I don't see a link between Kamala Harris and Epstein. Think about it logically -- Epstein only associates with the rich and powerful. Kamala Harris was just a California AG, and a senator in the past. Epstein wouldn't care about some AG or senator, they are not the elite. The elite are the billionaires, the former Presidents, the active federal government employees. Anyone on the state level is useless to him. And plus he lived in Florida not California so he had no use for Harris.

Well, good luck with zero hospitalization or death because it's not happening and it's unrealistic. Covid is as controlled as it's ever going to be, and it's mostly older people without any natural immunity, vaccinations, or already unhealthy that are dying at this point. Most civil societies can continue on, as they must. The virus will mutate "down" in lethality even further after omicron, so it's over. Meanwhile, if you're keen on stopping death, start with obesity, heart disease, diabetes, smoking, and drug addiction because they're more deadly to society than Covid.

Don't know Robert Kiyosaki, so whatever views are on the markets crashing is irrelevant. You can't predict when the next crash will happen with any degree of certainty. You can use economic indicators to make inferences, but they're only as good as the data you have in front of you. The possibility of an economic crash happening again is certain, predicting when it happens is guesswork. My prediction is the next economic crash could be over the student loan "bubble" that's forming. Essentially the price of higher learning is increasing and outpacing the cost of any other services, and so eventually there will be a tipping point at which the loans will no longer be paid back because the potential earnings of a student outpace the loan amount plus interest, and thus the bubble pops. This is mainly a US consideration, but China's economy also isn't doing great. And so if China first, the US will follow soon after.

MSM are just further extensions of the government. Any reporting they do is editorialized activism. Large corporations own media companies, and there isn't any competition anymore between the sources that people are fed, so you have your answer. After two years of economic recklessness during Covid, you think the media would have caught on and reported such travesties. But nope, it's not about reporting the truth, never was.

I don't mind religious people because the vast majority of religions don't act on malice towards nonbelievers. I exclude Islam here, it has its own problems. Though Islam is also not representative of most developed countries. Western values exist in most places outside of the middle east and Africa.

I recall watching a debate between atheist Sam Harris v. William Craig. Harris makes a point that religious people will use god as an excuse to not go around raping and killing people, as the deterrent of eternal hell promotes moral virtue. A bit sadistic that the existence of hell is the only thing preventing religious people from not acting like sociopaths, but if it keeps civil society intact, perhaps it's not so useless after all.

CDC cuts isolation time from 10 days to 5 days - https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1227-isolation-quarantine-guidance.html

You may ask yourself what magic pixie dust was sprinkled onto to Covid which would have allowed transmission to cease after five days, or what scientific literature was published recently which indicates that the isolation period should be shortened. Well, neither exist. CDC's new guidelines are solely based on moving society past Covid. These same guidelines could have been issued a year ago because the science was the same. Asymptomatic transmission is not a cause for concern, generally speaking. So how much irreversible damage was caused based on lack of any vision? They won't be perspicuous in their explanations because it would require them to concede that their Covid hysteria was not justified. The predictable outcome when you put moronic "health experts" in charge of public policy, because the goal transforms from managing Covid to eliminating Covid. An impossible task.

I don't think the vast majority of Bitcoin holders understand how important this concept is. Any coin to which you do not hold ownership of the private keys are not your coins, it's merely an agreement between you and the true owner of the private key that the coin is yours, subject to change on a whim by the private key's owner. The number of crypto investors that store their crypto on exchanges or 3rd party apps is palpable. Seeing a bank take this approach is refreshing.

The currency system before paper money was essentially precious metals. The gold standard was not controlled by any organizations, there was a finite supply. You can do a Bitcoin transaction physically person to person, so why would Bitcoin's online presence be a hinderance? Most financial systems operate on the internet anyways, so the infrastructure is there already. The entirety of people's net worth appears as digitalized pixels on a private banking page. There's nothing physical about it.

Diets are useless. They aren't compatible with the western lifestyle. Humans receive psychoactive reward any time they eat, it's a reward mechanism with evolutionary backing that stemmed from a desire to keep full when food supplies were high so they'd be fueled during shortages. You can't change the way human brains are wired. Any restrictive diet is really just a coping mechanism. Keto, calorie restrictive, low fats, whatever the case, it doesn't work long term.

If you can't change human physiology and the response to nutrition, what can you change? Activity level, but try getting an obese/overweight person to change from a sedentary life style to an active one. It's difficult.

Carnivore diet will put strain on your kidney from all the protein, and probably raise your cholesterol. Nothing says pristine health quiet like clogged arteries.

Will the US government accept any of those pleas? I'm not sure. Maybe they could use her to testify against others involved in the Epstein ring, but that also forces me to question whether these people want to bother holding anyone accountable. It would seem they're not very interested in accountability. After all, Epstein being offered a generous plea deal sent the message that if you're rich and powerful, you generally can avoid any consequences as long as you pay the right people. It was only after Maxwell was 60, long after these crimes were uncovered, that any charges were brought forth. All the mean while, Epstein and Maxwell travel the world, meet with the world's most powerful people, while avoiding any consequences for their crimes.

2010, Maxwell pictured fat Chelsea Clinton's wedding - https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/was-ghislaine-maxwell-at-chelsea

2008 IIRC was the point Epstein had been convicted, investigation starting back in 2005. You think someone would have said to the Clintons that this woman *may* be a sexual predator.




Fake picture - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/08/fact-check-altered-image-shows-jeffrey-epstein-next-kamala-harris/5672684001/

Guilty on 5 of 6 counts, okay I guess. After so many days I was almost certain on a hung jury. Not surprising is how little details of the Epstein network we got. Seems like they wanted to keep those matters private. Perhaps it was too unusual of a request for the public to be aware of crimes by the powerful, we're not entitled to these matters apparently.

I don't really see a problem with this, the world's over populated as is. But developed countries having a high birth rate isn't really an issue, China and India's population growth isn't very sustainable. India in particular is growing too fast for their country to keep up, so the population growth isn't proportional to the country's development.

The source is probably written by some political activist with no understanding of economics.

Inflation calculators do not use singular entities in order to calculate inflation. They're not using the price of individual products from individual companies, and comparing the price year over year. The inflation calculation occurs over entire sectors, averaging out the increase in prices. Is it coincidence that the inflation rate for nearly all developed nations increases the moment economies are shut down and an indefinite supply of money is injected into the economy? Nonsense.

For the inflation crisis to be the fault of corporations, you would need to see entire sectors collude with each other, including many corporations, to raise their prices collectively. That's not how things work.

The government will tell you its corporate greed causing inflation because it causes you to demonize free market economics and capitalism. They will do anything to shift blame away from themselves in causing an inflation crisis because the sad truth is, most people will believe corporations are responsible for the higher prices. After all, it's the corporations that determine what their products will cost, correct? The answer, of course, is no, it is a free market that determines the prices. And in a market with too large a demand due to increased money supply, the prices of the products increase.

Homosapien are animalistic by nature, it's how evolution works. But still social primates. In fact, it took a long time for society to get rid of the animalistic tendencies in humans. Some would argue the general increase of intelligence as caused by a diet change acted as a catalyst for this process, but whatever the reason, the idea of tribalism still exists. It's innate. Rejection and aggression towards foreigners is self preservation mechanism, anything viewed as "foreign" is a threat to someone's safety or way of life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/world/middleeast/israel-vaccine-4th-dose.html

It's interesting to see Israel to explore even more boosters, which even the health experts are saying it's too much as the NYT admits.

The goal needs to be clear -- is stopping transmission the the goal, or is stopping hospitalization/death the goal? For some, the goal is endemic governmental control because the risk calculation pertaining to Covid is incomputable, so they need government to step in and tell them how to live their life. Vaccines won't do much anymore in stopping someone from getting an infection. The prevalence of variants with higher transmissibility make this impossible. You cannot simply introduce some number of boosters every time a new variant begins to propagate. It doesn't work, it's not practicable. Therefore, the goal should shift from "zero Covid" to "zero hospitalization/death". Though, zero hospitalization/death this possible either, but the number can get fairly low with the introduction of new therapeutics. Israel will probably ignore all of this.

https://cryptonews.com/news/half-billion-dollar-fake-nft-sale-becomes-real-pr-stunt.htm

If you read the story above, it's clear that the sale of the NFT above was fake. But, you can imagine the smaller sales which are generated which might not be legitimate that the public never learns about. So the market is inflated as is, combined with whatever fake sales are in the mix for PR/fraud.

As with anything art related, the value is subjective. But at least with tangible art, there's an amount of craftmanship that goes behind each piece, oppose to an NFT generated using MS paint. To each his own, though.

Do you understand what theoretically means, franky?

It means under ideal conditions where if you need an x number of viral particles to distribute to someone in order to built the sufficient viral load. Omicron produces 70x that amount because it replicates 70x as fast.

So 70x transmissibility. Though I'll shift and add the word "potentially" in there in case it weren't already obvious. Not that I expected someone to believe there would literally be 70x more cases.

You should try some English and maybe you could actually reading what the source is saying.

The cycles are x10 slower in *lung tissue* meaning that is probably why the disease is less severe. I have no clue why you are comparing the replication rates in the bronchial tissue and in the lung tissue, they're not comparable in terms of transmissibility.

In bronchial tissue, the growth is 70 times the growth of delta, and the bronchial tissue is how Covid can spread (you cough on someone or sneeze on someone).

Per unit of cubic area produced by respiration of an infected person that has the delta variant, you would expect 70x the viral particles in the same cubic area and so *theoretically* it is 70x more transmissible.

That is not to say for every one case of delta, there are 70 cases of omicron. I have no clue why you think this is what I am saying and then proceed to write a novel debunking a strawman you've created for yourself.

Sharia law is the most authoritarian form of religious governance. Protecting women by beating them if they disobey their spouse, or forcing them to wear head garments, sounds very democratic. Unsurprisingly, every Islamic theocracy there's been has turned into a hell hole.

Currency index isn't the complete picture, because even USD is having too much trouble with inflation and I'm not very confident the projections are accurate either in terms of how long it'll last. Easily could go into 2023, and economic projections for GDP growth are being slashed. Keep in mind, the US economy was supposed to have unusually high GDP growth compared to previous years because the pandemic in 2020 caused low economic growth. So mediocre growth would be pretty devastating, and that's what we've seen.

Inflation rate is the only thing that matters, converting your currency into another highly inflating currency is abandoning a sinking ship for another.