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  1. 2 hours ago, EC said:

    There's a finite but unbound number of earth-like habitable planets in the the Universe unpopulated by other rational entities (or still at a primitive state) open for colonization and without the need for teraforming that Mars would require that can be reached via new technology (actual warpdrive) instead of the primitive rocket technology we are ridiculously still using to send bots to uninhabitable rocks while not even being able to land them correctly most of the time. 

    Unbound or not traversing the distance is the stopper (for now?), so terraforming is probably more in the range of energy expenditure/production/directed utilization we can handle before we break out of our Newtonian limitations, so walk and chew gum ?

    A ‘warp drive’ concept is in the realm of acceleration? Serious question , as my limited knowledge of physics makes me believe travel at the ‘speeds’ to make interstellar distances even conceivable for human survivability means developing systems that would sustain everything we know about stuff like the Kreb’s cycle and what know about metabolism is based on earth exact conditions , notwithstanding what effects such acceleration would and to the mix. I’ve heard the Higgs field is kind of sticky stuff with mass adds a little drag to the mix, too, no?

    I also think this thread is more suited to an appreciation of the inspirational/ aspirational and physics would be better in a discussion on a separate thread.

  2. Voting by mail allows for too many opportunities of 'breaking chain of custody' structures that can be exploited and make fraud harder to prove. At least 37 states changed their voting laws in 2020 in response to covid to allow for wide spread mail in balloting. Worse than arbitrary are the statements from officialdom that claimed the election was the freest, fairest and most transparent election in at least the recent past. One may wonder, objectively ,how many of the court cases that were not allowed to be heard were based on rulings and precedent stemming from past times where in those jurisdictions the historic tabulations were of in person same day voting procedures. Not that the situation proves there was results altering fraud, but strains credulity to suggest that not one instance maybe came close. But if one were allowed to be discovered well.. and what all the swing states stopped counting and then resumed for... reasons..?

    $400 +million Zuckbucks financed ballot harvesting occurred and legislation has been passed in most locations where it happened that makes that activity by private monies illegal, going forward. Zuckerberg admits the FBI told him there would be a story close to the election that should be suppressed so he did. We know the FBI told Twitter which people and which stories to suppress during covid and the election and they banned the NY Post for the coverage of the laptop. At the last presidential debate , Biden held up a letter and said :
    "Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that
    what this, [President Trump’s] accusing me of is a Russian plan.
    They have said this this has all the characteristics—four—five
    former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a
    bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend
    Rudy Giuliani."
    and major media outlets reported that the emails were most likely Russian disinformation based on the letter. Blinken , who organized and prepared the letter was then appointed Sec of State, do you think the soon to be Sec of State thought the emails on the laptop were fake? It isn't possible for him to think that right ? They are admittedly real , why did he involve himself in such a scheme, what calculation was he making that lead to his decision to participate in such a fraud, if Biden didn't win he'd be in a world of shit from a stunt like that , no ? I know, I know, I'm conspiratorially  minded, but still what a gamble! I hope in Trump's second term he nominates Catherine Austin Fitts for Sec of State , I doubt she would be push even more centralized banking control or CBDCs, lol.

     

     

  3. 2 hours ago, Doug Morris said:

    The statism shown in the digital economy quote I posted and in fiat money, including central bank digital currency, is bad, but it is not in the same category as the suppression going on in Belarus.  A government can be guilty of any or all of the former and still be more rights-respecting than one guilty of the latter.

     

    So you agree that there is no difference in kind, just degree. That was my point up thread re the Stone arrest. The heavy handed nature of the arrest, the TV coverage live, ect are tools of the regime to frighten and discourage dissent.

    Stone was ultimately pardoned after being convicted by the "Mueller investigation" into Trump campaign collusion with Russia, which itself was a proven false charge. There was no collusion and Stone was indicted and convicted on basically process crimes(lying to investigators) as a consequence of the fraud perpetrated on the public by the regime of the permanent state that Trump's election disrupted.

    The State Dept report is basically blaming Belarus for doing what we have done domestically, targeting and imprisoning political opponents and dissidents on bogus charges.("J6ers").

    The DOJ and the intelligence community lied about Hunter's laptop and coerced private companies into suppressing the information in order to give Biden political advantage in the 2020 cycle.

    Biden has labelled Trump supporters as 'extremists', for saying the DOJ and the intelligence community rigged the election in Biden's favor.

     

  4. 12 minutes ago, monart said:

    You here continue to be a fine satirist of a covid believer, not to forget your amusing parody-confession of having been "secretly recruited to an Army ghost psy-op unit". It was funny for a while, but the joke is getting stale.

    All the talk of being targeted is a joke/satire? The impression of multiple comments in various threads is that the poster actually believes they are being targeted by mysterious forces bent on personal destruction.

     

  5. 11 hours ago, Doug Morris said:

    That sentence says "Specifically, it supports Strategic Objective 3.2 and 3.3 on developing coalitions to counter non-market coercive economic practices and collaborating with Europe to create a Transatlantic digital economy."

    How did you make the leap from "a Transatlantic digital economy" to "basically, a digital central bank coin scheme"?

     

    https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-20220120.pdf

  6. 34 minutes ago, Doug Morris said:

    The US government has a lot wrong with it, but it is much more rights-respecting than the Belarus regime.  They are not equivalent.

    MAGA consists of people who have let the lying demagogue Trump stir up their emotions to dangerous levels.

     

    You are right in that I should have said analogous instead of equivalent, that darn blind emotionalism.

    Did you read the report where it says one of their objectives is to get Belarus to adopt ,basically, a digital central bank coin scheme. What's good for Belarus is good for liberal democracy , so it should be good here too yeah ? Nothing says rights respecting like electronic programmable money.

  7. The Dept of Interior, the Dept of Homeland Security, the Dept of State , the War dept, er sorry the Dept of Defense in the US are under direct civilian control via popular election of officials, my bad. The Illuminati , weren't(aren't) they dissidents? , they can't' run' things , lol.

  8. MAGA is equivalent to the Belarusian diaspora and the liberal democratic regime of the permanent state in the US government , disrupted only by the Trump administration in the past few decades , is equivalent to Belarus regime. 
    It is so obvious it is comical , was this posting meant to be ironic?

  9. On 2/29/2024 at 1:01 PM, EC said:

    Seriously? Why are you guys playing these silly games?

    A ‘cold’ or saying someone has ‘a cold’ means to describe a person experiencing mild to moderate symptoms from a non specific upper or lower respiratory tract infection. Actually “cold symptoms” is redundant, yeah?
     

    The OP is arguing that the existence of a specific contagion hasn’t been shown with sufficient scientific rigor. Though I’m not convinced of that, your attack of it is an ad hominem based on what seems like a non objective use or understanding of terms.

    My silly idea was to prompt you to see that by equating the concepts you were not addressing the argument.

  10. 3 hours ago, DavidOdden said:

    Under the law, jurors do not construct defense counter-arguments, they evaluate prosecution arguments, asking whether they possess reason (facts and argumentation) to doubt the prosecution’s argument. Hopefully, the defense will provide such reasons for doubt, and not leave it to the subjective whims of a biased juror. However, the formalism of law is quite defective (in this case the legislature has provided no legal definition of ‘forgery’ or ‘falsely’ for certificates of ascertainment), hence the juror must make up his own definition – unless the judge sua sponte cooks up his own definition.

    I am advocating for a jury nullification of this particular case, but not as a partisan even though I am 'in that camp'. In this specific instance and others like it , the subjective whim of the jury( as long as it affirms my opinion,lol) could/should be aimed squarely at prosecutorial overreach, as a mechanism to thwart a politically motivated legal action.

    I served a term on a county grand jury and consistently voted for a No Bill in cases involving either possession or sale and distribution of controlled substances between parties of majority age, I was my own little jury nullification brigade, lol.

  11. But as a legal matter they would then be alleged to have forged the executive’s signature / state seal ? Was there also uncovered a plot to abduct the couriers that would deliver the documentation from the Secretary of State with proper seals , so their known fraudulent documents would then be delivered to DC , or would two sets just confuse Pence? Or was the preparation of the unsealed documents the same crime that a forgery charge would apply? 
     

    A reasonable reading of the situation , one hopefully provided by a prospective jury, should conclude that their intent was not that a blatant forgery would not be uncovered and the plot would by itself subvert the results of the presidential election.

    Given the clusterfuck that was the 2020 election , I’m not willing to stipulate the results out of Michigan with seal weren’t  just as fraudulent though “legal”.

  12. https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/roles

    What is a fake elector? The specific form of the certificate of the ascertainment is not 'spelled out' federally, but the legal requirements that must be present in the documents are. So how did people conspire to submit 'fake slates of electors', are those being charged in Michigan alleged to have forged documents of this kind being shown to have submitted forms containing votes tallied? Were these documents signed/affixed with the state seal by the executive? If not how can they be considered to be 'fake' electors?

    I think you can indict a ham sandwich and these cases smell fishy like overcharged ham.

  13. 6 hours ago, Doug Morris said:

    In addition to Murphy's Law, there is a humorous law that says "Murphy was an optimist".  Again, this is not meant to be taken literally.  It is a humorous reminder that things can go wrong that we did not think of ahead of time, so we should prepare as best we can for the unexpected, psychologically at least, and probably with some budgetary, scheduling, and/or physical allowance for unexpected contingencies.  It may also be a good idea to do some brainstorming to improve our prospects of thinking of things ahead of time.

     

    I think they call that brainstorming gain of function research. They found and isolated at least one bat corona virus in Chinese caves in the oughts I think. Little crispr tech here , serial passage through humanized mouse tissue there and bam novel contagion. Or the pangolin thing , I guess. They should put up prize money for proof of the intermediary hosts!

  14. 1 hour ago, EC said:

    Reason and investigation of the facts. Also, the context that my grandfather had just died of it a couple months before and to protect my mom who I was staying with at the time who has COPD. Just because there is a standard time for testing doesn't mean in context of a disease that nobody has natural immunity to that individuals such as myself can't take vaccines or medical drugs that have not went through the full process of testing outside of that context as it would be a potential sacrifice of one's life to do otherwise. It would be similar to someone with cancer taking an experimental treatment. Also,  why is any of this important as it's a personal choice. I don't even fully understand the full purpose of this entire thread about denying the existence of a disease where essentially every fact of evidence and perception proves the existence of while no evidence exists that shows that it doesn't.  It's just arbitrary although I have some ideas why someone would claim this against the overwhelming facts of reality. This is just a very strange discussion. 

    If there didn't exist facts relative to deeming the therapy 'safe'( this term has specific meaning when applied to medical interventions and coming from medical experts) there was nothing to investigate. So what facts did you investigate relative to safety?

    It seems you just accepted an argument from authority and then reasoned your way to a rationalization, people do that all the time.

    Two times in this thread you have asserted that you will not be participating in the discussion and then continue. Is this a good look for a moderator of an O'ist forum? (It feels like lying)

     

  15. 1 hour ago, EC said:

    No, that would be secondhanded, I did it to prevent myself from getting Covid and studied mRNA vaccines before taking the vaccines. This is ridiculous and I'm not taking part in this strange discussion anymore and will read to moderate it against arbitrary conspiracy theories and from those seeking to ignore reason,  evidence, and proper epistemology. 

    How did you determine the relative level of risk if the therapy was not tested or not tested by the same strictures that determined a given risk level previous to mRNA covid jabs ?

  16. 14 hours ago, EC said:

    I didn't make that exact claim. I was using that as an example that risks do exist that aren't always known although that was a situation where they didn't do the length clinical trials normally done and I knew that, accepted the additional risk in favor of the benefits outweighing the risk.  And yes I was nervous and also believe that I had an initial (possibly slight allergic reaction) to that injection. 

    If the risks were unknown how were you  able to determine the benefits outweighed them? And what were the benefits? I would assume by previous arguments that at least one of the benefits would be slowing the transmission of the virus thereby lessen the danger to those in high risk categories, but that goes against the idea heretofore held by the 'science' that non sterilizing vaccines administered against a novel infection carries an added risk of forced immune escape and mutation.

  17. 20 hours ago, EC said:

    @necrovore That would mean those people would have to had advanced knowledge years prior to the pandemic of the existence of the covid virus which is a big leap implying a planned conspiracy when it is much more likely that it was simply a coincidence involving passive attacks from the Left on the religious Right. While there likely are occasional side effects of childhood vaccines (like watching a commercial for any medicine or vaccine shows in detail) we've essentially all had them and they have been scientifically proven to be extremely rare with the benefits outweighing the slight risk. Obviously, that doesn't imply forced vaccinations are moral or should be legal outside of maybe an extremely lethal and highly contagious novel disease, covid doesn't qualify, although I personally got the vaccine the week it was allowed.  (J&J which to prove the above point of risk was soon taken off the market due to the blood clot risk). The main principle involves the fact that the government should not be involved in education as it should be private or funded via charity as like most things current governments are improperly involved in when their only valid jobs are the protection of individual rights. 

    How is risk mitigation exemplified by the J&J injection being pulled from the market? It was allowed on the market by the FDC because it was deemed safe and effective , but they pulled it because it wasn't safe and effective?

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