Hello, everyone. Today marks one year since I registered with Bitcointalk and, as I've seen others do, I'd like to do a recap. I have reason to celebrate, because although I used to earn some merits from time to time since I registered, I always had less merits than activity. Only recently have I been able to surpass my activity in merits, which makes me happy, as it shows that I am contributing positively to the forum and creating good quality content for the campaign.  I hope to be able to maintain this merit earning ratio and even improve it. I joined the campaign almost two months after I registered, as soon as I reached member status. In ten months I've jumped from tier E to tier B. I have also been upgraded from member to senior member. This shows that if you have patience, you will climb up in the campaign and little by little you will be more rewarded. Finally, I would like to thank Brainboss for excellent management and to Lightlord for the payments. I wish Lightlord was more formal regarding payments as I've said in other posts but he always ends up paying and giving us bonuses, so thanks for that. Great job and I wish you good luck getting to Tier A. Such an optimistic post is making me look forward to climb up the tiers eventually. I used to be Tier C but dropped to D, due to inactivity. Great, payment received with a bonus, thanks! |
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Rimac is quite an old company (in terms if electric vehicles), can't forget Richard Hammond who wrecked their prototype. I believe that they have immense capabilities, however, they are not in mass production yet, while their prices remain extremely high. I'm hoping that in the future, they enter mass production and become affordable for the public.
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Mike Adams (NN) in 2019...although many people (including myself) have projected similar things for a few decades at least:
just the first 10 seconds had me facepalming "vaccines are the mass murder" well strangely the population is increasing over the last 60 years exponentially.. much faster then pre vaccine days strangely people are living longer over the last 60 years. much longer than the pre vaccine days so where is all this mass murder?? and no dont shout out some nonsense about "its killing kids".. childhood survival rate has increased due to vaccines. the reason why you dont hear from many non-vax generations is. because the disease without vaccine kills more Antivaxxers will hold to a few deaths that may be caused from vaccines and won't stop supporting their claim till their death. It's not the first time I'm hearing that vaccines are a weapon of mass murder and population control. However, the deaths caused by them may be a few thousand at best, compared to billions of vaccinations. |
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It's easy to enter with good entry point but the challanging thing is taking profit before a retracement and most of the times this retracement could be a beginning of a new trend changing a winning trade to loss. And in situations where the trader fails to apply stop loss there could be chances of blowing off ones account. A profit taken is better than a loss made no matter how small accumulation of smalls makes a mighty bulk.
Have you considered taking profits of $1-3$ repeatedly throughout a trading session it might sound small for professional traders but it would go along way in growing an account most especially for beginners. If a trader cultivate the habbit of taking profit during trading he would have an upper hand over the market and also get clearer pictures of better entry points and also be on alert on when to exit especially during retracement.
Taking small profits will reduce the risk of losing your capital but don't forget that you also have to pay trading fee for every transaction which eats yoir earnings if you are keep doing it more. And there is a common fact that day traders are making profits in the short term but in the long term they end up with nothing due to the volatility on prices and failure of compounding. I also had the same mindset, or at least was trying to gain from smaller profits. However, this wasn't possible when I was in Bitstamp, due to extremely high fees. I moved to Binance and was able to trade every now and then, but I've stopped now, for personal and psychological reasons. |
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Happiness is a subjective thing and money can be a source of it for many people, we just don't want to admit it because we were conditioned to believe that wanting money and saying that money for you is everything is a bad thing. For me, as long as my needs and occasional wants are fulfilled by money till my death, it's enough for me to be happy.
I have the same view on the subject, there are people who just can't get enough, they won't be satisfied with any amount of money. I've mentioned before, as long as my needs are satisfied and I'm able to save a reasonable amount of money, I'll be fine. |
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I was just observing the statistics on Worldometer, and I have to say, they are pretty depressing. I remember a few months ago, UK and Israel had very few cases. The Delta variant is way more contagious than the previous ones, however, it seems that it's less deadly, as we can observe from the number of deaths, which is considerably lower in terms of case/death analogy. On top of that, vaccinations have helped to reduce deaths dramatically. I too have been using Worldometer ( https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) for tracking the progress of the pandemic. It is getting more and more depressing with each passing day. It is really horrifying to note that in highly vaccinated nations such as the US and the UK, now the daily number of cases are more that what they had during the peak of first and second waves. The United States reported 101,098 new cases and 429 new deaths on 30th July, while the United Kingdom reported 29,492 new cases and 68 new deaths. It is becoming very gloomy. I've been keeping track of the cases since the pandemic started in March. The past few months were positive, with cases dropping dramatically, worldwide. However, this changed with the delta variant and the simultaneous lift of most measures. If you notice the first and second wave's of the pandemic, you'll notice that despite the large amount of cases now, the percentage of deaths is lower. Hopefully, we're heading towards the start of the end of the pandemic. |
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There is effective medicine to alleviate Covid-19 symptoms and livelihood, however, they are not widely adopted. The key here is prevention, fighting the transmission, something which vaccines are capable of doing. If we have enough vaccinations, then we'll not have that many cases and deaths, while vaccinated people have fewer chances of developing severe illness.
I told you so many times to take the vaccine for brain disease. Look at the mess you left with as you did not listen. Situation of the experimental mRNA gene therapy injections.  You clearly lack the knowledge or more likely the intelligence to understand that this also occurs in every vaccine that you have already done when you were a kid. Vaccinations are our only way out of the disease, unless we want to achieve herd immunity by having every single person get infected. |
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I'm also fully vaccinated, with the Pfizer vaccine, and also have a EU Covid certification that allows me to travel without the need of conducting rapid tests. Moreover, it's allowing vaccinated people to enter closed spaces and attend events.
I'm not against a universal Covid-19 certification, it's required to keep track of vaccinated and non vaccinated people. Is it classifying people? Yes, but it's a necessary evil.
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mRNA vaccines are not new, they have been under development for over 20 years. It's just that they don't work. Also the spike protein doesn't always stay in the muscle tissue, but can escape and float round the body, before settling in important organs. There is no research or information on the effect this will have, but it is certainly not beneficial.
I understand how they work, and they are a step closer to the use of the live virus. I just don't understand why they don't use the live virus to create natural immunity. Oh wait, there isn't any money in that.
mRNA is an old technology indeed, however it's far from ineffective. It's a promising technology to even cure some forms of cancer, which is currently in clinical testing, I don't get where you got your sources from. On top of that, there are already quite a few vaccines that are using a live virus to create immunity, such as the AstraZeneca, Sputnik and Johnson. I think you got it all wrong. |
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There is effective medicine to alleviate Covid-19 symptoms and livelihood, however, they are not widely adopted. The key here is prevention, fighting the transmission, something which vaccines are capable of doing. If we have enough vaccinations, then we'll not have that many cases and deaths, while vaccinated people have fewer chances of developing severe illness.
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As the Delta Variants of the Coronavirus pandemic has forced some countries (Australia, New Zealand and Bangladesh) back into lockdown, my word of encouragement to them and the rest of the world is to keep hope alive. In the end humans would win because we always do. Aside these please observe strictly the covid-19 protocols. You wouldn't want to lose a family or friend due to your own carelessness. Stay safe.
We will win this pandemic. The latest variant of Delta is really scaring most countries because of its quicker spread and we've seen in happen in India and Indonesia. The number of cases have increased and death tools increased as well. We have to survive and always follow the safety measure protocols and be compliant when going out. I was just observing the statistics on Worldometer, and I have to say, they are pretty depressing. I remember a few months ago, UK and Israel had very few cases. The Delta variant is way more contagious than the previous ones, however, it seems that it's less deadly, as we can observe from the number of deaths, which is considerably lower in terms of case/death analogy. On top of that, vaccinations have helped to reduce deaths dramatically. |
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They don't train your immune systemn to do anything, your adaptive immune system does that. All vaccines do is to bypass your primary protection, and present fake information in the hope that this will create a form of immunity. There are several things that can go wrong, especially if a patient is not tested vefore vaccination. These errors can cause an opportunistic virus to mnutate and negate the benefits (??) of vaccination.
Vaccines increase the risk of mutations, not those who believe in the experience and skills of Mother Nature. Mother Nature wants to save you, big pharma doesn't care - they just want your money, or your government's.
Mutations are a normal occurrence and has been happening with all viruses, even of the common flu/influenza. I don't get why most anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists just won't understand that this is normal behavior. Viruses mutate in order to survive, new strains do not necessarily mean that vaccines are useless, they may have a lower efficacy, but they still work to a decent percent. In worst case scenario, a third dose can be administered, to fight the newest strains, that's what happens with the influenza virus too. |
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Yup. I guessed right.
Poor fella. You really want to be smart don't you?
You guessed wrong. I said that you aren't fit to estimate my intelligence implying that you are an example of the Dunning–Kruger effect. Stop guessing and make your assumptions based on facts. People who are intellectually challenged, or just beginners, can get sensitive in this way.
I totally agree with you on that one. Buy hey, if, for whatever weird reason, it makes you feel good to think that all cavemen dropped dead at or before age 30, be my guest.
You claimed that people are better off without modern medicine, like cavemen. I showed you scientific resources that state that Paleolithic era men lived a short life (and your response is, "for whatever weird reason, it makes you feel good to think..."). I'm always open to new information but you send links to weird sites with opinions and stories about dragons. The reference link in that article explains the meaning of life expectancy and NOTHING else. I get it. Keep working on it. I think you could understand the difference between 'life expectancy' and 'lifespan' if you ponder on it a little more.
I don't understand your obsession with the difference between 'life expectancy' and 'lifespan'. You were in this debate alone, no one argued with you about that. My graph showed the life expectancy for the modern era, I shared the life expectancy for Paleolithic era and the drastic difference between them. Why are you even pushing this? Do you want a cookie for understanding the difference between meanings? Go get one and don't bring the terms up again. Their life expectancy was short, their lifespan was short. Their life was short. 4 of their 10 children would die at birth. 4 of the remaining would not survive until the teenage years. The survivors would perish from diseases and injuries in their 20-30s. The following user has been posting all sort of non-scientific websites and conspiracy theories all around the forum, no matter what evidence you provide, he'll simply reject/ignore it. It doesn't require much scientific knowledge, that back in the 50s, people would die at the age of 40-50-60 years, from diseases that have now been eradicated. It's plain stupid to ignore that, with simple statistics it can be proven that the average life expectancy has risen dramatically, the last few decades, due to modern medicine. |
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I just stumbled upon this photo. You can easily notice that most European countries are doing relatively well, except for most Balkan countries, except Greece. Unfortunately, Russia, founder of the Sputnik vaccine, isn't doing so well.
Russian users have already explained this. There is a lot of hesitancy in Russia against the vaccine and they are probably the only country where there is an oversupply of the COVID vaccine. If I am not wrong, less than 20% have received at least one dose of the vaccine in Russia. On the other hand, countries like Argentina mostly rely on vaccines imported from Russia, and they have managed to achieve a vaccination rate of close to 50%. And the rates haven't improved in Russia, despite the recent spike in infections/deaths. one of the barriers to vaccination is the amount of fake news circulating in the community. there is a lot of fake news deliberately created by irresponsible people so that people are afraid to receive vaccines. maybe this is what is happening in Russia right now, and of course it is also happening in many other countries. It's true what you say is also happening in Indonesia they are spreading false news about the impact of vaccines on our bodies, Of course this is very disturbing because some people believe in it, After all, the government of each country needs to overcome this so as not to cause chaos Wonder what kind of news people spread in the country about the vaccines. Are you sure there aren't some truth in them? I hardly hear people complain about the their bodies reaction to the vaccine thesedays compared to the early stage of the vaccination, maybe they are becoming scared of what people would say considering how hostile some are becoming toward the vaccine fear mongers. A cousin once complained seriously in the early stages after her vaccination, but these days people just say everything is fine even before you finish asking them how they felt after taking the vaccine. There's a lot of conspiracy theories around vaccinations, I'm seeing it here in Greece too, and trust me, it's a real issue, which is halting vaccinations. I think we're close to reaching the maximum capacity, new vaccination rates have fallen over 50-60%. That's a concerning issue, because at least for Greece, we only have 55% of fully vaccinated people over 18 years old. |
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I just stumbled upon this photo. You can easily notice that most European countries are doing relatively well, except for most Balkan countries, except Greece. Unfortunately, Russia, founder of the Sputnik vaccine, isn't doing so well.
Russian users have already explained this. There is a lot of hesitancy in Russia against the vaccine and they are probably the only country where there is an oversupply of the COVID vaccine. If I am not wrong, less than 20% have received at least one dose of the vaccine in Russia. On the other hand, countries like Argentina mostly rely on vaccines imported from Russia, and they have managed to achieve a vaccination rate of close to 50%. And the rates haven't improved in Russia, despite the recent spike in infections/deaths. I've seen similar responses from Russian members, however, I haven't understood why. Are Russians skeptical of the Sputnik V vaccine, or vaccines in general? Is Russia offering other vaccines, such as Moderna, Pfizer or Johnson? Unfortunately, such percentages are depressing and will lead to further austerity measures to tackle the pandemic the following winter. |
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I haven't lost my job, nor have I lost someone due to Covid-19, however, the pandemic has really taken a toll on me too, especially psychologically. It's a tiring situation but hopefully, I believe that we're towards the start of the end. We still have a long way to go, but now we're better prepared, we know how to take precautions, and we also have effective vaccines to assist us on this journey.
I would say that you are relatively lucky. In my country, most of us were not as lucky as you. In my family and close relatives, we had two deaths in the last 4 months. One was my second cousin who was aged 38, while the other was my uncle who was in his 60s. Both of them died after contracting COVID, although my cousin was suffering from terminal stage cancer. Among my friends, almost everyone have lost at least one family member or close relative. The second wave was very destructive here in India, and we had around 5 million excess deaths during that period. My deepest condolences for your losses. I've also been in Covid-19 medical ward, as a probable case, spent 2 days there and wasn't the best experience, it turned out negative though. I was out of work for 3 months but was being paid on Covid benefits (less than my normal salary though) due to the pandemic. Honestly, I was pretty lucky during the pandemic, but it hasn't been the same for everyone. I'd also like to note that it has definitely taken a toll on me, both physically and mentally, we're going through a tiring situation. |
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I could also justify Airline emergency funding to an extent, providing that other sectors were funded too. There hasn't been any actual funding in order to support the National Healthcare system, only a few ICU beds were added at most since the previous lockdown on March 2020.
The past lockdown was supposed to be a lesson to gear up for what would come during the winter months, while no proper action was taken, we were idle the whole summer, and we're currently going through the worst phase of the pandemic.
I guess the European nations are better prepared for this winter, because almost half of the population has been fully vaccinated. I am more worried about the countries in the northern hemisphere where the vaccination rate has been low - such as India and Russia. With the entry of more contagious strains of the virus, this winter is going to be disastrous for these countries. The trick is to vaccinate as many as possible, before the winter sets in. And in this regard, India is moving in the right direction, while Russia is not. I just stumbled upon this photo. You can easily notice that most European countries are doing relatively well, except for most Balkan countries, except Greece. Unfortunately, Russia, founder of the Sputnik vaccine, isn't doing so well.  instagram view full size |
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Finally, someone who posted a trusted source to support how effective vaccines are. I couldn't bother spending time to prove that anti-vaxxers are wrong, they wouldn't even consider WHO and CDC as a valid source. Whether we like it or not, we have effective vaccines to tackle the pandemic, it's our only way out of this situation. |
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Why are so many anti vaxxers falling for fake news? It is just a matter of time until the vaccine will be mandatory in all countries.
Vaccine is already mandatory for most privilege's in our country although not yet mandatory. However i do hope we have a safe vaccine by the time it become mandatory. Yes of cause, is right to get covid19 vaccine because why we are suffering today is because of the problem Covid19 brought to us and we have to stop it by taking the vaccine, but people is afraid of the vaccine is that it us causing harm to people? Or it's something that is different , because im skeptical over rejection of this, because in my country many are afraid of taking the vaccine for their benefit and is not for money, it's free because government take it upon their self to suppose for the survive of her people.
Vaccine can only make you survive better if you ever got hit by the virus, but the who is going to recover the economic loss given by this covid-19. Everyone is talking about the vaccine , why not government focus on bringing the jobs and business to those who got unemployed in this period  Right now, governments are focusing in the vaccination of their constituents because they believe that's the only way to contain the spread of this virus. If people will get their immunity, they won't worry about the possible worst effect of this virus. There are already some countries who are only accepting travelers who got their covid vaccine. So the likelihood that it will be mandatory in the future is high. The world needs at least 70% immunity to deal with the transmission of the pandemic. This is achieved by having both vaccinations and by people getting infected with the virus. Vaccination though is the fastest and safest way to achieve that. Unfortunately, not all countries are close to surpass 70% immunity. |
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