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  • God damn UK…

    In a closely monitored human challenge study approved by national ethics bodies, they deliberately infected healthy young adults who had no prior immunity with the original strain of the coronavirus. Most developed only mild illness, and none reported lasting problems, but after a year they performed slightly worse, on average, on memory and decision-making tests they’d taken before being infected. The difference was roughly comparable to six IQ points. Although that experiment followed participants for only 12 months, longer-term population studies suggest that cognitive symptoms are among the slowest to resolve after Covid, with full recovery proving elusive for a significant minority even years after infection.

    Invaluable research, but crazy it got approved.

    6 points is very significant




  • Technically it’s worse:

    State terrorism is terrorism conducted by a state against its own citizens or another state’s citizens.[1][2][3][4] It contrasts with state-sponsored terrorism, in which a violent non-state actor commits acts of terrorism under the sponsorship of a state.

    Governments that are accused of using state terrorism may justify their actions as efforts to combat internal dissent, suppress insurgencies, or maintain national security, often framing their actions within the context of counterterrorism or counterinsurgency.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism

    I know people hate being pedantic, but we can’t afford to be lazy. Because that makes it harder to sort thru historical records to see how our ancestors overcame it.

    MAGA uses old playbooks so much, we’d be idiots not to treat it like an open book test and see why it failed last time.








  • They don’t need bots for that…

    They’re not manipulating social media, they own and control social media.

    They can hide what they want, and promote what they like. No need for accounts to vote/share, it can happen behind the scenes. Why have 10k bots to vote on things that you control?

    I don’t think people are understanding the scope of these data centers

    Your talking about using a F1 car for a daily commute that last an hour but never goes over 45mph…

    I’m not saying they’re not dumb enough to try that first, I’m saying its more likely you give them this capability, and they’re use it.

    Probably before the 2028 election




  • If the mod then spots that, they may reasonably decide to ban me.

    That is not reasonable…

    Do you do that?

    Because if so I’ll block all your communities right now even tho you got some good ones.

    That is childish behavior and any mod that engages in that, is likely doing other shit that isn’t as obvious. And I just want no part of it. I’ll go to any other community or make my own if it doesn’t exist.






  • Weird, it was just the first sentence at first.

    ordered something with no tariff charges mentioned not realizing that I was ordering out of country only to get an email saying it’s being held by the delivery company, they paid to get it through customs, and won’t deliver until I pay them.

    Yeah, that’s what I expected, didn’t happen tho.

    I promise you even if you haven’t paid a tariff directly, you’re still paying.

    I know it raised the prices of things in America, but I meant explicitly ordering things from other countries that should have been tariffed, and no one ever tariffed me