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keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldOPto World News@lemmy.world•Vietnam turns a blind eye to China's bullying in the face of Trump's BullyingEnglish1·3 months agoThe last three articles linked.
They all refer to the same news,
keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defenseEnglish81·3 months agoWestern industries like to cry foul. But if they did not do anything since these bans started about 20 years ago it means that they are happy with it.
keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'English96·3 months agoI find absurd that many political groups including the Pirate Party moved to Discord. People who that claim to be fighting for the rights of user privacy then invite you to join Discord. Looks like they have been assimilated by big tech.
keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldOPto politics @lemmy.world•Trump tariffs: is a retaliation against payment systems feasible?23·3 months agoWhen was the last time you used cash?
Yesterday evening when I bought some groceries. I didn’t buy anything else since.
Now imagine you must use cash, because Visa, MasterCard, Google Pay, and Apple Pay refuse to work inside of the EU
Giving up suddenly 50% of their revenues? I doubt so.
keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldOPto politics @lemmy.world•Wikipedia rewrites the history of the Myanmar coup16·5 months agoNo memory of your own? Already reprogrammed?
The protest were widely reported back then.
keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years onEnglish31·6 months agoNah let us back in
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.
keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldto Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.world•‘It didn’t use to be like this’: woeful US healthcare system exposed by CEO killingEnglish27·6 months agoThe media and a lot of social media painted the killing of the CEO as a kind of revenge by a victim of the health care system. But to be honest carefully looking at how it was planned and execute I got a very different impression. It looked like a contract killing executed by a professional.
I don’t think that this event can be seen as a signal of the status of the system. If that interpretation were true we should see a lot more executives in the health care sectors being killed.
keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldOPto Ask Science@lemmy.world•Is the mere ability to support life enough to think that life might have existed on Mars or other objects?English43·6 months agoWe don’t know the conditions that life arose in on Earth.
Yes, but, given that most of the fossils of archaic life was found where the primordial soup might have been present, that for the moment is the hypothesis with better support.
keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldOPto Ask Science@lemmy.world•Is the mere ability to support life enough to think that life might have existed on Mars or other objects?English33·6 months agoThere isn’t an assumption that if it had liquid water it may have had life
Trouble is that between science and what we get from the media there is a big difference. In science the assumption is not there. But when you see the media reports about Mars or the future planned missions to Europa the assumption is there, blunt and with no attempts to justify it.
keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years onEnglish264·6 months agoThe problem with the modern media is that they frame everything in the context of money. Thus they ignore that the Britons joined just for the economy. They are a staunchly capitalist country that never managed to fit within the EU spirit. They kept resisting the integration and asking opt-outs for every initiative. During the exit process they acted as spoilt children, they absorbed all the attention and time of the European council and brought all the other activities nearly to a standstill. All of that tedious process ended up with a partial exit, the UK is still standing on the edge with one foot in and another out.
At this point I think that the best thing to do to stop crying over the spilled milk and do not even dare to think to come back, it would be just a pain for everybody.
keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Has AI made any breakthroughs in other fields? Or how close are we to that happening?41·2 years agoA real AI would have explained you that with great probability a room temperature (and atmospheric pressure) superconductor is not possible.
Few experiments were successful with small grains tested under enormous pressures. But apart from that a room temperature superconductor is unlikely due to the high entropy.
Antivaxxers are cartoonish characters created by the media to discredit those who opposed people in power. People like Trump or Bolsonaro said a lot of stupid and wrong things on purpose to discredit all the arguments. All the antivaxxers who appeared on the media are no better, actors playing the role of the idiots.
The opinion of the real opposition is:
COVID19 vaccines were available when the overwhelming majority of people already developed the antibodies on their own, therefore they were useless.
Viruses of that family mutate so frequently and are so contagious that there is no way to develop a vaccine on time. They will always arrive after people already came into contact with the virus and fought it off on their own.
Also the lock downs started after people already had their course with the virus and fought it off on their own. Lock downs were politically motivated, they saved absolutely nobody.
The story of the heart conditions looks like another false alarm to distract the attention from the real problem. Until now we used vaccines for a limited number of serious diseases and the vaccines were carefully tested over a long period. That was a sensible way to use vaccines because the mechanism is still not fully understood by science. Imposing by force two vaccinations every year with untested vaccines means playing too much with a mechanism we do not fully understand and nobody knows what the long term consequences could be.
It is not a new idea. it is an old story that keeps going on under different guises. Is it the classic old military-industrial complex? I don’t know. But I know that here Trump was hired to set up a huge vortex of money to spin around. I see him more as the marketeer in this story.