Chiropractors. It’s pseudoscience. Maybe it’s not the most unique opposition from me as I know some others dislike chiropractors, but I think it’s backwards that medical aids or health insurance will literally pay for their client’s appointments with these modern day charlatans, while denying payment of scientifically proven treatment options.

From what I’ve seen, it’s a QR code that links to a website which logs your IP address, along with other details.

It absolutely does matter. Repeating decades old conspiracy theories and misinformation about Fort Detrick creating diseases like HIV COVID causes mistrust in science, and denial of the effects of said diseases. People who believe in such conspiracies are less likely to take the disease seriously. If parts of the left are going to get duped by Operation Denver again, I’d like to skip the part where it causes denialism that affects official government policy and kills hundreds of thousands of people.

Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008, repeatedly cast doubt on the scientific underpinnings of the H.I.V. and aids epidemic, citing the Fort Detrick conspiracy, among other discredited theses. As a result, South Africa delayed wide-scale implementation of antiretroviral therapies, at the cost of as many as three hundred and thirty thousand lives.

The weirdest thing I’ve seen on this website lately is when people take a flaw or poor pattern of behaviour that is universal to the human condition, and proceed to blame the West/America for it or act said poor behaviour only happens there. As one of the most outspoken people on here encouraging others to read third worldist theory, even I don’t know where this is coming from. Universalism is probably one of the more important parts of leftism and even third world ideology, Samir Amin’s Eurocentrism dedicates an entire chapter to addressing universalism.

The whole Fort Detrick conspiracy is just rehashing Operation Denver, but for COVID instead of HIV. It’s not even a new conspiracy. There is no need for the left to get duped again by the exact same conspiracy many leftists fell for over three decades ago.

There was a COVID thread today, that in the end came down to people commenting every single COVID origin conspiracy, instead of just accepting that maybe COVID came from an animal source in China, which is the currently most supported consensus by the scientific community. The general anti intellectualism, combined with a denial of reality when it doesn’t conform to the ideal people want it to conform to, is starting to get annoying. It wasn’t always like this on here.

I am so confused by what is getting upvoted here, you people have no experience in medicine or research.

It’s just a bunch of people angry at the world upvoting what they would like to hear over the truth of the matter/situation. Seems to be an ever increasing theme on hexbear, I think people want to even ban “doomerism” now, whatever that means.

Isn’t that just almost magical thinking, to think we can prevent uncontrolled cell division or immune system decline from age, from ever happening in the first place with our current technology? That’s why a lot of experts think the most realistic approach at this point in time to treat cancer is treating each type of cancer differently. If the alternative to “not buying that theory” is to try find a magic bullet cure to stop all uncontrolled cell division and aging, that’s most likely going to take a lot longer to come to fruition than targeting different types of cancers on an individual basis.

Didn’t you also say that “The “promise” of stem cell technology from 20 years ago still hasn’t amounted to anything that your average person can get”, and now you’re suggesting that stem cell therapy can heal tendon, ligament, bone, and soft tissue injuries. That’s a really wide range of injuries. I surely hope that is true, but logically I can’t see how that could be.

I mean I know you don’t want to hear this, but it is hard and incredibly complex. “Curing cancer” would be basically the same as curing thousands of diseases simultaneously, you’d need a different cure for each type of cancer and how it effects different cells. Biomechanics are complicated with ligaments, tendons, bones and soft tissue. For instance, the best surgery we have at the moment for severe scoliosis or kyphosis (someone’s spine growing skew in various different ways) still boils down to taking most of the affected vertebrae (often around a dozen vertebrae), and fusing them all together into one big bone/vertebrae that’s straightened out, with what amounts to permanent braces that never get removed (metal screws and rods) that hold the vertebrae in place while they form into one big bone. Yes, that’s how it’s “fixed”, by losing most of the mobility in your spine.

Stenzek gets a ton of abuse from the emulation community that is undeserved. I remember when he made PlayStation 2 emulation on Android possible with AetherSX2 under another username/alias, a massive technological leap, and the community treated him like trash. Moves like this are just in response to the entitlement and poor behaviour that some people directed towards Stenzek. Yes it sucks for the rest of us who behave appropriately online, but none of this would be happening if others treated the guy with respect in the first place.

Yeah apparently it would fix it and then the Xbox 360 would work for a few months to a year, but then the issue would return, and eventually the motherboard would warp from overheating and the console would stop working all together. So a temporary fix that would work a few times, until it completely stopped working. At least that’s what I’ve heard, I’ve never owned an Xbox.

I still have my original slim PlayStation 3. That thing must be around 13 years old now, maybe older. I’ve had to replace the thermal paste multiple times though. My original slim PlayStation 2 only broke because the ribbon cable for the disc drive got severed during a fall, I think I tripped over the wired controller, which caused it to fall.

I meant that 720p on component looked slightly worse than 720p through an HDMI connection, likely because HDMI is a fully digital signal and component video is analog. But yeah unless you sit close to the screen or have a massive screen/TV, 1080p is perfectly fine.

No wonder the Red Ring of Death was a thing back then. I still remember the people “fixing” the red right of death by wrapping the original Xbox 360 in a towel and heating it up/overheating it on purpose, to try “reflow the circuits”

I had one of those component cables for my PlayStation 2 so I could play games in progressive scan/480p, and Gran Turismo 4 at 1080i. The exact same cable also worked on the Playstation 3 for HD gaming at 720p or 1080i, though it wasn’t quite as crisp as HDMI.

I don’t think I’ve ever pre ordered a game in my life, and I’ve been playing video games since I was 9 years old. I’ve bought a few special editions yes, but no pre orders. Only bought two games on release day as a teenager.

To be honest, I just hate how expensive gaming has become across the board. I still remember getting a brand new, top of the line, Playstation 3 slim with a 500GB internal hard drive and Blu ray drive, two controllers and two games, in 2012 (over 12 years ago) for around 450 USD, with import taxes and luxury taxes in South Africa. Now the lastest top of the line PlayStation 5 is going to cost over 1150USD here, with the disc drive being an optional add on, and only 2TB of storage and one controller. WTF how is a 250% price increase justifiable when you are literally getting less by comparison?

And I haven’t even started on the price of PC parts here, PC gaming rigs are the price of second hand cars in South Africa. A Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 with 8GB of VRAM is over 500USD! A 14th Gen Intel i5 is over 350USD. Two new mid range components, and the price is already approaching 900USD. By the time you’re done buying everything, you’re looking at over 2000USD for that PC.

Not just any old video, a BlackRock commercial I think lmao.

You can watch the videos yourself, this guy tried to heavily involve himself in the Ukraine conflict and recruit soldiers for the foreign legion. CNN is even reporting on it.