3/2 We need to be aware of our biases and challenge ourselves to avoid being fooled. The only true way to be sure of what is true and what is not is as Richard Feynman said: data / experiment is the hard ground that reality stands on.
Victoria had an inquest, that was so bad, the courts had to grant her family a new one.
The first police inquiry was so bad her family were granted a new one.
The second inquiry was held up because the police needed her diary as evidence, it was found in a Council office safe.
The Council made the police use the law to get it released, it took them a year to get it, during all of this time the rapists walked free.
"Interestingly, we did not find viral RNA in the investigated samples,
but we could show a positive in situ Hybridization of BNT162b2 [Pfzier/BioNTech vaccine]
and S-encoding mRNA-1273 [Moderna vaccine]
in two individual samples."
So many people who support assisted suicide in principle, change their minds when it comes to actual proposals that inevitably put vulnerable people at risk.
Did someone say “Egyptian blue”?
I wonder how ancient Egyptians could possibly invent it…
…knowing it appears automagically every time I’m etching granite in the open.
This process brings out this beautiful color 🦋 consistently.
I mean: I have already posted Egyptian blue before, etching a piece of red granite but this one is a different kind of granite. It’s not even red, it’s ugly brown.
And yet, this beautiful blue 🦋 color appeared again while I was busy etching a scoop mark on the top.
Heureka 🤩
R to @ClareCraigPath: June not January
I've just discovered two things:
a) a video by @profnfenton explaining the strengths and limitations of ASMR https://youtube.com/watch?v=DAixfvu6tuY
b) population pyramids for Sweden of 1860 and 2020.
Here's the deal:
- Assuming a population of 100 people in which everyone lives to 100 and only then dies, the number of people dying each year would be 1/100. Thus, 10/1000 is the LOWEST CRUDE MORTALITY RATE for a stationary population of 100 people.
- BUT here's the key point: if the population has only recently crossed the high infant mortality hurdle and a large proportion of the population is now aged 15-65, then only the elderly are likely to die - who, being much fewer in number (since most of that cohort died when below 15), will lead to a very low overall CMR, even below 10/1000.
In the long run, when all possible child and young adult mortality has been eliminated, the CMR must converge asymptotically to 10/1000. But in the meanwhile it can drop below 10/1000 - which is what happened with the UK CMR since 1998.
One thing is becoming clear: the CMR can only be used as a very broad indicator. Life expectancy is the BEST measure but hardest to calculate for each disease/factor.
I will now (tentatively) proceed with updating McKeown's table to 2020 and also taking it back to 1700, noting that the results from the table are going to be very approximate.
pyramids: https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2021/06/02/improving-a-population-pyramid-animation-sweden-1860-2020/
R to @ClareCraigPath: Overall survival is low - but surely the NHS wants to save lives? Isn't that what it is there for?
https://www.icnarc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Key-Statistics-from-NCAA-2021-22-1.pdf
R to @ClareCraigPath: It is not because they have got better at picking who will survive.
R to @ClareCraigPath: In fact, survival after cardiac arrest in 16-64 year olds has fallen.
R to @ClareCraigPath: It is not because there are fewer (overall hospitalisations have been increasing).
Intensive care teams attend cardiac arrest calls in hospitals less than before.
Why is that?
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If you are in a position of power and make a decision that not a single severe covid hospitalisation is acceptable - what would you be prepared to do to achieve that goal?
Zero sparrows and the resulting Great Chinese Famine spring to mind.
R to @ClareCraigPath: 1:08
CNBC Television. (2022, January 23). Deborah Birx testifies before Congress on Trump administration's pandemic response — 6/23/22. http://YouTube.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu1E0pc276I
Their capacity for lying is unlimited.
We just have to get good with it.
Evil is forever as is good.
We chose our side.
They chose theirs.
The way you're responding to this isn't novel or brave. Yuri Bezmenov already called you out all the way back in the 80s. You're being played.
The UK government literally seized a soccer club, Chelsea FC, because it happened to be owned by a Russian, who by the way spent billions of his own money lifting the club from obscurity. Somehow, I doubt they’ll show the same energy for assets owned by the mullah regime.
Remember when the age groups of peak cases aligned with the booster rollout in Gibraltar?
There is a definite uptick in pharma misinformation at the moment from odd new accounts like this one.
I know it's FB and a limited sample but it's astonishing how things are compared to just a few years ago. Wales Online usually promotes the state narrative on topics generally. The ratio and the replies...
You just have to accompany an acutely unwell disabled person through an NHS hospital admission, to see the huge risks that this group would be exposed to by the proposed assisted dying bill. It is not safe.
Yes! Not even taking this into consideration is pseudo science
Can we please have a total ban on covid studies that fail to differentiate outcomes by vaccination status.
That’s simply mind-blowing. No wonder the UK is heading into a debt crisis.
How is this even possible? You don’t need higher taxes, you need to implement pro-growth policies and motivate people to work again, instead of putting millions on no work requirements welfare benefits.
Why does a system to end people's lives - with no guarantee of support for other options - leave disabled people so at risk? The House of Lords, and disabled members of the House, have been bringing this into the light...
🚨 EXC: Antony Higginson has fought a one man war against the NHS establishment to get answers after his wife was given 6 toxic doses of paracetamol. Now the actions of 41 doctors and nurses are being re-examined after a coroner blasted their honesty:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/dc5e2bdb-1060-4169-9768-5f0d8c79f9ba?shareToken=70be994978b12cb7b4448aa2cf1edc25
If motivation to draw connections and respond is not an emotional response then what does that mean for AI?
This would cause excess mortality.
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736%2820%2931356-8/fulltext
There are huge numbers of regulations for clinical trials to ensure that subconscious human bias does not creep in.
There need to be just as many for AI trials seeing as we have plenty of evidence of AI lying when it suits.
Study didn't isolate by vaccination status. Therefore there is no basis in claiming it was the virus vs the vaccine.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/3b951f75cf38480ea769395d470e1dcd
x.com/i/article/203051643480…
@Jilliantweeting on Sky News:
"No health professional should have their livelihood threatened for voicing their opinion. When we disagree with our colleagues or with government policy, we must be safe to publicly voice our dissent."
I encountered @Ahpra's reign of terror in 2021 for questioning the safety of the synthetic gene jabs (especially for the kids), and the sanity of government covid policies.
There's no freedom, or safety... without the right to disagree.
@Lighthouse_Dec @ClareCraigPath @DrBillyBay @PierreKory @Jikkyleaks @chrismartenson @DowdEdward @CartlandDavid @DocAhmadMalik @AMPS_RedUnion @nzdsos @stkirsch @ABridgen
This is the most dishonest reporting we’ve seen in a long time.
Two jihadis threw two IEDs into a crowd of anti-Zohran protesters.
On video.
Yet NBC reports these bombs were “found.”
And implies they belonged to the conservative protesters.
Truly a new low in journalism.
“Do you, Sir John, feel yourself to be arbitrary and irrelevant?”
Sir John Betjeman
20 years ago I was a left-leaning, peace loving, all welcome, hippy gal. I left home, got a job, ran a house and had kids, life got tough. I wanted better for my family, so I went to university, became a nurse, earned a lot more, paid a lot more taxes.
10 years ago, I was probably dead centre, I was proud that we had a benefit system, I was proud of the NHS, I was proud we could offer refuge to those in need. Sure, I knew people were talking the piss, but I could ignore it, it didn’t affect me that much.
5 years ago I was pushing right, it annoyed me that my neighbour who was on benefits was able to take his family on holiday twice a year. My husband and I were working overtime, paying crazy taxes, seemed no better off. It annoyed me that people who came here from another country were getting houses, fully furnished, nicely decorated, it annoyed me that these same people left their garden grow over, left rubbish outside their house. I’d see them on my way to work, going through the bags outside the charity shop, sometimes they’d ask me for money. ‘Sorry’ I’d say,’ can’t stop, I’m on my way to work’.
I joined ‘X’ about 1 year ago, learned about the rape gangs, seen the boats come in, seen very weird men all up in women’s spaces, read posts from people on benefits who felt they should get more. I got interested in politics, started reading policies and manifestos.
Today I am angry.
Today, some people call me a racist, or a fascist, or worse. But the truth is, I’m just like you. You might not be as far down the road as I am, you might have past me years ago but we’re the same. I just want a good, safe life for my kids.
I wasn’t born like this, I wasn’t raised like this. I was pushed here by a government who has constantly failed me. A government who has prioritised votes. over my quality of life, my kid’s quality of life. A government who gaslights me, ignores me, and threatens me when I speak up.
Why the hell did we allow this to happen?
800,000 human brain cells, floating in a dish, have never had a body. Never seen light. Never felt anything. And they just learned to play a video game.
That's not a metaphor. That's literally what happened.
These neurons are alive. They fire. They adapt. They get better at DOOM over time, which means something inside that petri dish is changing in response to failure. Scientists call it "goal-directed learning." There is no cleaner definition of that phrase than "it kept trying until it got better." The cells have no survival instinct, no reward system, no reason to improve. They just do.
The part nobody's talking about: researchers have to convert the game's visuals into electrical pulses the neurons can interpret. Which means those cells are perceiving something. Not seeing it the way you do. But processing a version of a world that doesn't exist, inside a container that was never meant to think.
The Turing Test was about machines fooling humans. Nobody wrote the test for this.
BREAKING: Iranian monarchists reportedly stabbed in Finchley, north London.
Finchley is a stronghold of pro regime change Iranian dissidents.
Roshan M Salih was at the scene.
🚨 BREAKING: A separatist Kurdish man has attacked and stabbed anti-IRGC Iranians in North Finchley in London tonight
Attacks by militant Kurds on pro-freedom Iranians are increasing around the world.