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Arguably, you already have, as you are in a quantum state or signed up / no signed up (and everywhere in between) already.
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Wow, I’m actually glad I knew nothing of this side of Fiddy.
Is it ok to just remember him as the utterly charming gent he undoubtedly was?
I can’t recall any tales that seemed bs to me, just remember the beautiful/inappropriate bikes trotted out for any given occasion.
Obvs a lot more of forum life was conducted in person back then but his passing and how yourself James and others were there for him galvanised my belief that this is a real community, not just a bunch of internet bike wankers. -
just a bunch of internet bike wankers.
Oi! We most certainly are!
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Many, maybe most people have at least one chance to redefine themselves in a mostly honest way - going to university, starting a new job, moving to a different town/country. People having previously been trapped in inaccurate preconceptions held by family/friends/colleagues get the opportunity to be taken entirely on their own merits. I don't know if it's that some people don't get that chance and look for something like it online, or mess it up and look to get it right online, or if they just get addicted to the process. Maybe some are one, some another and some a combination.
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So these guys are busting out absolute nightmare fuel now
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I love that YT channel
Really interesting.
To be fair, that one's much tamer than some recent ones that lead to the extinction of mankind.
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I've just found out that sometime between tomorrow and Thursday, Biden will be removed and Trump will be reinstated. Keep an eye on the twitter of this person on the inside https://twitter.com/palmerLoni4
Happy Friday. This hasn't happened...
The twitter account has been quiet for a couple of days now...
She also seems to be a fan of JFK Jr, who was supposed to rise from the dead in July 2019 to join with Donnie as his running mate in the re-election campaign. That didn't happen either. -
Just watched the Navalny documentary on iPlayer. Wow. Worth spending some time on.
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According to numerous Med Bed twitter threads, Trump has promised that Med Beds will make all hospital equipment obsolete by the end of this year.
The Daily Beast has a Med Bed story. I think it's the only one in the legit media:
New QAnon Conspiracy Involves a Magical Bed for Zombie JFK. Fringe
believers think the “med bed” cures late-stage cancer and keeps the
35th president alive and young. Now a host of strange businesses are
peddling beds to the desperate.In a popular QAnon chat group, a woman named Julie was selling hope
and a $22,000 cancer treatment.For “those interested in medbeds,” she wrote in a 36,000-member QAnon
group on the chat platform Telegram, “FYI My husband uses a #medbed
generator and 4 tesla biohealers for his stage 3 inoperable and
aggressive salivary gland tumor. THIS technology is very supportive!”The message might have sounded like gibberish to outside readers. But
in this corner of the internet, where conspiracy theories and
alternative health practices run wild, it suggested something barely
short of a miracle: the arrival of a much-hyped device that followers
think could treat aggressive cancer.An increasingly popular conspiracy theory falsely centers around the
existence of “med beds,” a fabled medical instrument that does
everything from reversing aging to regrowing missing limbs. The theory
has grown in popularity among followers of far-right movements like
QAnon, some of whom claim to be urgently awaiting a med bed to treat
severe health conditions.“The group falsely believes that John F. Kennedy is still alive and
youthful, and attributes his remarkable longevity to the curative
powers of med beds.” Some companies are capitalizing on the sudden
demand. Julie, the woman advertising her husband’s med bed treatment
in QAnon chat groups, is not an impartial med bed fan, but a marketer
for Tesla BioHealing, one of multiple companies selling what they
describe as “med beds,” sometimes for tens of thousands of dollars.
The company credits its technology to a doctor who has previously been
accused by the Federal Trade Commission of misleading advertisements
for asthma treatments, and whose previous company board issued a
resolution accusing him of sabotage, forgery, and sending company
money to an online girlfriend.The med bed conspiracy theory “serves two prophetic purposes,” said
Sara Aniano, a Monmouth University graduate student who studies the
rhetoric of the far right and has documented the spread of the med bed
myth.One of those prophecies promises a near future in which big
pharmaceutical companies are obsolete. “Then of course there’s the
more obvious appeal of having a magical machine, versions of which can
diagnose you instantly or heal you instantly,” Aniano told The Daily
Beast. “Some can grow back missing body parts instantly. So obviously,
there’s a lot of hope that serves a very appealing narrative for those
who believe this.”Some QAnon sects have made med beds central to their conspiratorial
claims. A Dallas-based group, which follows the Q influencer Michael
“Negative 48” Protzman, has promoted med beds, in part because the
devices address a plot hole in another conspiracy theory. The group
falsely believes that John F. Kennedy is still alive and youthful, and
attributes his remarkable longevity to the curative powers of med
beds.Romana Didulo, a QAnon-adjacent conspiracy leader who claims to be the
rightful “queen” of Canada, has also hyped med beds. The devices “will
be made available for FREE to all Canadians” following her revolution,
she wrote in an August post. Followers of YamatoQ, a Japan-based QAnon
movement, have also latched onto med bed theories, even making their
own attempted version of the device with copper wires.Some conspiracy theorists believe Trump is aware of med beds, and can
release them to the public. Delays in the prophesied technology (like
one frustrated Q fan noted in an open letter to Trump last year) have
led some to speculate that Trump is reserving the devices for the most
critical cases, and for military members.Companies selling self-described “med beds” often stop short of
conspiracy theorists’ most unlikely claims.Tesla BioHealing doesn’t claim that its “medbed generators” can regrow
missing body parts—and its med beds are not even beds, but metal
canisters designed to be placed under a mattress. Nevertheless, the
Delaware-based company recommends its products for a spectrum of
conditions, ranging from “mild” (including asthma and autism) to
“severe” (including “terminal cancers”).Reached for comment about Tesla BioHealing’s benefits for people with
“severe” conditions, CEO James Liu told The Daily Beast that the
devices delivered “life force energy” to those patients.“Tesla BioHealing products provide life force energy to the user. When
anyone with an unmet severe condition, such as ‘terminal cancers’ and
‘stroke-paralysis’ for 6 months, they do not have much life force
energy, and it is hard for them to get better,” Liu told The Daily
Beast via email. He cited studies, which Tesla BioHealing has not yet
published.“The beds have ‘the purpose of transporting quantum energy into the
body.’” “Based on the feedbacks of the users who had the similar
condition, and they got the satisfactory use-experience (the
real-world evidence), we do recommend to test-use our product. If the
products were not work for the user, she/he can return within 60 days.
We also conducted preliminary studies and we did observe the benefits
of using our products. We are in the process to publish those studies.
In addition, many doctors in the USA and abroad conducted the clinical
studies. The outcomes of those independent studies are supporting the
real-world evidence. The testimonials were directly provided by the
real users in the USA and worldwide.”Even for “mild” treatments, the price tag is staggering. For these
conditions, the company recommends one “Adult BioHealer,” which costs
$599. For severe cancers, like the one Julie’s husband battled, the
company recommends “2 or more MedBed Generators,” which cost $19,999.
(Julie’s husband’s treatment, which consisted of a MedBed Generator
and four Adult BioHealers, would have cost $22,358).Liu said prospective customers had approached them about
conspiratorial claims, and that Tesla BioHealing had distanced itself
from the theory.“We were asked by many potential consumers if our products could be
that kind [of] device, or similar to that hoax device,” Liu told The
Daily Beast via email. “We have 100% distanced our products from that
false claim. Because the bed is the right place for the user to gain
life force energy to be able to heal her/his body, we use the bed to
deliver our life force energy. When we communicated with the FDA, we
used the term of bed, med bed, powered bed, etc. Any bed used in a
hospital is a med bed. Those beds have no life force energy. Our life
force energy empowered bed is unique.”If Julie had promoted conspiracy theories, it would violate the
company’s policies, Liu said.Reached for comment, Julie told The Daily Beast that she purchased the
devices “for my husband’s Stage 3 parotid (salivary gland) cancer,
inoperable and aggressive which he was diagnosed with May 5th 2021. At
that time I had a feeling that Medbeds existed and i searched until i
found Tesla Biohealing on May 30th.”She said that she hoped “AI medbeds” will become available in the
future, but will continue to use her Tesla BioHealing products for
pain and other conditions in the meantime. “Cancer was the best thing
to happen to my husband and I. It was tough for both of us but we made
it through,” she wrote. “Tesla Biohealing was and still is the best
intuition I ever listened to in my life.”Other supposed med bed companies make even loftier claims. A Swiss
company called 90.10, which scored the coveted URL “medbed.com,”
claims to allow users to access “infinite energy” and “reprogram your
DNA”—all without side effects.Unlike Tesla BioHealing, 90.10 doesn’t even offer users the
tangibility of a metal can. Instead, it purports to convert users’
regular beds into the fabled med beds, using “Faster than Light
Technology®” to “teleport or beam quantum energy and frequencies into
the human body without time delay.”Never mind that those claims appear to violate conventionally accepted
rules of physics—the company promotes testimonials from customers who
claim that one sleep in their invisibly upgraded bed managed to
realign a spine, clear sinuses, cure joint pain, and helped reveal a
person’s purpose in life.Aniano, the Monmouth University researcher, had a slightly less
revelatory experience with the device after signing up for 90.10’s
eight-hour free trial.“It tells you to lay on your bed and say the magic words, which I
think are like ‘90.10 med bed, scan me,’ or something,” Aniano
recalled. “You’re supposed to feel something, and that’s the trial.”The 90.10 med bed sells for €2,358, just over $2,500. (“Shipping
calculated at checkout,” reads the product page, although, elsewhere
on its website, 90.10 clarifies that “we do not ship physical goods.”)“Some conspiracy theorists believe Trump is aware of med beds, and can
release them to the public. ” Reached for comment, 90.10 CEO Oliver
Schacke said the devices were not medical in nature. Instead, he said,
the beds have “the purpose of transporting quantum energy into the
body.”Schacke said he was unaware of conspiracy theories about med beds, and
that his company’s product was not named after them. He reiterated his
website’s claims that 90.10 products can instantly understand any
language or dialect, and that they access infinite energy. “On the
subject of unlimited energy,” he said in an email, “Whatever is
possible to imagine, is possible to achieve.”Though they might “recommend” their products for a variety of
ailments, Tesla BioHealing and 90.10 sound a different note in their
legal disclaimers.90.10’s disclaimer clarifies that its “med bed” is short for “meditation bed” and that the product “is not intended to diagnose,
treat, cure, or prevent any disease. It was also not developed for
these purposes.”Tesla BioHealing products, meanwhile, “are not intended to replace
your physicians' care, diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease
or medical condition,” the company’s disclaimer states. It goes on to
note that “[n]o claims are made that Tesla BioHealing products or
services are diagnostic of the presence or absence of any medical
conditions, nor are any claims made that Tesla BioHealing products are
a cure or treatment for any medical condition or disease.”While 90.10 is not U.S.-based, and notes that its products have not
been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Tesla
BioHealing advertises its med beds as “FDA registered medical
devices.”An FDA listing shows that Tesla BioHealing is a trade name of Liu’s
company “DrNaturalHealing, Inc.” While that company has registered a
number of devices like an “air flotation” mattress and a therapeutic
infrared lamp, it does not appear to have registered the metal “MedBed
Generator” cans.Liu, a Delaware-based doctor and entrepreneur, has previously run
afoul of regulatory agencies for allegedly misrepresenting his health
products.In 2014, he and DrNaturalHealing Inc. were the subject of a Federal
Trade Commission investigation, over the company’s claims about an
anti-asthma device. According to an FTC letter to Liu,
DrNaturalHealing had advertised a “homeopathic spray” that purportedly
“prevent[ed] or reduce[d] the occurrence of asthma attacks.” The FTC
investigation found that the product’s claims were unsubstantiated.
Because Liu agreed to stop making those claims, and because the
product had not sold well to begin with, the FTC did not recommend Liu
for enforcement.“The FTC staff expects that DrNaturalHealing will ensure that all its
health benefit claims are adequately substantiated in the future,” the
agency letter read.The matter appears to have concluded quietly, and Liu noted to The
Daily Beast that the FTC had investigated his company and “did not
fine us a single penny.” More dramatic, however, was a protracted
legal feud between Liu and some of his former business partners,
including his estranged wife.After their split, the couple battled over ownership of TechWorld
Corporation, a medical device company they had run together. In an
April 2015 shareholder meeting, Liu’s ex and a group of TechWorld
shareholders issued a resolution accusing Liu of a variety of
misconducts, including “forg[ing] TWC’s president’s signature and
open[ing] a TWC bank account,” “embezzl[ing] TWC’s money several times
to his online date mate,” “purchas[ing] mal-functional products from
his brother’s company which caused big business loss and damag[ing]
TWC’s reputation,” getting TWC’s product barcode suspended, trying to
transfer TWC’s barcode registration to DrNaturalHealing Inc., and
“hijack[ing] his ex-wife’s business email.The shareholders voted to boot Liu from the board, and requested he
return the $35,050 that he had allegedly sent to an online girlfriend.
Liu, in a separate legal battle against his ex, claimed that the
explosive shareholder meeting had been convened illegally. He also
denied the allegations, including misappropriating company funds, and
claimed to have been scammed by “an online-dating criminal lady” on
Match.com.“A very skillful online dating criminal group targeted Dr. Liu by
saying to invest a big money into TWC or buy the US business,” reads a
legal filing in his case. It goes on to state that he “reported the
full event to the IRS auditors and it was classified by the IRS
officers as a true business loss in seeking for business investment.”The bank account dispute, he said, came when he attempted to open a
TWC account to cash in on a $100 offer for new account-holders.Liu’s estranged wife did not comment for this article by press time.
Today, TechWorld’s business registry status is listed as “revoked.”
Instead, Tesla BioHealing is expanding. The company has a fanbase in
Japan, and a Japanese-language website. Stateside, the company has
opened a number of “Tesla MedBed Centers,” where customers can
schedule “a Bio-Well Energy Scan, Hourly or Overnight Tesla MedBed
sessions. Experience for yourself why so many are sharing their
remarkable stories with us.”The company’s website advertises one such center “coming after May
2022” in Illinois, and it recently opened another in a former Days Inn
in Pennsylvania.As with Julie’s posts in the QAnon Telegram group, the site does not
explicitly reference popular conspiracist claims about med beds. On a
Facebook announcement about the new center, locals simply filled in
the blanks with med bed conspiracy theories.“Oh yes, but will not be available to the general public for about 2
yrs,” one reader commented on a Pennsylvania news station’s post about
the upcoming med bed center. “The sickest, stricken military and
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It's also why the Roman baths in Bath aren't open to the public for bathing, anymore.
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An Oklahoma woman got 4 years in jail for having a miscarriage https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/roe-abortion-miscarriage-crime-murder-prosecution/
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A black hole singing
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Amazing. Quite tempted to sign up for the free trial.