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[Isaac]

tiktok is stupid

I agree with that statement

 

[conception_native_0123]

I agree with that statement

really? i know lots of people that make full time job living making videos on tik tok. now THAT is stupid! shows laziness of ridiculousness of society.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

really? i know lots of people that make full time job living making videos on tik tok. now THAT is stupid! shows laziness of ridiculousness of society.

OK, first, I have to agree with you that a lot of TikTok stuff really IS stupid. OK? No argument AT ALL.

However, second, there is a part of me that grudgingly admits at least SOME respect for people who find legal ways to make money through what is essentially a new entertainment medium. Not my preferred medium, understand, but if you CAN make money doing something you didn't do before, that shows at least a small amount of entrepreneurial skill and ingenuity.

And while it might indeed show the laziness or ridiculousness of society, it also illustrates one of the principles espoused by the late great showman P.T. Barnum, who was famously quoted as saying "There's a sucker born every minute." He is also less famously quoted as saying "Nobody ever went broke by UNDERestimating the intelligence of the American public." Though these days, I think the statement is fine even if you remove the word "American" from it.

 

[conception_native_0123]

but if you CAN make money doing something you didn't do before, that shows at least a small amount of entrepreneurial skill and ingenuity.

hmmmm....i do not know doc man. it shows stupidity of society and how corporate people have caused them to become stupid and therefore new mediums have been created that provide no value to society whatsoever in form of intelligence. it provides ridiculousness. but as you have said many times doc man, that is capitalism for you. what happened? corporations got what they wanted - the damn money. people got what they deserved - BOREDOM and minimalizing of their own intelligence. you and i got what was inevitable - pulled into the crap because we are serious minority in the world.

 

[conception_native_0123]

He is also less famously quoted as saying "Nobody ever went broke by UNDERestimating the intelligence of the American public." Though these days, I think the statement is fine even if you remove the word "American" from it.

no doubt about that. stupid stupid stupid. but you know what else? the stupid now goes PAST suckers. corporations are now on the brink of collapse because they done everything they are able to do. when there nothing else to do, YOUR actions cause YOU to destroy yourself. either that, or you kill yourself or other people because you don't think that YOU the problem!

 

[Isaac]

Of course the honesty in me has to admit I sort of agree with TDM, after all, anyone who can figure out how to earn money in new ways has some respect due just for that.

But the overall tide turning to where people think real life is what they tap, watch or create on a 3" screen is what repulses me. Google the Disturbed song In Another Time.

I read an article yesterday about a shooting in Times Square in New York. According to a woman (innocent bystander) who got shot in the leg and was laying on the ground unsure what had happened:

A crowd of people gathered around her. Regular people (not the shooter). She was screaming for help and assistance. She looked up, and all around her was a crowd of people - not a single person actually tried to help her. Everyone just had their phone out, "recording".

That is an example of how disgustingly ridiculous our modern society has gotten. Too many in the smartphone generation aren't living in the reality of the moment--they're just obsessed with making new videos, recording everything on their smartphone.

Can you even believe it? "OMG, there's a wounded woman screaming on the sidewalk. Guess I need to stand here and just record a video of it". How dumb we have gotten as a nation, I'm not even sure how to put it into words, but this story goes a way toward doing so.

 

[Jon]

It is a phenomenon called "diminished responsibility". The more people there, the less likely anyone will help, since they think someone else will help them. It is a well studied thing. To get around this, if you are the person needing help, you need to be specific in who you ask. "You with the red coat and black hat, please help me!" This is more likely to get a positive response.

 

[Isaac]

It is a phenomenon called "diminished responsibility". The more people there, the less likely anyone will help, since they think someone else will help them. It is a well studied thing. To get around this, if you are the person needing help, you need to be specific in who you ask. "You with the red coat and black hat, please help me!" This is more likely to get a positive response.

I know that phenomenon is old as the hills, but I still think the added baggage of "I can't DO anything - because I've got to stand here and RECORD" - is new, and lamentable. Add it to the list of things people feel they simply must do rather than help. It used to be mostly "watch" or "pass by" or "nothing". Now I've got a real job to do here, dang it - and can't be bothered with anything while I'm Recording.

 

[conception_native_0123]

I don't think that shows anything else but the idiocy of people in big cities. Remember that idol worshiping, like those who worship Steve Jobs and the first smartphone introduced to the market, always starts in a huge cities

 

[Steve R.]

The evidence continues to accumulate, drip by drip, that the public was manipulated by the "deep state" supported by complicit media. First, we were told how "easy" it was to catch Covid to install fear for the purpose of making the public comply with the Covid (restrictive) protocols. Now that the pandemic is ameliorating (in the US) and the Democrats have control of the government there is less need to maintain, for political reasons, a false narrative; thereby allowing facts to emerge that were previously suppressed and/or mischaracterized. Another recently debunked claim concerned the survivability of the Covid virus on surfaces. Below is a video monologue by Gregg Gutfeld concerning the New York Times finally exposing the flawed narrative of Covid transmission susceptibility. Skip the first 30 seconds or so. It actually starts about 30 seconds into the clip.

Gutfeld: Media played up mask angle as a way to split country in half | Fox News Video

'Gutfeld!' panel reacts to New York Times report on decreased COVID spread outdoors

video.foxnews.com

A Misleading C.D.C. Number (Published 2021)

We have a special edition of the newsletter on a misleading C.D.C. statistic.

www.nytimes.com

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines last month for mask wearing, it announced that “less than 10 percent” of Covid-19 transmission was occurring outdoors. Media organizations repeated the statistic, and it quickly became a standard description of the frequency of outdoor transmission.

But the number is almost certainly misleading.

It appears to be based partly on a misclassification of some Covid transmission that actually took place in enclosed spaces (as I explain below). An even bigger issue is the extreme caution of C.D.C. officials, who picked a benchmark — 10 percent — so high that nobody could reasonably dispute it.

That benchmark “seems to be a huge exaggeration,” as Dr. Muge Cevik, a virologist at the University of St. Andrews, said. In truth, the share of transmission that has occurred outdoors seems to be below 1 percent and may be below 0.1 percent, multiple epidemiologists told me. The rare outdoor transmission that has happened almost all seems to have involved crowded places or close conversation.

Saying that less than 10 percent of Covid transmission occurs outdoors is akin to saying that sharks attack fewer than 20,000 swimmers a year. (The actual worldwide number is around 150.) It’s both true and deceiving.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Thank God for Rand Paul

 

[Steve R.]

@AccessBlaster: Very plausible that "gain of function research" is a euphemism for the development of biological weapons. A problem with that, why would the US be conspiring with China to do that?

Essentially, since the work is being done in Wuhan China, the US would be funding biological weapons development for the benefit of China!!
Would the Obama (first), now Biden be that anti-American? Is the US that suicidal?

Even if the experimentation with Covid, was naively pure for for the advancement of science, it has proven to be too dangerous. Mistakes happen. As the expression goes: "Don't F--k with Mother Nature"!

 

[AccessBlaster]

Within days of Rand Paul blowing the lid off Dr. Fauci's gain of function lie the CDC eased the mask requirement blindsiding the Administration, a coincidence?

 

[Steve R.]

Thankfully, the Covid political theater is falling apart now. The credibility of the Covid fear mongers has become increasingly questionable, The public has started to ignore them, so it must have became apparent to even the die hard Democratic loyalists in the CDC that the mask mandate was now both a relic and an absurdity. Actually it was an absurdity a year ago, but the media and the Democrats were on a "kool-aid high" crusade as a means to defeat Trump. Unfortunately the Democrats succesfully were able to spread fear and hysteria into the gullible mob which was a unfortunate factor in Trumps supposed loss.

 

[AccessBlaster]

A problem with that, why would the US be conspiring with China to do that?

NWO? Just a guess.

 

[Steve R.]

NWO? Just a guess.

That brings up some really old memories. Took me a while to remember: The Trilateral Commission. When mentioned, it was in hush hush terms. Maybe they are still in business, mostly from nursing homes helping, except Dr. Fauci!

The Trilateral Commission was created to become a type of international CFR. Its goal is to merge all developed nations to create a world government. The Trilateral Commission is preparing the framework/power structure which is necessary for multinational banks and corporations to seize global control over the world population, governments, and economies.

On re-reading the NWO Wikipedia, I see that they did have a casual reference to The Trilateral Commission.

 

[Isaac]

I 'liked' your post - and indeed, the overall message is well received.

However, in some places of the world, the need to wear a mask is much less now. If you had made your post 3+ months ago that would be different. But currently, in the place where I live at least, it seems pretty reasonable (to me) for people to mostly stop wearing masks - except perhaps in the most crowded indoor scenarios.

Our cases are very low, COVID is mostly over, more than a full third of our population is fully vaccinated and nearly half got the 1st dose.

But, I do try to be easy-going about it. If I walk in a business or group where everybody is still going on with the masks, I don't argue with them and tell them I think the time has come to stop requiring them........I just put my mask on.

When it comes to SCHOOLS and young kids, I feel much more strongly, however. I've heard ridiculous stories, of high school coaches who are being required to require their students to wear masks even while playing the sport! Imagine a running track team wearing masks while sprinting - totally insane to require this. Totally, completely insane. And the coach got fired for objecting to this. So we have crazies on both sides--those who are too stubborn about wearing it ever, and those who are too stubborn to recognize when it's wrong to require it.

We will never all agree about when is the precise time to stop wearing them. Some people are on one extreme - never wanted to wear one at all, and still other people are on the other extreme - will keep wearing 2 masks and hazmat suits until there is mathematically zero chance of getting COVID. Some people even wear them AFTER getting vaccinated, they've gotten so addicted to the mask!

Every geographic region is different, I am speaking only for mine. (I realize some places in the world are still totally in the throes of the crisis....We are long past that here).

ps I also was impressed with the efficiency and effectiveness of my vaccination experience. I give due credit to the people (including many volunteers including local University students) who conducted this massive operation and are doing a great job.

 

[AccessBlaster]

@Isaac what about the surge at the border. Do you think AZ, CA and TX will experience a spike in Covid-19 cases?

 

[Isaac]

@Isaac what about the surge at the border. Do you think AZ, CA and TX will experience a spike in Covid-19 cases?

Possibly. I don't know enough about what they are really doing with the majority of these people, COVID-wise, to have an opinion on that.

We might be in such a good place COVID-wise (especially TX), that it doesn't make much of an impact, but I'm not really sure.

 

[AccessBlaster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1394657595949002758