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Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys

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stasomatic wrote: post #746
1-more wrote: post #717

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The deer are full of Chronic Wasting Disease and we've half given up trying to stop it. Many states have stopped their targeted culling programs because they're ineffective once incidence is above 5%. You're suicidal if you eat meat that you know comes from an animal with a prion disease.

I've never hunted (yet). Have fished plenty but that doesn't count. I lived for a year in a suburb of Charlotte NC a couple of years ago, and there were herds of whitetails on my dog walks. I'd like to learn more about "Chronic Wasting Disease" if you have any resources, because on podcasts or r/Archery and the like, "harvesting your own food" is par for the course. Thank you.

Decent overview from the US CDC https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-wasting/about/index.html in one study, Rhesus monkeys were infected by eating CWD infected meat. There's no cure or mitigation of prion diseases so that'd be enough for me to stay away from hunted deer in any county with reported incidence of it. And deer range and roam, and not every place in the country is as on top of testing for it as everywhere else. Maybe I'm Chicken Little, but I don't like the odds.

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1-more wrote: post #751
stasomatic wrote: post #746

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I've never hunted (yet). Have fished plenty but that doesn't count. I lived for a year in a suburb of Charlotte NC a couple of years ago, and there were herds of whitetails on my dog walks. I'd like to learn more about "Chronic Wasting Disease" if you have any resources, because on podcasts or r/Archery and the like, "harvesting your own food" is par for the course. Thank you.

Decent overview from the US CDC https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-wasting/about/index.html in one study, Rhesus monkeys were infected by eating CWD infected meat. There's no cure or mitigation of prion diseases so that'd be enough for me to stay away from hunted deer in any county with reported incidence of it. And deer range and roam, and not every place in the country is as on top of testing for it as everywhere else. Ma…

Thanks. Wild stuff, pun intended. Even though the article mentions “The disease hasn't been shown to infect people”, just the thought of a “maybe” is deterrent enough. But then, who knows what’s in the meat I’m getting from Costco. Perhaps the fish are next and the Soylent future is upon us.

Re: Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys

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dudefeliciano wrote: post #723
1234letshaveatw wrote: post #660

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Only decimating his biggest allies. Putin prob loves that

Do you mean the replacing of the old Khamenei with a younger, more vigorous and extreme Khamenei? Utterly destroying the world economy (as well as the environment, but who cares about that) for what gain specifically? Or do you mean decimating the US allies in Europe and the West?

I mean what I stated- decimation. More vigorous lol, as compared to a slug?

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sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #693
eudamoniac wrote: post #679

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I can't really, because I read the whole thing and I don't see what you're saying at all. Like not even the worst one could I interpret as anti human. I don't get it.

"21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful." This is incredibly racist, ending thinking at "well, some types of people…

Do you not think Western democratic culture isn't superior to, say, fundamentalist Islam, Soviet style communism, or even totalitarianism in the current Chinese mold?

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Post by stackedinserter »

pphysch wrote: post #726
stackedinserter wrote: post #721

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It's (was) neither prison nor concentration camp. It wasn't even "occupied" by Israel. Last Israelis were forced to move out 20 years ago, and never came back. That piece of land could be heaven on earth with all support that they received.

Is that how you rationalize Native American Tribal Reservations as well? Heaven on earth? A privileged gift from the white man?

What does it have to do with american reservations?

Gaza would be totally livable place if they didn't invest themselves into "death to israel" ideology. It actually WAS nice and livable, otherwise Israel wouldn't forcibly remove their citizens from there 20 years ago.

Do people fight against being released from prison?

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bdangubic wrote: post #491
stasomatic wrote: post #343

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What's the recourse when they fall into a natural senile abyss like with the previous POTUS? Wait and see? I naively lived under an assumption there was a system of checks and balances that's not a coup d'état.

previous POTUS? you meant current, right?

Yes, my mistake.
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