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I had covid 7 or 8 times lol. Basically 2-3 times a year from Jan 2022 until spring of 2025. Luckily there have been seemingly no long-term effects for me, and it's been over a year since I last tested positive.

This article is absolutely infuriating and so many of the people included should be deeply ashamed of their behavior (as described). I understand that the people at the hospital are in danger of legal retribution so for many of them their cowardice is excusable. But the examples of the hospital CEO making empty promises without actually doing anything, and the hospital refusing to foot the $5,000 bill to transfer the patient to a location that would actually care for her are morally disgusting. The lawmakers that intentionally created this grey area though are the true villains for willingly gambling with women's lives to score political capital.

Are you sure? I've read a lot of this person's stuff over the years. A lot of it is quite earnest and in line with the message of this post.

Notice it’s never free climbing the nose in a day, which would require 5-7 years of dedicated training.

Would take way more than that for the average person. You can count the number of people who have done that as of now on one hand.

I don't know if you saw the "Kamela is for the/them" ads, but they stoke a much more general fear and hatred of trans people than the issues you are referring to. Those issues are picked because they are most popular amongst a broad swathe of the electorate, but they are couched in a deeper hate and distrust.

I'd bet a substantial amount that nobody is learning that Everest exists from this article.

I agree that the current state of Everest is an embarrassment. But that doesn't change the fact that it's the tallest mountain in the world, and the efforts (both successful and failed) to be the first to summit were audacious and inspiring to many people. Stories like the one in the OP should not be suppressed just because decades later the mountain has turned into a pile of shit.

Could you elaborate here? Spurred by you and the person you're replying to painting such different pictures of what sources are out there, I took a look myself. I didn't find it so trivial to find sources backing up the person's claims.

Most places do not have "time limits".

I couldn't find anything about slaughterhouses having lifelong limits for employees and would love a link or search term to use because it's an interesting concept to me.

I find no evidence of abattoir workers becoming more likely to be serial killers.

I also could not find evidence for this. Here is a meta analysis of many studies, none of which mention slaughterhouse workers being more likely to be serial killers. Some studies show higher crime rates in towns with slaughterhouses, but not for violent crimes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10009492/

People used to kill their own animals and weren't vegetarians.

This is trivially true?

It's definitely grifty. The shipfa.st copy makes it sound like you need it to build products so you too can make lots of money like he does. Except if you look at his website, the thing that makes all that money is.... shipfa.st.

It reminds me of people who sell classes using tales of their success, except all of their success comes from selling the classes in the first place.

Particle Life 3 years ago

I assume it falls off at inverse of r squared, which is why the person you're replying to is mentioning other functions besides that one.