@ceed4f56 Good place to remind folks that the original Congress pay, adjusted for inflation up to today was about 20K$ per year. That was what Founders intended.
@669563d8 All those will help some aspects of the problem but the worst is irreversible. Jab is modifying genetics. Permanently. Creating a new, uncontrollable branch of immune system that is poorly specialized and in constant production. It will, sooner or later, start attacking other things in the body, the body itself. No technology exists to stop that.
@eaf071d1 Article mises immense difference between French and American revolution goals. It is not just right and left. Best illustrated by the fact that French don't have oath of office, instead President is inaugurated by a phrase "we recognize you as our Grand Master" as opposed to American oath of office where President (at least) promises to keep and protect Constitutional order, not to be a Master.
@1a4328b2@60d98082 Or elect Christie! One (only?) good thing he have done as Governer of NJ was to ban usage of red light and speeding cameras in the State.
@d4f294ac And that last line is where the core of the cheat is. There is no way in human controlled world that it will not be perverted . Even in current scientific community, even outside of politically used science ( ex AGW) humans in power in scientific community abuse it for their wants. So, all technocratism is may be better labeled bureaucratism.
@c27cc646 How would they know is the key of why they are doing this. They want unwarranted access under "inspection", additional benefit is that they can practice eco-abuse but the key is unfettered access to private homes and businesses. And they will come.
@f0081e1d Cigarettes and drug companies at least noticed they need to keep the product good. I quit Google search way back in 2011 because during that year results for general searches became very poor. I test them now and than and current general searches are even worse. Why does anyone use it is beyond me. (General search example - "makers of LCD panels" ... I quit cold turkey when 1st non-ad result for that returned to me was... Tourist bureau of Cinque Terre site [and I know why])
@f47c4255 From libertarian viewpoint: DOJ and USPS need to stay, reform and anti corruption but stay in size and scope. NASA stays in dramatically more focused role, no outreach, no propaganda,... space research and engineering. Of the rest, FED is clear first choice for clearing the house. After that it doesn't matter the order, maybe DHS and CIA to prevent undermining of the process. But all the rest can and should go. Best way for them to go: executive order of indeterminate suspension
@f47c4255 For us it happened faster, concentrated in time and with loss of quality/coverage. Same employers 2000-2016, virtually no change in cost or coverage 2000-2010, 0% increase. 2011 about 25% increase and introduction of mandatory "health testing and reporting" or jump would have been 50%. 2012 55% increase in a single year and doubling of out of pocket and deductibles. 2013 further 50% increase. 2014-2016 about 5% per year increases and further increase of deductibles.
@20e16d96@c586c339 Just as in multiparty systems, if you have a goal it may not be pointless, if he wants to help bring this Dparty down he might be successful
@61c8a35a Not really, Newsome have already stated that he will appoint interim as the election for that seat is next year. So, it will be filled quickly.
@c5601f6c Another important change with vaccines happened over time, underlined by 1980s indemnification law: laws and regulations allowing otherwise known dangerous content in them (most famously Hg but not only it) and allowing unconscionable production sanitary and quality control conditions in facilities that make them. So, it is not only more vaccines but the ones in use now are with dangerous content, of poor quality and questionable efficacy...
@7c55c76e My reading of "keep and bear" is that certainly all weapons that can be carried and operated by an individual are protected. Modern machine gun -yes, RPG yes, shoulder antiaircraft yes, armed drone yes,... where I would accept SCOTUS ruling is anything larger, for me that is the real gray zone (at the Founders time people owned cannons...) and as such for expert readers
@7ea6f088 The only bit for negotiations is where Russian border will be. Cracks in EU support are already large, human resources in Ukraine are already wearing thin. But, it is not only de-NATOization, it is also de-EUization because of clear trends toward single EU military. Hence, I think basic Russian demand will be fully demilitarized, neutral rump Ukraine with borders protected by UN troops (and I think they'll stick it to the West w African troops) w USA-EU-Russia treaty ban from NATO&EU
@3c72b5f3 BS. Join elite GERMAN military unit as a step toward independence of your country. Next you'll tell me feeling like a woman is what is definition of a woman. Absolute nonsense, those who joined were rabid, new converts eager Nazis, they joined ideology.
@95b57652 All these Neanderthal models are suffering from the same artist blindspot. It is proven that their skeletal eye openings are dramatically larger in proportion to humans. It is also proven that in all primates size of eyes is in proportion to skeletal eye openings. Neanderthals didn't have human sized eyes, they in particular didn't have small squinty eyes. Should be portrayed with big, bulging eyes, much larger than human, evidence is tere.
@3e6503cb I am all for NetNeutrality as in all 'Net social networking companies being mandated to equally and with full non-discrimination (full freedom of speech AND full freedom of reach) treat all non-criminal speech and content. Only when said speech or content is found criminal in a Court of law should they be allowed to remove or suppress it. When full freedom of speech and freedom of reach is in hands of people, then we can talk about its equivalent for Corporations.
@ac655fa4 Consequence of squandering the best, the willing and well trained on nonsense strategy aimed at theatrical presentation instead of real warfare. Now the core of the force are forcefully "harvested" people from the streets with no interest in fighting, with minimal, insufficient training. And they too are sent to unrelenting grinder by officers, many of them NATO foreigners who could care less, far behind the lines. They would be stupid not to surrender.
@b7f095d5 You should stay away from Covid shots but, science of VitD activation of the immune e system is known and clear. Where they even conceptually misfire in this article: it is pointless to take extra VitD "for the occasion", be it shot or travel or whatever. Key science that made me start with large daily doses of it in 2002 is that what matters is long term high level of VitD in blood, took me 9 months to achieve it, then it stays as a new norm. Keep it over 50ng/ml, easy blood test.
@b7f095d5 What did large daily doses of VitD, leading to 50ng/ml or greater concentration in blood do for me? Despite previous frequent colds and flu, despite extreme exposure and aging (contacts with 100s of students daily and frequent domestic/international travel for crowded conferences and worldwide scattered family) since 2002 I had ZERO instances of any respiratory tract illness. No vaxx of any kind too. Even through CV times I travelled several times for crowded overseas events. Nothing.
@9b6d110d As long as licensing, inspections and even taxes are done for the sole purpose of real direct public interest and for funding real specific Gvt services they are OK. Hence, such period existed. Problem is that since POTUS Wilson in USA Gvt grasped that they can use those for social engineering aimed to distortion of free market.
@9b6d110d Real direct public interest is that rat poison is not sold as seasoning but mandating gas mileage for abstract global interest is not.Taxes fully spent on local infrastructure are good specific service but Gvt giving anyone any subsidies is not.
@29940347 For every action there is reaction. Movements are strong in many EU states to get out, driven by WEF policies of EU that intentionally hurt economies and living standards of people used to the opposite. As well as insane immigration and Russia war policies. Latest one serving in country after country as a fuse for protests.
My opinion is that Russians started war when they did to catch EU economies with pants down due to WEF damage and cause this EU fracture on long term.
@277bbc94 It all started with shifting Overton window of people allowing seat belt laws. If people were wise,obsessives who wanted to control your action in your car that certainly has no impact on anyone else would have been stopped then and there.We must roll back all the way back there. Consequences ONLY for proven damage done, not for social engineering goals. For seat belts(and now air bags) mandate their existence in the car so those who want them can use them as an example,that's all
@b3e72378 Why only "mass shooters"? My solution would be Federal felony for any crime committed while using a firearm. Mandatory life in jail and no pleading down if nobody got injured or died. Anyone injured or dead, mandatory death penalty.
@357cdba8 And it is irrelevant, carbon footprint is nonsense. For all aspects of our life and work we should thrive for the cheapest and most abundant (free market principles say these two come together) energy supply. That would make AI cheap too and that is the important part.
@6e25d688 Cutting edge Sci on it: According to the best speculative theory at the moment, Quantum mechanical behavior holds up to exchange of at least one graviton. We haven't found a graviton yet but, upper limit on its mass is about as much as a flea. Hence, Schrodinger cat was most likely nonsense but Schrodinger flea might be proven true...
@597ed22e Key quote to understand modern education mindset: "...upper-middle-class white collar families need to work extra hard to make sure our children do not get swept away in this feeling of 'I must do more,'.."
@32bf8579@d7af9dea@41995660 Points of disbelief: Substance extremely toxic to ticks in minuscule amounts when processed and diluted throughout human body yet, safe for human. Lyme disease spread by tick attached for more than 24hrs- stated by people who obviously haven't had been bitten by a tick. I could perceive heavily inebriated human not noticing it for 24hrs, not an ordinary person. Not to mention biology of it, tick bites you pathogen is distributed, doesn't need tick any more.
@acfcaeff I am split between "let them" and not, because I know from the proven Math that searching for needles in the needle field inevitably leads to endless mistakes but, some of those mistakes are in missing real danger and some in accusing innocent... AI won't help them, same affliction is known in that field as "hallucinations" but it is just inescapable Math.
@cbebc6e3 Examined some old school pictures. I do remember 90% people but no reunions, I moved across the ocean before those started. Maybe outlier confirming the rule.
@f47c4255 Their kid. Now, if there was Gvt in place that would prosecute that person if daughter suffers related health damage... that would be functional system.
@c215902f Well, both of my grandfathers participated in two wars but haven't lived long as a result of German captivity for one and Communist captivity for the other. However, I still have uncle who is 95, fought in one war, not only smoked all his life but unfiltered cigarettes by dozens and spent most of his working life as a captain on a diesel submarine... I think a day of his life would kill most of the modern youths.
@02977916 It is real and there is serious consequence for podcasters who fail to grasp that they should own their feed. There are such, just last week I tried to find the feed for excellent photography related podcast, my app couldn't find it, nothing on their website... turns out they were hosting it exclusively on Google Podcasts and you could find it only searching on Google Podcasts...
@of nothing@cbebc6e3 ChatGPT like applications of AI are sealable nonsense. No,CGPT search results don't even approach say, pre-2011 Google search results (matching current search nonsense).
I work in the field.True technological leap of AI is not in things we humans can do.Art of any kind for example.It is in things we can envision but can't possibly do. Very little of that is visible to the public and for now is highly specialized but that is difference of walking 5mph and driving 50mph
@eaf071d1 While the card itself is of questionable legality and the unreliability of it actually makes it more on the legal side, very few people realize that asking you for it and being ready to deny products/services based on it is explicitly criminal, not just unlawful. There we encounter reverse catch 22, what is the use of it being criminal if Gvt who should enforce that bit actually wants this to happen?
@056d6548 Self driving cars are oxymoron as long as they share traffic with human driven vehicles and pedestrians, bicycles,... It can't be done. What is required is "phase transition", sudden switch to total automated car traffic and that won't happen. What this tech, actually way simpler version of it, can be used for is the next transportation revolution-fully automated human transport flying drones at low altitudes. Physical engineering is here, NASA already has automated traffic ctrl 4 it
@357cdba8 One sane thing Ford is doing and they go after it against their own interest. Obviously WEF friendly "electric everything no matter what" are in UAW charge. Ford is losing enormous amounts on electric vehicles. Dealers are protesting not wanting to receive any more. It is in interest of UAW that Ford immediately cease any active losses not to invest more in losing. Where do they think their salaries come from and how long paying for losses can last?
@205381b6 Convoluted one: get some pigs. Raise and particularly finish them using acorns, you got Jamon Iberico. If you happen to have pasture with both acorns and mulberry trees, you have my grandfather's secret recipe for which communists sent him to 3 years of really hard labor. Call it Serbian Ham.
(Grandpa' used this traditional method, commies came and ordered how he must "properly" raise pigs, he didn't and had outstanding results. Not good for commies, you better do as told, 3yrs h.l)
@c586c339 Stop printing money to start with but the rest is illusion. Real inflation is way over interest rates. Real inflation is triple the "savings treasuries".Housing market will go up in these conditions. Top need is to cut energy prices as that has crucial reverb through whole economy, these people won't.Second is to actually cut Gvt spending and employing, only with that will printing cessation help.These people won't.Their plan is to hurt general population-disempower,unemploy,impoverish
@8d9dfa9f AI will not kill us on it's own. It is powerful tech, trains don't typically kill us, nor bulldozers, powerful tech. However you can purposefully build not bulldozer but tank or your train may run out of control. Creating great damage because of their power. Those are dangers of AI, humans building them as a weapon, humans building them for useful purpose but carelessly losing control. So, no AI won't kill us, people in power over it might.
@91f99226@c1d79855 We should know by rational thought. After less than 2 yrs into it Ukraine is hunting people on the streets to force them into army and shifting up and down ages to force more people in. Bringing in mentally disabled too. Not someone's propaganda, their factual, published policy. There are not enough mercenaries to fill the gap. Russia just raised 130K recruits by ordinary rules. Human resources->war ends by end of 2025 on Russian terms.
@1c531fb6@f0140f36 When talking cheap consider reputation as well. We used Geico and stayed with them after Superstorm Sandy destruction. Even for them it took 4 months to pay and they have not objected to any of our claims, even increased what we asked for. There were neighbors even year later stuck with total destruction and no resolution with other companies.
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