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on They walk among us · c/atheism · 8 pts · 22d

Yes, sure, he's a little flaky. But God is just so perfect, all loving, and timeless...

Exodus 21:20-21:

Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.

on Literally · c/science · 3 pts · 29d

When the covid vaccines came out, the scaremongers said everyone will start dying from the them in a month. That didn't happen. Then they said just you wait and see, it'll happen next month. Nope. Then it was just wait six months, then a year, then two years... now it's up to 20 years. Why would anyone of reasonable intelligence believe it this time?

MRNA vaccines were first trialled in the 1990s on animals. No animal died prematurely from them.

There's never been a vaccine where side effects arose decades later. Serious vaccine side effects are detected within days or weeks of vaccination.

So what evidence do you have that the covid vaccines are truly different? Zero.

Ironically, you're more likely to die earlier by living a life stressing about people dying earlier from vaccines.

Those are reasons why loses aren't as big of a concern for rich people. Not why hedges are only for rich people.

The cost of a hedge is proportional to the assets being protected. If someone has say a $10,000 portfolio of stocks, and they think the market will crash in the next month or two, they could buy a protective option hedge for around $100. And if someone has a portfolio of $300 million, they could hedge for ~$3 million. Wealth is irrelevant.

Also hedges aren't risky. They reduce risk. They're insurance.

Yep hedging would work .

But why do you need to be rich to buy a hedge? A leveraged option can be bought starting from a few dollars.

The issue is not getting the hedge, it's getting the timing right. Plenty of people saw the GFC crash coming and invested in hedges, but they were too early and lost a bundle.

Historians estimate that Jackson caused the death of 10,000 to 15,000 native Americans.

It's projected that Trump's defunding of USAID will kill around 14 million by 2030. 4.5 million of those will be children under the age of 5 (See Lancet study.) Throw in his health care roll backs, social services withdrawals, suicides from tariffs, etc. and that figure goes a lot higher.

Amen!

Great news! You're all welcome to the new Church of Daannii I've started. We live purely for the glory of Daannii's sacrifice to strangers.

(Also, please remember to bring your 10% tithe each week.)

Praise Daannii!

Battery chemistry patents are notoriously easy to "design around" to create variations. Who is going to want to risk working with a company that has a track record of being notoriously dodgy, especially when there's a couple of dozen well established major players that have solid reputations and scale.

Yes, if they supplied batteries to independent testers, that would quickly prove their technically claims are true or false.

But the hole they've dug isn't just about technical claims. As I said, they've relied on dodgy marketing tactics which has caused industry damage, and that wouldn't just disappear. They'd still have huge business reputation issues regarding things like trust for starters. Businesses are far more than just their technology. Plenty of great tech has failed due to other factors and execution.

Yep, that's a massive argument against Donut. But the question I haven't seen the battery experts address is whether the expansion pattern is unique to the chemistry they believe it is. Are there other chemistries that could produce the same effect? The investigators clearly don't think so, but Donut also isn't claiming to be using previously seen tech.

Either way, it's not looking good for Donut. The burden of proof is, and always has been, on them, and they have a looooong climb out of the hole they've dug.

Regardless, Ziroth and others make a good point that Donut's marketing games are damaging to the industry. Other legitimate players seeking investment will be tarnished by Donut's antics. So even if their tech turned out to be legit, they're still going to be a bad actor.

Reading the article, the investigation isn't a case of independent labs getting hold of the battery and definitively disproving Donut's claims. It's battery experts and researchers looking at the data Donut has released and saying, "these claims are extraordinary and the evidence doesn't yet convince us. Here's what we think the battery actually is." That's a very reasonable scientific position, especially when you're talking about 400 Wh/kg, 5-minute charging, and 100,000 cycles all at once.

But without independently tested samples, there are still a lot of unknowns and inferences involved. That's not to say the skeptics are wrong, but it's still arguably a case of skeptics being skeptical... reasonably so, but based on analysis of the available evidence rather than direct examination of the battery itself.

All true, but It's all about perspective. Trump won the election promising repeatedly that he wouldn't start new wars, and would in fact end wars.

And depending on which polls you follow, the approval rating for the attacks on Iran are as low as 27% (Reuters/Ipsos, March 2026). But all polls conclude that the majority of US citizens do not support the war.

So this is definitely not something the US voters directly signed up for. Voting for a president is not a mandate for that president to operate on wholesale deception.

So true! But I found a trick where you can get Jellyfin cheap if you buy it pretending to be a resident of another country. Here's some prices:

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