Saying no to the covid vaccine circa 2021-2022 was the hard choice. Saying yes was the easy choice going along with the crowd.
Hmm, let’s see what comes out four+ years later and reflect back on our own decision-making process.
I have no regrets saying no; do you?
Hmm, let’s see what comes out four+ years later and reflect back on our own decision-making process.
I have no regrets saying no; do you?
““For many Americans we simply do not know the answer as to whether or not they should be getting the seventh or eighth or ninth or tenth COVID-19 booster,” said Prasad, who joined the FDA earlier this month.”
Fuck all these people. Anyone who is advocating people potentially getting a tenth COVID booster shot are retarded.
The truth will out.
Fuck all these people. Anyone who is advocating people potentially getting a tenth COVID booster shot are retarded.
The truth will out.
Does the mating of a 100 IQ parent and a 130 IQ parent result in a 115 IQ child on average?
Has this ever actually been specifically scientifically studied?
As in, take a hundred thousand children and measure the average IQ compared to the parents’ IQ? Get the mean, see if it goes in the middle…
Has this ever actually been specifically scientifically studied?
As in, take a hundred thousand children and measure the average IQ compared to the parents’ IQ? Get the mean, see if it goes in the middle…
I think IQ is trainable.
Measure my IQ today,
Then measure my IQ after spending forty hours per week for six months relentless drilling IQ problems like a Tiger Mom would be proud of.. and watch how drastically I, or anyone who would do this experiment, would drastically improve at solving IQ test problems.
You can’t tell me that IQ is genetically fixed and that rigorously practicing IQ test problems for thousands of hours wouldn’t boost your score…
Measure my IQ today,
Then measure my IQ after spending forty hours per week for six months relentless drilling IQ problems like a Tiger Mom would be proud of.. and watch how drastically I, or anyone who would do this experiment, would drastically improve at solving IQ test problems.
You can’t tell me that IQ is genetically fixed and that rigorously practicing IQ test problems for thousands of hours wouldn’t boost your score…
One day in the not-so-distant future, nothing will be more important than figuring out how to engineer opening a functioning wormhole.
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”
~Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”
~Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
How does any politician justify with a straight face the fact that a state gets more seats in the House of Representatives if they have more illegal immigrants in their state since the representatives are counted based on population not just citizens? It seems like a glaring loophole that nobody on the left has ever actually justified. They have just kept it going.
Instead of saying whether the government should be bigger or smaller, more people should be opining on what the government should actually be spending money on and in what proportions. There’s always going to be tax collected. Might as well figure out the optimal way to spend it for the welfare of all citizens.
What are we going to replace illegal immigrant slave labor with?
Simple: Robots. 🤖
Simple: Robots. 🤖
If you’re skilled at tech, use your superpowers for something good and moral.
Don’t use your skills to maximize profit at the expense of souls.
Don’t build technology for whomever pays you the most.
Don’t maximize profit or shareholder value.
Use your limited time on this world to contribute to the well-being of others.
Don’t build advanced brainrot, build advanced medicine.
Don’t build engagement-maximizing slop, build something you find meaningful.
Change the world, even if society doesn’t reward it, for why would a sickly society reward that which accelerates its downfall?
Power through and maximize integrity, not the short term whims of a world gone mad.
Build something you believe in, deeply.
Don’t use your skills to maximize profit at the expense of souls.
Don’t build technology for whomever pays you the most.
Don’t maximize profit or shareholder value.
Use your limited time on this world to contribute to the well-being of others.
Don’t build advanced brainrot, build advanced medicine.
Don’t build engagement-maximizing slop, build something you find meaningful.
Change the world, even if society doesn’t reward it, for why would a sickly society reward that which accelerates its downfall?
Power through and maximize integrity, not the short term whims of a world gone mad.
Build something you believe in, deeply.
PER CAPITA:
Let’s take, as an example, the crime of robbery in a town where everyone either has a square or a star tattooed on their belly.
When you don’t use per-capita, you’re answering the question:
“If I get robbed, what are the odds the thief had a star on their belly or a square on their belly?”
But see, maybe the town has 99.99999% denizens with squares on their belly. So obviously if there’s a good chance if you get robbed, the thief has a square on their belly, just because there’s so many people with squares on their belly.
When you use per-capita, you answer the question:
“If I meet a random person with a star on their belly, what are the odds they’re a thief? If I meet a random person with a square on their belly, what are the odds they’re a thief?”
This is a different, and more meaningful, question, for its answer doesn’t change depending on how many people in the town have stars or squares on their belly.
Hope that helps.
Let’s take, as an example, the crime of robbery in a town where everyone either has a square or a star tattooed on their belly.
When you don’t use per-capita, you’re answering the question:
“If I get robbed, what are the odds the thief had a star on their belly or a square on their belly?”
But see, maybe the town has 99.99999% denizens with squares on their belly. So obviously if there’s a good chance if you get robbed, the thief has a square on their belly, just because there’s so many people with squares on their belly.
When you use per-capita, you answer the question:
“If I meet a random person with a star on their belly, what are the odds they’re a thief? If I meet a random person with a square on their belly, what are the odds they’re a thief?”
This is a different, and more meaningful, question, for its answer doesn’t change depending on how many people in the town have stars or squares on their belly.
Hope that helps.
Watching the new season of AppleTV’s adaptation of the famous sci-fi book series Foundation by Isaac Asimov!
I read all 7 books in 2023.
Published between 1951 and 1994 by Asimov (from 31 to 73 years old), I read them in plot chronological order instead of published order.
I read all 7 books in 2023.
Published between 1951 and 1994 by Asimov (from 31 to 73 years old), I read them in plot chronological order instead of published order.
Does a lab-grown steak truly have the same nutrients, effect on my digestive system, chemicals, health effects, 100% as a cut from a well-cared-for cow?
Is it truly a one-to-one replacement?
If I looked at each through a microscope would I see the same thing? And if not, does that affect how many body absorbs the molecules?
I’m all for cruelty-free meat, but maybe there are some health benefits that arise from eating an actual evolved animal like we evolved to do?
If not, and I’m thinking like a primitive ignoramus, then let’s actually see in data how close lab-grown meat is really to organic meat across a variety of dimensions.
Is it truly a one-to-one replacement?
If I looked at each through a microscope would I see the same thing? And if not, does that affect how many body absorbs the molecules?
I’m all for cruelty-free meat, but maybe there are some health benefits that arise from eating an actual evolved animal like we evolved to do?
If not, and I’m thinking like a primitive ignoramus, then let’s actually see in data how close lab-grown meat is really to organic meat across a variety of dimensions.