1/ The Vax$ contains the RNA (encapsulated in liposome) to make one of the spikes found on the outside of the coronavirus. When injected, it is absorbed into a cell and makes one of those spikes on the outside of whatever cell it went in to.
2/ The RNA shot was supposed to stay in the arm muscle, making those spikes on the outside of muscle fibres, but instead most of it got flushed into the blood and spread around the body.
3/ The place where blood slows down the most is in the capillaries & this is where the RNA has mostly been absorbed & those are the cells that started growing those little spikes.
Problem is those capillaries are supposed to be nice and smooth.
4/ But those capillaries are now rough with all the spikes. The body sees this and thinks its damaged, so tries to fix the damage by making blood clots. These tiny, microscopic bloodclots are now travelling around in your bloodstream.
5/ Travelling around the blood, these clots start blocking other capillaries, mainly in the brain, lungs, heart, kidneys and reproductive organs. Its looking increasingly like the blood clotting doesn't stop even months after taking the #vaccine.
Although our bodies keeps making these clots, thankfully this can detected with a standard blood test called D-Dimer. If you took the shot, you are 65% likely to be producing clots continuously. Some of them are what doctors call “micro-clots” and are benign. Measure IL-6 & CRP.
Now this thrombotic processes are complex, and deep in biochemistry. What makes it even more complex is there are around 1206 genetic SNPs associated with DVT
Every company is just trying to "capture value" that's already there.
Our entire society became speculative. Trying to catch the raindrops of trillions of dollars of debt as it 'trickles' down through privileged & nepotistic waterways.
@Uber raised like $25B to reinvent taxis and food delivery. They finally made a profit last quarter after 14Y. Facebook bought instagram just to copy tiktok_us which just copied vine. Then Facebook made threads which is just a copy of Twitter which was made 17y ago. A kid born the day Twitter was made will be able to vote in the next election. AirBnb was supposed to be a way to rent out an extra room or couch, but it just turned into investors buying houses specifically as bed and breakfasts (Without actual breakfasts !). Even the current iteration of #ArtificialIntelligence is just some linear algebra, optimised computing & lots of engineering thrown into the mix. Not much actual innovation.
Long gone are the days when innovation and the desire to build a better world (by actual curious & talented people, not by someone who went to a IvyMBA to get a 5M seed) drove development. The only thing on anyone's mind is how he can make as much money as quickly as possible from something.
#reflections #investment #innovation
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"My analysis of start-ups, however, shows that the big losses suffered by Uber, Lyft, WeWork, Pinterest, and Snapchat—greater than 50% of revenues annually—are just the tip of the iceberg.
More than 90% of America’s “unicorns”—start-ups valued at $1 billion or more while privately held (before IPOs)—lost money in 2019 or 2020, even though more than half of them were founded over 10Y ago.
And a similar trend of losses holds for European, Indian, and Chinese start-ups.
Of similar importance, recent analyses of venture capital (VC) firms show that ROIs in VCs have barely exceeded those of public stock markets over the past 25Y, and their current losses suggest that returns will fall even further"
Good Lord. IPOs have been strange lately. Lots of unprofitable startups IPO-ing, providing exit liquidity to private investors
"..start-ups that do go public, the % that are unprofitable at the time of their IPO has increased dramatically over the last few decades, exceeding 80% in recent years, according to analysis by Jay Ritter of the University of Florida"
Ref: Rani Molla, “Why Companies Like Lyft and Uber Are Going Public without Having Profits,” Vox, March 6, 2019.
#venturecapital
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"...the most significant problem for today’s start-ups is that there have been few if any new technologies to exploit.
The internet, which was a breakthrough technology 30Y ago, has matured. As a result, many of today’s start-up unicorns are comparatively low-tech, even with the advent of the smartphone—perhaps the biggest technological breakthrough of the twenty-first century—14Y ago.
Ridesharing and food delivery use the same vehicles, drivers, and roads as previous taxi and delivery services; the only major change is the replacement of dispatchers with smartphones.
Online sales of juicers, furniture, mattresses, and exercise bikes may have been revolutionary twenty years ago, but they are sold in the same way that Amazon currently sells almost everything.
New business software operates from the cloud rather than onsite computers, but pre-2000 start-ups such as Amazon, Google, and Oracle were already pursuing cloud computing before most of the unicorns were founded.
Fintech start-ups use algorithms to find low-risk borrowers or insurance subscribers, but economic contraction has shown how sensitive these algorithms are to changes in the overall economy; hence their technology cannot be considered revolutionary.
Other than #artificialintelligence and #DataAnalytics, none of the technologies being developed by unicorns is a breakthrough comparable to those seen by previous generations of start-ups"
This is a real-life story of how corporatisation of #science (MIS complex) has replaced the curious scientists with stronger moral backbones.
James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or #Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
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Bernadine Patricia Healy (August 4, 1944 – August 6, 2011) was an American cardiologist and the first female director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
W. Bush tapped her in 1991 to become director of the NIH, its first woman head.
#science #MISComplex
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Reid Adler, the director of technology transfer at NIH, filed an application of patent, presumably with Healy's blessing, on thousands of gene fragments (Science, 11 October 1991, p. 184).
Not only Watson felt it was morally wrong to seek patents on “gene fragments”, neither Healy nor Adler didn’t bother to discuss the application with him, especially when it had major ramifications for the Genome Project which Watson was leading then.
Considering that modern humans, due to the Neanderthal assimilation (we carry their DNA), are entirely different from the misnamed extinct pre-contact Homo sapiens, it might be time to rename the latter in order to distinguish them from us, maybe as Homo socialis.
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Since the Neanderthal assimilation most Homo sapiens have retained their predominantly social nature & therefore tend to ostracise those of a predominantly individual nature who, beginning in the 1940s, are being pathologised with the label of #autism
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“modern human-specific alleles that could correlate with a shift towards prosociality in modern-humans, we highlight one allele in AVPR1A (rs11174811), found at high frequency and linked to prosocial phenotypes in modern humans,…”
1/ If you can imagine a hunter-gatherer roaming around Africa around 14K years ago, he didn’t know anything about - nation-state, fiat, central bank, corporate law, education, modern markets, industry, pharma, media, politics, modern definition of morality or consumerism
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Nor they had any concept of money, stock options, CEO of a large organization, boardroom politics, knowledge of vector calculus and abstract mathematics, career struggle, mortgage stress etc.
#lifestyle #simpleliving #career
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They often smiled and laughed, ate communal meals together around a fire, danced afterwards, had rounds of decentralised governance, few possessions, and weren’t obsessed about success or #wealth. What do you think about that lifestyle ?”