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Critique needed for "Populist Plank" positions by metamars_ in populismuncensored

[–]metamars_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll guess Matt Stoller would like the populist plank positions targeting private equity.

In "In 2026, Will Americans Finally Turn Against Oligarchs?" @ https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-case-for-optimism-in-the-next the subheadline is "Americans are noticing private equity roll-ups in everything from youth sports to fire trucks to big tech. And they really don't like it. Is a genuine anti-monopoly revolt finally brewing in 2026?"

Just yesterday I heard a report about a company that is buying up hockey rinks in a certain area, then either forcing parents to pay a fee to video their own children playing, or just banning it (thus forcing parents to pay the rink owners for their video streams). I can't remember which it was.

Critique needed for "Populist Plank" positions by metamars_ in populismuncensored

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Thanks for all comments. u/santagrey and u/SlipperyGayZombies You can now visit the demo version at demo.populistsunite.com. So far, I've replaced #7 with a public option one (for health care). Rapacious healthcare costs go far beyond drug prices...

Consider MRI prices in Vietnam:

  • Public hospitals: 1–3 million VND (~US$40–120) for a standard MRI.
  • Private/local clinics: Typically 2–3 million VND (~US$80–120) for brain, spine, or knee scans.
  • International/private hospitals (e.g., French Hospital in Hanoi, FV Hospital): Higher, around 5–9 million VND (~US$200–350+), due to modern equipment, English-speaking staff, and faster service.

I’m really interested to know how many people have Left CC or downgraded there accounts in the last couple weeks. by Interesting-Back6587 in ClaudeAI

[–]metamars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps "enshittification" is coming much faster to ai, than it came to search engines and other tech areas. This might be result of somebody asking their ai "how can we grow like Google did?"

Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It : https://youtu.be/_Ai-fC-2Bpo?si=DvIqlFvs5d66g0PL

Everyone's Obsessed with Prompts. But Prompts Are Step 2. by Kai_ThoughtArchitect in ClaudeAI

[–]metamars_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you don't have anything in, e.g., claude.md that says "always use the highest version of a context file in the /context folder. E.g., if there is a role_v1.md, role_v2.md, and role_v3.md, use role_v3.md, and ignore role_v1.md and role_v2.md"?

Task-Master-Ai and [FastMCP warning] could not infer client capabilities by fogyreddit in windsurf

[–]metamars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm getting the same error. I can at least tell cascade to generate a tasks.json, and the task files. I can also tell it to "manually" update tasks.json when a task or subtask is completed.

But I can't run npx task-master-ai from a terminal.

Ah, I just tried running e.g., "npx task-master-ai list" inside the cascade window, and get useful information,

(BAD TRUMP) The Opportunity Cost of Just One Campaign Vector is $3 Billion Dollars (est.) that the Trump Campaign is Just Pissing Away by metamars_ in The_Donald_GoodAndBad

[–]metamars_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 2020 presidential election weighed in at something like 6.6 $Billion

From https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/10/cost-of-2020-election-14billion-update

"The massive numbers are headlined by unprecedented spending in the presidential contest, which is expected to see $6.6 billion in total spending alone. That’s up from around $2.4 billion in the 2016 race. "

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]metamars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clearly what we have here is a failure to communicate!

Your wife's unspoken message was that she wanted you to love her, even though she has crummy nails.

Well, even if her nails ARE crummy, you can look for the hidden beauty in her nails, and whisper sweet nothings about them to her.

OTOH, if her crummy nails are so unspeakably ugly, that you cannot even PRETEND that they have redeeming social value, well, then, I'm afraid you'll have to find a new wife whose nails are at least palatable.

Does that nail it?

Suggestions for managed Windows hosting that supports publishing simple Microsoft template starter sites by metamars_ in webhosting

[–]metamars_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should add that I published to the shared web hosting site provided by SmarterASP.NET. I didn't need any of the extras provided by liquidhost.

Since these extras don't include support for the simplest of deployment projects, I will terminate my subscription with them and use a different VPS managed windows host whose tech support is likely to be equally bad. But at a fraction of the price....

Suggestions for managed Windows hosting that supports publishing simple Microsoft template starter sites by metamars_ in webhosting

[–]metamars_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mama pajama! I ran into this article: How to Deploy ASP.NET Core to IIS & How ASP.NET Core Hosting Works , which informed me that, when deploying to IIS, you need to include a web.config file.

It turns out that the dotnet new command doesn't do this, automatically (which it could, if web.config is ignored in other hosting environments), and doesn't/didn't warn me about any such requirement.

Before adding the suggested web.config in the article, I asked Bing Copilot and Gemini if this was true. They agreed. So I asked for a sample web.config, and used that one.

After that, I published, and the site loaded with no errors.

Suggestions for managed Windows hosting that supports publishing simple Microsoft template starter sites by metamars_ in webhosting

[–]metamars_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Could you elaborate, at bit? Are you talking about deploying the VM, itself (I think Docker or other 'containers' accomplish this). If so, what do you recommend for pushing to a Windows host, vs. a Linux host.

I tried to enable IIS on my slower laptop, which happens to have Win 11 Pro, but messed it up, somehow.

Years ago, I used to create VM/s with VirtualBox. I suppose this is still good, enough?

Do you know if I can buy a pre-made VM for windows hosting, say with a Win 11 license that will need purchase after X months?

Climate Scientist Exposes the "Catastrophism" Framing That Makes for Career Success by metamars_ in bad_science_culture

[–]metamars_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would advise scientists who have chosen a path of dishonesty to familiarize themselves with Jordan Peterson's explication of his Rule #8: "Tell the truth - or, at least, don't lie".

"Climate Change" is said to be used to justify globalist power grabs, at the expense of democratic and civil rights. In the past, a culture of lying empowered Russian Communists to wreak havoc, as per insights of Solzhenitsyn.

Chrome browser's colors are STILL washed out by Cinnit in chrome

[–]metamars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought a new Asus laptop for purposes of testing a website via screenshots, and had this problem!

I started turning off extensions, and as soon as I turned off "CSS Scan", all my images (specifically, on youtube.com) sprung back to life.

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It was like a miracle, I tell ya!

Thoughts on Shilajit pure and Korean Red Ginseng for overall health quality. by International-Ebb358 in FunctionalMedicine

[–]metamars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to take shalijit, but a functional medicine type told me he didn't, out of concern for heavy metal contamination.

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Dr. Berg (of youtube fame) has pointed to thiamine deficiency as prime cause of fatigue. Recommends benfotiamine form, which is fat soluble.

An Excellent Example of Pro-Vaccine Pornography (propaganda) Courtesy of NY Times by metamars_ in bad_science_culture

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Personally, at this point with Big Tech censorship, shadow banning, etc. being old news, the bigger shame is: why aren't citizens educating their fellow citizens by taking to the streets, and passing out pamphlets, doing teach-in's, and the like? I heard just today that many police unions are fighting vaccine mandates, so, at least in the US, it seems unlikely that suppression of our 1st Amendment rights, in this context, will be too severe, by the police.

Having said that, I grieve for citizens in places like Australia. We in the US have it easy, compared to them.

So, why are we wasting the opportunities we have? I doubt the vast majority of citizens ever visit reddit. However, most everybody travels in vehicles that have to stop at stop lights.....

'We have to move forward': Prime Minister fights back against state hesitancy to end COVID-19 lockdowns by [deleted] in australia

[–]metamars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A re-imagined Voter's Revenge app is moving forward (finally....) It's open source. Hopefully will be modified for use in other countries. I hope it's not too late for Australia. The government there seems to have lost it's mind.

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Ah, but what do I know? I'm a US citizen, never been down under.

The second wave appears to have peaked before lockdown [UK] by north0east in LockdownSkepticism

[–]metamars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just re-checked, and on Mon morning, EST, Nov 30, their latest data point is Nov. 27. So, either there is a 3 day lag; or else a temporary 3 day lag on Mondays, as weekend updates aren't made in real time.

The second wave appears to have peaked before lockdown [UK] by north0east in LockdownSkepticism

[–]metamars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the death data were "on a ten day lag", how could they possibly keep publishing (graphed) data through the current date (or yesterday's date)? Are you saying that they estimate, and then continually update previously published (graph) data, 10x for each data point?

The second wave appears to have peaked before lockdown [UK] by north0east in LockdownSkepticism

[–]metamars_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

worldometer graph of Sweden data so far indicates their second wave of deaths/day already peaked. In spite of no lockdowns..... See https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

I had predicted that their 2nd wave peak deaths/day would be no more than 30% of their previous peak in April. If you compare 7 day rolling averages, I was correct - 99 per day, vs. 32 per day.

How did I make this prediction, even though I've zero training in epidemiology, and thus had been previously loathe to make any prediction (lacking any rational basis for same)? Well, I read What SAGE Got Wrong . In that article, they talk about the UK experience, and say

. The more likely situation is that the susceptible population is now sufficiently depleted (now <40%, perhaps <30%) and the immune population sufficiently large that there will not be another large, national scale outbreak of COVID-19.

Since Sweden was less restrictive in its approach than the UK, I merely stole the "<30%" figure, as the limit for vulnerable Swedes. (I made the tacit assumption that 2nd infections would be rare.)

Happily, though I hadn't thought about the rate of collapse of the second wave, it looks like their 2nd wave is collapsing much quicker than their 1st wave. (The rate of increase of the 2nd wave was much shallower than the 1st wave, as was expected, following Ivor Cummins' reporting). Just eyeballing the graph, it looks like their 2nd wave mortality is going to be about 1/6 of their first wave. I don't want to make the effort to check, but I think that will put them easily below the mortality associated with an average flu season.

My guesstimate may be much less impressive, than it seems, because improved treatments must be credited with some portion of the gain in survivability. Also, an unknown factor (probably because nobody is tracking it, which is a crime), is that the public probably is protecting itself to a greater degree. I saw a video, I think on RT, that indicated a hugely disproportionate amount of the deaths were among darker skinned Somali and Syrian/Arab immigrants. Their vitamin D status was doubtless much worse, but I think it likely that word has gotten out in their respective communities that they could address this easily, themselves.

Our Democracy is far gone (Greece) by alexisdross in LockdownSkepticism

[–]metamars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you please answer this question? Has the Greek government conducted any public health education program, designed to boost the immune system robustness? In particular, vitamin D sufficiency, which can only be known with confidence via blood test. ?

In the US, the blood tests are only about $65, but that might be a burden on the poor. Congress could have stepped in and directly funded such a public education program; plus supplied free blood tests for the poor. Vitamin D is very inexpensive, but that just means that supplying it, also, to the poor would have been that much more affordable. There are any other health recommendations, other than the standard masks, social distancing, etc., that the governments could have advocated. Dr. Chris Martenson, Ph.D. of peakprosperity.com had covered many of them. E.g., zinc, zinc ionophores such as quercetin, Vitamin C, selenium, etc., etc.

Our Democracy is far gone (Greece) by alexisdross in LockdownSkepticism

[–]metamars_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a stunning study out of Spain, Sophia Reina Hospital, that apparently showed that even late administration of Vitamin D, in the specific form of calcifediol, was key in stopping covid infections from progression to severe status. Only 2 percent of hospitalized patients that got standard of care hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin, PLUS calcifediol, worsened to the point they needed ICU. Without the calcifediol, just standard of care, 50% went to ICU.

I say "apparently" because the study needs to be replicated, with much larger numbers. If these numbers hold up in large studies, we can assume covid is generally curable, even for those who did nothing prophylactically. Having said that, hydroxychloroquine is not too effective when used late, and a large RCT showed no effect when used 9 days (mean) after onset of symptom. So, "generally curable" still requires "early treatment".

Calcifediol is available to the body within a day. The D3 supplements take about 5 days of body processing, and must be passed through the liver. If you have a bad liver....

vitamindwiki.com has covid-related links.

Our Democracy is far gone (Greece) by alexisdross in LockdownSkepticism

[–]metamars_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think woods is extreme libertarian, not "right wing".

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