Century-old stone "tsunami stones" dot Japan's coastline (2015)

We may be wrong together but at least we are together. Having people running in three directions at once will get everyone killed in wartime or disaster. Once the avalanche starts it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKbwDf51bA

The vaccines were extremely well-tested and anyone saying they weren't is either lying or was lied to by a liar.

They did not follow the typical drug approval process.

That does not mean they were not tested.

I was one of the test subjects.

You're spewing bullshit right here. COVID vaccines went through clinical trials and had a great safety profile.

- it is not possible to be aware of aware of the number of deaths avoided by government action, because counter-factual reality is not accessible; humans typically substitute a simulation in response, but often do not know that has occurred

- there is no requirement for documentation ("documented existence of disinformation networks") to be accurate

- in some cases, and for various reasons (choice of inadequate variable types in one's analysis/cognition, ie: "existence", cultural norms), it is not possible for documentation to be accurate and comprehensive, and this is one of those times

- in some cases it is not possible to apply this sort of level of rigor, this seems to almost always be one of those times (all people on all sides are engaged in deceit, intentionally or not), at least so far in humanity's evolution

- In most serious organizations, an event of this scale would prompt a post incident analysis, there seems to be little sign that anyone considers this event serious enough to justify such an analysis (COVID seems to have triggered one of the many paradoxes in the system in that it is super serious, but also not, simultaneously)

- this list is far from exhaustive

- humans will have very interesting (and typically predictable) reactions to the contents of this list, or others like it (the system is susceptible to a list based attack?)

When only 25% of the population has been exposed you expect 1/4 of the projected death toll. Then multiply by 2 and now you’re pushing an order of magnitude. But what we are seeing is a pretty steady .9% mortality rate for people who are exposed.

Meanwhile the fatality rate for this last flu season was 1/16th of COVID (which is another comparison they liked to make).

The problem with 1% is that almost everyone will know someone who died. But they took it like the odds of winning the lottery. Let’s just gamble that’s a small number!

The rest of the world cares as much as we do about the wars in Africa.

The western world. Don't forget that the early economic sanctions were largely ignored by the BRICS countries, which make up ~45% of the world's population.

The only lesson here is (core)West cannot be trusted and you're on it's own. At least this is the lesson I learned living 30km from (pseudo)Russia border.

Given the learning checkpoint below that page alone, I have to question the quality of the information presented there.

How can

    "It is hard to assess how much money to spend on those policies; it might depend on the budget, priorities, politics, etc." 

    "How should governments address low-probability hazard events with potentially devastating consequences? How would you assess how much money is too much money to spend to reduce the likelihood of a highly unlikely event? Please select the correct answer."

There's always at least two parties in a regulated environment like nuclear power. The government setting the baseline requirements and the operator adhering to them. I have not enough inside to say who to blame. On the other hand TEPCO is state owned, right, so maybe you should never set your own requirements when it comes to nuclear safety?

The fact that religion survived or spread does not prove what you imply it proves, it was an useful tool for the powerful to keep the poor in check like

1 Bible says to pay your taxes

2 Bible says that is OK to be poor because you will be rewarded later

3 Bible says that violence is bad so do not attack your lord and try to make justice on Earth, you will get your justice in the next realm.

And so on, a very good tool to manipulate people.

Except that the secular section is also replenished by children of the religious becoming secular, which currently seems to be outweighing the relative birthrate differences and is causing that secular section to be increasing as a percentage of the population.

I am sure you know of the correlation between affluent people having fewer children and highly educated people tending to be more affluent. I dont think its particularly mysterious or confusing why secular populations have a lower fertility rate. It should be pretty obvious at a glance.

Religion is a lot like conservatism in that it provides a self affirming world view that relies on ethics from centuries past. I am sure there are many highly democratic, rich and ethical conservatives and religious types but generally these traits are indicators of the opposite. There is a reason the past century of progress has allowed such great leaps in education, quality of life etc while being accompanied by an ever decreasing level of religiosity.

We can all presume, imagine, confabulate. But those are not a good basis for making broad points.