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 (DIR) Post #B1shJS8itoBR6DnO3U by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
       2026-01-02T16:41:17.721765Z
       
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       If one wants to take a look at the traction of the anti-vaccine movement has had, look no further than a Hacker News post about vaccines.You will find no resistance here. They all believe the lore so hard they might as well be preachers.RT: https://social.lansky.name/users/hn250/statuses/115826334930358636
       
 (DIR) Post #B1squX0aev2cVAkMBk by Zardoz@gigaohm.bio
       2026-01-02T16:49:51.366648Z
       
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       Brutal and true.  Tech guys are particularly vulnerable to the virus mythology, and the injectable anti-virus tech mythology.I just had my own experience with chicken pox.  All my kids caught it from my wife’s shingles.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1squY7MXE3JwSvHNo by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
       2026-01-02T17:40:26.031365Z
       
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       The visa versa is also true. Watching people in other non-tech disciplines opine about tech. Or even tech people no longer keeping up with tech opine about current and leading tech. Basically a little knowledge breeds arrogance.Think about it this way. Take a topic you really know because you work in it. Now explain a current phenomenon. Is there ever a simple explanation? Or does it almost always depend on understanding 5 other complex things in order to understand a "simple" explanation of it? Where if you explained the simple explanation to your peers, they would understand it but to anyone else you wouldn't even know where to start.Take for example why perhaps the stock market seems to be way up still. I've heard plenty of people online and IRL wonder out loud about it. They all offer perhaps one or two reasons but none of them comprehensively answer the question (or give it predictive power). It's not until there's a greater understanding with half a dozen reasons or more until the model starts to be useful.It's like saying the reason Twitter only originally allowed for 140 characters was to train AI. 🤪 How does that explain FB? 🤔 I'm sure there's absolutely no other technical reasons it could that number. Just like there's no technical reason why traditional RDBMS databases had VARCHAR field limits of 255 characters or why longer fields where added later in the form of "blobs". I'm sure it has nothing to do with indexing or serving anything at speed. I'm also sure it has nothing to do with the era when the platform was created. Most importantly I'm sure that as long as the text field is large enough computers are incapable of cutting up the text into pieces. Just like it's impossible for a process to cut up audio into 30s segments for processing. Whoops, did I just describe the Whisper algorithm. 🤔Basically if one uses a superficial understanding of the situation as the linchpin to their entire theory, and keeps doubling down on it until they stumble onto more evidence or abandons it altogether, one might want to reconsider how much weight we give those theories. Especially when we're in listening mode and not thinking/challenge mode where we can sharpen our own understandings. Especially in an environment that heavily discourages or even punishes that mode.Afterall the most precious thing we have are time and our thoughts/attention. We can never get back time we lost nor wasted thoughts. We have to put our efforts into things that measurably matter to our real lives.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1t7ieMZBiLV3awjCK by Zardoz@gigaohm.bio
       2026-01-02T22:16:51.028502Z
       
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       Beautifully put!I believe "The System" leverages this arrogance bred by little knowledge.Any influencer in the public sphere passing off or amplifying weaponized information or narratives serves to further flood the zone with bullshit.  Since EVERY influencer (no matter how well-intentioned) will at some point amplify signal for the slavers, silencing the truth becomes obsolete when every influencer eventually leads their flock into the hands of the slavers.  Even a truth teller with a heart of gold will fall to this fate--unless they have a team of brilliant trusted advisors, immune to influence themselves--who can advise flawlessly. The entire hamster wheel is a Golem sniper trap which transforms mental energy into propaganda emanations.