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Let me see if I have this right

RFK Jr wants to curtail use of GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic because he says people should instead make β€œlifestyle changes” but he himself takes testosterone as a lifestyle drug so he can look all pumped up & mega macho

I think this is a tad hypocritical?

24.11.2024 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 0

I think we need proof of this

25.11.2024 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is a fascinating chart and I suspect if the gaps shown here were reduced through better education from TV, Movies, schools, the press and on social media, we'd see a lot of societal issues become less prevalent or problematic.

25.11.2024 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd say the content itself serves nearly zero purpose for 99% of the population.

But the way it's presented is purely meant to create fear and anxiety. The account itself is designed to scare people.

Fear is a terrible messaging strategy for public health. It does more harm than good.

22.11.2024 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Could be entirely animal sources...

20.11.2024 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gonna give it more and more time. Every tweet from Elon seems to reduce my interest in being there.

On tea, Davidsons yunnan black is my favorite straight black tea currently. And their ceylon op black is what I mix with hibiscus.

Extremely cheap tea, but I enjoy more than some very expensive teas

20.11.2024 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For a non caffeine 'tea' I quite love ginger lemongrass. Sounds fairly similar to yours.

20.11.2024 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been really enjoying a mix of a very intense black tea with dried hibiscus at a 1:1 ratio. Both 1 tbls per 18oz.

I make multiple cups each morning now.

20.11.2024 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So you can throw ad nominems then? Apologize.

20.11.2024 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US πŸ‘‡

19.11.2024 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 17119    πŸ” 3705    πŸ’¬ 397    πŸ“Œ 1252

If you think that's an ad nominem then please never interact in the real world. It's dramatically more direct and hard than that.

I'll leave you in your anxiety.

19.11.2024 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I see hysteria about this is not limited to Twitter.

'while I'm not saying they're alike at all, I'm going to draw a heavy comparison regardless'

This is not helpful in any way. It's purely going to drive up anxiety. That's bad public health messaging.

19.11.2024 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP or NVICP).

Are pharmaceutical companies immune from prosecution? No
Are they not liable for their products, such as vaccines? No
Can you sue pharmaceutical companies? Yes

So why the statements that they are immune?
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19.11.2024 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

It's not confirmed. It's unknown still if there was animal contact. Your irrational anxiety is exactly what I said the tweet would cause. Thanks for proving my point

19.11.2024 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And?

This type of tweet is neither breaking nor helpful. It just causes people to panic without any real information. It's akin to yelling fire in a crowded building. It's meant to cause fear, not inform.

19.11.2024 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The design issues are also called "the real world". Yes intervention that should work in theory often fail when they encounter human behavior and cost/manpower issues.

13.11.2024 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not necessarily no. Not if the money can be spent in other ways for larger end results.

13.11.2024 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're literally explaining why filtration, as we try to do it in 2024, fails. The study is just the messenger.

13.11.2024 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, some thoughts:
1) this will be one of the biggest civil-military crises this country has ever seen.
2) it will have drastic negative effects on our military readiness and effectiveness
I’ll expand a little on each point below.
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13.11.2024 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1227    πŸ” 408    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 47

Doesn't look like Adelaide... 😜

13.11.2024 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've always used the term mobility to describe why flu basically died but covid didn't.

Human mobility dropped around 70%. That brought Reff under 1 for flu, not Covid19.

I wonder if the same drop in mobility would do similar to covid, now, with 2024 levels of immunity. Likely not as much still.

13.11.2024 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Kristi Noem was too dumb to train her dog. She's not going to be able to deport 25 million people.

13.11.2024 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends:

β€’ Aug 3rd: Musk says β€˜civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots

β€’ Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus

β€’ Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory

13.11.2024 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1418    πŸ” 379    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 41

We reduced death and severe disease by multiple orders of magnitude. It's now riskier for almost the entire population to drive a car, even with seat belts airbags and breaks.

The risk of death and long term issues are dramatically lower now.

My guess is you don't know just how low the risk is.

06.11.2023 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's possible a few were the same, just viral shedding.

Basically impossible to get a true reinfection in that period.

In Australia they'd genomically sequence things like this. Basically all were the same infection.

25.10.2023 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can test positive from viral shedding with pcr tests. Maybe even from rats potentially.

25.10.2023 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anecdotes are just that

25.10.2023 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

United is changing all of its cabins out to the new larger overhead bins that can accommodate roller carryons. So hopefully carry on space isn't a big issue in another few years.

18.10.2023 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Already successful....

Twitter has more bots than ever?

They probably got rid of 10% of bots but 25% of active users. Oops.

18.10.2023 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This guy is truly an embarrassment. Will he ever go away?

18.10.2023 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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