Cyberdevil 2020-01-21 13:13:30

Just a few years now hmm. :) Good luck. Raising potential world leader or great native creative with unfathomable influence there.

Cyberdevil 2020-01-21 16:15:41

How many clubs have you started! :O On my way...

Cyberdevil 2020-01-23 00:42:01

Aha. XD The concert one wasn't yours...? Or maybe not a club. Anyhow: I can deal with this. Two's not too unmanageable...

Cyberdevil 2020-01-23 11:15:13

Got it.

Cyberdevil 2020-01-24 04:53:24

Ah I think you might've recommended me that one before. Think it might still be on my watchlist... or was it recommended? Good movie?

Cyberdevil 2020-01-27 00:03:03

Seems like it's working now...? Wonder what it looked like when you were linking to it...

Cyberdevil 2020-01-29 07:07:54

Hmm! Seems others might see it the same way as you do: https://archive.is/gJgPV/image

...I can see my own fine, but I can't see Toms apparently. sooo maybe playlists just went private? What happens if you try making one of your own?

I wonder if this is intent8ional though...

Cyberdevil 2020-01-29 18:43:46

Yeah I think it might be, I seem to remember there being a page that listed ALL playlists too, though maybe that's gone now too.... you can sti8ll see individual ones though right? For example: https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/fb650a1e5bc8c085495aa763f910a8be

Cyberdevil 2020-01-30 07:18:01

You're right, asked Tom about it just nowand they're aware of it too. Hopefully a quick fix. Was going to link to his post but it's in the Supporter forum...

Ah no, thanks, skimmed the first pages but didn't see it there. Seems activity's dwindled hmm...

Haha yeah, not that the Congrats really contribute that much, but it keeps the hype up a bit. Been going through old P-Bot posts recently btw, there sure were a loooot of comments there back in the day, nice to see people like BomToons and Little-Rena being regulars in the conversations back in the day. Fun fact: thumbnails were apparently added in just roughly ten years ago now, before that it was all text.

Cyberdevil 2020-02-04 07:53:35

Same one I link to in the sidebar? https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/the-appeal

If you need something more specific I can go digging a bit. Dr. Mercola has some good summaries too (this wasn't the one I'd read before but seems legit, plenty more via search there): https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/06/05/technology-versus-humanity.aspx

...yeah the companies keep pushing for it and I don't think they really know what they're doing here. :/ It'll be hard to avoid even if you want to.

Cyberdevil 2020-02-04 12:47:28

No worries man. XD For sure. Lately it feels like technological progress is speeding up to the point people almost don't even care about the risks, like it's the thrill of potential innovational danger. Like Elon Musk says: what if we're just the organic bootloader for AI? The way we keep pushing for these things...

But anyway that's a different topic. Disappointed he's actually on the forefront for launching all these 5G satellites though. He used to seem like the perfect visionary, everything he did somehow for the betterment of humankind.

Cyberdevil 2020-02-04 16:37:46

Oh a submarine thing! I hadn't heard of that at all. Need to look that up. That's true, no one's perfect, though when he was starting with Tesla, with electric cars, and solar panels, and giving out monorail designs for free to revolutionize public transport... I really liked that side. :) If you haven't seen the solar roof btw it's pretty cool: https://www.tesla.com/solarroof

Yeah it would be... I hope so. Maybe he knows more about what he's doing than all of us. The links I sent you both mention the dangers of shooting up satellites into our magnetosphere though, how it might not just disrupt weather forecast technology but life as we know it... we just haven't ever had this type of technology up there before, and 20,000 satellites no less... feels dangerous. Hope he just hasn't given up on the world entirely, and this is all part a plan to speed up colonization of Mars... or something. I really wonder what he's thinking with this.

Cyberdevil 2020-02-05 00:47:45

You don't trust the dude?

Cyberdevil 2020-02-05 06:06:30

Hmm I've yet to read something he says that doesn't make sense to me, but that said I definitely don't know everything about him, haven't read his books; haven't researched his claims. Have tried some of his bars and toothpaste though, and those were great (all great ingredients too)...

Everybody's got to make a living though right? As long as he's advocating a healthy lifestyle it seems like a good way to go about it.

Cyberdevil 2020-02-05 06:34:54

Ah so he is a real doctor too... thought it was more so a degree, or his previous occupation before this online thing. TV pastors don't really contribute to peoples well being, though. Mercola however: spreading good info, and you don't need to pay a thing to read it. Fear-mongering...? Strange how we get so different impressions here.

I feel like he's doing good deeds, large profits or no. As a traditional doctor you wouldn't have the same amount of reach as you would as a social presence like this. For good and bad of course. He'd better be saying the right things.

Cyberdevil 2020-02-05 07:02:31

Alright, good to know. :)

The clickbait may be real, but I think the fundamental reason our views differ here is because I'm already into most of the stuff he posts about before he posts it. It's more so re-affirming to read than something I read and instantly believe. Maybe everything he says isn't correct but which source is? Is the problem more so the presentation than the content though, in your view? Anything you personally really don't agree with?

Hmm not sure I want to go down that rabbit hole... seems to be a lot of FDA related claims on the first page, and similar, if possible to an even lesser degree than our own local FDA alternative: I really don't trust the FDA. That people can't advocate for health benefits unless those benefits are scientifically proven is a major flaw in modern society IMO. It's not that I don't believe in science, but when the majority of all research is industry funded I don't as easily believe science is always without bias and/or complete.

Whatever happened to the freedom to live your life according to the practices you believe in, rather than those presented by the wealthiest entities out there? All scientifically approved cures require massive funding to get through, and yet there are alternative natural sources we've been consuming for the past millennia or so that you're not allowed to vouch for when it's a company claim. As far as I'm concerned the more alternative lifestyle sources and products out there the better. If they don't work it'll be uncovered; if they do people will respond positive. As long as production is safe and tested it's all good to me.

But maybe I'm getting OT here. I like the dude. Will read up though and maybe form a more researched opinion. New question: what do you think about Dr. Axe? If anything? Hopefully not also a name related to quackery over there...?

Cyberdevil 2020-02-06 00:42:55

Oh damn AIDS, wonder why he thinks that... I'm very much against ingesting any unnecessary vaccines and chemicals myself though. I don't believe regular doctors are in on any kind of conspiracy, most are probably helping people as best they can; often doing so at personal risk no less, but big pharma: keeping people alive for as long as possible, while still keeping them reliant on meds to do so: that's what they make a living of after all. The same could be said of any alternatives of course, but looking at the constant lawsuits they face, with penalties that don't even phaze them in regard to how much money they're already making off of the meds they produce, and keep producing, aware of whatever severe side-effects they might have... I'm very anti big pharma too. I believe in doctors but I wish they were also educated on traditional medicine and nutrition to a higher degree. Maybe education's different in the US, but here they don't even know you can't measure magnesium levels reliably without taking a blood sample, or that it has an equal if not even more important effect on bone density that calcium (and that calcium can actually have a detrimental effect on its own), or that there is such a thing as both negative AND positive cholesterol, among so much else. Maybe some do, but education seems inconsistent and often very opinionated.

My grandma would've probably still been in good health if one particular doctor didn't cut out her B12 supplements since you just don't need those. Years later another one brought them back in, but by that point all too late. Cancer patients get recommended a sugar-rich diet as to feel more energetic even though research clearly shows that cancer feeds off sugar... I feel like I've just come to a point where it's difficult to trust a conventional doctor.

Aaah rant picks on too easily... sorry 'bout that. I understand your view though; don't mean to discredit those who really are doing the best they can, and for a cause greater than themselves no less. There's some things alternative medicine can't fix, like broken bones, and for such causes it's great regular hospitals exist. In my ideal world I envision all these institutions learning from each other though, focusing more on diet than medicine when it comes to common diseases, and striving to cure people with the least amount of artificial sustenance possible.

I envision schools not getting sponsored by pharma to the point their brands show up in their course literature, and doctors not being allowed to suggest unconventional cures if they do happen to be both safe and relevant. Why not homeopathy? As far as I know it hasn't killed anyone, contrary to many a more popular a cure. Even if it's all placebo it might be equally effective. Instead they're banning homeopathic medicine without evidence that it does any harm. People aren't really free to choose how to be cured anymore. Herbs like milk thistle (silymarin) are banned not because they're dangerous, but because they're too effective! Big pharma tried banning rose hip recently, as they wanted it to be prescription based too, but fortunately they didn't get that through. I hope we're an exceptionally bad example of these industries running rampant though... but so maybe you see why I side with alternative sources for these things. It feels like the pharma industry is simply based on profit, and all education influenced by ditto.

Ah man, that humorous twist. XD Do appreciate it. All info's good info, though I seem to get carried away a bit when this stuff comes up... hope you don't take any of the above personally.

Cyberdevil 2020-02-08 00:32:33

Nice. :)