Dunno why the caption refuses to move into the center. Maybe it's a protest aimed at raising awareness about society's expectations about captions and their physical placement in relation to the picture -- ALWAYS BELOW. Did you even think about that before now? No, because you're racist.
Edit: The caption is once again conforming to society's norms.
Sorry, Denise. I tend to joke about that which upsets me, too, but I don't think our host is the type to fall victim to any type of gaslighting, even were it a reality, which, in the case of captioning anyway, it is not.
Rosemary, Timothy, below, is afraid he may have offended you……..he made a joke…….He’s very nice…….please help him or I’m going to have to scream at him and that’s not a good look for me.
I've lost more than a few friends that I thought were amazing people. But I don't despair, because it turns out those people would have turned in Anne Frank.
Now I'm replacing those people with freedom-oriented friends, like yourself! I just wish I was closer so we could get together and have some laughs!
Wow. I'm....speechless. (Well, my wife will want to know how you did that.)
Thank you, M. Sim.
I propose that every gift sub be rewarded by replacing the current name/pic in the museum. Then, you can sit back and watch the competition begin, and you won't have to fill the museum with pictures of me.
Unfortunately, ‘infection’ has become conflated with ‘disease’ (symptoms) - causing confusion. No vaccine prevents infection (this being a virus entering an individual) as they do not create force fields around people. (Vaccination is a way of infecting people with a benign form of a pathogen - also called inoculation. The first ‘vaccination’ was done by INFECTING a person with pus taken from a Chickenpox pustule to immunise them against Smallpox.) Our natural immune response is to recognise infection by a virus and prevent it developing into disease. This depends on a number of factors, primarily the state of the immune system, and the the virus. The immune response is much quicker, more effective if it has met the virus before either by natural infection or inoculation via vaccine. This response can take days during which time the individual can be infectious. An effective vaccine, by prepping the immune system, reduces the time of its response, which means the virus is quickly overwhelmed before it can fully develop into disease (although some mild symptoms may be present)... but whilst the fight goes on, the individual is still infectious - and can transmit the virus - albeit the viral load shedded will be smaller and for a much shorter time. The claim of 95% effectiveness was (deliberately) very misleading. It is clear most people understand that to mean reduces ‘infections’ by 95%: that it not true. The 95% is RISK reduction in getting disease. So it does not mean that if 100 people are vaccinated only 5 will get CoVid, it means the RISK of CoVid in each individual is reduced to 5%, but all 100 could still get it. Vaccines do not/cannot prevent transmission but it can reduce transmission RATES just as so-called herd immunity does. The more people immune (natural or vaccinated) means the virus cannot easily find enough hosts to reproduce at a rate needed to be successful. Since the mRNA ju-ju do not provide immunity, it certainly cannot reduce transmission rates. Claims it reduces severity of disease, still await corroborative data.
I thought the first vaccine used cows, not chickens, thus the word "vaccine" which has its roots in the Latin for bovine.
Excellent summary of infection vs. disease, and just what a "vaccine" is, which is why the word "vaccine" should never have been used. Instead, I believe it was used intentionally to deceive the public.
And, yes, "immunity," whatever *that* means, *was* promised, which was also part of the Statist trial run at population control, i.e. the Fascism of mandates and lockdowns, which were *never* warranted, but oh, so loved by anti-Capitalists (today's Fascist Democrats, in general).
That won’t help me……I know my limitations…..sometimes I just have to wait for the video. Sometimes my brain just goes into tilt mode. John was great, don’t misunderstand.
Yes, lying about the definition of 'vaccine' led to the completely idiotic argument that 'You need vaccines to do other things', as if anything is a real vaccine if you just call it one.
John……Huh? Bottom line, should anyone have gotten shot……..and, yes, I am just that thick……..now, be kind, John, I can’t understand charts and graphs either. That’s why I cheat……yes, I said cheat. When I read an analysis like yours, I start out thinking I’m going to understand…….never do……..so I go to the last sentence and I think you still don’t think the shots provide what they say they do.
I have not had the CoVid vaccines because although bring 69 I am higher risk, I do not believe I am at any more risk than from Cold or Influenza. I did not believe the product would be effective because there are no effective vaccines for respiratory viruses after decades of research. I considered the mRNA products experimental with no safety information and therefore potentially a danger to my health. So no, the mRNA shots do not stop disease, and therefore do not stop transmission, there is no data to support they make the disease less severe. Worse, these products are causing thousands of deaths and injury, particularly in younger people.
Keeping up with at least some events and not go total Kaczynski-style bonkers is taxing, but as some bard said: "It is a comfort in wretchedness to have companions in woe" (though I think he meant it differently).
Maybe "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is more apt? And given the last years, can we really blame those who make like snails and just ducks into their shells whenever something challenges their perception?
In a way, yes of course theyare to blame for not thinking, not being skeptical of the (to us) obvious too good to be true-fairy tales of vaccines being made ready in months, and so on.
But in another way, they are victims of having their - fully reasonable, morally wise - trust betrayed. The more implicit and intrinsic trust between people in a society and in society itself, the better it is.
I think maybe they are easier to reach and sway if one is sympthetic and helps kead them to the waters of realisation that they have been reamed, flensed and sold by their elected officials and the modern clergy of media?
They need to FIGHT. They need to take back their wayward society.
You reach them with compassion, and good luck (sincerely). I will have compassion for them when they get over their butt-hurt and join the fight to reclaim our birthright of Classical Liberalism.
Oh, and happy birthday. Despite my other comment, it's substacks like this that are my "safe spaces" and let me keep a grip on what little sanity I have left. So please know you're very much appreciated by at least one person out here.
I love the terminology “safe space” that you used for this site. It fits perfectly. This site (SimCom and others) has kept me off my ledge more than once……..that could get really messy.
I spend whole days wondering if I've lost my mind and no one has bothered to inform me. That seems the only rational explanation for what I'm currently experiencing every time I'm dumb enough to check on the world outside my door.
My question has been: "Are there any rational minds left? Anywhere?" And the answer: Yeah. Authors of many of the 'stacks I follow are sane. As are many of the commentariat. Ipso facto, I'm NOT alone. And I may even be sane.
It’s not true until it’s been debunked by fact checkers. I think they’re starting to realize that. A couple days after the infamous hearing I did a quick google search on the terms EU Covid hearing Pfizer transmission. To my surprise, no fact checks turned up - except for google’s warning “It looks like the results below are changing quickly.” and the suggestions to check the sources and come back later. This was two days after the hearing and that video had been circulating all over the internet for at least a day.
cat……….I’m not kidding……are you serious…….$37.00…….??!!!!!!!…….REALLY……I will be more angry about this than most of the other DUMB ASS things he does…..He is the most clueless entity on the planet.
The character Beni, that's the fact checkers. When Imhotep threatens him, he rattles off various prayers fiddling with magical pendants from one religion after the other until he picks one old enough for Imhotep to recognise.
So for Beni (factcheckers) truth and meaning and so on has only ever utilitarian value, no intrinsic or spiritual or even a humanist or humane one. And for Imhotep, Beni has value only as a tool, something Beni doesn't realise.
And what people in power do with worn-out or broken tools is something fact-checkers will start to learn if they cannot turn their coats fast enough.
See Glenn Greenwald's comment about them in the last post: The media knows nobody trusts them, so they pretend to create ANOTHER division that's 'above the fray'.
On a lighter note, the rumor is that Acosta about to get fired from CNN!! Who is coming to my party!! What a miserable self loathing insecure whack job!!
Dunno why the caption refuses to move into the center. Maybe it's a protest aimed at raising awareness about society's expectations about captions and their physical placement in relation to the picture -- ALWAYS BELOW. Did you even think about that before now? No, because you're racist.
Edit: The caption is once again conforming to society's norms.
Fact check : FALSE!
Society has always accepted captions in multiple locations.
Also, happy anniversary! ✊
FALSE: captions have not always existed, ergo society has not always accepted them.
Well you're both wrong, because society is a false construct based on
(insert sentence containing some incomprehensible rancid liberal bullshit)
SO there!!!!!!!!!
And that makes three (3) in ERROR!
Obviously, captions are a new Democrat gaslight, and I think we need to worry that they are targeting our host!
Timothy, are you serious? The idea upsets me.
Sorry, Denise. I tend to joke about that which upsets me, too, but I don't think our host is the type to fall victim to any type of gaslighting, even were it a reality, which, in the case of captioning anyway, it is not.
I like the symbolism of everything moving from left to right. The center is for indecisive wimps.
Now, THIS I understood. Thanks, and I agree……..the middle can’t make a stand.
That’s just what a Putin lover would say!
Also happy birthday.
Gaslight is a very good movie. It helps you understand more about what the term really means. And, Bergman's face is quite compelling.
More importantly, is that your cat that threw up. And, secondarily, Happy Aniversary
Oceana was at war with Eurasia. Therefore, Oceana had always been at war with Eurasia.
I enjoy your sbstk very much
- and the comments ... you have a superb following.
Welcome to the awesome SimulationCommander's stack and forum, Rosemary B.
Rosemary, Timothy, below, is afraid he may have offended you……..he made a joke…….He’s very nice…….please help him or I’m going to have to scream at him and that’s not a good look for me.
Thank you for this notice.
No, not offended, just grateful for generous friends.
Thank you Denise for this.
I have a crazy life here. Still living in "the big house", girls married and gone
taking care of my dad (98) and grateful for my hubbs.
We are living in a crazy era.
How many of any of you, to all of you, have been "banned" by family
and quietly "shunned" by a few friends?
I am in No Va and it is a sad life. I have not seen my younger daughters' grand kids since the end of April. Lizzie's husband is a control freak.
Anyway, I am grateful and thank you Timothy.
I feel honored to be a paid subscriber now with your gift.
I've lost more than a few friends that I thought were amazing people. But I don't despair, because it turns out those people would have turned in Anne Frank.
Now I'm replacing those people with freedom-oriented friends, like yourself! I just wish I was closer so we could get together and have some laughs!
Truer words….
And not a good sound for me! Please direct any Screaming into the Void.
Why don't I kill a few birds with one....gift sub?
I believe that's the first gift sub ever purchased, so your name and picture will go in the museum! :)
Wow. I'm....speechless. (Well, my wife will want to know how you did that.)
Thank you, M. Sim.
I propose that every gift sub be rewarded by replacing the current name/pic in the museum. Then, you can sit back and watch the competition begin, and you won't have to fill the museum with pictures of me.
😄 😁 😆 😅 😂 🤣
Okay, Rosemary, what do you want?
Edit: ;>)
Funny person, you.
I hope I didn't offend M. Rosemary, who is obviously a very nice person, not to mention quite observant.
Here, I've added a wink.
Oh my goodness, all of you are wonderful
Such generous and thoughtful friends, all of you
So sorry it took me a while to learn and acknowledge your gift
(I am always busy, with my dear old dad)
Thank you sincerely Timothy
I am beyond touched!!
Oh, come on……..what you said was adorable…….let’s ask Rosemary…….
So sorry I took so long.
I was watching murders on Britbox and sewing sewing sewing
Indeed! The community is amazing!
Oh, I agree with Rosemary B on both counts……..
Happy 1 Year! You caught my attention on Berenson's sub and kept me with the cat pics😁
This is the way.
Unfortunately, ‘infection’ has become conflated with ‘disease’ (symptoms) - causing confusion. No vaccine prevents infection (this being a virus entering an individual) as they do not create force fields around people. (Vaccination is a way of infecting people with a benign form of a pathogen - also called inoculation. The first ‘vaccination’ was done by INFECTING a person with pus taken from a Chickenpox pustule to immunise them against Smallpox.) Our natural immune response is to recognise infection by a virus and prevent it developing into disease. This depends on a number of factors, primarily the state of the immune system, and the the virus. The immune response is much quicker, more effective if it has met the virus before either by natural infection or inoculation via vaccine. This response can take days during which time the individual can be infectious. An effective vaccine, by prepping the immune system, reduces the time of its response, which means the virus is quickly overwhelmed before it can fully develop into disease (although some mild symptoms may be present)... but whilst the fight goes on, the individual is still infectious - and can transmit the virus - albeit the viral load shedded will be smaller and for a much shorter time. The claim of 95% effectiveness was (deliberately) very misleading. It is clear most people understand that to mean reduces ‘infections’ by 95%: that it not true. The 95% is RISK reduction in getting disease. So it does not mean that if 100 people are vaccinated only 5 will get CoVid, it means the RISK of CoVid in each individual is reduced to 5%, but all 100 could still get it. Vaccines do not/cannot prevent transmission but it can reduce transmission RATES just as so-called herd immunity does. The more people immune (natural or vaccinated) means the virus cannot easily find enough hosts to reproduce at a rate needed to be successful. Since the mRNA ju-ju do not provide immunity, it certainly cannot reduce transmission rates. Claims it reduces severity of disease, still await corroborative data.
I thought the first vaccine used cows, not chickens, thus the word "vaccine" which has its roots in the Latin for bovine.
Excellent summary of infection vs. disease, and just what a "vaccine" is, which is why the word "vaccine" should never have been used. Instead, I believe it was used intentionally to deceive the public.
And, yes, "immunity," whatever *that* means, *was* promised, which was also part of the Statist trial run at population control, i.e. the Fascism of mandates and lockdowns, which were *never* warranted, but oh, so loved by anti-Capitalists (today's Fascist Democrats, in general).
You are correct. It was cowpox. Pus taken from pustules of a cowpox on a milk-maids hands.
Timothy! You’re back……..yea…..you smart person.
I'm only a troll today!
And I think you should give yourself another chance with a slow read of M. John's post.
That won’t help me……I know my limitations…..sometimes I just have to wait for the video. Sometimes my brain just goes into tilt mode. John was great, don’t misunderstand.
Yes, lying about the definition of 'vaccine' led to the completely idiotic argument that 'You need vaccines to do other things', as if anything is a real vaccine if you just call it one.
John……Huh? Bottom line, should anyone have gotten shot……..and, yes, I am just that thick……..now, be kind, John, I can’t understand charts and graphs either. That’s why I cheat……yes, I said cheat. When I read an analysis like yours, I start out thinking I’m going to understand…….never do……..so I go to the last sentence and I think you still don’t think the shots provide what they say they do.
Right? Thanks, John.
I have not had the CoVid vaccines because although bring 69 I am higher risk, I do not believe I am at any more risk than from Cold or Influenza. I did not believe the product would be effective because there are no effective vaccines for respiratory viruses after decades of research. I considered the mRNA products experimental with no safety information and therefore potentially a danger to my health. So no, the mRNA shots do not stop disease, and therefore do not stop transmission, there is no data to support they make the disease less severe. Worse, these products are causing thousands of deaths and injury, particularly in younger people.
Thank you so much for taking the time with me……..very nice.
Keeping up with at least some events and not go total Kaczynski-style bonkers is taxing, but as some bard said: "It is a comfort in wretchedness to have companions in woe" (though I think he meant it differently).
Maybe "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is more apt? And given the last years, can we really blame those who make like snails and just ducks into their shells whenever something challenges their perception?
Anyways, happy Stack-day (?)!
If I were a snail, I would find a tortoise shell to duck into.
But those snails *are* to blame, just like not voting will not make the Democrats stop their one-party-security-State wet dreams.
In a way, yes of course theyare to blame for not thinking, not being skeptical of the (to us) obvious too good to be true-fairy tales of vaccines being made ready in months, and so on.
But in another way, they are victims of having their - fully reasonable, morally wise - trust betrayed. The more implicit and intrinsic trust between people in a society and in society itself, the better it is.
I think maybe they are easier to reach and sway if one is sympthetic and helps kead them to the waters of realisation that they have been reamed, flensed and sold by their elected officials and the modern clergy of media?
Yes, their trust has been totally betrayed.
And their response is to run and hide?!
They need to FIGHT. They need to take back their wayward society.
You reach them with compassion, and good luck (sincerely). I will have compassion for them when they get over their butt-hurt and join the fight to reclaim our birthright of Classical Liberalism.
LOVE this title 👏
And most who follow only MSM will believe this.
Oh, and happy birthday. Despite my other comment, it's substacks like this that are my "safe spaces" and let me keep a grip on what little sanity I have left. So please know you're very much appreciated by at least one person out here.
I love the terminology “safe space” that you used for this site. It fits perfectly. This site (SimCom and others) has kept me off my ledge more than once……..that could get really messy.
I spend whole days wondering if I've lost my mind and no one has bothered to inform me. That seems the only rational explanation for what I'm currently experiencing every time I'm dumb enough to check on the world outside my door.
It’s like we’re twins………..
My question has been: "Are there any rational minds left? Anywhere?" And the answer: Yeah. Authors of many of the 'stacks I follow are sane. As are many of the commentariat. Ipso facto, I'm NOT alone. And I may even be sane.
Yeah, you’re sane………..now, you may breathe.
But...But...but if I breathe won't I get covid?
Funny
It’s not true until it’s been debunked by fact checkers. I think they’re starting to realize that. A couple days after the infamous hearing I did a quick google search on the terms EU Covid hearing Pfizer transmission. To my surprise, no fact checks turned up - except for google’s warning “It looks like the results below are changing quickly.” and the suggestions to check the sources and come back later. This was two days after the hearing and that video had been circulating all over the internet for at least a day.
Why don't more people mention that Biden is wolfing down a $37 ice cream?
cat……….I’m not kidding……are you serious…….$37.00…….??!!!!!!!…….REALLY……I will be more angry about this than most of the other DUMB ASS things he does…..He is the most clueless entity on the planet.
It can't really be $37 though, right?
I want to know as well……..furious……he should order Rock Road and maybe he’ll choke on a nut.
https://youtu.be/Nl_Qyk9DSUw?t=7
I hate fact checkers so much. I don't know why secondary little shit carriers bother me so deeply.
It's the sniveling prevarication. Somehow it almost disgusts me more than the real evil.
Did you ever see the movie "The Mummy" from 1999?
The character Beni, that's the fact checkers. When Imhotep threatens him, he rattles off various prayers fiddling with magical pendants from one religion after the other until he picks one old enough for Imhotep to recognise.
So for Beni (factcheckers) truth and meaning and so on has only ever utilitarian value, no intrinsic or spiritual or even a humanist or humane one. And for Imhotep, Beni has value only as a tool, something Beni doesn't realise.
And what people in power do with worn-out or broken tools is something fact-checkers will start to learn if they cannot turn their coats fast enough.
See Glenn Greenwald's comment about them in the last post: The media knows nobody trusts them, so they pretend to create ANOTHER division that's 'above the fray'.
On a lighter note, the rumor is that Acosta about to get fired from CNN!! Who is coming to my party!! What a miserable self loathing insecure whack job!!
Oh, happy days……
A party, you say?
HUGE! That guy is in the running for worst case of TDS... and acting like an 8 year old...
And their you know what doesn’t stink... I hate them.
You’re not alone.
🎼🎼 You’ve only just begun...🎼🎼
Happy anniversary, can’t wait to see what year 2 brings! Sorry but being old, The Carpenters seemed to fit the moment...
Heyjude….Oh, that doesn’t make you old, The Carpenters are classic and real music. Good choice.