@HealthRanger Covid taught me that most "good" people were actually just cowards. They didn't have any principles, and only took it because they were afraid to think, were scared of offending authority, & perhaps losing their jobs. They turned from nice to outright bullies towards refuseniks.
@HealthRanger I think Tom Woods recently stated, that it's necessary to speak ill of the deceased if it's warranted, otherwise all the history books would be written in error, never mentioning the shortcomings, failures, and character deficits of so many warmongers in the political class.
@HealthRanger Recently came to the conclusion that 'nice' people DO NOT automatically go to heaven, because they are not actually good, but simply cowards who go along to get along with whatever flavour of "morality" that majority has approved. Like 'Good Germans'. Only courage enters heaven.
@martianwyrdlord I slept with alot of girls. Then I left that chase behind, when I found that they were boring and useless timesinks, and my curiosity married the always interesting internet instead. Been hooked ever since. The internet allowed everyone, to find all our various subcultures.
Twenty years ago, a blood pressure of 150 over 90 got you told to exercise more and cut the salt.
Then the line dropped to 140. Then 130. Now it sits around 120.
Nothing changed about the human body. Only the number changed.
"You would not believe how often they move the goalposts."
That's Alan Cassels, a health policy researcher who has spent decades tracking how disease definitions get written and who writes them.
"When you lower the level at which you start treating someone, or telling someone that they're ill or potentially ill from high blood pressure, you expand the massive pool of people that become patients."
And the line only ever moves one way. They never redraw a definition in a way that shrinks the pool.
Cholesterol is the cleanest example.
"Just by lowering the level at which we would consider high cholesterol to be a condition, overnight, they would expand the number of Americans who would be treated for cholesterol lowering drugs by 25 million people."
Cassels says the Canadian diabetes guidelines carry conflict-of-interest disclosures that run 15 or 20 pages.
"The pharmaceutical companies are very good at putting their own people on guideline committees."
You are not diagnosing more disease. You are manufacturing more patients.
@capitalistexp Just got back an exceptional blood test. Mysteriously my LDL was the only factor out of range. Ignored it. Doc says I'm the best looking 50-y/o he's ever seen. Bets on me being the one to hit 100. Yup, they've been changing the #'s. Statins are the new covid vaccine. Not for me.
@martianwyrdlord Smart people in general reproduce less because they favour quality over quantity. BUT nature favours the exact OPPOSITE. It is a numbers game for nature, which simply wants foolish but healthy young people to breed, and bear all the consequences for it.
@martianwyrdlord Reproduction runs contrary to knowledge and intellect. Society, civilization and all species rest on a necessary foundation of ignorance. If everyone were rational, we would cease to exist entirely.
@truthstreamnews It's such a better experience elsewhere. In Istanbul, the agent came up to me afterwards and gave me a couple of bottles of water after my screening. Elsewhere they hold babies and play with them while moms go thru processing.
@BrianAtlas ARE YOU NUTS! There's no way we are give up Scott without a couple of 1st round draft picks in return. His contribution in the dressing room is under-appreciated.
@truthstreamnews@MrEwanMorrison Come to accept that the human species would no longer exist if we were more smart than stupid. Truth is not evolutionary advantageous. Nature is punking us, in order to continue to procreate. Then she hands us the bill and laughs at us.
@AdamSimecka Can one still use a phone for non communication purposes (no calls, no internet, no network) simply for music player, without ever needing to upgrade or install anything ever again?
@rupasubramanya@TroyMontana18 Rupa, the difference between Canadian youth and immigrant youth, is that the former is lazy, doesn't care and doesn't show up. The latter are lazy, don't care, AFTER they show up.
@IterIntellectus I was a virgin male until 25 or so. I only gave in because the relationships was doomed if I didn't pursue sex with them. I tried to be the good guy who waited, but became what woman proved they wanted... the confident, exciting type who could get girls in bed in under 2 hours.