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      05-23-2024, 10:42 PM   #8119
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I have heard that the aliens will control our minds using the fluoride added to the water. The voice in my tooth tells me this.
Fluoride in water dumbs people down, and is toxic even at "safe" doses.
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That's not what I'm talking about, this is:

https://digialps.com/apples-mind-blo...ain%20activity.
Yeah, that looks totally reputable...not.

Companies also patent all kinds of crap, which is the way of patent litigation, so they can use it in the future against someone else. A large % of it is not legit...but it's a chess-board of patents and strategy. It's not a conspiracy and it's not a mind-reading airpod. It's the way of the US patent system.
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You missed Ephesians 6:12

** “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
**Ephesians‬ *6‬:*12‬ *NASB1995‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/100/eph.6.12.NASB1995
You missed Judges 1:19: The lord was with Judah, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron"
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Yeah, that looks totally reputable...not.

Companies also patent all kinds of crap, which is the way of patent litigation, so they can use it in the future against someone else. A large % of it is not legit...but it's a chess-board of patents and strategy. It's not a conspiracy and it's not a mind-reading airpod. It's the way of the US patent system.


Start at 17:50 - this is scary stuff.
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Yeah, that looks totally reputable...not.

Companies also patent all kinds of crap, which is the way of patent litigation, so they can use it in the future against someone else. A large % of it is not legit...but it's a chess-board of patents and strategy. It's not a conspiracy and it's not a mind-reading airpod. It's the way of the US patent system.
Of course, everything is fake unless they tell you it's real.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/apple-rep...221907828.html
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Of course, everything is fake unless they tell you it's real.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/apple-rep...221907828.html
That doesn't mean they are "reading your thoughts", as you loosely implied.
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That doesn't mean they are "reading your thoughts", as you loosely implied.
Lol, believe what you want.
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Why do that when we can make up stuff based on youtube videos?
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Fluoride in water dumbs people down, and is toxic even at "safe" doses.
Absolutely. And it is how they control us. Between the giant weather machines that the government uses to advance the false climate crisis and the element fluoride we stand no chance. We may as well huff the Zyklon-B Nazi death gas our fuel air combustion bomb EVs emit and end it all.
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Start at 17:50 - this is scary stuff.
Anyone using AI on others may get a A1 boot up their rear as a return.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/28074...-ai-interview/

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Running the world is like herding a billion+ cats
Not as hard as it should be:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/p...ccinated-covid
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Why do that when we can make up stuff based on youtube videos?
What "stuff" was made up? I literally posted a video of US president saying that they wanted to control the weather.

I posted two guys who work in tech field and have more insight into AI than most people, but because Yahoo, Fox and CNN haven't said specifically told you what to think about AI, and tools that can be used to scan your brain - it's fake?

My guy, you didn't even KNOW about any of this before I showed you, worst still, you know you're not informed and you refuse to even take 5 minutes to TRY and educate yourself.

Please block me, there isn't anything productive that can come from our conversations. You already ignore everything I post, so just make it official.

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Absolutely. And it is how they control us. Between the giant weather machines that the government uses to advance the false climate crisis and the element fluoride we stand no chance. We may as well huff the Zyklon-B Nazi death gas our fuel air combustion bomb EVs emit and end it all.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/d...luoride-trial/

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Stanley Barone, Ph.D., a risk assessment scientist, was the EPA’s second and final in-person witness in nine days of testimony before federal Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco.
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Although Barone is at the trial to testify for the EPA, plaintiffs called him to the stand last week to explain the EPA’s methods for risk assessment. In several hours of highly technical testimony, he detailed methods the EPA can use to determine hazard, risk, benchmarks and margins of uncertainty.

In his testimony yesterday for the EPA, Barone said there simply isn’t enough data available for EPA to implement its risk assessment process for fluoride. Necessary modeling, namely physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling that predicts how a chemical will be absorbed and metabolized by the body, hasn’t yet been done, he said.

But on cross-examination, Connett forced Barone to concede several of the plaintiffs’ key points.

“You do not dispute that fluoride is capable of causing neurodevelopment harm, correct?” Connett asked.

“I do not,” Barone said, adding that he said that in his deposition.

“You agree that the current evidence is suggestive that low-dose fluoride causes neurodevelopmental effects? Correct?” Connett asked.

Barone said the “hazard ID” — the level at which a toxin causes effects — “is probably in the suggestive range but is highly uncertain.”

“You agree that fluoride is associated with neurotoxic effects at water fluoride levels exceeding two parts per million?” Connett asked.

After first evading the question, Barone conceded.

Connett asked if Barone agreed there should be a “benchmark margin of uncertainty” of 10 for fluoride neurotoxicity. That means the lowest allowable human exposure level should be at least 10 times the hazard level, which Barone conceded may be approximately 2 parts per million.

Barone said that is generally true for toxic chemicals under TSCA.

Water fluoridation levels in the U.S. are currently 0.7 parts per million, also referred to as milligrams per liter (mg/L), which would place them well above the allowable level if they were regulated through TSCA’s norms.

Barone also conceded that the NTP’s report linking fluoride to neurotoxicity at 1.5 mg/L is a rigorous, high-quality review and that the NTP is one of the world leaders in doing such reviews.

“Do you feel comfortable as a risk assessor,” Connett asked, “exposing pregnant women to a level of fluoride that is so high that the kidney is oversaturated?”

Barone avoided answering, commenting instead on other foods containing fluoride.

Connett asked a second time, “Are you comfortable then with a pregnant woman having so much fluoride in her circulating system that their kidney has lost the ability to efficiently process it?”

EPA lawyers objected to the question as “vague and argumentative” but Chen overruled.

Barone sat in silence for several seconds before responding, “Again, putting this in context, my comfort level I don’t think is germane.”
Yeah, everything is a conspiracy - even reality.
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How Much Of A Fire Risk Are Electric Cars?
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Our available data sets on vehicle fires are varied and limited. But, broadly, studies show no evidence that EVs are more likely to catch fire than combustion vehicles. They appear to be doing so at a far lower rate.
According to The Guardian, EV-embracing Norway found combustion vehicles producing four to five times as many fires as EVs. A study by the Swedish Contingencies Agency for 2022 found that all fuel types produced 68 fires per 100,000 vehicles compared to 3.8 fires per 100,000 vehicles for EVs.
The number of EV fires should increase as more battery packs age and remain on the road.
Battery cells that catch fire can enter a condition called thermal runway. In this condition, the chemical reaction that sparks the fire becomes self-sustaining: heat releases energy, which releases more heat. The temperature rises dramatically, and it can be much harder to put out. EV fires release a cloud of flammable vapor that can explode and send jet-like flames.
EV fires can also reignite, sometimes long after the initial fire is extinguished. EV Fire Safe found that 13 percent of EV fires experienced reignition. The study logged one reiginition event 68 days after the initial fire. EV fires release a cloud of flammable vapor that can explode and send jet-like flames.
Water does extinguish EV battery fires. However, getting water directly to an EV fire can be challenging. The same casing that protects the pack from damage and elements can make the fire hard to access. And battery packs typically sit underneath the rest of the vehicle, further complicating the effort. Putting out an EV fire requires more time than a combustion engine fire and a lot more water.
A fire at Nissan's Tennessee headquarters required 45,000 gallons of water to extinguish, multiple tankers worth and tens of times the amount usually required to snuff out a combustion engine fire.
https://insideevs.com/features/72076...k-safety-burn/

"Water does extinguish EV battery fires." Water controls the heat but LiPo batteries are self-oxidizing so they will burn underwater. If I was a fact checker I would call this false.
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Annie Jacobsen:

Some of y'all need to read every book and watch every video she has released.

Then you'll have that going for you.
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I never realized we had so many crazy conspiracy theory believers on this forum. I guess it shouldn't surprise me given the polarized state of US politics and the crap people read, believe, and take out of context on the internet and social media.

Everything is a complex conspiracy to kill you, control you, determine your president, control weather and destroy towns in Hawaii, etc. Are we getting close to a world like 1984, Minority Report, and even Terminator? Certainly. Do the wealthy control much in this world and pull political strings? Yup. Is there a dark conspiracy controlling everything? Nope.

I seriously wonder how AmuroRay functions on a daily basis. His mind is must be going a million miles a minute thinking the world and shadowy villain's are out to get him and control him. People that think like this go deep down the rabbit hole and it gets worse and worse over time. It consumes them.
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That's not what I'm talking about, this is:

https://digialps.com/apples-mind-blo...ain%20activity.
Looks similar to me - both involve EGG sensors and it has been shown things can be controlled by thought with right implants so such sensors are next step, but I doubt it will be much more than volume/next track for a long time and that will after a lot of practise.
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Funny how all those screaming conspiracy around vaccines listen to someone who was trying to create one to boost sales of a different vaccine. He seems to fit right in with certain demographics in USA, no wonder he fled there.
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Looks similar to me - both involve EGG sensors and it has been shown things can be controlled by thought with right implants so such sensors are next step, but I doubt it will be much more than volume/next track for a long time and that will after a lot of practise.
"You doubt" I'm sure we all safe knowing that Jimmy The Hand doesn't think any entity would abuse this.

And again, there was no implants here. I said in my original post it was an earpiece, which it is. Whatever you saw with the whole headdress was years ago - future is now old man.
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Investigators have found that at least part of the carbon-neutral claims by airlines are backed by credits earned from preventing deforestation of forests that were never under threat.
Every year, China leads the world in coal consumption, burning 4,319,921,826 tons for everything from electricity generation to steel production. But it is deemed acceptable because China also plants a lot of trees and has created a market for trading carbon credits.
The irony of earning carbon credits by developing wind, solar, and alternative energy projects is that the company itself doesn’t need to switch to renewable energy. Instead, it can finance the installation of a windmill in a village in Bangladesh, thousands of miles away. There is no requirement that the village was previously burning coal or even had electricity. Furthermore, whether the village actually uses the windmill is not directly relevant.
Shell Oil became the target of international media when it was discovered they were playing a massive carbon credit shell game in China. Shell claimed thousands of credits for convincing Chinese farmers to use a carbon-saving farming method that about half of them had been using before the project even began. Even more comical was that the broker for these credits was PetroChina, a Chinese state-owned oil company.
Ultimately, carbon credits incentivize the buying and selling of carbon credits, rather than reducing the amount of pollution companies produce. Shell is a classic example of this; the company now has a very lucrative business line of creating and selling carbon credits.

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"You doubt" I'm sure we all safe knowing that Jimmy The Hand doesn't think any entity would abuse this.

And again, there was no implants here. I said in my original post it was an earpiece, which it is. Whatever you saw with the whole headdress was years ago - future is now old man.
I'm sure someone would abuse it if it had the capabilities you think it has, but filing a patent doesn't mean the company is in a position to actually create a working copy or even if it is possible to do so - Apple may have just filed the patent because someone had a "cool" idea after reading about the research and didn't want anyone else to patent it.

The state of play of the technology at current is limited and unlikely to get anywhere near the point where it can be abused in next decade.

It doesn't matter how big or small the sensor is - the processing of the information is still in it's infancy, and there is a reason they use the caps - it will give a better resolution of where things are happening in the brain which is one of the things they were using to determine thoughts

There is enough things to be paranoid about in the world without falling into a conspiracy rabbit hole.
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I heard a rumor today that private equity has been quietly buying up conspiracy theories and has been stripping them of value and will be selling off the parts. I have noticed that the fake moon landing stuff seems of lower quality lately. Anyone else noticed this?
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I heard a rumor today that private equity has been quietly buying up conspiracy theories and has been stripping them of value and will be selling off the parts. I have noticed that the fake moon landing stuff seems of lower quality lately. Anyone else noticed this?
Quality of that and trolls has been dropping since they stopped using AOL as their training ground before heading to the news groups.
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