Newsflash: that's how most people die. Drowning causes hypoxia. CHF and cancer patients almost all die of hypoxia.
5:40: They are offering it to veterans instead of treatment.
This is a lie. Anyone who repeats this is a liar.
6:07: Tax avoidance law firm ad.
LOL
7:51: Doing MAID rather than palliative care saves money.
Palliative care means shitting yourself to death as you drown in the fluid slowly filling up your lungs or pleural cavity for weeks while blasted out of your mind on morphine. That costs money. The entire point of MAID is to avoid the degrading and humiliating palliative care phase where your mind and body slowly self-destruct.
8:58: If as a parent you try to stop your child from getting MAID you will be arrested.
This is also a lie. Anyone who repeats this is a liar.
9:24: In group homes people are sitting down and talking about dying.
All persons at the ends of their life should have a frank and open conversation about dying. Dying is inevitable.
Note: She said "i'm hearing that in group homes..." that is the same as "people are saying" and "people are saying" is the #1 indicator that someone is lying.
10:10: I heard about this BECAUSE MY GIRLFRIEND'S MOTHER WAS AT AN EVENT.
What the hell that isn't even second-hand knowledge. My father's, brother's, nephew's, cousin's, former roommate said that she's totally telling the truth.
10:57: If anyone is a god-fearing individual right now.
Oh. I get it. HOW DO WE AS A SOCIETY GET THESE JESUSFREAKS TO LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE?
11:48: Several minutes of her sucking up and lionizing.
12:22: "Nobody deserves to be waterboarded to death other than people who deserve to be waterboarded to death and there are people who deserve to be waterboarded to death"
Jesusfreak sociopath. Good combo.
12:30: I've seen that (being waterboarded to death) done to someone.
This is an obvious lie.
As an aside, a single molecule of my gooch sweat is more masculine than all of Jordan Peterson. Jordan Peterson is a brainfucked loser. People who worship him are even worse.
Unfortunately, you've not contributed much to furthering any knowledge here since it's all just speculation in a mocking and demeaning tone. I was slightly excited to see a lengthy response, hoping for some substantiated counter-arguments, but it appears to have just enraged you to the point of using very visceral and divisive language. Unfortunate.
For what it's worth, I am a Christian and your choice of words come across as highly offensive. Contrary to your belief, I have no interest in inserting myself into your life. I'm apolitical at best and gave up on politics a long time ago.
To respond to at least one point, I believe the point that she was making was a lack of awareness of the method of death. Her point has nothing to do with how people die of cancer, but that people agreeing to MAID did not have all of the necessary information to make that decision due to this being omitted. I'm happy to see some counter-evidence that she's lying and all of this is made up.
>I'm happy to see some counter-evidence that she's lying and all of this is made up.
I presented the exact, same, precise, amount of evidence she did, with one exception.
I used common sense.
If you believe that she saw someone waterboarded to death, WHICH IS WHAT SHE CLAIMED at the twelve minute and thirty seconds mark, you are beyond reason.
That entire video is nothing more than the insertion of jesusfreakiness into an argument that should be dispassionate: you, I, and everyone else has the right to choose the time and manner of their death.
If you want to jesusfreak your way into heaven by shitting your pants, bedridden, stoned out of your mind on morphine while your family agonizes for weeks as your respiratory tidal volume slowly decreases as the morphine doses increase until you suffocate that is also your right.
Your book has no right to tell me what to do and the jesusfreaks are trying to cram their book down my throat.
I'm sorry you feel that way. You seem to be unreasonable in your anger and hatred for Christians, so clearly, any argument I make is going to be disregarded as nonsensical.
> HOW DO WE AS A SOCIETY GET THESE JESUSFREAKS TO LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE?
> jesusfreak sociopath. Good combo
> insertion of jesusfreakiness into an argument
> jesusfreak your way into heaven by shitting your pants
> jesusfreaks are trying to cram their book down my throat.
If you replaced "jesusfreak" in your comments with basically any other identity, you'd pretty quickly get accused of multiple "isms" by others. The hypocrisy is deafening.
Barring any evidence, of which there was none in that video, you must evaluate the credibility of the speaker based on the entirety of their message.
Do you or do you not believe that thinking that someone should be tortured to death by waterboarding makes you a sociopath?
Do you or do you not believe that a suburban Canadian stay-at-home mother personally witnessed:
1. a human being,
2. being waterboarded,
3. until that human being died?
Yes, or no?
I say yes it makes you a sociopath and no she did not witness a human die due to being waterboarded. That makes her as credible as Alex Jones.
I'm sorry you're offended by the term "jesusfreak", a term reserved for use on christians who try to force their ideology on the wider population. Perhaps you identify with them?
With all things the dose makes the poison, so even if you are a beach bum you're ok but if you are an industrial worker exposed to concentrated amount of silica dust on a daily basis, you should really be informed that it is a carcinogen (among other things) and be equipped with PPE.
Silicosis causes cancer the same way a lot of things do: If you repeatedly damage cells over and over and over, that increases the likelihood that some of the DNA will be mis-copied, fail to be repaired, and survives the biological lottery to become a cancer cell.
I'm not a geologist; did I misunderstand the Wikipedia entry I linked? It says
- "Because of their high density, monazite minerals concentrate in alluvial sands when released by the weathering of pegmatites. These so-called placer deposits are often beach or fossil beach sands..."
And I found two specific examples of notably radioactive monazite beaches—an 800 km stretch of Brazil's coast [0], and 55 km stretch of India's coast [1].
Those locations, with their high concentrations ("high" being "greater than 0.01%-ish") of heavy metals, of which mazanite is but one of many, are the rare exception.
The IAEA report on Guarapari specifically says "it's weirdly high, brah":
>The exposure level due to monazite sand radiation in Areia Preta beach, Guarapari, is high. The activity concentration of 232Th in Areia Preta is higher than others beaches in world studied. The values of the absorbed dose rate in air and outdoor annual effective dose rate in Areia Preta beach are higher than the world averages due the content of 232Th. Areia Preta is also has higher background found in beaches in world.
Several counties in Maryland (the non "yee-haw" ones that border the Chesapeake) have banned plastic bags.
Styrofoam has been banned statewide for several years.
The amount of plastic and expanded polystyrene foam trash I pull out of the water and off the shore on Bay Cleanup days has fallen so drastically that it is almost unbelievable.
What hasn't fallen is the sky. Or our freedom. Or the ability to clean out litter boxes.
I'm a watershed steward and meetings and networking events I have found that my experience has been shared with almost every other steward I've talked to. Even those who look after waterways outside of the bag ban area have benefitted because most of the population lies within a bag ban area.
If single-use plastic bottles were banned there would be practically no plastic debris in the Bay.
Its incredible how much trash in our waterways are single-use water bottles and plastic bags. It was one thing I really noticed when I visited Quebec recently. There was practically none of the plastic bag trash stuck all over every twig around the creeks and rivers like what I see in most other places.
During COVID when nobody was flying fares dropped.
But today fares are the lowest they've been in the history of aviation, except for during COVID which should never be factored into trends.
Inflation-adjusted averages for fares, both overall and on specific routes, for the last 30 years are here: https://www.bts.gov/air-fares
Even with fees and taxes airfare is the lowest it's ever been.
Internationally the difference is even greater than the halving of US domestic ticket prices over the last 30 years.
The tricks no longer work because the bottom has been reached and there are no more pennies to pinch.
If one buys a ticket today, right now, for next month one can fly from DC to LA for $98-- round trip. Then they will complain about paying $30 for a bag....
I can fly first class from New York to Frankfurt for less than what an economy class ticket cost when I was visiting my Oma in the 80s and 90s and that's NOT adjusted for inflation.
> But today fares are the lowest they've been in the history of aviation,
What planet are you living on ? Clearly a different one to me.
As I said, I speak from direct experience.
Before COVID, I could regularly pick up J-class (business) fares on top-quality airlines for 2–3k a pop.
Post-COVID for J-class you'll be lucky to get much change out of 7–8k unless a specific airline has a sale on.
Prices have gone up. That's a fact. I travel enough for business and pleasure to know that. And its the same with my friends and acquaintances.
Sure, if you're looking at the bottom of the barrel end of the sector where the LCC's operate then prices are still cheap. But tools like ITA Matrix were never useful for bottom of the barrel flights, you always just went directly to the website of whichever horrid cheap and nasty operator.
> If one buys a ticket today, right now, for next month one can fly from DC to LA for $98-- round trip. Then they will complain about paying $30 for a bag....
LA<->DC is my most commonly booked flight and I haven't paid less than $300 (net baggage fees) in almost 20 years. On top of that, I end up with less legroom than I did 20 years ago.
BWI is not DC, I don't fly Tues-Tues, and 20 years ago I was paying as low as $150. Flights now are cheaper than for most of that time, but after you adjust for inflation and paying for bags, they were definitely cheaper in the mid-late 00s.
If lawmakers ACTUALLY cared about public safety, they would fund the distribution of hand-cranked AM radios that could be stored in emergency kits.
This is just legislation purchased, incredibly cheaply, by iHeartMedia, Audacy, and the like cloaked in the delusion that people who failed to evacuate before a hurricane when all other infrastructure was operational will go out to their submerged or destroyed car to listen to the radio.
I’m not buying your argument. I doubt you can devise and pass legislation that’ll cause more people to have emergency kits with hand cranked AM radios than cars, even if you distributed them for free, and there are scenarios that require emergency communication that don’t involve all cars being destroyed.
That said I’m not saying that the public safety argument is genuine, but you can’t just propose something else you prefer to discredit it.
Yes. It should be the FCC enforcing their regulatory duties against specific car models not the house legislating in general. The amount of interference on the low frequency bands that some electrical cars produce prevents reception of AM. And that was already very illegal. You can't do that but car manufacturers were/are too big to care. The public safety aspect of it is entirely secondary.
Didn't the Supreme Court basically say recently that the FCC and similar Executive Branch groups can't enforce such rules? They must come from the Legislature to have any hope of surviving review.
The way the ruling was made, it will be a case by case basis. If a republican FCC does it, that will be fine and normal but if a democrat does it, it's out of the legislative authority.
Either way, the 5th circuit will stop the rules from going into effect.
That's not right either, you're both wrong. Federal agencies are still allowed to make up regulations not explicitly found in the letter of the law, and courts are allowed to strike down those regulation if they think they're too far outside the spirit of the law. It works the same for both parties, not the nonsense you said.
> It works the same for both parties, not the nonsense you said.
One party has 6 supreme Court justices on the bench who we now know are explicitly working to further Republican causes [1]. The conservative supreme court is making rulings before hearing cases or reviewing evidence/decisions. They aren't interested in legal analysis which was clear with the trump immunity ruling.
The composition of the court is subject to change, as always. In any case the court made Chevron Deference so it can obviously unmake it. Congress is free to amend the Constitution to change the rules, of there is a political consensus, which there isn't.
> It works the same for both parties, not the nonsense you said.
So we aren't actually wrong because it does not, in fact, work the same for both parties. The composition of the court right this moment is such that Republicans win and democrats lose. Divorced of what the law or prior precedence dictates.
You are right, congress can make changes to the court. But don't pretend like the law is being evenly or fairly applied without regard for the underlying politics.
If the FCC can't enforce the prevention of interference with radio broadcasts it is not the FCC. I'm not sure what ruling you're referencing but I doubt it nulls out the core idea of what the FCC does.
They're referring to the recent decision which reversed the Chevron doctrine, which allowed courts to defer to the interpretation of ambiguous regulations by regulatory agencies. The most common interpretation of this decision is that it has the effect of nullifying the ability of regulatory agencies to regulate, and removes the bulk of their former role to Congress.
>Hundreds of years later, however, we’re left with the Fermi Paradox.
The only paradox about the Fermi Paradox is why so many people who claim to be educated take it seriously.
Faster-than-light travel is impossible.
There aren't galaxy-spanning civilizations because creating a galaxy-spanning civilization is impossible. You cannot have a civilization where it takes 106,000 years for a message to traverse it.
If there are multi-stellar civilizations it is impossible to detect them at present. If humans lived on an earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, we would not be able to detect them at all, even with every single radio telescope on earth acting as a giant interferometer.
I assert that any intelligence that has mastered the mass-energy equivalence skills needed for interstellar travel (again, at slow-ass speeds) no longer cares about planets or biological life anyways. They would park off the ends of masses that are radiating energy and harvest it to turn into endless expanses of fantastical constructions that make planets look like jokes.
If you already love and enjoy Haiku and an electrified loving and enjoying machine increased your love and enjoyment by ten trillion times, I would STILL love and enjoy it more than you do.
It (they) will amount to nothing more than a hobby project (which is ok, I suppose) until multi-user is implemented.
discuss.haiku-os.org: "i Am ThE oNlY pErSoN wHo UsEs My CoMpUtEr"
It's about security brah. This thing is going to be connected to the internet, no?
You're not smarter than the last 50 years of OS security development.
I wasn't an engineering major, I was a computer science major, but I still asked and was allowed to work evenings in the facility.
I got on the job training from experienced experts on orbital mechanics, the practical operation of spacecraft, and the infrastructure behind space flight activities. I also got to write some software that is used in the command and control of spacecraft.
Going to school gave me access to supercomputers and mainframes, practical hands-on experience that cannot be learned from a book.
Also, my university is somewhat unique in that it has an extremely rigorous writing requirements for all graduates, including creative and business writing. A comment I received multiple times at the beginning of my career is that my writing skills were extremely advanced compared to my peers. This is a double-edged sword because now, decades later, coworkers send me paragraphs to edit before being sent out.
I also minored in studio art, because as a young freshman I figured it was an easy A. Little did I realize that free and easy access to studios, models, screen printing equipment, and photography labs would lead to several lifelong hobbies.
My school also had telescopes I got to use as a member of the astronomy club, and amateur radio equipment far beyond my ability to afford as a member of the ham radio club. There is an exact and precise 0.0% chance that I would have ever gotten to even touch a 20" reflector, high quality CCD cameras, or sophisticated mounts and star trackers without going to school. Ditto for 1.5kW amplifiers and vast fields of specialized antennas for radio communications.
After I realized that staring at an IDE window all day was actual, literal, hell to me I transitioned to being an aerospace engineer. No degree, I just explained to people what I knew and did in school, what programs I had worked on, and they said "good enough, here's a board assembly drawing start spec'ing out space-rated micro- and nano-d connectors for it" and decades later I'm a senior principal engineer designing satellites.
Hell, just understanding what SWR is, what multiplexers and other RF terms meant, and knowing about polarization, propagation, and effective radiated power from my university ham radio club days went a long way to getting me to where I am today.
All of this is possible to learn autodidactically.
It would require a level of income (to gain access to the tools), foresight (to focus on specific subjects relevant to your goals), and drive (to have realistic goals laid out and to actually do it) not typically found in young adults, or old adults.
I assert it is easier, and outcomes are more favorable, if you pay someone to do all of this for you.
My perspective may be warped. I used the GI Bill and paid $0.00 for all of this. But if I had to pay the $54k it cost it would have been worth it 100 times over (I make a lot of money now).
It's just sucked up by health insurance companies.
Spending less on war won't fix healthcare. Spending less on war and more on healthcare will just make healthcare worse because it will give the private equity vampires running the system more cash with which to bribe politicians and screw us over even more.
Fixing healthcare means spending less.
Spending less on healthcare means we get to spend more on war.
If the US would just get off its ass and implement single-payer we could save so much money that we could have a military capable of killing God.
Same goes for K-12 education spending. The US is consistently in the top 4-5 nations as a percentage of GDP per capita. The money is being wasted. On what, I don't know, I haven't looked into it.
But I do know that the US could halve what it spends on healthcare and "only" be spending what everyone else is spending.
That would save like $2.25 trillion per year.
$2.25 trillion dollars can buy a lot of B-21 bombers.
I don't know if the US could halve their spending on healthcare, but I do believe they could reduce overall healthcare spending by 25%, and be able to provide healthcare to ALL of their citizens.
Their problem is they have too many citizens who believe they can only climb by pushing others down, and so they need to deny their fellow citizens healthcare so they themselves can believe they're succeeding.
Such a selfish civilization is doomed to collapse. Even AI agrees with me! :)
The only reason I used "very little" is because it is possible for an observer to witness the subject yelling "I intend to kill you!!!!" at the top of their lungs and in that case the observer could be useful at establishing intent.
Eye rolling emoji.
4:20: MAID drugs cause to people drown to death.
Newsflash: that's how most people die. Drowning causes hypoxia. CHF and cancer patients almost all die of hypoxia.
5:40: They are offering it to veterans instead of treatment.
This is a lie. Anyone who repeats this is a liar.
6:07: Tax avoidance law firm ad.
LOL
7:51: Doing MAID rather than palliative care saves money.
Palliative care means shitting yourself to death as you drown in the fluid slowly filling up your lungs or pleural cavity for weeks while blasted out of your mind on morphine. That costs money. The entire point of MAID is to avoid the degrading and humiliating palliative care phase where your mind and body slowly self-destruct.
8:58: If as a parent you try to stop your child from getting MAID you will be arrested.
This is also a lie. Anyone who repeats this is a liar.
9:24: In group homes people are sitting down and talking about dying.
All persons at the ends of their life should have a frank and open conversation about dying. Dying is inevitable.
Note: She said "i'm hearing that in group homes..." that is the same as "people are saying" and "people are saying" is the #1 indicator that someone is lying.
10:10: I heard about this BECAUSE MY GIRLFRIEND'S MOTHER WAS AT AN EVENT.
What the hell that isn't even second-hand knowledge. My father's, brother's, nephew's, cousin's, former roommate said that she's totally telling the truth.
10:57: If anyone is a god-fearing individual right now.
Oh. I get it. HOW DO WE AS A SOCIETY GET THESE JESUSFREAKS TO LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE?
11:48: Several minutes of her sucking up and lionizing.
12:22: "Nobody deserves to be waterboarded to death other than people who deserve to be waterboarded to death and there are people who deserve to be waterboarded to death"
Jesusfreak sociopath. Good combo.
12:30: I've seen that (being waterboarded to death) done to someone.
This is an obvious lie.
As an aside, a single molecule of my gooch sweat is more masculine than all of Jordan Peterson. Jordan Peterson is a brainfucked loser. People who worship him are even worse.
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