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Yes indeed, humanity has little influence on climate, but it is a profitable industry, therefore people willfully turn a blind eye, or are even misinformed and therefore ignorant. It is naive to assume politically sensitive topics like climate change can be openly discussed here, as a downvote will result.


Profitable how?


Some moaners believe the "climate crisis" is another scheme by the elite to get "us" to pay more, e.g. in the form of CO2 compensation, fuel tax while EVs get subsidies, "forcing" "us" to buy EVs that are another platform to control and spy on "us".

They are insufferable, to be honest.


The article basically states that a higher cholesterol (up to a certain point) reduces the hazard ratio. Therefore cutting your cholesterol in half does seem to increase your health risk (assuming your cholesterol was not extremely high).


It was very high and I beleive it's genetic , my mother tried all available statins then moved from pcsk9 inhibitors to inclisiran and now her chelesterol is in check


It seems to force iPhone users to switch from Russian services to services from the United States, which provides a certain finanical benefit for the United States.


This is a UK sanction, this has nothing to do with the US. Apple simply terminated the developer account which removed the app in every country.


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Even with drugs that are supposed to stop addiction, many people are still addicted after the treatment stops. Continuing with the drugs over a long time can lead to health problems, thus not solving the issue. Many studies show that a change in environment has a major influence on the change in behavior of patient.


Freedom of speech is under attack again, or still. A trend that has been going on for at least 2000 years since the Greks, but not being able to say things might be in the near future no longer be as common as it was in recent times. No matter whether you agree with Trump or not, silencing an oponent in a debate will only reduce the quality of decisions made by a lack of critical oponent views. The more censorship, the less efficient the outcomes of decision making will be as the quality of arguments can no longer be weighted due to the absence of dissent. Also the more censorship, the less engagement in public debate there will be.


Freedom of speech does not equate to freedom of consequences. Obvious example being standing in a cinema and yelling fire. Trump isn’t being banned because of his views, but because he has continued to violate Twitter’s T&C.


Glenn Greenwald disagrees with you: https://youtu.be/lMVS9tfNyjc

He even calls out why your example of yelling fire in a theater is a poor one. Disregard the intro which was recorded prior to changing the discussion to the twitter ban.


There have to be red lines on political freedom of speech too.

For example incitement to genocide must be red line.

Unless you think that for example radio station RTLM was in their right to incite Rwanda genocide.


> For example incitement to genocide must be a red line.

I don't think this has to do with why Twitter banned Trump.

> Iran’s leader has repeatedly shared tweets calling Israel a “deadly, cancerous growth” to be “uprooted and destroyed” — all going unchecked by Twitter.

> “The long-lasting virus of Zionism will be uprooted thanks to the determination and faith of the youth,” Khamenei wrote as recently as May.

That's from an article talking about how Twitter defends allowing Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a platform https://nypost.com/2020/07/29/twitter-defends-blocking-trump...

Clearly Twitter is ok with this kind of political speech, and even defends it.


I'm not commenting on ongoing political matters, but on principle.

I'm replaying to the gay from the video who seems to have a view that all political speech should be protected, no exceptions.

That's clearly wrong, because incitement to genocide must be not be protected.


Feeling Good by David Burns is a truly excellent book. Although published in the 80's it is still very relevant and useful.


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