the timeline argument proves nothing

That’s what I said ?

The point is, the claim is that Tylenol is “linked to” autism.

This post is rebutting the claim that Tylenol “causes” autism.

Thats a classic straw man argument.

Yes it’s a reasonable request, but it’s also pretty meaningless.

It’s performative. Like if you break this pledge nothing happens.

However, it’s performative in the same way that a marriage is really. I mean you can go to the court house and register your marriage without having a ceremony, but that’s very uncommon and in the vast majority of cases you have a ceremony and do all the things.

Achieving citizenship is an important moment in anyone’s life. If your own case for example your Mother’s citizenship ceremony marked the point at which the work to change the trajectory of her life and all of her descendants had achieved the objective.

A little pomp and ceremony doesn’t hurt.

Sure but, the critical question in this post is how to get solar energy from the desert to the market. You can’t just string up power lines because too much is lost in transmission.

In the immediate future, Japan is a target market for Australia’s Hydrogen, and that’s many thousands of kilometers from Australia’s production facilities.

Over this distance hydrogen is the least inefficient method of transport.

Well ackshually …

As others have mentioned pwoer transmission is a huge problem. You lose lots of power in the wires between here and there. So Australia has vast areas of desert, but if you put up an array of solar panels you can’t really transfer the power to where it needs to be used.

However, there’s a lot of investment presently in hydrogen tech. So instead of transferring power by wire, you use it to crack hydrogen out of sea water, and ship the hydrogen to where it needs to be used… in cars and houses.

There are problems in that hydrogen is difficult to store, but the industry is confident these problems can be solved or reduced. Hydrogen atoms are very small and will leak through most materials. It also makes containers brittle over time, so you need a strategy to manage that.

There’s a number of water cracking facilities in progress in Australia right now. The WGEH is a gargantuan project, although presently just in the planning phase.

I’m sure a number of experts will be along in a moment to tell me all the reasons why this isn’t really a thing that will happen. IDK why Hydrogen tech invokes so much derision. The story is that there’s too many problems with Hydrogen and that these projects are just a way to delay proper action on climate change. We will see I guess.

Not really, that’s just how Trump does things, like the tariffs.

All the ones that will still be more expensive than Chinese ones I guess.

LOL. This isn’t going to happen. Trump himself is an idiot but I’m sure there’s someone on his staff who realises that this would decimate the US tech industry. This is another one of those TACO art of the deal type situations.

Not really. The desire to under pay people is stronger than the desire to have a workforce in the US.

Also, the term “under pay people” is a complex one. Sure, it might be below average for a US citizen, but a great opportunity for someone from somewhere else.

Oh please.

This is the same pathetic study the other guy posted which I responded to elsewhere:

Sorry, if you want to make a claim contrary to well established and generally accepted medical advice then you’ll need much better evidence.

The study you linked has a pathetically small scale of 120 individuals, is not randomised or placebo-controlled. Classic P-hacking. The result literally states that a better study is required.

This meta study, which includes the one you linked, concludes that there is no effect on the duration of an infection.

Out of the 1466 references found, 25 RCTs were included. There were two studies assessing mean fever clearance time, and five studies examining the duration of symptoms associated with the illness studied. No statistically significant differences were found when pooling the results of the different studies.

Your advice is anything but “sound”. The only sensible advice is to follow the advice of your health care professional, and we both know what that will be.

Also, the other user you’re talking to is not my alt account, I guess we just happen to have similar names. The only people who think people have “alt” accounts are idiots who think their profile is some kind of extention of their identity. You probably think your updoot count is somehow reassuring. Honestly.

I’m from the colonies.

Sure is an embarrassment. Shameful.

I’m looking forward to reading the “proof” you’ll undoubtedly provide any moment now.

I’m sorry if you’re offended by being called a quack.

It’s a term often applied to those making bold medical claims without sufficient evidence.

Sadly, if you want to make a claim contrary to settled medical science generally accepted the world over and applied in literally billions of cases each year, a study you found on google with 120 volunteers is… insufficient.

Sorry, if you want to make a claim contrary to well established and generally accepted medical advice then you’ll need much better evidence.

The study you linked has a pathetically small scale of 120 individuals, is not randomised or placebo-controlled. Classic P-hacking. The result literally states that a better study is required.

This meta study, which includes the one you linked, concludes that there is no effect on the duration of an infection.

Out of the 1466 references found, 25 RCTs were included. There were two studies assessing mean fever clearance time, and five studies examining the duration of symptoms associated with the illness studied. No statistically significant differences were found when pooling the results of the different studies.

Your advice is anything but “sound”. The only sensible advice is to follow the advice of your health care professional, and we both know what that will be.

Taking medicine to reduce symptoms when you’re sick, actually increases the amount of time that you’re sick. You reducing the effectiveness of your body’s fight.

Sorry I think this is unfounded quackery, and by making this assertion you risk increasing the suffering of others.

It makes sense in a logical kind of way… like if a fever helps fight an infection then taking paracetamol to avoid the fever must prevent you fighting the infection.

The thing is, there’s no evidence that infections work that way in practice. If taking paracetamol helps you get a good night sleep, maybe that is more effective than a fever.

A lot of your body’s natural defenses just aren’t really very effective at all. Like goose bumps, or shivering… obviously putting a jacket on is far more effective.

Obviously, there isn’t enough vegetable oil to run every tractor and every truck.

In Australia, bio diesel is subsidised in the same way regular diesel is.

Even if that were true they’re not presently in common use. Agriculture presently runs on diesel.

I just posted this in response to another idiot, but it works here too:

I’m not sure that’s true.

The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.

Presently there’s no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it’s not economically viable at this time.

The subsidies don’t really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it’s more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.

I’m not sure that’s true.

The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.

Presently there’s no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it’s not economically viable at this time.

The subsidies don’t really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it’s more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.

Political violence is always the last, worst option. Sometimes it’s the only option but that wasn’t the case here.

Kirk was a pretty awful person, who profited from spreading hatred. He didn’t just have an opinion, he had an agenda.