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skymast··on Amazon 'censored' Covid vaccine books after 'feeling pressure' from White House
Well, this is how Science is done now, the political party decides what they want to happen, and their 'experts' deliver for them.

Their 'vax', masks, social distancing, denying the actual meds that work? Utter garbage. It is mostly embarrassing that the believers think these were done for their safety as opposed to a way to steal an election (And will deny it's happening in the upcoming election).

skymast··on Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? Here's what the science says
It helps when all of these conspiracy theories get proved true day after day.

So, there's that.

The real question is, why are people so close minded and sure of their world view not to believe in conspiracy theories.

skymast··on Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?
Do you take MYSQL backups of complete BBS sites?
skymast··on A wild idea to protect the Great Barrier Reef
Species go extinct, it is part of natures way.

New species will evolve to take over the niche.

Control is a powerful drug.

skymast··on Urgent appeal to get flu jab after virus killed more than Covid last winter
In America, over the course of the covid crisis, amazingly, Flu cases dropped to almost zero, while covid cases followed an almost exact graphed path to previous flu cases.
skymast··on Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power
I am an environmentalist, I prefer nuclear.
skymast··on Fraudulent data raise questions about superstar honesty researcher (2021)
Did Michael Mann fudge more weather data?
skymast··on Two new AI-based weather-forecasting systems challenging the status quo
?looks out the window, clear blue skies, knows weather/
skymast··on Rapid Covid tests miss 90% of asymptomatic cases
So someone didn't find out that they had a virus that was so weak that they had to take a test to find out if they had it, and they went about their lives without any problems with the false negative result?

Horrifying.

skymast··on San Francisco library turning off WiFi at night to keep homeless from using it
Wifi is a human right, isn't it?

I mean, if they can't afford it, we should provide it to them at tax payer expense.

skymast··on Universal basic income of nearly $2000/mo to be trialed in UK for the first time
Next years headlines "Why did food prices skyrocket?"

Socialism never works, not even this time. Not even next time.

skymast··on Mastodon provides the highest (over 12%) engagement under posts
And you know, even if it didn't. they would say it did.

Because the narrative needs twitter to fail.

skymast··on Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset
Porn is really amazing on the Quest. I look forward to seeing what Apple can do with it.
skymast··on Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple
Placement takes precedence over caliber size.
skymast··on Ocean Temperature
What is the temperature of the oceans supposed to be?
skymast··on How can we stop the CO2 that plants store from leaking back into the air?
Why would we want to?
skymast··on [dead]
Objectively, the bible is not porn. It is like calling a MCDonalds Big Mac, an aardvark.

I know we live in a time of redefining anything to suit our personal whims, but there are objective realities at play.

skymast··on Just Write
Lena Dunham? The girl who molested her sister?
skymast··on Show HN: Counter – Simple and free web analytics
I would prefer to selfhost all my analytics. Any plans for that?
skymast··on Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
It's amazing how thin skinned a lot of people are.
skymast··on Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
When one looks objectively at media reporting and takes that objective viewpoint on a sliding scale backwards through various reports, it becomes obvious that their mission is not to report news, but to shape public opinion.
skymast··on The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (2018)
Learn Mandarin, no country can survive this long with such weakness.

Our enemies are salivating while our Generals are getting sex changes.

skymast··on Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US
You get used to scarcity under socialist rule. It becomes the norm.

Are you used to it yet?

skymast··on Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans arrived in the Americas
What happened to the Mound People? And as an added credit, which civilization of North American 'natives' did the Mound People exterminate?
skymast··on Cannabis is legal in most US states but federal laws block businesses from banks
They are doing the same thing to the gun industry, using the banks as a weapon.
skymast··on Bye, Twitter
Twitter 2.0 = Free Speech Free Speech = Woke + Non-woke Non-woke = hate speech

Therefore Twitter is pro-hate speech.

skymast··on Why is the state of mathematics education so abstract and uninspiring?
The problem is, Arithmetic is taught like math, instead of being taught like it is a language, a rich, beautiful language, with nuance and poetry.
skymast··on Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan
Manhattan is getting the law enforcement it demanded.
skymast··on Poll: Would You Work for Elon?
I would work for him, I would take a cut in pay to work for him. He is a visionary, and visionaries are not always easy to get along with, or anticipate but they do get things done.

would you have worked for Da Vinci? Or the original Tesla?

I would have worked for them for free.

skymast··on Ask HN: Would You Work for Elon?
I would work for him, I would take a cut in pay to work for him.
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