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Are americans complaining "just spoiled" Winston Sterzel recently claimed that all the complaints you hear from americans about their country is proof that the country is good. Obviously that is not actually the case, people complaining is an indication that their country is bad. So what are...

Central bank digital currency The state shall control the official payment system, people should not have to worry about their savings disappearing because some bank went bankrupt. The issue with typical savings accounts is that then it's just money the bank owes you backed largely by loans...

Car free cities Currently a lot of city space is allocated to cars that pollute and kill a lot of people. We do not need cars in cities. People can travel by other means. Some people may still need a car for traveling outside any city but in these cases they could just lease a car. People...

Political survival of the fittest If there isn't a political monopoly we will have different factions/individuals competing for power. The more power a faction has the better their ability will be to influence society to gain even more power. This potentially creates a positive feedback loop...

My observations consuming leftwing media They like to paint themselves as following the science but very often they just refer to bodies like the CDC as authority figures instead of realizing that these bodies are political in nature. Leftwingers seem to believe that we can just trust people...

Queer theory and gender performance Queer theorists like to define gender as socially constructed roles people perform. They also want to define "man" and "women" based on gender rather than sex. While this is sometimes promoted as a way to help trans people it's not clear that this is...

Omicron mortality estimate Let's take a look at data from Sweden The peak was slighly less than 50000 cases/day on average. Now let's look at what the peak mortality is It's now around 20 days from the peak and mortality is at around 50/day. Slightly more than 0.1% of the ones infected...

My observations so far consuming left-wing media They like to paint themselves as following the science but very often they just refer to bodies like the CDC as authority figures instead of realizing that these bodies are political in nature. Leftwingers seem to believe that we can just trust...

Someone shared this image https://archive.fo/3snbA The image is misleading, female landwhales can also get sex.

China still hasn't approved any mRNA vaccine One misconception is that china couldn't get these vaccine, this is false. They had every opportunity to use these but they have refused to approve any of them. https://fortune.com/2022/01/26/china-covid-vaccine-mrna-homegrown-walvax-reopen-borders/...

Covaxin vaccine trial The placebo group did worse (especially in terms of more serious adverse events) proving the vaccine to be beneficial on average From the supplementary appendix There does seem to be some typo here, should be "after dose 2" at one of the rows. This is a bit of a red...

Sweden vs USA Sweden was not very keen on vaccine mandates, our government does seem to respect the people a lot more than the Canadian and US government. I didn't agree with the herd immunity strategy Sweden opted for against covid but at least the strategy made logical sense, Anders Tegnell...

"mutually assured destruction" debunked The notion that the short-term catastrophy caused by nuclear war would prevent it from happening is very much false. What it does mean however is that countries looking to expand will prioritize targets who cannot defend themselves with nuclear weapons...

Madman theory If you have nuclear weapons but it's obvious you are unwilling to actually pull the trigger and kill millions of people other countries will not take you seriously, for this reason both trump and nixon tried to play crazy but it didn't really work. You need to demonstrate you are...

Medieval Iceland Medieval Iceland (which is the closest to anarcho-capitalism i know of) was a primitive society and it still collapsed after 290 years. The actual governance became more and more like pure elite rule (power centralization) but because they didn't have an exacutive power people...

About different branches of government and democracy Having all these different branches of government is not inherit to democracy. Several democratic countries have the parliament be supreme and no real checks to their power besides the election they could rig if they really wanted, Sweden is...

Time to embrace authoritarianism One very common notion especially among Americans is that we should 'limit' the power of government by having all these institutions and decentralization. Not even i know all the various political bodies and posts for the US, here is just some of them 0. The...

Defining authoritarianism There isn't any consensus on this so i am going to propose a definition. "Authoritarianism" is a system of government where 70 to 100% of the highest authority is centralized to a single individual or body consisting of less than 0.25 % of the population with weak/no...

Sinopharm vaccine trial They used aluminium oxide injections as 'placebo' control. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8156175/bin/jama-e218565-s003.pdf WIV04: 5 µg/dose; n = 13 459 HB02: 4 µg/dose; n = 13 465 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8156175/

Why SRS is a bad idea Last year i was in contact with a trans female that pursued SRS, she had spent years researching this and had finally found a surgeon she was confident in. She even gave special instruction to the surgeons to make sure she got the best result (she mentioned that another...