VagueMag

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by VagueMag 3y ago
Ukrainian outlet in the USA in 1941, hmmmmm....
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Hearst newspaper hyperventilations about the famines aside, there was no Soviet attempt to "genocide Eastern Europe."
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> I am struggling to see how the risk calculus tilts strongly against vaccination for college campuses. What are you saying? Adolescents and young adults are at highest risk for complications from the vaccine, and at the same time at a
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Once you break it down by age group, you find that the vast majority of people at significant risk from COVID voluntarily took vaccines shortly after they became available, so mandates could have had little effect in that cohort. Meanwhil
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> It was allegedly a large part of the impetus that led them to create their own ARTICHOKE/MKULTRA program. This is a commonly repeated refrain, but it just exists to provide a comforting explanation for the fact that the U.S. sec
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Covid-19 vaccination-related myocarditis: A Korean nationwide study(academic.oup.com)
73 points by VagueMag 3y ago|44 comments
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Louis Jolyon West(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by VagueMag 3y ago|0 comments
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CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)(jeff-kaye.medium.com)
267 points by VagueMag 3y ago|147 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Indeed, the whole point of this tech is to remove pesky human morality from the equation. Much more efficient than the Nazis' Einsatzgruppen method.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Most new technologies are developed in secret as military tech first, then laundered into consumer applications. It's a decent bet they've been sitting on far more advanced AI models and algorithms for some time.
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New details of Jeffrey Epstein's death and the frantic aftermath revealed(apnews.com)
14 points by VagueMag 3y ago|4 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Obviously no one would care if Dimon had discussed Epstein's accounts and he was booted from the bank the next day, or even the next month. The whole issue is what was discussed when, and what Dimon's instructions were.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Person A tells Persons B and C that they're under a grave threat if they step outside and must stay indoors. B and C then observe A strolling around outside without a care in the world. B says, "A is a hypocrite, and they must hav
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by VagueMag 3y ago
I suppose electing the CEO of the largest bank and a bailout recipient par excellence to the office of POTUS would finally dispense with the pretense that there is any significant distinction between Washington and Wall Street.
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Dimon Says He Never Discussed Epstein's Accounts at JPM; Jes Staley Says He Did(wsj.com)
11 points by VagueMag 3y ago|5 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
The idea that continuing with life as normal -- especially various forms of essential social contact and economic activity -- amounts to "murdering workers" when a somewhat bad respiratory virus is going around was one of the most
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by VagueMag 3y ago
The wealthy and powerful have read their Marx, and understand that for them to maintain their station requires that the vast majority of humanity be pressed into ever-worsening material conditions. What better way to get everyone to accept
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> Plenty of everyday people "swanned around having a lovely time" too; or at least, didn't think the restrictions should apply to them. The difference is that none of those people were themselves hyping the threat of the
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by VagueMag 3y ago
People in power created the lockdown policies, and told their subjects they were necessary because of a uniquely threatening contagion which everyone needed to avoid until vaccines could be distributed. They then carried on with their own
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> “Climate lockdowns” are a product of a conspiracist’s fevered imagination... "We need to act boldly now if we are to avoid economy-wide lockdowns to halt climate change": https://www.marketwatch.com/story&#
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Pfizer, the EU, and disappearing ink(politico.eu)
2 points by VagueMag 3y ago|1 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> Overall, the relatively higher intra-host diversity among vaccinated individuals and the detection of immune-escape mutations, despite being rare, suggest a potential vaccine-induced immune pressure in vaccinated individuals.
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Intra-host diversity in vaccinated Covid patients infected by different variants(cell.com)
1 points by VagueMag 3y ago|2 comments
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Can the Great Reset really create a gentler, more equitable capitalism?(cbc.ca)
1 points by VagueMag 3y ago|1 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> There's always a richer class who people can be mad about. I mean, not for one class in particular, right? One which happens to be making a whole lot of noise about this issue while not volunteering to make any sacrifices on its
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by VagueMag 3y ago
I make pretty heavy use of Java's AutoCloseable interface for this purpose. The lambda approach is an interesting one that could be applied in most languages though.
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Now We Have to Worry About Neo-Nazi Jihadist Satanists Infiltrating the Miltary?(esquire.com)
5 points by VagueMag 3y ago|3 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Can you link me to a study which does a reasonable job of attempting to come up with a "Covid deaths prevented by vaccines number" while taking into account the effects of increased seroprevalence, decreased virulence of the virus
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by VagueMag 3y ago
No that isn't what I said, and yes it would be just as ridiculous as attributing the same value to preventing a 90 year old nursing home patient from dying of an endemic respiratory virus as we do to preventing deaths in plane crashes.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Are the people who were saved by COVID vaccines never going to die from any other cause? I believe the $9M figure is actually just a reference to what the FAA considers a reasonable threshold for imposing a new expense on aircraft manufactu

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