skells @skells@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Feb 2021
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I know I'm posting a lot, but the word needs to get out. This is Australia.
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If anyone around is interested in "the scene", the old message boards, private trackers, i"m writing an article on ASCII art form the dawn of time to present day. It's a fascinating, just beautiful subject matter and I'm lost in it.
If anyone can help me find my way on into the GG, I'd HIGHLY appreciate it. I'm no spring chicken, but I wasn't born in the 70's either. I will treat you and your community with respect. I am mostly interested in your artwork! :)
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This article by @LynAldenContact on #Bitcoin's energy use is an absolutely phenomenal answer to just about any energy-related critique on #Bitcoin that you can imagine 👏
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/bitcoins-energy-usage-is-not-a-problem-heres-why-by-lyn-alden/
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bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
general rant about everything
some german instances i've seen (where german is the language used most) feel like german twitter. just no zang to it. nobody questioning the german mass media consensus.
just look at whats going on in this country. politicians, media and corporations are fucking the public over from all sides but i should _trust_ them to handle covid and the climate change the right way?
i should trust the fucking green party whose chancellor candidate is a lying cheat, just because they are supposed to be "good"? i've voted enough times for them, only to get fucked and nothing done for the environment. they too want to line their pockets, like every politician. if they'd care for the environment they wouldn't put up election posters in the first place.
i only see fucking problems anymore, and there's nothing i can do to fix them.
consumption of bullshit (which really is 98% of things we have here in germany) has to go down massively. remaining resources should be put into building up sustainable localized food production, but it just won't happen.
i myself still consume far, far too many unnecessary things. i'm constantly pissed about myself because of it. it's maybe not healthy but at least i can look myself in the eyes. that one can't help it because of external pressure of society is just bullshit, especially for the people shouting loudest. _nobody_ can force you to consume anything.
except the vaccination of course! the spite of the heroic vaccinated who are now applauding that the evil unvaccinated have to pay for the fucking tests to go nearly anywhere is unsettling. it's on one hand completely irrational, everyone should have to get tested as the vaccinations aren't sterilizing - or are they? on the other hand it's deeply concerning how people, a majority who are regarding themselves as morally superior, are acting this way. what will happen if it turns out the mRNA vaccines have long term issues? buy the ticket, take the ride?
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THE TALIBAN HAVE BEGUN THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD! IT'S OVER FOR THE TVRACE!
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you're reading that right - poltergeist levels are at 100%
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BREAKING: EL SALVADOR ENCOURAGES THE TALIBAN TO EMBRACE BITCOIN, ALSO WILLING TO GIVE ITS LEADER A TOUR AROUND VOLCANO FACILITIES
@freemo Yeah for the 3rd time don't have an issue with peer review, I have an issue with peer reviewed studies being ignored in emergency life or death situations in favour of pharma backed experimental drugs.
It's no conspiracy, just business as usual killing people.
As usual.
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Malice-
"I am still confused if the #Afghanishtan debacle is due to systemic racism or to climate change"
@freemo Once one suspects that this bias is present and pervasive it invalidates the view in the original post shared above
Particularly when well respected experts in systematic meta-analysis have their recommendations ignored by the WHO for no apparent reason.
See below:
@freemo To be clear my concerns are the peer review process with regard to vaccine risk/benefit analyses and repurposed drugs in the treatment of covid, particularly ivermectin.
My contention is that political and financial interests are strongly influencing peer review in large and influential journals. I don't know this but enough evidence is being ignored for me to put good money on it.
@freemo I have no criticism of peer review, I disagree that people can't reason critically without it.
If a democracy becomes corrupt/dysfunctional it's not rational to continue to put faith in the bad actors that have corrupted it.
I don't understand anywhere near enough of the science to call the shots, but I've seen enough thumbs on the scales over the last year and a half to harbour deep distrust for those calling said shots.
@freemo but yeah, not to put too fine a point on it, the experts are clearly not doing their jobs across the board
critical thinking means critical thinking, not *necessarily* following the current academically accepted methodology of research to the exclusion of all else
@freemo indeed, a great deal of science was conducted against an uphill battle against public prejudice and vested interests
thankfully, on a long enough time scale, the truth tends to out
@freemo god knows how people conducted their lives before peer review
@panda you blocked me last night
all good
Joined Feb 2021
