FiatLux

Agreed, though there may be a silver lining. The mask thing is certainly meant, among other things, to create automatic social pressure and shunning via an unmistakable visual signal, and most of society is going to shun non-enthusiasts of face coverings and immunity passports. Now, that’s fine with me. (I do understand it’s going to cause…[Read more]

I’m in a high-population U.S. urban area (for now) in Gov. DeSantis’s state, and the short answer is: I’ve seen atomization more than anything else, outside of first- and second-generation immigrant families/networks. But I think the answer will differ a lot by one’s specific location. Where I am, for example, everyone’s running around with…[Read more]

Probably more “quantitative easing” in the economics of fear. Fear is like a currency: when the social engineers think there isn’t enough in circulation, they manufacture more.

The right browser + ad blocker can do wonders.

Thanks, Dana. This is helpful to physics illiterates like me!

Such thinking (though it is but the quintessence of common sense) would require an acknowledgment of one’s own imperfection. The odds on that?

I think 2020 had some full-on MK Ultra applied to the whole world. Probably with some emotion-inducing, thought-deranging EMF wave tech thrown in.

What’s the point? That’s easy: Humiliate Trump, demoralize his supporters, squash populism, make it impossible for Trump to run for office again, dissuade any anti-establishment or populist-type candidate from ever running again, and set a legal precedent for retroactive impeachment as a means of politically blackmailing future presidents.…[Read more]

Also including breaking the principle that the law cannot (or at least should not) be applied retroactively.

There are going to be state-level moves around this whole topic too. For instance:
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/28/iowa-legislature-pro-gun-keep-and-bear-arms-constitutional-amendment-2022-ballot/4291697001/

All part of the local-vs.-federal trend.

Oh, “and foreign policy”? Didn’t know that was part of it! Interesting…

This is such an odd and interesting development… all these stock exchanges and other companies talking about moving to Texas. Wish I knew what it was all about! Big NYC financial firms have been opening offices in or moving to South Florida–not ideal if you’re worried about hurricanes or floods, but it’s just offices, not stock-exchange…[Read more]

I agree with you there. They do seem to be in a panic or frenzy.

I hate to be contrarian, but I read this an entirely different way. In fact, it’s almost as if they’re taking the Jee-Had-Ee meme back out of the toolbox. Today: “Look at all these dire new threats!” Tomorrow: “To protect you from these threats, we must curtail your rights and impose restrictions.” The article even throws in the old standby…[Read more]

PiPoe – I appreciate your efforts… but I didn’t mean to suggest I was interested in a secure forum somewhere for discussing “iffy” topics. The stuff prohibited by the giza TOS is stuff I wouldn’t advocate anywhere anyway. My point was simply about subject matter. There seem to be different views on what the forum is / should be for: Only…[Read more]

Well, it’s a meme that’s been put back in the toolbox–ready to be picked up and used again if/when needed.

Yes, it will continue and get worse.

Yes, I get the “discretion is the better part of valor” part and the Terms of Service, and those things make total sense to me.

mRNA = a business model. It will be used to target umpteen different things.

While I don’t agree with all of it, it does have some interesting suggestions, and I think solutions-oriented thinking is extremely important right now. I’d post on the solutions topic myself, but I’m still trying to figure out what the rules or consensus about appropriate forum topics is.