Those with real wealth have large families.

The struggling middle classes awash with debt and both parents working full time jobs to give them that slightly nicer existence than those on benefits are the ones struggling to reproduce.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the squeezed middle class evaporate.

We get so used to our own minds that its hard to see how people can be so fundamentally different.

Fascinating. There’s a really good BBC Horizon documentary on psychopathy. It features a researcher who was taking MRI scans of prisoners convicted of violent crimes and managed to associate inactivity in a certain part of the brain with psychopathy. He then decided out of curiosity to scan the brains of a few members of his family and found one of the scans matched the patterns of some of the prisoners, and it was his own brain. He then delved deeper and determined he was a psychopath however because he had a happy, well rounded upbringing, he still learnt right from wrong even though he didn’t have empathy towards others. They also discuss on the episode the evolutionary advantage of psychopaths and possible reasons of why the traits remain in the gene pool. It’s a really interesting subject!

sounds amazing does anyone have a link?

Found it here

The Fibonacci Sequence

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Tegmark is his mothers birth name which he uses as a pen name. Mr Schapiro is without doubt author of my 2 favorite books. His first book ' Our Mathmatical Universe' is the only book ive ever read twice. Sod global warming for the end of planet earth my money is on 'Death Bubbles'.

interesting, thank you

We've gone full circle, all the way back around to phrenology.

facial recognition cameras should be banned!

problem is the entity needed to ban them is the entity imposing them.

i had a feeling this was the case :)

Makes life as a vendor x100 easier!

Less COVID transmission

More than 70% of communication is non verbal. Our brains translate thousands of pieces of visual facial info in a second. Block this and our minds display stress signals that can deeply disturb us over time...

im opposite, im autistic, the visual facial cues have to be processed and that takes time, wearing a mask means i can relax and not worry about having a huge grin(really a nervous grimace) when someone tells me their mum has died.

That’s an interesting perspective. I’m guessing masks are here to stay, I just want them to be voluntary...

Arab women the world over are sucking their teeth.

They have been wearing masks in heavy populated countries (China/Japan/Thailand) since MARS Virus a few years ago. And in the bigger picture they got a handle on it rather well. Same with Covid they didn't take a bigger hit as we have. I can't see how wearing masks isn't a wise choice in close proximity to other people

I think it's all about the effectiveness of the masks.

Proper NHS PPE worn by nurses and doctors yes, but a cotton mask pulled out of a pocket every now and again, after touching numerous things in the meantime, then readjusting it with hands every 30 seconds is probably about as much use as an inflatable dart board.

Just my 2p

Cheers BB

it worked for the venetians

As much as I hate the things... I like being incognitio, or at least thinking I am.

They have been nothing more than a nuisance to most people but you have to weigh up the pros and cons of wearing one, right now the pros are outweighing the cons.

Just our two cents.

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They are dehumanising, antisocial and have become a comfort blanket for the insecure and the effects on society will be long lasting.

Lots of steamed up glasses

I duno but at least everyone has stopped moaning about hoodies and burkas

Less concern of pathogenic transmissions, of viruses brought back from breaking the earths gravity and a go ahead punching portals in the stratosphere. Also a great opportunity for big global heath services.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/cdc-study-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-people-getting-coronavirus-wore-masks/

The main reason for wearing masks is to stop the spread of transmission. They primarily stop infected people spreading the virus and their preventative use is limited at best. I think it's missing the point saying you can wear a mask but still catch a virus. That's not the main purpose even if it does have some positive effect in reducing your chances of catching a virus.

we now interrupt this conspiracy thread for an actual fact. thanks bigga

I've had a very quick look at the report, looks like some kind of test protocol... Which part of the doc are your referring to when you say "useful to protect against breathing in vaccinated people's crap"? Just curious as I'm one of those vaccinated people ;)

It would appear that Pfizer feel there is some risk from skin and breath contact from vaccinated participants, no?

No, in this case it's detailing that skin and breath contact with a trial participant would be regarded as a breach of trial protocol for this particular aspect of the study that should be reported to protect the efficacy of the trial.

That's exactly what I personally would expect from a trial protocol for a vaccine against an airborne or contact transmitted respiratory virus.

It's posted everywhere and cropped the same way but it's not particularly dense and only takes a minute or two to read and realise that it doesn't say what you claim it says.
I don't believe you're trying to mislead, but have a read of what you're posting.

Pie boy you have understood this to mean
Something different to another bigga who said they think it means if a vaccine vial broke, so get ready to be insulted and have your mental health questioned just because you have both gained a different understanding of this paper.

Happy 2b wrong like I’ve said :) although it sounds like there is concern of people who have left the trial still causing harm to others

Not that I can see really... But then again I don't have a scientific background and really can't be bothered to read in details. Science journalists will have though and we would have already heard about it if it was true.
I would have thought that human tests would involve vaccinating to then test against the virus? In that case, it would make perfect sense for guinae pigs to isolate.

Fewer ugly people to look at?

Job opportunities for the highly educated scientists from the upper unemployed

Eye smiling

"A new study on face masks highlights their inefficacy, lack of safety and ability to cause physiological, psychological and long-term health problems, which may culminate in immune suppression, worsened chronic disease, accelerated aging and premature death"

mistrust

I’ll throw my hat in and say the primary effect has been mass mental illness:

“I just stare at that little box with my face in it and pick apart my appearance,” she said, noting that her distress is affecting her job performance. “My double chin seems six times larger, my eye bags are too deep of a purple, etc … Even when there’s a heatwave and my apartment is close to 90 degrees, I’ll wear a turtleneck that I can pull up. I pack on thick makeup that makes my skin peel.”

Going out in public with a black surgical mask that covers her chin and sunglasses that cover her eye bags provides Miller with an escape from that sense of scrutiny.

“I 10,000% plan on wearing it for the foreseeable future,” she said. “After a full work day of worrying and not being able to focus on my actual job, it just feels nice to blend in. Simply put, I’m sick of being perceived.”

Personally it’s not for me... I just wear the magic exempt badge ;)

I should say for ordering no need for proof of course only get one if your entitled to one

I like to think that the black hole we're supposed to be moving towards, is actually the black hole that we came from. It explains why the universe is expanding since it could be the after effects of black hole travel

Penrose is a legend!
I think that we will loose the term big bang in the coming years..

Seems a more conservative explanation otherwise you have to deal with what different thing existed before universes.

Yeah, it's called Britain

Ha! XD

Classic

Maybe it was a negative reality inversion!! :)

A Reality Inversion would be the symmetrical inversion of reality. Making it negative would actually cancel it out, leaving you with reality.

Copy and paste;)

Ha ha thanks :)
In fact I had never bothered to work it out but yeah its spot on. I got the phrase from "The Young Ones" , it was "Niel" the hippie who said it first. I must have watched that whole series a million times......

read this too, mud ting

They've been watching red dwarf :)

Lol just posted the same thing then scrolled down and saw this

:) did you watch the new episode?

yeh lol
so the books were read to me by my mom when i was growing up to teach me to read
always loved red dwarf since

Explains the film tenet.

Wait a sec I saw this one its red dwarf right ? ;)

No they don't.

As denoted by the word 'IF', they require clinicians to report Adverse Effects or Serious Adverse Effects IF they observe any.

That's the point of a clinical trial.

seems like standard legal boilerplate, does this differ from any other vaccine?

Occupational exposure