Dwelve

Can you elaborate how you and your brother compare in sports?

I never knew this game was so amazing. Guess I gotta play it after all

Alternatively, we just can't accept that we might not solve ourselves. People are understandably desperate trying to find an explanation for everything, but can't admit that's just not ever going to happen.

Shouting random things is not the same as lacking the cognitive capacity to EVER learn to tie your shoes. How on earth are you making that comparison?!

"Science overcomes nature" is one of the most boring, unthoughtful, cliché stories people can write. No, science does not do that. At best you can say progress makes fighting nature a little easier, but wes sure as hell are not going to "overcome nature" - ever. Your desire to "overcome nature" IS nature. It's absolutely paradoxical to overcome it, you're just doing what nature tells you to do, lol.

Why not both?

A certain degradation of excitement is inevitable but there are countless opportunities you haven't taken yet and challenges that will give you meaning. "Excited about technologies" is an issue that was bound to happen, considering how overpromising every single new innovation is sold. At some point we do learn our lesson and understand the actual difference this new piece of hardware is going to have on our life will be minimal. If you're looking for new things to grab and hold your attention I highly advice to not keep looking in the same place you've been standing at for the longest time.

It does sound like you've worked a lot, and probably also with computers, so you probably should try to find challenges in other fields, mainly sports. Run a marathon, do some climbing, get in the best shape of your life - it is utterly impossible to not feel ecstatic whenever you beat your own records. Also, sounds like starting a family would give you a tremendous benefit. Once you have kids the question about "feeling lost" doesn't even come up (probably because the kids won't let you think enough about that :P)

I'm 32 and I basically did not exist throughout my 20s but now I'm in better shape than I've ever been before, interact with people more than I ever did before and make new experiences on a regular basis.

Your agitation does not belong on HN either, yet here it is.

Why are you pretending this is a difficult issue to understand, it very clearly isn't. You're making up random assertions that fit your own predetermined perspective. Everybody that makes money on Youtube or Twitter or Spotify agreed to certain terms. And these terms say they can be deplatformed. So yes, the artist getting displaced based on ethnicity and the anti-war opinion getting banned is exactly the same thing. And it seems you think this is justifiable as long as a spread sheet says it's profitable to do so.

I'm not opening a discussion here, there is nothing to discuss. I'm simply following your own logic to it's conclusion. Your input is not necessary in any of this.

And they obviously didn't work in Germany, France, USA, Canada, England, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Austria, Spain, Brazil, Mexico and so on.

Edit: 1.1 Argentina 1.2 Australia 1.3 Austria 1.4 Bangladesh 1.5 Cambodia 1.6 Canada 1.8 Denmark 1.9 Fiji 1.10 France 1.11 Ghana 1.12 India 1.13 Indonesia 1.13.1 Large-scale social restrictions 1.13.2 Community Activities Restrictions Enforcement 1.14 Iran 1.15 Ireland 1.16 Italy 1.17 Malaysia 1.18 Myanmar 1.19 Namibia 1.20 Nepal 1.21 Netherlands 1.23 Nigeria 1.24 Pakistan 1.25 Philippines 1.26 Russia 1.27 Singapore 1.28 South Africa 1.29 Thailand 1.30 United Kingdom 1.31 United States 1.32 Vietnam

Did people in countries that did not do a lockdown fail to get immediate care for their heart attacks because the hospitals were overwhelmed?

Thankfully we have control groups in Sweden and Florida, so you can prove your point in a very simple way by showing me the increased heart attack deaths in both those places.

Did that happen in all countries that didn't do a lockdown?

You don't have to pretend this is about truth or accuracy. We have countless examples, literally hundreds if not thousands of people in the MSM media deliberately lying and repeating provable false bullshit. Rachel Maddow pretended Trump was installed by Putin, she said Ivermectin ODs keep gunshot victims waiting outside of hospitals, she said the vaccines will stop the spread of the virus. None of these things are even remotely true but she doesn't have to correct ANY of them.

The motivation behind those actions aren't a desperate attempts to seek truth in a chaotic environment, but people with trying to dominate others.

So if it's profitable for Youtube and Twitter to push for a war and ban all dissenting voices you wouldn't feel there's a need to discuss whether or not that's a good thing, you'd instead have an argument about whether or not private companies should be able to do that?

There are far more interesting issues at hand and if you pretend this is a discussion about the legalities of this behaviour instead of a question about where idiotic self-harming nonsense like this leads our society you're being deliberately obtuse.

Name a single MSM person or outlet and I'll give you ten stories that were objectively speaking misinformation that led to far more severe consequences than anything Joe Rogan has done. Which one do you want? The "Russian bounty" story? The "Ivermectin ODs keep shot people waiting outside" story? How about the "WMD" thing? Go ahead, let's see how Joe Rogan's latest monkey story compares to that.

TL;DR: People enjoy Joe Rogan because he's having simple conversations without pretending to have all the answers. Meanwhile the entire MSM, from Rachel Maddow to James Clapper has deliberately lied to their audience to push for wars and escalations. If you want to start cancelling, start there.

Just so we are clear. You never heard to a single episode, but because woke idiots on twitter said something you considered canceling the service? Like, you were going to cancel because someone said Joe Rogan did something controversial?

The only real way to solve that problem is to stop caving to the deranged woke mob.

Ugh... what's worse than the actual censorship are people like you that pretend to not understand the issue, at all.

First of all, WHO ARE YOU ARGUING WITH?!? - "proponent of a free market"? Who are you talking to? Critics of these reactions are not these people, so why on earth are you pretending you want to have a discussion when you deliberately choose to argue with people that have no objection to them? You're talking to an audience of three people, yet everybody that's on your side, the side of censorship will pretend you're refuting the opposing perspective. No, you just picked a tiny group that already agrees with you, pretend it doesn't, and then explain why they actually agree with you.

Ok, so it seems like you're fine with it, because Spotify is a "private corporation", aren't you? Is Spotify free to ban all black artists then? They are a private company after all. Or is that different for reason x / y / z. Fine, let's be a little more theoretical than. Youtube, Spotify and Twitter decide to ban ALL opinions that go against invading Venezuala. Is that something you will support? Private company banning an opinion which they disagree with, all fine and dandy, correct?

Top comment, most upvotes and everyone joins in on this farce... wtf is going on here?

This article pairs so well with the one about the futility of lockdowns. We'll spend the next decade(s) trying to figure out how a virus with an mortality age around life expectancy managed to turn most world leaders and the laptop class into cultists that adhere to random rituals rather than objectively observe their own surroundings.

Getting ahead is the most important thing in life!

"But you can't be a vector of transmissible diseases" what exactly did you not understand about your own statement? Are you allowed to be a vector or not?

I am SO curious how history will judge this entire farce. This will go down as the experiment of what happens when we actually listen to the crazy hollywood scientist that keeps preaching the end of the world and the outcome speaks for itself.

Oddly enough my surgeon removed his mask once he left the operating room, how come? Does he want to harm his patients and staff, so he can perform more surgeries?

Complaint: Vaccines don't slow the spread as is clearly seen in the states and countries with the highest vaccination rates still having huge surges so the choice for vaccination is an entirely individual one

response: Complaint: MANDATES WON'T STOP COVID

response: No one ever said vaccine mandates would stop Covid. What we keep saying is that vaccine mandates will save lives, reduce the strain on health services and reduce workplace disruptions from infected workers.

rebuttal: MANDATES WON'T STOP COVID

Ah yes, Long COVID the self diagnosed symptoms that surprisingly coincide with those that you would expect if you told a society to lockdown for 18 months.

Yes, that is a fantastic argument. Better have someone else come in that is many times stronger than you and punch you in the face. Great solution!

If you deliberately avoid his point then why bother commenting on it?

Terrorism is also "invisible and everywhere" and yet 20 years later, people are still freaking out about a threat that is as dangerous to them as stairs or lightning. Clearly the point is that you can make up threats and fear people into submission. You are not healthy, you are pre-sick and a mass murderer if you meet other people!

Perfectly rounded off with the most delusional, revealing admission you can make in our modern era; "no idea how people functioned before modern science"... Jesus Christ, yeah. Maybe you can "use modern science" to figure out how they functioned before it? Especially during this farce, where the "modern science" collectively decided that viruses and pandemics are an entirely new discovery that has never existed in the previous literature before so none of our previous knowledge could be applied to it - "This virus is unlike anything we have ever seen". What a joke.

Cleanliness and germs are not the important factors. Age and weight are. We've increased both for practically no gain. This will be remembered as the biggest failure of modern society, medicine and science

Those people that are on the brink of death don't get the vaccine and probably skew the metric in the other way.

If you know the cancer patient has 2 weeks left you're not going to vaccinate him. If that same cancer patient dies with covid it'll be counted as an unvaxxed covid death

How many times did you have to show proof of your flu vaccine? If we can exclude the unvaccinated from social gatherings then the same logic applies to the n-1 vaccinated and that means it matters a LOT what the current n is

I did the same but in addition I read things out quietly and asked myself questions about what I just wrote down and read. Not simply reciting the core points but trying to understand why they were put in that place, what makes it necessary for them to be that way and how they fit into the broader context. Additionally I'd "circle back" every now and then, i.e. question what happened in the previous page, then in the previous chapter. It got extremely addicting to learn once I got the hang of it. It is remarkable (and quite frankly insane) how much knowledge you can absorb and internalize in a coherent way if you just blast every sense with that input and force your mind to "live and breathe" a certain topic. (I still became an unemployed loser but at least I can learn fast!)