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moremetadataon Eggspensive

I saw a stock market company in the UK do this in the 90's, mostly through natural wastage and not replacing the position, a total ban on recruitment except essential jobs, whilst blaming the new govt.

Businesses need ways to control govt for their own means, just look at the legislation, regulations and business practices that exists and does not exist in one country and not another.

The US Supreme Court case Gonzalez v. Google, even some of the US Judges have said congress need to be addressing this, but these politicians are all bought and paid for, except perhaps Bernie Sanders. Perhaps this is also why US tech stock is laying off big, they know the game is up and changes are a foot.

Look at parts of the German Autobahn where its got no speed limit, do you think the German Car manufacturers had a little bit of a say in keeping things unchanged since 1934?

moremetadataon Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls

Social media is a psychological weapon that leaves no physical evidence which is why the state is making a big play on mental health.

Its a control mechanism on the population because the state deliberately doesn't teach law and parents cant be relied upon, so social media can also be a way to psychological and biologically profile people before choosing to radicalise individuals, set them up for blackmail, or have them carryout a variety of Darwinism tasks, to help population levels or boost GDP through health care.

Social Media is to the ego, as the Olympics is to the body, but parents are not sports coaches, managing the physical and mental aspects of failure.

So do parents take the China route and limit gaming time to 3 hours a week Fri, Sat, Sun and limit access to the FAANG companies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China#:....

Now enjoy your fortnite hot pics on youtube, some of you might find it xxx rated in all but name!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fortnite+hot+pi...

moremetadataon Eggspensive

Major employers can manipulate govt's in lots of ways like laying off staff to push up the unemployment figures, so if you get a Govt which wants to raise standards for the populations, major employers can make that difficult.

The prime objective of a business is to make profit, everything else is secondary.

moremetadataon TreeTalk London – Tree Map

Exactly. A bulk supply of dishwashing tablets can make almost anything disappear!

moremetadataon Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow

I found search engines kept directing me to pages on Stack Overflow where the code doesnt work and reading the comments to solutions reminded me of this https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

Currently, I'm finding no law firm in the UK that I email from protonmail ever replies, the only people who reply to me are the police and NHS, which perhaps gives others an example of the torture the state is prepared to carry out on people, which in my experience has been since before primary school.

moremetadataon Albanian gangs have set up their own CCTV networks to spy on cops

Exactly, where there's a will, there's a way.

What is your interpretation of a will?

moremetadataon In medieval Germany, a “schandmaske” was a punishment for social transgression

>I learned my lesson though, me wanting to be right/winning the argument was an attempt to dominate the other person.

This isnt a Rorschach test.

>Life is way more fun if i get along with others

Not in my experience it hasnt, but maybe thats the people I attract and forced to work with.

moremetadataon TreeTalk London – Tree Map

Its harder to terminate a tree in the UK than a human.

moremetadataon Our Society Is Not Prepared for This Much AI Awesome

First there was the mirror, then technology like camera's & tv's, smart phones and social media, and then there was AI.

moremetadataon In medieval Germany, a “schandmaske” was a punishment for social transgression

Ironically the DSM suggests a narcissist is "A preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love. A belief that he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions. A need for excessive admiration"

How times have changed, or rather should that be definitions?

Now where does royalty and politicians fit into all of this?

moremetadataon Chemists create methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water (2022)

I've been biologically creating methane fuel for as long as I can remember, so does this mean we need to destroy the sun in order to prevent global warming?

moremetadataon What Mary Didn't Know (1986) [pdf]

> We can't say what sort of echolocation sensation a bat has anymore than Mary can say what a color looks like before she leaves the black and white room.

Actually we can. For example, there are reports of the older generation dreaming in black and white due to the black and white tv [1], in much the same way, the days event can shape the dreams someone has. On the physical side, because science is now showing how light and other environmental stimuli affect chemical processes in the body and brain [2,3,4], science is not only discovering the ability to emit and measure, but then find instances in nature where its being used.

>what would the rest of the EM spectrum look like if we could see it all

Ultraviolent is a good example, the lens of the eye tends to block this, but people with no lens due to early cataract operations which just removed the lens, and anomalous lens have reported seeing UV light. [5,6]

>What would a scientific theory that could answer these sorts of questions look like?

So it depends on whether experts take reports seriously or not, experts applying real scientific conjecture, and/or whether funding and permission can be obtained. We can all detect Infrared (heat) through our skin, but we cant really see it. On another point, which perhaps best describes and exemplifies the boiling frog syndrome is the fact that UV destroys folates, yet we dont really detect as it takes place because its taking place over a larger perceptible window of time [7], at best those suffering from SAD or depression may feel better after a session in the tanning salon or by the end of the tanning session depending on how much UVA light the flo tubes are chucking out. It also highlights that some vegetables like Brussel Sprouts a vegetable high in folates may be harmful to your mental health during winter months, especially considering its a stable for Xmas dinners. But back to the point of what would a scientific theory look like, we already see that ad-hoc practice in action in the scientific world. Generate, Detect, Search for examples, Elucidate, Pontificate.

Scientific knowledge is not really performed in a scientific manner because it relies on the ad-hoc, if not, chaotic ability to detect phenomena, a known stumbling block, hindered in part by capitalism of all things and we all know no one person has all the ideas, and we know that some test equipment is massively expensive and in the past didnt exist. So the low hanging fruit of being able to devise tests using our own senses and imagination, think Newton's gravity theory when hit on the head by an apple, or even theory's from ancient Greeks demonstrates that in practice, scientific discovery has been extremely unscientific despite the protestations of its adherents.

>There's no magic or supernatural stuff here. It just means our scientific description of the world lacks the subjective. There is a fundamental epistemological limit to our ability to know how to combine the two. It doesn't mean the world itself has such a division. We just can't cognate how to reconcile the two.

I'm sure you are aware of the internet and search engines [8,9], if not perhaps films giving tantalizing inspiration and hope [10] of possibility's and insights into how to cognate and reconcile the current and future time beyond the realms of religions which constantly harp back to the past.

Not bad for an undergraduate of https://rb.gy/xhuwo9 if I might say so, whilst I might have spent time reading a dictionary, in order to create obedience to authority with the use of uncommon words from the vernacular of the commons, I'm not engaging in it here consciously, because the military have taught me some highly efficient means to get my message across which isn't compatible with those tenets from the law and order fraternity.

[1] https://rb.gy/xilvko

[2] https://rb.gy/grprda

[3] https://rb.gy/ahwngn

[4] https://rb.gy/j2dibr

[5] https://rb.gy/7rpejx

[6] https://rb.gy/vwgr1o

[7] https://rb.gy/yhxhlm

[8] https://rb.gy/s9wdn6

[9] https://rb.gy/5kte4d

[10]https://rb.gy/hzmop7

moremetadataon A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance

Its either NAC or ALCAR which smells like Salt and Vinegar crisps, but NAC will certainly help the liver deal with state licenced poisons like alcohol and paracetamol aka acetaminophen.

moremetadataon Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?

> at its core the idea of not taking a company's trade secrets to a competitor is a reasonable thing to agree on

But its ok to pay poor wages and let staff go, using the law as a weapon? Isnt that anti capitalist? Isnt that against the spirit of the law?

>with people who know how to negotiate

Rather the employment is not so one sided, the employee has to take everything dished out to them.

>you see a lot of contracts where you get paid your full salary for say a year to sit at home and do nothing,

You also see people put on gardening leave where the contract contains nothing to handle certain situations.

moremetadataon Facebook Announces Meta Verified

>The motivations of Satan in the Bible are very clear, so scapegoating or false demonizing isn't happening.

Or is Satan a representation of the health of the individual and knowledge obtained by crypto haters? For example, the missionary's have a position which is highly recommended to increase histidine and histamine. That can put people especially teenage boys in awkward situations.

Or we could look at the garden of eden and the apple, knowing the effect the ursolic acid found in fruit peel (Victorian Xmas Pudding) like apple skin and some herbs can have on the body. We know about health effects of old style apples, not necessarily the new breeds found in food malls and stores, because of old proverbs like the Pembrokeshire Proverb.

>Religions are not by nature inherently sexist

Who are you trying to kid? Just look at their hierarchical structure and history of employment and storytelling. I'll tell you know the Roman Catholic church is massively sexist, because AFAIK there has never been a female pope! Ergo Catholics are sexist if not overtly, certainly subconsciously with their beliefs. Same goes for a lot of other religions.

> see veneration toward the Mother Mary

Ah yes, the immaculate conception, so putting aside how the immaculate conception was inspected, I think the Japanese have a word pertaining to this form of unusual insemination, its called bukkakeru.

> opposed to the modern state-mandated one, which actually is incredibly sexist, and seeks to scapegoat and demonize men in a frantic and irrational way.

I think the modern state-mandated one are trying to address the sexism in society, which is a great form of psychological warfare against males, which the military will love because they are always looking to undermine insurgents and terrorists, whilst not recognising their own actions are radicalising individuals in society.

What goes around, comes around, aka Karma.

moremetadataon A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance

> jigging with the bacteria's Na+K+-ATPase pump

I was kind of hoping you'd have come back to contest, because the inhalation of sodium is a topical application to recruit T Helper 17 cells to a site, even though that topical application happens to be the lungs.

Ironically those people inhaling salt would probably be better off inhaling sodium bicarbonate because the bicarbonate will invariably through some localised chemical changes increase co2, and when co2 levels get to 1000-5000ppm in the lungs, the recruitment of immune cells increase.

moremetadataon Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?

But are they ethically or morally correct clauses to have in a contract?

I know lawyers let you put WTF into business contracts because its a business to business contract anything goes, but business to human contracts are different and this is what amazes me about the ethical nature of lawyers & law firms knowing some of those lawyers will go on to become judges of all things.

Been There, Seen it, Done it!

moremetadataon A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance

1. Chronic Exposure, a term that fails to quantify with units of measure, but it sounds psychologically shocking, to the point the elevated stress hormones conveniently not measured by so called medical experts, might start impeding the neutrophil functionality in turn impairing the wider immune system. Probably explains why the saying Ignorance is Bliss exists.

2. Reperfusion. Damage that occurs after blood supply is restored to a tissue or organ after a period of ischemia. Ischemia, a condition in which blood flow (and thus oxygen) is restricted or reduced in a part of the body. I guess someone had to get a leg of lamb and pump some blood around it whilst cooking it in order to demonstrate the restriction of the blood?

3.Anerobic exercise elevates creatine kinase as a marker of exercise. The supplementation of creatine can not be differentiated in kidney function tests, which are used by medical experts.

4.Neither do neutrophils or immune cells in general. >You would need to increase its plasma concentration 100-fold to get an appreciable effect on microbes. Why would it be unhealthy for your kidneys again?

Where did you get these half baked theories and ideas from University or med school? You are certainly not a medical researcher!

moremetadataon Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?

>we could start the world's largest software co-op

How would non-compete, confidentially clause contracts when when you work for yourself? Would the judiciary in that part of the world uphold them or strike them out like the judiciary of other parts of the world have done.

Tip, if you are female and married a rich bloke, move to the UK, prove your British citizenship and then get divorced in UK law courts!

Amber Heard knew the British law courts are biased against men!

moremetadataon A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance

You dont think cysteine intake like N-Acetyl Cysteine aka Salt and Vinegar crisps might influence the livers ability to metabolise said chemicals? NAC consumption will produce mucus very quickly in the lungs within minutes on an empty stomach and then maybe some glucose to increase CD4 cells to increase phagocytosis?

Inhalation could be viewed as an internal topical application of formaldehyde... bypassing liver (and kidneys where applicable) metabolism. Maybe its the same reasons why some people inhale salt, for its antimicrobial activity, jigging with the bacteria's Na+K+-ATPase pump.

moremetadataon Facebook Announces Meta Verified

Religions also engage in it, with Satan being the bad guy. If religions weren't so subconsciously sexist, surely Satan could have been a woman?

moremetadataon Facebook Announces Meta Verified

Seen all his stuff, I like it, an interesting perspective on a par with Black Mirror in some ways. A spooks wet dream.

moremetadataon A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance

Formaldehyde kills Anthrax a bacillus bacteria and we make Formaldehyde from folic acid and folates. Downside of Formaldehyde is it increases the chance of cancer, probably one of the main reasons smokers got lung cancer because of the Formaldehyde in tobacco. UV light reduces folates, but does increase Vitamin D and vitamin D alters gene expression. I think something like 2000+ plus genes are influenced by Vit D, most of them being immune system genes.

Creatine broken down becomes creatinine which has a gram + and gram - antimicrobial effect, which probably explains why people who have 3rd degree burns experience sudden muscle loss with rhabdomyolysis, in order to keep the bacterial levels down.

Never understood why bodybuilders get told to cycle their creatine intake considering the above. Anyone know?

In the meantime, I'll continue increasing my alpha-linoleic acid (£136 million per kilo from sigma-aldrich) for my omega3 intake, as it increases the size of neutrophils, which store our vitamin C and make it a hostile environment for some pathogens, before some CD4 cells carryout the phagocytosis activity.

moremetadataon The AI Mirror Test, which smart people keep failing

Whats intelligence? Doing an IQ test? A cockroach couldn't do that, but its chemistry and biology is different so its idea of consciousness, eg pleasure pain etc will be different to ours and yet it can survive in a wide range of environments, like we can, yet we dont have things like the GULO gene (vitamin C making gene( so our survival is dependent on superior intelligence and our hands with opposable thumbs.

moremetadataon Facebook Announces Meta Verified

>Where did we die?

Funnily enough I was saying the same thing tonight. Here in the UK I think it became all out screw people over when Margret Thatcher and the City of London had their 1980's yuppie boom.

I under stand why the older generation in the former Soviet Union harp back to the good old days of the soviet union, life was simpler and more stable for many people.

Now we have to navigate recessions about about 7-10years, have so many financial products in order to not get screwed over because the state is no longer up to the job. Life has become a bit of a free for all, and the extent and deviousness of some people to get money or manipulate people is off the scale imo.

I also understand why we had to come off the gold standard, if we were every really on it, because it was/is arguably holding back the economy and innovation, so with fiat its easier to print money and keep the plates spinning, but in a global world, 3rd world country's have the cost advantage which is why so much is offshored to 3rd world countrys. When looking at central bank digital currency, the fact that digital money can be expired unless its spent, I think is a poor attempt to reduce the risk of boom and bust, good times and recessions. It also shows how money is being used by govt's and central banks to manipulate people like holding a carrot out in front of a donkey.

Its a legal insult in some ways.

moremetadataon Facebook Announces Meta Verified

It pays to check credit files, British Telecom linked someone else's bad debts to my file simply for trying to broker a repayment plan for the other person, and I got financially linked to other people I wasnt financially linked to.

Especially important if sharing properties as a student.

>When I got my very first credit report, which I was entitled to by law, the reporting agencies asked me to very information they already had about my life and financial history dating back to my early teenage years

Thats because they dont know if the data supplied to them is genuine or not. Postal addresses were also a problem, I know of programmers who would boast about how quickly they could clean millions of records a second in the 90's (in memory rather than disk), but the credit reference companies main issue is getting clean data. A bank might have one address for you, and another bank or loan company might have a different address for you, both work in that the post office deliver the mail but the addresses are different.

example House Name House No, Street Town/City Postcode(zip code)

House No, Street Town/City Postcode(zip code)

House Name Street Town/City Postcode(zip code)

Post office should deliver to all 3 addresses, but a computer program see's differences, ergo cleaning data and recognising these differences were one and the same involved a lot of time.

Other examples is the name of someone. A.N. Surname Arthur N Surname A. Name Surname

All the same person, 3 different but legal ways to do a name on paperwork.

>The credit reporting agencies keep track of you without your consent by providing services to other companies and agencies.

The contracts signed with banks and lenders of sort have blanket clauses where they can share their data with whoever they like. You have no control over this. So they do have consent and they sometimes use this for "fraud detection", so either dont deal with them, go cash and/or crypto.

moremetadataon Vinyl Chloride and the Ohio Train Derailment

> That whole privatized profits / socialized losses issue that keeps showing up.

The Banksters demonstrated that back in 2008.

moremetadataon The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns

> Sure. Put less animals. So how do feed the Human population? Either force everyone to become vegetarian to free up the land or start reducing the population through stealth means, reducing lifestpans or invest in new technologies which can regreen the deserts as seen in places like Ethiopia or the deserts in the middle east?

Fish stocks are already not as abundant and the temperate shifts seen in the oceans is affecting fish stock in territorial waters. During the mini ice age which ended in 1857(^), the colder water saw cod stock which is highly temperature sensitive (likes 7DegC water) move down towards the UK. (^)This is why the media show global warming starting from this point in time.

Stealth means, GM crops like soy beans which have reduced omega3 content to reduce the soy beans going rancid as quickly, mean the neutrophil immune system in humans and lifestock feeding on this will be rendered less effective due to less omega3 intake. Ergo more drugs needed, great for chemical companies, and makes me wonder why govt's even bother!?!

>Yes, if we use the US farming practices it's probably true.

Global Warming. Despite the fact that CO2 levels mean more for vegetation and less need for fertilisers, because the co2 level on this planet have been way way higher, I think over double what they are today, the difference with the past, is humans need more space so that homeostasis with co2 levels and vegetation is broken.

Personally, I dont know why more isnt spent pumping desalinated water into the deserts especially considering the solar cells that could provide shelter for deserts, around the Sahara or the middle east. Would the reflection of solar cells affect the upper atmosphere much? I dont know, but cant be any more disruptive than ionosphere heaters pushing the ionosphere out into space causing leo satellites to crash to earth when they encounter atmosphere in their path.

>a single earth worth of properly managed trees and ecosystem is perfectly capable of feeding them.

Provided the human population is managed. Its only exploded in line with the discovery of oil, before then the human population was either under a billion or arond a billion or two.