This documentary covers a lot of the events. 1948: Creation & Catastrophe

God damn America.

NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data

I wonder what the repsonse would be if I changed NSA to China and posted this to reddit?

My job will probably leave me disabled before I can retire.

Kratom is a mild partial opiate and can relieve pain, anxiety and depression, while also acting like a stimulant. Its not something that will knock you out, most people can function fine while on it, but it can give you a warm somewhat euphoric feeling. Inner peace, for a few hours, I guess.

People compare some of the effects to Adderall but ive never taken that so who knows. Small amounts help me focus, but i deal with a lot of physical and mental exhaustion due to my job, so i figured it helps me mentally by relieving those issues, but maybe i have some form of undiagnosed ADHD.

I’ve been taking it for a few years, and it basically allowed me to stop binge drinking, and then quit altogether. The anxiety you get when you’re desperate for alcohol would be pretty overwhelming to me, but kratom drastically alleviated that, and the effect lasts for a day or two for me, and last year I just quit drinking outright.

Lots of potential for dependant, being an opiate, and it shres some side effects, so you should be careful about habitual use. Although whatever is in it doesn’t seem to suppress the your basic body functions, so risk of passing out and suffocating is minimal unless you really go out of your way. Consuming a lethal amount is hard to do if you’re just taking it in powder form, as you’d likely throw it back up. For this reason I would avoid extracts.

But, yeah, my health has improved tremendously since I’ve been able to stop drinking. For some people it doesn’t work that way, but from what ive read a lot of people share my experience.

I’m old and tired enough to absolutely hate self checkout. I mean it’s good for a few items and stealing, but when I’m coming home from a long day at work and have a full cart of groceries and they close all the human-run checkout ailes to force everyone through self checkout, I’ll just abandon the cart and leave. I assume then someone has to go around the store and restock all the products I was about to buy… or it just sits there for too long and they have to loss out all the cold items. Very efficient, capitalism. Well done.

Yeah, its a GABA enhancer, similar to how alcohol works on that system. It also binds to different GABA receptors than drugs like xanax. Tends to be a bit expensive for the effect you get, imo, but it’s kinda nice.

I never tried the tea, but they just came out with instant dehydrated kava mix you can get from various online stores, too. Specifically look for dehydrated, not micronized. The gastro-intestinal system generally doesn’t like any of the plant fibers that are hard to filter out with more traditional methods of making it, on top of those methods being a pain in the ass.

There were reports in the early 2000’s of liver damage associated with Kava but those reports seem to have been of low quality, and nothing like that has been found since, and it hasn’t been found among cultures that have been consuming it for thousands of years.

I like the effect of mixing kratom and kava, but I can’t vouch for the safety of doing that.

He’s still bitching about the weather balloon. Amazing.

Friendship ended with Bernie Sanders

Now Shawn Fain is my best friend

You’ll get his special coin

living expenses suicide rates disabilty rates disease homelessness genocides extreme weather events

Krugman: “why don’t people understand how rich a few people are?”

You have a moral duty to vote for 99% Trump

for the “Nothing will change!” Candidate!

If I were Europe I would simply not support genocide

no communist can withstand contact to the perfected craft of tweezerman cosmetic tools.

That’s probably a source but I doubt it’s the main one. Since the vaccines don’t prevent infection, every vaccinated person is still a walking covid recombination reservoir in 2024. The impact of people who “can’t clear” the virus feels insignificant, numerically.

Unfortunately, from the researchers I’m following, It’s actually looking like viral persistance quite common. Maybe it’s why virus levels in wastewater always remain high?

I also think that covid symptoms have little to do with covid infection, and much more to do with spike sensitivity of the individual. There are lots of people, even pre-vaccine, who just don’t feel anything from covid. Then there are people who have a bad month if they go outside in public even for a minute.

Evidence is stacking up that after the acute period symptoms are probably from immune dysregulation. Basically covid causes our immune system to keep attacking our body long after the acute infection, causing inflammation and long covid systems, and it’s more evidence pointing to a persistant viral reservoir in the body.

Blood tests can show which antibodies we have and the ones produced after vaccination are distinct from the one created after infection from the virus. If it was just the spike protein alone causing problems we could determine that with a blood test. But none of the sources I follow have shown any research on this.

https://archive.org/details/never-to-america

And like always, never forget that this was a US bioweapon!

I can’t access the image, but it is kind of funny that the US funded gain-of-function experiments we were doing with coronaviruses (or at least experiments very similar to gain of function), were taking place in North Carolina. They collaborated with the Wuhan institute because that’s who you would collaborate with if you wanted to research SARS. Right wingers bang on about this issue because they can do the “China bad” thing, but the research they are blaming for creating covid would have been done in North Carolina.

Fauci told Paul at the hearing: “Dr. Baric does not do gain-of-function research, and if it is, it’s according to the guidelines and it is being conducted in North Carolina, not in China.”

The conclusion, of course, is that since the outbreak didn’t start in North Carolina, obviously this research wasn’t responsible for covid.

But if Covid did start in the US, how quickly does anyone think we would have detected it? It would have just been a mystery cold from hell until it got into a long term care home. It was in China for a month or two before they detected it, and unlike the US, they were actively monitoring for SARS.

So were there any mysteriously deadly pneumonia outbreaks occuring in North Carolina in late 2019? Yes. Yes there were. In at least a couple of long term care homes. We never investigated any of those outbreaks to see if there was SARS present… because why bother? It started in China.

The disparity of outcomes in race seems to have more to do with the US have more to do with the burden of systemic racism and more people as a percentage of their population being poor or working class, so high risk jobs, greater environmental stressors, lack of access to adequate healthcare, along with the healthcare system being racist.

The better outcomes reported in Africa seem to be from under-testing, this study states that about 50% of Africans who got a confirmed covid infection have long covid, which probably means they were missing a lot of people with covid testing.

You can see how excess deaths compare to actual covid cases in South Africa here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(22)00425-9/fulltext

Like most other places around the world, excess deaths skyrocket during big covid waves.

Yeah, this last summer we changed testing and reporting requirements. Check out this graph for US hospitalizations. Source is from: https://nitter.poast.org/maolesen

Can you spot the time when covid testing and reporting requirements were dropped? The top dotted red line is the amount of hospitals testing suspected cases. When people say it’s better now keep in mind that we aren’t measuring the same way, we are straight up testing less. We shaved off a substantial percentage of covid hospitalization cases this way.