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When I was studying torture at Mossad University as a part of my dream of working at Langley, I remember reading scientific articles and their critiques. A common thread was things like "you should use more than 1 cell line to see that it isn't a quirk of that particular line." So you'd get these articles that are like Hormone Promoter AFHKJLSJHDKJ-1 Upregulation Due to AOSIDJA-234Benzyne-1-S Not Significantly Different in OIUREWYIUWBVW Cell Line and AOSIDJ-324 Cell Line that no sane person would ever read for entertainment. If you were, in particular, a grad student/PhD hopeful/actively researching that field you would need that as a reference that you dissect for methods, hypothesis formation, etc.

Which is to say that it was pretty safe to assume that the OIUREWYIUWBVW Cell Line was representative, but a scientific inquiry is an endeavor to isolate variables and rid your work of assumptions, so sometimes you do have to do the painstaking work of retracing your steps with more study into teasing apart variables you didn't think of previously. So when your work is something salacious and attention grabbing you'll find that obvious thing in that test that isolates it so that it can be used as a citation. Not because the work was trying to be groundbreaking, but because in peer review, if your abstract says "it's common knowledge that AFHKJLSJHDKJ-1 Upregulation Due to AOSIDJA-234Benzyne-1-S is common throughout humans." you're going to get lit up with everyone saying "well, you don't know that..." But if you can cite PhD Student et. al. 2025 and the exacting method of asserting the obvious, it becomes more rigorous.

Consider the lengths you have to go to in order to create a proof that 2 + 2 = 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-pL2J0ZB8g

So if you want to do the immortal science of Sociology, the study of Socialism I assume, they're going to want you to apply the same rigorous standard to how your studies are presented.

Early in the megathread to say that I'm down 12kg and it's pretty

Puts me under 100kg for the first time in a while. It makes fighting heavyweights in BJJ harder, but I suppose that's what I was going for in the first place. I think my endgame is 90kg.

They have a strategy for non-violent protest too. Run em over!

BJJ newbies will sometimes short circuit if you do nothing. While it's the art of having options B, C, and D, if you don't actually have a plan A and are waiting for me to make a move you look very silly while I sit on top of you and you just mindlessly wiggle. It's very King Boomy coded.

It's intellectually dishonest for Bernie to believe that the other wing hasn't demonstrated their plan A and how the protest is in response to that. I promise you they have plan A and plan B in their playbook.

And besides, what are we producing, Bernie? An absence of tension? A more productive machine for the entity? A ratchet system for rightward progression?

I just don't think society being beholden to the belief in the magic money line means that my individual freedoms are less subsumed than if we simply got rid of the people to whom we are beholden.

This is where I feel like so many people are genuinely not curious at all. I think socialism has more to say about ones individual autonomy than capitalism. Even by practical example you can talk about China and their capacity to choose between home ownership or renting. How about your ability to travel? Take risks without ending up in a billion dollars of medical debt? Entrepreneurship? They disrupted an industry and made a better LLM! Even fundamentally, your freedom to play a battle royale in a shrinking zone of habitability on a boiling planet seems less free than if you had a mandated bedtime and got kicked out of a restaurant for saying the N word.

I lost 13kg and I did it ON PURPOSE. I even used consistent application of a strategy. Soon the number go down protocol will make the number go downer

"The real debate here is whether we can solve public health problems by developing treatments like vaccines, antibiotics, or other drugs? Or whether we will solve these problems by strengthening people's immune systems through healthier habits?" says Gregg Girvan, a resident fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a Washington think tank. "And my response is, 'Why can we not acknowledge that there is truth in both positions?'"

Unfathomably dumb. I have grown little bacteria on plates and in broths. I've used cleaners and checked that they stopped growing. You can grow some tomorrow! They sell agar pre-poured on Amazon. The idea that you have to find some middle ground between the science that landed a clean shot against a horseman of the apocalypse and some asshole is absurd. If you want to help people, you'd consider the damage that miasma does TO HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AS UNDERSTOOD BY THE PEOPLE WHO STUDY IT.

They have an absurd stockpile.

I'm curious because I would have thought Israel would have a stockpile that was absurd compared to anything the world has ever known. The entity has the greater Satan, the greatest arms-maker the world will likely ever sustain, feeding them supplies. Which one has the greater supply?

That one time Trump got COVID my dad was hoping it would give him a change of heart and become a better person, especially changing policies.

I was just in a writer's critique group where I was trying to parse through this.

What really landed for me as a schema I want to follow is how Oda does foreshadowing in One Piece.

So, from my POV, and I haven't implemented it well, so I need to edit the novel, the significance isn't just in the fact that there's a mystery. There is more entertainment and clarity of narrative if your foreshadowing grows in scope or significance over time. If more hinges on discovery or if each successive hint means something more engaged with the world that you've built then it serves to draw the reader in.

"why do you side against citizens exercising the second amendment?"

Is he losing his touch? Why can't the billionaire give out free McDonald's to everyone in attendance or something?

I've heard worse reasons

WE'RE REACHING LEVELS OF BACK WE NEVER KNOW EXISTED

Bit idea: full throatedly disavowing violence from the Israeli side because it's bad optics.

It needs a little workshopping because if you followed the trope and went "you'd be just as bad as the Palestinians" that would be cringe as fuck and they could twist you into a pretzel when they go "yeah, Palestinians are... le bad!"

So you'd have to argue in bad faith - call it whataboutism if they bring up October 7th. Claim that "you just want what's best for the hostages" and really turn the liberal/boomer dial to 11. Tell them they have some growing up to do and how they'll learn to understand the importance and turning the other cheek and staying engaged if they spend more time outside of their shelter.

If they ever hurl an accusation say they're not taking this seriously. If they talk about their grievances you have to talk like "exactly! I'm saying that you stop giving them a reason to do that. Let the cameras show your best side and their worst side."

I could see it (upsetting someone a lot).

You know what else makes you make spike proteins? Actually getting COVID. it's so funny to me because if it were the case, you could do an ELISA test to see the concentration of spike protein in the blood. It's so readily testable with day 1 medical tests to see whether some antigen exists in the blood. The idea that you'd inadvertently mistake mRNA for a fully functional retrovirus that integrates just the spike protein but not itself is laughable.

If they were serious, they would have done that study and it would have been replicated by now. We'd have heard about it from these foghorns. And by the way, it was probably a consideration during clinical trials. There was an interesting study about a repurposed herpes virus that had fidelity only targeting and destroying brain tumors - it had a lot of friction because you couldn't describe the dose appropriately because it replicated and therefore grew in dose size.

You're upset because socialist literature is not a play by play and they all advise that it's going to depend on material conditions and the rest of the superstructure?

Can I ask a question that it's far too late to be asking?

They're really LGBTQ+ positive so I want to give them so much benefit of the doubt.