Not having a trusted provider could also just mean being young, mobile and invincible. And yes, I did NOT understand then that flu shots were not about me, they were about herd immunity.
My personal theory that we are in this medical mess is because this country has monetized science and medicine for profit. This has led to many American being shut out from the benefits of science and medicine. It doesn't help that monetized science and medicine has a nasty habit of saying no while taking your money. So, here comes medical and science woowoo to fill that void. The attraction of woowoo is that woowoo will never say no to access to said woowoo, and woowoo will always take your money.
Ooo the $$$& to be made from all the rubes wanting to be convinced their willful ignorance is really a sign of how smart their outside the box thinking really is.
My big fear is that the AI โrevolutionโ will accelerate the spread of willful ignorance. Every search engine and website is now employing AI while scouring the internet for information, and by its very nature AI is seeking median consensus, NOT factual accuracy. As far as I can tell, itโs the dissenters against reality that are the most vocal on the web, and it doesnโt take an advanced understanding of mathematics to realize those percentages are not good. Itโs not like any of these people are reading medical or scientific journals to verify their beliefs.
Itโs always important to remember how information is prioritized on the internet. Users are generally the PRODUCT, not the customer. We are there to be farmed for personal information and to target advertising. This is done by attempting to keep users engaged on a particular site, be it Google or YouTube or whatever, and they accomplish that by funneling information that users WANT to consume, whether factual or not, rather than information that will turn them away. When you type a search item into Google, you do NOT get the same responses as somebody somewhere else with a different browsing history, and that has been true for years now.
When disinformation is spread this easily, and the tech industry as a whole seems invested in incentivizing the consumption of lies, it presents a legitimately scary future. You can now easily โproveโ anything with a few strokes on the keyboard.
"familiarity with the notion that mRNA vaccines can alter your DNA has โdropped by 9 percentage points since April 2025 (from 45% to 36%)โ for instance."
Excellent! The changing of people's DNA so they won't remember we are changing their DNA is working!!!!
Ta, Robyn. I WISH there had been an MMR vaccine when I was a child! It would have been far better than being so close to death at the ripe old age of six.
The main memory I think I have from measles is closing my eyes and making my mom think I was dying. Man, people have gotten stupider in the past few dozen years.
Before Project 2025 and DOGE, software engineer Curtis Yarvin (a blogger and self-professed โmonarchistโ) proposed RAGE, an acronym for Retire All Government Employees. He did this during a speech in 2012. ๐ 1/
With his 15 minutes of fame secured, the 'Q-Anon Shaman', Jacob Chansley, has only started on his journey to being the most important source of medical advice and treatments available to the redneck and unwashed MAGA masses. Who needs a fancy doctor when the Invisible and Omnipotent Forces of the Universe itself can be summoned and channeled to heal dying people who still have fifteen to thirty dollars in their wallets?
Of course Jacob himself will disdain to handle crass money with his bare hands and will have a support staff to 'accept your faith offering'. Certainly his shamanistic soul journey cannot be polluted by such materialistic window dressing and......what's that you say? He's suing the government for big money? Hollllllllyyyyyyyyyy shit! There I was thinking he was a shaman! But he's just another MAGA asshole. Knock me over with a feather please.
If memory serves after the covid vax had been available for a couple months something like 95% of hospitalizations and deaths were the stupid, unvaxed horse paste connoisseur's.
Better still, there are charts out there showing that the amount of money flowing into Trump's pockets through his grift companies matches, almost exactly, the amount that buyers of those companies' stocks have lost.
Not having a trusted provider could also just mean being young, mobile and invincible. And yes, I did NOT understand then that flu shots were not about me, they were about herd immunity.
My personal theory that we are in this medical mess is because this country has monetized science and medicine for profit. This has led to many American being shut out from the benefits of science and medicine. It doesn't help that monetized science and medicine has a nasty habit of saying no while taking your money. So, here comes medical and science woowoo to fill that void. The attraction of woowoo is that woowoo will never say no to access to said woowoo, and woowoo will always take your money.
I got the COVID 19 jab and now I find I have aged 5 years. No one warned me this would happen.
๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐๐ค๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ผ ๐โ๐๐ก๐๐๐ก๐ , ๐๐ข๐ก ๐ฆ๐๐๐ โ, ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ค ๐กโ๐๐ก, ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐.
I see another correlation here. Stupid people regularly use social media and AI chatbots for their medical information.
Maybe these people believe the lies because they're stupid.
Ooo the $$$& to be made from all the rubes wanting to be convinced their willful ignorance is really a sign of how smart their outside the box thinking really is.
The subtext of all conspiracy theories is "We are smarter than you."
Are you srsly expecting me to believe that โDO UR OWN RESRCH1!11!1!โ
is not especially effective?
My big fear is that the AI โrevolutionโ will accelerate the spread of willful ignorance. Every search engine and website is now employing AI while scouring the internet for information, and by its very nature AI is seeking median consensus, NOT factual accuracy. As far as I can tell, itโs the dissenters against reality that are the most vocal on the web, and it doesnโt take an advanced understanding of mathematics to realize those percentages are not good. Itโs not like any of these people are reading medical or scientific journals to verify their beliefs.
Itโs always important to remember how information is prioritized on the internet. Users are generally the PRODUCT, not the customer. We are there to be farmed for personal information and to target advertising. This is done by attempting to keep users engaged on a particular site, be it Google or YouTube or whatever, and they accomplish that by funneling information that users WANT to consume, whether factual or not, rather than information that will turn them away. When you type a search item into Google, you do NOT get the same responses as somebody somewhere else with a different browsing history, and that has been true for years now.
When disinformation is spread this easily, and the tech industry as a whole seems invested in incentivizing the consumption of lies, it presents a legitimately scary future. You can now easily โproveโ anything with a few strokes on the keyboard.
It already is. People are offloading their thinking. Actually using AI for responding to comments in forums. I'm not even kidding. :(
Can you imagine what an AI trying to respond here would sound like?
In progress. Combined with regime's under- and anti-education campaigns.
You say, "a solid 55 percent reject all 4." I would change that to a pathetic 55 percent!
"familiarity with the notion that mRNA vaccines can alter your DNA has โdropped by 9 percentage points since April 2025 (from 45% to 36%)โ for instance."
Excellent! The changing of people's DNA so they won't remember we are changing their DNA is working!!!!
All part of the process.
Ta, Robyn. I WISH there had been an MMR vaccine when I was a child! It would have been far better than being so close to death at the ripe old age of six.
Err, not Robyn: Dok Z.
So glad you are here with us now!
The main memory I think I have from measles is closing my eyes and making my mom think I was dying. Man, people have gotten stupider in the past few dozen years.
Dude needs to buy hisself a chin
Jenny Cohn
โช@jennycohn.bsky.socialโฌ
Before Project 2025 and DOGE, software engineer Curtis Yarvin (a blogger and self-professed โmonarchistโ) proposed RAGE, an acronym for Retire All Government Employees. He did this during a speech in 2012. ๐ 1/
https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lh7yxqvo7c2o
He's one of the most dangerous men in this country that most people don't know about.
He looks like he never bathes.
So, a Steve Bannon acolyte, then?
He's another one who should never know the touch of a woman if there were a shred of justice in this world.
He's a disgusting pig-looking muppet.
His picture is in the German-English dictionary to illustrate backpfeifengesicht, what we described in college as a punch-me face.
LOL!!!!!!
Dr. Fauci told them to wash their hands, and they still want revenge.
OMG, this. They need to shut the fuck up. It's beyond ridiculous. And Nazi, I'm sorry.
With his 15 minutes of fame secured, the 'Q-Anon Shaman', Jacob Chansley, has only started on his journey to being the most important source of medical advice and treatments available to the redneck and unwashed MAGA masses. Who needs a fancy doctor when the Invisible and Omnipotent Forces of the Universe itself can be summoned and channeled to heal dying people who still have fifteen to thirty dollars in their wallets?
Of course Jacob himself will disdain to handle crass money with his bare hands and will have a support staff to 'accept your faith offering'. Certainly his shamanistic soul journey cannot be polluted by such materialistic window dressing and......what's that you say? He's suing the government for big money? Hollllllllyyyyyyyyyy shit! There I was thinking he was a shaman! But he's just another MAGA asshole. Knock me over with a feather please.
Every MAGA dime sent to this asshole is one not sent to a candidate
He definitely never bathes.
No need for a feather to knock me over when I got an unwashed shaman stank to get the job done.
โAIโ chatbots seem to me a terribly expensive gloss on this thingโฆ
Like sure letโs spend trillions of dollars and cook off the water and energy we otherwise kinda need for fields of transistorsโฆ
โฆ that mostly summarize dumb.
Let me keep this simple:
You have an adaptive immune system. Learns specifically to fuck with particular pathogens itโs met.
Vaccines just introduce them. Kinda like showing them the โWantedโ poster.
Oh also: some people believe chatbots.
Chatbots are kinda like your elderly relative with too much time on their hands that spend a lot of it on Facebook.
So: likely to be reasonably current on whoโs dating whom. Less reliable for immunology.
If memory serves after the covid vax had been available for a couple months something like 95% of hospitalizations and deaths were the stupid, unvaxed horse paste connoisseur's.
I remember a reporter asking a Republican Congressman if he was vaxxed, and he asked why none of the reporters ever ask that question of Democrats.
"Because 100% of the Democratic Caucus is vaccinated," was the reply.
OT: And by everybody, he means his crooked cronies.
๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ข๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ก *$๐ญ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ก* ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ฃ๐ง๐ข!
๐๐ข๐ก ๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐: '๐๐ฉ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐๐ข๐๐ฌ'๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ง๐๐ก๐'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-crypto-millions-income_n_6a443291e4b0032dbc13ba77
Better still, there are charts out there showing that the amount of money flowing into Trump's pockets through his grift companies matches, almost exactly, the amount that buyers of those companies' stocks have lost.
More on that.
๐ง๐ฟ๐๐บ๐ฝโ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฑ $๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฑ, ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐๐ผ, ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ $1.4 ๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ณ๐บ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฐ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐บ, ๐ฅ๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ๐ด, ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ด.
https://wapo.st/4f0gcgq
Crypto isn't even real monies!
At Donnie's end of the transaction, it turns into real money in an offshore account.
It's real to those who can be convinced it's real, i.e., other grifters
Good as far as it goes, there are still way too many people that believe in nonsense though.