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Khelavaster··on You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claim
Surprised disabled people don't do citizens' arrests on insurance company account administrators and executives, using heavy assault weapons when necessary to leverage force with their disabilities..
Khelavaster··on Comparing Oregon and Portugal's approach to drug decriminalization
Oregon DOES have socialized healthcare just like Portugal, though. The difference runs far deeper..
Khelavaster··on Harvard, Yale Warned by Top Law Firms About Antisemitism
Just anti-Isreali-violence. Not anti-semitism.
Khelavaster··on One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice
Anger and hostility are opposites of depression. Doesn't mean it's good to induce those feelings..
Khelavaster··on I can hold my breath for 1 minute. Can you? Dubai Fitness Challenge
It would be cool if other residents of Dubai got more 30-minute breaks after exercising doing construction/landscaping/etc. jobs in blistering sun throughout the day..
Khelavaster··on The Expressivity Limitations of Object-Oriented Programming
This writer really doesn't understand that functions and types are themselves objects..?
Khelavaster··on Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate
Reported crimes are falling while actual crimes are rising. Nobody wants to do the work of measuring ACTUAL crime rates. Only rates of filed crime reports.

Sort of disappointing.

Khelavaster··on EU-funded report calls for wealth of super-rich to be taxed, not income
Printing more money effectively taxes the super-rich as well.
Khelavaster··on California housing gap defies state efforts to jump-start construction
Try to not require sprinkler systems for every single family home...it's absurd.
Khelavaster··on Veterinarians Confront a Human Problem: Anti-Vaxxers
Cat vaccines cultured from feline kidney cells actually cause autoimmune nephritis in cats, and explain why kidney failure is a leading cause of death in vaccinated cars..
Khelavaster··on Sodium ascorbate treatment for sepsis moves to next phase of human trials
Affirmation of "Hydrocortisone, Vitamin C, and Thiamine for the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: A Retrospective Before-After Study"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27940189/

Khelavaster··on How the conspiracy-fueled Epoch Times went mainstream and made millions
Because the conspiracies, especially pChinese government organ harvesting and uighur prosecution, were absolutely true...
Khelavaster··on Overlooked reasons to still buy physical media
Physical games install onto modern Gen consoles, so you don't even need them for booting up!
Khelavaster··on De Novo Lipogenesis: Why People Don't Get Fat from Carbs
Actually, the article in detail sets is scope for calorie surplus situations.
Khelavaster··on De Novo Lipogenesis: Why People Don't Get Fat from Carbs
From nonfructose carbs.
Khelavaster··on Ask HN: Could near death experiences have coevolved with belief in an afterlife?
Yes, at the primitive mamallian or premamallian level..
Khelavaster··on Drew DeVault makes plea for evidence of Hacker News misbehavior
Hacker News DOES tolerate sincere hate, as long as it isn't disruptive or disrespectful.

Posts that admit to unpopular forms of hate get downvoted to oblivion.

Posts that admit to popular forms of hate are fine in general.

Disruptive hate is disruptive and moderated like any other disruption.

Khelavaster··on Intrasexually competitive women advise other women to cut off more hair
The abstract suggests a suspicious methodology. This is a very detailed simulation...
Khelavaster··on It might be possible to create gravitational waves in a lab
Bob and Bonnie Baker explain how it "Gravitational Waves". Buzz Aldrin is actually an executive with Bob Baker's Gravewave, LLC.

The key is a double-helix of hundreds of millions of piezoelectric thin-film bulk acoustic resonators coupled in series, synchronized by microwave-frequency EM pulses. . This triggers a resonant "jerk" in the gravitational field that manifests as high-frequency, high-power gravitational waves. http://www.drrobertbaker.com/docs/AIP;%20HFGW%20Piezoelectri...

Salvatore Pais has some patents about gravitational waves as well.

Khelavaster··on Sudafed doesn’t work. Neither does our system for evaluating older drugs
The names, addresses, and work + personal phone numbers of every FDA official sharing responsibility for the negligence should be released.

Once these peoples' neighbors and acquaintances understand the mindless slaughter being perpetuated, they'll probably pressure FDA officials to be better people.

Khelavaster··on Is FOG the new FAANG in the world of AI
It was always MMAGA: Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon...
Khelavaster··on Year after BLM protests, S&P 100 added 323K jobs – 94% went to people of color
They're not saying only 20,524 white workers were hired.
Khelavaster··on Year after BLM protests, S&P 100 added 323K jobs – 94% went to people of color
You could also say 94% of those jobs went to [age range of your choice] whose hiring numbers increased that much.

This is a common analytical fallacy.

Far more than 323K jobs were added...they're talking about NET jobs added.

Khelavaster··on Association Between Aluminum in Vaccines Before Age 24 Months and Asthma (2022) [pdf]
Two points:

1. Alumnimum stimulates immunity to recently-exposed antigens. So why wouldn't it stimulate asthmatic immunity too?

2. This study doesn't look at any other immune-boosters (adjuvants). While aluminum may promote spleen-based allergies like asthma the most, other adjuvants may boost liver-based allergies like food allergies more.

Khelavaster··on The curious case of DMT and a man with a brain tumor
This blogger's ignoring that INMT catalyzes 5-MEO-DMT synthesis in basically all forms of higher life. Including the skin of 'licking-toads' and the pineal gland of human brains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amine_N-methyltransferase

Khelavaster··on Tech salaries in US decline amid record-breaking inflation, market turbulence
Still have congressmen caling for doubling H1-B visa allocations, for some reason..
Khelavaster··on US lawmaker moves bill to double H-1B visas
Sure is weird, after all the tech layoffs. Maybe they should audit existing h1-b visa utilization, and make sure that salary comps and job descriptions make responsibilitiea.
Khelavaster··on Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all
Dehumanizing people mentally instead of thinking negative thoughts about them goes further!
Khelavaster··on A suit of armor for cancer-fighting cells
PEGylation is a very established technique, give it some credit!
Khelavaster··on Biden to Target Industrial Pollution in a 2nd Term, If He Gets One
You're right, he left the OPE! Didn't know that. Looks like he was caught DUI earlier this year, lol. https://www.wdsu.com/article/nopd-launches-investigation-int...
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