poorjohnmacafee

"varied by sex and age"... please see the part in comment about young healthy people.

Except there are too many cases of healthy young people having myocarditis related reactions soon after the vaccine, and that's not documented for covid. Is why discussion about vaccine related myocarditis centers on lipid nano particles having a strong uptake effect by heart and other tissues. Yes, yes nothing is "settled" because everything is so new. Just can't ignore that my family knows more people who died or went to hospital related to second dose/booster than covid itself.

The key is to always be stimulating your mind with new experiences, new concepts, new surroundings, think through confusions, solve holes in your understanding, make something etc. etc..

Travel ticks some of those boxes so it does absolutely help the mind. You can tick some of the other boxes from home as well.

Life passes by really, really fast if you do the same thing and think the same way every single day. It will make you restless, anxious over time too because your mind really doesn't like that kind of confinement.

Circa 2016 Reddit became a political propaganda free for all with a ridiculous amount of shill accounts trying to incite others and diminish viewpoints purely on political lines. Serious money was invested by interest groups to eventually help shape Reddit into the hive mind it became. I watched this transition as a long time Redditor and I hated every second of it.

Reasonable, discourse seeking people left Reddit in droves, the effect being that there's then a distilled concentration of politicized accounts, gen Z, and trolls. A few subreddits buck the trend, but frankly I kind of hate Reddit and hope someone makes a new one for the reasonable masses.

Many think the recent Joe Rogan heat is because he's recorded (but not yet released) a podcast with Maajid Nawaz, who is a pretty big critic of government/pharma covid narratives. I think this is having a Streisand effect for this episode whenever it drops.

Certainly SV (and consequently YC) in recent years has become perhaps the most politicized it's ever been, along with many other parts of the US.

Many top comments here often have overt political bias on a range of topics, including the pandemic. I find it irritating, I'm sure others do too. As a result I spend much less (20% ish) the amount of time on HN that I used to say 8-3 years ago.

You haven't actually listened because he's 100% for the vax for high risk groups. I'd be really curious how you can "easy disprove" the main themes that come up on his show: natural immunity is better than the vax, big pharma has a long history of lawsuits and criminal penalties for falsifying data, effective treatments do exist, and there's a higher risk profile of the vax than public authorities let on. Those are the big themes, so please, "easy disprove" them?

Per the last one: The FOI lawsuit pertaining to FDA approval (follow Aaron Siri) already revealed in the first 2.5 months of the rollout that Pfzier received 130k case incidents of adverse events. VAERS shows staggering incidents of disability and death, and he's spoken with many physicians who believe there's useful signal from VAERS like there has been for over 30 years. A bunch of countries have now slapped myocarditis warnings on either Pfzier or Moderna. He talks about the 15+ people he knows who have had serious reactions after second dose or booster including his friend's daughter who's now dead. Our family friend here died after booster. The articles about european footballers dropping on the field from cardiac issues (greater than previous 20 years combined) is a signal too. He even had a guest talk about fake vax card going around in Hollywood because many celebrities/people of means don't want to risk it. There's plenty of other statistical or otherwise anecdotal signals that you can hear about if you decide to listen to his show, or you can follow dozens of other people on substacks who track these issues. But please go ahead and disprove all of it.

I hate to put it in these terms, but do you have credible peer reviewed literature on this claim? What you're saying is exactly what state media & state authorities started espousing after everyone realized the vaccine didn't offer the protection everyone had assumed and been promised. I'm wondering if there is any actual evidence for their claims or if it's just saving face and moving goal posts.

Both my parents, sister, and a slew of friends and co-workers have had "breakthrough infections" from covid, I'm not really sure (if you're not getting boosters) whether you even have protection from regular let alone Omicron at this point.

Amazing suggestions from commenters on better search engines.

Why hasn't a group of passionate developers gotten together to build an amazing, open source, ad-free, tamper-proof search engine?

Wouldn't that instantly be like a mega impactful, economy-changing kind of project?

The crypto space is making me understand why the SEC regulates stocks. Projects sell their tokens and people invest because they believe the project will take off so they expect their token will rise in value accordingly. (which is a strange assumption, tokens are not stocks)

Many of these projects are marketing-driven and frankly dumb. Prices fall and creators always say "We're focusing on building a great project, we're not focused on the token price."... Yet they're taking millions in investor money. The crypto space needs something like fiduciary duty towards token holders.

A little cringe... as someone who listens to geology podcasts, the idea of "hot spots" apparently doesn't hold much scientific scrutiny any more. This will probably take another decade to be phased out since everyone is taught in school Hawaii etc. are created by hot spots/mantle plumes.

The newer explanation is actually simpler and explained by plate tectonics... deep extensional faults in the middle of plates (generally at stress change boundaries, since the plates are stressed differently at opposite margins) is sufficient to get these island-forming magma extrusions.

EDIT - by request, my favorite geo podcast is Oliver Strimpel's Geology Bites.

In CCP land you don't report to the police crimes of top CCP officials. I'm sure they won't comment, but it's a major scandal involving the "vice president" equivalent in the CCP, I think any other administration anywhere would comment.

WEF/Gates simulation event on pandemic: mid October 2019

Dates of earliest cases in Wuhan: October 2019 (September by some counts)

Sorry, they knew about the outbreak or you're talking astronomical odds, yet they pretended they didn't know about it yet. This is why he's lost face (other than his association with JE)

I understand why HN doesn't like speculation in "dirty" topics.

But I wouldn't really blame the average person for wondering about this since we know that Gates & WEF held coronavirus pandemic drills a month before the outbreak happened (or by some accounts of the origins, in the same month as it happened). I think everyone's suspicions of government and individuals tied to it are extra high due to everything from the last 2 years.

the City of San Francisco and the design engineers were carefully monitoring the building’s movement as construction of the retrofit got started in May 2021. It didn’t take long to notice an issue. The vibrations and disturbance of drilling through the Old Bay Clay were making the settlement accelerate. The speed at which the building was tilting and sinking started to increase as the drilling continued. In August 2021, construction was halted to reassess the plan and find a solution to install the foundation retrofit safely. As of this writing, crews are testing some revised drilling procedures

It sounds like they still don't have a solution to fix the leaning tower of San Francisco.

Well every family member and person I've ever gotten to know well enough where we talk politics, believe that the state naturally seeks to increase its power over time, so that people should be skeptical of the state. As cliche as it is to bring up, this is what the American founding fathers talked extensively about. Freedom of speech is the fundamental way that people can push back when governments do this, inevitably as they try to, as every state in every historical period has tried to.

Again, they're either naive or that's what they want and should be honest about it.

"Freedom of speech is overrated, I don't agree with it as a general principle"... It's a minority but the people who actually say this are just promoting increased government control of citizenry. Either they are naive or that's what they want.

Not sure how old kids are or if you really have a choice at this stage, but it does seem Germany, France, Scandanavia, Taiwan have halted at least Moderna for the youth and now even Pfizer (Taiwan).

Saying because people in my family didn't know about this, and would have wanted this relatively new information to help make a decision.

This is not what users want and it's not surprising having now observed multiple rounds of YT censorship campaigns. One way ppl fight back against annoying political narrative videos is to downvote them to the mantle. That also gives everyone solace to know that most everyone else believes the opposite of said political narrative videos. Make no doubt about it, YT and their partners have gotten as political as hell in recent years.

Really dislike this whole "East" vs "West", but fwiw Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, etc. are often already lumped in with the "West", in terms of sharing "Western" values of democracy and human rights, and having achieved first world economies through "Western" capitalism. "West" doesn't even make sense when it's basically what all the first world countries are regardless of geography.

One could argue they've already achieved this power, after all they've spent hundreds of billions per year for decades influencing politicians, institutions, and corporations abroad. E.g. a well researched book on the topic,

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/11/hidden-hand-re...

The ROC does in a sense represent the millennia of traditional chinese culture, whereas the communists sought to destroy it (great leap forward, cultural revolution) starting 70 years ago. The ROC were the ones who also fought off Japan to save China, while the communists just waited until they were weakened from fighting Japan and just swept down to take the country from them.

Most countries, including EU nations, ban mail-in voting minus exceptions like living abroad, these laws being passed because of discovered fraud in elections.

Election integrity is the difference between democracy and a one-party state. Every citizen should be bending over backwards to make sure our elections dont have sources of fraud.

Embracing your neuronal nature helps. Your neurons direct your attention to things they think will get them rewarded. Latching onto something negative can give a dopamine kick (for a lot of reasons) but it's almost always because your neurons don't have anything better to get a kick from. Good, important things are missing more generally (a lot of things it could be). If you're engrossed in some satisfying activity/ work/ thought, or you're just kicking ass in life and you know it, your neurons will have a much more bountiful source of dopamine to latch onto so they aren't going to direct your attention to petty shit.

Hate to conclude but climate change has evolved into a self-serving political agenda for our elites and this is yet more evidence of that.

Nuclear is obviously renewable and proven. Flourocarbons - CFCs - HCFCs - HFCs - and other related are extremely aggressive GHGs yet all of those are not phased out (or in case of CFCs there's plenty of evidence (see Nature) that emission continues in non Western nations) but making it part of the debate gets stonewalled too.

Working out or running purely for exercise are contrived from an evolutionary perspective. For millions of years of the homo genus we only ran or exercised because it was in the context of a useful task, like getting dinner, clearing land, or being playful. In these forms of running or weight lifting your mind would have only been focused externally on the tasks it's connected to.

Does it make it difference? Since mind and body are interconnected, of course it does.

I'm weird but I do sometimes run and imagine I'm actually persistence hunting an antelope, and that some hypothetical tribe would be thrilled to have it. It does supply a boost of energy and makes the run easier. Evolution hacking I suppose.

Optics of it are bad given the CCP has been accelerating their crack down on billionaires, also known as state-independent power centers. This is the direction they want to take us I guess.

"Success Is Going From Failure to Failure Without Losing Your Enthusiasm"

Lincoln

I think that's changing as challenging the vaccine efficacy or risk profile has become less controversial in the last month. Been sent about half a dozen videos in last week with high viewership and they haven't been removed. This is probably because all of Northern Europe has essentially banned Moderna due to myocarditis risk, and data from many countries, even the CDC's own, show the vaccinated now getting infected at similar rates as unvaccinated (i.e. antibody drop off or virus mutation).

EDIT

Responding to person who wants to learn more, I'm going in good faith that you're not the ad hominem type. Given the climate of cancellation and censorship not a lot of people are speaking up, so take what you can get...

The recent Joe Rogan episode with Berenson is a review of quite a few papers and government data sets which they parse. Watch it on Spotify. You're going to get intro'd to data from Israel, UK, CDC, others about vaccine efficacy and about adverse events in young people due to inflammation from accumulation of spike protein.

CDC's most recent data shows 40% of covid deaths over last week were of the vaccinated, e.g. relevant screen shots from CDC's website via this random guy, https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/145165375288951604...

You can certainly google Northern Europe's halt on Moderna (either for youth or for all). Sweden just halted today, e.g. Shttps://www.zerohedge.com/political/sweden-suspends-moderna-...

There's a lot on YT, round table discussions with medical professionals are the most interesting. I've observed the same censorious culture on HN as on social media when it comes to vaccines, so I'm not going to share links so they can stay up for others who are making difficult decisions. You can find them by poking around accounts on Twitter Gab Substack of people who are speaking out against vaccine mandates or related.