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Ego wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 02, 2021 10:24 pm

Ivermectin once again.

Plenty of national healthcare systems running large trials with it - certainly the UK and Australia are and the WHO has been funding trials in e.g. Egypt & Bangladesh since March/April.

Who is the money owed to? Doesn't that money just get created by the Federal Reserve pushing some buttons in a computer? In the highly unlikely event that the US government wants to pay off a trillion dollar debt, it simply "prints" a trillion dollars by changing some numbers on a server somewhere ...

3) The primary limiting factor in expansion is trained staff. Staff can't be trained quickly enough to provide resilience in face of epidemic.


Exactly. In the UK, once it became apparent during the first wave that even after cancelling all but the most critical medical treatment, hospitals ...

i’m saying aus/nz are near a very big fish that is hungry for resources. and in a dystopian world... there is nowhere to go.


Only if you use an unusual definition of the word near.

China is closer to the US & Canada west coast than it is to New Zealand. China is several thousand km closer to ...

I mean, why is bindweed any different than a zombie in a video game, if you need an enemy to defeat?


I've been fighting that stuff for 20 years. I'd like to think that after that amount of time on a video game, I would've beaten the game. I've found chickens are pretty effective at removing all ...

From my perspective, there's a very unfortunate and strong "winner take all" or power law effect in the tech world that seems to result in fairly thin long tails. For example in the desktop world, almost everyone is on an x86/intel CPU, almost everyone is using Windows or MacOS, and almost ...

This site also has a lot of resources about lesser known crops, although the charity behind it seems to have fallen on hard times.

https://pfaf.org/

As an aside, cassava is not native to Africa - like potatoes & maize, it originated in the Americas and made it to the old world as a result of ...