"Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period where our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be reaching, 'An Age of the Gross' - persuasion through speeches and books, aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action... Subtlety is lost, and fine distinctions based on acute reasoning is carelessly ignored in a headlong jump into careless conclusions. Life is visceral, rather than intellectual... and the principle infatuations of today revolve around the social sciences, those subjects which can accommodate any opinion, and about which the most reckless conjecture cannot be discredited."
-Spiro Agnew, 1970
This is an article from April 28, 2021
“The initial ten trial participants were hospitalized patients and were treated at Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital in Bangalore, Lisa Hospital in Kozhikode, Kerala and Prime Indian Hospital in Chennai, and all patients have recovered from their symptoms and have since been discharged from the hospital. Based on the initial results of this trial, the trial will be expanded to an additional sixty-five patients with moderate to severe COVID-19, who will be treated at these hospitals over the next several weeks, with treatments expected to be completed by the end of June 2021.”
The article goes on to mention that if the 65 patient trial is successful, they will go on to apply for Emergency Use Authorization in India.
I haven’t been able to find anything as far as an anticipated date for when they expect to complete analyzing the data or when they plan to present it.
I haven’t been able to find any updates on whether or not everything is going according to schedule.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I don't care if I have to watch 10 years more of this. I am not backing down. Period. I will continue to be completely fucking retarded and buy every dip, average down, and buy all the way up. I could have joined the Stonk crowd, or the crypto crowd, but I joined this movement to wake the world up. I joined this movement to show everyone the power of sound money. I love this family. The shrewdness is the best place on Reddit, period. We have the best Mods, the best interviews, and the best DD. I look forward to every payday adding to the stack. No matter what the fake ass price is. 🦍🦍🦍 Keep it fun apes! Keep it light! Keep each other laughing! We will go up and down like a roller coaster, until the day we don't...🚀 Its inevitable.🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍
Disclaimer: Not in reference to drugs, clearly science shows that drugs have a negative influence on the developing brain well into the 20's( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892678/ ). What I want to do is not question drugs. Let's philosophize instead:
This seems to be an issue rooted in the question of responsability and maturity. Is an 18 year old mature enough to make their own decisions and a 17 year old not? In case both aren't, are they to be blamed for making bad decisions? Or in case only the 18 year old is mature enough, yet both made the same bad decision, should we now not blame the 17 year old for their bad decision but punish the 18 year old for their's? In the end, who's responsible? Are all people responsible for their own decisions or - what if their decisions were influenced by a manipulative person, such as when a 17 year old is groomed and ends up in a statutory rape situation? Clearly the groomer is punished and the 17 year old needn't be responsible for their decision. A day after though, if the 17 year old person turned 18, and the groomer made his move now, he is no longer considered a groomer. The 17 year old person, now 18, is considered capable to make their own decisions. I don't think this is right.
A questionaire could use a point system and ask e.g. 16 year old people questions like : "A 21 year old person approaches you at a party and they seem nice. They invite you to their room to watch some movies. Do you follow along?"; to determine their "ability to make appropriate decisions".
Another issue is the question of morality. I think someone is responsible for their own decisions each time they act in accordance with their own moral compass. When does the moral compass develope though? What is the moral compass to begin with? Can we quantify it and put it into a questionaire?
Lastly let's not forget the chaotic adolescent storm of hormones, which influence all the things mentioned above like a foreign power. I think part of it can be quantified using blood level tests. How accurate are those tests to make assumptions about the amount of influence of said "foreign power" though? I believe this field has enjoyed great amount of scientific exploration and is perhaps the reason we use the age threshold 18.
In summary, I think we need a system for measuring maturity that respects the amount of fluxuations of maturity between different people in society and
... keep reading on reddit ➡My family sometimes talk to me about religion, which makes me assume it's open for discussion, otherwise my general rule is to not talk about it. But I once told my sister that I didn't understand how she as a scientist, yes, researcher and all, phd and all, would somehow claim religion is true. 'But science doesn't explain everything'. Ok, but you say we should verify things, and yet she gets super upset when I say it's not scientific. "How dare you say I'm not scientific" I didn't say you weren't. I said your attitude towards religion isn't.
At the very least, can you replicate and repeat your findings over and over to get the same results of whatever you are claiming? ie that the 'ghost' you saw is, in fact, what lead you to finding money under the couch? Yes, there are things in life we can't explain. I'd just say, cool, something happened, then something pleasant happened. But I'd never say the first incident CAUSED the second. You can't draw causality on just one incident.
I am not trying to brag, in fact, I don't think I'm smart as her. I nearly failed my bachelors, and I have no intention of studying more in higher learning, even if I could. But I am truly baffled how a PhD can somehow just turn off their brain when it comes to god and just say 'well science can't explain everything'. Yeah, but that doesn't mean your 'gut feeling that god is sending me a very cryptic sign only I can see' is true either.
I was watching weekly and stopped at ep 4 cos I wanted to watch it at my pace once the complete season airs. So considering only an episode is left, does it look like the anime ends here or is the plot nowhere close to completion? If it seems like there wont be an ending this season, Ill hold off from watching for now.
Thanks!
Noel and I thought we had escaped the underground parking garage when we finally found an exit door. Unfortunately for us, there was a problem when we got out on street level. After descending 500 floors or so, I should have known there was going to be an issue when that door opened and we walked right out into downtown Toronto.
It was far too easy after all we had been through.
This was still downtown Toronto, but it was some other version of it.
I had heard of the multiverse theory, that there were infinite other dimensions, trillions upon trillions of them. Some versions were only slightly different from ours, while others were completely unrecognizable. But I never would have guessed that all dimensions hinged on a single point in downtown Toronto - a dirty, squalid parking structure off Spadina.
It was only once we got into the taxi that we realized the differences in this place - the cabbie looked at us like we were freaks, screaming with twin mouths where his eyes should have been. At the bottom of his face, one giant cyclops eye stared at us with disbelief, wide and afraid.
We screamed right back at him and I vaguely remember asking him something about a bulldozer before jumping out of the cab and running back towards the parking garage. It was terrifying in there, but out on the street was much, much worse. Every cycloptic stranger who passed by glared at us with mounting suspicion, some whispering to each other and hurrying away with quick steps. I heard a few stifled screams and one woman dropped a bag of groceries she was carrying and simply ran in the opposite direction at the sight of us.
This was not our world, and who knew what they would do to us here if they found out about our existence. Fear of what might come to be started to rise up within me, more and more. We were far too exposed on the busy downtown street.
I imagined other aliens who looked like the cabbie, but they wore white lab coats and had us strapped to steel tables while they prodded us with lo
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Of course I understand, that nobody was expecting him to die on June 25th 2009. It was a shock to the whole world, which is part of the reason why there was so much news coverage over it. Since it came out of nowhere and he was about to peform in July, for the "This Is It" tour.
What the point of this post is, did any of you believe that MJ was going to have a long lifespan? Especially after what he had become. He had gotten so heavily addicted to plastic surgery, openly admitting to sharing his bed with little kids, getting accused three times of child molestation (the other being Jason Francia). His life was pretty much going down the toilet during the later years. I think his death helped repair his public image.
I was very surprised, since he was so young. He was only fifty years old. I never knew about his drug addiction, so I thought he was in top shape. If I knew about his painkiller addiction he had back in the 90's, his death probably wouldn't have came as such a huge surprise to me. But I didn't, since I wasn't around back then.
I want to hear what you all thought would become of MJ in the later years?
https://youtu.be/8raoU53Cf7E
nervous chuckle 😅
Context: Running ‘Frostmaiden’ and I’m prepping the final dungeon, which I’ve changed from a Netherese city to a city from the ancient Giant civilization, specifically the Group of Eleven.
What creatures could be found lurking or lair’ing there in addition to or instead of what is already specified in the adventure?
All official publishings are fair game, especially if anybody has ideas for interesting re-flavorings.
Thanks!
Also posting to r/rimeofthefrostmaiden
Just curious.
The alien abduction phenomenon is one among a number of manifestations—including near-death experiences, intricate crop formations, apparitions of many kinds, unexplained powers of healing (Dossey 1993b; Cooperstein 1996), and parapsychology ( Jahn and Dunne 1987; Radin 1997)—that are forcing us to appreciate that cosmic realities exist beyond the three-dimensional universe that has bounded our earthly existence. There seem to be as many names for these domains as there are methods of approaching them: the “implicate order,” the “invisible world,” “other dimensions,” and “transpersonal” or “daimonic reality” are a few of them. Philosophers like Michael Zimmerman (Travis 1998) and Michael Grosso (2004) posit a “third zone” of reality that is neither purely internal nor external but lies beyond, including or subsuming the familiar dualism of inner and outer worlds. Whatever words we may use to describe this realm or realms, it appears ever more likely that we exist in a multidimensional cosmos or multiverse, within which space and time appear to be constructs of the mind that order or simplify the chaos of energy and vibration in which we are immersed.
.....the mammothematician.
