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SideburnsOfDoomon Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

And also being a person of colour, which is tough in the "hard-line social conservative" lane, where that is often a negative with those voters. Against another person of colour, who could pick up the other voters for whom it is a positive.

And the crazy.

SideburnsOfDoomon Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

Sure, but wait for 2028.

SideburnsOfDoomon Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

> don't think that's true it all.

It's not true of them all, but it definitely is true of at least some of them.

I know this because I heard it said in those words in a vox pops interview shortly before the Brexit vote.

SideburnsOfDoomon Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

> almost unheard of in the US for an elected politician to poll lower than 30%, it seems to be a floor

Alan Keyes apparently set the floor at 27%, which is not far below 30%

> Obama vs. Alan Keyes. ... Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement.

https://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_Senate_elec...

And lizardman's Constant is 4% https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lizardman%27s_Constant

SideburnsOfDoomon Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

I disagree not because "brainwashed MAGA crowd" but because people saying "it can't be worse" are almost always wrong. Unless you're starving in the ruins of your house in one of the world's war zones, in which case you're likely focussed on survival, not saying that.

Pick any of the leader's third-rate third-tier henchmen or failsons for example of a worse option. Don't dismiss it out of hand.

People in the UK voted for Brexit because "well it can't be worse, can it?" They were suckers.

I don't disagree with the "The reality is" line.

SideburnsOfDoomon Quantum battery upends the rules of charging

Agreed, though the other point is that the larger charging system (battery, charger, grid etc) being the bottleneck in need of optimisation is not typical. It happens, but not every time. For overnight charging, you want L2 and usually the rest doesn't matter so much.

SideburnsOfDoomon Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity

I agree with this, there does seem to be a volume and tone about AC that seems inauthentic (in general, not specifically on this site)

Yes, AC is harder in old building with solid walls as is common in UK & Europe. We have a portable AC unit since March this year, and are very glad of it. It doesn't solve everything but it helped us through the worst of the heat.

All of that is nuance, and nuance is notoriously ineffective when replying to propaganda that relies on black and white thinking, volume and on changing the subject to something related, emotive but not as consequential.

SideburnsOfDoomon Quantum battery upends the rules of charging

> related battery articles over the last decade. All of them promise new and magically. None have upturned the market

Yeah but nah. I think there are at least 2 things going on

1) articles tend to hype.

2) Only a small percent of "lab breakthroughs" translate into real-world performance gains in production systems, and they do not do so immediately. But the fact of the matter is that there have been a large number of lab breakthroughs in batteries - this indicates what a key and productive area it is. A small percent of a large number is still an appreciable number.

If you think that batteries are much the same as 10 years ago, you're wrong. If you think they won't improve a lot in the next ten years, wrong again. Would you notice an "upturned market" if it happens over that timescale? - That's how real change, not hype comes.

SideburnsOfDoomon Quantum battery upends the rules of charging

> If not, the charging is not done correctly

For some value of "correct" but not others. For EV's, most of the time, the "correct" thing to do is to plug it in overnight, and let the software do the rest to optimise charging. Which might look something like:

Charging to start at midnight (or whenever the cheap rate starts) and complete by 7am (or usual wakeup time) and minimise wear by charging below a fastest rate, and take the battery level from where it is now (e.g. 50%) to the configured stopping point (e.g. 80%)

This is clearly different from "charge as fast as possible and be done in 20 minutes". Although that is occasionally the requirement. But not most of the time.

SideburnsOfDoomon The USA's real Covid-19 scandal is still unfolding

Curiously, this submission is listed as 8 hours prior, yet at the time I submitted, I first checked and could not find any other submission.

Also, the usual number of troglodytes on this topic have emerged right on cue.

SideburnsOfDoomon To become a better writer, read as much as you can

"I'm one of the few people you'll meet who's written more books than they've read."

- The Great Garth Marenghi

https://www.garthmarenghi.com/about/

(If you're unfamiliar, it's a comedy bit about a bad writer, somewhat the opposite of a genuine role-model)

SideburnsOfDoomon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

> Not with 50%+ of the country supporting this administration

That's not even close to an accurate number now. There are many sources e.g. (1)

It's a shame that people mostly learn the hard way, and forget easily. But that's not the support now.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-falls-33-low...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3fRIleMK-8

SideburnsOfDoomon Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

Given a population of people, you should aim to change some peoples minds. Indeed in a democracy it is important to get a majority or plurality in agreement.

But you cannot hope to change everyone's minds, and so that should not be a goal. A system that depends on that won't work. Typhoid Mary is a counterexample.

SideburnsOfDoomon Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite

> Iron is iron. How is it different that it "came from a meteorite?"

Actual metals are never 100% pure any one element. There are always alloys and impurities that speak to it's origins and history.

e.g. "The significant nickel concentration and consistent occurrence of cobalt confirm the meteoritic origin of the iron blades"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S12962...

SideburnsOfDoomon Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone

I want you to travel with half a gallon of gasoline (i.e. 2 litres of petrol) in your hold and/or hand luggage. See how that goes for you.

And yet, people travel with one or often more than one battery devices as a matter of utterly unremarkable routine.

SideburnsOfDoomon U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues

The USA has Mr Vermin Supreme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme

SideburnsOfDoomon Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

> The thing is most of those people made rational objections. The problem is their reasoning was based on false information.

This is how Typhoid Mary understood her status:

> It did not take Mary long to react to this suggestion. She seized a carving fork and advanced in my direction. ... Mallon's refusal was based on her belief that she was not infected. ... To stop her struggles, he had to sit on her chest for the journey.

And yet, locking her up over her objections her was itself a rational decision. This is the debate.

I'm not saying that this kind of intervention is appropriate today, just that her "rational objections" were not be-all and end-all of the situation.

Why is it more "important to understand why she objected"? Isn't it far more important to understand that she infected? The thing is, a virus doesn't care what you believe, or your political stripe. To a pathogen, you're a mass of warm cells, nothing more. Human beliefs are irrelevant to a virus, so why centre them?

Stopping the spread of e.g. measles depends on vaccinating just about everybody, that's statistics and epidemiology. At the end, that is what determines if there will be an outbreak. Cutting people slack on that because they choose to believe nonsense is not helpful and will not work. Actions matter more than beliefs, voluntary or not.

SideburnsOfDoomon Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone

"A civil conversation about my statement" quite.

I'm not buying it and you shouldn't be selling it.

SideburnsOfDoomon Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

Who is "they" ? And are they in the room with you now?

SideburnsOfDoomon Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

> Please stop doing what your doing

Yes, and it's worse than that for the parent commenter, the unvaccinated population also got some cases of myocarditis - often after Covid. And they got myocarditis at a higher rate than the vaccinated.

SideburnsOfDoomon Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

That's just spreading ignorance.

> The incidence of pericarditis and myocarditis in patients exposed to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines was lower than in those who were not vaccinated

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38262150/

SideburnsOfDoomon Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

You're not wrong, at least in the USA - but it really shouldn't be. The polarisation was ginned up for various bad reasons, including political gain. It's deadly culture war nonsense.

SideburnsOfDoomon Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

> There is a legitimate discussion of what can be mandated you do to your body.

There is a legitimate discussion (dating back at least to Typhoid Mary (1) ) on excluding people from public spaces when they refuse to take basic public health measures. Taking a vaccine for a spreading deadly pandemic is one of those measures.

Doing something so violently anti-social is not simply a "bodily autonomy" issue, and framing it only as such is deeply misguided in a way that seems particular to some USA norms.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon

> In 1907, she was forcibly quarantined at the Riverside Hospital

SideburnsOfDoomon Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

There is also a mRNU flu vaccine now: https://www.modernatx.com/ir-insights-mflusiva

I don't know if that counts as the same "trick" or not as it's another antiviral vaccine. Not that I disagree with you.

I read that this mRNA flu vaccine can be more effective then the regular annual flu shot, simply because the time to create it is shorter, therefor the guess at what strains will circulate that year is more accurate.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41701031/

But it is yet more validation. mRNA technology is here, get used to it.

SideburnsOfDoomon Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite

> The opportunity for fraud is immense

At the time, not so much. It was called "The Bronze Age" and "The Iron age" came later. The names aren't random.

From the article:

> The use of meteoritic iron particularly stands out during the Bronze Age because of the lack of iron smelting at the time.

In other words, the main source of this special metal was when the Gods occasionally threw down a piece, in a column of fire.