chiefalchemist

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by chiefalchemist 6d ago
Yes, buy NPD *is* in the DSM. While I'm not a mental health professional (read: I can't diagnose with any authority), I would still say that Mullenweg consistenly exhubits many / most of the symptoms of classic NPD. NPD = Nar
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by chiefalchemist 2mo ago
You’re going to love… These are not baskets of plants. But yeah, typically HN. Make a pointless comment instead of something like “Yeah, the article was thin on facts and details.” Sure, mock me. While CNN turns what’s left of your thinking
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by chiefalchemist 2mo ago
So people are just going to hang them out windows? Perhaps many stories up? What about severe weather? I wonder how long before you’ll need a license to install one of these? That aside, thanks for filling me in. We’ll have to see how it go
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by chiefalchemist 2mo ago
Unfortunately, the article makes no mention of (approx) how many rental units there are in NJ. A step further would be, of those, how many have balconies. And finally, how many face south (or close). I live in Central NJ. This bill certainl
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by chiefalchemist 2mo ago
> but it’s free to use This is false. Nothing is free. We watch ads. We are tracked like animals. That time, attention and loss of privacy *is* payment. For this, it’s reasonable to expect a service that aspires to rise above shit-show.
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Let me rephrase: The most important Science [1] in the history of Science and history of The World… is no science at all. It’s consensus. Nothing more. Let that ^^^ sink in. I might consent, as a matter of caution. But I do so reluctantly a
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
I’ve looked at it. I’ve seen it before. I saw it when it was initially published. It’s why I said: the planet has been warmer, and it’s been cooler. There is no normal. So when I hear “climate scientists” make big brush statements about the
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
The climate has risen before, and there were no humans around. None. And what then explains that increase. I’m not arguing against climate change. All I’m asking for is scientific proof that isn’t correlation, hearsay, parroting, etc.
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
This is the last time I’m going to say this… FFS… consensus === Science. In fact the repetition of consensus is a classic tool of propaganda. “I’ve heard it a bunch of times… it must be true.” And if you don’t think scientists aren’t subjec
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Read the reference articles. All perfectly legit sources. All are examples of how corruptible “The Science” can be. Maybe that’s not the case with climate? Yet, not a single shared link pointing to science-based proof. This thread is a perf
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
You’re assuming. Dedicating their career doesn’t mean they’ve remained dedicated to The Science. They have egos, careers, reputations, etc. Read the articles in my Original comment. Add this (book) to the list: https://www.wbur.o
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Look at the climate record, what leads you to believe this isn’t natural and we should have a chance to “reverse” it.
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Simple enough… share links to the science that thoroughly proves what you’re saying. “Al Gore said it, it must be true,” isn’t going to cut it. As for the “never ever”, that’s another assumption. The climate record over the looooong term si
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
My understanding is three-fold - The climate has *always* changed. It’s been warmer. And yes, it’s been cooler. There is nothing abnormal about the climate changing. - There is actually very little scientific proof that the current up tick,
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
500 billion? That’s it? Given what’s in the balance, change the b to a t, and then some, and something like this becomes credible.
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
I don’t understand. There was a time when education outcomes were better than they are now. Mind you, yes, time change, of course. But don’t we go back to that era and work from there? There seem to be an obsession with reinvention of the e
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Impressive. Until you realize we need the EV equivalent of a Volkswagen, not a rehash of a USA 70’s muscle car. If China-made EVs eat the world, this Food project will be a “what was Ford thinking?” pin on the timeline plotting China’s conq
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Yes. In short, Trump didn’t just happen. Plenty of incompetence and negligence preceded him. The red carpet was rolled out. The engine was primed. If it wasn’t Trump it would have been someone else. That’s not his fault.
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
There’s another book mentioned in the podcast called “Doctored.” The gist is: bogus “science” led to loads of money / research going in a direction that was effectively fiction. People love to praise “the science” when they mean the sc
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Exactly. They were so frustrated and disgusted by the status quo political mess that Don was still a viable choice. Twice!!! And how did the system respond after the first win? It didn’t. It was same ol’ same ol’, and look what the led to.
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
If the status quo system was doing their job(s) there would be no DJT in the WH. Full stop. Not once. Certainly not twice. But rather than own their failure, they work - hard - the “OMG it’s all his fault” narrative (read: deflection and di
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Do what you gotta do to feel good. But giving a free pass to all the other contributors - the ones loudest about who is to blame - is foolish, at best. To each their own. Put another way, in terms of the political status quo, what changed b
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Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?(freakonomics.com)
431 points by chiefalchemist 5mo ago|329 comments
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Best I could tell, we were already there. DJT is simply a symptom. He’s what results after too many years of misrepresentation. He gets blamed for being the cause because those who actually led us into the decline don’t want to own their ro
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Perhaps. But issue here is the guy doing the critique is the guy with A LOT of power. There is no “we,” not in the context of this type of rant. Leader create more / new leaders. That isn’t happening. MM has only himself to blame
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Typical, Matt “NPD” Mullenweg. Who’s surprised at this point? We? It’s not we. When leadership speaks it should be accountable (<<< edit. Fixed autocorrect error) If not, by definition, that’s not leadership. This isn’t the first t
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Screen size is probably responsible for a vast majority of the homogeneous of the internet; but that a good thing. The space has matured and horrible experiences fewer. There’s a fine line between creativity and bullshit. Less bullshitting
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
And what of Pelosi and the like? The problem is, you’re not able to measure what you cannot see. For example, the obvious… Epstein Files. That went on for how long? Involved hundreds if not thousands of (mostly) men of power. Bill Clinton c
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
Your bias is blinding you. The System is corrupted. Full stop. How do we know? Look who is in the WH. How can a fair and just system lead to that? You’re failing for the “OMG! Look at him!!” narrative. A narrative brought to you by the peop
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by chiefalchemist 5mo ago
I have to giggle a bit. Isn’t CF7 the plugin that was notorious for enqueuing its scripts on every page, even the pages w/out a CF7 form? A known non-best practice that many would call a bug, yet was never fixed? In how many years?? So

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