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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's from endocrine disruptors in the water.

And drugs like DES which were prescribed and then withdrawn when the multi-generational deformities were linked to it.

It was big news in the 1990s, animals with genital deformation, incorrect sex expression.

e.g. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980209154754.htm

Research was censored by the UK govt. with D-notices but eventually the story eventually broke.

Nothing changed except it started being ignored.

See Deborah Cadbury's "The Feminization of Nature"

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

See 2017

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/

mRNA is a tricky technology. Several major pharmaceutical companies have tried and abandoned the idea, struggling to get mRNA into cells without triggering nasty side effects.

But the Crigler-Najjar treatment has been indefinitely delayed, an Alexion spokeswoman told STAT. It never proved safe enough to test in humans, according to several former Moderna employees and collaborators who worked closely on the project. Unable to press forward with that technology, Moderna has had to focus instead on developing a handful of vaccines, turning to a less lucrative field that might not justify the company’s nearly $5 billion valuation.

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the-new-style 4 points ago +4 / -0

Cantillion Effect - all govt. spending to reduce poverty benefits the wealthy.

It's only been observed for 500 years.

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-cantillion-effect

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the-new-style 8 points ago +8 / -0
  1. Pay everyone to stay at home.
  2. Have an eviction moratorium.
  3. Suspend student loan repayments and interest accrual.
  4. Have a mortgage relief programme.
  5. Wait 2 years then turn all that off.
  6. "Look at all the jobs we've created"
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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

yeah, reduce aerosolization

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

All I want is a toilet that wont flush unless the lid is down.

Ellul's premise is that we are going down a path of deskilling where optimisation of the process is the goal and humans have become prisoners of the machines under the weight of consumption, which distracts us from the essence of humanity.

A bit of a black pill for me, as I specialise in process optimisation.

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

There's an 1983 paper, The Ironies of Automation

Anyway, the point being that if humans to not master the easy and medium parts of a system, they can never understand the difficult parts.

An example would be the stupid idea that a human can sit in a car and take over when the alarm sounds because the car doesn't understand what's happening. Unless the human was paying total attention then it is a hopeless situation, he does not have a feel for the road conditions, was not observing the environment, is not "warmed up" to operate the controls and needs to do all those things because the car is about to crash!

I have experienced a similar sensation myself, turning the cruise control off as I leave the motorway I always take a moment to reacquaint myself with the position of the pedals (we have 3 of course, with a clutch, not automatics) and give the brakes a squeeze before I need them at the intersection I am speeding towards.

Same goes in a factory control environment, unless you have solved the easy problems a sudden requirement to avoid disaster will be hopeless.

But this was all anticipated by E.M. Forster in 1909 in his short story The Machine Stops which was written as a counter to the hubris of the H.G. Wells type techno utopians.

You might also enjoy The Technological Society by Jaques Ellul (1963) although that is more in-depth. It was Ted Kaczynski's bible (according to his brother) and is a required reading for those who wish to call themselves Neo-Luddites.

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

Good job she got none of it in her eyes, that would make taking selfies a lot harder.

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

Treaties just make the legal process smoother, you don't have to argue the base case.

Any government will give you up if they feel like it.

As Roman Seleznev (son of Deputy of the Russian State Duma, Valery Seleznev) discovered when he was arrested by the authorities in The Maldives for massive credit card fraud and handed over to the US for extradition and ended up with a 27 year sentence.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/04/the-backstory-behind-carder-kingpin-roman-seleznevs-record-27-year-prison-sentence/comment-page-1/

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

220 dB is also physically impossible to generate in open air, 194 dB is the limit.

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

Not everyone working in Machine Learning thinks General AI is even theoretically possible, let alone imminent. Like myself, some think machines will never win the Imitation Game (aka The Turing Test).

The animal brain is not clockwork.

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

There is a great documentary about this called The Light Bulb Conspiracy which goes beyond the lightblub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWJC5ieUAe4

Which starts with the story of the light bulb. Manufacturers used to compete on the lifespan of incandescent bulbs. The Phoebus Cartel of lightbulb makers - Osram, General Electric, Associated Electrical Industries, and Philips, and others - decided that was bad for business so agreed to stick to a 1,000 hour lifespan.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

Stops paying everyone to stay home

"It's a booming economy"

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

"Investors"

In what way were they planning on adding value to their holdings ?

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the-new-style 3 points ago +3 / -0

Same in the UK. It has gone from 1.94 per litre to 1.72 per litre in the space of a few weeks, which is 81 pence or $1 per gallon

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

I don't really know who your question is pointed at but the phenomena is called "Ideological Possession".

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

(((studies)))

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0
  • raises the question

Begging the question, (Latin: petitio principii) is using a conclusion as part of it.

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

A result of Churchill

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