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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • very little action needs to be taken by the people in those States to convince their secretary of State to do a manual recount, or people in other states to ask their secretary of State to pressure the soss in other states to do a recount.

    legislation is often supported or not based on less than 100 people calling into their legislator’s office, so the more people calling up their secretaries of state and election officials and demanding a recount, the better.

    this is not a baseless accusation, there is hard evidence that Trump’s lawyers had voting software, and a historical and statistical and probability that The voters that literally want Trump. the election are real or actually voted.

    The likelihood is that those ballots are not there.

    with this much actual evidence, there must be a recount.

    you should demand it.

    call or email your election officials. tell me your state and I’ll tell you who to call or email.




  • whoaaaaaa. whoa. whoa.

    this is a good thing to get angry about and call up your state officials, especially if you’re in one of those swing States.

    “Is this just the Left’s version of right-wing conspiracy theories that have played an outsize role in destabilising our institutions? Perhaps.”

    no, there is no evidence for qanon conspiracy theories, while there is plenty of evidence that Trump’s lawyers stole voting software and the voting numbers are historically and statistically non-credible, specifically in the most important states in the election and specifically just over the margin that would spark manual recounts.

    this is definitely actionable material.




  • The article keeps mentioning that the drinks could have been spiked, but that seems very unlikely and a weird way to poison someone, especially since there doesn’t seem to be a motive or relationship between the victims.

    what’s much more likely, given it’s Laos, is that the whiskey was poorly homemade and the bar sourced their whiskey from that. unskillful distiller, laotian whiskey is a cultural tradition and whiskey is pretty easy to make. all you need is a still, but if you keep all of the distillation, the beginning of the liquid coming out is methanol, which is very poisonous. after the methanol is gone then it’s all ethanol, which is the alcohol you’re used to drinking and is less poisonous.

    it sounds like this was in a bar, so the supplier of the bar probably got lazy or didn’t want to waste any of the distillate they were making and kept the methanol in through negligence or greed.



  • yep, I did a deep dive into the scientific paper mill industry and you are exactly correct.

    the only other metric I have heard about(besides just buildings being built) for scientific advancement within China comes from the sheer volume of papers they submit which have been studied again and again and at least 20% are entirely fabricated, but the number is probably much higher and the academics don’t have time to weed out all the irrelevant ones so they just let the irrelevant ones go through, but there’s a dearth of innovative progressive science coming out of China as far as anyone can still tell.

    they straight up have paper mills and it’s openly known that those papers are one either based on completely fabricated data, or two based on irrelevant already known data.

    as far as editors trying to check all of these false papers out of China have reported, it’s sort of like if you were submitting an article to an automotive mechanics magazine, and you just did a book report on what a piston is.

    like yeah, that’s what a piston is, but no knowledge is being gained from a report on an already known technology and its known applications.

    so how do those papers get into the magazines?

    very often those paper mills offer a grant to a legitimate scientist who needs to get a project done and they’ll agree to be credited as a co-author on these ersatz Chinese papers so that they’re more widely accepted.