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  Guy on a Buffalo

  by Simon in

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  2. humour

  ok, i don't know if madness has set in, but this seems awesome.. seriously, you need this in your life.

  you probably just don't know it yet.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij4t9cqa0um.

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  So I posted this and then 9 months later a Guy With a Buffalo (hat) almost became the next President.

  Coincidence?
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  Are faders like me just cowards? Should I show my face?

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. experiences

  i feel bad i just faded away and did not "come out" as an apostate hater.

  my mum died refusing blood and still i hang back my wife still has witness friends and goes to the memorial every year..

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  No, you don't owe anyone anything, certainly nothing to any bunch of militant activists who undoubtedly want to create martyrs for their cause.

  Everyone should do what is best for them and their family, with no concern for voices on the internet.
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  U.K. Nurse Vaccinated With Covid Shot Has Covid Weeks After Getting Vac!

  by minimus in

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  someone i know from england is a nurse.

  she told me there was an outbreak at the hospital and she got the virus after being vaccinated.

  she said she was told it probably would have been much worse for her had she not gotten vaccinated.

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  Many issues with it and deaths quite high in nursing homes among elderly receiving vacs.

  Deaths are always high in nursing homes. You should check the average life-expectancy of those going into them.

  I think the question people should be asking is which vaccine do they want to have? Interesting comments about the different vaccines on the last Real Time with Bill Maher (Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying)

  Don't know if this clip includes them, it was the only link I could find:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGWLLDSA3c
  
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  How Many Masks Will You Wear?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are recommendations that we should start doubling up on masks.

  some have even suggested that tripling masks would even be better!

  what’s your opinion of wearing numerous masks?

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  I'm sticking with my 8-layer of masks which bestow immortality on me.
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  U.K. Nurse Vaccinated With Covid Shot Has Covid Weeks After Getting Vac!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  someone i know from england is a nurse.

  she told me there was an outbreak at the hospital and she got the virus after being vaccinated.

  she said she was told it probably would have been much worse for her had she not gotten vaccinated.

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  I read somewhere that 90% of either people hospitalized from Covid or deaths from Covid had vitamin D deficiency.

  That is one hell of a correlation isn't it?

  Why aren't governments distributing Vitamin D?

  Why are they not even mentioning it as possibly a good idea to take? (esp. you are known to be deficient)
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  The Trolley Problem

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so you've probably heard of the ethical dilemma question which is a thought-experiment where you imagine there is a runaway train-trolley, a junction with a lever that you can pull and two tracks - one with 5 workers on it and another with just 1, but no way to warn them.. all you can do is pull the lever, or not, thus allowing 5 people to die or through your direct action sacrificing 1 to save them.. what should you do?.

  this sort of thing may seem silly but it comes up in real life.

  should a self-driving car for instance, faced with a certain collision, chose which pedestrians to run over?

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  So you've probably heard of the ethical dilemma question which is a thought-experiment where you imagine there is a runaway train-trolley, a junction with a lever that you can pull and two tracks - one with 5 workers on it and another with just 1, but no way to warn them.

  All you can do is pull the lever, or not, thus allowing 5 people to die or through your direct action sacrificing 1 to save them.

  What should you do?

  This sort of thing may seem silly but it comes up in real life. Should a self-driving car for instance, faced with a certain collision, chose which pedestrians to run over? Or should it put preference on the vehicles occupants? Should it count people and aim for the smallest group or aim for the oldest?

  Most people prefer to sacrifice the 1 person to save the 5. But if the wording is changed so that instead of you pulling the lever, you have to throw someone into the lever where they will be killed by the train, it seems less clear-cut even though the deaths are the same.

  But I just love this kids solution:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4
  
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  GameStop - Great Seeing Short-Selling Hedge Funds Get Beaten Up

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  in case you haven't seen what's happened with gamestop and redditors.. these are the people who drive companies like blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.. but maybe the people have more power after all .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toogruq7me.

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  When platforms only allow people to sell certain stocks, not to buy them, and at the same time allow the fund managers to go on TV and talk up or talk down stocks that they have positions in, the game is rigged.

  Don't expect government to step in though, Pelosi just bought Tesla options the day before Biden announced a government policy change mandating electric cars (and solar power, LOL, no one will be going anywhere!)

  Part of the cause of this is government itself - when you blindly send out thousands of dollars to people, some of them are going to gamble and especially in the current climate, some are going to get together to improve their odds and "stick it to the man".

  What has changed is that it was the individual retail investors who got ahead for once at the expense of the elites, so they have pulled every trick to rig things back in their favor.

  There is a risk to the larger market stability - things like this have a way of cascading and taking down systems and governments. So on the one hand, part of me wants it stopped, but we need a fair system and right now it isn't.
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  GameStop - Great Seeing Short-Selling Hedge Funds Get Beaten Up

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  in case you haven't seen what's happened with gamestop and redditors.. these are the people who drive companies like blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.. but maybe the people have more power after all .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toogruq7me.

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  The media are already using the cliche labels to justify bans: white supremacists, nazis, russian collusion etc...

  That's all they have.
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  GameStop - Great Seeing Short-Selling Hedge Funds Get Beaten Up

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  in case you haven't seen what's happened with gamestop and redditors.. these are the people who drive companies like blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.. but maybe the people have more power after all .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toogruq7me.

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  In case you haven't seen what's happened with GameStop and Redditors.

  These are the people who drive companies like Blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.

  But maybe the people have more power after all ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ToOGrUQ7ME
  
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  U.K. Nurse Vaccinated With Covid Shot Has Covid Weeks After Getting Vac!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  someone i know from england is a nurse.

  she told me there was an outbreak at the hospital and she got the virus after being vaccinated.

  she said she was told it probably would have been much worse for her had she not gotten vaccinated.

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  Also, look at the stats without the peak from the first wave included, when hospitals put people onto ventilators who shouldn't have been and died as a result of their malpractice.

  You get a very different picture.

  You have to dig into the stats in more detail than the news give you to see what is really going on - the news is only interested in clicks.

  For instance: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n44

  The ONS urged caution in interpreting the figures. Excess deaths were likely to be overestimated because only one bank holiday occurred that week, whereas there were two in four of the five preceding years used for comparison, which would have introduced more significant reporting delays.

  “So, more than half of those covid-19 deaths were statistically in [people who] would have been expected to die in that week ordinarily,” he said. “This week, the reverse was true: excess deaths were greater than deaths involving covid (3566 excess deaths versus 2912 involving covid and 2497 with covid as cause of death), so around 650 deaths did not involve covid.”
  

  The excess deaths figure being higher than the number of deaths caused by covid-19 was “potentially worrying” if it is seen in further ONS updates.