I know! It was so carefully hidden then he turns and bam! Surprise rat tail.

I think there might be some mystical powers in the bleached mullet ends of his band mate as well.

Thank you!

100% this is it. This is also why they joined the party of projection. They have become the old out of touch individuals clutching so tightly to their idealized dreams, that they are willing to make actual progress come to a screeching halt bc they can’t accept the reality that if those dreams ever happen, they won’t get to benefit

What do you do when you have way too much money and power, and you can’t accept reality? You try to buy and control reality no matter the cost.

That saying comes to mind about great people planting trees despite knowing they will never get to experience their shade. These are not great people, and they should not be in positions of power and leadership. Given the choice, they would choose destruction of the future rather than helping to build a future if they won’t directly benefit.

Is a scenario where humanity no longer exists, and eventually they’re just an brain in a vat floating through empty space until eventually even that smashes into a rock or gets sucked into a black hole somehow more desirable than the immortality achieved when your name and your contributions to humanity live on for sometimes hundreds or even thousands of years after your body dies?

I don’t know if their level of thinking is so shallow that they can’t even stop and really reflect on that reality for five fucking seconds, or if they’ve actually thought about it and determined that the brain in a vat scenario is the more acceptable outcome from their perspective. If that’s the case, to quote a Lemmy user on an article about Peter Thiel and transhumanism “I hope we’re alone in the universe.” Or at least, I hope that a black hole turns Peter Thiel into spaghetti before he can float into another society and cause their inevitable destruction, and I really hope he remains fully aware of what’s happening at the end.

Do you ever wonder if private businesses are receiving some kind of government incentive to try and pursuade people that half-baked AI is more useful than it actually is?

“It’s the inevitable future, and if you don’t accept it dominating every aspect of your life you’re just standing in the way of progress.”

“Like any new technology, there are problems that need to be solved. AI seems to be hitting a wall, and the current demand of energy and resources necessary to sustain it as is just isn’t practical. Maybe if we stopped trying to use government force to insert monopolized AI into every facet of every sector, and encouraged individuals within sectors to use their knowledge and expertise to gradually adopt and integrate in ways they believe it could be useful, many of these problems would work themselves out…”

“Stop standing in the way of progress you progressive Luddite!”

I think I’ve finally figured out I developed something similar to histamine intolerance, and antihistamines seem to help a lot with most of my symptoms. Surprisingly, a low dose of Benadryl has been the most effective for brain fog and fatigue (pre-covid it would always be like an instant knockout). I’ve always avoided it bc it made me so drowsy, and even now that it doesn’t do that (at least at a low dose), I worry about long term negative side effects and tolerance development. Any alternative suggestions?

I’m trying to focus on sticking to foods that are approved for histamine intolerance. I can definitely tell the difference when I eat something that triggers histamine release, but I still feel symptoms without taking Benadryl daily (which really sucks and is really hard to explain). A regular dose still makes me drowsy, but a child’s dose of children’s Benadryl is like magic. It’s so weird.

I also take Allegra daily (and sometimes Zyrtec in addition) which helps with some of the symptoms normally associated with allergies and histamine, but they don’t seem to help at all when fatigue and brain fog (I’m guessing bc they don’t cross the blood brain barrier, but again just my best guess after giving Benadryl a try out of desperation). I always had bad allergies most of my life and have been taking second gen antihistamines daily since I was around 19. Not sure if tolerance to those could have made them less effective by comparison?

Also it manifests differently in individuals, and doctors don’t really know what causes it, or how to treat it since it can look so different depending on the patient.

Unfortunately, because it’s difficult to treat it’s one of many things that often gets brushed off as maybe the patient is just being difficult/making it up, and even once somebody has a diagnosis, it can still be difficult to manage depending on the case.

Most doctors don’t even understand there is a huge difference between chronic and acute pain, and they have to be approached and treated very differently.

I don’t have fibromyalgia (just happened to be scrolling and this caught my eye), but I am very interested in the development of chronic pain, and I’ve seen how fibromyalgia patients are treated in the clinic.

Especially since I developed long COVID symptoms this past year, and was repeatedly brushed off bc I wanted to figure out what was happening and regain quality of life, I feel a lot of empathy for people who are dismissed by their doctors simply bc the doctor doesn’t know how to treat something that isn’t resolved using a plug and play protocol.

If a patient knows something is wrong, and they keep telling you something is wrong, just fucking believe them. In the U.S., this was already a major problem in medicine, and now the government is pushing doctors to MAHA. So, if it hasn’t been figured out yet, and you’re lucky enough to be one of those “difficult” patients doctors hate, no need to look any further than sunshine and rehabilitation camps for treatment.

Yet another reason why moving everything, including science and medicine, towards biased automation/AI that learns from the existing (and very incomplete) data, is such a great idea. /s

Well specifically, it is still an ongoing investigation, so nobody has a “complete set of files to release.”

In February Pam Bondi said she had the first phase of files in her office, made a big public announcement about having requested all remaining files, and said she was waiting on them to be delivered. She even wrote a letter to Kash Patel about it and publicly released the letter.

Then when she read whatever was in that second half of files that got delivered to her, she suddenly wasn’t so eager to release it.

Even more than knowing what is in there about Trump, I would be most interested to know what banks knowingly financed what Epstein was doing. I would guess any bipartisan fears about information in there that could “destroy the country,” is more likely related to banks and corporations that are considered “too big to fail,” rather than any super scandalous information about individuals.