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 “revolution” 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, it’s the dissenters against reality that are the most vocal on the web, and it doesn’t take an advanced understanding of mathematics to realize those percentages are not good. It’s not like any of these people are reading medical or scientific journals to verify their beliefs.
It’s 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 “prove” anything with a few strokes on the keyboard.
"familiarity with the notion that mRNA vaccines can alter your DNA has “dropped by 9 percentage points since April 2025 (from 45% to 36%)” 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 “monarchist”) proposed RAGE, an acronym for Retire All Government Employees. He did this during a speech in 2012. 👇 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.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝐼 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑒𝑒𝑠ℎ, 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑.
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 “DO UR OWN RESRCH1!11!1!”
is not especially effective?
My big fear is that the AI “revolution” 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, it’s the dissenters against reality that are the most vocal on the web, and it doesn’t take an advanced understanding of mathematics to realize those percentages are not good. It’s not like any of these people are reading medical or scientific journals to verify their beliefs.
It’s 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 “prove” 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 “dropped by 9 percentage points since April 2025 (from 45% to 36%)” 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
@jennycohn.bsky.social
Before Project 2025 and DOGE, software engineer Curtis Yarvin (a blogger and self-professed “monarchist”) proposed RAGE, an acronym for Retire All Government Employees. He did this during a speech in 2012. 👇 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.
‘AI’ chatbots seem to me a terribly expensive gloss on this thing…
Like sure let’s spend trillions of dollars and cook off the water and energy we otherwise kinda need for fields of transistors…
… that mostly summarize dumb.
Let me keep this simple:
You have an adaptive immune system. Learns specifically to fuck with particular pathogens it’s met.
Vaccines just introduce them. Kinda like showing them the ‘Wanted’ 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 who’s 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.
𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗭 𝗣𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡 *$𝟭 𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡* 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗖𝗥𝗬𝗣𝗧𝗢!
𝗗𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗦𝗛𝗥𝗨𝗚: '𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬'𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗙𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚'
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.
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 $𝟮 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼, 𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 $1.4 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺, 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴.
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.