life is an endless series of train wrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness

As the great philosopher Dead Pool so aptly puts it "life is an endless series of train wrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness"
Accept that, expect that and enjoy the breaks when they happen and you'll be all right.
All we really have is Now, and we rarely get to see all of it because we are too busy trying to look into the future or being stuck in the past.
Nothing is inherently good or bad, those are all just constructs of our mind. Life just happens, enjoy the ride.
Enjoying happiness is easy but also do the hard thing like enjoying pain and sadness. Living fully, living a full life, has nothing to do with accomplishments and all to do with perception.
The entirety of human history is but a mere spec on the timeline of the universe, yet you could believe that all of that was necessary for This to happen Now which makes it equal parts incredibly important as totally insignificant. We are what gives meaning to life, without thought, there would be no meaning. Life just is and we are trying to make it something that it isn't. Fate is an illusion born from our desire for meaning and purpose in pursuit of trying to control our future,or mourn our failure, but Now, is where it all really happens. 

Open your eyes and just Do something. It doesn't matter what.

How Phizer and Moderna Vaccine works

Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are mRNA vaccines.

They have been working on an mRNA vaccine for almost 20 years.

The clever scientists finally got it all working properly and approved little while back.

A mRNA vaccine is like a message in a bottle. The whole bottle thing is the difficult part of the vaccine. How do you get the message past all the human defenses?

Well, they have figured it out and approved a few of these vaccines and they were in use when Cov-19 hit. So since everything was approved they could just start producing. Since they only had to change the message, very few approval steps were needed.

This is how your immune system is taught a new lesson;

The message bottles get injected.

The bottles go past the defenses of your immune system.

It attaches to one of your cells, and goes in, delivering the mRNA message.

The message floats through your cell until it meets a compatible ribosome

The ribosome processes the message and makes a protein.

When the ribosome processes the message, the message is destroyed.

This protein is the same as the virus has and it goes to the outside of the cell wall where it sticks out.

The message also switches on the cells alarm system which causes the immune system to attack this cell and learn the very important lesson "This protein: bad!"

Now when your immune system sees this protein, it will attack it with furious anger.

So although the mRNA message looks like DNA and is processed in the same way that DNA is processed, none of your own DNA is changed and the message is destroyed when reading it.

The advantages of extremism

Allrighty then. Henry tries to fix the internet again. Let's see what happens now.

I found this really great old advert where John Cleese talks about extremism and the content unfortunately never seems to get outdated.
So I wanted to quote the entire thing and searched the internet for the exact text. 

Unfortunately that was nowhere to be found and I took it upon myself to write it all down from what I assume is an uncut original copy on YouTube.

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Seriously though, we've heard a lot about extremism recently a nastier, harsher atmosphere everywhere, more abuse botherboy behavior, less friendliness and tolerance and respect for opponents. All that, but what we never hear about extremism and its advantages.

Well, the biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel good. Because it provides you with enemies. Let me explain. the great thing about having enemies, is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies and all the goodness in the whole world is in you.

attractive isn't it?

So If you have a lot of anger and resentment in you anyway, and you therefore enjoy abusing people

Then you can pretend that you are only doing it because these enemies of yours are such very bad persons.

And if it wasn't for them you'd actually be good-natured and courteous and rational all the time. 

So if you want to feel good, become an extremist.

Okay, now you have a choice.

If you join the "hard left", they'll give you their list of authorized enemies: almost all kinds of authority, especially the police, the City, Americans, judges, multinational corporations, public schools, furriers, newspaper owners, fox hunters, generals, class traitors — and of course, moderates.

Or if you'd rather be an extremist on the hard right, no problem, fine, you still get a lovely list of enemies, only they are different ones; noisy minority groups, unions, Russia, weirdos, demonstrators, welfare sponges, meddlesome clergy, peaceniks, the BBC, strikers, social workers, communists — and of course, moderates.

And upstart actors.

Now once you are armed with one of these super list of enemies, you can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behavior is morally justified. So you can strut around abusing people and telling them you could eat them for breakfast and still think of yourself as a champion of the truth, a fighter for the greater good and not the rather sad paranoid schizoid that you really are.

*John Cleese

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4

Pro-Truth pledge

 

I signed the Pro-Truth Pledge:

please hold me accountable.

This is a real good start. More people should do this.

Coronavirus: Can it even be stopped?

Hey Thunderf00t, as it seems, embedding your video does make it show up in search results. So I suppose I can help it spread this way.

It is really sad that YouTube is doing this to you, but it's not a perfect world eh?

Covidiots

Trump didn't take it seriously and now he's fucked up his country, Boris of UK shakes hands with Covid-19 patients and is proud of it, the Belarussian president organizes a ice-hockey tournament and plays in it himself saying "I don't see any viruses here, do you?"

I really do wish this virus would just kill stupid people.

Unfortunately the reality of it is that the stupid people in charge will just make it worse for all of us.

This virus is here to stay for a loooooong time.

Once we get it under control in all the smart countries, it will fester in the stupid countries and even if those are isolated, the virus will mutate there and come back at us at any given opportunity.

First thing you do if you find out there is a new virus; "containment", keep the virus from getting out.

China really fucked up that part, and lost face in a big way. The virus is now everywhere and all we can do is damage control. Keep the virus from spreading so rapidly that the healthcare systems don't get overrun. this is also called "flattening the curve". Which basically means, a lot of us are going to get infected, but we're going to try and spread it out a bit. And if we do that well, we there might actually be people who don't get infected at all. But it also means it is going to take way longer before the virus naturally dies out.

But the thing is, we ALL have to do it.

If there is just one stupid infected fuck who doesn't, the infection will flare up again at a much later date.

There are a lot of stupid fucks in this world and lately there are also a lot of stupid fucks in government.

Luckily this virus is actually rather mild for what it could have been.
But we need to learn from this or the next virus will take out en even bigger chunk out of the worlds population.

Perhaps now we can start listening to the scientists again?

Writers Block

Here I am staring at the overwhelming whiteness of a blank page.
Staring, dreaming dreamless dreams while awake.
There is nothing more cleansing to the mind.

But I don't want a clean mind, or a clean page. I want something to shout about, something to complain and rant about. My anger and dissatisfaction put in words might inspire and make people laugh. it works therapeutically on my own mind.

I want to write. People here want me to write.
But now, when I come here I can't help but think about the article that got deleted.
I am angry and frustrated, but also it feels like I lost.

"The Best way to kill yourself" has been erased on blogger.
It was a controversial topic, equally controversially written and I knew the moment I posted it that it might not be around for long.
Still,. it has been around for far longer then I ever expected.
This article changed what I wanted to do with this blog, it was in my way. It was also the reason to come back to my blog so many times. It was the most popular of any article I had written. It was hated and loved. But the most sad part is that there were so many beautiful and heart tearing comments there. People pouring their souls out. Farewell letters.

There is no way to fight back.
This is a free platform beyond my control. They have the power to erase whatever history we have together, or whatever article I will write in the future.

I thought it would be governed by a fair process. But it's not.
So here I am feeling useless, pointless. Anything I write here could be gone tomorrow, so what is the point of writing anything here? Do I pack up everything and move to a more safe place for stuff I want to keep? A place where free speech is still ungoverned by AI, where fairness is not compromised by a lack of (human) resources?

I mean, I get it. YouTube and Google, ABC or whatever, they can't be expected to treat every complaint about articles or videos in a fair way. It just takes too many man hours.
Or can they? I think they can. They just don't want to.

And what did I expect really?
I'm using a free service to write stuff out into the world and I expect them to keep it for ever?
Yeah I do.
And now I think that's weird. And it reminds me of something I wrote on this blog. Something about free apples, was it not?
I have come to expect them free apples from Google, even think I have the right to have them and I'm angry when I don't get them. I'm just like the rest of ya'll.

So am I going to let this Block me from writing?
It nearly did there, didn't it?

The point is, to make a difference.
If it is lasting or not doesn't matter, everything is fleeting anyway. Our lives will end, new lives will be created and everything always changes.
A white page suddenly turned into a blog post once I started poring my unfiltered thoughts and feelings onto it. But what is the point?

All I know is that I wanted to write again. And I felt blocked.

I remember the first time I experienced writers block.
I wasn't actually going to write anything, I was in class and I was supposed to make a drawing. It was free drawing, you could draw anything you wanted.
Sounds amazing right?
But it's way too much freedom, there was so much I could draw that I was totally overwhelmed by it and I froze. All idea's just were not there, my mind was as blank as the page before me.
I think I sat there staring at the page for at least ten minutes while my mind raced in circles; "what can I draw? Everything, I can't draw everything, it doesn't fit on this tiny piece of paper, besides it would take forever. So I have to make a choice. But what do I choose, and why? What is the best choice? that depends on the goal? What is the goal? To draw something? But why? Do I have to impress someone? Or do I do it for me? And do I need to impress myself? Yes,.. but how? What am I even doing here?"
Finally the teacher noticed I wasn't drawing and she came up to me to ask what the problem was. Obviously I said; "I don't know what to draw" And she just said the simplest thing and I don't think she ever knew what huge implications this sentence had on my life. "Just draw what you see"

I took what she said, thought about it really carefully and started drawing my desk, my hands and the blank piece of paper.
But the blank piece of paper was now no longer blank, So I had to change the blank piece of paper to a drawing of a desk with a blank piece of paper.......

I have always loved recursion but that was the first time I realized that it is a great way to get unblocked.

Here I was staring at the overwhelming whiteness of a blank page, but now I'm thinking, "is it okay to end it here?"