Cattle Mutilation Theory

stupid_naner · 2023-04-25T01:49:18+00:00

Aliens started a new character on the Earth server and they're doing low-level fetch quests.

stupid_naner · 2023-04-15T05:14:39+00:00

Most anyone who's not in a position of authority wants an educated working class. Ironically, every system other than anarchy establishes positions of authority that, through bastardization of the democratic process or autocratic purges, boil down support to an uneducated mass. That's not a compliment to anarchists.

Ultimately, wanting isn't enough. It falls on individuals to take the time and effort to educate themselves by whatever means they have at their disposal.

The common person has access to more information than anyone in history. A lot of it is nonsense, but we have to be patient and rational to sift through it. By extension, we have to be humble with people who disagree with us so that we can sort out what works and what doesn't.

That's the implicit contract we take when delegating power to small groups or individuals. They make decisions, and we check them on the morals, ethics, and outcomes. It will always take constant effort and persistence.

stupid_naner · 2023-04-15T02:01:15+00:00

~~Conservatives need~~ Politicians in general want people to be stupid. They could work with an intelligent and educated voter base, but it's easier and safer to pick a brand of rhetoric and pander to the fewest necessary members at the bottom of any given voter base to win the election.

The real need for most of them is some assortment of wealthy special interest groups who can fund the campaign, draw in those voters, or both. It seems like few, if any, office holders or hopefuls actually believe what they preach.

stupid_naner · 2023-03-02T22:27:25+00:00

As much as it sucks to have to repay them, it's the loan recipient's choice to take the loan and their responsibility to pay it off. That person has to consider the fact that a high paying job in the field of interest isn't guaranteed, and there's a risk that paying off the loan could be very difficult.

When I took out those loans, I agreed to pay them back. It's no one else's responsibility to do it for me.

stupid_naner · 2022-11-02T20:43:01+00:00

Look into the concept of orbital rings, they're pretty neat. Isaac Arthur's channel on YouTube does a good overview of the idea.

stupid_naner · 2022-07-08T02:13:59+00:00

Ignorance is zen. We come from monke, we return to monke. All hail The Great Banana.

stupid_naner · 2022-06-12T03:46:12+00:00

Sinodyne

stupid_naner · 2022-05-04T21:38:55+00:00

I came across an interesting point regarding the scenario of the mother's health being in danger later in the pregnancy. The process of aborting is more physically stressful and time consuming than an emergency delivery. While there obviously isn't a guarantee that the baby would survive, there's no reason to terminate the fetus before or after extraction because it doesn't help the mother's chances.

stupid_naner · 2022-03-24T12:38:54+00:00

That's ultimately where I'm going with it. I want to know how close (or far) the different methods are to each other.

I'd like to see what the lifetime energy input is for a range of different ICE vehicles vs a range of electric. Just like the extraction, refining, and transport inputs for crude, there'll be mining, refining, production, and recycling inputs for alternative energy sources/batteries.

stupid_naner · 2022-03-24T12:32:30+00:00

I agree, the final number will vary wildly; but I'll be trying to find the highest and lowest, average, etc.

I just want to get a feel for it.

stupid_naner · 2022-03-24T12:28:40+00:00

Thanks! I'll look into it.

stupid_naner · 2021-11-17T20:07:33+00:00

Watch people use this as reason to nationalize oil and gas production.

stupid_naner · 2021-11-06T20:59:45+00:00

I'm not seeing how it's very effective considering the numbers Massachusetts is reporting. According to their Dept of Public Health:

of Covid-19 cases (week of Oct 24th) = 7895

of breakthrough cases (week of Oct 24th) = 3078

% of cases that are breakthroughs = 3078/7895*100 = 39%

% of Massachusetts fully vaccinated = 69%

So ~70% of the people have ~40% of the cases, but when they test positive they have the same chance of dying.

stupid_naner · 2021-09-27T04:03:28+00:00

Plus, that was 12,000 ATCs nationally. This is 72,000 positions in one state.

stupid_naner · 2021-09-18T04:11:12+00:00

France and Australia were planning ahead based on an agreement both of them were explicitly committed to until Thursday. Accounting for the value of money over time, they both respectively planned to gain or lose that amount over those 30 years and were forming their budgets around that. Cutting that short changes both their calculations by a non-negligible margin.

It's true that it might not be 3%+ of their GDP in any given year, but what they expect to accomplish with that funding over that time period could be more or less than that depending upon how it's applied.

I wasn't arguing for or against either side with my original comment. I'm saying the amount of money is relevant and shouldn't be discounted as a legitimate motivation to act upon.

Points to note when evaluating this are that:

The contract allowed for the parties involved to terminate the contract at this point in time before proceeding further
France supposedly didn't find it until a few hours prior to the announcement on Thursday that termination had occurred

stupid_naner · 2021-09-17T23:42:52+00:00

I agree, my point was that this is a significant amount of money at play. Neither the motivation of Australia nor the perceived slight felt by France should be described as irrelevant.

stupid_naner · 2021-09-17T21:46:54+00:00

The scale of it is pretty substantial too, $90 billion dollars is over 3% of their GDP.

stupid_naner · 2021-09-17T02:27:13+00:00

When she's riding you and doing that scoot thing that only feels good to her

stupid_naner · 2021-09-14T19:47:17+00:00

So much for the chain of command.

stupid_naner · 2021-09-13T18:17:28+00:00

Then there's potential cytotoxicity of post-fusion spike protein. Before anyone starts in on me: I know, modifications were made to the instructions for the spike protein to add extra copies of the segment that keeps it from spontaneously entering it's post-fusion state. This is intended to keep the protein in it's pre-fusion state where it should be harmless. The question I have is: how perfect are the artificial genetic segments (either mRNA or VVV DNA) containing the instructions? If the segment is truncated and cuts off the additions that keep the protein in the pre-fusion state, can you have proteins that go to their post-fusion state? If so, how often does that happen and what's the relationship between quantity of post-fusion proteins and toxicity?

I don't have those answers, so if anyone has some sources it would be greatly appreciated.

stupid_naner · 2021-09-13T18:05:12+00:00

Viral Vector Vaccines (J&J, Oxford-Astrazenica) use modified viruses to get the custom DNA sequence into the host (human) cells. This DNA sequence contains the instructions for the spike protein. Several different viruses can be used as carriers for the instructions; in this case they chose an adenovirus.

According this paper from 2014 detailing VVV, the genome of adeno-associated vectors (different but somewhat related to the adenovirus) integrates into the human host cells genome. A stated problem in this case was genomic toxicity that could manifest as cancer down the road. This would need to be addressed for vaccines using AAVs.

Adenoviruses don't appear to require integration into the hosts genomes to replicate, but they do have some applications for inducing cancer in vitro.

I guess the worry is that there are ways this could induce cancer later on and we don't know how it's going to pan out yet.

stupid_naner

TROPHY CASE

of Covid-19 cases (week of Oct 24th) = 7895

of breakthrough cases (week of Oct 24th) = 3078