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Quote‘Hypervaccinated’ man reportedly received 217 Covid jabs without side effects
A German man who voluntarily received 217 coronavirus jabs over 29 months showed “no signs” of having been infected with the virus that causes Covid-19 and had not suffered from any vaccine-related side effects, according to a study published in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The 62-year-old, from Magdeburg, Germany, whom doctors described as “hypervaccinated”, said he had had the large number of vaccines for “private reasons”, according to the researchers from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg who examined him.
According to the news magazine Spiegel, the man’s vaccine spree had sparked a criminal investigation against him for suspected fraud, after suspicions he had run a scam to sell the vaccine certificates to people who did not want to get the jab.
Allegedly, he's now working in Mega Man games as Magnet Man
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PROOF: A daily dose of bass is healthy for the mind!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07132-6
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The glymphatic movement of fluid through the brain removes metabolic waste1,2,3,4. Noninvasive 40 Hz stimulation promotes 40 Hz neural activity in multiple brain regions and attenuates pathology in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease5,6,7,8. Here we show that multisensory gamma stimulation promotes the influx of cerebrospinal fluid and the efflux of interstitial fluid in the cortex of the 5XFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Influx of cerebrospinal fluid was associated with increased aquaporin-4 polarization along astrocytic endfeet and dilated meningeal lymphatic vessels. Inhibiting glymphatic clearance abolished the removal of amyloid by multisensory 40 Hz stimulation. Using chemogenetic manipulation and a genetically encoded sensor for neuropeptide signalling, we found that vasoactive intestinal peptide interneurons facilitate glymphatic clearance by regulating arterial pulsatility. Our findings establish novel mechanisms that recruit the glymphatic system to remove brain amyloid.
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First (peer) review published by Nature!
badum tsh
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What about a discount for beards
Or better, the opposite: the bigger the beard, the higher the fee. This place needs a little more diversity and inclusivity. All those whities with huge face beards. It’s like a giant sloth of
. Cannot be healthy
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1 hour ago, EdamAnchorman said:
I think what Satans Little Helper is saying is that it seems like the lion's share of Trump voters don't care about facts. They don't care about what's true and what's not true. Your dismantling argument would have almost no effect on them.
yup. thx.
and also, trump voters have their own truth. just like the rest of us. it's rather simple really. and it has little to do with logic. or rather, a different one.
tiny edit:
QuoteTrump voters don't care about your facts.
it's cynical, but it is what it is.
@trying to be less rude you can facepalm me all you want, but again, you can't talk trump voters out of it. it's like a crazy cult. quite literally.
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1 hour ago, trying to be less rude said:
i listen to sarah longwell's focus group podcast and trump voters are all buying a trick from 2016. the "political outsider champion of the people" idea. that's been a ridiculous idea since 2017.
it's deeply absurd on its face....etc
that's a rather long rant to say you don't understand trump voters.
that's fine though. but remember, if you'd actually understand them, you wouldn't be writing posts like this. (please note that understanding and agreeing are two very different things)
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yup. sad but true
/embarrassed civilian
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2 minutes ago, ignatius said:
this made it to a couple mainstream news sources when it was released then faded quickly. maybe it will pop up again. the findings are concerning. i probably don't understand all the details. next week i see my cardiologist. i plan to bring it up and see what he says.
QuoteThis multi-country analysis confirmed pre-established safety signals for myocarditis, pericarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Other potential safety signals that require further investigation were identified.
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While our study confirmed previously identified rare safety signals following COVID-19 vaccination and contributed evidence on several other important outcomes, further investigation is warranted to confirm associations and assess clinical significance.
I wouldn't worry too much about these results. The term "confirmed" basically tells you it is in line with previous results. It's just that there's more evidence for these rare events. That's basically it.
Various guidelines (eg. WHO) already mentioned these. So nothing new.
It does mention the results also showed some other signals for rare(r) events, but due to methodology issues these need to be confirmed. See:
SpoilerQuoteConducting a cohort analysis in the unique multi-country context of the GVDN leverages a vast and diverse data pool. Aggregating data from multiple countries on more than 99 million vaccine recipients has significantly increased the sample size and the statistical power compared with many previous safety studies. This enhances the ability to detect safety signals, especially for extremely rare adverse events, as the larger sample size provides greater precision in estimating observed rates.
Results based on data across Europe, North and South America and Oceania offer stronger external validity, enabling findings to be more generalizable to a broader range of populations and healthcare settings participating in the global COVID-19 vaccination programme. Moreover, multi-country analyses facilitate comparisons between countries with varying vaccination strategies, population demographics, and healthcare systems, yielding insights into how these factors may influence vaccine safety profiles. Data used in our analysis were drawn from multiple databases, including healthcare databases, national immunization registries, and vaccination dashboards, allowing the identification of potential safety signals from various sources.
The results from our study should, however, be interpreted considering multiple limitations. Our analyses inherently involve heterogeneity in data collection, quality, and reporting standards across countries. These differences in healthcare infrastructure and surveillance systems can introduce bias and affect the comparability of results. The participating sites across the eight countries implemented varied vaccination strategies, including vaccine types, dosing schedules, and prioritization of vaccine recipients. Moreover, the multi-country analyses are susceptible to population confounding factors, such as differences in pre-existing health conditions, genetic factors, ethnic profiles, and behavioural patterns, which was not possible to adjust for in our analysis. We consider our approach suitable for application in large datasets representing average populations. However, age- and sex-specific historic background rates that are not adjusted for factors like prior disease may not provide a suitable comparison, for example, in the early stages of a vaccination campaigns where people with co-morbidities were vaccinated prior to other population groups.
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8 hours ago, ignatius said:
If only. They’re so big they buy up other companies. They’ve captured politics to make change near impossible. Getting them to undo income inequality or anything not self serving is more than just an uphill climb.
That's the political reality in the US. A lot of folks - too many - don't want that to happen. That's not just the anti-tax lobby. Or big companies. Or their size. That's almost half the country supporting the anti-tax/american dream nonsense. Perhaps more than half the country. If American voters would support EU style policies, the world would be a different place.
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9 minutes ago, ignatius said:
using what stuff for free? Most of the tech and internet ground floor was developed with tax payer dollars. Ive paid for subscriptions (still do) Ive watched plenty of ads, bought plenty of devices and paid for plenty of over priced internet service to access these services. Ain’t none of this shit “free”.
I’m not particularly worried about anything I put online but do use ad blockers and turn off tracking/snooping/cookies in some places to limit the creepy feeling of be pursued by ad bots or whatever. Also, like to know when some site I gave my email to is going to sell it along with any data they collect.and the idea of “free” is a bit weird to think. I mean we’re being marketed to anytime we go anywhere on line. Also, these companies are the largest most wealthy and influential companies to ever exist. They’re doing fine. They have enough to pay some kind of data tax or submit to some kind of oversight or guard rails and not make the people obsessed with infinite growth be too butthurt
Thanks.
Regarding those big companies: let them pay taxes fairly. If we all do, the circle goes round nicely. We all benefit.
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2 hours ago, ignatius said:
there are people arguing that at a minimum users of sites should have to opt in to having their data scraped.. or be able to opt out.. others argue for things like "data banks" which collect our data on our behalf and then license it.
the horse is pretty much out of the barn though for us.. but perhaps future generations? but then it won't matter because the Ai will be trained and 'trusted' and normalized and it'll be teaching kids via tablet tutors and shit.
Out of curiosity: what would you argue?
Personally, I couldn’t give a rats ass about LLM’s being trained on everything/anything I put on the internet. The internet is a public space. I put it there knowing it’s beyond my control what happens with it. And I find it funny how people are driven by the “Company X is making money from the stuff I put on the internet, they should pay me “ and that it would actually help if they got some money for it. For shits and giggles you should calculate your % of the total dataset LLMs are trained on. OpenAI should pay you less than a cent. Good luck with that.
Note: I haven’t actually made the calculations, but it’s a safe bet that the data of a single individual is meaningless when compared to the whole.Note2: im not an artist putting work on the internet. And therefore, I don’t put value on anything I put on the internet. Imo, that doesn’t change when a company makes money from LLM’s. My online presence is just as useless now as it was 10 years ago.
I understand there’s a bunch of people around here who are artists and who put their work online. There’s a different argument to be made there. And a valid one. But I don’t think that same argument should also apply to the nonsense I put online. Such as this post. Or anything on reddit. Seriously?
out of curiosity: how many of you use wikipedia without contributions? How many use free online mail like gmail of hotmail for free? If you want openai/google and the likes to pay you, you might consider paying them back for all the other stuff you’ve been using for free.
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What do you mean? You want to be paid for using Reddit? Or do you want a fee from companies training LLMs on reddit data for creating content?
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1 hour ago, YEK said:
Stems are pretty IDM…
+1 vote for most IDM 2024
watmm remix compilation 3…2…1 GO!
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spatial computing? is that the new apple thing? if so: lol...as if
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Short: yes. At the current fee of $3 a year, can't remember the amount tbh. But it's basically buying a beer for a year access. Can't see any harm in that. But it all depends on the "how much?" question. No brainer to me.
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23 minutes ago, ignatius said:
"confirm you are human" and getting a weird captcha that's always asking me to choose hats. happens before every post/reply etc.
edit: didn't happen this time.
I failed the "confirm you're human" test for the first time in my life! I had to put a point on an image telling where the end point for a car was. And it was an incomprehensible image.
Consider this an existential crisis. In a couple of years ChatGPT outperforms me on the "confirm you're human" test. Perhaps it already does. I have failed as a human being...
Unless the test will be something you need to fail because AI will somehow manage to be successful anyways. And now I'm a confused human being.
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also B12 remix and blue binary remix. very much on the melon collie side of things. like drowning in sentiments
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It's a classic, but the reflections on reflections (remix) album. ... man, that's a must as well.
/timemachine to the nineties
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Have to side with aux on this one. I’m growing tired of people that need to sell books through multi hour podcasts. Making a bunch of alarmist comments to trigger a specific audience into buying their books. And as a subject ai is the gift that keeps on giving. And everybody has an opinion. Ai is for technology what Trump is for politics.
#isaiditfirst
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The title of his last release...
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talking about belgian classix. The video looks like an honest attempt to commercialize the early new beat phenomenon. Almost endearingly honest. Very much a product of its time. This is from the late eighties i think. (Iman idiot its in the title) Music videos with hip hop dancers (think mc hammer) were very much the norm.
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not a well known belgian classic that deserves more exposure. bit of a dark acid trip. could also be considered as a "hard trance" track. but in a classy way.
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I like Vlad Vexlers analysis on this subject. Although he uses the dreaded “talking head” format (his chats) and an occasional adam curtis style micro documentary, I give him some slack because of his ME diagnosis. He’s a UK philosopher, born in Russia. So besides knowing the language actually understanding Russian culture. Which is not a given for the average western journalist covering the conflict, I’m afraid. As a philosopher he’s mostly (and professionally) interested in democratic decline, but since 2022 also commenting on this conflict. Regularly covering journalists from former ussr states (now eastern europe). Essentially covering russian speaking journalists and experts, translating it in the literal sense but also in the cultural sense and putting it in a historical perspective.
As an example
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Dostrotime [2024]
in Squarepusher
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The "I'm old" is the new "I'm drunk" !
I agree though.
/continues programming in LISP
/gets cancelled