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i always liked the "Great Ideas of Philosophy" series by Daniel Robinson, for the Teaching Company (now the Great Courses). it's available to purchase from the great courses websit…

there is a large archive of roguelikes available here: https://archive.org/details/ArchiveRL.7z

FTA: "In a press release on Tuesday, the South Pasadena Police Department outlined a different set of facts, declaring at first that “detectives do not believe Mr. Musk or any memb…

devalued in the sense that it's easy to trip over some low bar for the new definition and be assigned that label. not devalued all that much in the sense of the negative effect tha…

Technically, if it was a fact it would be malinformation. https://www.cisa.gov/mdm https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat... (paragraph 2)

I guess you want something more than online news and commentary to assess the economic state of [country], so as an attempt at a useful answer i'll provide this. go here https://tr…

two i didnt see mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlphaPhoenixChannel https://www.youtube.com/c/braintruffle

there's a recently developed alternative inflation measure here that looks rather good. https://app.truflation.com/

"Inclusion criteria were an age of 18 years or older; presentation to an outpatient care setting with an acute clinical condition consistent with Covid-19 within 7 days after sympt…

some bitcoin mining energy usage stats https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/...

i am guessing no

I do acknowledge the benefits of public health mandates in certain dire situations, i was simply trying to say comparing data between different places with different degrees of res…

who are you quoting?

you could do it for any covid-related public health measure or mandate, depending on the places you compared. denmark and sweden and norway and the UK are all ending, or have ended…

i recall looking over the occupancy numbers for the temporary hospitals and hospital ships deployed as a response to the 2020 outbreaks in the UK and US, and they were mostly empty…

obesity- and smoking-related illnesses take up a huge share of available health care resources. to say they are "clogging up" hospital beds is a little insensitive though.

while you wait for more research, i suggest looking at the countries that have ended their mandates this year, and how they are doing, as a cheap and expedient form of research int…

the "one guy" you are referring to seems to be reputable and experienced enough to be speaking through the lancet. https://www.rmian.org/dr-carlos-francoparedes

i'm not vaccinated and will not be getting the jab, and i think vaccine mandates are a laughably bad idea, but you could easily just say less severe disease = less pressure on publ…

first solution word i got was "DONNA" which was kind of rough to guess. second game it told me "DRAPE" wasn't a word. the game worked fine though, thanks. there's an everyday varia…

he's made numerous comments about the US needing to be more competitive with china for many years, so it may just be as simple as that.

yep https://justpaste.it/9sm9l

television does that way more than joe rogan.

see also: https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html

A couple i didn't see mentioned yet: The Jolly Swagman Podcast is surprisingly good, last episode was in October though. https://josephnoelwalker.com/podcast/ Some popsci youtubers…