bryndos

Annoying Invasion

“You’re lion”

“no i’m not”

“ja u ar”

“no i’m not”

“cheetah”

I’m not so sure about that. A lot of people seem to get very angry about things that I don’t think matters, or they can’t do anything about . . . oh hang on, I get it. You’re talking about me aren’t you?

A researcher should offer a sufficient compensation package to get enough volunteers after explaining the risks. They should get independent medical advice too.

They can still randomize within the volunteers with treatment / placebo, and maybe use quotas, but they’d just have to extend their trial period until they’d achieved a measurably representative treatment and control group and enough volunteers to test the hypothesis to the required level.

This type of non-random sampling may very well have to be done anyway, for example if they needed the power to test efficacy and safety in all the potential dug interactions or co-morbidity scenarios. Not to mention any diagnosis requirement will also screen the sample which could be influenced by health care system resources and policies, not necessarily pure morbidity. So I think they can deal with non-random sampling in med research perfectly well.

Not if they’ve pre-tested on non-volunteers though.

I don’t know much about nazis but I thought an important part of their rhetoric was to draw distinctions between types of human.

So they’d not see “10bn humans”, they’d see maybe 100m aryan and 9.9bn “untermensch”; the latter being equivalent to rats available to be experimented on.

I just find rats to be much more preferable, pleasant and considerate creatures than humans. I see humans as a single tier of unterratten; totally different hierarchcy.

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Browse “all”? You crazy fool.

Presumptuous, smug, know it all, clickbait titles still didn’t die?

Fuck me, if I were in America and had to read toss like that, I’d probably think the population of ‘scientific’ americans contains a larger than normal proportion of cunts.

And a pack of condoms ?

Agreed, It’d be interesting to see the cost breakdowns.

I guess you have to spend more on tracks to get higher speeds, but still to get to 600kph you must put a lot of electricity into that thing.

If sort of feels like maglev should be able recover a decent amount of electricity during braking, but maybe there are practical constraints - or just too much loss to wind resistance.

Maybe it comes down to just a handful of magnets round a few axles being cheaper than a long line of magnets the length of the track.

i like the use of “derailed” instead of “never got off the ground” in the headline.

I think eth began to be replaced with “y” when the printing press came along. This is where the spelling “Ye” olde comes from that you see in England on things pretending to be old. Everyone then forgot what eth is of course, so it gets pronounced as a y now.

I think that really depends on the individual, some rats are skittish and don’t like being handled at all. The best way to handle them is to leave them alone.

Humans should test their shit on themselves or on some other human that they can explain the risks to and agree compensation.

A poor craftsman . . . God is obviously shite at tool use. Probably needed a few more years as an apprentice before he started fucking around with firmaments and stuff. I mean hacking together a whole human out of cutoffs? Just pony up and order more stock, cheapskate.

Bandcamp is not banned in the UK yet. But i think the government has strong intelligence that they are a terrorist organisation.

He missed out on the darwin award too.

Demagogues like to reduce complex problems to a binary choice, so they can label one as righteous and the other as witchcraft . If they find something complex, they create an arbitrary (and often flexible) dividing line. That’s their method of creating fear, hate and fervent support for their case to have power.

Will any economic system necessarily succumb to demagoguery? maybe, it is a depressing thought. But I do think they’re more like cyclical memes. They’re not very stable societies - fear is a great short term motivator, but not so in the longer term - so they probably don’t last too long, but may rear their ugly heads after enough people forgot how bad they were. And short term might be 10-20 years in this context.

There are always socialist and individualist elements with any society or economy, such as between partners, families, neighborhoods, within small businesses, between vendors and buyers, or small teams within larger businesses. I think most large armies are ran similar to socialist dictatorships at the top level - at least the ones based on soldier’s labour, but there will be individualistic parts within, like ‘you look after your own sidearm’. Just like there are always private and individualistic elements within each of those groups, the types of relationships between people and businesses are never as simple as black and white, trust matters, legal system matters, past experience matters, ability to demonstrate ‘skin in the game’ matters, expectations about the future matters (reciprocity), observability/transparency matters, the possibility of free ridership, the benefits of free ridership, the emergence of standards and so on. All of these things influence some economic and social interactions to appear more ’ social’ in some cases, and more ‘individual’ in others.

Certainly two party democracies are basically set up for the top level to disintegrate into demagogic shit slinging about ‘our side’ vs ‘their side’, but real people and businesses will always have a diversity of types of behaviour and relationships - and I really don’t believe you can genuinely classify any economy (a collaboration of people) as ‘left’ or ‘right’ or ‘socialist’ or ‘individualist’.

Their “leaders” might well call them that though.

In no plural-hollytree, there can be only one.