There is no such thing as "hermaphrodites" in the human race, there is not a single case documented where an individual had both functioning gametes, ever.
Yes there is. I can think of one.
A female presenting African had a womb, vagina and one (probably) functioning testicle.
I saw it on a TV documentary following a surgeon who was in Africa doing humanitarian work.
The young lady was almost certainly a chimera, and her egg had been fertilized (unevenly) by two sperm or something similar. Perhaps a twin was absorbed at a very early point in cell division? Who knows.
The operating surgeon was utterly surprised, and commented that if her plumbing had been slightly different she might have fertilized herself.
It was a phenomenally unlikely development, with a chance of billions to one against. She didn't have two working sets of genitals. Her puberty was being messed up by having a testicle, and they corrected it by removing the aberrant gland so she could finish her puberty and go and get a husband and have a family.
So you are correct. There are effectively no hermaphrodites. There has been the vanishingly rare case of a freak of nature that has been non-viable. In this singular case it was a cluster of cells from a literal different person that had grown as a part of a fairly ordinary female, and required removal.
Universal suffrage is shit because as soon as you get honest elections the political organizations discover that the best way to manufacture votes is to import voters.
Immigration becomes first and foremost about importing the correct voting demographic to ensure the "correct" outcome of elections.
Rofecoxib was (at the time) the largest single out of court settlement in the history of the world.
It was literally taught in universities. It is a textbook fuck-up.
It was thousands of times safer than the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. It affected a few percent of a specific demographic, in aggregate. The effects were only detectable by use of actuarial techniques applied to the entire population.
I guess the thing that Big Pharma learned is to get the law changed before it is applied.
I agree with all points.
This is failure by Biden in his role as Commander in Chief. He should be impeached for this.
High resolution footage of the flyover states without atmospheric interference could easily reveal the location of US ICBM silos.
The decision to not shoot it down over Kansas (or whatever) was a cynical decision of politics and optics over strategic interests.
As this isn't the first such probing attack, there is not reason for the Air Force to have a policy to deal with these balloons. They could easily be dropped into the arctic ocean on every occasion; well before they make landfall.
It is an opportunity to send a message: Most countries could not shoot down a high altitude balloon, but the USA can.
Draw a parallel with the U2 surveillance planes of the 60s.
In that case I agree.
It was a feat that could have easily been achieved should the Chief of Staff had the political will and the willingness to drop a few million bucks on a sortie of modern air-superiority fighters and ordinance.
I'd go further, and say that the reason they didn't shoot it down in flyover country is because of the splash it would have made on the internet.
12% of the Italian deaths were found, on investigation, to have been from COVID as a primary cause.
The rest COVID was a complication to the actual cause of death.
For example: It turns out that if you have a chronic heart condition and kidney failure, then you are susceptible to viral infection.
HCQ was most effective as an early treatment. HCQ given with Zinc as a cofactor increased the survival rate by something like three times.
The thing is that it was fucking trivial to look at the demographics that were most at risk to death by COVID19. People who died (on average) were 81 and had three co-morbidities.
HCQ and Zinc could be given as a prophylactic to the highest risk demographics, with the doses increased at the first sign of infection. This would have been trivial to do. It still isn't being done.
Even if HCQ has been superseded by Ivermectin as a more effective treatment, it was definitively known in Feb 2021 that HCQ would be a lot better than nothing.
https://www.palmerfoundation.com.au/journal-of-medicine-says-hcq-zinc-reduces-covid-deaths/
This is very clearly a better population wide care protocol than the clot-shots or shitty ICU "last gasp" respirator protocols.
COVID killed George Floyd.
Here in Australia, in my state the only treatment protocol for the vulnerable (eg, anything more than just IV fluids and rest) is the Pfizer anti-virials. One course only.
Doctors were prescribing the fourth jab, which was effectively meaningless against Omicron. Because they feared the consequences if they DID NOT prescribe Clot Shot #4 for the elderly.
They medical establishment had absolutely no fear of consequences of any kind for death as an injury from the Pfizer therapeutic. There is an explicit agreement from the bottom to the top of the (state run) hospital to minimize the cause of death and to shield the doctors responsible.
The politicians, at the top, are getting all of their information from Lobbyists. They are absolutely, completely convinced that they can hush-up any malpractice. They are desperately afraid of being seen to do nothing. Medical companies, specifically Pfizer in this case, have turned up to offer a turn-key solution. "Hey! Here is a complete set of treatment protocols that we know works. Put it in place, and you can be seen taking immediate, effective action!"
Computing Forever had an excellent series of videos on YouTube, before his channel was canceled, which showed that both the Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation had been waiting since H1N1 Swine Flu (COVID19 - 10 years) to seize the opportunity of the next pandemic.
The immediate projections (computer modeling) that came out immediately on the discovery of COVID19 (then the Wuhan Virus) overestimated fatalities by more than two orders of magnitude. They were later shown to be produced by a Democrat CPAC funded think tank. The initial figures were beyond trash; they deliberately, willfully misleading.
All of the policy has been set at the political level; with the political leadership (at the state level) dictating to the media and then to the medical apparatus.
Any doctor who spoke out was ruthlessly canceled. Doctors were canceled for trying to publicize inexpensive, effective prevention and treatment protocols.
The Media establishment has been complicit at every step.
If you want the most excellent, most relevant modern example of fascism, here you are. Truth is a function of politics. Science is a function of politics. Actions leading to literal deaths of tens thousands are irrelevant. There is no boundary that can be drawn between political parties and the media apparatus, nor the medical institutions. They have effectively been a single, monolithic unit; all working together to deliver political outcomes.
So flack is launched from Anti-Aircraft Artillery. Got any laying about? How about AAA with the capability of hitting targets at an altitude of 35 km?
As for proximity fused cannon shells; cool! you are shooting at a cloud. Proximity to what?
Two fighter jets strafed the balloon with anti-aircraft cannons and it didn't care. It was eventually shot down with an air burst of a guided missile. That would be hundreds of thousands of dollars of ordinance.
The array was an insignificant target compared to the balloon, which was about the size of a football stadium at that point; Moreover shooting the array would not bring the balloon down.
With OG COVID, the infections were clustered in hot-spots.
For a long while the great majority of infections and deaths were clustered in a few cities, with most of those coming from New York city.
I have a friend who was doing primary research on COVID 19, specifically transmission by surfaces, who was in contact with medical professionals in New York at the time.
He said that they were absolutely freaking out. There was a brief period (I recall less than a week) where the spike in deaths was apocalyptic. He told me that the medical professionals he had been talking with were predicting that they would be stacking bodies in the streets before the month was out.
At this time the FEMA pop up hospital was available, and the army hospital ship was on hand to take patients.
I distinctly remember pointing out to my scientist friend that the hospitals were seeing selection bias. Only the worst cases were arriving at hospital. I also pointed out that the survivors would be gaining immunity, and as soon as that reached 30% it would have an impact on transmission rates.
I recall us agreeing to disagree; with me stating that if I was right we would see a sharp drop in infections and deaths. If he was right it would be in the news soon enough.
It turns out that I was more correct; but it bears remembering that all the hospitals in New York were freaking out to the point of panic.
This the period when Cuomo was sending infected to nursing homes. He was determined not to use any of the help sent by Trump and the federal government.
It is convergent evolution towards the common cold.
The cold is also a corona virus, and it has a strategy of being highly transmissible and mutating quickly, so as to be able to dodge the immune response and re-infect individuals.
The common cold also stimulates mucus production and sneezing, so as to further spread itself. The patients sneeze infected mucus everywhere for a day or a week, then they are fine.
It is a highly successful strategy.
It isn't hitting it that is the issue.
At maximum altitude it is something like 35 km up, two microns thick and filled with low pressure gas. It is very slightly more substantial than a cloud.
Poking a little hole in it will only allow gas exchange by diffusion. That is, very, very slowly. It won't pop like a latex party balloon!
Nah. Not even laced drugs. Just give them all the drugs they want, they will OD in a week.
Install a vending machine that sells doses of fentanyl for $1. Make it a little baggie with measured, high but safe dose (given some assumptions about body weight).
For the regular users one dose won't get them high, so they will take two. Even if they get the math right that time, they will fuck it up before the month is out.
If they break the vending machine, replace it with an honesty box.
Now connect the dots and do people on food stamps who take drugs.
The argument on Reddit went:
"Think of the Children; you can't take their food away just because their parent (mother) tests positive for drugs."
If they are not feeding their kids, and they are buying drugs, then they are an addict.
Subsidizing drug use with government money is fucking stupid.
Well, apart from the massive corruption enabling the most openly corrupt president in the history of the union.
And the money laundering. Money printing, pork barrel bills that also give aid to foreign nationals, which then funnel that aid into kick-backs.
And the specter of an escalating shooting war with a nuclear power.
I mean, other than those things, the issue doesn't affect them at all.
Tony, bat or no bat if someone is attacking, take action until they stop.
Escalate until the action is effective. Start at the level of violence that they use, as defined by the continuum of force, and proceed from there.
If the defender has a gun drawn, issue a warning and if the attacker attempts to close within two meters, end the threat. Best practice is two shots to the torso, one low and one high, center mass.
This is taught at every gun self defense course and to every cop.
If the attacker gets their hands on your gun, you are very, very likely to get shot with it.
An attacker who throws or drops their bat is still dangerous. Especially if they are now free to get their hands on your gun.
Tony, some of my best friends are faggots. I don't hold it against you.
Live and learn. Or don't, and collect your Darwin Award.
An actual, practicing stone age nomadic hunter gatherer people.
No medicine, no food preservation techniques, no buildings, no textiles. Literal caves and "humpies" made out of bark and sticks.
No government, no ability to negotiate or make treaties.
Their cultural practices included infanticide for unwanted or sickly babies; Practiced regularly until the 1970s, and still ongoing in some communities.
If the average lifespan was 30 years I'd be really, really surprised. They had a huge infant and child mortality rate.
"Child Betrothal" of girls as young as twelve.
Brutal population control enforced by the tribes to ensure that their population never got bigger than the food supply, limited by the seasons.
Oh, and aboriginal tribes periodically wiped each other out entirely competing for resources.
I have never met a woman who knows what Feminism means.
That is, they are unable to give a functional, working definition of feminism; like one that is used and understood by all feminist authors.
Feminism is a political movement based on the social theory of feminism.
The social theory of feminism states that:
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Society has been constructed by men with the sole purpose of the absolute subjugation of women
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Women (and redress the subjugation) by the use of legal and social change.
There is a little more; specifically about the dependence of women on first their fathers and then their husbands for resources, which feminists see as a form of oppression. The family is oppressive.
Tell you what buddy. I'll just use my bare hands. Stand still.
If you are right, I am no threat at all.
If I am right, you will be unable to pass on you inferior genes.
Police have no obligation to prevent a crime from occurring.
They barley have an obligation to arrest someone for committing a crime.
Either you don't know what negligence is, or you don't know what police do.
Typically, hydrogen is transported in tube trailers in the UK. A typical trailer (see Figure 1) would be filled to 228 bar, and would carry around 300 kg of hydrogen.
https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/features/hydrogen-transport/
Tube trailers are currently limited to pressures of 250 bar by U.S. Department of Transportation regulations. Typically pressurized gas is transported between 150 and 250 bar.
Guy, it isn't unusual for a Diesel car to get a thousand km out of a tank of diesel. I have owned diesel cars that have that kind of range.
Keep plugging away, guy. I am sure that step by step you are actually learning something about energy distribution, despite your best efforts.
I really am done spelling things out for you. Thanks for coming.
If the only usage case for hydrogen fuel is driving hybrid passenger vehicles, then you would have a point.
Is that what you mean? Be specific. Or are you imagining a broader use for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles? You have already described hydrogen haulage trucks to deliver the fuel. In your mind, does this hydrogen fuel infrastructure serve any other transport type?
Anything else? Or just those two?
If you are trucking energy to the user, and each truck contains (say) 1 / 50th of the energy. How many trucks of gas will you require for a drop-in replacement for transport fuel? There are some efficiency gains, because fuel cells are more efficent at converting fuel to motion, but this is absolutely offset by the inefficiencies to store the energy in the form of hydrogen. A diesel engine is something like 35% efficent. Stem reforming hydrogen production is a lot less efficent than that.
I'll make this as simple as I can.
In fact, a road tanker which transports high pressure hydrogen as compressed gas might typically carry 300–400 kg of H2 and be able to refuel up to about 100 cars.
Whereas a typical diesel tanker typically carries between 20,800 to 43,900 L in the USA.
Large trucks typically have capacities ranging from 5,500 to 11,600 US gallons (20,800 to 43,900 L; 4,580 to 9,660 imp gal). In Australia, road trains up to four trailers in length (known as Quad tankers) carry loads in excess of 120,000 litres (26,000 imp gal; 32,000 US gal)
I'm done here. Have a great day.
Guy, the Mari is a hybrid. The fuel calculations are for stop and go city traffic, in which it makes a lot of the regenerative breaking to charge the small battery. I don't know who they got the test driving figures from, but they were a master of low-torque slow acceleration and coasting stops.
Moreover it costs a cool $100 to fill up the tank.
Driving fast, which uses actual torque and does not take advantage of the hybrid system uses a LOT more fuel.
Do you really have the idea that a haulage truck or a delivery van could get the same advantages?
Read about it yourself.
Not everyone, especially commercial vehicles can operate on such low torque. I certainly don't trust the quoted range figures.
Consumption is officially rated at 0.7kg of hydrogen per 100km. After a handful of different drivers on nothing but 50–70km/h stop-start streets, the Mirai indicated a 0.88kg/100km figure, which is about 25 per cent over its claim
From https://www.drive.com.au/reviews/2021-toyota-mirai-fcev-first-drive-review/
It is noted that fuel is basically only available in California, and that this vehicle was built to satisfy California laws that demand "Zero Emission Vehicles"
How about we see a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stack fitted to a garbage truck?
But go ahead. Buy one. Put your money where your mouth is. Pay US$17 a kg for fuel. Lets see if the hydrogen price goes down.
If you are right, you will make out like a bandit!
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