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New comment by jungletime in "Brain DNA Refolds Itself to Aid Memory Recall"

jungletime — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 16:16:27 +0000

But thats like saying legs aren't related to human behaviour patterns. Without the DNA for legs, I proposition, humans would act very differently.

New comment by jungletime in "Study supports link between traffic-related air pollution and mental disorders"

jungletime — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 15:25:19 +0000

I read before that tires actually degrade and that contributes to pollution. I mentioned room air filters, because that seems like it would be a wise investment for people that live close to highways, or people that spend a lot of time in indoors like programmers.

So that maybe someone with a room air filter can comment on which ones are worth getting.

New comment by jungletime in "Brain DNA Refolds Itself to Aid Memory Recall"

jungletime — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 15:14:37 +0000

This is why modern Identity politics which is based on the notion that human behaviour is entirely a social construction is so silly. Proof that even your memory is guided by your DNA.

New comment by jungletime in "Study supports link between traffic-related air pollution and mental disorders"

jungletime — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 15:09:18 +0000

Room air is much more polluted than outside air. Room air filters are more common in Europe. But pretty easy to find. I saw one at costco last month.

Planting more trees would also help.

New comment by jungletime in "Empathy and perspective taking: How social skills are built"

jungletime — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 15:05:33 +0000

A good related book is "How to win Friends and Influence people". Basically its a guide how to make friends, with a realization that we live in a world full of selfish people, that are self centered and don't have much empathy. This is the default state of human beings. I watched an interview with Pol Pot and even he thought of himself as a good guy.

Quick Book Summary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qvUYtwASqY

Pol Pot last interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ9_BMshyiw

[edit] I should qualify what I mean by selfish as it relates to the book. Basically humans tend to act in their self interest by default. And will go a long way to justify that behaviour to themselves even when it hurts others, so they can preserve a positive self image. this a common behaviour pattern. The book doesn't claim its universal, and no exception exist. I'm sure there are exceptions. But even modern "saint" equivalents like Gandhi did some messed up selfish things.

New comment by jungletime in "CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history"

jungletime — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:46:57 +0000

You either have a machine tallying the votes that works 100% of the time during the election. Otherwise, everyone can reasonably question the results from a machine that works 99% of the time.

New comment by jungletime in "CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history"

jungletime — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:20:44 +0000

New York Post Article, hope this satisfies.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/06/michigan-gop-claims-software-i...

New comment by jungletime in "Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction?"

jungletime — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 04:31:31 +0000

What if in the future your could make a nuclear bomb in your kitchen? Thats the part thats scary. It conceivable that technology will make destroying the planet trivial, where anyone disgruntled could do it. How long will the world last then ... duh duh duhhh

New comment by jungletime in "Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates"

jungletime — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 04:07:26 +0000

Still too expensive and too wimpy looking. Make it look like a death machine with razor bladed spinning rotors ready for civil war. And burgers would buy.

New comment by jungletime in "Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT"

jungletime — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 03:38:41 +0000

Imagine if they let older people get more sunshine in nursing homes they would have better health outcomes. Instead they locked them up even more during the pandemic.

Study posted on here earlier showed link between low vitamin D and covid death. Like 60% of people that died from Covid had vitamin D deficiency.

Locking up old people in cramped nursing homes, spreads communicable disease, causes mental health decline, and is just terrible for their well being and shortens their life.

Thats why we need an army of robot nurses in the future, that will treat these people in their homes.

New comment by jungletime in "Bias in radiology resident selection against the obese and unattractive?"

jungletime — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:16:20 +0000

What about mean looking people? Surely nobody wants to be around a mean looking person. They might do well in prison or during the draft for war. But otherwise, I'm sure they get ostracized....which just boils up their meanness. So that one day, they might be plotting to ruin Christmas from their cave overlooking Whoville.

New comment by jungletime in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

jungletime — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:08:20 +0000

This is almost as bad as relying China on Personal Protective Equipment and quickly running out during the pandemic earlier this year.

Imagine if the USA actually comes under an attack.The apple spaceship would be high on the list of targets. All of sudden hospitals can't run their computers or communications. Disaster!

New comment by jungletime in "Benford's “law” does not detect voting fraud"

jungletime — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:35:37 +0000

You claim is that its off topic. But how can it be off topic when Trumps tweet is about election fraud, and the title of post is also about election fraud. Both dominion and Branford's law use statistical results for proof where the overlap happens.

This standard doesn't really get held up in other discussions on here, people mention tangentially relevant things on here all the time.

New comment by jungletime in "Benford's “law” does not detect voting fraud"

jungletime — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:02:24 +0000

The implication and implied end result was that he was an illegitimate president that won by cheating. Same difference. You are splitting hairs.

New comment by jungletime in "Benford's “law” does not detect voting fraud"

jungletime — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:55:54 +0000

Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1miwDWst-IQ

New comment by jungletime in "Benford's “law” does not detect voting fraud"

jungletime — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:38:42 +0000

Isn't that what the Russia gate did. It casted doubts about the election results for 4 years of his presidency. And still no definitive proof after 4 years. I don't understand the double standard now. I hope he pardons Snowden and Manning on the way out, as a final act of revenge on the system.

During the debates Biden pledged to wait for the vote to be certified before declaring victory.

Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1miwDWst-IQ

New comment by jungletime in "Benford's “law” does not detect voting fraud"

jungletime — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:22:49 +0000

I just posted a link to latest Trump tweet, and got flagged. Don't understand why simply reporting something as relevant as what Trump tweeted is reason enough to get flagged. when its directly relevant to this article, and what your president tweeted is news worthy. When your president retweets that 2.7 million votes where deleted during this election by dominion software. I think thats pretty relevant to this article. Shocking as that is. I made no claims of its validity. Just simply the source.

New comment by jungletime in "Effect of exercise training for five years on all cause mortality"

jungletime — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:50:53 +0000

There are many health problems that are mechanical failures. From fractured hip bones to plugged up arteries. Exercise is linked to building muscle and improving blood flow and lowering resting hear Rate. At this point the evidence is more overwhelming than smoking causing cancer. There is no good reason not to exercise. And the easiest exercise is just walking for an hour a day.

New comment by jungletime in "Data deep dive on Dominion Voting Systems"

jungletime — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:58:56 +0000

Appears to be the source of Trump's tweet.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13269262268885442...

New comment by jungletime in "One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong"

jungletime — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:45:51 +0000

From my understanding:

He found that the more a republican a county is, the more republicans voted for Gop candidates, and against Trump. But only after the first 20% or so of the vote was in. In the first 20% of the vote Trump was doing better than the Gop candidates on the ticket.

Comes to the conclusion that an algorithm is syphoning votes from Trump to Biden. In a predictable linear fashion after the first 20% of the vote is counted. And flips more votes in more republican counties in an almost perfect linear way.

It doesn't make sense because Trump was polling better than the Gop candidates before the election, and was popular with republican voters.

The tallying software has a weighted vote feature. Where votes can be weighted for example 2:1 for one candidate over the other. Thinks that this was kicked in after 20% of the vote was in. Which would produce a linear drop that the graphs show.