vnarek @vnarek@qoto.org
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Armenian, living in the Czech republic that wants to move to Sweden one day.
Joined May 2020
No you are not, but the actual situation is not 95% in favor of anybody. It is 99% democrats or republicans, where both have a solid chance of winning and 1% third party which will not affect anything.
If we get to this situation and distribution of chances are equal to these now, I would vote lesser of two evils (if one wants to eliminate 1000 people and second 10 000, I would go for sure with the one that wants to kill only 1000), but I don't think that distribution of those votes would be the same in this situation.
I would say that we vote to make changes or to push through policies that in our opinion would help us and the country the most. If you vote for a party that has no chance of winning it is effectively equal to not voting at all I would say.
That is not the only reason. U.S. electoral system sucks. There is a "winner takes all" situation, which leads to only two strong parties, because people want to maximize chance of winning to candidate that they align more with. I do not envy your situation. I like it when I have more than two choices in parlamentary system. You can bid, but it is not going to affect your country in any shape or form and you are biding lives of the people (as in my hypothesis).
@freemo Two main parties have a chance of winning. Third parties don't. I am specifically talking about president election, maybe it is possible for third party to win on more local level.
@freemo There is really no other choice if you vote to influence your country I would say. What would you gain by voting third party?
@design_RG Sweetly written. I personally like longer more information heavy messages but no one really likes replying to them on normal social media. 😅 Slowly could be the way. I will try it and see.
@design_RG first time heard about slowly. Amazing idea!
@freemo Yeah most of the formatters do let you change line length. Go-fmt does not enforce a particular line length and just makes sure that any possible indentation you choose for lines is consistent across users.
@freemo Bad wording again. It was more about formatting. Not my day today. 😅
@freemo I meant not customizable. Believe me, it is a feature.
Do you prefer opinionated tools for linting/formatting?
The first thing I do when programming in a new environment is find an alternative for `go-fmt`. It is so addictive to just focus on the task at hand.
@sda @EVoCeO
Thanks for sharing this article, I was not aware of this. My two cents.
They did not predict it well, but it does not mean they did it for big pharma. I would say it is hard to predict something like pandemic and it is better to have some false alarms than be late on calling it. Being late on calling it could cost much more money than a false alarm. We will potentially get better at these prognoses. Hopefully.
I found the changed description (it was not a definition, pandemic is already defined we don't need WHO to tell us what it is, swine flu met criterias on pandemic) on archive.org and traced back to original paper. Yeah it was pretty stupid to have this description on the site, but they don't call it something pandemic based on what is on their sites as description of one.
It would be great if there was more transparency about who makes the decisions in these cases. In the case of coronavirus they did pretty well I would say. (there was still some stupid shit, but at least people are dying 😄)
http://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2010/20100125_Hearing_E.pdf this is the statement referred to in the article. there is reasoning behind why they declared swine flu a pandemic.
vnarek
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CW long post
Religious practice reduces ‘deaths from despair’
A new study from Harvard University has found that the frequent attendance of religious services dramatically reduces so-called ‘deaths from despair’, such as suicide, and drug or alcohol abuse. This finding seems more relevant than ever given the current pandemic that has resulted in untold job losses and a very uncertain future for many people. Economic slumps are always associated with a rise in ‘deaths from despair’, so if religion acts as a protective against this, then we need to pay attention.
The study followed a large cohort of more than 100,000 health care professionals in the US, over a long period of time (1999 -2016).
The investigators started with the hypothesis that a weakening in traditional social support systems such as marriage and the family, leads to an increasing sense of hopelessness in many, leading in turn to a rise in “deaths of despair”.
One of the leading examples of such a weakened support system is the decline in religious participation, and therefore the investigators wanted to establish the link between despair and the declining attendance of religious services.
They found that nurses and physicians who attend a religious service at least weekly are less likely to die as a result of suicide or drug or alcohol abuse than their peers who do not attend.
The incidence of ‘deaths from despair’ among health professionals is more than double that of the general population, as a result of stress and trauma, but among those who attend a religious service at least once a week it drops by 68pc among women, and 33pc among men.
As the educational attainment of health professionals is higher than the average, despair in them is associated more with factors such as loss in meaning in life, rather than material deprivation.
Religion often fosters a sense of peace and positive outlook to life, it promotes social connectedness and encourages engagement in prosocial activities, such volunteering. “In the context of trauma, such resources may provide healthy stress-coping strategies and revive a sense of meaning in difficult times and thereby counteract various processes associated with despair.”, the study claims.
This is something to be pondered, particularly in the current difficult times when the general populations is experiencing unusual stress and trauma.
Even if churches are closed for public worship, people are still praying. A poll commissioned by the Iona Institute found that in Ireland 18pc said that they are praying more than they usually would.
Another new poll commissioned by Tearfund, a Christian relief and development agency and a member of the Disasters’ Emergency Committee, found that in the UK one in twenty (5pc) adults say they have started praying during the lockdown but they didn’t pray before.
Eighteen percent of UK adults have asked someone else to say a prayer for them and 19% say they have read a religious text during lockdown. Prayer is a vital part of life for the public, and among those who pray a third say that they have prayed since the COVID-19 lockdown because they believe it makes a difference.
There is a solid body of evidence highlighting the benefit of religion for mental health and the new Harvard study confirms that.
Professor Patricia Casey produced for the Iona Institute a paper called “The Psycho-Social Benefits of Religious Practice”, showing how a large number of scientific papers have established that religious practice reduces the risk of depression, suicide, marital breakdown, alcohol and drug abuse, pregnancy among teenagers. It also helps cope with bereavement effects.
Worship is, for those who believe, a source of consolation and hope, strength and motivation. A church is also a place where they can experience the support of a community and are encouraged to engage in activities that are useful to themselves and to others.
This new Harvard study shows that believers often respond better to the struggles of life, and it brings further evidence to fact that both their religious beliefs and the enhanced social connection that worshiping involves, are good for our health. This is something that secularists often forget.
@EVoCeO Yeah I tend to look at the surroundings of a person claiming. I think it is important to understand what is there for him. Both Shavi and Judy do benefit from misinformation of the public. Both have done unjust business with public fear before (which is exactly what they are framing pharmaceutics doing now, which could look like projecting).
Ah I see now. Yeah that would be evil, but I personally don't think that making countries economies fall apart makes anybody rich. Additionally, we are pretty good at identifying lab viruses from those genetically modified and pharmaceutic companies have thousands of researchers. It is really hard to hide something this big. Look how fast we got information from China even though they tried to censor it.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 - this is a paper that "clearly show that Sars-Cov-2 is not a laboratory construct"
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/70252/how-do-scientists-know-whether-a-virus-is-man-made-or-not Answers here are pretty interesting.
@EVoCeO Yeah well. Stefan is mostly known for his "interesting" claims surrounding IQ and race. 😄 He is often described as a white-nationalist. I would take him and his host with a grain of salt.
Shiva has a lot in common with Judy from the last video. Claimed some controversial stuff about genetically modified food which did not pass the scientific filter and still did tour around states.
Yeah vaccination is a business, but I don't see what is wrong with that. If viruses exist and vaccines are effective then we need to fund research around them and buy them. Maybe I don't understand what are you trying to say by that.
vnarek
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Im a bit of a WWII buff myself and I'm always disappointed no one talks more about Rudolf Hess.. Like the dude was actually adolf hitler's vice president for lack of a better word (deputy fuhrer) and his right hand man since the early days of Nazi Germany.
He wound up defying Hitler, stealing a plane, and flying into enemy territory in an attempt to end hostilities and negotiate a peace. How is such a huge event always left out of talks about WWII...
I'm not saying the guy is a hero, and obviously im glad we toppled the Nazi regime rather than just make peace. But its still a remarkably interesting piece of the story that always seems to get swept under the rug.
@EVoCeO Sorry I didn't want my reply to sound confrontational. My goal is not attacking, just giving my perspective and reasons behind my thoughts.
There is no need to counter claims, because the burden of proof is on her. So "there is no evidence that..." is okay for me. They could say that it is untrue, but they don't want to lose credibility they have like she did. The truth is there is no evidence.
Some of the claims she presented were debunked before so maybe that is the reason they didn't mention them in the article. Like that "false covid death" conspiracy. Science dot org is a really old peer reviewed magazine. She published her findings in that magazine btw, but soon they were falsified.
I would say I am like 95% sure this is untrue. I don't even believe that some shots in the documentary are from real incidents (like 20 officers coming to her house). There are some interesting filmcuts when they talk about anti-vaccination.
Yes, I have the same sentiment about white noise around news. It helps to find some independent fact checking organizations to do the hard job for us. I think that banning her video from social media did more harm than good though.
vnarek
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Your racist Facebook uncle may have sent you a link to a trailer for "Plandemic," a conspiracy movie that stars a disgraced virologist called Judy Mikovits who makes a string of claims about her credentials and the coronavirus.
Science Magazine evaluated those claims.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of claims that Mikovits makes about her credentials and the science of coronavirus are provably false.
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@EVoCeO
What part of the article seemed biased to you?
Yes, because the claims she made in that video are not factually checked. If she doesn't provide any evidence then her claim is nothing more than a guess. "There is no evidence means" there is no scientific consensus in the field of study it is from, but she frames the narative like there is.
If you wanna talk about how the messenger conveys the message. She lied about why she was in jail, about her being pioneer in foundings of HIV virus and about lots of other things. + She is selling book called Plague of corruption and this is just the perfect advertisement for her.
I found other articles about her that could be interesting to you. For sure, do your research, this is STEM community after all.
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/05/06/judy-mikovits-pandemic/
I like the fact that even antivaxxers don't believe her 😄.
There are other sources on her Wikipedia page about the claims made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Mikovits#cite_note-politifact-plandemic-58
@EVoCeO https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/fact-checking-judy-mikovits-controversial-virologist-attacking-anthony-fauci-viral
I would say there is no conspiracy after reading this.
@freemo @adi_k Not all bachelor degrees are created equal. 😁 In Czechia there is a huge gap between the best ones and the worst ones. Maybe it is the same in US.
Maybe the reason for that is when you pay your school from your own pocket you tend to focus on the studying more. So schools can increase their difficulty without kicking everyone out.
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Armenian, living in the Czech republic that wants to move to Sweden one day.
Joined May 2020
