Monero for sure but id also look out for good anon coins as Monero is realistically private but not anon.

Parents like this need to be executed. It was clearly never about his choice. The mom was following a trend and wanted to be fashionable. It's no longer hip for your kid to be just be autistic, ADD or ADHD. Now they have to be a full-blown fagosexual tranny with all the mental illness trimmings. Because no one is going to give Instagram likes to your boring normal kid.

Nobody has to check plastics, though. Bisphenol A can still be sold without repercussions. There's also this whole thing about cell phone towers they place on school roofs maybe causing health issues and scientists assuring everyone that 5G is safe. Like they did 100 years ago that tobacco was safe.

It's just so incredibly hard to trust what scientists say.

I don't know every European country good enough, but for Germany: "Nobody plans to erect a wall!" and for Great Britain: September Dossier

No government has the best of their citizens in mind, that's just how it is. European countries have more social features because they are rather homogeneous. Handing out some benefits to people you have a positive attitude for is easier than handing out benefits to your arch nemesis. The major reason the USA isn't like that is because people from the US hate each other. And the reason for that is that the USA is a melting pot of many different people. The more you increase that type of diversity the worse things will get.

It's also why people in the US can feel the need to arm themselves. I was on vacation in Norway once and saw a car in the middle of nowhere. Open door, key in the ignition. It was a non-issue. People were just all nice to each other. Do that in the US and that car will be gone fast. Americans actually have a valid reason to arm themselves for defense. Not necessarily everywhere in the US, but in enough places. People hate each other. There are gangs in the streets fighting to death. That's just the kind of place you get when mixing people together that actually hate each other.

The way I see it Socrates was right. I know that I know nothing.

Oh man, I'm a bit ashamed of myself that throughout our entire discussion I hadn't once thought of the replication crisis in contemporary science. I had a course that covered that last semester quite thoroughly, including p-value-hacking to get statistically significant results. Well, so much for my university education.

Thank you for reminding me of it, you are absolutely correct that many research findings nowadays cannot be replicated when reproduced! If anything, it makes the need for a truly independently funded scientific agency more imperative. The publish-or-perish mentality nowadays is absolutely destructive for scientific integrity and makes researchers susceptible to publishing inherently biased findings.

Anyway, regarding your claim that I make an appeal to authority: although I agree with you in principle that:

Claim B is true, because Authority A says so

is a logical fallacy, some subjects (including medical science and pharmacy) are expert topics that require multiple years of dedicated study to get a good grasp of. It is idiotic to think that any layman can make the same informed judgements that a researcher can. The best we have is peers of said researcher checking the validity of their methods before and after publication. Hence peer-review (but as you pointed out, replication crisis throws that in the dirt)

Plato himself pointed that out when he asked someone if they'd rather vote on how a ship is steered or let the helmsman handle it.

Closely related is the argument from ignorance: because you don't understand how something works, doesn't mean that it is false. Or in this case, because a layman (including myself, I'm in the field of AI and CS, not biology) doesn't completely understand how mRNA vaccines work, doesn't mean that they're therefore dangerous.

I concur that the U.S. government has pulled some shady shit the last century and has a poor track record. So I certainly understand your skepticism regarding your government. I'm from Europe (in the case you hadn't figured that out) and I really feel that the average European citizen has a different relation to the average European government than the average U.S. citizen has to the U.S. government, if that makes sense. Generally speaking, social democracy, liberalism and christian centrism are the prevailing ideologies here and this is reflected in our government policies. Most European countries have a reasonable welfare state and collective labor's rights. To many of us, this government is not a big baddie that must be kept to a minimum, but instead ought to occasionally intervene to protect the weaker in society. European response to the coronacrisis has been largely economically Keynesian. So yeah, different relationship dynamic. Our media landscape is generally diverse and broad with relatively little polarisation. Some media outlets have a slight bias in columnists and opinions but overall I cannot think of a concrete example where two news agencies report stuff in seriously different ways, unlike the CNN/Fox situation. Perhaps that makes us a bit naive and trusting but it does appear to work well for us thus far.

And about Snowden: if I recall correctly his revelations were mostly about the intelligence agencies overstepping their legal authority and getting cooperation from the upper echelons of the tech giants. I don't think that is wholly applicable in this discussion about the reliability of government in general. But I could be wrong here.

Many of the examples that are in that meme stem from a time when regulation was minimal and the scientific community relatively small. To get a new product approved in the EU nowadays, a company has to navigate a labyrinth of red tape before it hits the market.

Good response, thanks for the input. I'm just wanting to put about $20 per week into crypto for savings. I've noticed that a lot of coins you can not buy direct. So my $20 becomes more like $17 after buying and then converting to the coin of choice.

Though my $20 in LTC, converted to Theta is up 30%... but pretending I had a worthwhile amount, not sure how i'd make it useful to me.

NO! Why ? Here

I have a feeling that either two of these coins will skyrocket: Monero or BAT(shit). And that depends on whenever people will actually start thinking about privacy, or if they'll just listen to recommendation lists prone to bribes, fanboyism, groupthink, etc. And unless we'll recommend sites like Dig Deeper (tilde.club clear net mirror, Tor v3 mirror, Tor v2 mirror, Freenet mirror, I2P mirror), the second situation will happen, and we really don't want to do that.

But of course, I could be wrong and neither of these coins will blow up, and instead, some other coin will blow up, maybe a completely new one. It's really hard to tell that far in the future. Yes, you can try to figure out which coins might blow up, but that is prone to large margin of errors, so we just have to see what the future will give when we do something about it.

True, but interestingly in this case, the people being accused of flirting with the far right are closer to Bernie Sanders.

People in the "dirtbag left" tend to be socialist or communist. They dislike Biden, but not as much as Trump. Many voted for Bernie, but see him as a sellout for endorsing Biden.

This is the establishment left at The Daily Beast attacking a portion of the populist, anti-establishment left for stepping too far out of line.

Naturally, some on the anti-establishment left find that they have some things in common with the anti-establishment right. Such as noticing how the lockdowns have benefited big businesses like Walmart and Amazon while killing small businesses. Opposing Zionism and Zionist influence. Noticing that the ruling class focuses on race to prevent class consciousness.

Similarly, the anti-establishment right sometimes finds common ground with the anti-establishment left. You see that with some on the right fighting the police and burning or stepping on their "thin blue line" flags.

Also, the establishment media on both the left and the right have largely moved on from the Epstein story, but anti-establishment figures on both sides still talk about it.

Avid OpenBSD user here. I don’t like the sound of Ghost. Try OpenBSD and you be surprised, pleasantly this time!

i want to kill all data miners. its just idiots who dont understand the power data holds.

god forbid we have centralists or independent thought. its not like the two political part system is the ultimate demise and degration of our country and is becoming more prevalent every year. totally not like you cant run for president with a fighting chance unless you conform to an extreme. its not like this two party system divides our county and is getting worse and worse every month. neither the right or the left are correct. neither one solve problems they just take the the problem in an abstract sense and move it to somewhere else. then we have new social movements and then this cycle repeats. and we are forced to conform to an extreme because i cant vote for a candidate that is down the middle and has mixed views.

To some, anyone right of Bernie Sanders is considered "far right".

Btw, this is not just a database of white supremacists as the wired article suggests. According to her blog, she is also tracking people who are anti-SJW, anti-Obama, anti-sharia etc. Her blog post also goes into more detail about the program she developed https://web.archive.org/web/20180116191038/https://megansquire.com/far-right-extremist-group-co-membership-on-facebook/

Yeah, right.. "mistake".

It's eye-opening difference

I assume you don't want to get the Android dev tools and run Blockfolio in an emulated Android tablet. That sound like a straightforward app to write. The trick is getting reliable access to reference data (historical prices, etc.). Is there a site with an API that serves that info?

I'm not aware of such an app for the Linux desktop, but I'm happy to advise adventurous coders who have the time to make this app happen.

Well, it has been previously blocked in Iran as well, so I think we can expect additional TLS proxies set up to avoid censorship. Or maybe you will be able to use existing TLS proxies, I don't know.

By the way, why did no one learn that centralized instant messaging apps can easily be blocked in this world of censorship? I really don't understand.

I recommend XMPP than Signal, especially for Chinese people. I think XMPP's main features are anyone can select from many servers and it have easy to use End-to-End Encryption implementation.

"Is Jabber accessible from China?" - reddit
libreddit. (webproxy frontend for reddit) URLs: clearnet, Tor

I'm in China and can access many XMPP servers, e.g. xmpp.jp, swissjabber.ch, chinwag.im, yax.im, disroot.org, member.fsf.org.

From what I understand about China's GFW, and I am American so no direct experience, it'll work at the beginning if you use TLS. Maybe not STARTTLS?

However, I do know that all VPNs will eventually stop working, forcing you to switch IP or protocol - the GFW has some basic machine learning. If all you do is connect to a specific IP, it'll start throttling connections to said address. It may do the same if it can't scrutinize the encrypted Jabber connection.

The bigger issue is that Jabber is still more complex to set up securely. That's probably why it doesn't have as much mindshare. Given that reputation, and the state of clients across platforms not all implementing the same features (not even equally well), it's harder to convince someone to deal with all of the headaches involved.

I actually had a plane get delayed in Shanghai, and I had no phone plan so the internet was my only option for communication back to the US. Couldn't use Facebook or Instagram. Forget Gmail, because even the Google homepage couldn't be accessed there. Hotmail said it delivered, but I found out the message didn't get received until about 3 weeks AFTER I arrived back in the US. Jabber was the only thing that DID actually work.

By comment on "Signal's open sourced server code hasn't been updated for over a year. Should we be concerned?"

Well, while open source does not mean it's secure, this is still a weird thing to do.

I would simply recommend to stop using Signal and start using XMPP with OMEMO encryption, since this is the gold standard of instant messengers, at least for me. You should especially stop using Signal because it requires your phone number, which immediately disqualifies it for a private messenger.

I'm suspicious of the vaccines and will probably wait and watch for at least a year and may not get it at all. I explained why in an effort-post on a different thread

Clearnet: https://ramble.pw/f/conspiracy/2792/-/comment/3666
Onion link: http://rambleeeqrhty6s5jgefdfdtc6tfgg4jj6svr4jpgk4wjtg3qshwbaad.onion/f/conspiracy/2792/-/comment/3666

If I had to choose a vaccine, maybe I would choose Sputnik V. It's not mRNA based and it has been out longer than the AstraZeneca vaccines. Sputnik will probably not be available here in the US and maybe for good reason, but if I lived in country that was importing it AND that country was friendly with Russia, I would consider it more trustworthy than the others.

Thanks, upvoting you for the same reason. I certainly hope you are right about the vaccines being safe since some people I care about are planning to take them. I am glad that a lot of countries have their eyes on the vaccines that have been developed in our country and I will continue paying attention to which vaccines are suspended by countries and why. I’m still suspicious of the vaccines partially because the average time it takes to develop a vaccine is 10 years. That gives more time to see if there are are long term effects from the trials.

It is also concerning that scientists are not sure whether it prevents transmission. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/opinion/covid-vaccines-transmission.html Leaky vaccines can lead to more dangerous pandemics. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/leaky-vaccines-enhance-spread-of-deadlier-chicken-viruses

My lifestyle puts me at low risk of contracting or spreading the virus and I am careful when I do go out, so I will probably wait at least a year after it’s available to me. Maybe I won’t take it at all and just focus on being healthy. I take vitamin D regularly which should help if I do get the virus.

I find it creepy how aggressively the vaccine is being pushed here in the US. If they want people to trust it, they should stop trying to manipulate and coerce people into taking it. I used to get irritated at anti-vaxers for the same reason you mentioned- reemergence of the measles etc. But I kinda get it now after seeing how hard they push the Covid vaccine.

It’s creepy to me especially since I learned about how many unethical medical experiments the CIA has done. I think this is a pretty good list. https://web.archive.org/web/20090204190831/https://www.counterpunch.org/germwar.html\

Edit: This one includes sources http://rambleeeqrhty6s5jgefdfdtc6tfgg4jj6svr4jpgk4wjtg3qshwbaad.onion/f/conspiracy/125/list-of-proven-conspiracies
This is the type of thing that gets people theorizing about Bill Gates, nanobots, 5G etc. There are many things that have actually happened which would have sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory at the time. There’s nothing about my government that makes me look at a list like that and say “yeah, my government did that in the past, but they wouldn’t do anything like that again.” I don’t know about the Bill Gates nanobots theory, but I wouldn’t put it past the CIA to do some experiments. Gene therapy is something that can be done with mRNA injections. But they’re interested in nanobots as well. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238677

Even if there are no crazy experiments and no one is forcibly jabbed in the arm, society could get pretty dystopian. Lets say only 50% of companies choose to require all employees to be vaccinated. Now you have a class of people who are only 50% as likely to get hired as other people, on the basis of their own personal medical decisions.

And the people who refuse the vaccine on both the left and the right are disproportionately anti-establishment and more suspicious of the government. So if the government wants a crack down on people who have anti-establishment ideologies, allowing this type of discrimination is an easy way to do that. In the US it is already illegal to discriminate on the basis of private health information but it looks like they will make an exception for this.

Something that really annoyed me about the “ethics” professor in this video I posted was that he was endorsing discrimination by basically saying “Yeah, it’s normally not allowed for companies to make hiring decisions using private health information, but this is different because telling a company that you took the vaccine can HELP you get a job! It can’t hurt you!”. It’s such an obvious and slimy rhetorical trick. He must think people are really dumb.

I think immunity usually lasts for a long time since only about 50 people have been documented to have been reinfected so far https://www.marketwatch.com/story/only-50-people-are-known-to-have-contracted-covid-19-more-than-once-but-medical-experts-are-on-high-alert-11613743994

When they measured the degree of natural immunity in your country during peak infections, were they only looking for antibodies or were they studying T cell immunity? You don’t have to answer that since this is a privacy oriented forum and the answer might reveal your country, but I have read that around 20% to 50% of people have some natural immunity even without being exposed. And 83% of COVID-19 patients have T cells as well.

"T cells have been reported in unexposed individuals, suggesting cross-reactive T cell memory in 20-50% of people…T cell memory to coronaviruses that cause the common cold may underlie at least some of the heterogeneity observed in COVID-19 disease." https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/04/science.abd3871

"Remarkably, we detected SARS-CoV-2-specific [T-cell] responses in 19 out of 37 SARS-CoV-1/2 unexposed individuals" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z_reference.pdf

"We detected cross-reactive T cell responses [to] SARS-CoV-2 in 28% of unexposed healthy blood donors, consistent with a high pre-existing immunity in the general population…these data were from cryopreserved samples, so this figure might be considered a lower bound" https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31008-4#secsectitle0055

"We demonstrate the presence of S-reactive CD4+ T cells in 83% of COVID-19 patients, as well as in 34% of SARS-CoV-2 seronegative healthy donors, albeit at lower frequencies." https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.20061440v1

I don’t think the vaccine is necessary for lockdowns to end. IMO they should have ended a long time ago, or maybe not happened in the first place. It isn’t very clear that the lockdowns are effective. https://apnews.com/article/public-health-health-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-ron-desantis-889df3826d4da96447b329f524c33047

Obviously the lockdowns have resulted in increased depression, suicide, drug abuse, domestic violence etc. But also, harm to economies in the first world has affected the economies of third world countries. Many more young girls are now being sold into child marriages partially because of the economic impact.

A nationwide requirement that all companies provide 2 weeks of paid sick leave could be an effective but still freedom respecting alternative to lockdowns since asymptomatic transmission does not drive the spread of the virus as much as previously thought

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/4/20-4576_article https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4851

I agree that it is worse than “just a flu”. The CDC once reported the death rate as .26% while the flu death rate is .1% Maybe it’s 3x worse or something. But I think the response has been excessive and there is a lot more danger that comes from allowing governments and companies to too much power. The idea that freedom is a privilege rather than a right shouldn’t be normalized but that is what is happening.

Maybe you should check whether that trust is warranted..

https://ramble.pw/f/funny/2583/i-m-a-scientist-you-can-trust-me