2021-08-01
Worthy
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On vaccines, lies, and Auschwitz - by Alex Berenson - Unreported Truths
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Truth, Status, and Tribes - by Erik Torenberg - Erik Torenberg's Thoughts
Yes, the crazier a bonding ideology is — the further away it is from objective reality — the more powerful it is in forming tribes. Why? The crazier the idea, or the crazier the stuff one does in order to get into the tribe, the more it proves one’s loyalty to the group by shutting off their other available options. Because defection is so common, this is significant. After all, if loyalty is just a social contract between convenience and utilitarian calculation, logic tells you to look for a better deal down the road. Then by backward induction, you say: “well, if there’s a better deal down the road, better for me to defect now”. If all societies followed this thinking, they’d crumble pretty quickly. So if you don’t want societies to fall apart, and if you want something larger than a tribe and a family, you’re going to need people doing crazy stuff that burns their boats to other options to prove their loyalty. You need people showing you they have no other place to go, no other tribe to join.
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Horseshit
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Defining Transformative Justice | Save the Kids
Transformative justice not only looks at the crime of burglary, but also why the boy committed the act. Was the boy kicked out of his home from a parent who was homophobic? Was the boy needing money for food, clothes, or a place to stay? Was he trying to get money to help his younger sister who is also homeless? These questions are addressed in order to understand the whole context, which, unfortunately, involves a great deal of injustice. Our society oppresses and marginalizes those who are poor and queer. Consequently, there are two victims within this scenario—the store owner who was robbed, and the 14 year old boy is a victim of wider systemic injustice. This is a clear example of how the systems approach of transformative justice breaks down common barriers between victim and offender, creates a much wider understanding of abuse and violence, and tries to bring everyone together in a transformative relationship.
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A ‘safe space for racists’: antisemitism report criticises social media giants
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
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Comment from HN thread on "Six corporations control 90% of America media"
Should we be concerned about them using their media properties to push narratives designed to consolidate their influence, or ask whether some of the things we believe might be artifacts of that influence, or maybe what the sources and motives of those narratives might be?
Kidding. This isn't the 90's. The only people who worry about an axis of collaboration between corporations and government to create a surveillance distopia are conspiracy theorists pushing misinformation now. Plus, big tech is finally being responsible and working on the right side of history, so we can all get aligned on fighting climate change, and finally force the assholes to pay everyone back for their empty status symbols like all the air they polluted with their SUVs, unpaid emotional labor, meat, and tax breaks they took from us, and finally give it to people who deserve it. We can even replace small thinking regional governments with better international collaboration and cooperation so that everyone will be equal no matter where they live, and we can end the privileged western lifestyle once and for all.
Kidding, not kidding. We should really look at what these companies are pushing.
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Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over Covid misinformation
TechSuck
Economicon
Poilitcks
Crime / Police
Security / Militaria
World
Health / Medicine / COVID
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And there you have it. The stage is being set, in my view, for a mass infertility event, and covid will be blamed in place of the experimental vaccines. This is why the establishment needs a 100% vaccination rate; unvaccinated people would stand as evidence of their crime. Let me explain…
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Sweden: Despite Variants, No Lockdowns, No Daily Covid Deaths – AIER
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Ask HN: What is the solution to the Covid orphan crisis? | Hacker News
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Study: Severe opioid overdoses up by nearly one-third during pandemic
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Vaccine mandates will backfire. People will resist even more
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(2018) Lyme disease vaccine: the frustrating reason there isn’t one for humans - Vox
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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What's the hottest Earth's ever been? | NOAA Climate.gov
Modern human civilization, with its permanent agriculture and settlements, has developed over just the past 10,000 years or so. The period has generally been one of low temperatures and relative global (if not regional) climate stability. Compared to most of Earth’s history, today is unusually cold; we now live in what geologists call an interglacial—a period between glaciations of an ice age. But as greenhouse-gas emissions warm Earth’s climate, it's possible our planet has seen its last glaciation for a long time.
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U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, report finds
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Greenland: Enough ice melted on single day to cover Florida in 2“ of water
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Toyota, a pioneer of hybrids, resists the push toward electric cars
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Earth's energy imbalance removes almost all doubt from human-made climate change