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Posts since May 27, 2017 at 20:28

All news is spiritual – all beliefs are churches

These are not the first harmful vaccines

The plan to make everyone slaves

Don't look at the data: Für Ihre Sicherheit

Reconsidering Arpaio and Obama's birth certificate

The United States, as run by fascists

Papers on risks of mRNA vaccines - and on harms of mask-wearing

Of sadists and children

Administrators with a high-school understanding of science

The coming corporate techno-feudalism

Reddit censors new administrator's ties to actual pedophiles

External locus of control

WaPo's retraction of Trump Georgia phone call hoax

The pride inherent in the ability to follow

2024: Candace Owens vs. Meghan Markle

The revolutionary pandemic

The cynical pandemic

Excellent news for Texas

What the f... is going on in this world?

A world in which it's not worth existing

Covid-19 lockdowns and science

The complete uselessness of rationalists

Seth on computers

The party of unity and healing: "Those who disagree are not people"

Seth on Buddhism

Amazing Covid-19 tests in China!

Liberalism is fascism; conservatism is liberalism

What you don't see on CNN

The value of intellect

Where the big tech companies stand

Experiments on humanity: Fertility effects of vaccines

Lin Wood's impenetrable fearlessness

The US corporatocracy: A proto-totalitarianism

The corporate coup: As predicted in July

This is the choice

Listening to experts

Racism in a nutshell

Facebook and Twitter interfering with the election

Sun angle, vitamin D and UVB

The reality simulator

Vitamin D and Covid

And now for gratuitous political views about the election

Summarizing Seth: The structure of the self

Summarizing Seth: Introduction

Summarizing Seth: Table of contents

The Swedish success with Covid continues...

The US left and its belief in institutions

The level of disease risk at which breathing becomes criminal

The immediate purpose of schools is child care. This is essential, virus or no

How to not break a sweat and get buff in 15 years

The Doghouse: PSU in the Dell Alienware Graphics Amplifier

Things you ought to know that people don't

My favorite breakfast

Covid-19 from a spiritual perspective

Covid-19: Stream of recent data points supports the iceberg hypothesis

Biden vs. Trump: Sex Predator vs. Sex Predator 2020

Ergonomic keyboards: Microsoft Sculpt vs. Logitech Ergo K860

Seth on hate with respect to love

Pura vida, my ass: 5 years in Costa Rica and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

We already live in a society based on love

denis tries to teach foreign policy

Reinventing wheels: A better, sliding-matrix diff algorithm

Reinventing wheels: A straightforward, two-pass diff algorithm

My beloved aunt and her All-Adoption

Forced-birth activists as paperclip maximizers

AI can change scenery, can't fix suffering

"Support" incompetence at Amazon (and elsewhere)

What's wrong with computing?

The case for SSH over UDP

Water heater does not work, but no fuses are blown and all circuit breakers seem closed?

Life continues, not begins, at conception

GDP and the rate of predation: Why can't we protect ALL of the innocent?

Your silly email parser is not good enough

Facebook predictions: The campaign against Zuckerberg is about message control

Simple things that do not work in the US

Redditors with absolute powers

Faux stoicism of the confused libertarian / Trumpian variety

Dunning-Kruger effect in academic subjects without test of truth

We kept it gray

The five principles of negotiation (for young adults)

Missing web security feature: Signed web assets with browser validation

Samsung Galaxy: Buggy alerts in both Samsung and Google Calendar

Thoughts on Bitcoin - and why I cashed out of BTC at $18k

Mudanzas Mundiales: 82 days to move things from Costa Rica to Texas

Left vs. right: reason and compassion vs. blind principles

The "woo" of physicalists

IBM Trusteer Rapport is crap-ware

For sale: 4-bedroom condo in San José, Costa Rica!

On the Google vs. James Damore controversy

"It's hard work to suffer."

Libertarianism in bullet points

Is morality fundamentally objective?

Why I no longer like libertarians

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