sends letters warning Freedie that his credit rating will suffer if he doesn't pay up, is the creditor ... [drum roll, please] ... is the creditor DUNNING KRUGER????
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  447. You might want to mention the religious affiliation of Armenia, which is they are historically Christian, unlike Azerbaijan, and of course Turkey and of course, Iran.
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  448. Beelzeboob
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  449. Maybe it's time we stopped listening to them.
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  450.  @ericgibbs2223  Do I know you? Why do you call me Teddy? I might equally well be a Thad or a Theo.
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  451.  @unknownsword9042  Where would you have sent them? To the subway stations, perhaps? To the hospitals which were already full? Here's an idea: maybe they should have sent them to hotel-rooms and make you pay the hotel bills.
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  452. You have no idea what a total shutdown would do.
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  453.  @Repdem  Right. If Rand Paul wants to cut Federal spending, let's start by cutting the budgets of Fort Campbell and Fort Knox by 45%, and see what Senator Paul has to say about that.
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  454. This is not like someone being shot by a sniper. You can’t generally see, from a satellite video, what a sniper is doing, or has done. In contrast, you CAN see, from satellite video, what a rocket is doing or has done. The truth about this will out.
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  455. No way could any white Louisiana redneck answer these questions in time.
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  456. But the part of the iceberg which you don't see - the underwater part - becomes visible when it begins to matter. That's the good news. The truth will out, when we need it.
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  457. How to would you know?
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  458. Forwarded to FBI
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  459.  @kylethedarkness  Since 2008. Not before. We need justices who will correct Scalia's error.
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  460. @@j210t6 He should be prosecuted. If he had behaved more responsibly, then the murdering illegal wouldn't have a rifle right now.
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  461. There once was a man with a beard Who said, "It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!"
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  462. What if Trump de-funds the investigators (which he can easily do if Republicans keep the House of Representatives)??? How will Jack Smith and his team pay their mortgages and feed their kids?
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  463. Try BASIC ALGEBRA 1 by Nathan Jacobson.
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  464. You think she saw the Irish as undesirables? But her parents were both Irish immigrants from Ireland.
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  465. Wasn’t “Socks” the name of Chelsea Clinton’s cat?
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  466. ​ @GSpotter63  That depends on whom one is trying to verify (or explain) it to. Who the questioner is, whether he has enough background (and/or enough basic intelligence) to understand the answer.
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  467. Chemistry and physics are the degrees to get. You can do anything if you can ground yourself in chemistry or physics.
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  468. Marsha Blackburn apparently has no idea what judges do. Or she’s pretending to be a stupid hick.
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  469.  @TheHighborn  Thank you!
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  470. For philosophical sci-fi, you can’t beat FLATLAND.
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  471. Dan Gelernter is one of David Gelernter's children. David Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale, and he was, long ago, a cool guy, but the Unibomber maimed him with a bomb, and he turned into a right-wing wacko. Very sad story.
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  472. But plenty of medical science is based on physics and math!
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  473. No it didn't, no it didn't, & no it didn't. What's the point of posting made-up stories?
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  474.  @earlthepearl4161  The point is you don't know the first thing about epidemiology or virology or immunology or medicine, but you post opinions as if you did know. THAT is what makes someone an idiot. There's no shame in not knowing, so long as you admit that you don't know.
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  475.  @ML-ro6in  I don't think many of the bad-guys would think twice. What kind of person goes into the subway and slashes a stranger? Or, starts shooting strangers? Either a wacko who is not thinking rationally about his self-interests, or, a suicidal person who wants the cops to kill him, or, maybe, someone trying to pass an initiation test to get accepted as a member of a street-gang. None of these guys is gonna be deterred by other strangers having guns. And think of the cost! Remember how crowded and bewildering the subway-crowds can be, even without the panic caused by a shooting or a conspicuous slashing. If you were carrying a gun, no way would you be able to be sure enough who the bad-guy was or even where he was, in the confusion. You'd have people shooting the wrong people, and also, people would shoot at the bad-guys and miss and hit innocent bystanders. No way would this work. Maybe late at night when the subway is empty? In any case, the danger is exaggerated. We are protected by statistics. The sheer number of riders makes it unlikely that you or I will be one of the unlucky ones who gets targeted. You know that the homicide rate in NYC is lower (per capita) than in the State of Ohio? NYC is actually one of the safer places to live in USA. People who shout about crime in NYC usually are not aware of how much crime there is elsewhere. The difference is a lot of it is more visible here in NYC.
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  476. No you're not. You're a Russky troll.
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  477. Yes, I agree, it is beyond you. My advice is: since it's beyond you, stop trying to think about it. Stick to what you know. NASCAR and WWF sound about your speed, maybe Bourbon and Fentanyl.
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  478. If Trump didn’t like the way fbi dealt with him, why didn’t he fire them and replace them? You know, drain the swamp?
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  479.  @divinenation22  If we had not isolated and purified the virus, how in the world would we know, and be able to modify, its complete RNA-sequence???
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  480.  @divinenation22  Where's your evidence that it doesn't? You are the one pushing a non-mainstream opinion so the burden of proof is on you, not on me.
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  481. Well, Coma (1978) was pretty damm great too.
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  482. "Our captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell: He's from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the language very well!"
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  483. You should read more history. There is a very good reason.
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  484.  @GODHATESADOPTION  It's not really all THAT complex. Most ophthalmologists spend most of their time replacing lenses which have cataracts. Takes about 20 minutes and has a very low complication-rate.
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  485. ​ @sherrillsturm7240  Agree. Every doctor knows that things are not as cut-and-dried as he is trying to make out. As a politician, Rand Paul also knows that the public can be bamboozled by pretending that epidemiology is an exact science or that specialty-vocabulary (like the phrase "gain-of-function") doesn't change over time or vary in meaning depending on who is saying it to whom and in what context. James Jordan is the same. He shouts at Fauci: "The American people want to know how many need to be immunized in order to return to normal! We want the number! Don't talk mush, just GIVE US THE NUMBER!" He knows perfectly well that the number depends on what we do, how we behave. But he pretends that there's a simple answer.
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  486.  @jimmycricket5366  Rand Paul? He'd be out of his league.
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  487. Why doesn't this video say anything about Donald Trump???? I don't care about Epstein. I want to know what Donald Trump's involvement was.
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  488. No you haven't. If you had, then you'd know that one out of ten thousand changing to one point five out of ten thousand isn't worth worrying about.
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  489. So what?
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  490.  @shade9272  No they're not. The guidelines are just that - guidelines, not requirements. The judges don't have to follow them. Neither do the DAs. There's a problem with your idea, which you have not mentioned. Don't feel bad, no one ever mention$ the problem with putting people in pri$on$ for long $entence$ in the$e di$cussion$ of crime.
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  491.  @antd8667  Montagnier is a well-known post-Nobel crank, like William Shockley and Kary Mullis.
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  492. RE: "Had no servants, yet they called Him Master. Had no degree, yet they called Him Teacher. Had no medicines, yet they called Him Healer. He had no army, yet kings feared Him. He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world." Ludwig Mond, perhaps?
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  493. Hah. The chemicals were probably on the way to be used to manufacture cars like yours. How much PVC is there in your home???
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  494. You feel that way because you don't understand what is happening, what is involved. Spend a few years volunteering on an OB ward.
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  495.  @utha2665  Thank you for your answer. BUT...... RE: "We have to vote for the district we live in, otherwise people will just choose the district they want to manipulate, especially if a large group get organized to turn a district..." Why would that matter? Both sides would use the maneuver you describe, and it would just be part of how the game of electoral politics is played. If people supporting one side if a political question were motivated enough to organize, and got a lot of like-minded people to join in one virtual district and elect a candidate who agreed with them on the issue in whichever district they chose, then they would probably deserve the victory they would get. That's the point of elections: to award victory to whoever is most motivated and capable, so they can work their will democratically rather than by physical violence. In other words, what you are calling a bug I see as a feature. My idea is, instead of having politicians gerrymander, let the voters do the gerrymandering, when they register.
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  496. "My work is on nursing homes; I'm a health-care economist." "That's outside my scope." "That's not for someone in my position." Jim Jordan seems determined to compel this poor guy to express opinions about subjects he doesn't know anything about. 3:30: Now Jordan is grandstanding. What a waste of the witness' time.
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  497. To me it looked like she was trolling him, pretending to take his childish "gotcha" theatrics seriously.
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  498. Perelandra is so great, so beautiful. It actually motivated me to start learning Paradise Lost, which is the most majestic and creepy poem I’ve ever seen
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  499. Peter: You are misusing the term "biological drugs". You are talking about genetically-tailored drug-regimens for individuals. "Biological drugs" are just medications which are made, not by mixing chemicals together and letting them react, but by growing cells which make the medication you want. Biologicals are usually protein-based and made by genetically-programmed cells. Examples include monoclonal antibodies like Humera and Eptinezumab and the two monoclonal antibodies Trump got infused with when he was sick in the hospital with COVID. But this is mostly a semantic quibble. Biologicals and genetically-tailored drug-regimens are both frightfully expensive, so your general point about them is essentially valid.
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  500. The President said to the Ms.: "Your mouth is a nice place for jizz, And whether it's moral For you to give oral Depends on the meaning of 'is'."
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  501.  @dannygrounds7119  A paper one.
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  502.  @HemiBurns  The definition would depend on context. "Woman" means something very different in a discussion of, say, neo-Darwinian biochemical evolution of an x-linked recessive genetic disease, from what it means in a play by Shakespeare or a novel by Robert Graves! And it might mean something different from all of those, in the context of a law which defines the term in an unconventional way. Did you know, for instance, that in one law (I don't remember which law it was but it's an often-cited part of American family-jurisprudence pertaining to divorce in the state of New York) the term "mother" is explicitly defined in the law's "definitions" section as including step-mothers? So if one of the parties to a lawsuit involving that law were to say "the law only says that the child's mother has authority over the child; the child's stepmother has no authority!" the judge would have to answer: "You are wrong, because the "definitions" section defines "mother" to include the stepmother; I therefore rule for your opponent here, not for you."
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  503. Q: How do you stop a pig from smelling? A: Hold its nose.
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  504. It is a scarce procedure. Less than one million per year in a country of more than 300,000,000? That's less than one per 300 people, which is pretty scarce. I mean, if you had a lot of jugs full of 300 red cherries each, and in each jug only one of those cherries were yellow rather than red, you'd say that the yellow cherries were pretty scarce, wouldn't you?
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  505. But if you lie, you'll get caught eventually, and then, someone will show you the inside of a prison cell.
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  506. Jim Jordan looks like he has been caught in a raided brothel. That “Okay, you got me” grin. Like William H. Macy in Fargo.
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  507.  @dedetudor.  Millions of people are not very smart. Not because of not knowing the zoology and medical issues - there's no shame in not knowing something - but because of the combination of not knowing and pretending, even so, that you do know. And I am not moved by animal-rights hysteria. Sorry! I have caused many mice to die of cancer, in my time.
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  508. Nickel, and its many uses in many industries, and its history, are amazingly interesting subjects. Look up, for instance, the biography of the great Jewish industrial chemist Ludwig Mond who should have won a Nobel prize (except that most of his life was over when the Nobel prize was established) for his discovery of nickel carbonyl and later the discovery of the whole new class of compounds called metal carbonyls. In the first sequel to L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which was called The Marvelous Land of Oz, the Tin Woodman reappears, now calling himself “Nick Chopper”, and having had his entire tin body nickel-plated. He is then always very careful to avoid scratching or damaging his nickel surface.
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  509. Too many people posting Comments here don’t know the first thing about constitutional law.
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  510.  @ajolleyduck2933  If the three year old is located inside the parent's body (somehow) then yes, the parent may kill the three year old, and doing so is justifiable homicide, not murder. If (as happens more often) the three year old is not located inside the parent's body, but is outside the parent's body, then no, the parent may not kill the three year old; doing so would be murder, and not allowed. I hope this makes things clear for you. I am trying to write as simply and directly as I can.
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  511.  @votefraudjoe997  Doctors and medical scientists talk to patients about lifestyle and diet all the time. It's very tiresome, and it has a real negative effect: a lot of patients so dislike being hectored about lifestyle that they (the patients) conceal problems from their doctors which the doctors need to know. I have had friends who had early symptoms of type-2 diabetes, and did not tell their doctors, because they didn't want to be told that they had to change their diets and exercise more. And then when the patient needed some kind of surgery or other stressful procedure, the people in charge of the procedure didn't know that the patient was early-diabetic, so they didn't take the special measures they have to take with diabetic patients, and the procedure was more risky.
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  512. There is no right to expect privacy in the public subway.
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  513.  @BeeBlot  And we can fix the gun problem by being clever and innovative, too.
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  514. ​ @Theworldisfked  Good! I used to buy mice from them, back in the day when I was a biotech-guy and my responsibilities included keeping a mouse-colony.
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  515. Jaws, the Next Generation
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  516. My experiences with FDA (actually vicarious experiences - I didn't interact directly with them, but I worked alongside of some folks who did) was surprisingly good. Everyone at the company expected their (FDA's) people to be three-headed monsters but they turned out to be very smart, conscientious, energetic scientific bureaucrats, trying to do incredibly demanding jobs well. FDA isn't perfect, but they manage to avoid most of the obvious possible blunders, which is the best one can expect from an agency like that, charged with preventing and correcting scientific errors in a very esoteric, rapidly-evolving field. One other thing: it's a mistake to evaluate Dr. Fauci as an expert in HIV, COVID, FIKA, SARS, or vaccination, although he excels in all those areas. His central, nearly-unique expertise is in on how to deal with a much scarier, much more alarming pathogen: the terrifying scourge known as Pestis WeDon'tKnowWhatTheHellItIsYetOrWhatIt'sGonnaDoNext. Now that is a challenging specialty.
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  517.  @maloalaho9294  Or when stupid individuals make a stupid or careless decision to leave loaded guns around where a six-year-old can get their hands on one. (Although, to be fair, I probably would not have handled it when I was six years old. I had already been taught to stay away from guns.)
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  518. Didn’t Auric Goldfinger menace James Bond with a laser capable of “project[ing] a spot on the Moon”? And that was in 1964!
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  519. Do you want the clown or don’t you?
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  520. When you say “Soros”, you mean (of course) Rothschild. And when you say “Rothschild”, you mean (of course) “Emmanuel Goldstein”. And Emmanuel Goldstein is a fictional character.
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  521. Not yet.
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  522. Adam “doesn’t know “whether the Secret Service was “lacking that day“??? If this was real, it wasn’t a bad day for the Secret Service. It was criminal incompetence there’s just no way the Secret Service could be that incompetent.
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  523. No he didn't
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  524.  @Anyonka  What lies did he tell in the 1980s?
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  525. And ten million dollars pocket-money. (Hey, that's what I'd demand if someone wanted me to endure a trauma like childbirth!)
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  526. The first few sentences, about how we don't know what the next pandemic is gonna be, but we have to try to get ready for it even so, is the justification for so-called "gain of function" experiments. We have to learn which pathogens can "gain" the "functions" which will enable it to attack us and become a pandemic!
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  527. Blame your imagination. That's where the real danger is.
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  528. No, it won’t be Canon; it’ll be someone worse: Matthew KACZMARYK
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  529. This election has some unique features which may compromise the validity of the keys. Has there ever been an election between two candidates who have both been president?
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  530. Yes, and that is why we require doctors to carry malpractice liability insurance. Perhaps we should make gun-owners do the same.
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  531. It seems a bit too early. Biden's strategists should wait a few more months before the big roar-back.
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  532. There were three young ladies of Birmingham And this is the story concerning’em: They lifted….
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  533. I can understand her associating the feeling of fear with the New York Subway, but she has to know also that it’s not rational. Statistically New York City is one of the safest places in the United States, At least, as far as violent crime is concerned. Also, the guy who took the gun from the other guy has a beautiful punch. Since it looks like he’s going to come through without getting charged (bc He didn’t bring the gun or start the fight), He could have a wonderful career in his future, as a fighter – either a boxer or some other controlled lawful combat sport. Or, maybe, if he Hires the right agent, he could go directly to Commercial endorsements of security systems and personal defense devices.
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  534. The problem is not the ordinary Russians. It’s their rulers. Remember during the Cold War: хорошие люди; злое правительство.
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  535. Errors like writing “tarriffed” instead of “terrified” are a dead giveaway, a “tell”: it’s someone shouting into their phone, and not bothering to edit the transcription.
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  536. Monica Lewinsky? The President said to the Ms., "Your mouth is a nice place for jizz, And whether it's moral For you to give oral Depends on the meaning of 'is'."
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  537. Seems to me it ought to be possible to train combat personnel in non-lethal use of force. This skinny guy - they should have been able to subdue him without killing him. One solid punch to the stomach would likely have solved the problem.
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  538.  @BiteMeStalker  That's a particularly stupid myth. Crackheads are just as vulnerable to physical violence as anyone. The difference between a crackhead and you is not that you respond differently to a hard punch to the stomach delivered by a capable marine; the difference is what you do afterwards. You probably get up after you recover, and go on with your life or go to an emergency room. The crack-head gets up and goes on looking for more crack.
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  539. The Third World is the Third World.
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  540.  @michaeljarvis5489  What are you talking about? The urban population keeps the rural folks from going bankrupt. We create the jobs, the ideas, and the wealth; the rural folks sit on their butts and collect Medicare and welfare.
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  541.  @jamesmason2228  I don't know whether you're writing sarcastically, but that is, essentially, correct. Remember also that there isn't any one "scientific community". Different specialties and sub-specialties use words differently; symbols, too.
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  542. We are learning more about Chinese espionage hardware from the balloons we shot down than the Chinese will ever learn about our missiles from the balloons we didn't shoot down.
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  543. Ok! You can pay the cost of incarceration.
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  544. Did Shakespeare get the jab?
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  545. Yea, all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, but, we still must cultivate our gardens.
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  546. Yeah, Ted, gun-control alone won't fix the problem. But more cops and shrinks without gun-control won't fix it either. We need more cops, more shrinks, AND more gun-control.
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  547. The time belongs to the senators. It’s not good but it’s the law. If Dr Fauci wants to talk without being interrupted, he has to give a press conference.
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  548. Yes, it’s aggravating.
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  549. You can't run a clinical trial without approval from a medical or hospital -ethics board.
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  550. Why would wealthy liberals be supporting the protests which (as the video says) are dangerous to Biden???
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  551. There are a few things we do know about Kamala Harris regarding policy; she just hasn’t said them out loud yet, but you can hear them if you listen carefully. For instance, it’s overwhelmingly likely – I would bet a great deal of money on this if I had money to bet — That she will robustly fund the basic science community and will use the bully pulpit to restore America’s faith in science and in expertise, which has been so badly shaken under Trump. This is a big policy difference from Trump and should not be discounted. It also has foreign policy, implications: she will likely support our efforts to help Ukraine, if only because we want access to Ukraine’s mineral deposits which are essential for (among other things) our chemical industries, including Pharma. It also means she will likely support international efforts to prepare for the next pandemic(which is sooner or later)
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  552. Except he never said that.
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  553. Why is Ayn Rand disliked by so many people ! Because she writes in a bullying, hectoring style; her writing reads like the Communist propaganda-novels written by committees in Stalin's day, except from the opposite philosophical orientation. ! Because her fans dress so badly (and are arrogant and loopy) ! Because her ideas are simplistic, juvenile, and boring. The real world is complicated. Most philosophical questions are not answered "yes" or "no"; they are answered "sometimes" or "under certain circumstances but not others". They cannot be answered by machines or by simple formulae.
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  554.  @yanggongzi  I just did! Oh, it was the Pfizer vaccine.
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  555.  @Balls-of-Steel504  And it can happen by accident to anyone when anything is injected into them. Anything other than sterile saline fluid. You could inject half a ml of air into someone and accidentally hit the vein or artery and cause an embolism, including possibly a stroke. It's purely a mechanical effect, and has nothing to do with whether or not what you inject contains mRNA or protein or whatever. It's not a reaction to the vaccine; it's a reaction to the mechanical process of injecting. It's not very common, but it's always a risk.
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  556.  @rougebaba3887  mRNA, yes.
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  557.  @jackmeoff9299  Your screen name is appropriate for your intelligence level. The public high school in NYC which I graduated from is still one of the best high schools in the world - public, private, vocational, or charter.
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  558.  @max420thc  That's not true. Dems have the biggest two or three - Soros, and Bill Gates- but the Elon-Musk types, the Scaife family (who inherited Andrew Mellon's fortune), the much larger level of guys who own single-digit-number of billions, are all Republicans.
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  559.  @jackmeoff9299  Not at the public school I went to. It was very rigorous and still is.
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  560.  @TUKByV1  Stuyvesant High School. Look it up.
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  561. Ronald Reagan, too.
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  562.  @jaelyn1630  That was a different person. Lauren Boebert from Colorado. (I predict that less than six months from now we will see the debut of a new p*rn-star who will call herself Lauren Boobert.)
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  563. Yes, you can tell us that, but when you do, you will be WRAWWWWWWWNG!
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  564. Scotland for aye! (Or, for me, as it should more properly be.)
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  565.  @waimingdam1850  It's already true. What do you think a PIN number is? And a Social Security number?
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  566.  @anncarroll5580  He may be in control but He's a prankster.
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  567.  @37x73  Get serious. Figuring out how to manage a new pandemic is not easy, no matter how smart you are.
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  568.  @micixduda  If Orwell had been controlled by the powers that be, then he would not have been allowed to write Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Powers that Were were not stupid. They would have recognized themselves. The interesting thing is that he anticipated hidden cameras and universal surveillance, but he didn't anticipate computers or biotech.
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  569.  @micixduda  Yes, powers that be can so control everything. That is the point of the ending of Nineteen Eighty-Four. That is why he finally loves Big Brother.
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  570. Tucker Carlson pretending to be stupid, episode $9,876
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  571. But I read that Biden is also seeking to massively increase tariffs on steel and aluminum- same as trump’s but bigger.
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  572. Here are a few corrections to common lies about Margaret Sanger: 1. She OPPOSED abortion. She was pretty outspoken about it. Planned Parenthood didn't start doing abortions until she had been dead for more than three years. 2. She didn't want to exterminate any racial or ethnic group. 3. She didn't want government to forcibly sterilize anyone for being a member of any racial or ethnic group; also didn't want government to forcibly sterilize poor people for being poor. 4. She didn't like the Third Reich; she was writing about how awful they were as early as 1933. 5. She didn't speak at any KKK rally, and did not like the KKK. She addressed an indoor meeting of the women's auxiliary KKK once, in spite of her misgivings about them, because she was willing to try to find common ground with anyone, and she reported having the impression that her audience were all half-wits. She received numerous invitations to address them again, but declined all of them. 6. She didn't hate black people. The purpose of the N*gro Project was to help black Americans, by making birth control available to them and to inform them about it, so that they could stop having more children than they could afford to raise, which was the same agenda she had for everyone. The black community was insular and mistrustful of outsiders, so, bringing knowledge of birth control and its benefits to them presented a special challenge, so, they got a special project. Members of the N*gro Project's board of directors included W. E. B. DuBois (one of the founders of NAACP), Adam Clayton Powell (first black congressman to represent New York State in the US Congress) and Dr. John W. Lawlah (the Dean of the medical school at Howard University). 7. She didn't advocate any general policy of coercive eugenics. She argued that when birth control was widely available, people would choose freely how many children to have, and the results of their free choices would be eugenically beneficial to society, as more successful people, who could afford larger families than less successful people, would choose to breed more, increasing the occurrence of heritable traits conducive to success, in future generations.
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  573. Don’t worry! The fourth amendment protects Americans from unreasonable seizures.
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  574.  @chuckgates1171  The subway is probably safer. I hope you have a bright, blinking, red-and-blue tail-light on your bicycle and/or on your back-pack! And wear a helmet. TWO of my dearest friends have died from riding-while-invisible. One left his brains in a yellow streak on the pavement. And neither of the motorists who hit them was intoxicated - both were absolutely sober, just not able to see my friends on their bicycles in the twilight.
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  575.  @louishicks9542  It's rising, but probably not more frequent than in the 1960s and 70s.
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  576. We in USA were spared almost all the horror of Thalidomide, because of a hero (actually a heroine) Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, who worked for FDA and steadfastly refused to approve Thalidomide, demanding rigorous proof of safety for the fetuses, which of course could not be provided, because it's not safe. She resisted in the face of enormous lobbying and pressure. That is why countries like Germany had thousands of cases while USA had fewer than twenty.
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  577.  @brianjohnston2897  Where was your mother when she was advised to take Thalidomide?
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  578.  @kevreilly7  AZT was a very reasonable choice against HIV when Dr. Fauci recommended it. The problem is the side-effects when you take it for a long time, but, HIV also causes lots of harm in the long-term.
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  579.  @pammalone2572  No sir/ma'am. He's got credentials but he's sold out to right-wing loop-a-dupery, which is an easier way to get richer faster now than doing real science would be. I am a retired antibody chemist so I know a little bit about this.
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  580. Do the Israeli Jews want to live in Florida?
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  581.  @deenyc1049  Who, me? No sir.
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  582. This woman’s speaking voice is abrasive!
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  583. He's speaking in tongues. <i>"...durch Mitleid wissend, der reine Tor,..."</i>
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  584. The Chinese government unleashed the virus on us in order to prevent the opera houses in Europe and USA and South America from staging Puccini's last opera, Turandot (if you are familiar with the aria "Nessun dorma", that's from Turandot) because it is set in Peking ("Pekino") and depicts the Chinese people as brutal savages ruled by a sadistic tyrant. Turandot had become trendy again (the opera world is very faddish) and numerous opera houses, great (La Scala, the Met, Chicago Lyric Opera) and small (Regina Opera in Brooklyn) were getting ready to do it. The current government of China - Xi - couldn't stand for that. Now that the pandemic has more or less resolved (not just temporarily, we hope) the companies are doing operas by Puccini, but, notably, not Turandot. They're doing La bohème and Il Trittico. So the Chinese strategy seems to have worked. This is why the pathology of COVID is so harmless, relative to what it could have been. The Chinese government didn’t want to kill a lot of people, only to sicken us enough to shut down the opera houses and get the companies to choose a new repertoire.
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  585.  @dannypomeroy9255  Suppose everything you say were true. How would you know?
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  586. Well, I hate Trump as much as anyone, but let’s be fair. The wording errors could be spellcheck running wild. I am careful about editing, but I get errors like accusation/acquisition too.
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  587. But how many of the thousands had gotten the jab?
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  588. There is no such thing as a reliable lie-detector test.
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  589.  @d.r.u.  NO, it's neither a panic attack nor an OD. It's an actor earning a fee.
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  590.  @ricochet243  RE: "have people only started having babies later in life in 2022?" No! It's gradual. The trend to having first-births later in life began in the mid 1970s in UK. Go back to the internet and search for the average age at which women in UK had their first baby, charted year by year. You will see, the average in 1983 was women had their first baby at age 27.2 years old. In 2021, the average age is 30.9 years old, and the rise is pretty close to perfectly linear. That is, from 1983 through 2021, the average first-birthing-age in UK rose steadily at a rate of 0.1 year per year until 2021, and the pattern doesn't show any sign of changing. What's special about 2022 is that the average first-birth-age has passed age 31. Any obstetrician or midwife can tell you that that age - early 30s - is when the complication increases associated with a one year of delay start to accelerate. That's why delaying one year from age 25 to age 26 isn't very bad or risky, but delaying one year from age 30 until age 31 is much worse and increases your complication-risk more. So the increase in complications from 2021 to 2022 is larger than it was in earlier years.
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  591. It is a weapon. It was designed and unleashed in 2019 because at that time, the classical music world in Europe and USA and even South America had rediscovered Puccini’s last, unfinished opera Turandot. (If you have ever heard of an aria for tenor called ”Nessun dorma”, that’s from Turandot.) This opera is very offensive to Xi and the Chinese ruling party, because it depicts the Chinese people as brutal savages ruled by a sadistic tyrant. Opera houses all over the free world were planning, in 2019, to stage it in 2020. It's very challenging, for everyone - the soloists, the chorus, the orchestra, the costumers, the set-designers, everyone. La Scala, the Metropolitan, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Covent Garden, DeutscheOper Berlin, and even the little “petit-grand” opera companies like Regina Opera in Brooklyn and West Bay Opera in Palo Alto were going to take a crack at Turandot. The Chinese government released the virus in order to stop it. A telling detail: they seem to have succeeded. Now that the pandemic is (hopefully!) fading, the opera companies are doing plenty of Puccini, but not Turandot! They’re doing La Bohème, and Il Trittico, and a few of the earlier ones, but not Turandot. That's why they designed it to have such mild pathology, Dr Campbell. They weren't trying to kill a lot of people, just to make enough people sick enough to shut down the opera houses for a while so that the global classical music community could move on.
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  592. And then do Newton, Einstein, Linus Pauling, Carl Djerassi, Roger Tsien, Dudley Herschbach, and Jennifer Doudna, please.
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  593. Sounds like BS to me.
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  594. There are plenty of scams which don't have these red flags! Like, say, crooked antique-dealers who forge fake antiques. They don't need money right away, and they don't go looking for you. The wait for you to come to them and sell you a worthless fake for a high price.
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  595. I stopped at the phrase "evidence in social media". There is no scientific evidence in social media!
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  596. Yes, and it enables small children to shoot their teachers. You can't do that in the Netherlands!
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  597.  @scottpowell9098  No. I blame the current ungrammatical, ahistorical, nonsense-interpretation of the Second Amendment for the fact that poorly-parented people are able to get their hands on guns easily and randomly.
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  598. RE: "This woman went to Nazi (National Socialist) Germany to learn about the methods of Eugenics." That's a lie. RE: "She also gave lectures at Democrat kkk rallies in New Jersey." That's another lie. She spoke once at a secret members-only meeting of the Women's Auxiliary Branch of KKK (a secret indoor members-only meeting is not a "rally") and came away with the impression that her audience were all half-wits, and she declined all future invitations to address KKK.
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  599. ​ @orcoastgreenman  Yeah, and he was also in charge of fluoridating the water, to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids, right?
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  600.  @msimpson2779  Yes, of course, within the limits of what is known at any given moment when he says something.
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  601.  @orcoastgreenman  The dosage makes the poison. In order to be toxic, you'd need much more fluoride going into your bloodstream than you'll ever get from drinking water.
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  602.  @orcoastgreenman  Laugh as much as you like! But I am a retired monoclonal-antibody chemist. The number of animals I have immunized, bled, and titered for antibody-response is probably greater than the number of women you have been to bed with. It's probably greater than the number of women you have ever thought about going to bed with. I have tested, and evaluated, numerous adjuvants for boosting the host's antibody response to vaccines. I have validated vaccines against weaponized pathogens for DoD. I have created humanized monoclonal-antibody-based medications for treating graft-vs-host disease after transplant, restenosis after balloon angioplasty, and cancer. I have done antibody work on commission for numerous members of the National Academy of Sciences, including two recipients of the National Medal of Science and one Nobel Laureate. So I think I will just indulge in a little giggle at your expense.
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  603.  @orcoastgreenman  Because it's an mRNA vaccine. The mRNA tells your cells to make the antigen (spike protein) which elicits antibodies from your immune system. More body-weight means more cells means more antigenic protein gets made. If it were a traditional vaccine, with directly-injected protein, they would likely vary it by weight. In any case, the response to a vaccine is very different from the response to a chemically-active compound like fluoride. And in any case, the toxicity of toothpaste is exaggerated. Your daughter will be ok if she swallows two pea-sized blobs of it. Just don't let her eat a whole tube of it!
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  604.  @orcoastgreenman  That's a great strategy you have: disbelieve everyone who has any relevant experience, or who knows anything about the subject. You'll learn a lot that way. [/s]
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  605. That's obviously not the real reason, since pharmacists are allowed to prescribe "off label". More likely, they just wanted you to go away and stop bothering them. I would, too!
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  606.  @orcoastgreenman  I wonder whether I should forward that to FBI. I know someone who went to Federal prison for just that kind of remark.
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  607.  @noinfo326  That's what they want you to think. The serial numbers are there, just too small to see with the naked eye.
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  608. Because Harris, unlike Trump, is not sold to malignant foreigners
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  609. Could the excess deaths be because of age?
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  610. No, not completely broken. It still corrects itself pretty well, at least in the sciences.
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  611. Another thing the American Trumpie-Right doesn't seem to understand: if we help Ukraine survive and shove the Russians back, Ukraine will (likely) be grateful and express their gratitude in the form of sweet deals when the bidding starts on Ukraine's rich deposits of strategic minerals. Rare-earth metals like neodymium and gadolinium, precious metals like palladium and platinum, nickel, copper, cobalt, also graphite, neon gas. We absolutely need new sources of these materials free of control by the Chinese government. For our electronics industry, and our synthetic-chemistry (pharma, agriculture, plastic alternatives, all kinds of manufacturing), and scientific research preeminence. Ukraine's deposits are exceptionally rich.
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  612.  @deanejoyce5393  You sound like you are hoping Ukraine will win! But that is not what Trump wants. If he wins in 2024 the first thing he will do is stop helping with Ukraine. That is why Putin wants Trump to win and has been waging pro-Trump cyber-war in USA.
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  613. Just because it already fn did rise, doesn't rule out the fn possibility that it might fn rise EVEN MORE, in the near fn future.
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  614.  David Erickson  This time the blame will likely be placed on the heads of those who refused to vaccinate, and those who encouraged them to refuse, for money and for votes.
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  615. No. He is a strategist. Not a diplomat. Maybe an advisor to diplomats. A diplomat cannot speak in as straightforward a way as Peter Z does. A diplomat has to charm and flatter and make you feel like you are clever, not that he is cleaver. Like (for instance) Bill Clinton.
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  616. What a load of horse-sht. Sure, not all states have state laws to explicitly outlaw killing abortion-survivor-babies, but Federal law does outlaw killing them, so it's illegal everywhere, just as ABC said.
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  617.  @vickiroman189  All together now, kids: gimme an H! Gimme a Y! Gimme a P! Gimme an O! Gimme a T! Gimme an H! Gimme an E! Gimme a T! Gimme an I! Gimme a C! Gimme an A! Gimme an L! Whaddowegot now? That's right, kids! HYPOTHETICAL!!!!
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  618.  @wayando  When did human life ever have great value??? When have human beings ever lived in peace, except for a few minority groups in places like Pennsylvania?
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  619.  @charlesjohnson3625  No, the debate is about whether or not being a human life entitles it to be sheltered and sustained inside another person's living body, against her will and in spite of her active efforts to get rid of it. (The answer is NO!)
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  620. Haven't had this much fun since Crossfire went off the air.
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  621.  @daniellincoln2693  No, it's a calumny concocted by fake-history peddlers to fool loop-a-dupes like you. I know better. For instance, can you say, without looking it up: Where did Margaret Sanger found her first birth-control clinic, AND, When did Margaret Sanger found her first abortion clinic?
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  622.  @daniellincoln2693  Wrong.
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  623. I thought you guys wanted to bring manufacturing and mining and processing back to USA. MAGA, right? You voted for it; now you have what you voted for. More similar events coming soon!
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  624. Yes. Sue the guy who called for Operation Warp Speed. We rolled out the vaccine too quickly!
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  625. How about posting something specifically about the war in Ukraine, and strategic metals? It’s all about rare-earth metals, lithium, and others.
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  626. 1. Strangers on a Train 2. Notorious 3. Rebecca 4. Shadow of a Doubt 5. The Lady Vanishes 6. Frenzy 7. Rear Window 8. Spellbound WILD CARD, defies ranking algorithm, it's both one of the best AND one of the worst: Jamaica Inn MOST OVER-RATED: North by Northwest SECOND-MOST OVER-RATED: Psycho Most disappointing and unexpectedly pointless: The Birds.
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  627. RE: "Hamas is not a unified organization. We're not talking about the Catholic Church here." Is the Catholic Church really a unified organization?
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  628. Another thing worth knowing about L. Frank Baum: he was a Wagner-freak. The third Oz book, OZMA OF OZ, is obviously directly lifted, with minimal changes, from Wagner's opera DAS RHEINGOLD. And in his non-Oz fantasy book JOHN DOUGH AND THE CHERUB, he has a character who is a composer, and plays music which sounds like "someone pounding the keys of the piano with a sledge-hammer", and shouts "I am great! I am greater than Vogner himself! Some people understand Vogner a little, but no one will ever understand my music at all! I am wonderful! I am superb!"
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  629.  @christopherrobinson7541  Yes, but remember, the benefit of Paxlovid is NOT that it stops the virus from entering the cell. I don't think it does stop that. What it stops is this: the virus mostly doesn't have separate genes for its proteins; it has one long stretch of genetic information (RNA) which codes for all the proteins. The virus enters the cell, releases the viral RNA, and the cell produces one big proto-protein - one long chain of amino acids, whose sequence includes all the viral proteins, strung together in one long chain, and then that chain gets cleaved, or chopped up by a protease enzyme, into the specific proteins the virus needs. The nirmatrelvir in the Paxlovid stops the "chopping up" process. This happens after, and independently from, the virus entering the cell.
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  630. I think many people voted in what they thought were their Economic interests, but they were tricked and did not vote for their actual economic interests. What’s unique about this election is Trump‘s ability to program the voters.
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  631. The reason Biden should not debate is: if he tells any untruth or gets any fact wrong, no matter how trivial, the media will amplify it and broadcast it all the time, forever, but if Trump tells obvious, stupid lies, it won't even be news, it'll just be Trump doing what he always does.
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  632. So what if she made up words? Shakespeare made up hundreds of words.
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  633. All these numbers are so small they hardly count. If you have a one per ten thousand risk of dropping dead, and it doubles, "double your risk" sounds very very scary, but it's still only one out of five thousand. Don't worry about it!
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  634. There is no such thing as a "Messianic Jew". A central, indispensable tenet of Judaism is that the Messiah is in the future. If you believe that the Messiah has already lived here on Earth and that He was born of a Jewish woman named Mary and crucified at the order of a Roman man named Pontio and died on the cross and was entombed and resurrected, then you may be Messianic, but honey, you ain't no Jew. "Messianic Jews" are Christians who, for some reason, find it expedient to represent themselves as Jews.
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  635. Well, Ronald Reagan "couldn't recall" whether he had traded weapons (to the Contras) for hostages. (Am I the only one here old enough to remember this?)
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  636.  @Mark-nx7mr  He certainly played the role very very well. And he was lucky. Bill Clinton was lucky the same way. For 2024, the Dems should nominate Jodie Foster (if she can be convinced to run) and the Republicans should nominate Mike Tyson.
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  637.  @KenJackson_US  There are several reasons. She's extremely smart and energetic, she knows how to play the role of the trustworthy leader who has the country's problems in hand (just as Reagan knew how to play the role of the simple, down-to-earth, obedient, optimistic ordinary-guy); she's a 21st-Century-type family person - a devoted mother and spouse; she's very well-connected to the wealthy elite, she's a good judge of character, and she's a household name.
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  638.  @billwilliams3580  Well, he did deserve it, for inventing so many techniques for studying the question, and for solving the structures of so many catalytic metal surfaces. The strange thing was that Gabor Somorjai didn't get to share it with him. No one in the surface-science community understood why the committee passed over Gabor, although many who knew him suspected that it might have been because he was such a prick. He was ruthless, and very destructive to those who crossed him.
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  639.  @FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL  Your quotes with references are lies. For instance, she never said, nor wrote, "Blacks, soldiers and Jews are a menace to the race" - a right-to-lifer just made that up.
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  640. Pepper spray inside a subway car. Great idea! There’s a good reason lacrimating gasses are banned from the subway, dummy.
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  641. So did you kill him?
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  642. How do you know that Neely would have acted on his threats this time? He had a record of making empty threats too!
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  643.  @Psykrom  You don't know what you're talking about. There's no point in talking to you.
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  644.  @Psykrom  If you are worried about nanolipids and an unnameable "something else", then why talk about the spike protein?
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  645.  @Psykrom  This video is about the spike protein. If you want to talk about nanolipids, you should comment on a video about nanolipids.
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  646.  @Psykrom  You made a typo. You wrote "a false flag information warrior/agent" but you should have written "a retired monoclonal-antibody chemist with experience in small-pharma immunology as well as general immunochemical expertise."
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  647. Why not just read his books? Too stupid to read, or what?
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  648. Really they found him guilty? When will his sentencing be?
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  649. Not blindly.
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  650.  @jakemccoy  Yeah. I have a very old friend who is a Trumper and he will deny anything against Trump. We will have to be very united or we will lose in November because the Trumpies will be organized and motivated as if it were a fight to the literal death.
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  651. Sounds like Mr. Carville (whom I like and admire) is recommending extortion!
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  652.  @FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL  No she didn't, you brilliant genius.
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  653. Yeah, let's cut spending. Start by cutting the budget of the Fort Knox Army Base in Kentucky by 45 percent. Let's see how Rand Paul votes on that!!
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  654.  @LG-km8fw  Suppose that were true. How would you know?
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  655.  @brianbachmeier34  Lots of people have thanked Dr. Fauci for many different reasons.
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  656.  @karen-qm7og  But plenty of coronaviruses and viruses closely related to coronaviruses such as viruses in the MERS family and Hibecoviruses do. The furin cleavage site proves nothing, but the fact that one side of this dispute (and only one side) keeps pretending it does is a bit of what poker players call "a tell". You're right, both answers remain on the table. (Which, of course, neither Fauci, nor Collins, nor any other serious epidemiologist or virologist, ever denied.)
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  657.  @dalecash2236  Wrong
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  658.  @RJL612  Sorry, I don't have any opinion about that, because laptops are not my specialty. Antibody-chemistry - biology - is my field.
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  659.  @dudleyburleson8668  Who can say? Probably in a cave somewhere.
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  660.  @dudleyburleson8668  No they didn't.
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  661. ​ @acidthunder1  Perhaps. Perhaps not. No one knows for sure, at this point. All we know is that anyone who says they do know is a liar.
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  662. Anecdotal evidence is not evidence. I'm a 61-year-old with Parkinson's, and I normally get winded when I climb one flight of stairs, but I got vaccinated and three weeks later I was able to win a boxing match and run thirty miles, on the same day. This proves ... NOTHING. And so do you.
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  663.  @CuchulainAD  Just be sure not to try to go into a profession which requires math or analytical thinking. You are not suited for any such. Be a musician, or a professional athlete, or a painter, or a construction worker, or a waiter. Do not try to be a scientist, physician, engineer, lawyer, or a member of any other brain-intensive profession.
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  664.  @mikelanier8557  Wow, that is SUCH a stupid idea. In fact that is the stupidest suggestion I have seen so far this year. Congratulations! You deserve an award.
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  665. Bernie Sanders should stay out of it. Who asked him to interfere? He should know better.
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  666. Yeah, it's legislative extortion and it's wrong. And the Republicans are gonna vote against it and be blamed for risking a default. Joe Biden is not senile; he's a very very clever, seasoned political warrior who knows everything and has seen everything. The Old Mongoose, the political counterpart to boxer Archie Moore.
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  667. That just means science isn’t perfect. Nothing is perfect. Scientific innovation is doing just fine if you know where to look Some places to look: synthetic biology, RNA chemistry (Sure, putting more transistors on chips isn’t very surprising or new, but mRNA vaccines are surprising and relatively new and very broad in their likely applications. Look at CRISPr, Or the improvements (still recent) In battery technology, and in materials science. (Look up: Tetrataenite.)
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  668.  @katie7748  What murderer? What murder? If you are thinking of abortion, you should know that Margaret Sanger was an outspoken, loud opponent of abortion. No fooling, she really was. She described abortion as “sordid,” “abhorrent,” “terrible,” “barbaric,” "vicious", "the wrong way", "taking a life", a “horror” in the same category as infanticide and child-abandonment, and "a disgrace to civilization." She called abortionists “blood-sucking men with MD after their names." She said that the rights of unborn babies to protection were "no less imperative" than the rights of already-born children. She circulated an advertisement for her birth-control clinic which said: "MOTHERS! / Can you afford to have a large family? /Do you want any more children? / If not, why do you have them? / DO NOT KILL, / DO NOT TAKE LIFE / BUT PREVENT." She never advocated in any way for legalizing abortion. Planned Parenthood did not start doing abortions until after she had been dead for more than three years.
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  669.  @long-hair-dont-care88.  No she didn't. I challenge you to find one shred of evidence that she did. And how would you know which books KKK hands out?
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  670.  @KeithMarshman  That only means that you have to do it carefully.
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  671.  @KeithMarshman  RE: "I'm sorry, we have over 170+ responses in this thread, it does not arrange itself well and i think 10% of the responses are mine. What are we doing carefully?" Yeah, YouTube isn't really designed for ongoing conversation. What we need to do carefully is eugenics. We have to be careful not to mistake cultural traditions (like Jewish parents encouraging their kids to read more, and Chinese immigrants in Chinatown spending huge amounts of their meager incomes on educating their kids) for genetic traits. And, we have to be careful to avoid putting coercive pressure on people to participate in any eugenic program. We have to keep our eugenics scientifically sound, and clean of coercion. That is what I mean by "doing it carefully".
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  672.  @grimjoker5572  No it is not your place to prevent anything or protect anyone, inside another person's body, unless you have permission from the owner of that body to do so. Protection of the weak depends on where the weak are located. If the weak are located inside my body, than even if the weak were fully conscious humans, sitting up and solving heretofore unsolved classic math problems, or writing award-winning poetry, you would have no business trying to protect them unless I, the owner, sovereign, and arbiter-of-everything inside my body, gave you permission to conduct a rescue mission inside it. If all the human beings in the whole world were located inside my body, then I would be entitled to holocaust them. Or, just kill the ones I didn't like, and spare the ones I do like. If God were located inside my body, then I would be entitled to kill God. (For inside my body, I am like a refiner's fire. The arbiter and owner, whom none may defy.)
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  673.  @grimjoker5572  Abortion doesn't tread on anyone's legitimate liberties. Being sustained and sheltered inside another person's body is a privilege, granted (or not) by the owner of that other body. Not a liberty or a freedom or an entitlement or a right; a privilege, to be granted or withheld.
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  674.  @User-qo5pw  She didn't advocate for "eradication". And the "human weeds" were anyone whose parents already had more children than they could afford to raise properly. A "human weed" meant a neglected child, neglected because the parents already had so many children that they couldn't look after all of them. A family (Margaret Sanger said) should be like plants in a garden, spaced, timed to season, and attentively watered and pruned, and given fertilizer. Not like an untended bit of weedy soil with children competing like wild animals for food, clothing, and attention. "Human weeds" had nothing to do with race, skin-color, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. It was entirely a matter of how big your family was, and how many children your parents could afford to raise.
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  675.  @grimjoker5572  RE: "You took an action you know could result in somebody being dependent on you for a period of time." The kind of obligations you are talking about - agreeing to take care of a child - only obligate you to provide external goods (food, diapers, money, etc.), not any part of the insides of your body. That is why we don't force you to donate blood or tissues or organs to your children, no matter how pressing their need may be. In other words, if the only food the child could eat were part of the inside of your body, then you would be entitled to let the child starve to death, if that were your preference. RE: "This means you consented to the consequences of said action." The consequence you consented to is that if you get pregnant, you must choose whether to complete your pregnancy and give birth, or whether to abort it. Your obligation is to choose wisely. The government's obligation is to leave you (and your doctor) alone.
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  676.  @grimjoker5572  RE: "You do not lose your womb from having a child." You also don't lose your circulatory system by donating blood. And you don't lose anything by donating bone-marrow or part of your liver (both of which regenerate) or even a kidney (the remaining kidney hypertrophies so that in a few months you have just as much kidney tissue as before you donated). The fact that the loss is temporary doesn't matter. RE: "no, you don't get to just choose to end somebody." If the somebody is located inside my body, then yes I do. I am the absolute, unrestricted owner, arbiter, and master of the inside of my body. If all the human beings in the world were located inside my body, then I would be entitled to holocaust them. If God were located inside my body then I would be entitled to kill God.
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  677.  @grimjoker5572  Murder is irrelevant. Abortion, done at the request of the womb-owner, is not murder; it is a form of righteous, justifiable homicide.
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  678.  @grimjoker5572  If I choose to give another person six weeks of life-support inside my body, but not 9 months, then he or she should thank me for the six weeks, not be trying to use them as leverage for demanding more. Be grateful for what you get. Six weeks is better than zero weeks.
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  679.  @grimjoker5572  RE: "Her position that she'd work with literal Klans members to advance her cause?" Pretty much, yes. She had what you might call a "cooperative personality". She was kind of a polar opposite of someone like Donald Trump or the late Senator John McCain - two men whose first impulse on meeting someone new is to pick fights, whose response to every problem is to find a target and then try to establish dominance. Margaret Sanger was the opposite: she was a serial bridge-builder, a seeker-of-common-ground. Her impulse on encountering someone new was always to try to find areas of agreement. That is one of the main reasons (maybe the main reason) she was able to accomplish so much in her lifetime. Bill Clinton is the same way - he wants you to like him, not fear him. Margaret Sanger expressed this in her autobiography in the section about speaking to the Women's Branch of K^3 by writing: "Always to me any aroused group was a good group...." She meant, anyone who could be motivated to join in the project of making birth-control legal, well-known, and generally available, was worth the effort at least exploring and assessing. Including even K^3, notwithstanding the misgivings she had about them. From her autobiography (which you should read, the whole thing, if you are serious about wanting to know more about her and cut through the garbage you see on videos like this one): "All the world over, in Penang and Skagway, in El Paso and Helsingfors, I have found women’s psychology in the matter of childbearing essentially the same, no matter what the class, religion, or economic status. Always to me any aroused group was a good group, and therefore I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the [K^3] at Silver Lake, New Jersey, one of the weirdest experiences I had in lecturing."
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  680. ​ @grimjoker5572  RE: "Did you feel this same way [that finding common ground is a laudable goal and a useful personality-trait] when Trump was "nice" to Putin and Kim Jung?" That would depend on why he was nice to them. What was he trying to accomplish, by being nice to them? Was he hoping to find a generally-beneficial common goal, or a philanthropic project they could work on together? (The rest of your comment is mere childish ranting, and I can't find anything in it worth responding to.)
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  681.  @grimjoker5572  It depends on why much more than on who. (Are you pretending to be stupider than you really are? Do you know the British expression "gilding the lily"?)
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  682.  @grimjoker5572  No, dear. History isn't just a matter of good guys and bad guys. Details matter. Rubber technology is very far-reaching and affects the lives of ordinary people in unexpected ways.
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  683.  @grimjoker5572  But Margaret Sanger opposed abortion, and supported contraception. So again I ask: whose rights do you imagine she violated?
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  684.  @desmondsilva3313  RE: "If all of Sanger's views were realized all over the world, people like me would have been murdered in the womb or left for dead as a baby, all because I am brown and I have a physical disability." Really? You don't think your mother would have chosen to keep you and gestate you and give birth to you? You're only alive because someone forced your mother to do that for you? She didn't love you? How about after birth - did your government have to force her to take care of you then, too? Or did she love you after you were born?
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  685.  @amyelizabeth71  Just the facts.
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  686.  @shortferal  We're not talking about abortion. We're talking about eugenics. Margaret Sanger was anti-abortion.
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  687.  @WangMingGe  Excuse me, dear. The video is loaded with garbage. And I don't need to learn any more about Margaret Sanger. Most Americans learn about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ben Franklin when they are kids; I learned about Margaret Sanger, Victoria Woodhull, and Emma Goldman. The only people who know more about Margaret Sanger than I do are those who study her professionally and earn their livings by doing so. History professors and authors of biographical textbooks.
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  688.  @republica13  RE: "the blacks, the browns, what was the other one(s) that she hated?" There is no evidence, in any of her writing or her work, that she hated any of them! That entire thing about her is your side's invention, part of the big smear-campaign against her carried out by doctrinaire Catholics and others who would like to re-criminalize contraception (and are even now trying to revive the Comstock laws, which she spent her life fighting against). It has nothing whatsoever to do with her actual history, except that she lived in a time when racism was rampant, and she notably opposed it. She was known for not tolerating routine working-class racist talk among her clinic workers, for instance.
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  689.  @alperdue2704  Oh brother, this lame argument again??? PP locates in poor communities, because that is where the demand for minimal-cost, no-frills GYN care is greatest. Just as Salvation Army locates in poor communities, too, because that is where the customers are. Not as any conspiracy to keep poor people down by making them dress in shabby, ill-fitting, second-hand clothes. And however the German Nazis felt about her, there's no argument about the fact that she didn't like them. She made this very clear in a private letter written in 1933. Same with KKK: the women's auxiliary branch of KKK invited her to give a secret night-time lecture, she reluctantly agreed, and she reported having the impression that they were all half-wits and kooks.
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  690.  @44hawk28  The video is chock-full of stupid lies. Like, when it "quotes" her saying "Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race". She never said that, and never wrote it, and no serious historian - absolutely no serious historian in the world - thinks she did say that. The accusation has been shown to be false many times by many historians.
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  691.  @teonactalpizza  There is no evidence, despite decades of searching, that she felt blacks were inferior! You're right that she had a problem with working class people, and the problem she had was: too many of them were having more kids than they could afford to raise. And a "noble woman or royal"??? She was a nurse, and her father was a stone-worker.
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  692.  @debbied7035  She never spoke at any KKK rally, and there is no evidence that she ever won any accolades or honors from KKK.
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  693.  @wahine1998  The responsibility of having sex is that if you get pregnant, you must decide, responsibly, whether to grow your pregnancy and give birth, or whether to get an abortion. Every sexually active woman faces this responsibility and must choose, responsibly.
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  694.  @wahine1998  Cite her article or book (with a page number) where she says this, please. You can't. She never did.
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  695.  @StanMainoo  That line about "Blacks, soldiers, and Jews," is a well-known fake quotation, debunked many times. (That's why there's no source given in the video!)
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  696.  @twoEARSoneMOUTH247  LOL funny, but I'm not lying. But go ahead and prove your point, by citing the source for that line about Blacks, Jews, and Soldiers. What book, speech, article, or essay, by Margaret Sanger, is it from? (Page number, too, ,please.) You can't, because she never said or wrote it.
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  697. RE: "I lost everything over declining the vaccine first my job now my home!" You should have taken the vaccine! RE: "I’m overwhelmed because both of my children are autistic." Wait a minute! Your kids are autistic and you didn't take the vaccine? I thought the vaccines were what caused autism.
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  698.  @Harbinger_of_nurgle  How would you know? Do you know anything at all about the history of science and technology?
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  699. “Rampant crime in Manhattan” I was with you until you said that. NYC is safer, and has less crime (still!) than Florida.
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  700. Seems like half the influencers on YouTube are warning what we’re about to have a huge hyper inflation, and the other half are warning that we’re about to get killed by dreadful deflation.
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  701. There once was a man from Calcutta Who spoke with a terrible stutter . “For breakfast,” he said, “I’ll have buh-buh-buh-bread, And some buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-butter.”
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  702. Ooh, myocarditis! Pericarditis! Tell me, Dr. Campbell, what are my risks of getting it by a crate full of live lobsters falling out of a window, if I walk down the street? How about my risk of being eaten by an angry hippopotamus? Do these risks increase (relative risk) by 100% (twofold) if I get vaxxed first? You're dealing with such small numbers that none of it matters at all.
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  703. How would you know what the most objective explanation is?
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  704. I took Ivermectin and my dick broke off and flew around the room!
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  705.  @grumpystiltskin  You're right: it's not good that FDA gets money from user fees. So where do you think we should get the money to fund FDA? Raise taxes? Cut the military? Cut NASA? Cut prisons and cops? How?
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  706.  @alan4sure  What are you talking about (if anything)???
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  707.  @reyrey4261  Right! FDA gets far too much of its budget from big pharma. We should stop that, and fund FDA the same way we fund the military - by raising taxes (or having the government borrow the money, or cutting other spending). Let's start by raising YOUR taxes, and having the government borrow the money in such a way that YOU have to pay it back, and cutting spending on YOU.
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  708. Is there no violent crime in London?
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  709.  @link8689  If you have to ask for a definition of "insurrectionist", then EITHER you're too stupid to understand the answer, OR, you're a troll (probably a Russian troll).
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  710. All big-shot-level successful professional people are arrogant pricks. (Think about it. Have you ever known or worked with one who wasn't, at least under the surface?) -- although some of them learn to hide their arrogance and prickishness. It's because they need every second of their time, to promote themselves and become (or remain) big-shot level, and this leaves them no time to be polite except to other big-shot members of their profession (whatever it is) whose goodwill and support they need. For a spectacular example, go review what happened to President Biden's science-advisor (Biden created this new cabinet-position), the great Eric Lander. He was canned for abusing and bullying his subordinates, which he did just because he had never before worked with anyone who didn't think he was God, so it never occurred to him to care about his subordinates' feelings.
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  711. The "blood" could just be from his face-makeu;p! Notice his face is darker-than-usual orange.
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  712. A lot of errors and untruths published science are the fault of the principal investigators' underlings, who don't want to admit to errors and cause the principal investigator to have to waste time cleaning them up and correcting them. This sounds like a dodge, but it's inevitable, because the reason principal investigators hire underlings is to save their (the PIs') time. In other words, you need to make very sure that you punish the truly guilty, not the culprits' bosses at the time when the error or untruth gets published.
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  713.  @steviewonder417  RE: "...not only was she a vile racist..." No she wasn't, and even if she had been, you wouldn't know. RE: ... who is well-documented having expressed a desire to target racial minorities with abortion whom she deemed unfit,..." No she didn't. RE: "... but her targeting the poor as well doesn’t vindicate her somehow lol." She didn't target the poor. The worst you can say (honestly) is that she enabled the poor to target themselves.
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  714. In what context?
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  715. Precious metals (in catalytic converters) are not the same as rare earths. Platinum, and palladium, are NOT rare earths.
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  716. The President said to the Ms.: “Your mouth is a nice place for jizz, And whether it’s moral For you to give oral Depends on the meaning of ‘is’!”
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  717. This will lead to local neighborhood arms races as the cops, criminals, and ordinary folks compete for who can buy the best, newest guns, and who is willing to learn best how to use them. Cops and criminals are professionals. Their livelihoods and lives depend on being the best equipped and best trained shooters. Ordinary citizens who have limited time and money will lose just as amateur boxers lose when they try to fight professionals. Additionally, cops will get more and more trigger happy because they will fear that everyone at a crime scene is armed and ready to shoot. This is already the main reason cops shoot so many people who turn out to be armed only with toys or phones. The winners will be the gun stores and manufacturers. The losers will be emergency healthcare workers, especially trauma -surgeons, who won’t get any sleep
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  718. Academic institutions are greedy, hypocritical, and trendy very trendy in personality driven. Sort of like the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars. (Read the Hornblower series by CS Forester). But so are all other idealistic specialized goal oriented hierarchies! Medicine, law, movie, acting, classical music, government, Teaching kids, writing and publishing fiction, anything you can think of, if you set out to conquer the profession you’re going to be working with a corrupt hierarchy, whose goals or not what they Say they are. It’s the human condition.
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  719. FBI is not "going after" anyone "for their religious beliefs."_ FBI is learning what it needs to know in order to head off the real risk that these particular Catholics might do something violent and illegal. It has happened before, more than once. To pretend that being a practicing Catholic means that the practicing Catholic would never do anything violent and illegal would be very unwise. What FBI investigates someone who is Catholic, it's not because the person is Catholic, but because he (or someone close to him) shows signs of being inclined to illegal violent activity.
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  720. I think more than worrying about people refusing to vote for him because he’s convicted (if he gets convicted), I think this is going to be about people Seeing that because of his money and his importance, he gets special treatment in court – special benefits. I can tell you for sure if I or even you were to defy a court order not to discuss the jurors or judges relatives by immediately going online and talking about them, we Would find ourselves held in contempt, facing stiff fines, or jail time. Trump seems to be able to Flaunt the courts with impunity, and this is what I think will drive the voters in the swing states away from him.
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  721. Better for you? Not an issue. You can’t afford to go into the financial or stock market anyway. You’re spending all your money on stuff
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  722. THE BELL CURVE stirred up some outrage, but "the most controversial book ever in science"?!? Not even close. Even today, THE POPULATION BOMB is still more controversial than THE BELL CURVE will ever be, and ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES is so controversial in so many ways that we're still trying to list them all. It inflames controversies between religion and non-religion, and between different religions, and between different variants of one religion, and between different scientific fields, and between different scientists in the same scientific fields, and among non-scientists who read it, and among non-scientists who don't read it and wouldn't understand any of it even if they did read it.
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  723. Post-hoc =/= Propter hoc
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  724. Do tables have gills???
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  725. What would you do if the vaccine companies refused to sell vaccines in USA any more? That's what they did back in the day. The US government backed down every time - they didn't want their voters to have to live without polio vaccines.
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  726. The comic books are probably not directed specifically toward children. There are a lot of old timers in that picture captain America is probably the oldest he’s been around since World War II. I also see Thor who was of course the Nordic god of thunder but only became a comic book character in the early 1960s. I also think I’m seeing some of the X-Men there and while the original X-Men were first created in the early 1960s, some of the characters who joined later didn’t show up until the 1980s. So there may be some younger people, but the old timers dominate. oh Iron Man’s there too and he is another one who dates back to the early 1960s.
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  727. We should transfer all the jobs that involve these toxic chemicals to China and the Third World! Let them deal with these disasters. Oh, wait a minute ....
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  728. Or else what?
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  729. When I was in college, I took a semester in Leningrad. One of the interesting bus tours was a tour of the neighborhood where Raskonikov lived. (Dostoevsky described the streets of Saint Petersburg Correctly and in detail.) A tour guide Pointed out of building and told us that’s where the old lady – the pawnbroker Raskolnikov murdered and robbed lived! So I asked: “for a few extra rubles can we go into the building and murder an old woman ourselves?“ The tour guide was very polite.
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  730. Bill Clinton could talk rings around anybody, including Nixon
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  731.  @retiredusvet4396  Nixon had special knowledge and clinton was wise to seek his advice. When I say Clinton is smarter, I'm talking about raw computing power.
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  732.  @elimaurer9491  Bill. I don't know about Hillary - I've never heard her do the thing that super-intelligent people have the special ability to do, which is: you name a topic, without warning them in advance, preferably something they have never spoken about before, and ask them to explain the basics of it and they are able to improvise a clear, comprehensive, detailed lecture on the subject which you personally can relate to. David Letterman did this with Bill Clinton, and what followed was a half-hour improvised lecture which connected the topic to many different ordinary experiences familiar to everyone, and was also comprehensive and detailed. Who knew there were analogies to be made between the popularization of saxophone music in England in the 1920s, and 1990s nuclear brinksmanship between USA and North Korea??? Anyway, after sitting dumbfounded and overwhelmed for twenty minutes, Dave said: "We have to take a commercial break. It'll last three minutes, during which time you can try to think of something to say." UPDATE: That is also how Bill Clinton managed to be so charming to those who met him in person. He could remember so much about you from having met you once, or from having heard others who knew you talk about you, that you felt he was your intimate no matter how determined you were to keep him at arm's length. He was a natural master of the art of selecting personalized gifts, gifts which celebrated your essential you-ness ("you" being the recipient). The essential core of it (what it all boils down to) is memory, and sincere desire to charm the target. (Memory without sincere desire to charm only produces a creepy effect.) That was also what made Mozart such a great composer: he drew on a database which included every bit of music he had ever heard, perfectly remembered, and he really wanted his audiences to like him.
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  733. Wenn Tugend und Gerechtigkeit den Großen Pfad mit Ruhm bestreu’n, dann ist die Erd’ ein Himmelreich, und Sterbliche den Göttern gleich! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqz5DUThNV8
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  734. 7:10: ".... but we still can't do that in America, because that bill passed the Senate, but it couldn't get a vote in the House, because of the stupidest rule ever created, called the 'Hastert rule'. Named after somebody who's IN PRISON!" Laughing so hard I can barely type.
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  735.  @beeforeal5497  Whose politics? For what benefit? To whom?
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  736. Yes, but she’s also a lifelong type one diabetic, whose symptoms began when she was seven years old If she still able to work six years from now, it will be a statistical miracle
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  737. If you’re not ready to leave the world yet f corrupt magic rings of power, WE recommend THIS: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WEfdfQDZEj0&t=3m17s
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  738. If Trump doesn't want to comply, OK, but then, no expensive infusions of monoclonal-antibody-based medications for you when you get hospitalized again, Mr. Trump. You can just die or live like everyone else. Take your Ivermectin and go for natural immunity.
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  739. It probably doesn't help your case to have the hostess hawking cosmetics for geriatrics during the commercial.
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  740. Unless I blinked and missed one, you have omitted the most important scientific advancement of 2022: the successful lab synthesis in bulk of tetrataenite, using a phosphorus catalyst. Tetrataenite can be used to make very strong permanent magnets, almost as strong as the ones made from alloys which include rare-earth metals. Permanent magnets are used in all devices which convert electrical energy to mechanical energy (and vice-versa), from electric cars to wind-turbines to fans in computers for cooling the circuitry. This holds out the best hope of seriously reducing our need for rare-earth metals, which are horribly polluting to dig up, and are mostly controlled by the Chinese government. Tetrataenite is MUCH more likely to make us greener and freer than the fusion experiments which everyone fussed about so much. It was the subject of an NPR report a few weeks ago. You can look it up!
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  741. Given that American women are being prosecuted under the Comstock Laws from 1873, why is Trump bitching about being prosecuted under a law from 1917???
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  742. RE: "Abortion should only be a decision to make understand the most dire of circumstances." That's what Margaret Sanger thought! She turned women seeking abortions away from her clinics, and she described abortion as “sordid,” “abhorrent,” “terrible,” “barbaric,” "vicious,", "the wrong way", "taking a life", a “horror” in the same category as infanticide and child-abandonment, and "a disgrace to civilization." She called abortionists “blood-sucking men with MD after their names." She said that the rights of unborn babies to protection were "no less imperative" than the rights of already-born children. She circulated an advertisement for her birth-control clinic which said: "MOTHERS! / Can you afford to have a large family? /Do you want any more children? / If not, why do you have them? / DO NOT KILL, / DO NOT TAKE LIFE / BUT PREVENT." She never advocated in any way for legalizing abortion. Planned Parenthood did not start doing abortions until after she had been dead for more than three years.
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  743. Yeah, this (PASSAGE OF ARMS) is Ambler's best. It has everything which made Ambler so special: culture-clash between very parochial exponents of different cultures, each only minimally aware of the others' norms; also, the standard Amber every-man-type protagonist, who gets caught up in intrigue out of his league; also, the gradual increase of tension to a smashing climax. And the very appealing, knowledgeable, direct narrative style, detailed but not florid. Second best (IMHO) is the most comedic of Amber's novels: THE LIGHT OF DAY, and third is DOCTOR FRIGO. The latter - DR. F - is particularly beautiful, and mature: the tension builds steadily from the beginning, but no actual act of violence occurs until very close to the end of the book! That's right, the narrator doesn't actually face immediate physical danger - doesn't have to duck and cover or fight or run - until you have read more than 90% of the novel. (I counted the pages and did the math.) But it's still un-put-down-able, because the first-person protagonist's personality and tone are so engaging, and because so many interesting not-yet-violent-but-still-disturbing things happen, and so many unanswered questions gradually sharpen and clarify. Surprisingly, the more famous ones - A COFFIN FOR (The MASK OF) DIMITRIOS, and JOURNEY INTO FEAR and BACKGROUND TO DANGER kind of bore me! I mean, they're fun, but they're not deep or superbly crafted the way the three I listed are. I have no desire to read them over and over as I do with the top-level ones. UPDATE: I have to give a shout-out to his novel DIRTY STORY even though it's not his best, just because the story teaches the reader how important the rare-earth metals are to all kinds of industries including electronics and synthetic organic chemistry. This was written in 1967 and it anticipates all the fuss and international conflict over control of the rare-earths we are having now! Eric Ambler was an engineer, and was chemically literate.
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  744. All these discussions keep failing to mention why we care about who rules Ukraine. It’s not because we love democracy or freedom. It’s not because we care about Russian aggression itself. It’s because Ukraine has very rich deposits of strategic minerals like lithium and rare-earth metals, and they are not (yet) controlled by China.
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  745. Re: “Every republican member of this committee asked the Chairman to hold a hearing on anti-Semitism in February!” Why? Is anti-Semitism in February any worse than anti-Semitism in March, or in April, or in any other month?
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  746.  @Michelle-mu2ux  Yes, the shot doesn't prevent shingles, blood-clots, or death. It only prevents COVID, and it prevents that imperfectly. Very bad! [/s]
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  747. The proper term is future job-creators, future founders of new businesses, future hard workers and future tax-payers.
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  748. And you are possibly the most stupid person to have ever existed. Try reading some real history. You just might learn something.
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  749.  @everythingisalllies2141  How can racial superiority be a core belief of Judaism, when anyone of any race can convert to Judaism??? What kind of idiot are you?????
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  750. By all means, let's have the Federal government investigate these attacks. I want to know: how many of the attacks are false-flag attacks staged by right-to-lifers? Some of them look awfully fishy. Why is there no information about this? Start by finding out where every employee and regular volunteer at each vandalized clinic was at the time when the clinic was vandalized. Trace their locations! The fund-raising power of false-flag operations is so large, and so obvious, and so in keeping with the way the Republican Party operates today, that if they were not staging false-flag attacks, you'd have to try to figure out why not.
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  751. What if the infant has a condition for which there is no medical care?
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  752.  @TheSignofJonah777  What if it can't be saved? What if it has no lungs and no skin?
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  753.  @TheSignofJonah777  Conducting what?
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  754.  @clhowy87  That's not true. There are plenty of conditions which are compatible with life inside the woman's uterus, but not outside it.
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  755.  @clhowy87  That's not true, especially if "live" is "having a heartbeat which can be detected by ultrasonography or doppler amplification". But even if you use a more realistic definition of "live fetus", there are still conditions which are not deadly to the fetus until it is separated from the pregnant woman, but then are deadly. Ectopia cordis, for instance. We don't need people like you who don't know about this stuff trying to regulate medical practice. Stay out of the clinic and leave medicine to medical people (paraphrasing Dr. McCoy).
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  756.  @jennmcdavitt3782  No, not sick. Well-informed. Unlike you.
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  757. After the time Tucker Carlson posted footage of Fauci talking about lockdowns as an "inconvenience" after we had been locked down only one week, but pretended (Carlson pretended) that Fauci had said that after we had been locked down for several months, Tucker Carlson has no more credibility posting footage of Fauci saying anything, anywhere.
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  758. Announcing: the * NEW * Nothingburger!!! Now fortified with EXTRA nothing!!
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  759. Any kangaroo or wallaby should be sufficient
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  760. Margaret Sanger opposed abortion, you brilliant genius.
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  761.  @lupusdeum3894  Hardly. Margaret Sanger turned women seeking abortions away from her clinics, and she described abortion as “sordid”, “abhorrent”, “terrible”, “barbaric”, "vicious", "the wrong way", "taking a life", a “horror” in the same category as infanticide and child-abandonment, and "a disgrace to civilization." She called abortionists “blood-sucking men with MD after their names." She said that the rights of unborn babies to protection were "no less imperative" than the rights of already-born children. She circulated an advertisement for her birth-control clinic which said: "MOTHERS! / Can you afford to have a large family? /Do you want any more children? / If not, why do you have them? / DO NOT KILL, / DO NOT TAKE LIFE / BUT PREVENT." She never advocated in any way for legalizing abortion. Planned Parenthood did not start doing abortions until after she had been dead for more than three years.
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  762.  @victorcapel2755  Glad to hear it!
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  763. The Second Law of Thermodynamics only applies to closed systems. The Planet Earth is not a closed system: it receives energy from the Sun and emits energy into space, but the amount of energy it emits varies from year to year. So the Second Law of Thermodynamics is entirely irrelevant.
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  764. "Get back to teachin' 'em howda read!" But if you teach them how to read, they won't vote for you. Remember: if you count all the Christians throughout history, from the time of the first Christians through the present, 99.99 percent of them were totally illiterate.
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  765. The Muslims should have asked a grand jury to indict the ham sandwiches.
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  766. Be careful! Some of them may be keeping and bearing arms.
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  767. RE: Incidents of afib rising rapidly Hardly surprising considering how many old people there are in the UK.
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  768. Are the ones in their 20s having the increase in afib?
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  769. What proof is there that aspiration in intramuscular injections does any good? Are there any double-blind studies of aspiration vs no aspiration?
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  770.  @colleenlazoruk2897  Of course, there are blood vessels in muscle! Everybody knows that. But you see, I'm not asking for reasons why it might make sense for aspiration to be useful or beneficial. I once knew a surgeon/scientist, whose job included evaluating proposals for innovation. He used to say: you can make all the arguments you like, but in the end, if you can't show, with statistically-large, double-blind, properly-controlled studies that your medication, regimen, device, procedure, protocol, or strategy actually does save lives (or bring measurable benefit to patients), then you're just jerking yourself off with your arguments about why it ought to work or might save lives or bring benefit to patients. The proof of the pudding is in the eating of it (as the fellow said). So, once again: do you know of any ACTUAL STUDIES (double-blind, statistically large comparisons) which show that aspiration ACTUALLY DOES make patients safer than injection without aspiration?
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  771. Awww. Cry me a river. So far right-to-lifers have murdered eight abortion workers in USA. You all can start bitching after someone actually murders somebody for being pro-life, if anyone ever does.
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  772. She sounds underrehearsed. She needs more prep-time and more sleep.
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  773. Maybe we should leave the decision of how many kids to have up to the individual parents! Which, by the way, is what Margaret Sanger fought for.
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  774. The reason public trust is dropping is not because of any problem with vaccines. Vaccines are very safe. It's because of a well-funded campaign of fake medical people to spread lies which loop-a-dupes like you believe. If we had a problem with polio today, we'd never be able to solve it. You whackkos would scare people away from Jonas Salk's vaccines.
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  775. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNC3OciAF3w&t=33s
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  776. Isn’t his name Yevgenie? Not Dmitri. Prigozhin, I mean
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  777. Yeah. Choke-holds seem to be very unreliable. If you are a trained professional, and know how to do a choke-hold, don't.
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  778. Let's be fair to Paul Erlich. He did not predict that we would suffer mass famine, period. He predicted that ONE OF THREE things would happen: EITHER we would stop breeding so quickly and so much, OR that we would invent ways to produce more food on less land faster, OR that we would suffer mass famine. Only ONE of these THREE options would have to be realized in order for him to have been right. Well, we have learned how to produce much more food per acre of arable land, AND we seem to be breeding less. So he's really double-right.
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  779. You may have watched this, but you evidently did not understand what you heard and saw.
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  780. She didn't "dictate" anything. She left it up to you to decide how many kids you would have.
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  781. The fundamental error is in thinking that ordinary people who have not studied virology or epidemiology can understand any of this at all. The answer is not a "common-sense" thing; it's an advanced math thing and even the advanced math can only give you probabilities, not certain answers. It's funny. People don't do this with other subjects. For instance, if someone asked you to referee a professional boxing match, what would you say? You'd say "I'm sorry, I don't know enough about boxing to referee a match; you'll have to find someone who knows boxing and ask him!" And if someone asked you to evaluate his design for a new car, you'd say: "I'm sorry, I don't know enough about auto mechanics to say whether your design is good or bad." Right? But now, when it comes to virology and epidemiology and genetics and immunology, which are much more complicated and specialized than auto mechanics or boxing, you think you know enough to evaluate the evidence. I don't understand it.
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  782. I would rate three songs as tied for best: The Beat, I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea, and I'm not Angry. Second best: Accidents Will Happen, Oliver's Army, and Goon Squad. After the ARMED FORCES album, he went mainstream and lost his edge.
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  783. Bismarck: "Only a fool learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from other people's mistakes."
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  784. You're kidding, right? Joe Biden is one of the canniest politicians in the world. He's great at making his opponents chase their own tails. Look at how he has cornered the Republicans on the budget: he loaded it with stuff Republicans hate, released it one day before the vote so no one could read it or amend it, and he refrained from fixing the debt-ceiling during the lame-duck session when Republicans were still trapped in minority-status, and now, Republicans will have to either vote for it or vote against it and be responsible for the horrible economic and diplomatic consequences which will ensue if it fails.
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  785. Science isn’t dying or coming to an end. But science in the United States may well be dying or coming to an end. The opportunities in fake science are already just as good, and just as numerous as the opportunities in real science are. That is what we need to worry about.
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  786. Q: What happens if you fart in church? A: You have to sit in your own pew. (Ba-DUMP-bump)
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  787. Pelosi should sue for defamation. It would probably succeed.
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  788.  @rdelrosso2001  The point is, if your platelets are already low, then you are already at risk for prolonged bleeding, and, thinning the blood further, by whatever means, increases the danger. Using anticoagulants is dangerous. That's why, if you are on blood-thinners for some good reason (like, for instance, an artificial heart valve, or a history of stroke), it's so important to avoid overdosing. You don't want internal bleeding in, say, your brain.
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  789. It's because women are giving birth later and later in life. The average age of a new mother has increased steadily since the 1980s. #STUPID
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  790. Are these data corrected or controlled for the ages of the women giving birth?
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  791. Margaret Sanger opposed abortion, you lunk-head.
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  792.  @willlawrence8756  How? How do we stop other people, who don't take orders from us, from making new, horrible variants of the virus? And how do we stop it from happening in nature?
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  793.  @rayman9983  How do we stop the Chinese government's funding this research?
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  794.  @johnnydjiurkopff  That's very different. With the gain-of-function, it doesn't matter how many people discover it - one is enough. It's no good us stopping doing it if someone else does it and makes the same dangerous pathogen we would have made. Either way, we'll have to deal with it. In contrast, with carbon emissions, it's worse if two countries do it than if only one does. The effect is cumulative. This is why people who don't have any training in these subjects should not be imagining that they know enough to have an opinion which matters. YOU DON'T. You are like someone who has never seen a boxing match undertaking to review one for a real sports-magazine, or trying to serve as a referee in a professional bout. Your only answer to all questions should be "Sorry, I, Johnny Diurkopff, don't know enough about this subject to have an opinion."
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  795.  @johnnydjiurkopff  RE: "Should the parents of the sandyhook victims be allowed to campaign on a message of gun control when their only knowledge about firearms is that someone used one at their childrens' school?" Firearms are not anywhere near as complicated as virology and epidemiology. But you're right that the parents shouldn't be campaigning on arguments about which firearms should be allowed where and which should not, unless they learn enough about firearms to make a determination like that. (Whether they should be allowed to argue about it in public is a different question.) Generally, the government should not be trying to fix our gun problem by micromanaging. Our government isn't very good at that. What the government should do is something it has done quite well in the past: DELEGATE the problem to private individuals and groups - to the great, creative people of the USA. In particular, delegate the responsibility to the folks who understand guns and gun-safety and gun-ownership best. The folks who understand guns and gun-issues best are gun-makers and gun-sellers. Second-best are the gun-owners (some of them). How can the government motivate these folks to solve the mass-shooting gun-problem? There is a simple answer. Make 'em an offer they can't refuse. The government should implement the following policy: if you own, or sell, a gun, and that gun gets used in a crime, then you suffer the same penalty as the criminal, regardless of all other circumstances. You'll say "hey, I can't read my customers' minds! How am I to know he's gonna use the gun in a crime? And how am I gonna prevent someone from stealing my gun and using it in a crime?" The answer is: that's YOUR problem now. You are the one who knows about guns. YOU figure out a way. Or, get ready to go to prison alongside of the customer or thief who got a gun from you and used it in a crime. You see? Instead of trying to tell you how to solve the problem, we should have government require that you solve the problem, and then lock you up if you refuse or fail. That way we can rely on you to focus your energy and your resourcefulness on actually fixing the problem. You'll have no other choice, if you want to own a gun and remain free. You will be judged, and punished, according to the results of whatever you do or don't do. And, (word of advice) the first thing you need to do is stop thinking like a loser. "The problem is hard, how am I supposed to solve it?" That's how losers talk. No one ever accomplished anything that way. Be a winner. Be an American. Figure out how to solve the problem yourself.
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  796. How do you know that the Xalacom caused your tinnitus, hyperacusis, anxiety, insomnia, major depression, and anhedonia? How do you know you wouldn't have all these symptoms even if you had never taken the Xalacom eye-drops? Just wondering.
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  797. Most difficult songs to sing? "The Star-Spangled Banner" (It's very rangy and ridiculously difficult to sing well; the melody was originally a British drinking song) "Der Zwerg" by Schubert. And Iago's Credo in Verdi's opera OTELLO
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  798. Isn’t China suffering demographic implosion? Where are all these migrants to inner China coming from?
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  799. Yes, Republicans would be able to win without the Electoral College. The difference would be: in order to win, the Republicans would have to persuade the American people that they (Republicans) were better at governing than Democrats. (Oh, the horror!)
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  800. Falling Down (1993), Fargo (1996), and Jackie Brown (1997) captured the sensibilities of the 1990s. The Cold War was over, the internet was new (some people were still calling it the “information superhighway”), those who weren’t willing to adjust got shitcanned, but there were also wonderful new ways of living well, and new ways of scamming people. I think, hopefully, that before too long we’ll be saying something similar about the 2020s.
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  801. Update: alongside of the internet, the modern biotech revolution was shifting into high gear. People forget that most Americans didn’t know about DNA analysis until Bill Clinton left a sample on Monica’s blue dress.
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  802. Does Matt Schlapp have a partner called Rugg Schmackk?
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  803. Then the cause of your symptoms is obvious: some genetic disorder caused by too much inbreeding in your hamlet, or, by too much bestiality.
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  804. Is the retweet really an attack on any of the seven who have already been seated on the jury? Or is it only an assertion about some of the people in the jury pool – the pool Of individuals who might get seated on the jury? Does the gag order forbid Trump to talk about anyone in the jury pool or only about Individuals who are already seated?
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  805. So are you saying that the ivermectin cured the harms done to you by the vaccine? I thought the reason people took it was to cure COVID, not to cure vaccine-injuries.
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  806.  @hnd2893  That's mostly good advice, except for one obvious flaw: It is NOT a good idea to do anything with FLCCC. FLCCC is a gang of quacks and hustlers.
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  807. What did the proud boys do? They violently attacked passers by in front of the Yale club in NYC.
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  808. Let’s cut federal spending! Start by zeroing out Ft. Knox and Ft. Campbell (both in Kentucky). Sound good, Senator?
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  809. I agree, for a lawyer to say openly that prosecutors extort guilty pleas by threatening to bring superseding charges, and to ask for harsher penalties, is bizarre. Everyone knows that they do - it's typically called the "trial penalty", and the main purpose is to save the government money (trials are expensive!) - but very few lawyers would acknowledge it in a public forum, and even fewer would complain about it being used against themselves. It's supposed to be an open secret.
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  810. Paris v. Pittsburgh What a joke. Pittsburgh stopped being a working-class factory town back in the 1980s and 90s. Now it's biotech and geriatric medicine.
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  811. Maybe he fired it improperly.
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  812. The show is fun, but I'm curious: why do you think that you know enough about the subject to judge who is right about it and who is wrong? Why do you have an opinion other than the opinion that you don't know which answer is right?
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  813. A metaphor for Republicans.
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  814. You mean, you won't be able to get on with your normal life YET. You ask when WILL we be able to get on with normal life? The answer is: when enough people are vaccinated that the likelihood of enountering someone who is infectious gets very low. The vaccine isn't perfect, but it's quite good, so your risk of passing the virus on to someone else, if you have it, is lower if the someone else is vaccinated. When enough people are immune, it benefits the non-immune people too, because they are less likely to get exposed. Eventually, the recovery rate will be faster than the infection rate, and the virus will recede. And THAT, my friend, is what we mean by "herd immunity": when so many members of the population are immunized that the virus spreads more slowly than it dies, so it recedes and leaves us (mostly) in peace. THAT'S when we will all be able to resume normal life. (I understand that this is more than one sentence, and you will have to focus your attention on it for more than ten seconds in order to understand it, which may be difficult or uncomfortable for you, but there's really nothing I can do about that. Epidemiology is complicated. That's why we have experts: they learn how to think about this stuff so you don't have to.)
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  815. Has there ever been a female candidate who was NOT haughty and arrogant??? It’s what women in politics are instead of being dominant like men!
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  816. Read SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ by Primo Levi
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  817. You mean, nothing yet. I mean, they've only been investigating the Biden family for fifteen years! They'll find something they've overlooked until now. (/S).
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  818. The danger with laws that require you to prove your citizenship is that these laws could be used selectively against voters who are more likely to Vote for one party (or the other). Therefore, any law which requires you to prove your citizenship, should also have a clause that if any government worker is caught, trying to use these laws to change the outcome of the election rather than making an honest effort to prevent non-citizens from voting illegally, that government worker who is caught doing this should be punished with 10 years minimum in solitary confinement.
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  819. Type-1 diabetes which first emerged when she was 7 is not good. If she is still able to work five years from now it will be a statistical miracle.
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  820. Yes, it's hard to be a really good scientist. Pitfalls and monsters of error lie in wait for you, lurking under the weeds, everywhere. The life of the mind is not an easy one. This has always been true in every directed hierarchy. The British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars way horribly corrupt, nepotistic, cruel, and arbitrary. The question is: was it good enough to win the war in the end? (Spoiler: the answer is yes it was, even though it was corrupt, nepotistic, cruel, and arbitrary.)
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  821. We need Ukraine’s lithium and rare earth metal ores. !!!!
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  822. The idea is to make them feel that by admitting you they will be doing something about your traumatic memories.
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  823. Do you have any idea what we're hoping to get for ourselves by helping the Ukrainians? HINT: It's pretty damm important. ANOTHER HINT: It'll help a lot in our ongoing conflict with China.
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  824.  @tammiestephens1009  Ukraine has very rich deposits of rare earth metals. Lithium, too.
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  825. The line “… or you will do the hardest time there is!” Is iambic pentameter.
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  826. Trump is not known for collaborating with other people. If he were to join forces with Bernie Sanders, he’d be fighting over trivialities in less than a week.
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  827. Who-sha?
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  828. Based on what I see in the video, it looks like the woman would have been able to defend herself quite well even without her gun!
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  829. What I want to know is: are the pets - the dogs and the cats - eating the Haitian immigrants? That might be cause for concern.
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  830. Yes, but alcohol kills those who choose to drink it. Guns don't only kill the shooters (although they do kill the shooters, but not ONLY the shooters.)
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  831. Who paid for your work? The taxpayers?
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  832. The decision to pause J&J's vaccine is wrong from the scientific point of view, but right from the public-relations point of view.
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  833.  @arnonabuurs7297  That's an anecdote, not evidence. Besides, he probably killed her himself!
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  834.  @Pieguts123  Humans are evolved to start giving birth in their early-to-mid 20s. Delaying gets more harmful as your age increases. A one-year delay from age 30 to age 31 causes much greater increase in complication rates than a one-year delay from age 24 to age 25. And there's also statistical noise. You're dealing with very small numbers - 2,000 stillbirths out of more than 760,000 births is 0.3 percent.
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  835.  @clifford4393  You need to go read up on the difference between "relative risk increase (or decrease)" vs "absolute risk increase (or decrease)".
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  836.  @kd4315  I do understand it. You don't. You are an innumerate loop-a-dupe.
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  837.  @gedofgont1006  No. I am well-informed. Unlike you.
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  838.  @Lindatiger71  2021 is when the average age broke past 31 years old. That is when pregnancies start getting much more complicated.
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  839.  @kd4315  RE: "I find myself almost amused at your attempt to use the English language. " What are you talking about? English is my native language. I grew up in New York City. (I can also get by in Russian, German, Polish, Italian, and French, and I have sung in Georgian, Latvian, Ukrainian, Church Slavonic, and Lezghin, although I can't really speak or write in those languages.)
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  840.  @gedofgont1006  I probably could. If you would like me to do that research for you, I charge $450.00 (USD) per hour or fraction of an hour. I accept PayPal and all major credit cards. (By the way, VAERS doesn't prove a dam' thing. VAERS own web-site warns that they are not equipped to confirm or investigate even a small fraction of the reports they get, and that anyone, even someone with no health-education at all, can report whatever they want as a "adverse event". If you get vaccinated and the next day your dog bites you, you can report that as an adverse event and most likely no one will ever check your report.)
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  841. FLATLAND by Edwin Abbott.
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  842. Not bird, not plane. It’s the wizard of Oz!
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  843. This comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKqvmX9rPQA
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  844. As I recall (but maybe I'm forgetting something or maybe I missed something, because I don't pay much attention to the non-science media when it comes to this kind of thing) the theory which was condemned as racist was the deliberately-designed weapon theory - the theory that the Chinese had designed to virus deliberately and were engaging in biological warfare.
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  845. Hmmm! My best friend got the jab, and his acne cleared up, and two weeks later he ran a marathon, and the day after that he won the lottery and got half a million dollars in prize-money. Anecdotes don't prove much, I guess.
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  846.  @vipeev  Prosecution for what?
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  847.  @lostintranslation1957  Then the commenter should be citing the thousands of other verified accounts (with links), not posting anecdotes.
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  848.  @annieo4442  How does your cardiologist know that the vaccine is the cause? How does he (or she) know the cause wasn't something else?
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  849.  @vipeev  In USA, all vaccine makers of any kind have the same exemption, which is that they have their cases decided by special courts rather than ordinary courts. The history of this policy is kind of interesting. The vaccine makers were getting hammered with junk lawsuits filed by people who suffered ordinary problems but found it convenient to blame the vaccines they took, often with coaching by corrupt ambulance-chasing lawyers. Juries made up of uneducated idiots who didn't know the difference between B-cells and B-movies, were deciding in favor of the plaintiffs, and the companies were going bankrupt paying huge damages in huge class-action lawsuits based on junk science and anti-vax loop-a-dupery. So the companies said to the lawmakers in the government in USA: if you don't fix this problem and protect us from these morons, we will have to stop selling vaccines altogether in USA. Ask your voters how they like the prospect of going back to worrying about polio, and measles, and mumps. And the legislators realized that their voters wouldn't like it at all! And created the special court-system for vaccine-makers.
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  850. How do you know - I mean, what makes you think you know - that she wouldn't have had the stroke anyway, even if she had not taken the vaccine? People get strokes for many different reasons, including, sometimes, no reason at all, just bad luck. How do you know that your wife isn't one of those who just happened, unluckily, to have a stroke which just happened to happen after she took the vaccine?
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  851. This whole thing is a bit of political theater. No one denies that immigrants cost us in the short-term. They benefit us more than they cost, in the long-term. What the Governor of NY should do is deport convicts convicted of gun-crimes to Florida when they finish their sentences and get released. Florida wants to expand gun-rights, and let convicts own guns, and make it easier for everyone to get guns, so they shouldn't object to receiving NY's gun-criminals. Right?
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  852. Same old reruns; new packaging.
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  853.  @calluna5030  Thank you for the info!
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  854.  @ThePantygun  With anti-vaxers. Anti-vaxers are very dangerous. We could easily end up with polio as a thing everyone had to worry about again. Everyone, from FDR to the lowliest tramp, lived in terror of polio, back in the day.
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  855.  @ThePantygun  Yes, false vaccination can be a real problem. I had a friend who went in to get vaccinated against scabies, and the nurse vaccinated her against rabies. Horrible! Then she got scabies and had to take ivermectin in order to get rid of the scabies.
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  856. You keep saying the smartest presidents were Clinton, Jefferson, and Obama. Why do you leave out Jimmy Carter, who was and probably still is incredibly intelligent???
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  857. Announcing: the new, improved nothingburger! Now fortified with extra nothing! If you liked the original zero-substance nothingburger, then you will love the new improved nothingburger! It has three times as much substance as the original!
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  858. No, the problem is the deceivers-for-profit pretend that government is overselling the effectiveness of all these measures.
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  859. It seems to me (my best friend is a writing coach who helps with admissions essays) that what is missing from your "trauma essay" examples is some connection between the trauma the writer (you?) suffered and the subsequent desire to go to whichever school, college, or post-graduate program she is (you are?) applying to. You write "I suffered!" and "I want to go to Upper Crust University" but what you need is "I suffered, and therefore, ever since then, I have wanted to go to Upper Crust University, because [... etc.]" or "... in order to [... etc.]"
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  860. Ships deserting a sinking rat
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  861.  @debravictoria7452  Protection is only partial.
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  862.  @dp3069  How strange! I got the jab, and later that week, I won ten million dollars in the lottery. Is there a web-site where I can report favorable events following vaccination?
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  863.  @debravictoria7452  Yes it does. Well, it reduces transmission by reducing infection. Less infection means less people who can transmit it.
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  864.  @GwladYrHaf  I don't think the scientific community qualifies as a cult.... We are evidence-based and self-correcting.
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  865. It’s obvious who is responsible for the fires in Canada. It’s Fauci!
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  866. WRONG!
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  867.  @loaded.357  No, what she said included the all-revealing line "... in this context? ..." That shows that she is thinking about the fact that the term "woman" means different things in different laws, depending on how the particular law defines the term "woman" in its "Definitions" section. And that is the point: It is part of a judge's job to avoid bringing a personal definition of a word into the courtroom; the definition may be different in different contexts, or defined differently by the text of the law itself, from what an ordinary Bozo or an uneducated, unrefined hick (like Senator Blackburn) might think it means. Regarding the sex-offenders: that accusation was based on one case, in which the defendant was himself barely over-age (19 years old) and the prosecutor only asked for a very short sentence. So the prosecutor in that particular case, not Ketanji Brown-Jackson, was soft on the crime.
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  868. ​ @loaded.357  In 2019 she sentenced one to 29 years. Not months; years.
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  869. Germans are a very passionate, musical people. Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms — they have a great sense of rhythm. Their sensibilities are more directly connected to their emotions than in more civilized, more evolved people. Germans are like children in this way.
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  870. These things happen. The more we manufacture here, the more it will happen here. If you voted for MAGA, if you support tariffs and vote for politicians who want to build factories in USA, this is what you are voting for.
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  871. Grab them by the box!
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  872. I’m 1979 there were money market accounts paying 13%.
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  873.  @Arvidje  You may recall that we were in a a hurry! We were afraid that we would find all our hospitals and doctors overwhelmed, like in much of Italy. Warp Speed, remember?
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  874. What did Dr. Fauci have to lose from the lab-leak theory? Suppose someone had proved the lab-leak theory to be correct. What would Dr. Fauci have lost?
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  875.  @madwellmusic8995  So what?
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  876. What’s the problem with the lawyer’s voice?
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  877. Jon Stewart deserved the backlash, not for supporting the lab-leak theory rather than the natural-origin theory, but for pretending that he knew enough about virology and epidemiology and immunology for his opinion to matter.
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  878. No they’re not. They’re doing a good job of pretending, though.
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  879. Not a relief. Only a reprieve.
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  880. Before COVID I believed that scientists should share their findings with the public, since the public pays for the research. Now, after COVID, I am convinced that sharing scientific data with people who don’t know the background and cannot understand the data does no good and can cause serious harm to people who wrongly think they know what’s going on.
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  881. I never figured out why Trump shouted about “Kung flu” but not “Flu Manchu”.
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  882. The presumption of innocence in USA is a joke, in so many ways.....
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  883. I'm waiting to hear Professor Snyder say something about Ukraine's rich deposits of rare-earth metal ores, lithium, and other strategic minerals. That's the reward we will get if we enable Ukraine to win and survive as a country: preferred-buyer status when the dust settles and the bidding begins. We need these materials for our electronics industry, our synthetic organic synthesis (drugs, plastics, etc.) and for green-technology (batteries, strong permanent magnets for turbines and engines). And we need to break the near-monopoly control which the government of China has over them. (It's no surprise that China's government is trying to help Russia.)
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  884. We have been engineering viruses for decades. Routinely.
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  885. "Emergency heart procedure" - sure, a pacemaker is about as mild as a heart problem can be.
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  886. I can explain the LK99 superconductor even more quickly. In fact, I can explain it in just two words: scientific fraud. I will bet anyone any amount of money that this will turn out to be at best an embarrassing error, and at worst a deliberate hoax. Probably somewhere in between.
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  887.  @lachlantrescott5533  I'll bet ten-to-one it'll turn out to be a fake or an error.
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  888.  @lachlantrescott5533  The theory may be sound. Whether or not it has been demonstrated by this experiment is an entirely different question. I'm not arguing that the theory is wrong. I'm saying that the claim that these authors have demonstrated it and actually made a room-temperature/ambient-pressure superconductor is false.
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  889. It should certainly be easy to determine where the rocket came from, using satellite images. And it’s worth, noting that we are not yet at the point where persuasive, deep fakes could be published and not detected. If Israel did this, they won’t be able to conceal it very long; neither will Hamas or anyone else be able to conceal if it came from within Gaza.
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  890. "Dopamine addiction" is worse than just a myth; it's a fundamental misunderstanding of what dopamine is and what it does. Dopamine is not a hormone; it's a neurotransmitter. Not all neurons use it or respond to it, only a subset of neurons called the "dopaminergic neurons," or, collectively, the "dopaminergic system". Like other neurotransmitters, dopamine is stored in some neurons (specifically, the dopaminergic neurons), and these neurons release it into the synapse when the neuron needs to transmit a signal across the synapse to a subsequent neuron. These chemical signals are exceptionally rapid and complex, and the dopaminergic system of neurons is responsible for your body doing all those fast calculations which you don’t usually think about: calculations like how much force to put on the various muscles in your feet in order to keep your balance, when standing still? Or how much force do you put on your vocal cords when you speak in order to speak loudly and with resonance? Or how do you time all the various motions involved in walking or in laughing or in coughing or in swallowing or in dodging if someone throws a snowball at your face? All of these are impaired in advanced stages of Parkinson’s disease: patients lose their sense of balance, and their clear, resonant speaking voice, and their ability to swallow (one of the most common causes of death in Parkinson's disease patients is drowning in your own saliva, which you inhale!), and their "flinch-reflex", and their "startle reflex". (I know this because I used to study Parkinson’s disease and now I have Parkinson’s disease.) So I always cringe when I hear people talk about “increasing or decreasing dopamine”. It’s not really a question of how much dopamine you have total; it’s a matter of how much dopamine is being released and in what neurological patterns it’s being released— which of the dopaminergic neurons are releasing it, and when. Some of the drugs you take for Parkinson’s, increase your nerves’ ability to make dopamine, and to hold it in reserve for when they need to use it to transmit a signal across the synapse, but this notion that you get from hearing popular-science people talk about increasing or decreasing dopamine, as if it were some kind of magic, happy juice where just having more of it means you’re happier or experiencing more pleasure is such a gross oversimplification that it would be better to just avoid the whole subject, unless you know enough about the dopaminergic neurons to understand what your brain is doing with dopamine at any particular moment or in any particular situation, which almost no one does.
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  891. White phosphorus? Why not mustard gas? Do you imagine that Israel doesn't have the capacity to produce mustard gas?
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  892. Maybe he’s not getting enough sleep.
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  893. Some of the best people (ahem!) use military titles for satiric purposes!
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  894. As far as I have been able to tell, more of this kind of nonsense - scientists publishing bad results - comes because of communications problems within the lab hierarchy than from malicious or dishonest purpose.
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  895. What resources does Gaza have?
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  896. RE: "History shows that the winning candidate doesn't even need to win the most votes in order to win the election." That's only true when the winning candidate is Republican. When it's a Democrat, there's no way to win without winning the popular vote.
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  897.  @GMeza-cy5xv  That's bunk. The purpose of the EC was not to protect anyone from anything. It was to make national elections practical at a time when there was no such thing as electronic communication and the only way to obtain information about a candidate was for a person to transmit the information in person by traveling, either by having the candidate come speak in person or by having a messenger or postal courier bring the information in writing or in memory. So the flow of information was limited by the speed of a horse-drawn carriage (or, if the sender and recipient were both in coastal towns, by the speed of a sailing ship). Go review the Federalist Papers, number 68. The Electoral College does disproportionately favor small states, but that was only written in because without it, the small states would have refused to ratify the Constitution. So it was an extorted compromise which should have been scrapped a century ago, and now is severely harming USA and the institution of representative democracy. And no, a vote in Nebraska does not have the same power as a vote in California. California has approximately 20 times higher population than Nebraska, but only eleven times as many votes in the Electoral College. So each vote from California only counts a little more than half as much as each vote from Nebraska. This is the opposite of how it should be, because Californians have done SO much more to enrich USA than Nebraskans. How many world-changing, super-profitable new technologies have been invented, or moved from the lab into the mainstream of society, in Nebraska??? We should be selectively giving Californians MORE voting power, not less.
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  898.  @GMeza-cy5xv  Hahahahahahahahah * LOL LOL ROTFL * SMLMCU! That video is produced by the JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY! They don't even bother to hide it. (If you don't know, the John Birch Society is the kook-organization famous for accusing all its opponents of being Communist conspirators funded by Mao and USSR. The John Birch Society is the group which opposed fluoridation of water, and was satirized by Stanley Kubrick in DR. STRANGELOVE. Actual conservatives like William F. Buckley (founder of the magazine "National Review") disowned the John Birch Society because they feared it would discredit conservatism.) You might as well be trying to learn history by reading Lyndon LaRouche, David Irving, or Louis Farrakhan.
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  899. Two comments: 1. I thought Germany was about to suffer demographic meltdown. Why worry about her military? Whom will they enlist or conscript? 2. Speaking of Russia, what do you think about Yekaterina Duntsova?
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  900. The answer should be “that’s a question for Congress and for the executive branch, not for a judge.”
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  901. The trouble with Pandora’s box arguments is they put you on a slippery slope.
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  902. He said he was gonna drain the swamp, but instead, he swamped the drain.
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  903. He might be Vice President one day.....
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  904. Or maybe you just did a very poor job of presenting the issue. It's possible, you know.
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  905.  @domb8448  Hey, some of the smartest people in history were shoemakers. Get to know Hans Sachs, the good-guy in DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, based on a real person, Hans Sachs the medieval poet and musician whose day-job was making shoes.
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  906.  @domb8448  Some very bad people in history liked DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, but it is one of the most beautiful and absorbing things ever composed.
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  907. "I don't know what that's indicating but it's not indicating that COVID is causing pericarditis." No. It's indicating something else: it's indicating that all the numbers in this study are too low to be worth bothering about. Statistical noise.
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  908.  @gcallananpainting  What are you talking about (if anything)??
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  909. Why did he not mention the structural advantage which the Republicans have because of the Electoral College, which endows low-population states with disproportionate representation (more voting-power per voter)??? This is the reason why Republicans win the White House even when the popular vote goes against them so often, which never happens for Democrats.
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  910. You mean Trump does. He created Operation Warp Speed, you know.
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  911. You wouldn't recognize justice if you got it. You don't know enough about the subject.
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  912. It was very likely. He wasn't the only one to predict it. The fact is, the more we interact with people in the tropics, the higher the risk of having tropical diseases spread out of the tropics. Also, given our previous history with coronaviruses, it was statistically very likely that there would be another one. You guys should focus less on trying to "get" Fauci - you won't succeed, because he (almost certainly) didn't do anything wrong - and think about the real dangers, which are, the next big pathogen which will likely hit us in less than a decade, and extremely likely some time in the next 20 years. Every day, it gets easier and easier for some crazy apocalypse-minded fanatic with too much money to build a covert lab and genetically engineer worse variants of the virus. Imagine if there were suddenly a variant which caused two percent of patients to go blind. Sure, sci-fi writers have been writing about engineered pathogens for many many years, but now, there's a simple, flow-chart-type method for attempting to actually do it. Fauci is not the problem. The problem will be someone like Osama bin Laden would be if he had gone to grad school and taken a degree in molecular biology or genetic engineering, and then gotten a few years of practical lab experience under his belt before retiring to whacko-land.
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  913. Zero. FDA has no authority or power to sanction, censure, or yank licenses or privileges, from physicians.
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  914. Ramaswamy: "Puppet-masters!" "Neo-cons!" Why not just say whom you mean?
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  915. Look up the Temple’s central tenets. Well, here: I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason. II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions. III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own. V Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs. VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused. VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
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  916. HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY: Vinyl chloride was used as an inhaled anesthetic, back in the ether days, and was also used as a refrigerant and as an aerosol propellant.
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  917. Electric cars don't have catalytic converters, but electric cars do contain a lot of rare earth metals. With the current state of the technology, any device (including an electric car) which converts electrical energy to mechanical energy (or vice versa) requires very strong permanent magnets, which are made with alloys containing a lot of rare earths.
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  918. "...either Tuberville is one of the most skilled Chinese agents ever, or he's the dumbest person in Congress." Or perhaps he has sold out to the international fraternity of billionaire autocrat-wanna-bes, like Ginny Thomas and Donald Trump.
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  919. Or, imagine if Putin had chosen peace instead of invasion. Why should Putin get to decide which alliances Ukraine joins? If Ukraine decides to join the CHUD alliance, or the WEAZL alliance, or the Balalaika-Group, or the League of Borscht-Eating Republics, why should Putin have any authority to say "yes you may join" or "no you may not join"???
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  920. Here's the greatest fictional stage-evil I know. Watch the bald guy holding the spear, who has tricked the other two into believing that the hero has betrayed them (he hasn't really) in this, the 19th Century's Lord of the Rings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEfdfQDZEj0&t=3865s
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  921. Re: “…where did you stand on the genocide of the Palestinian people?” On the what, of the what?
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  922.  @Khayyam-vg9fw  I'm sorry, but at this time you are not smart enough to understand immunology or epidemiology. Good luck in your future efforts to improve your intelligence, if you decide to try to do that.
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  923. So let me get this straight: the allegations are that FBI is targeting CATHOLICS, under the administration of JOE BIDEN? Newsflash: Joe Biden is Catholic. A devout, practicing, mackerel-snapping wafer-eating Poper-scoper, in fact.
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  924.  @commentarytalk1446  Heinlein made me sick when I read him 40 years ago. I suppose I might like him better now, but I don't think it's likely.
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  925.  @commentarytalk1446  I tried to get into Heinlein several times with weeks apart. I read The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, and Stranger in a Strange Land. And something with this annoying character Lazarus Long, who is immortal but doesn't like being immortal, finds it burdensome. (The idea was good - a lot of Heinlein's ideas are good - but the realization was insufferable - as a lot of his realizations seem to be.) Some years later, when I first learned The Ring of the Nibelung, I realized who it was that Wotan reminded me of so much: Lazarus Long. And it wasn't just because you need to live several lifetimes to get through the Ring cycle, although you do need several lifetimes to understand all the ideas in it. So I tried to write a spoof about a character named Lazarus Longwinded, but I got bored and gave up. This was back in the 1980s, when the original British radio-broadcasts "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" were first airing in USA. I was hanging out with a lot of MIT students, smoking lots of weed, and teaching symbolic logic and Recursive Function Theory to high school students in the Greater Boston Area.
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  926. Nickie Chinlund!!
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  927. Do you worry about being attacked by packs of wild dogs when you go out? It does happen, from time to time. So why don't you take precautions? Because it's very very rare.
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  928.  @earlthepearl4161  The point is that rare problems don't matter much, because they are rare.
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  929.  @jfryer485  But if you are getting your number from VAERS, then it's worthless. VAERS does not verify the cases reported to it, doesn't check to see whether the reports are true, doesn't check to see whether a vaccine caused any of the incidents reported. How do I know this? VAERS says so on its own web-site. Yes, very very sad, to be in a wheelchair. You should try to find out why, since you agree that you don't know whether the vaccine had anything to do with it.
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  930.  @BonsuBigWhale  But individuals don't know enough about the question to asses it for themselves. That's the problem. It's funny. People don't seem to do this thing of imagining that they know enough to make decisions when it comes to other subjects. If someone were to ask you to referee a professional boxing match, or to build them a car, what would you say? You'd say: "Sorry, but I don't know enough about boxing to referee a boxing match, so I can't do that for you!" Or "Sorry, but I don't know enough about auto-mechanics to build a car for you; you'll have to ask someone who does!" But when it comes to making decisions about epidemiology, virology, immunology, and medicine - which are more complicated than boxing and than auto-mechanics - know-nothings like you think they know enough to set policy. It's so strange.
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  931.  @BonsuBigWhale  Of course! Just as long as you're willing to stay home and not bring the pathogens you chose to risk being infected with into the public square.
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  932.  @mohanrajaloganathan5587  Right you are! If you want to remain unvaxxed, feel free to remain unvaxxes - in the privacy of your own home. Just don't go out in public where you might infect other people with the pathogen you are more likely to carry because you choose to be unvaxxed. Sure, decline the jab - but then stay home.
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  933.  @eyealter  So can we agree that if the vaccine turns out to be harmful, then the guy who had it approved at "Warp Speed" should pay for all the damages?
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  934. Your doctor won't discuss the vaccines? It's probably not a matter of cowardice; it's more likely that he's just too busy to waste time talking to ANOTHER loop-a-doop with a vaccine-fetish. There's no point: they (anti-vax loop-a-doops) can't be convinced, and if you start to indulge them and then stop, they'll cling, and get angry.
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  935. It is clogged and understaffed. Hire more judges and agents to make it work.
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  936. "Fungible" means "tasty in mushroom sauce". The root is fung, as in "fungus". The Italian for "spaghetti with mushrooms" is "spaghetti con i funghi".
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  937. Because they are smarter than you.
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  938. I love the videos, BUT, ... ... the word is "nuclear". "Nuke" + "Lee" + "yer". NOT "nuke" + "you" + "ler". Please.
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  939. Proud to be a Floridian? Look up: Dunning Kruger
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  940. Point of presentation: I always urge people to avoid the tired, overused, clichéd phrase "abundantly clear". This phrase invites your reader/viewer to tune out, and does NOT add anything to your speech or essay. It does NOT lend emphasis, and it does NOT strengthen, and it does NOT make you sound more polished than you are.
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  941. His name wasn't really Longnecker. That's just what they called him after he was hanged.
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  942. The press may be misusing the accusation but the scientists?? These people on this video seem to think that Fauci is controlled by the editorial board of the NYTimes. Silly!
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  943. Oops I meant to write “… the accusation of racism ….”
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  944. Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik by Gottlob Frege
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  945. Or maybe they know something which you don’t know….
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  946. As long as I can still use the word "sesquipedalian", I'm happy. Didn't something like this happen in The Phantom Tollbooth?
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  947. Someone who is very unlucky?
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  948. What you are tired of is having to cope with something which you do not understand.
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  949. How would you know that?
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  950. She has a great eye for identifying target audiences to bamboozle. Right wing anti-vax people are a great market for spiritual junk-food.
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  951. What happened in the little boy's home was the parents bought a god-damned gun. USA has too many guns in the hands of too many idiots.
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  952. The 2024 election comes down to this: do Americans agree that the primary function of their government should be to bully them?
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  953. There's something about this that I don't understand. What is the argument that anyone other than Ukraine should decide which alliances Ukraine will apply to for membership? By what authority does Putin claim the right to tell Ukraine "you may join this alliance, but not that one?" Does Putin think that he is President of Ukraine as well as President of Russia? I'm not asking to be antagonistic; I really don't know the answer to this. Can someone explain it to me?
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  954. The (obvious) right answer to this whole dispute is: we should develop a new vaccine which, instead of only targeting the spike-protein, also targets the other two proteins which are on the surface of the virus, as well as the spike protein. (The two other proteins are called "E" for "envelope" and "M" for "membrane". There's also a protein in the virus called "N" for "nucleocapsid", but that one doesn't appear on the surface of the virus, only in the interior of the virus, so, vaccinating against it would probably not make much difference.) A vaccine which elicits antibodies against all three proteins would almost certainly be just as protective as a previous infection, and unlike an infection, would not risk being passed on to an elderly or immuno-compromised patient who might die of it. Natural immunity is great, but not if the price of waiting to get it is killing grandma, or killing your friend who has HIV, or killing your brother who is getting chemotherapy for cancer.
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  955. His karma ran over his dogma.
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  956. Do you know how much it costs to keep a Psychiatric patient locked up?
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  957. How do you know that the vaccine was the cause? How do you know that Dr Wright would not have had the same problem even if he had not taken the jab??? Post hoc =/= propter hoc.
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  958. I knew her when she was an undergrad (Yale). She has always been a con-artist, but since she turned right she is a more effective one than she used to be.
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  959. Does the Fourth Amendment protect epileptics from unreasonable seizures?
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  960. Yeah, let's cut Federal spending. Start by zeroing out the budgets for Fort Knox and Fort Campbell.
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  961. If that were true, how would you know???
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  962. I've said it before and I'll say it again: the Chinese government unleashed the virus on us in order to prevent the opera houses in Europe and USA and South America from staging Puccini's last opera, Turandot (if you are familiar with the aria "Nessun dorma", that's from Turandot) because it is set in Peking ("Pekino") and depicts the Chinese people as brutal savages ruled by a sadistic tyrant. Turandot had become trendy again (the opera world is very faddish) and numerous opera houses, great (La Scala, the Met, Chicago Lyric Opera) and small (Regina Opera in Brooklyn) were getting ready to do it. The current government of China - Xi - couldn't stand for that. Now that the pandemic has more or less resolved (not just temporarily, we hope) the companies are doing operas by Puccini, but, notably, not Turandot. They're doing La bohème and Il Trittico. So the Chinese strategy seems to have worked. This is why the pathology of COVID is so harmless, relative to what it could have been. The Chinese government didn’t want to kill a lot of people, only to sicken us enough to shut down the opera houses and get the companies to choose a different repertoire.
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  963.  @edwardponder66  The Chinese government unleashed the virus on us in order to prevent the opera houses in Europe and USA and South America from staging Puccini's last opera, Turandot (if you are familiar with the aria "Nessun dorma", that's from Turandot) because it is set in Peking (Pekino) and depicts the Chinese people as brutal savages ruled by a sadistic tyrant. Turandot had become trendy again (the opera world is very faddish) and numerous opera houses, great (La Scala, the Met, Chicago Lyric Opera) and small (Regina Opera in Brooklyn) were getting ready to do it. The current government of China - Xi - couldn't stand for that. Now that the pandemic has more or less resolved (not just temporarily, we hope) the companies are doing operas by Puccini, but, notably, not Turandot. They're doing La bohème and Il Trittico. So the Chinese strategy seems to have worked. This is why the pathology of COVID is so harmless, relative to what it could have been. The Chinese government didn’t want to kill a lot of people, only to sicken us enough to shut down the opera houses and get the companies to choose a new repertoire.
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  964. "Demonize your opponents" isn't that what you are doing?
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  965. I bet when he eats minestrone soup it’s a terrible strain.
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  966. What’s “wrong” With us, New Yorkers is we understand math better than you do. Statistics anyway.
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  967.  @theegyptianconqueror7100  In 2015, Senator Rand Paul fought very hard to PREVENT cuts in wasteful Federal military spending at Fort Campbell and Fort Knox - both of which are in his state (Kentucky). He wants to cut Federal spending in YOUR state and in MY state, but keep those greasy Federal pork-dollars coming into HIS state. He's a posturing hypocrite. An actor.
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  968.  @imhere653  No brain, no pain.
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  969.  @imhere653  I was thinking of something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMshbiE-Uxo
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  970. Uncommon nonsense.
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  971. Yeah, we should run whoever authorized “Operation Warp Speed” out of USA. And his family. (Trump, of course.)
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  972. Yes. Even Rand Paul is part of the swamp. He talks the budget-hawk's talk, but in 2015 when the Federal government was cutting wasteful military spending IN HIS STATE (Kentucky), he fought against the cuts like any other pork-addicted senator. He wants to cut Federal spending in YOUR state, and in MY state, but not in HIS state. He'll never drain the swamp, because he IS the swamp.
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  973.  @efirce  No they're not. The dollar is still the lingua Franca of international finance. If and when the world abandons the dollar, it won't be a gradual thing. It'll be very sudden and there won't be any question of why it's happening.
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  974. The courts will know. Today, videotaped evidence can be used to impeach a witness or to prove an accusation. In the future, videotaped evidence will only be as reliable as the human witness who swears that the video evidence is real.
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  975. @@northstar2850 WRONG
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  976. He should produce a movie version of Wagner’s RING cycle.
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  977. No, believing in a secure border doesn't mean you're racist. It means you're stupid.
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  978.  @jackmeoff9299  The stupid part is imagining that a border hundreds of miles long can be secured at all. Most illegal immigrants crossed legally anyway, but didn't leave when their visas expired. There's really only one way to stop illegal immigrants and that would be to punish employers very severely for employing them. And that won't happen, because we need them. No one is serious about stopping them and if we did stop them prices would shoot up and no one would be able to afford food. De Santis has tried to impose a purely symbolic penalty against trucking companies which hire illegals, and the hispanic truckers are refusing to deliver in Florida.
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  979. "Time, time, what is time? Swiss manufacture it, Frenchmen hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money, Hindus say it does not exist. You know what I say? I say time is a crook!" - Beat the Devil (1953)
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  980. CELESTIAL MATTERS by Richard Garfinkle
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  981. "Before last week, you might have been thinking about COVID, or crime, or the Southern border. Now [...] all of those topics have been forgotten." I haven't forgotten about them! Tucker Carlson assumes that we don't think about anything except what the headlines are screaming about on social media. Maybe he needs to get out more.
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  982. Trump's decline began the day he was born.
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  983. The guy in the lab-coat: Yes, David certainly is right about that. The movie about the submarine in the patient's bloodstream was Fantastic Voyage (1966); my mom took me to a screening of it when I was a single-digit-age kid and that is the reason I worked in immunology/antibody-chemistry when I grew up and had a career.
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  984. Now I will read The Hound of the Baskervilles differently.
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  985.  @Chiclette-ld1xx  A technical point: there is no "moment of conception". Conception is a process. It takes about 24 hours. The sperm-head fuses with the egg, and then the paternal chromosomes slowly make their way through the ooplasm to the nucleus of the egg, and then take up their positions beside the maternal chromosomes and begin directing mRNA synthesis (and, ultimately, protein synthesis), and THEN the process of conception is complete and you have a true diploid cell.
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  986.  @ajota2288  That's true, you shouldn't just create it and erase it, but you don't have to sustain and shelter it inside your body longer than you want to, either.
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  987.  @ajota2288  Exactly. But you could phrase it better: If you don't want it, don't grow it. Get rid of it early on so that it doesn't grow.
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  988.  @hauteemonroe6715  Yes, but they're no good for a patient who is ALREADY pregnant. It's too late to prevent her pregnancy.
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  989. Question for Allen: Does the successful prisoner swap which releases Evan Gerowitz from Russian prison count as a foreign policy success and give the Democrats that particular key now?
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  990.  @opinionated4219  Look up the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy." Trump didn't jump-start the economy; he came into office just when new technology was jump-starting the economy. Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan had similar good luck. (The new technology which made the economy roar in the 1980s was computers cheap enough for ordinary businesses to buy. The new technology which made the economy roar in the 1990s was internet for everyone, and the new technology which benefited Trump was fracking, which grew from nearly-nothing in 2007 to the big beautiful giving-tree supplying half of our energy in 2016, BEFORE Trump took office. It'll come back again, too, once the investors get over the horrible beating they took in 2020 when demand dropped into the toilet and the price of oil was far below the cost of fracking it out of the shale and a lot of fracking-well investors lost their shirts.)
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  991.  @opinionated4219  That depends on what the single commodity is. Digital electronics is not a single commodity; it is now a component in production of almost all commodities. As I said, it didn't just create a new economic sector; it multiplied the productivity of all economic sectors. And the problem isn't that fracking is too expensive; the problem is that the price of oil was too low and the investors got stung. Now that the price of oil is so high, the investors are coming back.
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  992.  @henriyoung3895  Maybe not yet. If Trump had won in 2020, Putin might have waited, hoping that Trump would weaken NATO. But Putin would have invaded Ukraine sooner or later. Just read the essay he published about Russia and Ukraine in history.
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  993. The thing about processing metals is, we will have to find a way to deal with NIMBYism. Who wants to wake up and learn that a metal-ore processing plant is opening right next to your home town?
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  994. A lot of our smartest people in USA don't want to be involved in electoral politics! You only need to look at what happened to Biden's USCabinet-level Science and Technology advisor Dr. Eric Lander, to see why.
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  995. Don't you believe it! Dr. Campbell is a swamp-stooge like everybody else. If you ask him, he'll be the first to say so. "A true revolutionary patriot cannot trust anyone or anything. Everything in this world - humanity, animals, plants, microbes, fungi, the entire pan-biome, the government, the government's enemies, the bankers and the communists, the Jews and the Clergy and the Freemasons and the Satanists and the atheists and the humanists, the professors and the drop-outs, the elite and the hoi-polloi, your doctors and your lawyers and your own family, all the angels and all the devils and all the demigods and djinni, and God Himself - are all your enemies, and all equally so."
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  996. The question is whether infection with the virus is any less likely to cause the autoimmune response.
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  997. What's the point in you thinking, when you know nothing about the subject?
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  998. The flip side will be that shootings by single-digit-age shooters will become a regular pattern, and sooner or later somewhere or other a single-digit age shooter will shoot a teacher to death.
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  999. Eugenics is not inherently evil. Only COERCIVE eugenics - where the government decides how many kids you should have - is evil. Freely-chosen eugenics, where you decide, freely, how many kids to have, with one of your goals being to have only as many as you can afford to raise properly, to be good, successful citizens - that is not evil. That is smart.
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  1000.  @raimeyewens7518  Why are Salvation Army outlets located only in poor minority neighborhoods? Is it a conspiracy to keep the poor down, by dressing them in shabby, ill-fitting, second-hand clothing?
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  1001. I wish he would stop saying “the most productive in our relations with Iran since the 1970s“. As I recall the 1970s didn’t end very well for our relations with Iran.
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  1002. In Verdi's opera AIDA, which is about a war between ancient Egypt and equally-ancient Ethiopia, the title character, an Ethiopian slave in Egypt, sings a lament about how she will never again see her native land's "beautiful forests and fertile fields."
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  1003. HOW WE KNOW THAT JOE BIDEN DOES NOT HAVE PARKINSON'S The motor symptoms of Parkinson's - tremor, slow-reflexes, and weakness - are usually one-sided only. Joe is too bilateral to be one of us.
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  1004. Yes. Science changes as new events unfold. That makes the science MORE reliable, not less reliable.
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  1005. My goodness! My brother took the jab, and his acne cleared up, and then he won the lottery and got five million US dollars. I’m getting the jab tomorrow and looking forward to winning even more!
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  1006.  @Fiona86555  It probably was just a coincidence! People do get shingles, and it flares up unpredictably, for no apparent reason.
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  1007. What I want to know is: are the pets eating the Haitians?
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  1008. What dp you think the criminals will do, after you have made them afraid?
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  1009.  @UncaAlbyGmail  Happy ending, yes, because the criminal in that case didn't happen to have a better gun, and better training, than your dad. And yes, he probably got weeded out by retiring from crime, or, by getting killed. Either way, he'd get replaced by someone more dedicated or more skillful. Guys like your dad would help weed the weaklings out of the armed-crime industry - the same way infectious pathogens develop resistance to commonly-used antimicrobial medicines.
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  1010.  @UncaAlbyGmail  You don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about. Being a successful criminal takes more effort and diligence than being law-abiding.
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  1011.  @UncaAlbyGmail  Did your brother tell you that a live of crime was easy? A smooth, comfortable way for a lazy or careless person to make money?
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  1012. Maybe because it's not really very important.
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  1013. You need to open your mouth more when you speak! You mumble and mutter and are inaudible much of the time.
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  1014. In China?
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  1015. Yes, the virus is a Chinese bio-weapon, and the reason why the Chinese unleashed the virus when they did is very obvious to anyone who was up-to-date on the trends in classical music. There's an opera-- Puccini's last opera-- which is very challenging and not performed all that often, except by the really top-level companies, because it's so difficult for the singers. Puccini never finished it, but other lesser composers have composed endings. It's called "Turandot" and it is set in ancient Peking, or rather, in Puccini's fantasy of what ancient Peking was like. Turandot was experiencing renewed popularity early in 2020; it was a big fad in the opera world. The Met was scheduled to do it in April, and several other opera companies like San Francisco Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera were gonna do it, and even the "little-grand-opera" companies like Regina Opera in Brooklyn and West Bay Opera in Palo Alto -- companies which cast young, still-unknown singers to give them a start on their careers, and which perform in small venues for audiences of fewer than 150 people, were getting ready to do it. It was also trendy in Europe. (These trends come and go.) This opera Turandot is very offensive to Chinese nationalists, because it depicts the Chinese people as superstitious, bloodthirsty barbarians ruled by a sadistic tyrant. But because of COVID-19, the companies had to cancel their performances. This was obviously what the Chinese government was hoping to accomplish by unleashing the virus at that particular time-- to prevent Turandot from being performed in Europe and USA. That is cui bono in this case. Well, just look at this; you can see what motivated the Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPZH2fV_PKc&t=6m29s
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  1016.  @wakinglife7065  But subjectivity is objective!
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  1017.  @rickydee5863  Does he have any experience working in virology or epidemiology?
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  1018.  @karaokehammick5215  Yes, dear, I know all about the appeal to authority fallacy. It's not a fallacy, though, when the subject really is one in which you need training and experience to understand something, like in virology or epidemiology or immunology. It's funny. You don't do the same thing with other subjects, do you? Suppose someone asked you to be the referee in a professional boxing match. What would you say? You'd say: "I'm sorry, but I don't know enough about boxing to serve as a referee; you'll have to ask someone else." That's what you'd say, right? You wouldn't imagine that you could read a few articles on the internet and just go do it, using common sense and gumption, would you? Or what would you say if someone asked you to evaluate a blueprint for a new race-car? You'd say "I'm sorry, but I don't know enough about auto mechanics to say whether the blueprint is good or bad, whether it really represents a race-car or whether it would work if it were assembled as the blueprint depicts." But when the subject is virology and immunology and epidemiology, which are all much more complicated than boxing or auto mechanics, you think that you are capable of forming an opinion worth reading. Weird, and,well, stupid. "A man's gotta know his limitations" -- Clint Eastwood
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  1019.  @karaokehammick5215  It could be that people had been dying of it for months in other places before the first case was documented at Wuhan. Suppose you're a doctor in some rural rice-paddy-zone somewhere in China that doesn't have a handy-dandy virus lab a stone's throw down the road. OK a couple of old people call in with pneumonia. It's not unusual for old people to get pneumonia. Would you be able to diagnose the virus as the cause of symptoms, before it was known, or sequenced, and before antibodies for detecting it were available? There's too much we still don't know for you to assume that the place where it was first detected is also the place where it originated. Also, there are probably some things about medicine as it is practiced in China which you don't know, and which could easily cause them to first detect the virus somewhere other than where it actually originated. And this is just one possible explanation. A real virologist could likely come up with many others. (I'm not a virologist; I'm only a retired antibody-chemist. So I know a little bit of immunology. Viral origin mechanisms aren't my specialty, although antibodies are such versatile tools in science that antibody-chemists like me tend to be generalists and know a little bit about many things. Ask me about catalytic antibodies some time.)
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  1020.  @carlodefalco7930  Fauci never said it definitely came from animals or nature, dumb-dumb. He consistently said that that was most likely, but not certain.
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  1021.  @Availablehandle-i1k  I'm sorry, but at this time you are not smart enough to understand this issue. Good luck in your efforts to improve your intelligence, if you decide to try to do that.
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  1022.  @madeforstreets  Nothing in particular happens when you mix mRNA and DNA. They don't react with each other, as a general thing. The point of asking about the difference between tRNA and mRNA is to show that most people commenting here don't know the first thing about either.
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  1023.  @spockers  It's lucky that the observer asks "is it right at this moment" at the exact moment when it happens to be right!
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  1024.  @carlodefalco7930  You're right, of course. And we know why they did it, too. The Chinese government unleashed the virus on us in order to prevent the opera houses in Europe and USA and South America from staging Puccini's last opera, Turandot (if you are familiar with the aria "Nessun dorma", that's from Turandot) because it is set in Beijing (Pekino) and depicts the Chinese people as brutal savages ruled by a sadistic tyrant. Turandot had become trendy again (the opera world is very faddish) and numerous opera houses, great (La Scala, the Met, Chicago Lyric Opera) and small (Regina Opera in Brooklyn, West Bay Opera in Palo Alto) were getting ready to do it. The current government of China - Xi - couldn't stand for that. Now that the pandemic has more or less resolved (not just temporarily, we hope) the companies are doing operas by Puccini, but, notably, not Turandot. They're doing La bohème and Il Trittico. So the Chinese strategy seems to have worked. This is why the pathology of COVID is so harmless, relative to what it could have been. The Chinese government didn’t want to kill a lot of people, only to sicken us enough to shut down the opera houses and get the companies to choose a new repertoire.
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  1025. I think the question is not whether being indicted will lower Trump standing in the public eye directly. The question is whether being indicted will provoke Trump into saying, or doing, things which will lower his standing in the public eye. Biden is planning (I think) to do to the Republicans, the same thing that President Richard Nixon did to the Democrats in 1972: provoke their most extreme members to really repulsive, disturbing demonstration’s like January 6 only perhaps worse, and then run as the protector of sensible moderate normal Americans. Joe Biden knows exactly how this works because he was already in government in 1972.
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  1026. There's purposeful theater every time anyone, on either side, talks about Ukraine. When Democrats talk about Ukraine, they are playing purposeful theater, because they say that we're helping the Ukrainians because they're brave, or because they are resisting tyranny, or because "their struggle is our struggle". Please. We're not babies; you don't have to pretend that there's a Santa Claus or a Tooth Fairy. We're helping the Ukrainians because we hope that when the war winds down and the bidding begins, they'll give us preferred-buyer status on those lovely rich deposits of lithium, rare-earth metals, and other strategic minerals they have. To talk about Ukraine and leave this out is pure theater. When Republicans talk about Ukraine, they are playing purposeful theater, because they don't admit that helping the Ukrainians in exchange for preferred-buyer status on the strategic-mineral goodies is a very good investment, well worth the money we're putting in, if the Ukrainians manage to win. And they are much more likely to win than we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, because the natives in Ukraine (the Ukrainians) like us and really do welcome our help. It's not like Afg or Iraq where we were knocking over the local government and hoping that the people there would thank us for it, and imagining a regional movement in support of us when there was none. To talk about Ukraine and leave this out is pure theater.
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  1027. If you can’t prescribe mifepristone for the mifepristone-follows-by-misoprostol regimen, you can still prescribe methotrexate for the methotrexate-followed-by-misoprostol regimen. This was thoroughly explored in the late 1990s by Dr. Richard U. Hausknecht, in a private setting, and in an academic setting by Dr. Eric Vittinghoff, Dr. David Grimes, and others. You can easily find their papers in JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine and elsewhere. It wasn’t surprising, because methotrexate already had a long track record of use against ectopic pregnancies. Using it against normal pregnancies is quite a natural idea and it works very well and is extremely safe. Both methotrexate and misoprostol are very long-standing, frequently-used medications for numerous indications.
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  1028. "From the river to the sea, with a 'ho-ho-ho' and a 'hee-hee-hee'."
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  1029. Yes he is great at selling you the illusion that you are smarter than you really are. This is a high-growth industry!
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  1030. And they are, of course, right.
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  1031. Do you know why the law. Against blockading clinics was passed?
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  1032. Trump promised to drain the swamp. But he has done everything he could to swamp the drain.
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  1033.  @2risquejunior538  Probably not. Quite a lot of nurses and phlebotomists don't learn to aspirate in the first place, because the benefits of aspirating have never been proved.
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  1034. Translation: “I asked Niño (Scalia) about it, and he said it would be ok!
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  1035. What idiocy. Dr. Fauci called for EXPANDED investigation by INDEPENDENT scientists (independent of him) back in May 25, 2021.
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  1036. Me, too!
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  1037. Sure, the marines were right to neutralize him, but did they really need to kill him? That seems to be the key question. From the look of the guy, one marine-powered punch to the bread-basket should have been enough to make him stand down.
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  1038. Why were they guaranteed immunity? What is the history of that guarantee?
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  1039.  @timothynaquin8899  WRAWWWWG!!! The policy is much older than that.
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  1040.  @timothynaquin8899  I ask in order to determine whether you know what you are talking about or not. So far: NOT! The vaccine manufacturers were granted immunity, and a special vaccine-only court system for evaluating lawsuits, because they were being sued out of business by morons filing junk-lawsuits which were being decided by know-nothings who didn't understand the issues. So the companies went to Congress and said: fix this and protect us, or we will stop selling vaccines in USA altogether. Ask your constituents whether they want to go back to the days when everyone worried about getting polio and spending the rest of their lives in a wheelchair like FDR.
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  1041. "Make America Great Again" was never a good slogan, not even when Ronald Reagan used it (one of his slogans was "Let's Make America Great Again"). I interpret it in terms of science and technology, because I'm a retired antibody-chemist. We should not be trying to recreate old scientific accomplishments. (Nostalgia is nice, but it's not a strategy.) We should be accomplishing new ones. No more MAGA, please; instead, MAEBTIHEBB: Make America Even Better Than It Has Ever Been Before.
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  1042. I think they use mRNA which codes for a soluble form of the antigenic protein. In that case, no, the antigenic protein wouldn't be expressed on the surface of the cell; it would be secreted into the bloodstream. Yes, this story Dr. Campbell tells is scary, but if the mRNA were causing the type of trouble he describes - inflammation of the heart and so on -- it would have been seen in the earlier tests of mRNA vaccination as a general technique, which was done before COVID and was the reason the scientists were willing to try mRNA vaccines in human patients when we needed to (for COVID).
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  1043.  @Tyrant_13  Three liars. I should have said: either you didn't go to law school, or, you're a liar like AD, SM, or JT. I was trying to be polite.
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  1044. If Dems decide to increase the size of the Court, my advice is THINK BIG. Add twenty new seats, and fill them with progressive activist justices.
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  1045. What's all this fuss about the Shroud of Turing? Sure, Turing was a war-hero and he invented computer science, but why worry about his shroud?
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  1046. You are assuming everything this video says is true. It - any of it - might be true, but it also might not be true.
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  1047. And don’t nod your head so much.
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  1048. You are forgetting the history. The scientists warned: to properly vet a new vaccine takes years. The people griped and moaned about that. And then we decided to go ahead and deploy the vaccine without taking the years, because the need was urgent.
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  1049. "Oy wownt yew toe explayeen to mee woawyee tha vacceen cawozehs moiyocahddaytis!" I'm convinced! If taking the vaccine makes these people talk with this ridiculous accent, I'll never take another booster.
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  1050. Is there an expectation of privacy when you post on social media??? Isn’t the idea that you post stuff because you want everybody to read it???
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  1051. Me too! I got atrial fibrillation, and then I got vaccinated. It's a very rare thing: a time-inverted side-effect. Usually the side effect happens after you get the causative stimulus, but this time the time-factor was inverted and I got the atrial fibrillation before the jab which caused the atrial fibrillation. My doctors said it only happens this way in around 0.05 percent of cases.
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  1052.  @Mark_Meisho_Thompson  I had an EKG done at an urgent care center, and the results appeared normal. I didn't discuss them with the technician who took the data, but the results sent to my primary care physician showed normal ekg patterns. Then I got the jab, and two weeks later, the cardiologist's office reported to the primary care doctor that the first results of the EKG - the normal-appearing result - had been reported as result of a clerical error and that I had actually had atrial fibrillation at the time. A friend of mine had a similar event, but she missed her appointment for the jab and did not get one, and it turned out in her case that her cardiologist had made an error too, but his error was that he had erroneously thought his office had made an error and that her apparently-normal result was wrong. But after she missed her appointment and did not get the jab, the cardiologist sent a second notice to her primary care doctor, saying that his report of an error was itself erroneous (caused by a clerical worker who was addicted to prescription medications and had made a number of similar wrong diagnoses of clerical errors, which were very embarrassing for her employer the cardiologist) and that her original result - normal rhythm - was in fact correct. So I, who got the jab, had atrial fibrillation before getting it, and she who had only scheduled the jab but not gotten it, had had a normal rhythm before failing (and later declining) to get it. So we think now that my getting the jab was what caused me, retroactively, to have atrial fibrillation before I got it, and that if I had not gotten the jab, then I would not have had atrial fibrillation before not getting the jab. I know this seems unlikely - the idea that a vaccine could cause an adverse side-effect before the vaccine is administered, but this pandemic is so full of surprises that some suspension of disbelief seems to be warranted. (A good scientist must always be open to new possibilities which previously seemed impossible or at least very counterintuitive.) Also, similar cases have been reported in other parts of the world: Russia (Vologda) and one from Indonesia. There may also be additional cases which were never reported because the physicians involved simply could not accept the possibility of temporally retroactive side-effects. So my case may only be the tip of the iceberg.
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  1053. Great idea. And then, the world will lose faith in the dollar, and it won't be the automatic go-to currency any more, and we'll have to pay for stuff we import using Euros, Yuans, and Yen. We'll be living like the Brits are living now.
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  1054. The Nazis' government-coerced eugenics was very different from Margaret Sanger's voluntary, non-coercive eugenics, freely chosen by the participants.
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  1055. The best exercise to give someone who needs to work out a stutter, is probably this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5tXenDWQ8&t=5m39s
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  1056. No, Trump doesn't deserve a Nobel Prize for the mRNA vaccines. The Nobel Prize for the mRNA vaccines has already been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman (Physiology/Medicine, 2023), for doing the basic-science work which made the application of mRNA to COVID possible.
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  1057. That may be, but when it does, it doesn't look like this.
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  1058. Dr. Wade says "there's new scientific evidence". But some of the new information the Department of Energy used for their new evidence is classified. So how would Dr. Wade, who no longer works for the government, have seen it? And if he hasn't seen it how does he know whether there's any new evidence?
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  1059. It's very silly, actually. Joe Biden is one of the canniest politicians alive, and he understands science/technology policy better than many scientists do. There are plenty of bad things you can say about Joe Biden, just as there were about Bill Clinton, but no serious person an all either of them stupid or shallow.
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  1060. I think the only way Ukraine, might win is if Putin dies, or if somehow the Russians rebel against him. And the first is unlikely, and the second is very very, very unlikely.
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  1061. Q: What do you get if you cross an elephant and a rhino? A: 'EllifIknow!"
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  1062. What about nickel? I think most places that have copper also usually have nickel. And how about neon gas?
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  1063. Two people I wish would enter the race, especially if something happens (gods forbid) to Biden: Al Franken Jodie Foster
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  1064. Not a lie
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  1065. "An ear for nonsense" Naomi certainly has that!
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  1066. The problem is not Islam itself. The problem is international autocracy, using Islam as one of its tools. It's bad to see Muslims demonstrating for Muslim supremacy, but neo-Nazis demonstrating for White supremacy as in Charlottesville 2017 isn't any better.
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  1067. Do these people know what river is "the river" and what body of water is "the sea"?
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  1068. former writing tutor says: please, please, please do not use the tired, trite, cliché-phrase “abundantly clear”! Phrases like that don’t add anything to what you’re saying, and do invite your viewers, or listeners to tune out. Also, try to avoid phrases like “vast majority“ and “stark contrast“, please!
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  1069. Post the periodic table of elements!
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  1070.  @LTVoyager  Well, if Obama is a narcissist, he sure concealed it well for eight years. What did he ever do that would appear narcissistic to anyone other than someone who hated him beforehand (for one reason or another)???
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  1071.  @burmy1552  Or, perhaps, in 2 years Ford will be making safer cars. (Oh, and rocket science isn't really all that hard. Statistical mechanics is much more challenging.)
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  1072. Fauci sounded clear, lucid, and reasonable. The Congresswoman sounded like a whacko.
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  1073.  @cutiebuu5424  The trouble with natural immunity is, you only get it if you get the virus and suffer the consequences (including, passing it on to others who may be vulnerable because of co-morbidities). So trying to use natural immunity as a strategy is like saying "let's let some skunks come in and stink up the living room, in order to prevent skunks from coming in and stinking up the living room!" No good.
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  1074. Can Clint sue?
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  1075.  @brianpowell6058  Not yet.
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  1076. RE: "Thwarted male sexual desire" Not exactly. There are no real "incels". Mainstream clinical psychology is increasingly recognizing a previously-unacknowledged sexual orientation: asexuality. This is as much a sexual orientation as any other, and just as impossible to change as any other. Some people like members of the opposite gender; some like members of their own gender, and some people just don't want to love anyone, and, given total liberty, choose not to have amorous relations with anyone. The people who identify (and are identified) as "incels" are actually just asexual people who are afraid to admit to themselves what they are, and try to cover their fear of their own asexuality by pretending that celibacy is being forced on them by women, when in fact they are choosing to be alone. That is why their anger is so great: it's largely really fear, repression (repression of non-desire) and resentment at society's refusal to recognize them.
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  1077. Biden probably would win if he’d stayed in
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  1078. RE: "If they don’t look for it they don’t have to deal with it!" Wrong! If you don't look for it someone else will. Hence, this article. The question is does it matter or not? mRNA itself is not a problem. The question is how much of the antigenic protein is being made, and when. That's what we should be measuring, and then study whether or not it does anything worse than getting the virus does.
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  1079. So Senator Paul wants to cut spending? Ok. Let’s start by zeroing out Fort Knox and Fort Campbell (both in Kentucky). Sound good, Senator?
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  1080. I think it does have some contemporary value, although it would be nicer if it were more current. "Trumpcarceration" is (most likely) prescient, although "Trumpselfexileinordertoavoidcarceration" might be more accurate.
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  1081. LOL This comes to mind https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TDecVpSLT38&t=36s
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  1082.  @yarpenzigrin1893  Are you kidding? Judaism is more pro-charity, more "do the right and honorable thing", than any other religion, especially than Cristianity We don't think you can screw your neighbor and then be forgiven by praying.
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  1083. Hardly a scientifically-chosen sample! Bunch of loop-a-dupe whackos.
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  1084. Well, at least he admits that he's not president. That's progress, of a sort, I suppose.
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  1085. The country is overrun with guns in the hands of idiots, and needs to be purged.
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  1086.  @silverjohn6037  I was with you until the end, when you wrote: "Just explaining to people how the vectors of contagion work so they'd understand why they'd benefit from wearing a mask instead of the "just shut up and do what we say" mindset would have helped." That is exactly what Dr. Fauci tried to do - what he has always tried to do - and this time, he got his head handed to him by an organized, purposeful campaign to sap Americans' confidence in our leaders by pretending that changing ones position as new data emerge is a sign of weakness, when in fact it is a sign of strength. Fauci often talks about how different his experience with COVID was from his experience with HIV, but he doesn't usually say what MADE the two experiences different. With HIV he was only up against a weak minority, but with COVID he was up against the right-wing anti-science cultist press - the creationists, and the anti-vaxxers, and the people who want to de-fund our public education system (which was, once upon a time, the envy of the world) and replace it with a chain of peddlers of Bible-based fantasy, and the faux-environmentalists, and all the rest of the lobby of organized dumb-dumbery.
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  1087. No, abortion is not murder. When it is done at the request of the womb-owner, it is a form of righteous, justifiable homicide.
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  1088. A nice Jewish boy who went into his father's business.
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  1089. The reason is the anti-vax loop-a-dupes have become aware of VAERS and have been filing fake reports there. VAERS doesn't have time or people to confirm or verify reports. VAERS admits this on its own web site.
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  1090.  @anonymouslegion4928  99% of the vaccine-injury cases reported to VAERS are fakes.
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  1091. He also tried to use VAERS as evidence of vaccine injuries, which VAERS itself warns not to do.
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  1092. What would have happened if you had given him chicken soup instead of HCQ and Ivermectin?
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  1093. It's more likely a first-pass demonstration of technology which might be used to make a bio-weapon in future. When someone makes, and unleashes, the actual bio-weapon, you'll know. There won't be the least little shred of doubt.
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  1094. Not any more.
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  1095.  @MsMommom2  I have no idea! A judge trying to tell FDA what to do is uncharted territory.
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  1096. That is a very foolish choice. Say what you like about big Pharma but the fact is, they know more about the chemistry behind this whole process than you will ever know about anything.
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  1097. He's responsible because we put him in jail if it happens. That makes him responsible.
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  1098. Yeah, but your governor is a charlatan, and your homes are subject to attacks by anacondas and crocodiles.
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  1099. No, that's not what the war is about. It's not about anyone invading Russia. What Putin's opponents want is access to Ukraine's deposits of lithium and rare-earth metals. So that we can become independent of China's government which owns so much of the world's current supply of these strategic materials.
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  1100. There's plenty of overlap between immunology, epidemiology, and virology. And Fauci's job was actually different from all three although there was plenty of overlap between his job and each of the three. His job was figuring out how to deal with a pathogen worse than any virus: the dreaded pestis wedontreallyknowyetwhatthehellitisorwhatitsgonnadonext.
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  1101.  @jimbob2810  Yeah, a failed immunologist. He developed therapies for formerly fatal diseases such as polyarteritis nodosa, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, and lymphomatoid granulomatosis. In a 1985 Stanford University Arthritis Center Survey, members of the American Rheumatism Association ranked Fauci's work on the treatment of polyarteritis nodosa and granulomatosis with polyangiitis as one of the most important advances in patient management in rheumatology over the previous 20 years. Failed. Ri-i-i-i-i-i-ight.
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  1102. Rand Paul, ophthalmologist, understands statistics, but pretends he doesn’t.
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  1103.  @FindfreedomInChrist-yb7ns  RE: "It is our business if it’s a.) permitted by law and b.) uses tax dollars to provide for it." But it doesn't cost you any tax dollars. It SAVES you tax dollars. Every abortion prevents much greater expense. You are being forced, by your government, to pay ... LESS, and to be ... RICHER. RE: "We don’t want to participate in killing unborn babies in the womb." There is no such thing as THE womb. Every womb is part of a woman's body. It's HER womb, not "THE womb". Wombs have owners, and the owner of each womb is entitled to say who gets to live inside HER womb, and when, and HOW LONG.
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  1104. Yess, I haff a terrible problem vit ze vax sometiems. It cloggs my ear and makes it fery difficult to hear properly. My doctor can remooff ze vax by flushing ze ear vit vauter. Vax in ze ear is very bad!
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  1105. It is certainly far above your capabilities.
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  1106.  @noway742  Hardly! A remark about someone's religion is not the same -- not even "about the same" -- as a comment about his intelligence and capabilities.
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  1107. Fear of what you personally do not understand = misguided survival instinct.
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  1108. Wow, big numbers! Scary! Big numbers are scary!! Seriously a million particles or a billion, who cares? Are the particles bigger or smaller than the ordinary micro-clots everyone gets during ordinary daily activities? Why is this guy talking as if he knew the answers for certain? No one else seems to know for certain. “A bolus”? What do you get if you cross a bull and a walrus?
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  1109.  @layersoftheonion8168  VAERS does not confirm or verify its reports in any systematic way. 99% of VAERS reports never get verified. That is why VAERS warns ON ITS OWN WEB SITE that it's numbers do NOT prove anything at all.
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  1110.  @layersoftheonion8168  With VAERS??? No. You don't sign any pledge or oath when you file a report. Because you're not alleging that the event was caused by the vaccine, only that an event occurred after you got one, and you're not demanding any money or being rewarded in any way for filing the report. Maybe if you were a practicing physician and you filed a false report about yourself or a patient you could suffer some damage to your reputation, but for an ordinary person to file a false report, no, I'm quite sure that's not a crime or offense, since it's not signed under oath. Why do you ask about gene therapy? That has nothing to do with vaccines. The term "gene therapy" has changed its meaning in a pretty big way since I worked alongside people who were working on it, back in the early 2000s. I can explain the details - what it used to mean and what it means now - but neither meaning has anything to do with vaccination except in a very contrived and superficial way.
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  1111. ​ @letmeexplain1816  My best friend has been experiencing severe migraine headaches for more than twelve years.
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  1112.  @bobbobertson6249  More to the point, if you got sick after one dose, then why in the world did the doctor - why in the world would any doctor - tell you to take a second dose??? Of anything??? Doctors know that although complications are rare, they do, sometimes, happen to some patients, and they will advise you not to take a second dose if you react badly to the first one. At very least they will tell you to try a different vaccine, which has a different formulation from the one that caused the bad reaction. The whole line "I suffered a bad reaction to the first dose and my doctor said it was my imagination and pressured me to take a second dose!" is almost always a lie being told by a knee-jerk-ideological anti-vaxxer who thinks that vaccines are contrary to his god's plan or some such loop-a-dupery. In real life, any doctor to whom you report having had a bad reaction to anything (to a vaccine or to anything else) will tell you to stop whatever the thing you reacted to was, unless it's absolutely necessary to keep you alive. No doctor says, for instance, that if you break out in a rash after taking vitamin D, or feel too keyed up to sleep when drinking coffee, or have a bad response to Viagra, then you have to take more vitamin D, or coffee, or Viagra. What possible benefit could there be for the doctor or for the patient in making you repeat a stimulus which you had reacted badly to??? Doctors want their patients to get well and stay well. That's what it means for a doctor to be doing his job well.
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  1113.  @lissyboo8878  If the doctor recommended that you take more vaccine after you reported experiencing an uncomfortable or alarming side-effect, that is medical malpractice. You can sue (and you should). And you don't need any anti-vaxers on the jury in order to win. Your argument is SOME people DO experience side-effects of EVERY treatment including vaccines, and to repeat the stimulus (whatever it may be - a vaccine, or a statin, or a particular antibiotic you are allergic to, or whatever) after the patient has experienced a bad reaction is rank malpractice. No one, absolutely no one, pretends to believe that there are ZERO bad reactions to any particular vaccine! If it's not the mRNA, it can be something else in the vaccine - an adjuvant compound in the vaccine, or a vector.
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  1114.  @BonsuBigWhale  Adverse events are OVER-reported. For every patient who suffers in silence, there are ten or more non-patients who report fake adverse events because of anti-vax ideology or just because they want attention. And each one of them causes more damage to public health than the one who suffers without reporting. Anti-vax is bad for you. The anti-vax-for-profit ideology peddlers are much worse for you than any drug company or public advocate. If the anti-vax-for-profit-ideology peddlers get their way, we will go back to the 1930s and everyone from the next President of USA to the baby born yesterday to your humble next-door neighbor will be living in terror of polio again. These guys almost brought down the vaccine companies in USA. That is how the vaccine companies eventually got a special court system which excluded the know-nothing jurors who had been awarding crippling damages based on anti-vax junk science: they (the vaccine companies) started going bankrupt.
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  1115. How many more could he have killed if he had had a gun?
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  1116. Well, if God hadn’t meant us to eat pussy, why would He have made it look so much like a taco?
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  1117. You mean, of course, white people.
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  1118. Maybe because he (Joe Biden) is the President.
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  1119. Why would he do this? He must know it will catch up with him.
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  1120. Mozart knew. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fV4IKJHyZ1E&t=65s
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  1121. Catholics were involved in the murders of several abortion workers in the 1990s. There was even a priest who called openly for more murders in the name of the Church. He was never excommunicated, either. His name was Father David Trosch.
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  1122.  @RibblesMcSnoo  On the other hand, why wouldn't they?
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  1123. And then they need to learn some real facts about Margaret Sanger. EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN.
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  1124. And you should be referred to as "The American Super-Idiot".
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  1125. The male attacker was 31 years old?!?!? And he didn't realize he was gonna be photographed and charged? He must be a real idiot.
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  1126. Did you know that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? Look it up, you'll see, it's not there.
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  1127. There once was a man from Calcutta Who spoke with a terrible stutter. “For breakfast,“ he said, “I’ll have buh-buh-buh-bread, And some buh-buh-buh buh-buh-buh butter.”
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  1128. Why didn’t Pierce ask Santos whether his parents Santos’s parents lied to him (or to each other) a lot? That Would be my first guess.
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  1129.  @SootSootSootSooty  YOU do some research about the mortality rates for patients who DO have underlying health conditions and who catch the virus from patients who don't have underlying heath conditions. You are not alone in the world. Even if YOU don't die of COVID, you can still pass the infection along to grandma who DOES die of it. (Of course, you're free to refuse vaccination, so long as you are willing to avoid all close contact with any other human being, who might catch the virus from you and die of it.)
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  1130.  @glerp10000000000  No, asymptomatic infection is not false. But even if it were false, how would you know? You clearly know nothing about this subject.
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  1131. No one is ignoring natural immunity.
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  1132. Dr Fauci’s most important specialty is not viruses, and not immunology, although he’s great at both. His most important expertise is in how to deal with the most terrifying, most deadly of all pathogenic microbes; the dreaded PESTIS WEDONTREALLYKNOWYETWHATTHEHELLITISORWHATITSGONNADONEXT. Very very few medical scientists know how to take on that pathogen.
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  1133.  @MisSorryforthespam  But those are not the ones that matter. You are like someone who sells a vitamin supplement, saying "Sure, it won't do you any good, but it won't hurt you either, so take it!"
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  1134.  @DennisMoore664  It can also literally cost someone's life, and/or someone's freedom. The people who make me laugh (not happily) are the people who fantasize about using their own, privately-owned gun to help the cops arrest someone. In real life, when a cop is arresting someone, the last thing in the world he wants is for a civilian to enter the scene and start participating. If you do, then the cop has to start worrying about your safety as well as the suspect's safety (yes, cops do have to worry about the safety of people they arrest; if you're a cop and you injure someone while arresting him, you're gonna answer for it). And if a bystander enters the situation AND starts waving his own gun around, now the cop faces the possibility that he might have to shoot the civilian in order to protect himself and other bystanders! Remember, the cop doesn't know whether you're a good guy or a bad guy. The odds are you are overwhelmingly more likely to make things more difficult for the cop than to help, if you try to get involved. When I was in grade school, we had a cop come in and instruct us on what to do if you see a cop arresting someone. He said in the strongest terms: if you see a cop arresting someone, DON'T interact with anyone, no matter what YOU THINK is happening. The cop DOESN'T want your help. Walk on by, or drive on by, ESPECIALLY if you are carrying (he forgot, when he said this, that he was talking to eighth-grade kids - back then, cops could afford to assume that eighth-graders were unarmed. Today they can't even make that assumption safely!) Unless you are a well-trained professional, and experienced, you shouldn't go armed in public. You probably shouldn't own a gun at all. This is one of the main reasons cops are leaving the force: there are so many guns, it's only a matter of time - when, not if - before they face deadly gunfire on the job, or, have to shoot a kid or an elderly person, only to find that he wasn't armed, only carrying a phone or a toy.
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  1135.  @elpanekillo  Then cite those data, not numbers from VAERS.
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  1136. What other program? Where (if anywhere other than in your imagination)?
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  1137. I don’t care whether or not Kamala Harris is black. I would vote for her, even if she were as white as Erik the Red.
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  1138. Yes, I remember quite well what we are hoping to get for ourselves by helping Ukrainians. We want Ukraine's leaders to be very grateful to us, and to grant us preferred-buyer status, when the dust settles and the bidding begins on Ukraine's rich deposits of rare-earth ores and lithium. This would/will help us to rescue our supply-chains of these critical strategic materials from the Chinese government. THAT is what we are hoping to gain by helping Ukraine.
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  1139. I like your comment about changing with the times. That is what scientists do. It's a real shame that the Fauci-bashers, who object to him for "flip-flopping", don't understand this.
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  1140. Look up: ROBERT GEOFFREY EDWARDS
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  1141. This guy should be acting in horror movies and slasher-flicks. He's equal parts Jack Nicholson playing the Joker and Anthony Hopkins playing Dr. Hannibal Lekter.
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  1142. Is that a typo? Did you mean to say you started snoring while listening to an opera?
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  1143. I wonder who paid for her acting lessons.
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  1144.  @peppertrout  Argument by intimidation doesn't work against me. You may try something else, if you like. Any trained actor can do what she does. It was standard fare in the 1970s movies, TV, and theater. For instance, watch the movie "Network" (1976) and pay attention to the character called "Laureen Hobbs", who introduces herself as a "badass commie [n-word]" (played by actress Marlene Warfield). She gets the same vocal/dramatic effects which this actress in this video does.
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  1145. Can anything other than multiple indictments change the Republican nomination? Sure. Trump could have a severe stroke, or fall out a window, or choke on a bite of steak.
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  1146. It’s obviously a phone transcription of someone shouting that’s why it gives the wrong your it’ll improve as the AI gets better
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  1147. The second one (“Elaine“) is probably a transcription of a vocalized rant also, but in this case, the sender may have gone back and lightly edited some of the errors. Current phones make it much too difficult to do that. I was happy that speech could remove the need to poke these tiny little key symbols on the touchscreen, but correcting the software’s interpretation errors is even more difficult.
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  1148. Absolutely! Let's start by cutting the budgets of Fort Campbell and Fort Knox.
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  1149. Import more immigrants from low-tech, agrarian countries. For at least one generation they will continue having large families with many kids.
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  1150. If you want an entertaining discussion of an important sci-fi issue, read Larry Niven's short story "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex". What would really happen if Superman and Lois Lane actually got it on? (SPOILER: "Consider the driving urge between a man and a woman, the monomaniacal urge to achieve greater and greater penetration. Remember also that we are dealing with kryptonian muscles. Superman would literally crush LL's body in his arms, while simultaneously ripping her open from crotch to sternum, gutting her like a trout. [And, by ejaculating with super-force,] he'd blow off the top of her head.")
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  1151. The 14th amendment was specifically written with the intention of Preventing insurrectionists, who had not been convicted of anything, from running for political office!! Southern military officers, who had been spared trial as part of the surrender agreement were the ones that the authors of the 14th amendment were worried about. So if you’re An originalist and you want to read the constitution according to its authors’ Intentions you have to support the Colorado decision to exclude Trump.
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  1152.  @williamsnapp2605  Whether or not you should get vaccinated is an entirely separate question from how the virus originated.
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  1153. But babies born alive in abortion already get care! It's against the law to leave one without care. The only exception is if they are born with birth-defects incompatible with life, in which case nothing can save them. The whole question is based on fake news.
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  1154. Tom Lehrer: “Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”
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  1155. Obviously the fires are being set by Dr. Fauci. Funded by Soros.
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  1156. Easy to make it look bad when you're dealing with such small numbers.
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  1157. I think USA has taken the position it has taken because we in USA want access to Ukraine's rich deposits of strategic minerals, including rare-earth ores, precious metal ores, lithium, neon gas, nickel, .....[the list goes on]. And why shouldn't we? What to do with Ukraine's natural resources should be up to Ukraine, not up to Putin, shouldn't it?
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  1158. Yes, science says life begins at conception, but true philosophy says that women should be able to get abortions anyway, even though life begins at conception.
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  1159. He has been feeling depressed ever since he learned that Daniel Arthur Mead used a prosthesis.
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  1160.  @Vlad.the.Inhaler  Both gain-of-function and directed-evolution are complex, fluid terms which mean different things in different contexts.
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  1161. Naomi will say anything for a dollar.
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  1162.  @headbangerbald1278  Yes, and anyone who does read them will see that Naomi is not being truthful about what they actually say and mean. "Increase in adverse events" no. An increase of REPORTING adverse events, ever since, in late 2020, anti-vax loop-a-dupes learned about VAERS (the reporting system), which does NOT check reports for veracity or for actual cause.
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  1163. At least the government cannot force you to complete a pregnancy if you prefer to have it aborted. Oh, wait a minute: yes it can. Communist China required people to have small families, and to have abortions when they got pregnant.. But Communist Romania required people to have large ones and banned abortions, and, (unlike any other country in the history of the world) actually enforced their ban with secret police and mandated gyn inspections! The only good way is to let people decide for themselves when to have children and when to have abortions.
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  1164. Many decades ago I read a book by D. E. Knuth called Surreal Numbers. Is that still around?
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  1165. Sometimes the money we send overseas brings bigger money back home.
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  1166. If we stop studying how bad a pathogen can be, our restraint will NOT prevent bad-guys from investigating. We might slow them down but they will figure it out and we must be ready when they do. “Never make a replication competent virus” Then someone else will!
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  1167. That's what they said in the 1970s: "we'll never be able to pay the debt!" Then the digital revolution happened, and the computer industry emerged.
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  1168.  @davidjennische335  We already have digital currency. We have had it since banks first started using computers, back in the 1970s and 80s. Or do you imagine that when one government makes a big payment to another government, they ship truckloads of cash?
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  1169. This bill is a trick! A sneaky, underhanded trick to add a huge, unjustified, stupid extra expense to the cost of doing an abortion. Here's the trick: it sometimes happens that a totally non-viable abortus (that's the medical term for an aborted fetus)-- aborted as early as eight weeks gestation, smaller than a hen's egg,-- emerges with a visible regular muscular twitching or pulsation, which can persist for several minutes. The law currently defines "born alive" to include any abortus which has a "visible heartbeat" (US Code Chapter one Section eight), so this non-viable abortus whose twitching cannot persist longer than around fifteen minutes at most no matter what anyone tries to do, qualifies as "born alive" under the law, even though it's really "alive" in name only. The bill (HR 26, 118th Congress) contains TWO separate mandates. Quoting the text: "[...] a health care practitioner who is present must (1) exercise the same degree of care as would reasonably be provided to any other child born alive at the same gestational age, and (2) ensure the child is immediately admitted to a hospital." Notice that the restriction, that the care given must be the same as would reasonably be provided to a wanted child born at the same stage of pregnancy, does NOT apply to (2), the mandate that the abortus be transported and admitted to a hospital. It doesn't apply to (2), because it is written only in (1). So it's not like "green" in "Green eggs and ham" which means that both the eggs and the ham are green; it's like if it were "(1) Green eggs, and, (2) ham". The doctor has to admit the aborted fetus to the hospital, even if no one would think of doing that for a wanted preemie born at the same stage of pregnancy. THAT's the problem with the bill: it would require that a doomed, non-viable eight-week abortus with a visible heartbeat but no chance of living more than a few minutes, must be transported to a hospital and admitted (if it's still twitching when it gets there) as a patient. Ambulancing it to the hospital would be hugely expensive, and admitting it would be a waste of hospital-workers' time. What are they gonna do for it at the hospital, give it some chicken soup??? It's smaller than a hen's egg, unable to breathe or swallow or think. Putting it in the hospital would be a huge, wasteful, useless, guaranteed-futile additional expense, for no purpose except as a sneaky stealth-mandate to increase the cost of doing, and getting, abortions, and, to give right-to-life zealots a criminal charge to bring against abortion-providers, in witch-hunts. It would be easy to fix: just copy the same language in (1) into (2), that the "child" must be transported to a hospital and admitted only if a reasonable health-professional would do the same for a wanted preemie born at the same stage of pregnancy. Republicans have refused to approve this change, because it would remove the trick.
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  1170. OK. The definition of Serious Adverse Event seems to be: "An SAE was defined as an adverse event that results in any of the following conditions: death; life-threatening at the time of the event; inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization; persistent or significant disability/incapacity; a congenital anomaly/birth defect; medically important event, based on medical judgment." The thing is, all these events can result from getting the virus! It's all very well to say "ooh, look, the swine-flu vaccine had far fewer adverse events, and they stopped vaccinating!" But how likely were the un-vaccinated patients to get swine-flu, and what was it likely to do to them? In other words, what were the likely damages done by not vaccinating?? Yes, we need a cost/benefit analysis, but until we get one there's no reason to assume that vaccinating is any worse than not vaccinating. This is what happens when you try to produce, and deploy, a vaccine (or any other medical intervention) at "warp speed".
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  1171.  @Tombombadillo999  There's no point in spreading obvious loop-a-dupery. Your comment is a great example of the reason no one takes your side seriously. RE: "The spread of very unclear 'science' by the media" Of course it's unclear, to people who haven't studied the subject! The solution to a problem with a broken Mac truck, or the strategy in a football game, would be "unclear" to me, because I don't know anything about football or about fixing trucks. To expect the news media to make it clear to me would be silly and unreasonable. Epidemiology, virology, and immunology are complicated subjects!
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  1172. These things which you say will make the youth worse off - government-funded education and training, health care, etc. - most non-Third-World countries consider them to be part of the bare minimum a government must provide in order for a country to call itself civilized! You say everything the kids want is "socialism" and then you are surprised when they say "well, then 'socialism' is what we want!"
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  1173. The trouble is if Dems expand the court by a small number of seats – I think the number 13 has been floating around so that would be a four-member expansion— Then Republicans when they acquire power (which they will sooner or later) will just expand the cord a little more – perhaps 19 seats. The solution is: immediately after the election well immediately after inauguration, the Democrats should expand the court by a large enough Number of seats that further expansion would be Absurd. In other words, Democrats need to think big – bigger than they usually think. I propose that when Kamala Harris becomes president, Democrats should expand the court to 47 seats – which would mean appointing 38 new progressive minded justices. That way if Republicans try to recapture the court by expanding it, they will likely have to make it bigger than the US Senate itself. I don’t think they’ll be ready to do that. Laugh if you like, but I’m quite serious. We have a radical problem with the Supreme Court, And radically innovative, thinking will be needed in order to fix it.
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  1174. Imagine if Crime and Punishment were rewritten as a short, fast-moving comedy-and-caper-story about a poor, streetwise, recklessly-heroic French kid who inherits a huge amount of money, and, a gang of con-men posing as priests, raising money from naive wealthy Catholics by telling them that the Pope has been abducted by Freemasons and replaced by a false Pope controlled by the Freemasons' Lodge, and they (the con-men posing as priests) need the money to bribe his captors and rescue him. Imagine if this book were short enough to read in one or two days (depending on what else you have on your plate to do during the day). Sound good? That book is Andre Gide's Les Caves du Vatican which is sold in English translation as The Vatican Cellars and also under the title Lafcadio's Adventures. (Andre Gide later won a Nobel prize, for a different work.)
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  1175.  @ElonMuskrat-my8jy But a great writer, even so.
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  1176. Maybe they know something you don't know.
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  1177. The argument against gain-of-function research seems goofy to me. If more deadly viruses can be made, we need to know as much about it as we can. And Fauci said that he supports further investigation into the question whether the virus is a natural mutant or an escaped bug from a lab. What more can he say? We don't know the answer to that question yet. Oh dear, Rand Paul just revealed himself as a hack, performing for hacks. No real biologist would accuse a scientist of "fooling with mother nature," as if that were a bad thing to do. Fooling with mother nature is what biological scientists do; it's their job. The idea is to fool mother nature into doing good things for us, and, to fool her into revealing the tricks she likes to play on us, so that we can figure out how to prepare for them, or prevent them, or fix some of the damage after she plays them.
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  1178. Austrailia banne Ivermectin? What did Austrailians take when they were infected with parasitic worms?
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  1179. “I make it a rule never to apologize. The right sort of people don’t want apologies; the wrong sort take mean advantage of them.” —PG Wodehouse
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  1180.  @markhall3165  How many elderly at risk? How many hospital beds available?
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  1181.  @moralityisnotsubjective5  You will, if she gets too sick for you to care for her at home. It's so funny. Everyone swears that they'll never put their parents in a home, but everyone changes their minds when the parent gets too sick or too frail to manage at home. The only exception is people who can afford to recreate the conditions of the home, at home -- to hire just as many nurses and professional caregivers at home as the parents would have access to at the home.
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  1182.  @c.d.7742  That may be (or not) but the inconvenience and harm done by the response to the 1918 flu DID affect the elderly disproportionately.
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  1183.  @c.d.7742  Young healthy individuals were INFECTED more, but not AFFECTED more by the response.
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  1184.  @3832dan  Typical.
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  1185. Great idea! Why should we bother to maintain technological superiority? [/s]
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  1186. The anxiety is part of the fun.
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  1187. Gravelly baritone
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  1188. Less than 60 seconds in, he says: "... at exactly the moment the emergency powers they awarded themselves to fight COVID started to wane, our leaders started pushing for conflict with Russia." OUR leaders aren't particularly pushing for conflict with Russia. The whole free world is now in conflict with Russia. Russia has committed the biggest violation of international law so far this millennium, remember? THAT'S why the timing is what it is. Why does Tucker say he makes any more of it than that? If Biden is "leading", he's leading from behind. So what's the point of listening to any more of the upload than that?
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  1189.  @FernandoWINSANTO Isaac Asimov know a great deal about how science was done - actually done, by actual scientists - in the 1950s. If you doubt this, read his short story "Paté de Fois Gras".
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  1190. Probably they just don't like you. The "Narrative" is just an excuse.
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  1191. Who cares? They're designed to kill and injure people, and that is what they're used for. That's all you need to know.
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  1192. So basically, the reason we can’t exploit the arctic is, it’s too damn cold! Whodathunkit?
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  1193. The current Supreme Court would probably strike down a law requiring political officeholders to publish their tax-returns. They'd say "The Constitution, not the Congress, says who can or cannot hold this or that political office!"
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  1194. This one was either natural-origin (I personally think that's still the most likely explanation, but I'm not a virologist; I'm a retired immunochemical generalist) or an unintentional lab-leak. But the next one might well be an engineered weapon. It is getting easier and easier for ordinary biochemical technicians to do routine genetic manipulations on the virus. Any wealthy apocalyptic whacko could probably make a much worse variant in a few years.
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  1195. We should be using protein vaccines. That was the original plan; mRNA was supposed to be an emergency response. Warp speed, remember?
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  1196. Trump likes it when dictators take advantage of him.
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  1197. A doctor fell into a well And broke his collar-bone. The doctor should attend the sick, And leave the well alone!
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  1198. I was in grad school in physical chemistry when the liquid-nitrogen-temperature superconducting ceramics were first discovered in the 1980s. Everyone predicted we'd be riding levitating trains and transmitting 100% power in a few years. Well, the ceramics are brittle and un-malleable, and, they only superconduct in patches, so you can see it with the Meissner effect, but you can't use them for transmission. Still (nearly) useless.
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  1199. The only people less trustworthy than the Democratic Party is the establishment Republican Party, and the only people less trustworthy than the establishment Republican Party are the Trumpies.
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  1200.  @jeffb5785  You don't do your cause any good by saying things which are obviously false (like that the Democratic Party is "full of terrorists".) Any normal person who looks at that will instantly write you off as a loop-a-dupe, not worth reading. The Republican Party has a serious problem now: for five years they have been in thrall to a cult leader who is unlike any previous president in my lifetime (I'm almost exactly the same age as you), in that all previous presidents - even Nixon - wanted to be, in some sense, good presidents. Our disagreements were over what makes a president "good", and over what to do in order to be that (however you define it). In contrast, the former-president doesn't care at all about being a good president. He just wanted - and wants - to do what he has always tried to do, which is: get is followers (the suckers) to send him more money sooner and faster. In order to be competitive again, the Republican Party will have to convince the voters that they can function as serious politicians, serious leaders, again. This will take time, and careful strategic planning. Saying "the other guys are terrorists" won't get it done. In fact it can only appeal to the people you need to separate from.
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  1201. Ludwig Mond.
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  1202. Longtime Trump hater here, but I have to say I watched at least one of the times he said he would “be a dictator only on day one”, And he definitely said it with a twinkle in his eye, as a joke. Probably a joke whose point was the same as Professor Lichtman’s - the ridiculous idea that anyone would be dictator only on day one. He was denigrating the worry of him being dictator by making this paradoxical quip, not making a serious promise about anything.
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  1203.  @MrMajikman1  You're saying that Xi orchestrated Operation Warp Speed? I must have missed that. And if Pfizer had the patent on the vaccines before the virus, how did Moderna get permission to sell a competing one? Does not compute!
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  1204.  @MrMajikman1  RE: "Do you honestly believe that it only takes 9 months to discover a vaccine...for a virus that never before existed?" Yes. It's not that hard to make a vaccine now. (We're not living in the 1970s or 1950s or 1930s.) It doesn't take 9 months to create one; what requires time is testing it properly. "Operation Warp Speed" meant that we didn't bother to test it thoroughly, we ran preliminary tests and said "that's enough; deploy it NOW!!!!" And that was TRUMP'S policy, not Fauci's and not Xi's and not Biden's.
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  1205.  @GingerPeacenik  More like Trump loaded the gun, Trump pulled the trigger, and Biden refused to jump in and block the path of the bullet with his body.
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  1206.  angleisthebest  Yes he was. Operation Warp Speed was a mandate.
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  1207.  angleisthebest  For a demented guy he's doing a pretty good job of running rings around the Republicans. This is like watching Archie Moore ("the Old Mongoose") knocking out a much younger opponent like Yvon Durelle, after himself being knocked down four times. (Look up Moore vs. Durelle, 1)
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  1208.  angleisthebest  Operation Warp Speed mandated hasty approval and manufacture of the vaccine. (That was the whole point of Operation Warp Speed: to waive the requirements normally imposed on manufacturers for FDA approval.) If you're asking who mandated that you take the vaccine, there is (as far as I know) no such mandate in USA. If you refuse to take the vaccine, will anyone from the government fine you or throw you in prison? You might lose your job, but that's between you and your employer, not a government mandate.
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  1209.  angleisthebest  Biden may have TRIED to impose a mandate, but he didn't ACTUALLY impose one. There isn't one! Try not taking the vaccine, and let me know when someone puts you on trial. And it usually takes several years to get a new medical intervention (medication or vaccine) through FDA. I know, I did drug-development research in small pharma, cheek-by-jowl with the guys in the company whose job was getting our stuff through. Lawyers, and physicians planning clinical trials.
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  1210.  @enalo6261  Probably a mixture of reporting bias and fakes
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  1211.  @happymantom  Not a scam. And he's not the brains behind it; he's the leading expert on how to minimize it.
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  1212. Beelzebubert
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  1213.  @drakecarter1780  Too bad for now.
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  1214.  @drakecarter1780  So I can live more safely. (Which, incidentally, would also feel better, but that's a side-benefit.)
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  1215.  @drakecarter1780  We can and we will. (You're right that it won't be just to feel better. It'll be in order to live more safely.) You seem to think that our current gun-jurisprudence is final or universal. You're wrong. Until 2008, the idea that there should be an individual right to bear weapons of war without any connection to a state militia was a weird fringe theory. It will be again. You just keep watching. It'll happen ... what was Hemingway's phrase? ... gradually and then suddenly. There is ample precedent! Look at how rapidly public opinion and jurisprudence regarding impaired driving changed. Not too long ago drunk driving was regarded as a harmless peccadillo, not a big deal.
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  1216. But are we getting the same increase in countries where the population isn't aging out, like, say, Mexico?
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  1217. If you are smart and you read that book, you will realize that Kennedy is not a serious author.
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  1218.  @duncansh81  Much of it is so distorted and de-contextualized (taken out of context) that it pretty much qualifies as fiction. This is done deliberately, in order to misrepresent what he thought, and why he changed his mind. It's not unlike the smear-job the right has been perpetrating against Margaret Sanger: take isolated lines out of context, and quote them in a way which makes them appear to mean something which, if you read the whole essays, they obviously do not mean. (Did you know that the Apostle Paul anticipated, and supported, modern gender-fluidity theory? He wrote "... there is no male and no female", right there in Galatians 3:28!)
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  1219.  @fgsdgd1  The right-wing has embraced a Kaczinskian faux-environmentalism, to go with their quack-immunology, quack-virology, quack-cosmology and quack-biology.
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  1220.  @lollipop2993  So - let me make sure I understand you - you're saying that we have to read the whole essay, and consider the context, when we determine what the essay means and decide what to think about the author? Is that your idea? If yes, then perhaps you should try doing the same when you talk about Fauci.
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  1221.  @dedetudor.  Will there be a ballet? A grand opera?
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  1222.  @michelebarile6218  That data is already published.
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  1223.  @smithshaun33  You don't know what you're talking about.
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  1224.  @smithshaun33  Again, you don't know what you're talking about. I don't think I'm gonna bother to explain it to you.
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  1225.  @smithshaun33  Sure! And we'll get together a couple of weeks before you take your finals in epidemiology, immunology, and virology and I'll tutor you so you don't fail. Don't forget to bring your checkbook.
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  1226.  @MyITRcom  That's a good reason to make every possible effort to avoid getting the virus, which turns your body into a spike-protein factory more intensely than any vaccine ever could. And no, I have nothing to do with big pharma. Before I retired, I worked in small pharma.
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  1227. The Chinese government unleashed the virus on us in order to prevent the opera houses in Europe and USA and South America from staging Puccini's last opera, Turandot (if you are familiar with the aria "Nessun dorma", that's from Turandot) because it is set in Peking (Pekino) and depicts the Chinese people as brutal savages ruled by a sadistic tyrant. Turandot had become trendy again (the opera world is very faddish) and numerous opera houses, great (La Scala, the Met, Chicago Lyric Opera) and small (Regina Opera in Brooklyn) were getting ready to do it. The current government of China - Xi - couldn't stand for that. Now that the pandemic has more or less resolved (not just temporarily, we hope) the companies are doing operas by Puccini, but, notably, not Turandot. They're doing La bohème and Il Trittico. So the Chinese strategy seems to have worked. This is why the pathology of COVID is so harmless, relative to what it could have been. The Chinese government didn’t want to kill a lot of people, only to sicken us enough to shut down the opera houses and get the companies to choose a new repertoire.
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  1228. Like so many comic-book stories this origin-story is lifted from opera. In this case the opera is Wagner’s DIE WALKÜRE. Look it up!
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  1229. There's nothing wrong with questioning something, so long as you acknowledge that you don't know enough about it for your opinion to matter.
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  1230. "The science aspect is obviously relevant." And equally obviously not understood by you.
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  1231. The greatest special master was probably Hans Sachs.
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  1232. Re: “Is Russia lying about its economy?” Of course! Silly question.
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  1233.  @ninjah8088  It's more difficult to determine the origin of a very-contagious virus than it is to determine the origin of a less-contagious virus. By the time the very-contagious virus shows up at all, it's already all over the place. So many of the people commenting on this guy's videos think that they know enough to say what's going on, and they so obviously don't know the first things about virology or epidemiology. You are like someone who has never watched a boxing match trying to serve as a referee or a boxing sportscaster. You don't even know basic stuff like that a boxer is not allowed to hit the opponent in the back of the head. And Dr. Campbell is running rings around you.
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  1234. Does the virus also cause brain and heart to express spike protein, or only the vaccine? It's not enough to show that the vaccine is worse than nothing at all. You have to show that the vaccine is worse - more patients AND worse symptoms - than getting COVID.
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  1235. “Religion is not the opiate of the masses; religion is the placebo of the masses.”
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  1236. Phrase of the day: “breadcrumbs of criminality“.
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  1237. You wouldn't like living without the government. Your family would die of poison in their food, and you'd be the first in line trying to sue the farmers.
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  1238. Here's something I've been meaning to say for a long time- it nags me whenever I read articles about error and fraud in experimental basic science. Suppose there's a lot of fraud in science, and suppose it does get worse. Does it really matter all that much? This sounds like an outrageous, heretical question - one wants to say: of course it matters! But bear with me for just a few lines. I submit that the purpose of basic science is NOT to create experts who can tell us how far apart we should stand during viral pandemics, and NOT to create experts who can tell us how big to make wind turbines. That's applied science, which is generally done - and generally funded - in ways different from basic science. What really matters is that we be better informed about the tools available to us for solving problems and answering questions of these types, as they occur to us. Put it this way: we don't so much need a scientist to tell us how far from each other we should stand; we need scientists to tell us things like "using this chemical, and/or that instrument, which only I know about because I discovered it or invented it while doing basic-science work motivated purely by curiosity - using this chemical, I can do experiments which will enable us to find out how far we should stand during a pandemic or how big to make the turbines. Knowing the actual number is less important than knowing how to think about what the number likely will turn out to be, how to accurately measure what it really is. And even if the basic numbers we think we have turn out to be wrong or fraudulently measured, well, when we need the tool, we'll start by confirming that the tools work, and if they don't work as described, we'll catch the discrepancy then. I'm not sure if this sounds like gobble-de-gook, but if it does, it's based on many years of work in industry and at universities, developing tools (antibody-based reagents) for making measurements, and seeing that the tools, and the interpretive concepts, turn out to be more important, for solving problems and for developing new ways of thinking about scientific questions, than the numbers and traits which scientists measure using the tools. Sure, experimental errors and fraud can make the process of invention less efficient and more expensive, and we ought to do our best to avoid errors and fraud, and aim at reducing them to zero or near-zero, but less efficient innovation is still better than no innovation, and that is what enables us to make progress. Just as most public schools are not as good as upscale private schools, but the public schools are still a damm sight better than nothing. The slogan "It may be wrong, or even faked, but it's wrong, or faked, in a way which broadened our horizons and helped us refine our perceptions" is not a bullshttty as it sounds the first time you read it. (Full disclosure: I myself never faked any data and was always very conscientious about confirming my results before reporting them, no matter what some of my bosses may have suspected early on. They all found I was truthful, when they repeated my experiments. Even Dr. L (aka "Minipig") admitted this in the end.) Professor PGS (one of my heroes in biochemistry) is still a great, world-changing scientist, who opened our minds to many previously-unthinkable ideas, even though he had to retract several of his papers, including one very important one which would have created a whole new biochemical specialty if it had been correct. Instances of error and fraud don't matter all that much, so long as they get caught, retracted, and corrected, and the important ones almost always do, when someone tries to use them. So sure, error and fraud in science should be opposed, but they do not justify the current political efforts by the Republican Party and the Trumpie cult to de-fund the science. "And anyone who fails to see, Shall by another corrected be." --Zarastro
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  1239. More likely the reason is that communicating to the public is part of Fauci's job, but not part of Redfield's.
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  1240. Could it be that the reason more professors aren’t using YouTube as a source for statistics is that there is no guarantee that statistics posted on YouTube are correct? “I know this is true because I saw it on YouTube” is not strong reasoning.
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  1241. Worshiping the Bible Makes you tribal.
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  1242. What a bunch of liars these guys are! Biden cancelled the contract-offers on these possible drilling sites because THE INDUSTRY WASN'T INTERESTED IN LEASING THEM!!
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  1243. I think that there’s something about the Trump cult, which exceeds explanation is that we have not previously had a cult with as much money as this one has. Don’t get me wrong Dash lots of colts have lots of money – but not like this and the reason it’s so uniquely destructive is that in this case the money is coming from outside the United States. When the. Citizens United decision came down from the Supreme Court, I greatly underestimated how consequential it was going to be. Eventually, someone will write a comprehensive history about who funded the Trump cult.
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  1244. Do you think this kind of thing isn't gonna happen again? Wait until a single-digit-age kid shoots his teacher and the teacher dies. What will the gun-freaks say then?
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  1245. Then instead of a few very long bills, we'd have a very large number of shorter bills. No real benefit!
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  1246.  @connorhill8889  Would we have been able to accomplish the Moon mission with only state governments working on it? I would say probably not, because the work had to be coordinated in a top-down way, even though much of it was done by local projects.
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  1247.  @connorhill8889  Sure, it's easy to do something for the second time, when you don't have to deal with the risk that it might turn out to be impossible or non-feasible.
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  1248.  @connorhill8889  The astronauts were trained in the (Federally funded) US armed forces; and, besides giving money to the engineers, the government also gave $ to basic scientists, who cannot be funded by profit-seeking private money (since basic science doesn't work on what WILL bring profit to its backers; it works on what MIGHT bring profit to SOMEONE, SOMETIME in the POSSIBLY VERY DISTANT FUTURE, most likely in COMBINATION with other bits of BASIC science funded the same way (government or charity and charity is not reliable). Please stop thinking like a kid reading comic books. A real-life program isn't like dreaming up an Iron-Man body-armor suit which also enables the wearer to fly or a radar-sense which enables a blind man to fight like a TaequanDo master. In real life, you have to work within the real rules - the laws of physics and the laws of economics. That means you can't solve real-life problems by saying magic words like "free market, free market, cut taxes, cut taxes". You have to engage the real problem and work with real laws of chemistry and physics, or the project won't succeed, and if you rely on economic fairy-tales, you won't be able to start.
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  1249.  @Anuskasv0  That's what they said about "the Old Mongoose" Archie Moore, who knocked more people out when he was in his 40s (elderly, for a boxer) than most boxers do in their entire careers.
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  1250. The lawsuit is against FDA. The plaintiffs are asking the judge to order FDA to de-approve Mifepristone. I don’t think this has happened before- that a judge ordered FDA to de-approve an approved medication. But if it happens and Mifepristone loses its approval, we can use Methotrexate in its place. FDA won’t de-approve Methotrexate, which was approved back in the early 1950s and is one of the most widely used medications ever. More than a million Americans use it every year, for psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and other chronic autoimmune diseases; also it is a first-line broad-based chemotherapy drug for cancer, and useful for non-surgical treatment of ectopic/tubal pregnancy. If it were de-approved, the entire medical profession would be seismically traumatized and would probably go on strike.
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  1251. So would it be fair to describe you as anti-counter-disinformation? A triple negative! One doesn’t see that every day.
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  1252.  @nattamused9074  People who say that Darwin was right about everything are annoying and wrong. But people who say that the fact that Darwin got some things wrong implies that the Darwinian theory of evolutionary biology is also wrong, are even more annoying and wrong than those who say that Darwin was right about everything.
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  1253. For instance, do you know what “light, sweet crude oil” is? In what ways is it different from “heavy, sour crude oil”? Do you know which we mostly get by fracking— light, sweet, crude oil, or heavy, sour crude oil? Do you know which of the two types of crude oil our refineries in the United States are best suited to refine? Do you know why it is that even though we are in net exporter of fossil fuel energy, we still import a good deal of our energy from other countries? Can you tell me which country we buy more oil from than any other country? If you cannot answer all these questions without taking time to look up the answers, then you don’t have the background necessary to understand fracking, or energy policy, and you have no business asking Kamala Harris, or anyone else anything about it.
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  1254. "I'll have a nothingburger with extra nothing, please!"
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  1255. "Experimental drug"? What experimental drug?
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  1256.  @jeffatkinson3288  Athletes dropping dead of heart failure has been well-known for decades. It's because their hearts get so large that the nervous signals which are supposed to keep the muscle-fiber contractions synchronized, fail.
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  1257. Nonsense.
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  1258. Not always! It can also provide evidence that you don't like wasting time.
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  1259.  @navinadv  No. You can work as a lab technician or manager with just an MS or BS.
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  1260.  @DrEmerson84  Maybe start with THE STAR DIARIES? (I particularly like "The Seventh Voyage".) or TALES OF PIRX THE PILOT? or FIASCO, if you prefer a novel.
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  1261.  @richardthompson6366  That isn't relevant. I'm not asking WHY he was demented.
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  1262. It took less than two minutes find the real story here. Beau Biden likely cot the cancer that killed him from exposure to toxic chemicals (burn pits) during his military service deployed in Iraq.
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  1263.  @Unimpressionistic  No, it's just gobble-de-gook, technical words strung together in meaningless ways. Naomi Wolf does the same thing. So did Hegel.
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  1264. Is the Sturgeon investigation a fishing expedition?
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  1265. Coup de GRACE! Pronounce the s at the end! Not “coup de grah”.
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  1266. RE: "On the last part of 2020, my brother got Covid, but had hardly any symptoms. When the injections came out he took the AZ one. Months later, he started having fainting spells. After some studies he was diagnosed with AF, Brudaga Syndrome and was implanted a Fibrilator." Hmmm! How interesting. MY brother got the vaccine, and a few days later, his akin cleared up, he stopped having problems with erectile dysfunction, and he won $50,000,000.00 in the lottery.
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  1267.  @Silence_Duder_Gooder  ????
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  1268. Almost right: you need to strike the last word and call it "historical lies and misinformation".
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  1269. Sturgeon is tasty with salty porridge!
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  1270. If the people of Colorado don't like the law, why didn't they change it?
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  1271. Let's start by raising taxes on guns and ammo, and by cutting the budgets of Fort Knox and Fort Campbell. They're both in Kentucky, so Senator Rand Paul, who is a sincere, dedicated budget-cutter, won't mind. (OOPS we did try to cut those bases, in 2015, and Senator Rand Paul fought tooth and nail to prevent it. He's a budget-cuts-for-everyone-else-but-not-for-me kind of guy.)
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  1272. Margaret Sanger didn't support forced eugenics. Only freely-chosen eugenics.
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  1273.  @ac1045  I read Dan Kevles' review of it. He said it had a lot of historical facts right, but misinterpreted the overall meaning very badly, because the author wrote with a particular political agenda, with biased sponsors whom he had to please. A kind of a good-at-the-trees-but-bad-at-seeing-the-forest kind of complaint. Maybe "cherry-picking" is the phrase I'm looking for. That's Professor Daniel J. Kevles, currently emeritus, on the faculty of Yale and Columbia, formerly a history-of-science big-shot at CalTech, is generally considered the leading world expert on this subject; also, on the history of nuclear physics, and on history of modern environmentalism, and on history of scams and pseudoscience, and on a few other key issues in history of modern science. His book on history of eugenics is In the Name of Eugenics - Genetics, and the Uses of Human Heredity. Published by Harvard University Press. (Full disclosure: I dated his daughter when we were undergrads, four decades ago.) Kevles is beholden to nobody, having been a name-your-own-salary-level big-shot in this stuff for half a century. He has no political agenda and just does straight-up history.
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  1274.  @liberality  I have read her autobiography many times. She advocated for forced sterilization of people with some heritable illnesses, especially mental illnesses which rendered the patients unable to decide for themselves whether to get sterilized or to remain fertile, but never for forced sterilization based on race, skin-color, national origin, religion, or income or wealth. And she never addressed any "rally", only a secret, indoor, members-only meeting of the Women's Auxilliary of KKK. She agreed to lecture to them in spite of her misgivings about them, and afterwards, she called the experience "weird", and came away with the impression that her audience were all half-wits, and never had anything to do with KKK again after. That is very different from addressing a "rally". Try to get the facts right!
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  1275.  @ac1045  Great, if you have time!
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  1276. ​ @ronbyrd1616  Margaret Sanger was opposing the Nazis in 1933, when the American press had just begun exposing them and most Americans were still unaware of Hitler.
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  1277. What do they put in haggis?
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  1278. Introducing: the new and improved nothingburger! Fortified with EXTRA nothing!!!
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  1279. Retention, obstruction - is it an indictment or a diagnosis from a gastroenterologist???
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  1280. Then you are probably one of the few people who actually would benefit by taking HCQ.
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  1281.  @vanessalambert4286  Hydroxychloroquine, the drug Trump prematurely shouted was the "game-changer". (Actually he only said it MIGHT be the answer, but his followers started bullying their doctors into prescribing it and buying it up and they had to be restrained in some states or they would have caused a shortage which could have been a disaster for the patients who really need it.) But I was wrong about you. HCQ is not proven beneficial yet for MS, only for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. It's not a gross error for me to make, as all three are autoimmune diseases. Maybe HCQ can help you, or maybe not. Stay tuned.....
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  1282. I'm waiting to hear what the ABSOLUTE RISKS are. "Two-to-three-fold increase" that's a statement of RELATIVE risk increase. What's the ABSOLUTE risk? If it's very small with no vaccine, and the vaccine increases it three-fold, that's three times the very small risk, which is still ... very small. This is high-school statistics. If they don't address it, then they are charlatans.
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  1283. Flanders and Swann: “ and crossing the channel, one cannot say much For the French or the Spanish, the Danish or Dutch. The Germans are German, the Russians are red, And the Greeks and Italians eat garlic in bed!”
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  1284.  @liap1293  What the US government did to stop IVM was to point out, correctly, that it brings no proven protection or benefit against COVID.
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  1285.  @earlthepearl4161  That's very nice, but what does it have to do with Fauci or anything else we're discussing??? And you're wrong, by the way. You are talking about the difference between representative democracy (elected representatives make the laws and decisions) and direct democracy (the majority makes the laws and decisions).
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  1286.  @grumpystiltskin  RE: "California LAW punishes doctors who follow the science and prescribe Ivermectin." Doctors who follow the science don't prescribe Ivermectin for COVID. RE: "Michigan doctors also will lose license if they prescribe it." No they won't! Look up (for instance) Dr. James Lewerenz. RE: "Customs DID sieze shipments. " Unlabelled shipments with pills and no indication how much Ivermectin was in the pills. Customs would seize aspirin too, if it were stored in unlabelled packages. The dose determines whether the drug is beneficial or poison. Bah. You haven't even done a basic net-search on this. You are just repeating loop-a-dupery which you read on crank-sites or hear on info-tainment TV. You don't know medicine, or virology, or pharmacology, or epidemiology, or immunology, or anything else. What did you study in school - target shooting?
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  1287.  @DataGeek903  Do we? Dr. Fauci answers questions under oath all the time, when he testifies in front of Congress or the Senate. Those testimonies are given under oath, you know. So why do we need discovery? Why not just have Congress, or the Senate, question him some more? Congress and the Senate have more discretion - they can ask him anything, while in discovery, only questions relevant to the particular case can be asked.
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  1288.  @charlielamb4606  The fake media are the reason this is an issue in the first place.
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  1289.  @reyrey4261  No. I have not been diagnosed with any indication for it. I'm quite sure that if I were so diagnosed, I'd be able to get it easily. HCQ, too, if I had multiple sclerosis or lupus.
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  1290.  @reyrey4261  Well, if I can't get a prescription from my doctor, then the pharmacy should not sell me the medication.
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  1291.  @reyrey4261  I bet I could get a prescription from my doctor for Ivermectin if I had ascaris worms in my intestines. Easily. In fact, I bet if I went to my doctor with ascaris worms, I wouldn't even have to ask for a prescription - she'd write one out right away.
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  1292.  @nelsonx5326  There was only a war against using it for unproven purposes.
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  1293. Re: “No, it means less energy for poor people while the people making these rules fly on private jets.” No, it means less energy per capita for poor people while the people making these rules fly on private jets.
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  1294. Re: “ No, it means less energy for poor people while the people making these rules fly on private jets.” You mean: No, it means less energy per capita for poor people while the people who discover these rules fly on private jets.
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  1295. If someone tries to collect a debt from Freddie the sleep-demon, threatens to take him to court unless he pays up, is the creditor ... [drum roll, please]... is the creditor DUNNING KRUGER???
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  1296. This will happen again, and sooner or later, a single-digit-age kid will shoot a teacher to death. That's when the public will revolt against the gun-freaks who currently own our government.
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  1297. Guns enable bad people to hurt MORE others. Imagine if this guy had been shooting instead of cutting.
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  1298.  @ML-ro6in  The statistics are public, somewhere. Of course, there may be more unreported crime in NYC, so one can never be sure.... Do you know the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"? Holmes and Watson are visiting a client outside London, in the country, and Watson remarks how beautiful the landscape is, with the lovely separated houses and barns. Here's Holmes' answer: “Do you know, Watson,” said he, “that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.” “Good heavens!” I cried. “Who would associate crime with these dear old homesteads?” “They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.” “You horrify me!” “But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard’s blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser."
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  1299. Wrong
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  1300.  @donman9154  They're also spiking the Ivermectin with microchips to control your mind.
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  1301. Traditional Catholics - some of them - are dangerous! Of the eleven abortion-workers who have been murdered by anti-abortion terrorists, two were murdered by a practicing Catholic; also, one Catholic priest - a priest! - called openly and without regret for Catholics to commit acts of violent terrorism against abortion workers. He was isolated, but not excommunicated, and not even defrocked. His name was David Trosch.
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  1302.  @rosscampbell1173  Yes, and the planet Jupiter is very very big. (What 's your point? I know that there are a great many Catholics.)
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  1303. Renfield was a character in Dracula. He was played by the great Dwight Frye, who kind of stole the show. He has much more to do with the success of the movie than Bela Lugosi did. It's kind of an open secret in movies: when a villain victimizes someone, the success of the scene depends much more on the actor who plays the victim than on the actor who plays the villain.
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  1304. The experts say the attack by Hamas was a reaction to the improving relations between Israel and the Sunni Muslim nations. Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for warming those relations, and brokering an alliance between Israel and UAE (with other Sunni Muslim nations soon to follow). So, logically, Trump bears responsibility for the attack. He promoted the alliances which motivated the attack.
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  1305. Not quite all the characters in Falling Down are “only out for themselves”. Bill’s wife genuinely cares about her daughter, Bill’s mother cares about him, and Rachael Ticotin’s character genuinely cares about Robert Duval’s character, and he genuinely loves his hopeless, neurotic wife.
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  1306.  @JM-dm3qk  Good! Boston has too many mice.
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  1307. RE: "She referred to Blacks as 'Human Weeds'.". That's a lie. The people she analogized to human weeds were "... feebleminded, idiots, morons, insane, syphilitic, epileptic, criminal, professional prostitutes, and others in this class barred by the immigration laws of 1924." (From "A Plan for Peace", Birth Control Review, April 1932, pp. 107-108.) Also, in the same essay: "... illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, dope-fiends..." Nothing about race, ethnicity, national origin, or skin-color. She used the metaphor of "human weeds" to refer to families having more children than they could afford to raise, just having sxx whenever they felt like it and making no effort to use birth-control. A family should be like a GARDEN, planned, tended, organized, sized to fit into the garden bed, not growing at random and out of control like a patch of weeds. "Just think for a moment of the meaning of the word kindergarten--a garden of children! To me, that is just what the world ought to be--a garden of children. In this matter we should not do less than follow the example of the professional gardener. Every expert gardener knows that the individual plant must be properly spaced, rooted in a rich nourishing soil, and provided with sufficient air and sunlight. He knows that no plant would have a fair chance of life if it were overcrowded or choked by weeds. To grow into maturity, to bud, to blossom, to produce beautiful sturdy flowers in its own season, each plant must have constant attention, incessant care and tender devotion. If plants, and live stock as well, require space and air, sunlight and love, children need them even more. The only real wealth of our country lies in the men and women of the next generation. A farmer would rather produce a thousand thoroughbreds than a million runts. How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds. In a home where there are too many children in proportion to the living space, the air and sunlight, the children are usually overcrowded and underfed. They are a constant burden on their mother's overtaxed strength and the father's earning capacity. Such homes cannot be gardens in any sense of the word." --Radio WFAB Syracuse, 1924-02-29, transcripted in "The Meaning of Radio Birth Control", April 1924, p. 111.
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  1308.  @sammywhite9906  Because I have read his history.
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  1309.  @FJB8885  These are personal questions. But I'll tell you a few things: No, I'm not a physician; I didn't like med school. These days you hear a lot about doctors quitting; well, I quit trying to practice medicine after I finished my first clinical rotation. It's a challenging, honorable profession, but when you actually get on the wards and start trying to do it, it's way too much like being in the army; you have to be polite to everyone even when you want to punch them in the face. I am retired; when I worked, I was an antibody-chemist. I have immunized hundreds (literally) of animals, and bled them, and tested their blood for antibody-responses. I have designed methods for using antibodies for various purposes for many different scientists on many levels (including lowly start-up profs at minor schools. and big-shot winners of accolades such as the National Medal of Science, the and the Nobel prize, and everyone in between) and in many specialties, including plant biology, oncology, neurological embryology, environmental chemistry, and cardiology. (Antibodies are very versatile scientific tools.) I have validated vaccines against weapons pathogens for the Department of Defense. I don't teach medicine, but I have trained grad students and post-doctoral fellows and young professors to do antibody work, and also I had a side-hustle tutoring practice helping undergrads with pre-med sciences, for what was at the time considered a high-end fee. A few of my former pupils and trainees are successful scientists now, and some who are not scientists are, at least, scientifically-literate non-scientists. I am also a reasonably good science writer. I have successfully raised grant money from NIH (NIDA) with my writing, long ago. When I was still working, some of my co-workers consulted me from time to time for proofreading services and stylistic improvement. The trick to writing a good grant proposal is to make it sound technical and dry, but to tell a metaphorical story so the readers feel excited without quite knowing why. But all this was long ago. Now I spend my time trying to be an amateur classical vocalist (bass-baritone). And what do you do to make ends meet, and to occupy your spare time?
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  1310.  @janineberry6318  What shows that he's a liar, in this particular video, is that he thinks that the fact that reports to VAERS spiked in 2021 means anything at all about the virus or about the pandemic. VAERS is worthless for proving anything and everybody knows it. VAERS says so on its own web-site!
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  1311.  @wordwordful  There is no "whose truth". Facts are facts, and it doesn't matter who is talking about them. It's just a fact that VAERS numbers mean nothing and are not "alarming" no matter what they are. In this particular case, Dr. Campbell is lying - a terrible lie of omission - about VAERS. The fact is, the number of complaints VAERS receives in any given time period tells us nothing whatsoever about the virus, or about the vaccine, or about the pandemic. VAERS is basically worthless, because they don't check or verify or confirm more than a tiny fraction of the reports they get. (How do I know this? Because their very own web-site says so.)
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  1312. ​ @alanjm1234  RE: "Are you saying the findings of the Florida Surgeon General are lies?" Yes, they are lies of omission. He announced that reports to VAERS increased suddenly, but he omitted the fact that VAERS reports are not evidence of any danger or problem with any vaccine.
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  1313. ​ @trollpatroltrollingthetrol842  You have kind of hit the nail on the head by random chance when you said "you know nothing about me nor my hobbies". That's the point: this is not something to opine on if it's only your hobby. It's for specialists to figure out. You don't do this with other subjects, do you? I mean, suppose someone asked you to referee a professional boxing match, or evaluate a design for a race-car. What would you say? You'd say "I'm sorry, but I don't know enough about boxing to be a referee in a professional match, and I don't know enough about auto-mechanics to evaluate a design for a race-car. You'll have to find someone who does know enough, and ask him!" That's what you'd say, right? But when it comes to virology, immunology, and epidemiology, which are much more complicated subjects than boxing or auto-mechanics, you imagine that you can read the real papers and evaluate the purveyors of pre-digested information and that your conclusions and opinions are worth a shtt. It's a mystery to me. And a surprise: for most of my life I admired and supported popular-science writers and lecturers like Steven Hawking and Stephen J. Gould. Popular science has turned out to be a very pernicious thing, because it feeds the American delusion that (in Isaac Asimov's words) "My ignorance is just as good as your science". The fact is unless you can do the math behind the science, you don't have the first clue what the science means.
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  1314. But not as funny.
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  1315. Who are the "Palestinian people"? Just wondering.
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  1316. Scotland for Aye! (Or, for me, as it should more properly be.)
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  1317. The judge is Russian?!?
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  1318.  @ChaoChromeMessor  it's not a matter of my definition; it's a matter of the law's definition. "§ 248 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances. "(a) PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES.—Whoever— "(1) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person because that person is or has been, or in order to intimidate such person or any other person or any class of persons from, obtaining or providing reproductive health services; "(2) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship; or "(3) intentionally damages or destroys the property of a facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility provides reproductive health services, or intentionally damages or destroys the property of a place of religious worship, shall be subject to the penalties provided in subsection (b) and the civil remedies provided in subsection (c), except that a parent or legal guardian of a minor shall not be subject to any penalties or civil remedies under this section for such activities insofar as they] are directed exclusively at that minor. "(b) PENALTIES.—^Whoever violates this section shall— "(1) in the case of a first offense, be fined in accordance with this title, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and "(2) in the case of a second or subsequent offense after a prior conviction under this section, be fined in accordance with this title, or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both; except that for an offense involving exclusively a nonviolent physical obstruction, the fine shall be not more than $10,000 and the length of imprisonment shall be not more than six months, or both, for the first offense; and the fine shsdl be not more than $25,000 and the length of imprisonment shall be not more than 18 months, or both, for a subsequent offense; and except that if bodily injury results, the length of imprisonment shall be not more than 10 years, and if death results, it shall be for any term of years or for life."
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  1319.  @ChaoChromeMessor  What are you talking about?
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  1320.  @3075bridget  That is not what I mean. I mean, do you know the history? What event (or rather, what sequence of events) prompted the government to enact the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances ("FACE") law? What was the government seeking to prevent from recurring?
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  1321.  @stormyweather9917  I know better than you how abortions are done. And intimidation is defined by the laws and the courts. No one is getting arrested just for carrying a sign.
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  1322.  @stormyweather9917  We no longer try to dehumanize the unborn baby. (The 1970s were a long time ago now, you know.) We say yes a fetus is a live human person, but pregnant women are entitled to get abortions anyway, and it's not murder when they do; it's a form of justifiable homicide. Not because of what a fetus is, but because of where it is.
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  1323.  @stormyweather9917  There are several ways. The only ones I don't know much about are the ones late in pregnancy. It's hard to find doctors who do those, because there are so few patients who want them, so I've never been able to find out many details about how they are done.
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  1324. She never did that. Read some real history, and read her own writing, to learn who the "human weeds" were. HINT: It had nothing to do with race, skin-color, ethnicity, national origin, or religion.
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  1325. Why?
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  1326.  @davidwomack5982  What's to investigate?
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  1327. Clarence Thomas has been eating Crow for 25 years, apparently.
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  1328. Should we leave it to the Chinese, Russians, and Middle Easterners? We don’t control the whole world. We are not the only players.
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  1329.  @710earl  HAhahahahahaha Funny joke
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  1330.  @brieziethirteen13  If you had been working with viruses for even one year, then you would know that Fauci did not "bulid" the virus (not even his worst enemies say that he had any direct hand in it; so far the worst they have said is that he has some responsibility for funding Chinese scientists who built it). Well, perhaps you can explain the difference in life-cycles between coronaviruses (which carry their genetic information in the form of RNA) and retroviruses (which also carry their genetic information in the form of RNA). What do retroviruses do which coronaviruses do not do, and how does the difference affect their different life-cycles and the different courses of the diseases they cause? If you have taken even one course which includes any information about viruses, you should be able to answer that in a few seconds without looking it up. I'm betting you can't even if you do look it up!
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  1331.  @uplanddigitaldreamer  But being falsely accused, by for-profit conspiracy-theory-minded loop-a-dupes, of treason, crimes against humanity, conspiracy, and lying to Congress, is not punishable at all.
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  1332.  @divinenation22  You don't have to prove or disprove anything! And that is a good thing for you, since you can't. But if you don't, then there's no reason for anyone to bother with your opinion. I go with what the mainstream says UNLESS someone shows that it's wrong (ie disproves it).
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  1333.  @divinenation22  There you go again, with this silly idea that ordinary people who don't know virology or epidemiology can form an opinion about COVID which is worth anything. Now, I am a retired antibody chemist and I know a bit about this - but I resist the urge to form my own opinion, because my expertise does not include virology, so I don't know enough. You, whose expertise does not include any biology at all, should resist the urge to form an opinion even more vigilantly. You should have only one opinion: the true opinion that you don't know the answer.
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  1334.  @brieziethirteen13  As I thought. You know nothing about this, but you have an opinion about it even so. That means you will be stupid forever. (Sorry to give you bad news.)
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  1335.  @Kobisashi  If you don't know English, I can't help you.
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  1336.  @brieziethirteen13  I'm sorry: what were you trying to prove by posting this patent?
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  1337. What's wrong with eating geese? They're great food, and in many ares of USA, they're pests when they're alive. Remember: Christmas goose?
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  1338.  @saltysoldier68  RE: "so is it a lie that majority of abortion clinics are located in low income areas?" Do you mean abortion clinics generally, or do you mean Planned Parenthood's clinics in particular?
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  1339.  @saltysoldier68  No, PP and abortion clinics generally are not "two peas in a pod". PP has a particular charter, which specifies that its purpose is to provide no-frills, minimal-cost care for patients who cannot afford better. For this reason PP tends to locate in poor neighborhoods, just as Salvation Army outlets do - because that is where the demand for their service is, not because of any conspiracy to keep poor people down by dressing them in shabby, ill-fitting, second-hand clothing. As far as sources go, I already spent time verifying what I say, some time ago, and I don't feel like doing it all again. That leaves you with three options: 1. you can take my word for what I tell you, OR, 2. you can go verify it all yourself, OR, 3. you can go on being ignorant, stupid, deluded, gullible, and wrong, for the rest of your life. I don't much care which you choose. It's a little silly to be talking about abortion clinics in the context of a discussion of Margaret Sanger anyway. Margaret Sanger opposed abortion, pretty vigorously. She turned women seeking abortions away from her clinics, and she described abortion as “sordid”, “abhorrent”, “terrible”, “barbaric”, "vicious", "the wrong way", "taking a life", a “horror” in the same category as infanticide and child-abandonment, and "a disgrace to civilization." She called abortionists “blood-sucking men with MD after their names." She said that the rights of unborn babies to protection were "no less imperative" than the rights of already-born children. She circulated an advertisement for her birth-control clinic which said: "MOTHERS! / Can you afford to have a large family? /Do you want any more children? / If not, why do you have them? / DO NOT KILL, / DO NOT TAKE LIFE / BUT PREVENT." She never advocated in any way for legalizing abortion. Planned Parenthood did not start doing abortions until after she had been dead for more than three years.
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  1340.  @saltysoldier68  I don't know. I learned all about Margaret Sanger's history long before there was such a thing as YouTube.
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  1341.  @saltysoldier68  My right to free speech does not include being allowed to post on any platform without the owner's consent. I don't mind being censored; I think it should be up to the owner.
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  1342.  @saltysoldier68  There is no evidence of Margaret Sanger approving of any kind of racism in her writings, known speeches, or life history. There are a few lines which you can quote out of context to make appear like endorsements of racism, but if you take the trouble to look them up in context and read the whole essay in which they appear, you see that they are not actually endorsements of racism.
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  1343. ​ @saltysoldier68  That comment is code for: "I, 'saltysoldier68, know that you, ColonelFredPuntridge, are correct about Margaret Sanger, so I'm gonna make a stupid joke instead of actually quoting (in context) anything she wrote, said, or did." Anyone can read the code.
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  1344. That doesn't let us off the hook. It just means that instead of recycling plastic, we're gonna have to live without it (at least, without most of it). Hardly a reason for Stossel to celebrate!
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  1345.  @StevenCashel  Absolutely. A lot of these anti-vax fictional stories are easy to spot because they attribute implausible behavior to doctors. The idea of a doctor who suspects worms or some other illness which is known to be treatable with Ivermectin, relying on the patient self-diagnosing the illness instead of testing the patient's stool (or whatever) is just silly. It would be rank malpractice. The medical board would ask him, under oath, "if you thought the patient might have worms (or any parasite), why didn't you test for them?" And if he can't give a good answer, then his career will be in danger. It's not difficult to test for parasites. You just dissolve a small sample of the patient's solid waste (or dead skin or hair or blood or whatever shedding part the suspected parasite is supposed to be occupying) in some water or saline, and use an inexpensive dipstick, like testing a woman's urine for pregnancy. Parasitic organisms make particular proteins which the human host does not make (just as pregnant women, and only pregnant women, make human chorionic gonadotropin (with a couple of exceptions like patients with certain cancers)), so the antibody-based dipstick can detect them. The idea of a doctor relying on a patient's word to determine whether the patient had or did not have worms (or some other parasite) is not plausible. Doctors are not generally careless, stupid, or self-destructive. Those who are get weeded out. Exceptions tend to be few, far-between, and visible, like rogue professionals who murder their patients, or gross serial-malpractitioners.
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  1346.  @StevenCashel  Safe? That is not disputed. But is it effective against COVID? That IS disputed. And where is there legislation saying what a doctor may prescribe any given drug for? Not in USA.
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  1347.  @KJ-lb4tj  Doctors in the industrialized world don't usually test for worms, because most people here don't get them. That's the point. That's why we don't usually take Ivermectin here.
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  1348.  @adrianjohnson7920  Worms, and parasites generally, come in different sizes. Some are observable with the naked eye; others not so much.
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  1349.  @jamescollins3647  Which other stuff do you mean?
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  1350.  @recumbentrocks2929  She didn't need Ivermectin, though, since she didn't have worms.
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  1351. A room-temperature superconductor would sure be nice. There’s a guy who keeps claiming to have discovered one but he appears to be a charlatan.
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  1352.  @joshuastavos4376  No, they didn't bribe Congress. They started withdrawing from the market and threatened to stop making vaccines available in USA. The message was: "if you don't protect us from these morons, we will walk away. Ask your constituents whether they want to start worrying about whooping cough, measles, and polio again."
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  1353.  @wilberwhateley7569  You don't have to speculate. The history is a matter of public record. Look it up! You can start at Wikipedia (which does not PROVE anything, but is a good place to begin researching, as it summarizes things pretty well and links to some good sources), the article on "National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program". And go from there. Spend an hour or two learning the facts, and then you won't have to guess about donations and that kind of thing, and you might actually know a little bit about what you are talking about. Most people find that knowing makes discussing stuff more fun.
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  1354. I have been saying since Reagan first campaigned on the slogan “Let’s make America great again”: those who trumpet it lack ambition. Why settle for only making America as great as it was? Why not aim higher and make America even better?
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  1355. If they are religious hospitals, then they shouldn’t be getting Medicaid anyway.
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  1356. I thought that the Georgia legislature empowered the governor to summarily shut down any state prosecutor. What gives?
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  1357. When I was in Leningrad in the 1980s, I met and heard about numerous young women who had had 10 or more abortions. I did some research and found out that much more important than how many abortions a woman has is how old she is when she has them. Fertility wise it’s probably better to have 10 abortions in your late teens and early 20s then to have one or two abortions in your 30s or 40s. So yes, the Soviet women had lots of abortions because the dysfunctional economy made it impossible to get any other kind of birth control, but their abortions mostly didn’t impair their fertility, nearly as much as you might expect from a scary number like 10 abortions in one’s medical history.
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  1358. Also, how dangerous and abortion is to future fertility, depends very much on the surgeons, skill or lack of skill. In Leningrad, it seemed that the surgeons, although they were horribly underpaid, were mostly reasonably good at their jobs. Also, now that I think of it, there was one exception to the rule of doctors and surgeons being underpaid, and that was gynecology, I mean sex doctors. They enjoyed very comfortable incomes, because, the government required them to report all cases of venereal disease, and patients used to reward them handsomely for disobeying this requirement – either reward them with money, but more often with special favors, which the patients jobs put them in a position to have access to. So if you were the daughter of a plumber, you might reward your gynecologist for treating your venereal disease without reporting it, by arranging for your father, to go unclog the pipes in his apartment without him having to wait for the government bureaucracy to arrange a home visit from a plumber employed by the government. This was called doing business by barter or in Russian “po_blatu”. It was pretty much the only way the service economy worked. So having a wide circle of friends and friends of friends was much more important than having money.
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  1359. One other thing: the safety or non-safety of any abortion anywhere depends very heavily on how early in pregnancy you can get it done. In Leningrad, the women, I knew were mostly university, students and pretty conscientious about taking care of themselves that way although they were not very good in many other ways – they drank like fish, and they chain smoked. One final story if I made about this subject, when I went to Leningrad, I brought with me enough American condoms to last my entire stay, which was one semester just in case I were to fall in love on day one. It turned out. I only used a couple of them, so when it was time to leave, I gave the remainder to one of my Russian language teachers. I thought he would think it was one of my obnoxious jokes – I was quite a practical Joker in those days – and I was quite surprised when he thanked me with tears in his eyes. I told my Russian roommate about this, and he explained that for an almost 4 month supply of American condoms the teacher could probably get enough good cuts of meat and good wine to have a feast every weekend for a year. All, of course, po-blatu.
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  1360. Type 1 diabetes; symptoms began when she was seven years old. That is NOT “a Healthy 69 year old”. That is time to get your house in order. It’s nice that she is taking good care of herself for most of her life but the benefits for that usually come in the form of being less likely to die in your 20s 30s 40s or 50s. They don’t usually get you much More longevity after you turn 70 or so. Smart, diabetes-educated folks know: If she gets to 76 without losing a leg or going blind or dying, of course, it will be a statistical miracle. Hoping for a miracle is not a strategy.
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  1361. Biden is clever. He could have gotten the debt ceiling fixed during the lame-duck session. But he didn't. Now the Republicans will have to choose: EITHER be responsible for the worst financial disaster in human history, OR cave and face the wrath of their disappointed loonie base.
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  1362. They were right
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  1363. That is very very stupid of you. Biden has his problems, but Trump is a paid agent of the international fraternity of billionaire wanna-be-autocrats.
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  1364. Right! If Trump were still President, we would be hearing that he was investigating and expected to have the answer very very soon. Why can't Biden tell us that???
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  1365. A better translation would be: "I don't rule according to my personal preferences. I rule according to the law."
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  1366. This comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGL4c-23Mxo
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  1367. Re:” the cost of the war overall” It’ll pay for itself if we help Ukraine win, in the form of preferred-buyer access to Ukraine’s rich deposits of lithium and rare earth metals. And Iraq and Afghanistan were completely different from this. The Iraqi and Afghan people were not begging us for help the way the Ukrainians are.
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  1368.  @crhu319  They do want USA's weapons and assistance.
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  1369. No science is not slowing down – science has always been slow — But I think you are looking at the wrong science. Sure, flexible phones, and denser computer chips are not breakthrough inventions, but look at for instance, mRNA vaccines, and the new strategy of developing drugs, which target the mRNA in cells which codes for objectionable proteins, instead of targeting proteins themselves (which was the old way). Look at the many recently developed chemical strategies of screening molecular libraries for compounds that do what you want rather than imagining compounds that do what you want and then trying to synthesize them. Look at the exciting work in synthetic biology and synthetic biochemical systems such as expanding the amino acid toolbox and the genetic code. Look at some of the exciting new developments in material science – stuff like synthetic tetrataenite. What is happening in science is that in many fields it’s becoming more capital-intensive, more dependent on robotic equipment and sophisticated hardware and less accessible to hard-working graduate students. And even that is exaggerated now. Remember, even in the first couple of decades of the 20th century, a lot of cutting edge science required very expensive specialized equipment way beyond the cliché amateur scientist doing groundbreaking experiments in his basement. Fritz Haber was only able to develop his chemistry for making fertilizer out of air because he had access to high-pressure gas-reaction chambers more powerful than anywhere else in the world. For a long time, cutting edge physics required state of the art vacuum chambers; and later, particle accelerators.
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  1370. "Petri dish" is not the right metaphor. It's a large-scale culture-vessel.
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  1371. RE: "What kind of person do you have to be to walk into a school and intentionally murder children?" ANSWER: You have to be a sociopath who has access to guns. We already have laws against sociopaths, and they aren't doing the job we need. THEREFORE, .......
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  1372. The Earthsea trilogy is exceptionally good. CITY OF ILLUSIONS also.
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  1373. At least we don't have a month of Tibery or Caligulary.
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  1374. @Steve Sheldon What do you mean "control for age"? The two groups - the test group (who got ivermectin) and the control group (who got placebo) were chosen at random. I mean in the new study described today (Friday March 18) in the WSJ, not in the one discussed in the video.
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  1375. I remember when the LORD OF THE RINGS movies were new, when the one which features Gandalf and Saruman in conflict when Saruman tries to hold Gandalf prisoner on the roof of his tower (I don't remember which one it was), and I asked a friend of mine whether it was good, and he replied: "well, I didn't like it, because I hate watching two feeble old men fighting each other."
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  1376. A map might be helpful …
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  1377. The fact that the government is responding slowly is a good thing! We're having this problem because we were too fast on the trigger with the vaccines. Warp Speed, remember? Take up your complaints with Donald Trump. This looks like the standard Republican trick: blame the sitting Democratic president for the problems caused by the preceding Republican president. They tried it on Obama, and on Bill Clinton. It never really works, but the Republicans keep trying....
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  1378. You don't even need a back yard to make fertilizer!
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  1379. So the organ grinder is gonna grind the monkey's organs?
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  1380.  @steviewonder417  Yes, voluntary. As in, you choose whether to participate or not.
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  1381.  @steviewonder417  It's not contradictory at all (unless you support a right to commit rape.) If she says "yes", and doesn't change her mind, then it's voluntary, by definition.
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  1382.  @steviewonder417  I forgot: you haven't read what she wrote. (It's funny how Sanger-bashers almost never know what she actually wrote.) Go read her essay "America Needs a Code for Babies", which was published May 27, 1934 in American Weekly. ACTUALLY READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE. Do NOT rely on the fake summaries and lies which your mendicant propagandists (including the folks who made this propaganda-for-idiot-viewers video) promote; read what she ACTUALLY WROTE. You will see that she rejected the idea of enforcing the requirements of eugenics by means of any kind of punishment or force: "Society could not very well put a couple into jail for having a baby without permission; and in the case of paupers a fine could not be collected. How then should the guilty be punished? ... [Since] punishment is not practicable, perhaps we can go the other way around and consider awards. If it is wise to pay farmers for not raising cotton or wheat, it may be equally wise to pay certain couples for not having [more] children." You see? Eugenics, promoted by the government, but with no punishment for disobeying the government and doing the wrong thing. In fact, the opposite: a reward for doing the right thing, which is: only have as many babies as you can afford to raise properly. A mandate with no punishment for disobeying is generally called a VOLUNTARY mandate. (I should not have to explain this to you. If you're gonna express an opinion about Margaret Sanger, you should already know what she wrote, and what she did not write. If you're gonna express an opinion about eugenics, you should already know the difference between voluntary eugenics and coercive eugenics. (Also the difference between affirmative eugenics and negative eugenics, and between scientifically unsound eugenics and scientifically sound eugenics.) You should not be basing your position on ignorance, and you should not be so stupid. LEARN first, THEN form an opinion, then learn MORE, then CHECK your opinion against what you have learned, and ONLY THEN post your opinions.)
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  1383.  @normbograham  There certainly were people who believed that government should decide who gets to breed, and with whom. But Margaret Sanger was not one of them. She discussed it at some length, which you would already know if you had read her writings. (Why is it that Sanger-bashers never seem to read anything longer than an isolated sentence or two?) The essay to read is called "America Needs a Code for Babies." In it, she explicitly rejects the idea that the government should punish anyone in any way for breeding without permission.
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  1384.  @normbograham  RE: "The book defined whom was acceptable." Really? Did it say anything about whether people who don't know when to use "who" and when to use "whom" should be allowed to breed?
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  1385.  @normbograham  And who is the author? If it's anyone other than Margaret Sanger, then I don't care what the book says or has in its title.
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  1386. Irish Catholic, on both sides (maternal and paternal)
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  1387.  @velisvideos6208  Why bring gender into this?
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  1388. Nobody, absolutely no serious health professional anywhere in the world has ever denied that natural immunity exists!
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  1389. What would have happened if you had just drunk some chicken soup?
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  1390.  @bajajoes1  How do you know that?
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  1391.  @stephenarling1667  Of course! But if that were a reason not to trust this one, then it would also be a reason not to trust any study on any controversial subject. Sure, we'll have to wait and see the actual paper, when it gets printed. But Dr. JC doesn't seem to have any problem talking about studies before that happens.
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  1392.  @christopherrobinson7541  But what about the other endpoints? The measured parameters were: hospital admittance (yes/no), length of stay, ventilation (yes/no), time on ventilator, time until clearance of virus (I assume by rapid test but that's only a guess), and time until resolution of symptoms. But as you say, let's wait for the final paper. (It drives me crazy when people let themselves become emotionally invested in this as if it were a sporting event or a political contest.)
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  1393. Jewishness is inherited from the mother, not from the father. Most Jews consider you to be Jewish if your mother was Jewish. IF your mother was non-Jewish, then you are too, no matter who your father was. (You can also become Jewish by converting to Judaism, but Jews discourage non-Jews from converting. No fooling: if you tell a Jew that you are thinking about converting to Judaism, he will say "Why? Being a Jew is a pain in the ass.")
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  1394.  @utha2665  Why should we have geographically determined districts at all? Let the voters choose which district they want to belong to when they register to vote.
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  1395. He won't answer a question asked by publicity-whore clowns.
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  1396. If Dems are looking for a super-good-guy-hero to save the day, the obvious choice is… Jimmy Carter! (“Why not the best?”)
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  1397. We have been a two-tiered society for a long time. There's nothing new about that! What is changing now is the living circumstances of the lower tier are getting worse and worse.
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  1398. The NUMBER of pardons is not what matters.
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  1399. Suppose it were. How would YOU know???
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  1400.  @tami4951  Who, me? I was welcome in my mother's body. Mom chose to gestate me and birth me, willingly. If she had been unwilling, I would rather be aborted than have her be forced to bear me against her will. If you were any kind of a person at all, you would feel the same about your mom.
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  1401.  @alittlewheiser521  Of course it doesn't! I'm not specially entitled, except inside my body. And you are specially entitled inside your body. That's why we don't let the government force you to get an abortion (any more).
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  1402. Internet search-engines are your friend.
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  1403.  @texasjack  Yes, as I said, my complaint was only a semantic quibble. But it might be an embarrassing one in some contexts.
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  1404. From Beethoven's opera FIDELIO: "Wenn sich Nichts mit Nichts verbindet ist und bleibt die Summe klein." Look it up.
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  1405. For what crime?
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  1406.  @naonaohu1821  And what did you learn? Or rather, what do you think you learned? Before the pandemic, you knew nothing about virology, biochemistry, epidemiology, statistics, immunology, or medicine. Now, after the pandemic, you still know nothing about virology, biochemistry, epidemiology, statistics, immunology, or medicine.
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  1407.  @naonaohu1821  No, I don't know all, but I do know a bit of immunology. Unlike you. (Retired monoclonal-antibody guy, I am.) No one knows the origin of SARS-CoV-2. I don't; Fauci doesn't; Trump doesn't, and you certainly do not. And I can tell you this much: if SARS-CoV-2 had been a weapon of biological warfare, it would have been much worse than it was.
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  1408.  @naonaohu1821  You are a loop-a-dupe. There used to be specialists in cult-deprogramming - if your kid joined the Moonies, you'd take him to see one of these specialists. You should consult one!
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  1409.  @naonaohu1821  You seem to have a limited imagination. Just as well, really.
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  1410. “… allowing jurors to pick one of three …” That’s not what happened. He was only indicted on one — altering business records in the first degree. That was not the jurors’ choice. But it requires that there be an underlying crime which the criminal was concealing by altering the business records, and several possible underlying crimes were presented and the jury did get to choose which ones they thought trump was trying to hide. That— choosing an underlying crime— is very different from choosing among charges. The charge of altering records to conceal a crime doesn’t change depending on which crime is concealed.
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  1411. He was indicted on 34 count of the one crime. So maybe I should not have written “only indicted on one”. This doesn’t change the point, though.
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  1412. Counts. Counts!
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  1413.  @d.r.u.  Right.
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  1414. OK, the virus causes spike protein in the brain, and that damages the brain. But the virus does too!! So it seems that the only thing worse than getting vaccinated is not getting vaccinated. The only really safe thing to do is go live alone in a hut somewhere, and hope there aren't any bats.
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  1415. My reaction to school shootings: If I were a teacher or a principal, or a dean, or a don, I'd much rather get fired, than get fired upon.
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  1416. RE: "What happens when Americans finally start knocking on their doors at their homes?" Those Americans will be shot for being dangerous trespassers, same as you would do if a visibly hostile stranger started knocking on your doors at your home. That's (most likely) what would happen.
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  1417. If Dema decide to expand the Supreme Court, my advice is think big. If you expand it only a little, to, say, 13 justices, then the Republicans will just expand it again, and there will be a gradual stepwize escalation and oscillation of power which will be frustrating for everyone. The way to avoid this is simple: be bold, leap the entire distance the first time. Expand the court, not to a paltry 13 justices, but to 49 justices, and appoint forty dedicated progressives to all the new seats. That way, if Republicans try to retaliate by expanding it again, they'll be looking at a Court larger than the US Senate itself. An absurdity even the Republicans won't want.
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  1418. Ninety-nine percent of the people asking Fauci hostile questions would not understand the answer if it were given seriously.
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  1419.  @hensonlaura  No. This video lies without apology or remorse.
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  1420. My gods, what a stupid video. Freedom of speech doesn't mean letting someone shut down everyone else by shouting nonsense.
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  1421. Don't count your weasels before they pop. The anti-gun backlash is just beginning. Go to your history books and review how quickly public attitudes about, for instance, drunk driving changed because of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). One day drunk driving was considered a minor traffic infraction, punishable with a ten-dollar fine; a few months later it had become a prison offense. Because enough angry moms got together and shared the experience of losing their kids to drunk drivers. The moment is coming. And when it comes, the moms won't care what the Supreme Court majority - a bunch of bribed crooks appointed by presidents who were elected by the obsolete, antiquated Electoral College against the true will of the voters - have to say about the question.
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  1422. Can you define what a woman is?
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  1423.  @HemiBurns  Well, yes, I probably could, if I thought about the question. But you see, I AM a biologist (strictly speaking I am a retired antibody-chemist, but antibody-chemistry is a form of biology, obviously, and most of my career was in the business of inventing antibody-based medications, which is a bio-science), so the fact that I can define what a woman is doesn't have any bearing on Ketanji Brown-Jackson not being able to define it because she's "not a biologist". But this is all moot anyway, if you take the trouble to watch or read what she actually said. She was talking about the fact that many laws have "definitions" sections which define the terms used in the text of the particular law, including terms which are commonly used differently in ordinary conversation. Words like "woman", "parent", "child", "mother", "father", "caregiver", and part of the judge's job is to interpret the law according to the definitions given in the law, or, if the "definitions" section doesn't include the term in question, according to current technical/scientific jurisprudence, not according to the way a stupid uneducated grunt/hick like Senator Blackburn might use the term in ordinary speech. (Oh, I shouldn't call her "uneducated": she did graduate from college with a major in ... home economics!!! LOL).
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  1424.  @HemiBurns  The point is you can define "woman" many different ways, and a judge is supposed to define it in the way which is most relevant to the case she is presiding over and judging, according to the definition given by the relevant law itself, if it gives one. The judge is NOT supposed to walk into the courtroom carrying the burden of a pre-decided definition.
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  1425. "'Free-dum?' That is a worship-word. You shall not speak it!" -- Star Trek (TOS) episode "The Omega Glory".
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  1426. It's because women are giving birth later and later in life. The average age of childbirth in UK has risen steadily from mid 20s in 1980 to very-early 30s in 2022. THAT is why the complication rates keep rising, not because of vaccination or COVID!
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  1427.  @Chicken_Little_Syndrome  Have you ever heard of a procedure called SEQUENCING NUCLEIC ACIDS? Look it up. (I'm assuming that you have finished tenth grade.) THAT is how they knew there's a mutant strain. Here, this should help you get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnF1b_Kqf88
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  1428. Defecation of character
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  1429. Amen!
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  1430. Wait a few years; you'll be able to get a job in a business that they will create for you.
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  1431. The cult of Trump will go away when the Trumpies die off. Since 2016 millions of elderly voters have died and millions of teenagers have aged into the voting population, moving the majority further away from Trump. That's the trend which will end Trumpism as a force.
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  1432. That is because you are stupid and you don’t know history.
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  1433. Half Hannibal Lecter, and half Naomi Wolf.
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  1434. Hahahahahahahhah That's a funny joke. In real life Dr. Fauci is a scientist on the level of Bruce Ames, Stanley Falco, Thomas Starzl, and Frances Arnold.
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  1435.  @dedetudor.  Ummmm... No, that's not the "very definition" of "synthetic biology" although making mutants is one part of synthetic biology. Some synthetic biology goes way beyond just making mutants. For instance, making living organisms which store genetic information in forms other than DNA or RNA, or in mixed DNA+RNA genomes, or, which have an expanded toolbox with more amino acids in it than the standard 20 common amino acids (along with an expanded genetic code which tells the organism's protein-synthesis apparatus when and where to put the additional amino acids). In other words, synthetic biology is much much more complicated than you imagine (going by your comment). There are also forms of synthetic biology which are simpler than making mutants. Hybridomas, for instance, are synthetic biological organisms, but I worked with them for many years before I ever made any mutants! And in order to determine whether it's dangerous or not, you would need to study the subject for, probably, five or six years, at least. As it stands now, you are like someone who does not know any of the rules of boxing, but tries to referee a professional championship bout. You see one fighter knock the other down, and you think "ahh, he scored!" but you don't realize that the knock-down punch was an illegal backhand, and that the one who threw it should be penalized and lose a point, not gain one. (The answer, of course, is: some forms of synthetic biology are dangerous, and other forms are much less so.)
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  1436.  @emackg1  As a retired immunochemist (practical monoclonal-antibody chemist) I can tell all these turkeys commenting here: Fauci's scientific career impresses and amazes everyone who knows anything about his field; I should say, everyone who knows about any of his fields. Sure, he's a bureaucrat now, but that happens to most research scientists: as you mature, you pretty much stop doing experiments, and write about what your grad students, post-docs, and technicians do. And he still does epidemiology, which is a true-blue science but requires no experiments, just observations and discussion. Pretty much all the criticisms of him are based EITHER on lies, OR on the fallacy that changing ones position on a question when new data come to light is somehow a flaw or a fault; in real life, it's an essential virtue. The trouble in the world is caused by scientists who FAIL (or refuse) to change their positions when new data come to light. A few days ago, Fauci was asked, in an interview, what he would have done differently if he could go back in time to 2018 and re-live the whole COVID experience. He answered: "If I were to do something differently, I would have put more effort into trying to explain the uncertainty of the situation and not make it seem that when I say (this) today, that absolutely that’ll never change.” And that is also what he meant when he said that some of his critics were actually objecting not to him but to science. He was talking specifically about the critics who blasted him for saying one thing one week and changing his tune the next week. That's not just him; every scientist worthy of the name does that. And THAT is what he meant when he said "they're not really criticizing me ; they're criticizing science itself." His job was never to deal with COVID, or Ebola, or HIV. His job - and he's one of the very few who can do it well - is to advise us on how to deal with a pathogen more terrifying than any of them: the dreaded Pestis WeDontReallyKnowYetWhatTheHellItIsOrWhatItsGonnaDoNext.
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  1437.  @thewiseperson8748  No one in epidemiology or virology or public health considers him a fraud!
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  1438.  @deemahalsanonah1944  Luc Montagnier is a well-known post-Nobel-Prize crank. Like William Shockley and Kary Mullis and even Fritz Haber.
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  1439.  @ChalrieD  LOL A multiclade env-gag VLP mRNA vaccine elicits tier-2 HIV-1-neutralizing antibodies and reduces the risk of heterologous SHIV infection in macaques. Zhang P, Narayanan E, Liu Q, Tsybovsky Y, Boswell K, [...] Carfi A, Fauci AS, Lusso P. Nat Med. 2021 Dec;27(12):2234-2245. Pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease. Moir S, Chun TW, Fauci AS. Annu Rev Pathol. 2011;6:223-48. doi: 10.1146/annurev-pathol-011110-130254. Review. Novel vaccine technologies for the 21st century. Mascola JR, Fauci AS. Nat Rev Immunol. 2020 Feb;20(2):87-88. Free PMC article. Review. From mRNA sensing to vaccines. Fauci AS, Merad M, Swaminathan S, Hur S, Topol E, Fitzgerald K, Reis e Sousa C, Corbett KS, Bauer S. Immunity. 2021 Dec 14;54(12):2676-2680. Free PMC article. Measles in 2019 - Going Backward. Paules CI, Marston HD, Fauci AS. N Engl J Med. 2019 Jun 6;380(23):2185-2187. Free article. No abstract available. [........] For instance.
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  1440.  @ChalrieD  Even if that were true, it wouldn't matter. Arranging to have access to things which no one else has access to is part of what makes a good scientist good. If the scientist were substandard, he wouldn't be able to get into a position where he would have access to the things he has access to. One example is a guy who was on the faculty at my grad-school alma mater when I was there (although he was quite an old man by then, an antique on display): Melvin Calvin (Nobel Prize for chemistry, 1961), who discovered the first few chemical steps in photosynthesis (the Calvin cycle, which you may remember learning about when you were in high school) was only able to do it because he had access to large quantities of 14C-labeled CO2 before anyone else did (because he was at the university where the nuclear reactors were at the time, producing 14C in high quantities).
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  1441.  @ChalrieD  You obviously don't know what you're talking about. To call him sub-standard is like calling someone like General Patton, or Colin Powell, substandard. It's silly. The professional hierarchies involved are too competitive and too selective for substandard people to rise to the presidential level.
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  1442.  @ChalrieD  It's not faith; it's experience. Not in government - I never worked directly as a government employee - but I have done work funded by government and I have worked in companies which interacted with parts of the government and I have been watching government science policy for a very long time. So no, I don't have faith, but I do have a bit of experience. It's just impossible to reach the level of being director of one of the National Institutes of Health (as Fauci is - in his case, NIAIDS) without being an outstanding scientist. (Just as, you can't rise to the level of being director of a national particle-accelerator center without being an outstanding scientist, and you can't rise to the level of being director of a space-mission without being an outstanding scientist.) Also, besides being an outstanding scientist, you have to be very very careful, very diplomatic in your professional life. Eric Lander learned this the hard way.
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  1443.  @ChalrieD  Once again: You don't know what you are talking about. Can you describe, for instance, the difference between the life-cycle of a retrovirus and the life-cycle of a coronavirus? What does the retrovirus do which the coronavirus does not do, and what are the consequences for the patient?
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  1444.  @ChalrieD  Fauci, a "very average" scientist? If he were, how would you know? Have you read any of his scientific papers? Do you know what scientific work won him the National Medal of Science, which he got in 2005? Average scientists don't usually win the National Medal of Science. That is for the top, the cream - kind of an American Nobel Prize - for world-changing scientists like Donald E. Knuth, Thomas Starzl, Carl Djerassi, John Tukey, Bruce Ames, Melvin Calvin, and Glenn Seaborg - scientists whose work really changes the world and improves everyone's lives. And I'm waiting for you to answer my question: what is the main difference between the life-cycles of retroviruses and coronaviruses (both of which store their genetic information in the form of RNA, not DNA), and what are the main consequences of the differences for the patients? Someone like you, who thinks he can judge the quality of Dr. Fauci's work, must surely know the answer.....
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  1445.  @Psychiatrick  What is that supposed to mean? Do you imagine that Dr. Fauci is Jewish? What kind of moron are you?
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  1446.  @ChalrieD  Once again, you don't know what you're talking about. If anything you said about yourself were true, you wouldn't need to look up the answer to my question; you'd be asking why I asked you such an easy question. Also, you would know that many great scientists are not good speakers. His track record of important papers in first-rate journals (like, for instance, PNAS, and NEJM), and in what you might call "ordinary science journals" (like, for instance, Journal of Immunology ) is one which any scientist would envy. You can find impressive work by Fauci as far back as the 1970s. For instance (and notice how many of these papers he's senior author - the last author on the paper - of. That means he's ultimately responsible for the work - it's his lab. The first author is usually the person in the lab who did the work.) * Adjuvant effect of cholera enterotoxin on the immune response of the mouse to sheep red blood cells. Northrup RS, Fauci AS. J Infect Dis. 1972 Jun;125(6):672-3. * The relationship between antibody affinity and the efficiency of complement fixation. Fauci AS, Frank MM, Johnson JS. J Immunol. 1970 Jul;105(1):215-20. * Correction of human cyclic neutropenia with prednisolone. Wright DG, Fauci AS, Dale DC, Wolff SM. N Engl J Med. 1978 Feb 9;298(6):295-300. * Activation of human B lymphocytes. III. Concanavalin A-induced generation of suppressor cells of the plaque-forming cell response of normal human B lymphocytes. Haynes BF, Fauci AS. J Immunol. 1978 Mar;120(3):700-8. 1980s: * A clinicopathologic correlation of the idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome. I. Hematologic manifestations. Flaum MA, Schooley RT, Fauci AS, Gralnick HR. Blood. 1981 Nov;58(5):1012-20. * Characterization of a monoclonal antibody (5E9) that defines a human cell surface antigen of cell activation. Haynes BF, Hemler M, Cotner T, Mann DL, Eisenbarth GS, Strominger JL, Fauci AS. J Immunol. 1981 Jul;127(1):347-51. * Chromobacterium violaceum infectious and chronic granulomatous disease. Macher AM, Casale TB, Gallin JI, Boltansky H, Fauci AS. Ann Intern Med. 1983 Feb;98(2):259. * Human T4+ lymphocytes produce a phagocytosis-inducing factor (PIF) distinct from interferon-alpha and interferon-gamma. Margolick JB, Ambrus JL Jr, Volkman DJ, Fauci AS. J Immunol. 1986 Jan;136(2):546-54. 1990s: * Kinetics of cytokine expression during primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. Graziosi C, Gantt KR, Vaccarezza M, Demarest JF, Daucher M, Saag MS, Shaw GM, Quinn TC, Cohen OJ, Welbon CC, Pantaleo G, Fauci AS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Apr 30;93(9):4386-91. * Presence of an inducible HIV-1 latent reservoir during highly active antiretroviral therapy. Chun TW, Stuyver L, Mizell SB, Ehler LA, Mican JA, Baseler M, Lloyd AL, Nowak MA, Fauci AS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 Nov 25;94(24):13193-7.
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  1447.  @CoolGobyFish  That is his job NOW.
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  1448.  @ChalrieD  Once again you show you know nothing about this. I don't think I'm gonna bother explaining this any further. I'll just point out that the papers I picked included a more or less representative sample of papers where he is first author, papers where he is secondary author, and papers where he is principal author. So whichever you prefer, you can take your pick. Oh, and I'll correct you on one point: there's nothing weak about being a secondary author. The secondary authors are the ones who actually did the work that is in the figures in the paper. This can mean anything from doing an experiment to creating a reagent used in the experiments to coordinating a bunch of other experiments into figures and tables and diagrams. If anything you do ends up in the figures, then you're a secondary author.
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  1449.  @ChalrieD  RE: " the first author did the work, last author’s lab, and everyone else pitched in significantly. " And that is exactly what I said. Except that where you wrote "pitched in significantly", I wrote "took some data that appeared in the figures" or some such, which means exactly the same thing. And institutions are not, usually, "INCOMPETENT and CORRUPT or not; they are always somewhere in between. It's not a question of whether an institution like NIDA is incompetent or not or corrupt or not; it's not one or zero; it's a question of HOW MUCH incompetence or corruption there is in the institution. In any case, what we were discussing was whether Fauci is an important scientist. The answer is, now he's a bureaucrat, (which is what many great scientists aspire to be) but in his heyday he was a groundbreaking, foundational immunologist and epidemiologist. (My personal favorite scientist in USA (judging by his work, not by his character), the great PG Schultz, recently became chairman of his department, and seems to have stopped doing science altogether. But no one says he's not a great scientist; he's on the short list for a Nobel Prize.)
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  1450.  @ChalrieD  That may be, but I am better qualified to evaluate a scientist's career than you are.
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  1451.  @ChalrieD  If you think that Fauci is "average", then no, you haven't hired any scientists. The sheer number of his publications - even leaving out the importance of their content (and some of them are very important) - the sheer number of them (more than 1,400) already puts him in an exceptional class.
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  1452.  @ChalrieD  To do what?
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  1453. Trump will sell tech-access to the bidder who offers the largest secret bribe, whoever it may be.
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  1454. Now might be a good time to re-read Arthur C Clark’s short story “Superiority”.
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  1455. Clarke
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  1456. The government won't be able to fix our gun problem by micromanaging. When it comes to managing details, the government, frankly, sucks. What the government should do is something it has done quite well in the past: DELEGATE the problem to private individuals and groups - to the great, creative people of the USA. Now is the time to delegate, with all our skill and strength! In particular, delegate the responsibility to the folks who understand guns and gun-safety and gun-ownership best. The folks who understand guns and gun-issues best are gun-makers and gun-sellers. Second-best are the gun-owners (some of them). How can the government motivate these folks to solve the mass-shooting gun-problem? There is a simple answer. Make them an offer they can't refuse. The government should implement the following policy: if you sell a gun, and that gun gets used in a crime, or kills someone by negligence, then you suffer the same penalty as the criminal, regardless of all other circumstances. They'll say "hey, I can't read my customers' minds! How am I to know he's gonna use the gun in a crime?" The answer is: that's YOUR problem. You are the expert on guns. YOU figure out a way. Or, stop selling the damm guns. Or, get ready to go to prison alongside of the customer who got a gun from you and used it in a crime. And, (word of advice) the first thing you need to do is stop thinking like a loser. "The problem is hard, how am I supposed to solve it? Boo-hoo, it's not fair!" That's how losers talk. No one ever accomplished anything that way. Be a winner. Be an American. Figure out how to solve the problem yourself.
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  1457. I’m surprised that he didn’t say anything about the possibility of someone making a third-party or independent run, either as a non-Trumpie conservative or as a Berniesque lefty.
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  1458. You are still here because the shots are not dangerous in real life. They are only dangerous in your fantasies, and the for-profit anti-vax movement is getting rich by selling the danger-fantasy to loop-a-dupes like you. "MAGA": A protest-movement, not a plan. It has no more real meaning than "fight the power" had when we all chanted it 50 years ago.
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  1459. Yes, but then you have to deal with an infection.
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  1460. Margaret Sanger opposed abortion. Loudly. She turned women seeking abortions away from her clinics, and she described abortion as “sordid,” “abhorrent,” “terrible,” “barbaric,” "vicious,", "the wrong way", "taking a life", a “horror” in the same category as infanticide and child-abandonment, and "a disgrace to civilization." She called abortionists “blood-sucking men with MD after their names." She said that the rights of unborn babies to protection were "no less imperative" than the rights of already-born children. She circulated an advertisement for her birth-control clinic which said: "MOTHERS! / Can you afford to have a large family? /Do you want any more children? / If not, why do you have them? / DO NOT KILL, / DO NOT TAKE LIFE / BUT PREVENT." She never advocated in any way for legalizing abortion. Planned Parenthood did not start doing abortions until after she had been dead for more than three years.
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  1461. It's not, strictly speaking, a warfare agent, but it is a weapon. The timing of its release makes this obvious to anyone who follows the current trends in classical music. That sounds nutty, but bear with me. The virus was unleashed in 2019 in order to prevent the opera houses in Europe and USA and South America from staging Puccini's last opera, Turandot (if you are familiar with the aria "Nessun dorma", that's from Turandot) because it is set in Peking ("Pekino") and depicts the Chinese people as brutal savages ruled by a sadistic tyrant. Turandot had become trendy again (the opera world is very faddish; all the opera companies watch all the other companies and try to do what they are doing) and numerous opera houses, great (La Scala, the Met, Chicago Lyric Opera) and small (Regina Opera in Brooklyn) were getting ready to do it. The current government of China - Xi - couldn't stand for that. And look at how well their plan worked! Now that the pandemic has more or less resolved (not just temporarily, we hope) the companies are doing operas by Puccini, but, notably, not Turandot. They're doing La bohème and Il Trittico. So the Chinese strategy seems to have worked. This is why the pathology of COVID is so harmless, relative to what it could have been. The Chinese government didn’t want to kill a lot of people, only to sicken us enough to shut down the opera houses and get the companies to choose a new repertoire.
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  1462.  @daviebananas1735  Everyone says that, but it wouldn't work - one side or the other would immediately start figuring out a way to appoint partisans on their side to the "federal group". You are putting your faith in an "objective" arbiter, but there aren't any reliably objective arbiters. And you didn't say what the problem would be with allowing everyone to choose their own districts. "It seems too arbitrary" is not a substantive objection.
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  1463.  @daviebananas1735  Not these days, when the computers can find every little vulnerability and the politicians are eager to exploit every vulnerability. Letting the voters choose their districts would radically eliminate the whole gerrymandering problem, present and future. Getting ones followers to choose their districts strategically would become part of the political process, as good as any geography-based system at resolving political conflict without bloodshed, which is, after all, the main benefit of democracy.
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  1464.  @Cog_Nomen  Is anything really "unique to an area" these days?
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  1465.  @Cog_Nomen  OK, but people who don't live near that particular mountainside might care about it too! If I live on one side of the state, I still might be concerned about what the state government does on another side of the state. Especially if environmental issues and pollution are involved.
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  1466. One of the most lied-about humans ever to draw breath.
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  1467. First of all, the argument that electrical energy is created by burning fossil fuels doesn't work, because it's much more efficient to burn fossil fuels in a large, continuous operational reactor than to burn it in many small, on/off engines. In on/off small engines in cars, the heat changes the dimensions of the components, so that much of your ride is very inefficient, This is less true with electric cars where there is less heat because you're not burning anything in the engine when you drive them. Secondly, the whole gripe about mining assumes that the current technology and geopolitics related to mining will not change. But in real life it almost certainly will change. Sweden just discovered a huge deposit of rare-earth metals, which may well be possible to keep out of the hands of the Chinese government. I bet we can count on the Swedes to treat their miners more humanely!. Also (key point from late 2022, still very new) the currently-used permanent magnets which use a lot of rare earth alloys may be replaceable with magnets made of tetrataenite. (Look that up if you don't know what it is; NPR did a piece on it, but it can be made into very strong permanent magnets, and it contains no rare earth elements at all, only iron and nickel (and elemental phosphorus as a catalyst in its manufacture.)
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  1468. Yes, if we could wave a magic wand and stop the world from doing genetic modifications of the virus, that might well be better than continuing to do the research. But we can't. There is no magic wand we can wave to stop everyone from genetically modifying the virus. Sooner or later someone will modify it and make something very nasty indeed. It's too easy to modify the virus and too easy to come up with a strategy for designing nasty variants one could make if one were a crazy bad-guy with too much money. (I actually could write down a simple flow-chart for doing it if I wanted to.) Also, harmful variants can and will arise naturally. So we have to try to stay ahead of the bad-guys and ahead of nature. We have to get there first, in order to be ready when someone else gets there.
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  1469. How is your airway? Do you have difficulty breathing?
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  1470.  @RootzRockBand  Excuse me. I'm not trying to steer anything. I'm only pointing out that something can display an audible heartbeat and still not be alive. Therefore, an audible heartbeat, by itself, is not enough to qualify as evidence of human life. Any claim you make that this is "steering" the conversation in any direction is something from you, not from me. Personally, I don't care if an unborn baby is alive, or when life begins, or any of that distractive govno. Even if it is alive, if it's inside my body, being sheltered and sustained by my internal organs, then I get to decide how long to let it stay there, no matter what it is and no matter what will happen to it when it leaves. I would be entitled to get rid of it even if it were a fully-aware person, standing up inside me, playing a violin, and solving previously-unsolved math problems. If all the human beings in the whole world were (somehow) located inside my body, then I would have a right to get rid of them, or, to spare the ones I like, and get rid of the ones I don't like. If God were located inside my body than I would have a right to kill God.
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  1471.  @drsomeone1  You can survive several minutes - without a heartbeat. Brain damage usually begins after five minutes.
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  1472.  @drsomeone1  RE: "but if the baby is aborted at 35 weeks because the woman simply doesn't want him..." Then you are living in some alternative universe, not this one.
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  1473.  @annmalleybooks  Mengele is irrelevant
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  1474.  @ajolleyduck2933  There is no such thing as the "natural order of life".
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  1475.  @maggie648  I was welcome inside my mother's body. My mother chose to have me, willingly. If I had been unwelcome, I would rather be aborted than have the government force her to carry me against her will. If you were any kind of a human being at all, you would feel the same way about your mother.
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  1476.  @3namechangezalowdevry90day7  Delivering the baby before it is viable ex utero is called "doing an abortion".
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  1477.  @3namechangezalowdevry90day7  Sure, if the patient is willing to shelter and sustain it inside her body that long, and, if she is willing to endure the delivery when the fetus is that large. I thought we were talking about situations where she's not willing.
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  1478.  @3namechangezalowdevry90day7  RE: "You're still trying to claim "castle doctrine"?" No sir. Body doctrine. Medical autonomy. RE: "Castle doctrine applies to a threatening intruder, not an innocent family member...: Of course! But body doctrine is not subject to any such limitation. It applies to everyone. Absolutely everyone, with no exceptions. It applies to God Himself. RE: "... you invited in..." Only for a short stay, to be ended when I say, regardless of all other considerations. RE: "... and who can't leave for medical reasons. ..." See above.
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  1479.  @Alice-iu7gx  No, I'm not comparing anything to anything and I'm not making a "'gotcha' argument". I'm pointing out the true fact that hearing a heartbeat does not necessarily indicate life. It could indicate a fake heartbeat.
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  1480.  @Alice-iu7gx  A baby's heartbeat can be faked too. There are fetuses which have heartbeats but no brains and no minds. And there are fetuses which have heartbeats but also have defects which render them unable to survive more than an hour after being born. That's what Governor/Dr. Northam (who used to be a pediatric neurologist before he went into politics) was talking about.
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  1481. Even after you watch the video, you still don't know. Everything Dr John says could be wrong, and you wouldn't know!
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  1482.  @UniversallyEnergetic  The question remains: do you know enough to understand the papers he links to? To an untrained reader they might as well be written in secret code. The idea that you can "check for yourself" is, for most people, an illusion. For instance, suppose there were an important confounding factor the authors were overlooking. Would you be able to spot it?
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  1483. The AMERICAN people are not capable of understanding the answers. The AMERICAN people know nothing about virology, immunology, epidemiology, statistics, genetics, medicine, pharmaceutical chemistry, or biotech. But a gang of con-men have convinced the AMERICAN people that they can understand these subjects without training or study. Isaac Asimov knew: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
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  1484. What about the spouses? They have access to the justices' home computers, and probably also have the passwords they need, and in one case the spouse is a prominent right-wing activist. Question the spouses. And (where applicable) the kids.
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  1485. So are the Salvation-Army stores. It's a conspiracy to keep poor people down, by selling them shabby, ill-fitting second-hand clothing. What an evil organization!
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  1486. It's actually mostly fake history.
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  1487.  @donnastokes-manning6175  Planned Parenthood is designed for indigent patients who need minimal, no-frills care and cannot afford better. That's part of their charter. They are like the Salvation Army, for gynecology rather than for clothes. And the Salvation Army is not part of any conspiracy to keep the poor down by dressing them in shabby, ill-fitting second-hand clothing. You get clothes there when your only alternative is to wear nothing at all.
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  1488. No he's not. He's only pretending.
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  1489. My prediction: go look up how Nixon won a reelection landslide in 1972. Biden will do to the Trumpie gun-wackos in 2024 the same thing Nixon did to the anti-war hippies in 1972: provoke them to more and more repulsive demonstrations, run against them, promising to protect democracy and reasonableness from them, and win in a landslide. The Old Mongoose knows strategy and has seen everything.
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  1490. Even the most honest people in the world don't like wasting time.
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  1491. Or maybe they knew something which you don't know.....
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  1492. Senator Graham asked "Can an unborn child feel pain 20 weeks into the birthing process?" Her answer was pretty good: "I don't know". I would have answered: "Senator, I have never heard of anyone whose birthing process lasted 20 weeks. If there were a childbirth in which the process (sometimes called "labor and delivery") lasted 20 weeks, I don't know whether the baby would feel pain, but I'm quite sure the woman giving birth would. (Brrrrr!)"
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  1493. Her eyes flashed fire.
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  1494. Is he related to Ben Hur?
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  1495. Yes, this is very sad and disturbing, but not very common.
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  1496. Don’t be too harsh with Clarence Thomas. He has been depressed ever since he learned that Daniel Arthur Mead used a prosthesis.
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  1497. EPITAPH FOR A SPY is very good. But the top-level ones (IMHO) are PASSAGE OF ARMS, THE LIGHT OF DAY, and DOCTOR FRIGO.)
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  1498.  @honestcomments6412  Even if that were true, requiring you to vax in order to go out in public was still justified, based on what we knew, and didn't know, then. The vaccine MIGHT have protected people you encountered outside. This is what you donkeys don't get about Fauci. We weren't dealing with SARS-CoV-2. and that's not his special expertise. We were dealing with a much more dangerous pathogen, which is his special expertise: the dreaded Pestis Wedon'tknowyetwhatthehellitisorwhatitsgonnadonext. That justifies restrictions which now seem foolish in view of what we have learned since then.
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  1499. I used to love popular science, until COVID. "No gobbledygook" is all very well, but you have to remember that the gobbledegook is usually where the meat of the story is. Popular science is all very well, so long as you don't buy into the illusion that you can understand a story well enough to predict what's gonna happen, or understand what has happened, without understanding the gobbledegook. With COVID, the whole problem has become manifest: too many people who don't know anything about virology, epidemiology, immunology, medicine, or statistics think, and are being encouraged to think, that they can evaluate whether our response to the virus has been good or bad, whether Dr. Fauci has done his job well or badly (or honestly or corruptly), what the origin of the virus was, whether vaccines work, all this kind of thing. Remember: if you don't understand the gobbledegook, then you don't understand the issue.
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  1500.  @sparky7915  No harm, if it amuses you! Just be aware that you don't understand it well enough to make any predictions about it. Will the room-temperature superconductor work, or is it just another of Professor Dias' delusions? Or, will it turn out to be another one of these things which works great in a lab-demonstration, but cannot be made into a practical technology because it encounters too many stupid little incidental problems along the way, and can never be really ready for prime time? Without understanding the equations, the only answer you can give is: YOU DON'T KNOW enough to say how it will turn out. So don't advise anyone to (for instance) invest any money in it (or not). Just remember that as you watch, and you'll be OK.
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  1501. The money will come back if Ukraine survives, in the form of sweet deals on buying rare earth metals, and lithium, from Ukraine's abundant deposits.
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  1502. Doesn't matter what it is. What matters is where it is. My ownership of my body includes a right to kill anything located inside it. Anything. If ALL the human beings in the whole world were (somehow) located inside my body, then I would be entitled to kill any of them or all of them. If God were located inside my body, then I would have a right to kill God.
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  1503. Choke-holds are unreliable. I know a guy - a former soldier in the US Army - who was stationed in Russia and met his future wife there. They married and were trying to find an apartment in a big city. There was another guy, a native Russian, who wanted the same apartment. He came to their home to negotiate. At one point my friend had to go to the bathroom. While he was relieving himself he heard his wife shout for help; the Russian was attacking her physically. My friend rushed to her side and got the guy in a choke-hold. Well, he was, apparently, a bit too enthusiastic about it and the guy choked to death. You can imagine, a US soldier who killed a Russian, he had no chance in court. He got nine years for the Russian equivalent of involuntary manslaughter.
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  1504.  @genericscout5408  Sure! I'm only saying that choke-holds are not reliable. If you know how to administer one, don't! Future historians will write clever essays comparing this case with the case of Bernard Goetz.
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  1505. It's great fun spending on the credit card. Paying the bill isn't so much fun.
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  1506.  @GT-dh5nk  Or, you can sharpen your wits, and find a way to change the facts of life. We invented the polio vaccine. We can invent a gun vaccine too!
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  1507. The thing to remember is: incidents of passengers doing nice things for each other are VERY MUCH more common on the NYC subways than this kind of garbage-behavior. Even in the poorer, bad-service parts of the subway system, you're much more likely to encounter random benevolence than violence.
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  1508. “… and I think she’ll be a terrible president.” Did Donald just predict that he is gonna lose?
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  1509. I often wonder: Does Iran want to own nuclear weapons? Keeping nuclear weapons in good working order is a big expensive never-ending pain in the ass. And if Iran were to own nuclear weapons, she would soon find herself in the middle of a gigantic, never-ending arms race against all the Sunnis and Arabs in the Middle East.
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  1510. A fake version is taught these days: the one in this video. Here are a few corrections to common lies about Margaret Sanger: 1. She OPPOSED abortion. She was pretty outspoken about it. Planned Parenthood didn't start doing abortions until she had been dead for more than three years. 2. She didn't want to exterminate any racial or ethnic group. 3. She didn't want government to forcibly sterilize anyone for being a member of any racial or ethnic group; also didn't want government to forcibly sterilize poor people for being poor. 4. She didn't like the Third Reich; she was writing about how awful they were as early as 1933. 5. She didn't speak at any KKK rally, and did not like the KKK. She addressed an indoor meeting of the women's auxiliary KKK once, in spite of her misgivings about them, because she was willing to try to find common ground with anyone, and she reported having the impression that her audience were all half-wits. She received numerous invitations to address them again, but declined all of them. 6. She didn't hate black people. The purpose of the N*gro Project was to help black Americans, by making birth control available to them and to inform them about it, so that they could stop having more children than they could afford to raise, which was the same agenda she had for everyone. The black community was insular and mistrustful of outsiders, so, bringing knowledge of birth control and its benefits to them presented a special challenge, so, they got a special project. Members of the N*gro Project's board of directors included W. E. B. DuBois (one of the founders of NAACP), Adam Clayton Powell (first black congressman to represent New York State in the US Congress) and Dr. John W. Lawlah (the Dean of the medical school at Howard University). 7. She didn't advocate any general policy of coercive eugenics. She argued that when birth control was widely available, people would choose freely how many children to have, and the results of their free choices would be eugenically beneficial to society, as more successful people, who could afford larger families than less successful people, would choose to breed more, increasing the occurrence of heritable traits conducive to success, in future generations.
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  1511. Of course. Before you use any reported scientific discovery, you first must make sure it's really true. I don't know why people have this fantasy that they can use someone else's discovery without first confirming it in your own lab. That's like marching into a minefield just because the map doesn't show the mines (yet).
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  1512. So now that the hempen-homespun lack-brain public has gotten used to the term "gain-of-function experiments" (without knowing anything at all about what it means, and how its meaning varies in different contexts), the anti-vax loop-a-dupes have come up with a new bugaboo-term to try to scare you with, and that term is: "Directed Evolution". Shiver and shake, kiddies. Quake in your boots, soldiers! Big, scary directed evolution is coming for you and your families!
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  1513. There's a great way for President Trump to use this to his own advantage. First, go very public and make Biden's people agree, en masse and on camera, that Biden will debate several times, provided President Trump releases his tax returns and agrees to have a mutually-agreed panel fact check what the candidates say. And then, President Trump should do it all: he should release his tax returns, and, agree to the fact-checking panel. And then, show the voters what an idiot Biden is. That would be perfect political jiu-jitsu. Come on, Mr. President, do it!
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  1514. Ronald Reagan proved that cognitive decline is not a significant impairment for a president.
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  1515. But they are right, and you are wrong. Just on the facts, I mean.
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  1516. Of course, what she meant was "we have to pass it to see whether it will work".
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  1517. I looked up the user's manual for the gun. It has some funny lines in it: "!WARNING When a firearm discharges [sic.] the bullet or shot can strike a person, resulting in death or serious bodily injury.” (Yeah.) "IF A FIREARM GOES OFF, THERE WAS A ROUND OF AMMUNITION IN THE CHAMBER. Period." No sht, Sherlock. Really??? The gun comes with a "trigger safety" and a "firing pin block", and a "factory-supplied locking device", for all the good that'll do. The manual includes a helpful tip: "!WARNING Failure to secure a firearm may result in injury or death. Properly securing a firearm means storing your firearm unloaded, decocked and securely locked, with all ammunition in a separate location" This helpful tip is preceded in the manual by another helpful tip: "Securing your firearm may inhibit access in a defensive situation and may result in injury or death" So I guess when it comes to securing your gun, you're fcked if you do, and fcked if you don't. Another helpful tip from the manual: "!WARNING Never leave your keys in the lock when the lock is installed on the firearm." Yeah, that's the kind of thing I would do.
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  1518. Not a chance.
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  1519.  @floridanews8786  That is not the reason. The reason they will never put him in jail is that he has not committed any crime, and everyone who is serious knows this.
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  1520.  @rayrussell6258  I'll believe it when I see it.
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  1521.  @rayrussell6258  Only idiots presume to form opinions on subjects about which they know nothing. Suppose Fauci had committed crimes. How would you know?
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  1522.  @rayrussell6258  Not a sheep nor an ostrich. A boar, perhaps.
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  1523. The thing at the end about a state governor jumping in and providing some motivating inspiration to the young voters who are disgusted by both geriatric-R and geriatric-D, is interesting. But it wouldn't have to be a governor! Remember how Ross Perot jumped in in 1992, and showed that we didn't have to go on trying to think about the post-Cold-War world using the obsolete, Cold-War, mutually-assured-nuclear-destruction-and-spooky-spy-stories conceptual framework? Suppose a hitherto-non-political person - someone like, say, Jodie Foster - were to enter the election, inspire a lot of young people, get a following, and then, at the key moment, drop out and throw her support behind Joe Biden. He would win in a landslide, and she would be positioned for a strong serious bid of her own in 2028, having been the one who saved the Democrats' asses in 2024. Sound impossible? It's not very different from what Ronald Reagan did 1976 (following up in 1980), and Ross Perot 1992. (Ross turned out to be nutty, but by the time he withdrew, he had enabled us to break out of the Cold-War mentality and start thinking appropriately for the internet-age, and Bill Clinton was just as effective in that context as Perot would have been.)
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  1524. Is the question: "who turned out to be right, when we discovered what we know now" or is it "who made the best recommendations given that we didn't know what we know now"??? It's easy to be right AFTER you know all the facts. Dr. Fauci's special expertise is not corona viruses, not HIV, not COVID. His special expertise is in dealing with a much more terrifying pathogen: Pestis Wedontknowyetwhatitisorwhatitsgonnadonext. Very few people are good at dealing with that particular pathogen.
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  1525. I pretty much thought as you did at first - that IR comes up from the surface and gets absorbed by greenhouse gas or emitted into space, and the more greenhouse gas the more absorption and less emission. I remember an argument long ago with a real physicist in which he told me that the question wasn't emission from the surface through the atmosphere; the question was how high the emission occurred in the atmosphere. I had no idea what he meant by that. Now, thanks to your video, I have a little bit of an idea. I still don't understand the details very well but I think that may be because I have Charles Laughton on the big screen and I'm watching you on the little screen. (The Laughton movie is Jamaica Inn, an obscure early Hitchcock movie which Laughton was in and kind of usurped control over from Hitchcock, effectively becoming the de facto director as well as the leading star.)
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  1526. Sure, but that costs a lot of money.
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  1527. The Satanic Temple is not what you think it is.
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  1528. The question of fracking is complicated. Energy is complicated. Most Americans do not know enough physics and chemistry to understand these questions. “My values have not changed, but my understanding of the physics and chemistry has changed” Is a very reasonable answer at this point.
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  1529. Vinyl chloride is explosive. What would you do with the tanker-cars? Sit on them and wait for an explosion? Release the stuff without burning it? Burning it makes it LESS toxic.
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  1530. Zero.
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  1531. The government is quietly requiring gun manufacturers to include self-deactivating devices in guns. The government can deactivate any gun by sending a signal from a satellite. You will think you can use your gun to defend against tyranny, but when you pull the trigger your weapon will not fire, or, it will blow up in your face.
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  1532. You mean if peaceful people were armed and properly trained
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  1533. That's not what FBI is concerned about. FBI doesn't care whether or not you deny Him or are ashamed of Him. FBI cares about whether you are planning to commit illegal acts of violence because you think that that would be a good way to serve Him (or for any other reason).
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  1534. It only seems that way to you because you don’t know anything at all about fracking or energy. Go back to school and take a major in organic chemistry. Come back and talk to us again when you have learned the abc’s.
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  1535. I don’t usually buy into conspiracy theories, but in this particular case, the alternative hypothesis — the hypothesis that what actually happened is what they are telling us — the “no conspiracy” theory — is many times more implausible and absurd than any conspiracy theory.
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  1536. I’m not an expert, but I don’t think it’s right to call this conflict a conflict “between two sides“. There’s a lot more than two sides in this. We already have a hint about this which we display when we say things like “ordinary cousins are not evil; Hamas is evil!“ We’re already out admitting that there’s at least three sides: Israel, Hamas, and ordinary Gazans (or whoever, if anyone, represents the ordinary Gazans). Doesn’t this make the idea of solving the problem by having “both sides” make “binding commitments“ inadequate? If two sides agree to a binding commitment, some other active entity, maybe one we haven’t even heard of maybe one that doesn’t exist yet, will jump in and break the peace with some kind of attack or sequence of attacks, and it’ll take a very long time to learn who did it and why and meanwhile the agreement (whatever it was) will be destroyed, void or meaningless.
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  1537. Oops, I see that my voice interpretation software wrote “ordinary cousins” when I meant to write “ordinary Gazans“. Sorry about that!
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  1538. And they stole a bone from my dog's supper-dish! Outrageous!!!
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  1539. Oh, so now the new sca-a-a-a-art freak-out buzz-phrase the right-wingers are gonna use to frighten the loop-a-duped into sending more money is “directed evolution”. Be afraid of “directed evolution”! It’s even more dangerous than “gain of function”!!! Remember: anything you don’t know about or understand is very very very bad.
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  1540. That's less than 2% of abortions. Maybe less than 1%.
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  1541. Trump is more dangerous as a distractor than he is as a potential second-termer. What I mean is: it would be very bad if he became President again, but, if progressives focus on stopping him and let some other far-right type become President, that will be worse.
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  1542. Fans of JRR Tolkien will remember that when Bilbo Baggins tried to weasel out of a problem by talking In mysterious tones about what he had in his pocket, it didn’t turn out very well for him either.
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  1543. My mom is NINETY-three, and she's in better shape than I am. (Low bar, but even so.) She could handle the presidency easily.
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  1544. Four minutes in: Fauci didn’t say that gain-of-function research is absolutely essential; he said that manipulating viruses is absolutely essential. And he’s right. He said that the term “gain-of-function” has no meaning unless you specify the context. I have been pointing this out for weeks: it means different things to different speakers and writers and scientists. It’s like the term “eugenics” or “progressive” in this way.
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  1545. But strict adherence to the letter of the Constitution would be even more pro-choice than Roe v. Wade.
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  1546. Do you like gefilte fish and matzoh-ball soup?
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  1547. Because it's difficult to measure, and the stakes are very high. It sounds like it should be easy to measure - just measure resistance, and look for zero - but superconductivity can exist without long-range zero-resistance. You can get small microdomains in material which superconduct within the microdomains but not between them.
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  1548.  @norman_5623  Exactly!
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  1549.  @ianmcgillivray5883  ????
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  1550.  @ST-LA  Look up the term "95% confidence interval".
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  1551. RE: "What would happen if we all just didn’t pay our taxes, and put that money into building our families and local communities?" You'd get arrested and sent to prison. Next question, please.
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  1552. Won't you have to mention her again to tell us how the appeal goes?
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  1553. I said at the beginning, mRNA should be a rapid-response, temporary measure. We should switch to protein-vaccines, so we can be quite sure how much protein the patients are getting. Maybe warp-speed was too fast. On the other hand, it's not clear that there's a problem. So the mRNA lasts longer in the patient than we expected before. Who cares? With most immunizations, longer is better. What matters in the end is not how long or how much mRNA there is. What matters is how much protein there is. That's what we need to know next.
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  1554. You like having a home-computer, don't you?
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  1555. I think Trump will not do prison time. He will either go visibly mad and vanish into the elite-level mental-health system (like Jim Bakker), or, his legal team will delay the legal proceedings against him until he dies of natural causes. Remember, he's about four years younger than Biden, but Trump is also clinically obese (according to the medical charts used to classify patients by weight) and obesity adds about three years worth of danger.
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  1556. “Ah! Sia maledetta, la strega, la strega infernal!” —Il trovatore
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  1557. The more-important recent breakthrough in materials to watch - the one to keep your eye on - is tetrataenite. Look it up!
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  1558. We still revere whistle-blowers, but we don't revere fake whistle-blowers who pretend to know something that needs to be revealed but it turns out to be nothing at all.
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  1559. Finally.
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  1560. Professor Allan Lichtman’s track record is even better than Moore’s.
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  1561. Eating Crow for three decades
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  1562. NY should respond by sending convicts who have completed their sentences for gun-crimes to Texas. Since Texas likes guns and thinks they should be more readily available to everyone, including gun-criminals who have served their sentences, they won't mind at all, right? They'll welcome the newly-released gun-criminals with open arms, won't they?
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  1563. They should review the story of the Golem.
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  1564. Jim Jordan is probably not as stupid as he pretends to be.
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  1565. Jimmy Failla is pretending to be an idiot. The fact that Fauci changed his position on masks when new data came to light, makes him MORE reliable, not less reliable, than someone who refuses to change his position. (The same is true of his change on whether AIDS could be transmitted by non-fluid-exchanging contact, by the way.)
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  1566. It won't work.
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  1567. ​ @PCJustice70  "There's a sucker born every minute."
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  1568. OK, but then what do the Kalidas (bodies like bears, heads like tigers) represent? How about the Hammerheads? And the dainty china country?
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  1569. What a joke. The FBI is heavily Republican - in its corporate/policy decisions and in its personnel.
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  1570. Or maybe he knows something you don’t know
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  1571. Oh dear. He doesn't say anything that William F. Buckley and William Kristol and that crowd haven't said many times in the 1970s and 1980s. Sowell may be right about some things, but he's hardly a "great intellect". He's just a programmable mouthpiece repeating the standard right-wing boiler-plate on education. The main reason public schools tend to do badly is that they're not allowed to reject anyone. When public schools ARE allowed to select their students and turn away unprepared or unqualified applicants (like the public school I graduated from, which was a science-and-math magnet school with a challenging entrance exam), then they do just as well as any private school.
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  1572.  @thetrumpnewsnetwork7503  Exactly. Sowell is just parroting the old Reagan formula: libertarian economic theory as a cover for big tax-cuts for the top one percent of income-getters, and for everyone else, fake "family values" to promulgate the illusion that poor people have only themselves to blame for being poor, because they have sex outside of marriage, and their poverty is a punishment for committing such a horrible sin. This has been the establishment Republican line since 1980, and Sowell repeats it over and over again, and these young idiots think he's some kind of super-genius. "The greatest intellect of our time". Spare me! My younger sister is a greater intellect than Sowell is.
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  1573.  @golden.lights.twinkle2329  Uncommon nonsense.
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  1574. Does anyone dispute the benefits of natural immunity? I don't think even Fauci denies it. The problem with natural immunity is you only get it if you get infected. So it's not a strategy. It's just something that happens.
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  1575. No it won't. There's plenty of rural representation in states like California and Texas, which are selectively disenfranchised by the Electoral College.
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  1576. Do you think Joe Biden made Us energy dependent? When? I must’ve missed that.
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  1577. HOW?
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  1578.  @jamestierney2531  From the first sequel to THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, which was titled THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ: "...it is a Joke," declared the Woggle-Bug; firmly, "and a Joke derived from a play upon words is considered among educated people to be eminently proper." "What does that mean?" enquired the Pumpkinhead, stupidly. "It means, my dear friend," explained the Woggle-Bug, "that our language contains many words having a double meaning; and that to pronounce a joke that allows both meanings of a certain word, proves the joker a person of culture and refinement, who has, moreover, a thorough command of the language." "I don't believe that," said Tip, plainly; "anybody can make a pun." "Not so," rejoined the Woggle-Bug, stiffly. "It requires education of a high order. Are you educated, young sir?" "Not especially," admitted Tip. "Then you cannot judge the matter. I myself am Thoroughly Educated, and I say that puns display genius."
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  1579. The solution is obvious. Have the doctors amputate your head. No brain, no pain, right?
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  1580. The RA symptoms probably would have started even without the jab.
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  1581. It seems like Peter is listing current Trends in scientific research (I say trends, but some of my friends were still in the scientific research business would say fads) and describing some of their current limits. That’s not a good way to think about scientific innovation. Technologies of the future, and if anything can save us from our demographic doom, it will be technologies of the future, will be surprising and probably very different from what we imagine now. Just as many or most of the futurists who, back in the 1960s, predicted the computer age got a lot of details wrong. Arthur C Clarke for instance predicted one giant supercomputer mounted on a satellite, with a team of resident astronauts on hand to replace the vacuum tubes as they burnt out. How many readers, before the pandemic, were aware that mRNA vaccines might be useful for preventing diabetes, or colon cancer, and that this was a good reason to fund researching the method?
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  1582. VAERS is worthless, that's probably why.
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  1583.  @GamerTNGTY  The violence of J6 may have been insurrection, protest, or tantrum. But the attempt to bully state electoral officers into "finding" votes for Trump which weren't there, and the false-elector trick, certainly were insurrection attempts - attempts to subvert the Constitution which he had sworn to defend, and that is the criterion in 14A section 3.
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  1584.  @bobcob3362  The presumption of innocence only applies to criminal defendants. Not to people who want to be listed on ballots. Who gets listed on a ballot is up to the individual state where the ballot in question is.
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  1585.  @andrewholmes1889  I'm not only saying that gun-owners should have liability insurance (although you're right, they should). I'm saying they should be required to have it, as a condition for being allowed to own a gun.
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  1586. She objects to the controlled burn? The controlled burn reduced the toxicity of the chemicals! The only thing worse than doing the controlled burn would be not doing the controlled burn.
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  1587. Prison beds are expensive. Where’s your money?
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  1588. Suppose a creditor tries to collect a debt from Freddie the Sleep-Demon. Suppose he sends Freddie a letter demanding the money, and warns him that his good credit may be at stake. Can we say that the creditor would be ... [drum roll, please] ... DUNNING KRUGER?
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  1589. The history is interesting. Basically, the companies which manufactured vaccines were getting sued out of business because juries did not know anything about medicine or immunology, so it was easy to get them to rule against the vaccine-makers, by appealing to emotion rather than explaining facts. So the vaccine-makers went to Congress, and said: we need you to protect us from this garbage-anti-vax-fake-science, and if you don't, then we're gonna stop selling our vaccines in USA altogether. Ask your voters whether they want to go back to living without vaccines, in terror of polio, and to dealing with epidemics of measles and mumps and rubella ('German measles')." The Congress-members gulped and replied "OK, you win. We'll create a special court system for vaccines, to protect you from ambulance-chasers and ignorant idiot-jurors." And they did. And everyone lives more or less happily ever after. They should also create special court-systems for health-care workers generally. Not special immunity from lawsuits, but a special system which guarantees that the jurors who rule on their cases must have some minimum level of knowledge of the subject.
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  1590. The Old Mongoose (Joe Biden, also the boxer Archie Moore) still knows how to win a fight. Look at what he has done: he has maneuvered the Republicans into having to choose whether to be responsible for the worst economic meltdown in human history, and looking like squishy swamp-types in front of their loonie base. Strategy. It's strategy. Biden knows how to handle any challenge, because he has already seen one like it sometime in his past. Remember, he has been fighting this fight longer than half a Century.
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  1591. Do you know the history of how that special court came to be? Look it up; it's an interesting bit of history.
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  1592. Yes, things were tough in 1974, but there some of the best movies ever were made that year. Chinatown. The Taking of Pelham 123. Blazing Saddles. The Godfather Part 2. Death Wish. The Front Page (the remake with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Big Bad Mama.
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  1593. Good! That means she won't be ruling based on what she thinks the law should say; she will rule according to what the law does say.
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  1594. Lithium is not “fuel”. It’s energy-storage material.
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  1595. (Just as a lunchbox is not food.)
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  1596. PREDICTION: The SCOTUS will decide for Trump, on a party-line vote, just like Y2K, when they decided for W over Gore. Like Y2K Trump will lose the people's vote and win the Electoral College, because of the EC's well-known Republican bias..
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  1597. The current Republican party has a propaganda policy with two parts: When things are going badly, complain about the economy and unemployment; and, when things are going, well, complain about inflation.
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