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Created by remery > 9 months ago, 3 Jul 2024
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Pcdefender
WA, 1607 posts
16 Sep 2024 5:32PM
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If you disagree with THEIR science it's not a disagreement. You're just wrong.

So the of scientists who are in the majority are correct and the scientists in the minority are wrong lol.



Anyone who falls for your meme deserves what's coming.

japie
NSW, 7145 posts
16 Sep 2024 7:37PM
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Pcdefender said..
If you disagree with THEIR science it's not a disagreement. You're just wrong.

So the of scientists who are in the majority are correct and the scientists in the minority are wrong lol.



Anyone who falls for your meme deserves what's coming.


Careful, you'll attract his ire and he will be forced to blow his nose in your direction, get banned again and then we will all be left pensively awaiting his return having been unbearably deprived of great pearls of wisdom.

fangman
WA, 1906 posts
16 Sep 2024 6:39PM
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remery
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16 Sep 2024 8:43PM
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japie said..

Pcdefender said..
If you disagree with THEIR science it's not a disagreement. You're just wrong.

So the of scientists who are in the majority are correct and the scientists in the minority are wrong lol.



Anyone who falls for your meme deserves what's coming.



Careful, you'll attract his ire and he will be forced to blow his nose in your direction, get banned again and then we will all be left pensively awaiting his return having been unbearably deprived of great pearls of wisdom.


Banned? Did I miss something? There are many people that benefit from my pearls of wisdom.

FormulaNova
WA, 15086 posts
16 Sep 2024 8:52PM
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remery said..
japie said..

Pcdefender said..
If you disagree with THEIR science it's not a disagreement. You're just wrong.

So the of scientists who are in the majority are correct and the scientists in the minority are wrong lol.



Anyone who falls for your meme deserves what's coming.



Careful, you'll attract his ire and he will be forced to blow his nose in your direction, get banned again and then we will all be left pensively awaiting his return having been unbearably deprived of great pearls of wisdom.


Banned? Did I miss something? There are many people that benefit from my pearls of wisdom.


You didn't realise you were suspended? You just stepped away from the keyboard and didn't think about it until now?

Your userprofile looked similar to the following, but not quite the same:








I guess, they came back, so why shouldn't you?

Mr Milk
NSW, 3115 posts
16 Sep 2024 11:27PM
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I want this potential new member to join. They should be more than capable of taking both sides of an argument
www.vox.com/future-perfect/371827/openai-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-ai-risk-strawberry

myscreenname
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16 Sep 2024 10:23PM
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I want this potential new member to join. They should be more than capable of taking both sides of an argument
www.vox.com/future-perfect/371827/openai-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-ai-risk-strawberry

Strawberry would probably do better than most of us on this quiz.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-14/artificial-intelligence-real-fake-quiz-abc-news-verify/104148236

FormulaNova
WA, 15086 posts
17 Sep 2024 6:47AM
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Mr Milk said..
I want this potential new member to join. They should be more than capable of taking both sides of an argument
www.vox.com/future-perfect/371827/openai-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-ai-risk-strawberry


What do you do when the AIs start talking to each other? Is it better when they do that or worse?


Pcdefender
WA, 1607 posts
18 Sep 2024 2:22AM
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Safe and effective

thecanadianindependent.substack.com/p/watch-a-woman-has-taken-to-social

FormulaNova
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18 Sep 2024 5:46AM
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Do you just choose the first topic you come across to post your stuff? Stuff that never seems to be on topic or discussing anyone else's point ever?

Do you have conversations in real-life? If so, do you just blurt out stuff and then go back to thinking about vaccines and then blurt something else out?

japie
NSW, 7145 posts
18 Sep 2024 8:12AM
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Listen to Brett Weinstein on the Joe Rogan podcast yesterday. That is eminent scientist, evolutionary biologist Brett Weinstein of the dark horse podcast and one time university professor.

Much of the time was spent discussing why he has ceased to be a lifelong Democrat supporter and is now a fully committed RWNJ. The conversation kicked off on the constitution and how The New York Times is now suggesting that it is no longer relevant as it has become an impediment to government. Which of course is exactly what it was designed to do.

Many other subjects discussed including of course Covid. Well worth listening to!

fangman
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18 Sep 2024 7:32AM
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Carantoc
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18 Sep 2024 10:53AM
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I had assumed this was a test for us all, seeing as this is a thread about critical thinking. But I see it has been posted in other threads so I assume the poster thinks it is somehow true or correct ?

But how bizarre. It claims science is a process, not an outcome then immediately concludes science has an opinion. It seems to confuse the word science for scientist in the last sentence, but then seems to be completely blind to this as they use the word "it" in reference to science as a process and not "they/them" in reference to scientists, as devotees of the scientific process.

It would seem to me the original twitter poster has half a clue about life, but can't really then think that through and anyone who thinks what is posted is some sort of sage observation of the world probably has less than half a clue.

Quite incredibly I find PCD's response to this post more intelligent than remery's post. And that ain't somefink I'd have thought I would ever say.

remery
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18 Sep 2024 12:06PM
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She went to hospital suffering from Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria. Ten years ago survival was only about 50 percent.

Hemoglobin levels of less than 6.5 g/dL can be life threatening. According to Nurse Erin, her's was 3.1.

japie
NSW, 7145 posts
18 Sep 2024 6:53PM
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Carantoc said..

remery said..





I had assumed this was a test for us all, seeing as this is a thread about critical thinking. But I see it has been posted in other threads so I assume the poster thinks it is somehow true or correct ?

But how bizarre. It claims science is a process, not an outcome then immediately concludes science has an opinion. It seems to confuse the word science for scientist in the last sentence, but then seems to be completely blind to this as they use the word "it" in reference to science as a process and not "they/them" in reference to scientists, as devotees of the scientific process.

It would seem to me the original twitter poster has half a clue about life, but can't really then think that through and anyone who thinks what is posted is some sort of sage observation of the world probably has less than half a clue.

Quite incredibly I find PCD's response to this post more intelligent than remery's post. And that ain't somefink I'd have thought I would ever say.


Strikes me that it's some sort of cult.

remery
WA, 3709 posts
18 Sep 2024 5:20PM
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Strikes me that it's some sort of cult.


A cult the improves the understanding, health and wellbeing of humanity. You should join. Just three years in university will get you in.

Carantoc
WA, 7188 posts
18 Sep 2024 5:44PM
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A cult the improves the understanding, health and wellbeing of humanity. You should join..


Every cult says exactly that same thing.

fangman
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18 Sep 2024 6:11PM
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Carantoc said..

remery said..
A cult the improves the understanding, health and wellbeing of humanity. You should join..



Every cult says exactly that same thing.


I prefer the one that doesn't end with a mass suicide. Just sayin'...

remery
WA, 3709 posts
18 Sep 2024 6:50PM
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Carantoc said..

Every cult says exactly that same thing.


Hmm... most university entry requirements are assessed on the basis of academic qualifications and results. However, some courses also have additional selection criteria, such as a personal statement, questionnaire, portfolio, audition, interview or test, which are considered either instead of, or together with, academic qualifications. I'm thinking you would be rejected on the latter. But don't feel down, there are other ways you can contribute to society.

japie
NSW, 7145 posts
18 Sep 2024 9:52PM
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remery said..

japie said..

Strikes me that it's some sort of cult.



A cult the improves the understanding, health and wellbeing of humanity. You should join. Just three years in university will get you in.


You've reached an erroneous conclusion in assuming that I did not. Whilst not pure science fishery management requires a sound understanding of both biology and chemistry.

I kite with a mate who has a science doctorate. He taught at the University of Canberra. He quit owing to pressure to pass students who were not qualified to pass.

You're not the only individual on here who believes that a university education elevates the intellect above the common man.

Its an embarrassing mistake to make.

Pcdefender
WA, 1607 posts
18 Sep 2024 8:11PM
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University or uni verse / one narrative only taught there.

You do not need to be initiated into a cult all you have to do is blindly accept the narrative in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence.

Lets see - 140K reports of various harm from the C19 shots have been made in this country to the TGA database yet there are still a few who parrot the lie safe and effective.

We took a beach buggy all 238 000 miles up there in 1969 - when there is no evidence short of CGI etc to support this theory.



On another matter ,i spoke with a friend today who told me her best friend a 61 year-old former specialist disabled care nurse lost her 150K per year job at the hospital years ago after refusing to take her required shots.

She and her partner who was an engineer lived in a 6 bedroom house in Vic.Park.

Well, they now live in a one bedroom apartment in Thornlie.

Their combined income was around 350K per year but he also lost his job, not sure the reason.

Most of their savings was put into superannuation which they cannot access till around 67 from memory.

She is retraining as a medical administrator.

Material or health it came down to and she was clearly the exception to the rule.

Mr Milk
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18 Sep 2024 11:44PM
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japie said..




You're not the only individual on here who believes that a university education elevates the intellect above the common man.

Its an embarrassing mistake to make.



There is an evolutionary psychologist called Goeffrey Miller who makes the subversive argument that getting a degree is just a mating display to advertise intelligence to a prospective partner and could easily be replaced by solving sudoku puzzles.

Mr Milk
NSW, 3115 posts
18 Sep 2024 11:49PM
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Pcdefender said..
University or uni verse / one narrative only taught there.

You do not need to be initiated into a cult all you have to do is blindly accept the narrative in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence.

Lets see - 140K reports of various harm from the C19 shots have been made in this country to the TGA database yet there are still a few who parrot the lie safe and effective.

We took a beach buggy all 238 000 miles up there in 1969 - when there is no evidence short of CGI etc to support this theory.



On another matter ,i spoke with a friend today who told me her best friend a 61 year-old former specialist disabled care nurse lost her 150K per year job at the hospital years ago after refusing to take her required shots.

She and her partner who was an engineer lived in a 6 bedroom house in Vic.Park.

Well, they now live in a one bedroom apartment in Thornlie.

Their combined income was around 350K per year but he also lost his job, not sure the reason.

Most of their savings was put into superannuation which they cannot access till around 67 from memory.

She is retraining as a medical administrator.

Material or health it came down to and she was clearly the exception to the rule.


Completely wrong. You can't get an aged pension until 67, but you can get at your super as young as 55 for people born before 1/7/1960.
If you are really hard up, you can apply to access your super at any age.

myscreenname
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18 Sep 2024 9:49PM
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Most of their savings was put into superannuation which they cannot access till around 67 from memory.

Liar, she is aged 61 so she could have started collecting Super last year..

remery
WA, 3709 posts
18 Sep 2024 10:06PM
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Pcdefender said..
University or uni verse / one narrative only taught there.

You do not need to be initiated into a cult all you have to do is blindly accept the narrative in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence.

Lets see - 140K reports of various harm from the C19 shots have been made in this country to the TGA database yet there are still a few who parrot the lie safe and effective.

We took a beach buggy all 238 000 miles up there in 1969 - when there is no evidence short of CGI etc to support this theory.



On another matter ,i spoke with a friend today who told me her best friend a 61 year-old former specialist disabled care nurse lost her 150K per year job at the hospital years ago after refusing to take her required shots.

She and her partner who was an engineer lived in a 6 bedroom house in Vic.Park.

Well, they now live in a one bedroom apartment in Thornlie.

Their combined income was around 350K per year but he also lost his job, not sure the reason.

Most of their savings was put into superannuation which they cannot access till around 67 from memory.

She is retraining as a medical administrator.

Material or health it came down to and she was clearly the exception to the rule.


140,000 reports of sore arms and aching joints.

On another matter, I'm fully vaccinated and still haven't had covid.

Safe and effective.

FormulaNova
WA, 15086 posts
18 Sep 2024 10:07PM
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Where did the other $200k go? If the combined income was $350k, then even $200k is a good chunk of change.

A bit funny that both of them lost their jobs.

If they lived in a 6 bedroom house, did they own it or just rent? At that income level they should have owned it, and selling it should have gotten them a reasonable amount surely?

It sounds like it has holes in the story, far more than a beach buggy on the moon.

I am not sure there is any evidence, short of CGI to justify this story. Clearly made up stuff by homeless people to tell you how lucky they used to be and how their misfortune is not their fault.


I just had a brain fart. If man can install an artifical sun or many of them around the flat-earth, why can't they then just drive the beach buggy to the moon? Something with this story is wrong...

Pcdefender
WA, 1607 posts
18 Sep 2024 10:25PM
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Liar, she is aged 61 so she could have started collecting Super last year..


I am passing on what i heard earlier this afternoon. A 5 minute conversation is not enough to know all the details. You sound an angry chappy?

www.ato.gov.au/individuals-and-families/super-for-individuals-and-families/super/withdrawing-and-using-your-super/super-withdrawal-options

psychojoe
WA, 2237 posts
19 Sep 2024 4:20AM
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On another matter, I'm fully vaccinated and still haven't had covid.

Safe and effective.


There's no way you could know. An asymptomatic infection could've passed you by and you wouldn't know. My symptom was a headache, it was largely by chance that I tested to discover it was Covid.

japie
NSW, 7145 posts
19 Sep 2024 6:37AM
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The truth will out. It always does. It just takes time.

The level of corruption associated with the shakers and movers of this world is mind boggling. If you take a dive down that rabbit hole you will appreciate that there is no limit to the tactics used in order to maintain their grip.

Evil is the only description.

FormulaNova
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19 Sep 2024 5:42AM
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remery said..

On another matter, I'm fully vaccinated and still haven't had covid.

Safe and effective.


There's no way you could know. An asymptomatic infection could've passed you by and you wouldn't know. My symptom was a headache, it was largely by chance that I tested to discover it was Covid.


Yeah, I wonder if you could have had Covid and not noticed it? Unless you were testing all the time, would you always know? Is a RAT test always going to pick an infection up? I don't know what level of antibodies you need to show a positive.

The one time I returned a positive result, were it not for the test I might have passed it off as a headache and nothing more.

I don't know whether its that important is it? The vaccine was never going to be able to protect against all variants, and as we have seen its more likely that it would have primed the body to get ready and would reduce the severity of infection.



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