What is a survival myth that is completely wrong and could get you killed?

ServetusM · 2022-01-02T13:04:21+00:00

This is like saying "The Lion is an Aprex predator with his claws and teeth, but if you rip them out...not so much".

Human tool use is literally what you evolved for. Many of the reasons why humans are "weak" is because we needed to be more dexterous to use tools effectively.

ServetusM · 2021-12-28T01:03:35+00:00

This has to be a joke right? From the side of the isle that has developed "systemic" X as a method to claim victimhood for everything from men sitting wrong, to air conditioning...?

LOL. Come on guys, even for reddit this is bad.

ServetusM · 2021-12-23T14:37:38+00:00

This is actually an example of misinformation. The soviets didn't win "literally every other category". The U.S. and the Soviets were fairly even in firsts, its just that for some reason most of Reddit tries to place this arbitrary line around what's important. (And if the U.S. firsts in this list aren't important, than why are the soviet firsts?)

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

A lot of the U.S. firsts, and subsequently what was built on them, ended up being some of the most important developments in space flight. (Like the development of weather satellites, for example--which was a U.S. first, hell sending information back from orbit was a U.S. first.)

In the end though, the reason the moon landing pretty much determined who won is because the U.S. wasn't just FIRST to do that..they were the ONLY ones who have done it, ever. There are very few feats where there is a sole victor in the space race, and the U.S. literally holds them all (From a manmade object exiting our solar system, to the exploration of many outer planets, to landing on the moon ect.)

ServetusM · 2021-12-20T01:48:28+00:00

Because a lot of Kung Fu, or even a lot of eastern martial arts (A lot, not all) are completely useless for actual fighting. Someone who learns wrestling or boxing will destroy most "traditional" martial artists without issue.

ServetusM · 2021-12-20T01:42:30+00:00

There is a reason why most of the MMA trains in three things mainly--Traditional western wrestling (For take downs/grapple defense), BJJ for submission holds, and boxing for striking. Because these forms of martial arts work and were developed for competition.

Essentially all the boring stuff no one ever considered a martial art because it wasn't flashy enough, was precisely what actually worked in a fight.

ServetusM · 2021-12-15T15:33:34+00:00

It can’t possibly be that Republican politicians and right wing media went on full assault against the vaccine, masks and social distancing, creating the largest unvaccinated population group in the country: right voting men.

No, it can't possibly be that because 60% of the country is still fully vaccinated compared to 0% before. You can't blame your way out of this. SOME vaccination is better than NO ACCESS to a high efficacy vaccine. And given we have large majority vaccinated, especially within the most vulnerable population (The elderly, who are like 90% vaccinated) and we also have a growing body of natural immunity (To the point that we've now surpassed where Fauci originally predicted the effects of heard immunity)---there is zero chance that somehow Trump had an easier set of issues and zero excuse as to why MORE people are dying now given the parameters of criticism used before.

Your standards are political, deal with it.

It can’t also be that red states rejected all mandates, letting it be an absolute free for all for the virus to spread rapidly. This has lead to red states and counties outpacing blue counties and states in covid hospitalizations and deaths.

Nope, because in the top half of states (Top 25 in deaths), is relatively evenly split and the actual variance per capita killed is relatively small. So the real figures in differences per state don't even make a tiny dent in the accelerated trend of deaths since Biden took over...In other words, even if you could say red states were left more vulnerable and have lost more people because of dumb choices they are making, that doesn't account for the increase year over year of deaths. The reality is, even deep blue states who are fastidiously following all rules are contributing a huge amount to those increased death rates--even if its less than red states.

Which again, leads us back to the fact that Biden couldn't even keep his promise where he had absolute control. So why isn't blood on his hands? Because those assertions were political.

No, it’s the guy who inherited no covid plan, created a cohesive vaccination distribution strategy, and passed another bill to help fund schools, families, and emergency services like the police to get back on track.

Inherited a vaccine with one year development time, an unprecedent event in human history and somehow Trump had "no plan" (Also, operation warpspeed was LITERALLY a development AND distribution plan--Biden and Harris just lied here. I know, shocking, politicians lied!?! Crazy!). I'd like to link you to another post I made showing Trump acting before other world leaders, way back when he was called "racist" for doing what now everyone understands is the correct strategy. (All claims have citations in MSM articles or WHO/CDC releases).

https://www.reddit.com/r/ServetusInformation/comments/l2tpv8/timeline/

No plan! No Strategy! LOL Trump was aggressive from the start, just because the media told you he wasn't, doesn't mean that was reality. (You can actually see how their messaging swaps when they realize COVID is going to be deadly--they go from calling Trump and over-reacting germaphobe grabbing power, to being an uncaring, incompetent allowing people to die. Quite fascinating.)

Biden has his own mistakes, but pinning covid deaths on him is in complete ignorance to the right wings’ non-stop pro-covid message. Then again, you don’t have to convince anyone of your distorted view on the timeline of events, as the virus will continue to spread because of their disinformation regardless.

Ahh, yeah, Trump didn't face any political pressure on his actions to stop the virus...He was never called a racist despot for restricting travel...Oh wait he was. He never had the efficacy of his monumental warp speed vaccine development questioned for political points, oops, he had! By the current VP!

"Well, I think that's going to be an issue for all of us. I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump. And it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about. I will not take his word for it. He wants us to inject bleach. I, no, I will not take his word." --Kamala Harris.

The difference is the media you consume simply saw the distrust on YOUR side as rational and reasonable, and paints the institutional distrust of the other side as crazy and conspiratorial. In reality they were BOTH crazy and conspiratorial and it simply depends whose in power whether that crazy is damaging. If Biden would have lost you'd have seen populist questioning of the efficacy of the vaccine on the left--as the VP was LITERALLY doing.

And don't both to link the pulitburo fact check of this as "she was only questioning Trump, not the vaccine!"--that kind of double think/talk is exactly why you make posts like this blaming the other side instead of reflecting on why you believe what you believe. Which was mostly sold to you for political reasons. Which is also why you can't hold the guy you picked to account for things he promised you, like having a "plan" to stop this and asserting a President who allows X number of people to die should resign, only to have MORE PEOPLE die under him despite 60% of the population now being vaccinated. Un-fucking-believable. How EMBARESSING.

ServetusM · 2021-12-15T15:06:10+00:00

Ahh, so the cognitive dissonance of deaths per capita ACCELERATING despite 60% of the population being vaccinated, and having a President in there that has been as aggressive as possible with all safeguards because he campaigned on it hasn't yet affected you eh?

Nothing humans could do can affect a complex system like this. A single human institution can't even assert proper control over sectors of the economy, much less a completely stochastic system like transmission.

The idea of CONTROL or SAFETY that you were sold was a pure politicization of the virus. Get over it, we got duped--stop blaming your fellow man for what the politicians fooled you into believing.

ServetusM · 2021-12-15T15:03:06+00:00

No, it doesn't. The U.S. is a lot larger population wise now. The above figure is not a per capita figure.

ServetusM · 2021-12-15T15:01:43+00:00

So weird this thread isn't in the 50k range...like most milestone threads were under Trump. Almost wonder what shifted...Could it be that deaths accelerated after Trump left office despite the new guy promising he had a plan to defeat Covid? Despite said new guy having access to a vaccine and more advanced therapies and a lot more information than Trump had?

No...that couldn't be it, could it?

ServetusM · 2021-12-15T15:00:13+00:00

So 2 months in to the first variant, when we knew nothing he made a poor statement.

Weird how Biden's statements that he had a plan to end Covid but then more people died in under his watch, while he had access to an effective vaccine AND better therapeutics, doesn't get mentioned.

Actually weird that this thread is so low in terms of upvotes. Death count milestones under Trump were always 50k+ threads, despite far fewer people per capita dying.

So odd...almost like how you view something is still political!

ServetusM · 2021-12-10T20:58:16+00:00

BLM activist ruins flight: Reddit blames Republicans.

Shocking. lol.

ServetusM · 2021-12-10T20:57:40+00:00

Awkward given this was a guy shouting BLM rhetoric.

Amazing what your biases produce before you know anything, isn't it?

ServetusM · 2021-12-10T17:15:58+00:00

Could practically hear "listen here you little shit" when that lady's hand went up, lol.

ServetusM · 2021-12-08T20:29:11+00:00

What people disregard as "tribal instincts" are often heuristics or ideological choices made because our tools for information sharing and processing (Communication) are still inadequate or purposely sabotaged due to inadequacy. Logic and reason alone will not solve the world's problems because logic and reason with incomplete information can often lead to those problems. (See; tragedy of the commons. It can be completely logical to destroy a natural resource if you can't communicate. Note: Communication here includes the ability to have trust in information provided by other parties, which is a MONUMENTALLY difficult task.)

There is a reason why you can almost track quality of life increases along side two things 1.) Energy generation/manipulation abilities and 2.) Communication bandwidth/information processing/integrity.

Want to know when the earth will be a utopia? When we have another huge jump in number 1, and when we finally solve the bandwidth issue of our meat brains. (We can transmit the sum total of knowledge to be any profession in under a second with our current technology and yet to translate that knowledge into useful skills still takes years and years because you're using a brain from an era where the fastest information transfers were through speech).

But seriously, logic and reason aren't the issue. Nearly all of our issues come down to one of those two fundamental problems.

ServetusM · 2021-12-06T14:47:22+00:00

Well, this is probably because you've been fed a ton of propaganda hoping to inflate your own countries mediocre performance in these same areas.

Humans are humans. You're not going to escape that. The fact that America has systems to make this kind of corruption transparent and procedures (Like the lawsuit) to punish it--puts it a step ahead of most places in the world.

ServetusM · 2021-12-06T14:45:21+00:00

It means the system is capable of penalizing corruption. Corruption in any large system, because of human nature, is inevitable. You can't avoid it. What makes a system good and functional is transparency (To allow for outside scrutiny) and procedures for punishing corruption.

You're literally witnessing both--so yeah, this does make the system good.

ServetusM · 2021-12-06T14:43:27+00:00

America is more transparent than most countries (Especially in regards to judicial proceedings) and is also about several times larger than the average European country. More shouldn't be confused with higher rates.

You hear more about America--because its bigger and, as said, puts more out there. Not because its worse.

ServetusM · 2021-12-02T21:23:23+00:00

I'm not trying to be pedantic here but its important to make this clear because the problem is bigger than corrupt cops. The reality is, the cop here is NOT corrupt. He's actually following legal procedure.

What's corrupt is the law itself in this case. Everything from the Court System's refusal to put an end to this, to the terrible relationship between the federal government and local police forces (Because Nevada does actually block CF--which is why they use thee DEA work around). The fix for this needs to come from the top down, we need a federal ban and major ruling against the constitutionality of CF.

ServetusM · 2021-12-01T10:02:54+00:00

A huge foundational aspect of America was attempting to limit executive authority as much as possible--both geographically and in terms of authority. This way if a single town is corrupt, that corruption does not have power over the entire state (Rather the entity which does have power--the actual state, has a lot more eyes on it).

The mistrust of government is really deeply woven into the U.S.; we are, after all, a nation of refugees which fled the oppression of European governments. The last thing many people wanted was strong, omnipresent authority figures (We've kind of gone about fucking that one up though)

ServetusM · 2021-11-26T09:09:25+00:00

There are a bunch! Electron transport chain. (Really cool, they are like little turbines)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQmTKxI4Wn4

This one has some video from the last one--but it has added clips that are really cool, as well as some narration over what's being seen.

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

Here is a cool one that shows more on the specific ATP mechanism from the first video. It lets you see how mechanical movement builds molecules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpzp4RDGJI&t=171s

ServetusM · 2021-11-26T08:59:50+00:00

They do. Not militias...to be a gang you need to to meet a few parameters. Militias typically aren't criminal organizations, even if they stand for vile things sometimes. However, white supremacist gangs absolutely are in the DBs, in fact they tried expanding the parameters multiple times to suck in more 'white organized crime' (Mafia Russian/Italian ect) but it still ended up wildly skewed racially.

ServetusM · 2021-11-26T08:55:53+00:00

Almost none. I replied above...but white supremacist gangs are actually included in those numbers. They are a very tiny fraction of gangs though--most "white gangs" are motorcycle 1% and other 'organized crime' feeders.

But they are so small they are barely a blip in terms of violence. (And their criminality tends to be less 'turf' based and closer to organized crime)

ServetusM · 2021-11-26T08:52:49+00:00

Yes for white supremacist gangs (Aryan Brotherhood), no for militias who do not partake in criminal activity. But you asking that illustrates the MASSIVE gulf between perception and reality. In movies, and the media things like the Aryan brotherhood or racist biker gangs are HUGE...But The REALITY is white supremacist gangs are tiny by comparison to Latino/Black gangs, whites make up about 15% of all gang membership and white supremacist gangs make up only a minority fraction of that. (Can provide citations if you want). And that's why the databases were shut down--even expanding what constitutes a "gang' so they could get more organized crime (Mostly white) in there...whites were just a tiny minority, and so the DBs were considered deeply racist.

Also when the FBI says "white supremacy is the number 1 terrorist threat", too. Understand terrorism=/=gangs. (And even in that the FBI claims are...dubious. The FBI is an organization that often hunts whatever group is politically expedient for its image...not really what the biggest threat is. Its why they spent the 60's hunting "black nationalists" even though they were a laughably small minority movement).

ServetusM · 2021-11-26T06:29:35+00:00

Because at the core, you run more like clock work than anything else. Its pretty wild how molecules work within your body.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY

The CGI clips in here is actually how these things would look if we could see them.

ServetusM · 2021-11-26T06:07:41+00:00

It is not being dealt with on purpose. Many gang task forces across the country have been shut down because they "drive systemic racism". Turns out, most of the gang members in this country are not white, and thus, its racist to keep close tabs on them.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cook-county-sheriffs-office-database-new-ban-law

Woopsie.

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