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i always liked the "Great Ideas of Philosophy" series by Daniel Robinson, for the Teaching Company (now the Great Courses). it's available to purchase from the great courses website or from Wondrium's very good subscription lectures streaming service. Lecture sets from these two companies are generally of the highest standard.

If you would like to sample it before patronising either of those two businesses, it seems to have been uploaded on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNINJcoBa_A&list=PLOxODW9vlV...

there is a large archive of roguelikes available here:

https://archive.org/details/ArchiveRL.7z

FTA: "In a press release on Tuesday, the South Pasadena Police Department outlined a different set of facts, declaring at first that “detectives do not believe Mr. Musk or any member of his family were present during the confrontation,” which Deputy City Manager Domenica Megerdichian confirmed in a phone call with The Daily Beast. Soon after, the department released an updated press release, which simply stated that Musk wasn’t present during the incident."

sounds like the "detectives" working on this don't even know who was there. It would be nice to see the actual press releases.

devalued in the sense that it's easy to trip over some low bar for the new definition and be assigned that label. not devalued all that much in the sense of the negative effect that label has on the labelled person's argument or reputation. which is, of course, very convenient for people who want to throw those words around online.

Technically, if it was a fact it would be malinformation.

https://www.cisa.gov/mdm

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat... (paragraph 2)

I guess you want something more than online news and commentary to assess the economic state of [country], so as an attempt at a useful answer i'll provide this.

go here https://tradingeconomics.com/calendar and click "dates".

then click last week or last month, scroll through the various economic indicators and see the ones with the british flag, and go from there. if you're new to econometrics you will probably need to dig in a little but it is worthwhile if you are interested in the state of the economy.

if you are seriously wondering if the UK is collapsing, you are probably spending too much time in comment sections and crowd-curated news sites and should do less of that

two i didnt see mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/c/AlphaPhoenixChannel

https://www.youtube.com/c/braintruffle

there's a recently developed alternative inflation measure here that looks rather good. https://app.truflation.com/

"Inclusion criteria were an age of 18 years or older; presentation to an outpatient care setting with an acute clinical condition consistent with Covid-19 within 7 days after symptom onset;"

I don't know if "up to 7 days after symptom onset" qualifies as early antiviral treatment.

hastily-googled citations:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323384/

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/antivirals/summary-cli...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abc7112

some bitcoin mining energy usage stats https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/...

i am guessing no

I do acknowledge the benefits of public health mandates in certain dire situations, i was simply trying to say comparing data between different places with different degrees of restriction can be helpful determining how beneficial those restrictions are. You can do this with vaccines as well if you wish, comparing countries performance and vaccination rates against each other.

who are you quoting?

you could do it for any covid-related public health measure or mandate, depending on the places you compared. denmark and sweden and norway and the UK are all ending, or have ended, all restrictions this quarter. i recall other countries (and states in the US) have done similar at different times in the past 2 years, but i'm not feeling like googling them right now.

i recall looking over the occupancy numbers for the temporary hospitals and hospital ships deployed as a response to the 2020 outbreaks in the UK and US, and they were mostly empty. sadly i cannot find that info now so i guess i'll just have to shrug about it. and i assume "took all the place in many hospitals and healthcare systems" is an exaggeration. i would still have to assert the health care costs to society of obesity and smoking are comparable to the costs of acute covid surges though.

obesity- and smoking-related illnesses take up a huge share of available health care resources. to say they are "clogging up" hospital beds is a little insensitive though.

while you wait for more research, i suggest looking at the countries that have ended their mandates this year, and how they are doing, as a cheap and expedient form of research into the question of how useful mandates are.

the "one guy" you are referring to seems to be reputable and experienced enough to be speaking through the lancet. https://www.rmian.org/dr-carlos-francoparedes

i'm not vaccinated and will not be getting the jab, and i think vaccine mandates are a laughably bad idea, but you could easily just say less severe disease = less pressure on public health systems and "justify" it that way.

first solution word i got was "DONNA" which was kind of rough to guess. second game it told me "DRAPE" wasn't a word. the game worked fine though, thanks. there's an everyday variant also at fiveletters.xyz

he's made numerous comments about the US needing to be more competitive with china for many years, so it may just be as simple as that.

yep https://justpaste.it/9sm9l

television does that way more than joe rogan.

see also: https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html

A couple i didn't see mentioned yet: The Jolly Swagman Podcast is surprisingly good, last episode was in October though. https://josephnoelwalker.com/podcast/

Some popsci youtubers started the safety third podcast, which is entertaining. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7QE72cxiBkiwnvGoFfqYOg

from what i've heard the symptoms of omicron aren't very severe anyway. couple of recent videos from the last day or so are pretty encouraging https://youtu.be/BtELl7-zE_w https://youtu.be/5E6gpPJwYIY

just be aware pyth is still in early stages. their network currently has three price feeds (probably the simplest thing you can do with a blockchain oracle) on mainnet which you can see here https://pyth.network/ and they have had at least a few problems with these where incorrect prices were reported, costing traders money. a recent one has a writeup here https://thedefiant.io/pyth-solana-bad-pricing-meltdown/ on the plus side, pyth network is in its very early days, has the backing of the FTX guy, and historically buying into what this guy is invested in has made people very rich. if pyth network ever releases a token the early buyers might do well. as they say with crypto, DYOR.

also relevant: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354376762_THE_INFLU...

Looks like its gonna be time to sell soon, LOL.

he had a brand of matches that competed with the popular "redheads" brand, the brand name was "dickheads"