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Ted Noel vs masks and social distancing Here he did an illustration on how limited protection various masks offers It does seem like some were not properly fitted but this will also be the case a lot in the real life. One big issue in his reasoning is discarding a mask as useless for only...

About big rip cyclic cosmology Earlier this seemed to be a straight forward fix for all issues in cosmology but lately there has been research pointing in other directions https://youtu.be/EqKEev6FD9U?t=1535 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmDszPExepc...

Can you get something like that as a trans female today? In some bigger cities you might be able to get some great things as a transbian (trans female attracted to females) since then there will be a big pool of transbian there and you can join/form some transbian community. The biggest issue is...

Lack of adult responsibilities With these idealized animes the main-characters do not have to worry about their economy. Instead the main-characters are in school where they can meet a lot of people and then have fun outside school. In reality however for society to function a lot of people do...

Anime like "kämpfer" and "kashimashi girl meets girl" (forced MtF) presents a very appealing idealized version if what it means to be female. If you look at their societies they are essentially ideal, not too high-tech, people having fun actually meeting each other doing cool things. In reality...

Studies on myocarditis risk CDC did release a paper showing the myocarditis risk to be much lower than the number of hospitalizations prevented: cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2021-08-30/06-COVID-Rosenblum-508.pdf The following (not yet peer reviewed) study found a very...

Europe is waking up to the reality that we cannot rely on the US for our defense People have pushed for an european army for years (for very good reasons) but finally this is getting some traction thanks to the afghanistan fiasco...

Them blowing up the mountain actually happened september 4 republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/northern-alliance-blows-up-mountain-traps-and-kills-200-taliban-trying-to-breach-panjshir.html The video above does seem to be a typical "feel good" video telling people the situation...

Did new york kill people with ventilators? Early on in the pandemic the standard of care was to go straight to invasive mechanical ventilation rather than first trying less invasive options, it then turned out that 88% of the intubated died (early study)...

Why the mandatory masks failed They told people to wear mask but authorities were were unwilling to recommend masks that actually protects people since they were afraid of hospitals running out of them. As a result most people ended up just wearing some cloth masks and the pandemic continued...

The difficulty problem with single player games Single player games are typically optimized for the average player and tend to become too easy even on the highest difficulty once you have played them enough, far cry 2 is an example of this. So what do people do with games that are now too...

Daniil Kvyat vs Max Verstappen This is Daniil Kvyat, a Russian F1 driver He came to Formula One in 2014, on the top of his game, with dreams of becoming a world champion. He drove for Toro Rosso, a midfield team, with hopes of being promoted to the main, front-running team, Red Bull Racing...

Things like sports and videogames create an artificial challenge. It can be very effective in giving a false sense of accomplishment such as when you finally manage to beat the final boss in metroid prime. When you are too young to deal with the real world artificial challenges such as trying...

Indian News Used Arma 3 Footage To Claim Pakistan Is Supporting The Taliban Turns out the news earlier about Pakistan using their air-force against the Panjshir valley was fake news. https://www.thegamer.com/indian-news-arma-3-pakistan-taliban/ There is a lot of hate for pakistan in india...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_xCnDjhHzw apnews.com/article/middle-east-pakistan-afghanistan-arrests-islamabad-d50b1b490d27d32eb20cc11b77c12c87 The taliban did deny interference by Pakistan. Turns out females will be allowed to study at university using a curtain to separate the sexes...

The average 'sex-offender' is now 14 This is a consequence of feminism. The average age of someone on the sex-offender list is now 14. This illustrates how far gone we already are. https://www.freerangekids.com/what-is-the-most-common-age-of-a-sex-offender-surprise/ It's unclear to what degree...

In r/afghanistan they shared this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvRXABpOA5k No proper confirmation for this of course, there has been earlier reports of Tajikistan helping out the Northern Alliance but Tajikistan denied this.

republicworld.com/world-news/pakistan-news/panjshir-valley-under-attack-by-pakistan-air-force-drones-bomb-salehs-house-reports.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/06/asia/afghanistan-monday-intl-hnk/index.html