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It all seems too salacious to be true, and it isn't clear to me that these diary excerpts are authentic. Biden is a creep but so are a lot of senile old man that can't tell a hole in the ground from his ass. This is also the person whom Tara Reade claimed sexually assaulted her while he was a senator, but instead of anyone taking her allegations seriously, the media scoffed at her. I wouldn't be surprised if this were all true, but I also wouldn't hold your breath. These sort of things hardly amount to anything substantive.
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I would actually question some of these breakthrough "asymptomatic" infections of people who are vaccinated. These are people who are not showing symptoms, but have traces of the virus in their sinus. The only tests that diagnose a current covid infection involve swabing the sinus, and do not involve any kind of blood work.
If Alice has covid, and coughs on Bob, who is vaccinated, there will likely be some covid infected droplets get into Bob's respiratory system and his sinus. The virus may live inside his body for a period of time, and may even reproduce while inside his body without the 'assistance' of his body. If Bob is tested later that day, he may show as being infected, even if the test picks up Alice's droplets. I don't know that this has ever happened, or if it does happen, how frequently it happens. At no point would Bob's body act any differently than it would otherwise act.
If the above happens, is it really accurate to say that Bob is infected?
The threshold for the PCR tests can cause someone to pick up a false positive Covid test, they were never 100 percent accurate to begin with, just convenient sorting mechanism that had a reliable, but not entirely accurate way, of sorting through the positive Covid cases and separating them from the negative. If Dr. Fauci is to be believed, he claims asymptomatic spread is not that big of deal, so if "Bob" were not to get a positive Covid case and is asymptomatic, he's still infected, but his Covid case is inconsequential. I figured positive cases would be used to drive extreme public health measures when the reality of the situation dictates hospitalizations and death be center stage. A positive Covid case of the sniffles has no meaning and doesn't requires response from the person. When the "public health experts say they're doing it to protect you, that's when you run. |
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My theory is the more FUD they spread, the more they can attract naive investors away from crypto and shift the market downward which would take away the institutional investors away from crypto, which is their target market. JP Morgan doesn't care what some 23 year old Robinhood investor thinks about Bitcoin or where they store their money in particular, but multiply this individual by hundreds of thousands, or even more, it has a large effect on the market. The institutional investors will follow the money, not that they care about the technology related to crypto or its decentralization, but to each their own. |
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Which CBDCs use the block chain technology? None.
One thing I like about bitcoin is its transparency, right from the white paper to blockchain and even to the open source wallets we can decide to use. All I noticed about CBDCs is no transparency. I have tried to want to know how CBDC is working but nothing to prove that it uses blockchain technology, nothing like mining, obviously. Okay if transactions are made and no mining, are there still nodes or any other things representing nodes for validation after transactions are made into blocks (although if not mining) in which block will build up on blocks to make up chain of blocks which is the blockchain, I do not also think so, nothing even like block makeup not to talk of chain of blocks. CBDCs are truly not going to be using blockchain technology in my opinion. Something like a CBDC might easily catch on in China, but man....I hope it never becomes a reality in the West.
All I wanted to do is to use my country's CBDC when it was created last month, but what I noticed was that there is no convenience it can render that my online banking apps can not deliver me, so I have not seen any reason to use it at all. In fact, I got no option than to later delete the app as it is not yet useful for me. I never got the impression of CBDCs that they ever were supposed to be transparent. Central banks have their intent pretty clear, they want to retain control over a currency and in a digital age, cashless seems to be the norm. It's not that cash ever had any intrinsic value anyways since shifting away from the gold standard, CBDC's offer the same type of concept, digital tokens created out of thin air, no protocol, and a way of controlling the currency flow of a country. |
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It's a bluff, a smart one, rather. WFP couldn't possibly create any plan to end world hunger, it's all theatrics to demonize the rich. They've taken on more than 6 billion in funds throughout the organization's existence, yet they're requesting for even more money to solve problems they don't have any solutions to. Throwing money at a problem does not solve it, and if it did, I'd hope the WFP would attempt to at least raise funds from other nations instead of looking at a private individual to bankroll their useless plans. Expect Musk's proposal to go no where, the WFP aren't serious. |
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Here are the 490 pages of OSHA regulations for forced vaccine mandates and forced mask mandates that's they're experimenting with in the US. https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-23643.pdfThey'll be having federal agents come and expect work places for force compliance, and for any violations, there will be thousands in fines per violation. This is what authoritarianism, laced with incompetency at every turn, in the name of "public health and safety" by so called "experts." Vaccine was supposed to be personal choice, just like we were told the "pro-vaxxers" were the ones following the science, except they're not remotely following any resemblance of the word science, hysteria and alarmism is what defines these 490 pages. Certainly not anything scientific. Anyone vaccinated is protected, anyone with natural immunity is protected. This means over 80 percent of the US population. Yet here are are mandating a vaccine with no longitudinal studies. |
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They have a conflict of interest to begin with, even if their estimations are in good faith, which I doubt. They're suggesting that groups invest in real estate or hedge funds oppose to crypto which is awfully convenient for them, considering investment consulting groups aren't really needed to invest in crypto to any significant degree - you purchase and hold, that's the extent of investing in Bitcoin.
As for their projections, mere speculation at most. Volatility's always been an issue, and it's a problem that should become less prevalent the more adoption there is.
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This isn't really a news story at all. 3rd party vendors exist at all retailers. Whatever "Coinstar" is, Walmart doesn't endorse their internal operations and their decision to accept Bitcoin has nothing to do with Walmart. If the angle is that walmart consumers will now be exposed to Bitcoin, maybe this could be significant but I have my doubts that there'd be residual traffic at these machines from the walmart foot traffic.
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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.
It's not 70 percent, herd immunity is not even a strategy anymore with how leaky the vaccines are. It's a personal choice - if you have not already been exposed to Covd and developed antibodies naturally, the vaccine is available. If not, then good luck and rely on your own immune system for when you eventually get it because the vaccine will not save anyone from getting the virus and transmitting it. Meaning, you're at a high chance of getting the virus regardless of the vaccination status of others around you. Anyone that is selling the idea that we must reach herd immunity, something that's impossible at this point, is just lying to you providing you with false promises. |
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I don't really feel any schadenfreude, just sadness.
And those who die denying covid19? It's still a tragedy, regardless if they die of their ignorance. I would feel no different for those gluttonous enough to feed themselves to death, barely mobile with arteries clogged with plaque. With how much of the developed world obese, there doesn't seem to be so much animosity towards these folks. They know better, they refuse to do anything about their health, yet we feel disdain for them when they end up dead or paralyzed from a stroke or heart attack. The politics is not infused with obesity as it is with Covid, you see. Same goes with alcoholics or drug users. Although, there is not denialism with some of these people. |
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You may be surprised to know that the molecule you highlighted is already in your body, vaccine or no vaccine. https://hmdb.ca/metabolites/HMDB0008036Happens to be, 1,2-Distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine is just a fatty acid molecule that can be utilized as an inactive ingredient for drug delivery, or in this case, delivery vaccine components to whatever target area. These fatty acid related molecules are already in existence within the surface of your cells, some transverse the lipid bilayer of your cells in fact. It's one of the reason these fatty acid molecules are used in the vaccine, they exist in your body already and are completely safe. So when the long term data is released on these vaccines, if any issues arise, it won't be because of the inactive ingredients. Will likely be the active ingredients that might trigger some sort of side effect. |
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Variants arise naturally due to copying errors. The more of a virus is in circulation, the more variants arise. Vaccination reduces the number of variants. This is not complicated. Vaccines of course exert some selection pressure, but this is insignificant... and if you are saying that vaccines create selection pressure, you are also saying that they are effective at preventing infection, you can't have one without the other. Also, which variants are you worried about? Delta is the dominant one... this originated in India in 2020, prior to any vaccines being available.
I would not be too particularly concerned about future variants though. Evolutionary biology tells us that viruses tend to decrease in virulence as time goes on, so variants have the chance to become less deadly. This was the case with the 1918 Spanish flu. Viruses killing their hosts quickly would not allow the viruses to replicate and spread in time is the logic, and a viral infection with no long term symptoms or severe symptoms isn't much a big deal, so while I'm certain Coronavirus is endemic at this point, the threat is certainly not endemic. |
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^^^ What's interesting is that it's only been the last 500 years where people haven't understood the complexity of the universe enough to see God. People have figured out some complex stuff. It made them proud to have done this, and they think that they can figure it all out.
That's actually backwards, it's only the last 200 or so years that people have began to understand the complexity of the universe, and formulate the complexity of the universe into scientific principles of physics, mathematics, etc. It was only within the last couple thousand years that atheism has developed and split from mainstream religious beliefs, this is after religion held its grip on civilization for hundreds of thousands of years. Really, the correlation is between atheism and advancement of technology/understanding of science. |
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China locks thousands of Disneyland guests due to one coronavirus positive case - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-01/guests-locked-in-disneyland-show-china-s-extreme-covid-tacticsAnd also, Tonga reports first ever Covid case, enters lockdown - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59101584I would be cautiously optimistic about a lockdown in an island because they control for factors like incoming travel, theoretically. And so the idea of a lockdown might successful given the full logistics. The reason no lockdowns ever worked in the past was they did not factor in asymptomatic spread, or existing community spread making it too late. Large populations complicate things, because there will never be 100 percent compliance, nor should they. Lockdowns are an extreme binary measure, there are no half way compromises. An island makes it easier for total compliance, not that I would advocate for it because it's stilly for a disease that has minimal risk of death, and for which advanced therapeutics already exist. |
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.. These grotesque experiments aren't unusual. Americans have a bizarre attachment to animals, some having higher attachment to their dogs or cats than actual people. And so naturally, there's more concern to some of these folks about NIH funding animal experiments rather than gain of function research that killed millions. |
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... Facebook already has a platform to launch this crypto venture so I don't have any doubts that it'll be successful. The marketing of crypto to a bunch of clueless Facebook users could not be easier, they're naive, don't understand internet mechanism, and they'll want to invest in something modern, so they dump whatever funds into worthless NFTs or alts. While I agree Zuckerberg stole facebook from its original inventors, he's incredibly smart and this could be fairly successful if they can link it with the facebook userbase. The silver lining, hopefully it causes Jack Dorsey's "Square" to lose market share. Jack Dorsey is a moron. |
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I'm reading from this source: https://news.bitcoin.com/slovenia-launches-public-consultations-on-crypto-taxation-law/This isn't technically anything new. From what most countries tax system, if you convert Bitcoin into another currency, you need to pay taxes. If you mine it or receive it exchange for goods/service, it's considered taxable income. Slovenia is looking to clarify their tax system and make the standards more objective it would appear. The major story would be if they introduced a convoluted tax system or some sort of wealth tax, to some large degree, which would disincentivize anyone to hold any coin. I see this being the way for most countries when they recognize crypto is beginning to displace their traditional currency. We aren't there yet, but when inflation rates continue to rise people will flock away from traditional fiats, and so I predict government will be attempting to increase tax revenue by taxing coin so they can raise the funds and pull people back into fiat. |
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Granted this question won't be relevant for a long time - answer depends on demand, not supply. We know what the total supply of coin in circulation will be and can calculate the number out, subtracted by the estimated coins lost every year. We can use trading volume in this calculation as well. What's not predictable is the demand in the future, which will have the most effect on price. Theoretically the end supply of bitcoin could be literally one coin, and if the demand remains the same, then just a few satoshi could be worth a significant amount.
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