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  1. I don't see how this article supports invertmectin. It's more about the desperation of the situation in South Africa. It even closes with this. On 5 March, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning on the use of veterinary ivermectin. “The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses,” it said in a statement.14 Philipp Rosoff, professor emeritus of paediatrics and medicine at Duke University Medical Centre and School of Medicine in the US, says doctors “are just as susceptible to the availability heuristic as anyone else and use the experience of their ‘n of 1’ one-off ‘experiments’ on a single patient to signify more importance than what their observations might warrant.” For him, advocating for “the supposed benefits of an unproven therapeutic when the sole justification is the desperation of the situation and the relative “safety” of the drug is inherently dishonest and hence ethically problematic.” It's good practice to read what people link for support. It often times doesn't support their argument and they usually zero or home in on a single sentence or statement which is generally taken out of context.
  2. https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19 Short: No you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent covid. https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antiviral-therapy/ivermectin/ Short: Yes invermectin can treat covid but only at doses 100 times that of what is recommended for human intake. Comparison: Oxygen is good for humies. But it is poisonous at high levels. (And also flammable). Oxygen is also part of the reason we age as it harms fats, protein and DNA.
  3. You should watch a docu-movie about the first emperor of China and liquid mercury. He thought death was an illness and mercury was the cure.
  4. Personally, I like ginger tea as a cure of the everything. Just chop some ginger root nice and thin. Heat up some water and keep tossing in the ginger 'til you get the taste you like. Pour in a cup and mix in some honey. This will cure everything. I also heard about this pillow that will cure everything if consumed. But haven't tried it yet.
  5. Abiogenic petroleum origin is a body of hypotheses which propose that petroleum and natural gas deposits are mostly formed by inorganic means, rather than by the decomposition of organisms. Thomas Gold's deep gas hypothesis states that some natural gas deposits were formed out of hydrocarbons deep in the Earth's mantle. Theories explaining the origin of petroleum as abiotic, however, are generally not well accepted by the scientific community, and are rejected by most researchers and scientific theories on the subject. Glasby, Geoffrey P. (2006). "Abiogenic origin of hydrocarbons: a historical overview" (PDF). Resource Geology. 56 (1): 85–98. doi:10.1111/j.1751-3928.2006.tb00271.x. Earlier studies of mantle-derived rocks from many places have shown that hydrocarbons from the mantle region can be found widely around the globe. However, the content of such hydrocarbons is in low concentration.[2] While there may be large deposits of abiotic hydrocarbons, globally significant amounts of abiotic hydrocarbons are deemed unlikely.[3] Sherwood Lollar, B.; Westgate, T.D.; Ward, J.D.; Slater, G.F.; Lacrampe-Couloume, G. (2002). "Abiogenic formation of alkanes in the Earth's crust as a minor source for global hydrocarbon reservoirs". Nature. 446 (6880): 522–524. Bibcode:2002Natur.416..522S. doi:10.1038/416522a. PMID 11932741. S2CID 4407158. Seems this theory has been tried, tested and proven unworthy.. (sorry I can't figure out how to get rid of this blue background.)
  6. So if a fireman set your house on fire (you don't know a fireman did it, you only think one did) and another fireman came in to save you. Is the 2nd fireman impeding on or curtailing your rights if he grabs you and forces you outside as you try to save your unicorn?
  7. Yes sorry. I will. I get ramped up pretty easily on certain subjects xD.
  8. I really can't speak on what Britain did. I think it had something to do with heroin if I remember right but the US and Russia helped free China in WW2 and Russia helped them form their first unified government since the First Emperor. The one that's still in place to this day. So I am not seeing them as a righteously aggrieved party. Not even remotely. That's a pretty tough sell.
  9. Not sure what to make of this. It's China. They've been bullying small countries for a few decades now and are hardly a leader when it comes to human rights or adhering to treaties they sign. They renegotiated on literally every trade deal Westerners made with them in the 90s even though it made them rich and powerful. They even lowball Russia, the closest thing they have to an ally. They coddle North Korea, a country-sized concentration camp. The Myanmar military coup is encouraged by China. And I won't even get into western China, Hong Kong or Taiwan. I find China likes to sound wise when making statements but their actions speak louder than any words they say. What next? You going to quote Hitler as some moral justification for an argument?
  10. The US is fracking oil. It's more expensive than drilling. It's because the wells aren't what they used to be. Here's a video I watched a few years ago (and rewatched a few times because I like it.) It's not about oil specifically but there's a part where it explains the process of how it's formed.
  11. By "they" and "them" and "those people" of course. Who else? but anyways this is the only definitive answer I could find. We lose Arctic sea ice at a rate of almost 13% per decade, and over the past 30 years, the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has declined by a stunning 95%. If emissions continue to rise unchecked, the Arctic could be ice-free in the summer by 2040. https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/six-ways-loss-of-arctic-ice-impacts-everyone I think it's pointless to argue with denialism and what abouts. What's funny is when the ocean swells and the bigger cities on the coasts are under water, guess where all us "big bad libs" will end up... Texas seems nice. Maybe I'll get some border property and put a door in my wall and sing kumbaya with all my new neighbors.
  12. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/26/renewable-energy-hydro-wind-solar-power-produced-by-each-state/39801879/ This is from 2 years ago. Since then Mass has went from 10% renewable to 25% renewable. There already has been a steady progress towards more renewables and hydro-electric has been a thing for a while now. It's plugging along as much as the electric powered cars are.
  13. I think there's all kinds of ways to charge the battery. Hybrids already charge themselves when they are in gas mode. Friction from roads could also charge batteries. I like the idea of parking spaces charging your battery as you are in the store shopping or whatever. Kind of like those pads some places have to charge your phones on.
  14. I am pretty sure electric companies wouldn't mind putting in places for people to come buy electric from them. I don't recall ever hearing about the gas industry having this issue when cars became prevalent rather rapidly. More rapidly than electric or hybrids are which are coming along at a relatively slower pace. And the installation in your home isn't much harder than changing an outlet in your garage (Which is what my brother did when he had one). I'm really not seeing how this is a political thing at all or how it relates to immigration. My brother is at the polar opposite of the political spectrum as I am. And he had a hybrid and I don't. I also have friends in Florida who likely voted for Trump and have solar panels on their roofs. They do it because it saves them money. Me as a liberal would probably say that I am doing it for the environment but what I really mean is it saves me money. Poor people would be better off as well as it would save them money too. I am not sure what needs subsidizing here. Electric companies could easily make deals with anyone with a parking lot to have outlets for cars to plug into. They could even be at each parking space. It would be similar to how zipcar makes deals with the places people can park and pickup their cars. Was some huge infrastructure deal or subsidy required for them to start up their business?
  15. You can find electric and hybrid cars for as cheap as any gas car and both hybrid and electric are far cheaper to maintain as they have lesser average yearly costs than gas vehicles. So I am not sure what disadvantage you are referring to. Gas and hybrid buses are also cheaper to run and maintain which means lesser transportation fares as well.
  16. Don't think anyone was claiming oil was the only problem but ignoring it simply because there are other issues is simply well, lame. The methods of tapping oil reserves also affects another finite resource, fresh water. So it's more than just the air people are concerned with or should be concerned with. Yes the Earth has had its climate ebbs and flows but there's no doubt it has been induced by human activity since the industrial age. Also, it's not just "trace gas" we are putting into the atmosphere. It's carbons we are releasing that have been stored for billions of years and would have remained that way if not for human intervention.
  17. A couple summers ago I got to babysit my brother's dog as he moved. I brought her to work one day and noticed that she liked to sit by the front door and watch all the people walking by. So I printed out a poster for her...
  18. If only it were dormant. Between 1996 and 2004, an 18-mile-long area rose 4.7 inches, only to sink back 2.8 inches between 2005 to 2013. Then the region suddenly shot up again at a rate of 5.9 inches a year between late 2013 and early 2014, the highest pace of uplift ever observed within Yellowstone National Park.Mar 19, 2020 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/chunk-yellowstone-size-chicago-has-been-pulsing
  19. I think it was Iceland that I read about. I always get Iceland and Greenland confused. https://nea.is/geothermal/ Iceland geothermal energy Iceland is a pioneer in the use of geothermal energy for space heating. In 2014, roughly 85% of primary energy use in Iceland came from indigenous renewable resources. ... Geothermal sources accounts for 66% of Iceland's primary energy use.
  20. Yellowstone is pretty vast. There's a lot of habitat there but there's also a lot of area there that is uninhabitable since there's acidic heat pools and um a massive volcano underground. Tapping the uninhabitable parts for essentially infinite steam power would barely affect the habitable parts if at all.
  21. The video was from March 2020. Before we knew about a vaccine. I'm pretty sure their message wasn't to not get vaccinated or even remotely related to vaccination at all.
  22. After watching a docu recently I wondered why we don't tap Yellowstone for a natural, ecofriendly energy source. There's so much heat trapped under there, it could probably power most of the western states alone. There's a country that does something similar since they're so close the Earth's mantle. I want to say it's Greenland but I'm not sure.
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