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According to the NYT the missile that hit Kramatorks destroyed the Ria Lounge Bar. You can find the Ria Lounge Bar on google maps and see the surrounding buildings.
Here is a NY Times Picture of the missile strike. Something doesn’t add up.The graphs didn’t make is so I’ll try again
Graph showing chances of Covid are worse with number of vaxx doses
Graph showing effectiveness of bivalent booster compared to those with no bivalent booster
@Germ
Thanks for the Joseph Fraiman link. Clicking through, the study the Results say:
“The risk of COVID-19 also increased with time since the most recent prior COVID-19 episode and with the number of vaccine doses previously received”
This is based on this stunning graph:
But the Conclusion says:
“The bivalent COVID-19 vaccine given to working-aged adults afforded modest protection overall against COVID-19”
This is based on this lackluster graph, and note this graph compares the bivalent with the non-bivalanted including people with multiple boosters:
I am guessing that a graph of the bivalented vs just the non-vaxxed would show the bivalented much worse off.
The Conclusion doesn’t mention that triple boosted are 4 times more likely to get Covid than the non-vaxxed. A reasonable person would make this the conclusion of the study. Maybe they did what they did because otherwise it wouldn’t get published.
I have seen the increased risk of Covid with boostedness personally. My triple boosted boss who nearly fired me for not getting vaxxed just had his second bout of Covid in 6 months. He was out for a week but waxed rapturous about how effective a 5 day course of Paxlovid was. He is otherwise a good boss.Whereas the mythical narratives of other great powers were cruelly self-centered, American scripture was—and remains today—“To Serve Man”.
True, except it isn’t scripture, it’s a cookbook.
Here’s a scary one I’ve seen from different writers:
Russian Nukes Don’t Work
So bomb Crimea or even Moscow. No worries. Russian nuclear weapons are impotent.Joseph of Egypt. Yes he stored the surplus but he bought low and sold high. When the famine hit the very farmers who had grown the surplus traded their money, then their animals, then their land and then became perpetual share croppers to get fed. Joseph’s relatives however got fed for free. Joseph was a proto-billionaire. It’s all there in chapter 47 of Genesis.
@Polemos
Your comment needs to be read with coworker pronounced cow-orkerHere’s all 51 of them
Someone should make a deck of playing cards with their faces. Hunter could be the king of hearts. Joe could be the joker.
@DBS
“The leader of Russia going around actually going to where the work he ordered was being done, and inspecting how well the job was being done.”
How often do we see US presidents listening instead of doing all the talking? I read that JFK used to pick his child up from school and ask the mothers there what they thought about his policies. Those days are long gone.
Taken yesterday.
From Melissareinlively
Look at that suppressed smile. The perks of being famous.If there is a violent reaction to vaxx injuries it will likely be by the vaxxed and their relatives but will probably blamed on the unvaxxed.
According to ChatGPT the answer is ? = -1
Q: f(9) = 90, f(8) = 72, f(7) = 56, f(6) = 42. What is f(3)?
A: If we assume that f is a polynomial function of degree 3 (i.e., a cubic function), we can use the given values to find the coefficients of the function and then use that function to determine f(3).
We can start by assuming that the cubic function has the form:
f(x) = ax^3 + bx^2 + cx + d
where a, b, c, and d are constants that we need to determine.
Using the given values, we can set up a system of four equations with four unknowns:
f(9) = 90 -> 729a + 81b + 9c + d = 90
f(8) = 72 -> 512a + 64b + 8c + d = 72
f(7) = 56 -> 343a + 49b + 7c + d = 56
f(6) = 42 -> 216a + 36b + 6c + d = 42We can solve this system of equations using a variety of methods, such as elimination or substitution. One possible way is to use matrix algebra:
|729 81 9 1| |a| |90|
|512 64 8 1| |b| = |72|
|343 49 7 1| |c| |56|
|216 36 6 1| |d| |42|We can solve this system by inverting the matrix on the left and multiplying it by the column vector on the right:
|a| |729 81 9 1|-1 |90|
|b| = |512 64 8 1| |72|
|c| |343 49 7 1| |56|
|d| |216 36 6 1| |42|Using a calculator or computer program, we can find that the solution is:
a = -1/9, b = 7/3, c = -11, d = 190
Therefore, the cubic function that passes through the given points is:
f(x) = (-1/9)x^3 + (7/3)x^2 – 11x + 190
Finally, we can evaluate this function at x = 3 to find f(3):
f(3) = (-1/9)(3)^3 + (7/3)(3)^2 – 11(3) + 190 = -1
Therefore, if f is a cubic function with the given values, then f(3) = -1.
Pattern matching, shmatter patching.
Harrison Bergeron
“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal.”
Vonnegut was a prophet.@AFKTT
I very much agree with jsnyder. I don’t care how many times you repeat your airstrip cipher. I don’t want to memorize it or keep a note card nearby that tells me which airstrip is the US, which is NZ and which is Mos Eisley. You may have interesting things to say but my solution is just to skip all your comments.
We don’t watch TV at home but are in a hotel and turned it on. Pfizer has a commercial where 4 celebrities talk about their increased risk of Covid 19 because of their comorbidities (asthma, diabetes, being overweight and depression … the depressed celebrity was Michael Phelps). The commercial directs you to the website knowplango.com. It looks like a public service announcement but near the bottom there are a bunch of Pfizer disclaimers and a tiny Pfizer logo. The money line is
“This form can act as a handy checklist if you test positive for COVID-19. Fill it out now and, if you test positive, use it to discuss with your healthcare provider whether a prescription for an authorized COVID-19 oral treatment is right for you.”
They are hoping that of all the many authorized COVID-19 oral treatments out there you will choose Paxlovid. /sarc@aspnax
I bet the number is negative.
The number is the product of the benefit of the vaccine times the risk of dying of Covic, both of which are imaginary, so yeah, it’s negative.
Kevin Bass admits in Newsweek that he was wrong but he leaves out several key factors. One is that it was all about money. He basically says that it was kind of an overzealous but honest mistake. He never mentions the immense profits made by pharma and their control of the government and the media and the corruption of the medical establishment. He also never mentions the early treatments that could have saved many lives but were vilified. IMO he is still in denial.
I don’t know much about climate change but I can do basic math and 480 ppm = 0.048 pph (because 480 / 1000000 * 100 = 0.048). To say it equals 0.00000048 pph is off by a factor of a hundred thousand and is, well, embarrassing.
I do know a little about semiconductor physics and doping silicon at a rate of 1 part per million has a huge effect on semiconductor conductivity. Saying that 480 ppm has no effect on a system because “it’s just so small” is naive. Get a better argument. And stay away from fentanyl.
It has long been understood that, in the event of nuclear war, nukes will be reserved on a delayed timer to automatically nuke any survivors emerging to rebuild. 10 years, 25 years, 50 years, 100 years. Whenever they have calculated is “optimal.”
In the Postman both sides launch orbiting missiles that will nuke anything broadcasting a radio signal for as long as the missiles will stay in orbit.
If its human-built it’s not a coral reef.
Coral reefs are built by corals.Kind of like how beehives are built by bees?
People at work today were talking about Zelensky’s great speech at the golden globes last night.
The first world war claimed millions of lives, the second world war clamped tens
of millions of them. There will be no third world war. It is not a Trilogy. Ukraine will stop the Russian aggression on our land. We will make it together with a whole free world and I hope that
all of you will be with us on the victorious day,the day of our victoryWith no speaker of the House the next in line for President is Patty Murray, President pro tempore of the Senate. This might be a good time for the Democrats to remove Biden and get Harris to resign.
Over at the Unz Review Ron Unz has written an article arguing that the increase in deaths is due to Long Covid and not the vaccine.
I have to believe that the authorities know whether the people dying suddenly had Covid and/or were vaxxed. This data could help us know what is really going on but I doubt we will ever see it. Also he says nothing about autopsies not being done and Unz completely ignores the question of denied early treatment which possibly could have kept people from getting Long Covid at all.
That said, I really appreciate Unz for allowing diverse opinions (not all of which he agrees with) on his site.
There is no such thing as too many people
I side with AFKTT on this one. There is such a thing as carrying capacity. It can be increased using lots of energy but that’s risky business and hard to maintain. Maybe go read the history of Easter Island. Or maybe the story of the Donner party. To call names and hurl insults ain’t gonna change it.
I found this very useful website that extracts the transcripts of Youtube videos, e.g. here is the Gonzalo Lira transcript from today
Very useful if you want to understand a video without watching the whole thing.
Here’s the essence of what Gonzalo is saying today:and so Douglas Murray is of a type a
type of guy in the west that you should
be aware of people like um I don’t know
people like uh mataibi people like Ben
Shapiro people like uh Sam Harris who
pretend to be dissidents of the
narrative in one little very narrow area
but when it comes to war making when it
comes to the serious stuff when it comes
about protecting and looking after the
best interests of the people of the West
there with the narrative with that
Cosmopolitan leadership class because
people like Doug Murray care more about
money and Prestige and being in good
with the right crowd
as opposed to actually helping people
