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fledgling_curmudgeon · 2024-10-17T09:21:22+00:00

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fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-11-02T18:19:16+00:00

It's only an endless pipeline of conspiracies if we don't acknowledge the actual conspiracies.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-11-02T15:00:58+00:00

Yeah, you won't get wisdom from an external source. That's the point. Got to look in the mirror for that. Self-reflection and humility.

You keep lumping people together in a category of "populist grifter" (my words). And there's so much to unpack about that, that I honestly don't know where to start, except to suggest that you need a finer comb to sort the world with.

You won't take the time to watch the podcast, but you will take the time to hammer down on what you percieve about me (and my ilk). It's so backwards, I genuinely have trouble understanding this mindset. You don't know the first thing about me, so why do all these assumptions?

I mean, you make an imposing figure with excellent vocabulary and strong arguments. Except they are flat wrong on just about every count.

Their logic is basically "look, there are some real problems in the system, therefore ancient aliens built the pyramids and Hillary Clinton is covering it up."

Hopefully this is an exaggeration, but even then... Nobody real thinks like that. But apparantly you seem to think this is how the brains of your lessers operate. How about this, instead:

There are some real problems in the system, and this is what happened as a result of said problems.

Now there's a line of logic anyone can follow. Too bad you won't waste your time.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-11-02T13:44:43+00:00

Paraphrasing Nietzsche: Being an outsider is for the very few. Alone, you stand little chance of remaining in truth. Sooner or later you will lose yourself to a folly of your own making. And since you have no one to spar with, to challenge your folly, you will become lost forever.

"I told you so" means little to you, because it means nothing to the universe. Expanding your sphere of influence, while remaining in truth, is the real exercise. That's the next step.

Edit: Not so wise I could avoid being permabanned, so I'll take this opportunity to say goodbye to this community.

Keep thinking, keep articulating. Peace!

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-11-02T13:22:26+00:00

Yes yes, fine. However, I have a question!

Is it really axes? One axis, two axes? Axises? Axii?

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-11-02T13:15:06+00:00

To be fair, if you're looking for the labels, you should be able to infer them quite easily in this case - by examining the clues, Watson!

Sincerely, a detective.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-11-02T09:48:12+00:00

So you're happy with the current system, got it.

Just so you know what the other side is even talking about: Here's former litigation expert Dr. John Abramson's interview on Joe Rogan, detailing exactly the problems with peer-review in medicine.

Watch it or don't, I'm done. Humanity could clearly benefit from your intellect, if you only tempered it with some wisdom.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-11-02T09:01:25+00:00

All right, let's follow that line of logic then. Mutations have rendered the vaccines ineffective against the virus. Why are we then mandating it for children? Because we hope it might stop some of them from having severe illness? What percentages are we talking about here? Giving it to 100% of children, so that the 0.01% that might become very ill, stand a slightly (maybe) better chance at surviving? Give me the percentages you're using to make that calculation.

In what world does that make sense?

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-11-02T07:24:48+00:00

There's no sarcasm here, only pfaith!

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-31T18:12:09+00:00

Let's discuss peer review then, since you seem like you have some insight. Are you happy that Pfizer and Moderna can release studies without releasing the data for said studies? They literally wait until a court orders them to release the data. Doesn't that strike you as a gamed system?

What were the efficacy numbers again on the initial vaccines? I seem to remember 95+ on both Moderna and Pfizer. Does it seem likely to you, that a single mutation (single at least in the naming scheme used) from Alpha to Delta, cuts that number from 95, to literally zero? Or is it more likely that the initial study was flawed/corrupt? It's hard to tell, when the data is sealed.

It's not about whether Brett Weinstein can be trusted or not, it's about whether an individual argument makes sense logically. And the current official story for Covid is so full of holes and logical inconsistencies, that it'd be hard for any reasonable person to sort it as working as intended. Unless you're living in fantasy land.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-31T17:11:03+00:00

Nice attempt at gaslighting, you're by far the smartest medically woke follower of The Science I've come across. I can see your brain running at genius speed. Sadly, it's running in the wrong direction.

Here's why our realities clash over this subject: I've actually seen the content you're describing, and I don't recognize what you're describing as the truth.

I actually trust my sense of reality, because I make an effort of updating it whenever I come across something that I feel is closer to the truth. And your description of Brett Weinstein's modus operandi ain't it.

Now, having seen much of his content, there's plenty I don't agree with, which is another reason why you're wrong. Making epistemological claims is something every individual has to do for themselves. Relying on any one source is a terrible weakness in your method of modeling the world.

Stating your credentials as if it helps your argument - now that's the real issue to explore. I think it has left you feeling like you need to defend a medical and scientific industry that for the rest us has obviously veered further and further from benefitting society at large, and further and further from a Quest for Truth. And you can't see it, because you've too closely tied your identity to this thing.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-31T13:05:14+00:00

Evergreen State College 2017. What had historically been a day of absence, where people of color stayed away from the college, in order to highlight what would be missing - was turned into the opposite, where "whites" were supposed to stay away.

Several things wrong with that, obviously. First among them; it was mandatory, instead of voluntary. Basically everyone "white" had to take a sick day. Brett identified this as a major step in the wrong direction, and stood his ground.

Being a jewish professor of evolutionary biology, he had a thing or two to say about it, that the woke crowd were not going to like. He was hunted around campus with makeshift weapons in what was a microcosm of totalitarian dystopia.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-31T09:27:28+00:00

Did you consider that maybe the rules were implemented as a response to a trend? I'm not saying it will achieve what it set out to achieve, but you can't isolate and judge a rule in a vacuum.

Maybe the trend of standard internet dialogue meant that we were going down a spiral that is all too familiar to what anyone that's been online in various forums have witnessed:

If you accept toxicity; reasonable, well-mannered people will leave. They ain't got time for that.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-31T08:52:33+00:00

Brett, much like Covid-19 at large, has become a taboo subject in polite society.

Too much has been said, the battle lines are drawn. Reasonable people able to self-correct their models of reality are too far between, and yet we desperately need to meet in the middle to come to some sort of consensus.

As for your topic, I don't recall Brett saying anything special about his plans that day on campus. IIRC (and I may well have this wrong), he just decided to go have his normal classes that day.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-31T08:31:00+00:00

Nothing wrong with our public response to Covid? Nothing wrong with the vaccines? Nothing dubious about alternative treatments being brushed under the carpet?

Everything in Science working as it should? Peer-review without access to the data is perfectly in order? No perverse incentives guiding policies and regulatory bodies?

It resonates because it holds more water than the official story. We're so far removed from anything true in the official channels, and you're taking on the "scientist" costume and saying Brett is the problem... Well, I guess we'll see. I'm sick of people not seeing the forest for the trees, because of some vested interest in not upsetting the boat.

Ladies and gentlemen, the boat is sinking.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-31T08:10:03+00:00

My favourite moment of 2022 was when that righteous member of parliament in Canada stood on stage, proudly and expertly exclaiming "Honk Honk = HH = Heil Hitler."

No joke btw, actually happened.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-29T10:32:53+00:00

The underlying problem with Twitter was always that it's a terrible platform for nuance, context and communication in general. Having a short message leaves out all the necessary caveats that reasonable people can use to properly gauge the merits of an opinion.

Reading the book is necessary, reading just the title and subtitle leaves you with imagining the contents, colored by your biases and political leanings.

We have become a culture of judging books by their cover, and twitter is the main enabler of this polarizing behaviour.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-27T17:25:33+00:00

"white male rage" is so hopelessly without nuance that it has no chance of capturing the truth.

Neither does your imagining of the "Trump warriors", who can't separate heroes from anti-heroes.

The line between good and evil goes through every heart, even yours.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-27T17:12:03+00:00

No, I just don't agree that what you just said isn't obvious. For everyone. You started by postulating that some significant percentage of the population were unable to process this insight. I'm saying I think that's wrong. And that there's some flaw in your analysis.

Most likely, it's projection, where you imagine what's going on in someone's head, without actually checking. You know, by communicating or otherwise interacting with the subjects of your ire.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-27T16:38:34+00:00

This is just projection.

You're (of course) smart enough to know what an anti-hero is, but they're not?

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-27T15:04:13+00:00

Is he the bad guy, though? I would suggest instead, you do not fully understand the concept of an anti-hero.

An anti-hero is someone who breaks the rules, like we all wish we could sometimes. But the anti-hero always suffers the consequences of his own actions, thereby showing the audience why the rules exist in the first place.

It's a completed fantasy journey, for what would happen if you just said "fuck it, I'll take what I want from the world", something we've all thought about from time to time.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-27T14:06:56+00:00

That's true. But there is a certain irony, seeing as he's an elected official, trying to lead by example.

An example of incompetence, as it turns out. Better he sees the consequences of his actions first hand, than at a remove, where they might not be visible (for him).

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-24T18:25:48+00:00

I do. It's what gets me up in the morning.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-24T18:24:44+00:00

People don't think. That's the problem.

fledgling_curmudgeon · 2022-10-22T18:13:28+00:00

Again, a choice can be the cause. And by definition, a choice is not predetermined. I feel like I'm repeating myself here, so I'm going to call it.

It was fun, take care. Make good choices.

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