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  • Unholy water

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  • This is simply not true. I haven’t eaten meat in years but back when I did I would’ve gladly bought some NY hot dog cart water at the grocery store to add to my hot dog water when making it. It objectively makes them taste better versus using fresh water.

    I would contend that soiled toilet water is the opposite. Like a dirty unkempt toilet that doesn’t necessarily have a full poop in it but maybe some residual shit pieces or those streak marks that happen sometimes. A drop of that on anything and I’m like well I guess I don’t need this that badly

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  • Leucovorin is the prescription version and is much higher dosage (mg range) whereas supplements are much lower (mcg range). This potentially clears a path for Dr oz to sell way more folinic acid (like literally 1000x more) or opens the door for a few manufacturers of generic leucovorin (gsk is the original but basically abandoned it years ago)

  • proof of wormholes

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  • Yes, I touched upon this towards the end of my (admittedly lengthy) post. Also, it’s not “their” meta. It’s a meta done by mt Sinai and Harvard (eg done with rigor) which openly admits the link cannot be established as causal because, as stated, there are many confounding factors to consider

  • proof of wormholes

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  • There is some data to suggest there may be a link.

    However. The data is very limited. Mt sinai did a meta of 46 studies and found a link (not necessarily causal). A Swedish population study of like 2.5 million children found no link. Etc.

    The modest increase that could exist is unclear and confounded. Is it Tylenol or is something that the Tylenol is being taken for? Eg if the mom is having frequent headaches or fevers is the underlying condition impacting development and making it look like Tylenol does?

    But why?

    Two big answers:

    Kenvue (Tylenol manufacturer) is not exactly a “pharmaceutical giant”. They’re a much easier target for rfk to go after with much less in terms of resources. They absolutely will sue though and appear to be preparing to do so though. But going after vaccines (his big target), especially stuff like Covid vaccines, means going after real pharmaceutical giants. Moderna, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, etc. deeeeeep pockets and serious legal teams. This may be a fight he feels he can “win” to start gaining momentum and precedent.

    IMO the bigger reason is political capital. He has a large following of desperate parents that want an answer for why their child has autism or intellectual disability. I know a lot of people on here are like “autism is a superpower” and that’s great but these people are stuck in the disability mindset. It’s also important to remember that autism is a broad spectrum. Some of these parents have children that are nonverbal, that can’t toilet or shower independently, that get extremely violent when frustrated, that need 24/7 assistance and will never live independently. Of course some of them are just frustrated that their otherwise fine kid isn’t “normal” enough but that’s a whole other frustrating thing.

    They’re desperate for answers. The reality of the situation is that there isn’t a simple answer. The overwhelming evidence suggests a combination of factors: genetics, environmental, social and behavioral. But this is unsatisfying. I’ve worked with people on this for years and when you say “it’s probably a combination of factors” they are never happy with that. They want something to blame. This is the political capital. He is giving them that. Basically everyone has taken Tylenol within the past year. Most pregnant women will take Tylenol at some point for discomfort, pain, fever, etc.

    Now they will not only have the answer to “what did this”, they will have him as a person to hold up as the savior who gave them the answer. I saw the same thing happen when I started around 2010. Even though it was years after it happened people still attached to Wakefield and were so grateful he gave them the explanation that it was the MMR vaccine. They’d “protect their other children” as a result by not vaccinating them. Didn’t matter if you pointed out Wakefields proven financial links to an alternative MMR vaccine, the retraction of the paper, him getting his medical license revoked, etc. That’s how desperate they are for answers. FWIW Wakefield is still super rich and got married to literal supermodels so that’s why he doubled down and probably a major factor in why rfk is doing the same

  • Looking for a relatively cheap camera system

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  • This is not inexpensive ($500-1300+ easily depending on number of and quality of cameras) but it’s what I use and can recommend

    Also no cloud with reolink is an asterisk situation. Out of the box with the reolink app for several of their cameras it will contact reolink servers for things like notifications. However you can config with app and then never use again. If you have some of the fancier cameras like the e2 pro or whatever the notification processing is thankfully not server sided but occurs on the camera so you can roll it into home assistant and do everything locally

    To OP keep in mind this gets computationally expensive as well depending on your goals. If you just want 1-3 720p streams in the home assistant app then a pi is probably fine, especially if it’s like a pi 5. But if you want to encrypt those streams and forward them to homebridge so that less tech savvy users in your home can just view the streams on the home app in their iphone, you have like 10+ streams that are 4k, etc you’ll find the pi will choke and it may make sense to offload to a more powerful server or NVR (but if you want the homebridge thing even the nvr won’t save you)

  • Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared

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  • They go everywhere because even if a bunch of people are like “fuck off nazis” there will be a few people that are like “oh hey you have some good ideas”.

    That’s why they’ve been recruiting online since the beginning of the internet. Capture whoever you can that’s sympathetic and keep bolstering numbers by any means necessary. Worked out pretty well for them

  • Am I resistant to advertisements, or is it all mirage?

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  • Advertising is subversive. How do you pick what to buy when you buy “when needed”. You may be less susceptible to excessive consumerism - no wall of funko pops and anime character figures - but that doesn’t mean you select the products you buy because of some kind of advertising. Whether that’s fake “rating” blogs/websites that “evaluate” products based on who pays them, reading reviews that have been botted, responding to logo design, etc

  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • Yes exactly, thus “liberal darling”

  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • And unlike Musk who at least had a period of “liberal darling because he shut his fucking mouth and probably had a pr team” Ellison has always been widely characterized as an abusive, controlling, tantrum throwing piece of shit

    Love rewarding the worst of humanity

  • How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ?

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  • Most of it is in line with what you’d think: not that terrible unless you’re repressed and think that sex is bad or you have the religious hang ups that dictate sex should be sacred in some way

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27105446/ - higher consumption of pornography in adolescence leads to more permissive sexual attitudes (eg casual sex)

    https://www.ovid.com/journals/jpsh/fulltext/10.1177/26318318231153984~pornography-and-its-impact-on-adolescentteenage-sexuality - association (not necessarily causal) of pornography use and earlier loss of virginity as well as greater risk taking in sex (such as inconsistent use of condoms, which could perhaps be addressed by the industry using them more)

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30919052/ longitudinal studies find weak or no links between increased use of pornography and decreased psychological well being

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35294070/ while there are longitudinal studies that show correlation between pornography use and sexual harassment/assault there are studies to suggest that this may not be causal and other confounding variables such as peer environment, family attitudes, or personality traits may be more causal in nature)

    Lots more but a lot of the negative effects are often tied to guilt and shame which is socially derived and possibly without basis

  • 'He's F**king Me': Trump 'Fumes' About Netanyahu in Private, Yet Still 'Gives Him Free Rein'

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  • Epstein was mossad, probably

  • Trump Backs Pride Flag Ban as Allies Spread False Claims Tying Transgender People to Violence

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  • It’s more that incidences of gun violence and mass shootings are so astoundingly common in the USA that at this point you can find representations of anything in the data, because there’s like 6,000 points of it in the last decade.

    Are there trans mass shooters? Yes, definitely. Are there violent people who endorse democrats or are “leftist”, whatever that means when mass media says it? Yes. But does that change the fact that something like 80+% of domestic bombings and mass shootings done since like 1998 have been committed by right wing nutjobs and religious extremists (and that’s not just code for Islamic extremism, it also includes the many bombings of abortion clinics, the bombing of the Olympics, and the assassinations of abortion providers done by Christian fundamentalists that gets swept under the rug bc we only care about religious extremism when brown people do it).

    But now you’re starting to talk about math and people hate that shit. And even when they don’t the right will handwave away or memory hole tons of stuff. The guy that assassinated the democratic senators doesn’t count, the great replacement shooters don’t count, etc. go on kiwi farms or /pol/ and you’ll literally see people say that there’s only been left wing violence in the us since 2006 or 2008, which is just patently absurd.

  • Lemmitors struggle to tell the difference between hexbear users and conservatives

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  • 150,000-250,000 civilian casualties

  • Lemmitors struggle to tell the difference between hexbear users and conservatives

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  • They defeat the fascist scourge of homeless tent encampments that make moderately well off local residents feel uncomfortable

  • Tyler Robinson Left Note Vowing to 'Take Out Charlie Kirk': FBI

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  • Fair enough. here’s a bunch of the discourse bc I’m not a lawyer or legal expert

  • Tyler Robinson Left Note Vowing to 'Take Out Charlie Kirk': FBI

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  • It appears there are replies to this thread that call into question many of the things stated

    it reeks of punditry - surface level knowledge and worst case scenarios presented with lots of confidence. fwiw the persons quoted qualifications have absolutely nothing to do with law. They are a “blockchain” and data science person who also does venture capital and angel investing, aka a classic “I don’t know when to stay in my fucking lane and think that because I made a shitload of money I must be a genius at everything ever” type

  • Fox News' Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed

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  • Ending asylums began long before Regan

    Regan ramped up funneling them into prisons, which is basically why the Kirk quote is disingenuous bullshit. Can supportive rehabilitative programs be the answer, even if they’re involuntary and potentially lifelong? Maybe. But that’s not what happens a lot of the time. American politicians, especially republicans, continually push to either limit funding as much as possible, end, or privatize (which only works for the more lucrative things like drug and alcohol and disability services and even those are widely considered to suffer under private equity). Of course, their solution for “end” is throw them to the wolves, which in practice means homelessness, crime, increasing drug use, etc and eventually prison when those things disrupt communities. Kirk wasn’t an idiot. He’s like Newsom, he knew the most likely place these people end up is prison and he didn’t care bc he saw them as subhuman scum

    The fact of the matter is treating serious and persistent mental illness is not lucrative. In fact it is a financial sink if you choose a rehabilitative model, and even an asylum model, which is generally more cost efficient (but can be done with some dignity) is still quite expensive.

    The fucked up part is that prisons are quite expensive too but less so and as a result are quite lucrative to their owners. They also are culturally built into this sense of redemptive justice, as if punishment of the offender actually does something to bring peace to the offended besides deluding them that the chaotic and violent world won’t wrong them again because one unjust act has been forcibly atoned without creating any sense of remorse before returning the person back to society (just exposing them to one of the most traumatizing and violent environments for years or decades with no support, what could go wrong?).

    So we ignore mountains of evidence that rehabilitation oriented programming is overall more successful because it’s not perfect, someone will still get murdered and assaulted! And they won’t get horribly punished! And we stick with our terrible system that objectively results in much more people getting murdered and assaulted

  • Valve seems to have quietly rolled out a major upgrade to their Anti-Cheat system and it’s apparently wrecking havoc on cheat providers

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  • That’s not the problem. Hacking software rules. The problem is griefing shitheads who ruin games for other people.

    I regularly hack single player games to cheat especially after I have a “legit” run and want to try playing op or if it’s just a game I’m not super invested in the mechanics of and want to power through the story. Who gives a shit if I do this? 20-30 years ago this was a cheat code or a game genie thing. Now it’s “bad”, which I get if it’s multiplayer and I’m ruining balance (unless literally the only multiplayer aspect is a meaningless leaderboard), or it’s still there but it’s monetized and that’s just scumbag shit