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Taiwan is not China.

It's no big surprise. The cult of woke, having wrapped itself around the neck of the project, is now going for the squeeze. Expect it to continue in this vein for a few years until…

Understandable reaction, but too broad. Like a lot of other areas of the culture war, there's a big faction you'd agree with. I'll never have a CoC on any project I work on. I cons…

OK. VAERS just sounds the alarm, at which point we have to investigate further. Peter Schirmacher apparently did autopsies and established a lower bound that about 30% of the victi…

I'm sorry in advance if I'm not understanding again, but is the suggestion that we normally get however many cases of e.g. aphasia, but we just didn't know in 2019 because there wa…

1) OK, but is it your suggestion that it's just uneducated people swept up in a craze who are flooding VAERS with valid-looking reports about e.g., pulmonary embolism, deep vein th…

> Honestly I think you're proving the need for this ban on YouTube. You seem to be trying to get it right, but you've been hoodwinked by the misinformation. I think you're proving …

The headline is wrong to call it "misinformation", at least in something that's supposed to be a news report. Calling it misinformation is just expressing an opinion, which makes t…

It doesn't look as if the filtering can be on attachment filename.

I have some views on this I'd like to share with other people. Does anyone know of a web site where people can share their thoughts without having their account disabled if they ha…

"failed to gain traction in the mainstream press" is an incredibly misleading way to relate what happened. The New York Post broke the story, and Twitter locked their account, oste…

Well, I regret how I phrased my answer. I read a lot of books about Buddhism and listen to a lot of monks explain things about Buddhism, and I really meant "all that stuff", i.e., …

If you're completely content with how things are already, you're one of the rare individuals who has no need for meditation.

I am not advocating wanting to be happy, I'm advocating cultivating happiness that does not depend on circumstances. There's a parable called "who knows what's good or bad?" that a…

> So, an appeal to tradition is all you have? Hmm, no, sorry if that's how it seemed. I mean the tens of thousands of books, talks, testimonials, etc, that make specific claims lik…

I agree, enlightenment can happen many different ways. I see Buddhism as just one collection of strategies to achieve it. But I don't agree that it's obvious. It's so non-obvious t…

The basic problem of life is that by default, happiness depends on circumstances that you don't control. Meditation helps cultivate a kind of happiness that does not depend on gett…

Well, I think it's pretty easy to see differences between, say, Christianity and Buddhism. Do you know of any Christians who claim to have had some breakthrough in prayer after whi…

Well, suppose your best friend told you that he did some practice for a while, and gradually got rid of what he estimated to be 99% of the suffering he'd had before. What form do y…

It's a distraction to talk about specific vulnerabilities in specific implementations of 'vaccine passports'. The entire idea is incredibly dangerous to free society. If you wouldn…

> Is there any evidence mindfulness as taught and practiced by, well, those who teach and practice it, is good for anything? Well, the 26 centuries of Buddhism, and all those monks…

This is also a confession by the CCP that the Canadians were being held as hostages.

> That's quite the claim to make. Is it? What do you imagine would prevent it from happening just like I suggested? Can PCR tell the difference between live virus that's causing il…

Well, we might say it counts less, because fewer years of life are lost. Sorry to say, but we expect people at or beyond life expectancy to die of something.