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@h4rdstyl3z yeah I think it's probably related to Steve K. and Ashley W. as they have done quite a few dodgy things in the past and also attacked people online without much accountability.

Covid paranoia rant 

What is happening on this world? People whom I've always considered to be nice, compassionate and smart are now voicing hatred towards another portion of the population (unvaxxed) and wishing death upon them for "taking our freedoms by being selfish and not complying". These same friends previously advocated against elites but now seem to be doing exactly what the elites want, getting us to attack each other and hate one another without getting to the truth. This makes me lose all faith in humanities wisdom, it shows that after countless wars, genocides and segregation we still haven't learned the lessons of the path. I suppose this is partly a defense mechanism, after all, it's much easier to express hatred towards the unvaxxed on Twitter than to look at spread data and then protest or write a letter to your local government to try to regain those freedoms you lost. Instead, it's much easier to blame the invisible boogie man, the unvaxxed.

@freemo always wanted to push the character limit to the max and ..well, what better opportunity than this?

@freemo this is brilliant. Precisely the sort of thing I was looking for. Now I ask a potentially stupid question. Is there an analogous 'reaction' for information-theoretic entropy ? Hint: I think the answer might have cryptographic implications which affect certain cryptocurrencies :blobcathyper:

people of can you help me understand if this question I've had has an answer.

Here is my attempt at asking my question:

Is there a reaction/phenomenon that *seems* to violate the laws of entropy but actually doesn't? For example, you have substance A then you place a droplet of substance B on it and it diffuses/spreads/mixes and later (after some time) it seemly starts pulling together until it's again a single droplet of substance B (as if time itself had rewinded tenet style) such that if I took a video of this reaction and later on gave you the frames/pictures of that video, you would not be able to with 100% certainty put the frames together in the original order (since you can't tell which frames corresponds to the original droplet of B in A and which one corresponds to when B clumped up after having first diffused). What is this reaction?

@freemo well, I changed my mind based on the news of the "video" (now through reading this thread seems like its actually still images enhanced from a blurry video) which obviously is not valid + the fact that it's been 3 days and they haven't given a verdict. So, I wasn't making a statement about Kyle's guilt (or lack of it) but mainly that I don't think it would be taking this long if they thought he was innocent.

Also, that's why I prefaced my initial statement with *if* . Meaning if the claim about the video by prosecution == True => Kyle guilty + going jail. But as people are pointing out those still images from the videos are not exactly clear....So Kyle might be innocent but I still think he going to jail because of the lack of verdict at this time

@freemo I *read* the following about the footage:

"Prosecutors say the video shows Rittenhouse raise his rifle at a couple who had been with Rosenbaum much of the night. That action, they say, provoked Rosenbaum to chase Rittenhouse, who shot the unarmed Rosenbaum four times after they had run across a car lot"

From: yahoo.com/now/kyle-rittenhouse

A lot of people will be surprised when they give Kyle the guilty verdict or when the judge rules mistrial....

Elaborating: at first I thought was innocent given all the viral clips about witness accounts of events and from the prosecution doing such a bad job and while I still think the prosecutor is a piece of shit (commenting on Kyle's posts arrest silence for example trying to pin that as evidence of guilt) but if the drone footage shows Kyle pointing his weapon at the people that were next to rosenbaun and that's why he chased Kyle then I think this drastically weakens the "self defense" claim. In my eyes you don't get to point a gun at unarmed people unless they are coming at you in a menacing fashion or verbally threatening to physically hurt you or kill you. Idk. I don't know enough about this shit to comment properly but just calling it how I see it.

> The sole reliance on vaccination as a primary strategy to mitigate COVID-19 and its adverse consequences needs to be re-examined, especially considering the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant and the likelihood of future variants. Other pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions may need to be put in place alongside increasing vaccination rates. Such course correction, especially with regards to the policy narrative, becomes paramount with emerging scientific evidence on real world effectiveness of the vaccines.
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> In summary, even as efforts should be made to encourage populations to get vaccinated it should be done so with humility and respect. Stigmatizing populations can do more harm than good. Importantly, other non-pharmacological efforts (e.g., the importance of basic public health hygiene with regards to maintaining safe distance or hand-washing, promoting better frequent and cheaper forms of testing) needs to be renewed in order to strike the balance of learning to live with COVID-19 in the same manner we continue to live a 100 years later with various seasonal alterations of the 1918 Influenza virus.

Increases in -19 are unrelated to levels of across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

Battling misinformation with censorship is like battling over population with nuclear bombs.

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