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Let's be frank. A few years in the future, the behavior this article is referring to as stoking vaccine skepticism for money, will be rightly seen as fighting the vaccine / medical tyranny hysteria.

So, if 450 ppm is bad, wouldn't 900 ppm be worse? It wasn't so long ago in the climate's history that it was that way. Not so long before that, it was 1800. Wouldn't that make the world ultra-XXXL screwed beyond belief? What happened there?

These doomsday prophecies are always conveniently distant. You can tell people any scary nonsense as long as it's far enough away that everyone will have forgotten the details of your prediction by the time it fails to come to pass.

It's just the same as how we can show people today any number of doomsday prophecies from the past about how the world was definitely going to be wrecked by 2020, or 2010, or 2000, or 1990, but somehow nobody thinks they were serious back then... but then they take the doomsday prophecy about 2030 seriously.

That seems like another good example of Wikipedia being unreliable and corrupt on politicized topics, not so much a substantive counter for this article. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/16/wikipedia-c...

> There's room in the FOSS space for both GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.

I doubt strcat disagrees with that. He's responding to specific statements comparing GrapheneOS and CalyxOS. I don't think we would have seen those comments if nobody had mentioned GrapheneOS.

When you see it's from WaPo, there's always an excellent chance that it's propaganda that serves the establishment, and this seems to be yet another example of that. There's no ongoing effort to disenfranchise eligible voters; there's an ongoing effort to count legal votes and not count illegal votes.

Felons can't vote; those under 18 can't vote; those who already voted somewhere else can't vote; you can't vote if you put your address down as a post office box or an empty parking lot; you can't falsely claim to be indefinitely confined and vote by mail; if you do vote by mail, there are procedures that have to be followed, things like verification that the ballot was actually sent out, verification of the signature, etc.

But all of those rules and many more were broken during the last presidential election, which made a lot of people wonder if we actually put the correct man in office, which in turn is why we're seeing this dishonest article today.

I agree with you. I remember Snopes being really useful. I don't think I ever foresaw it being corrupted... your idea that politics corrupted it seems plausible. On the other hand, more generally, it seems like whenever any entity becomes so useful that many eyes are on it, it becomes like a magnet for corruption. In other words, it becomes a tasty target. Maybe Snopes is a victim of its own success.

Self-hatred, or general misanthropy, seems to be a strong element of the modern "environmental"/anti-energy-use movement.

No big explanation is needed there -- many posters including myself get shadowbanned within hours of account creation, for nothing more than having the wrong opinion.

This is the truth. People here are overwhelmingly advocating what I think is probably the most dangerous argument I've ever seen seriously advanced, that some medical procedures are not eligible to be decided by the individual, because they're matters of public health.

If we go down that road, what government injection proffered in the name of public health could ever be refused? It's not as if you won't still be labelled a selfish anti-science anti-vaxxer if you refuse, say, the tenth injection rather than the first one.

I don't think there's really a fact-checking industry -- the industry that exists is something like a leftist Ministry of Truth. That stuff is unpopular because everyone is realizing that they're just more liars, hired by other liars.

All the centralized blog sites go through the same general syndromes. The value of them is that they're a single name to remember in order to get to a lot of varied content. The harm of them is that eventually they start removing people for political reasons ("deplatforming") or doing various other things the content creators don't like, but have little power to stop.

I wouldn't create an alternative to Medium, because I just think it's the wrong approach. We know the answer, because it's what everyone had no choice but to do before: run your own stuff, host it yourself, own your own domain, have your own process, keep things much more under your control. RSS.

I think my friends can see pictures in their minds. Maybe the discrepancy is due to ambiguity about what is meant by "visualize". I can think... something is clearly happening, but it just doesn't seem to be happening via pictures. I often feel as if I get some information, and then just send an intention for a problem to be solved, and then later the answer comes back, but I'm not aware of the process by which the answer was found.

No. I've often discussed this with friends. I seem to be completely "mind-blind", i.e., I don't see mental pictures. If I concentrate, I can cause something to appear in my mind that I know is supposed to be a visual impression of, e.g., a dog, for the briefest possible instant, but I can't just look at it.

Even things that are highly visual, like Chinese characters that I can write from memory, I don't copy them from mental pictures.

On the other hand, when I listen to music, I easily pick apart all the different elements and know their textures, kind of like flying and knowing what the terrain is via radar. It's still not visual, it's just knowing.