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GordonS commented on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok   bbc.com/news/articles/ce3... · Posted by u/vikaveri
ilogik · 6 days ago
The UK is also opening investigations into the Esptein stuff.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/starmers-government-aids-po...

Unlike the US administration which seems to be fine with what epstein and X are doing

GordonS · 6 days ago
Except Starmer is making sure that the "investigation" is hobbled - anything seemed important to "national security" will be excluded!

The UK's "investigation" is a farce.

GordonS commented on Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions   quantamagazine.org/cells-... · Posted by u/marojejian
nosianu · 9 days ago
Because that is useless? The physical phenomenon is so very, very different in biological systems compared to the metal-wire electricity our electrical devices are based on that they are entirely different things.

For example, charge carriers are electrons in metal wires vs. ions in biological systems. That has huge implications, because moving around ions is a lot harder, and slower.

In a metal wire the electrical field is established from beginning to the end, and that means that the electrons at the end start moving at pretty much the same time as the ones at the other end, no matter how long the wire. That means in a metal wire signals move at a significant fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum, because it is the speed of the electrical field and not that of the charge carriers that matters.

In a biological system electrical fields are tiny! The way the signal propagates in an axon is much more cumbersome, expensive, and slow. Speed of signal propagation is ca. 1/2 to at most 100 m/s (for thick myelinated axons). The signal is propagated by jumping in very tiny steps along the axon's inner surface. (https://youtu.be/tOTYO5WrXFU)

This also makes The Matrix movies' main premise about humans as batteries a little strange: Sure, there's lots of electrical activity, but it is in trillions of very tiny places across nanometer distances. And it is created by moving ions around (at great energy cost).

So anyway, what actually physically happens in an electrical grid of metal wires, or in a biological system are vastly different things. It is not the same "electricity", the only thing they have in common is that electrical fields and charge carriers (but different ones) are involved. But the way it is structured, created, propagated is entirely different in both cases.

When I asked Google out of curiosity what it had to say it showed this:

> Despite their differences, both are fundamentally, at their core, the movement of charged particles driven by electrical potential differences.

This is just not correct! The "the movement of charged particles" part specifically. Again, wires have one electrical field, but in biological systems propagation is entirely different, and slow, and expensive! The methods used to propagate a signal are not even remotely comparable. That's a difference not even a Radio Yerevan joke could make use of.

GordonS · 9 days ago
This is very informative - just wanted to say thanks!

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GordonS commented on Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials   time.com/7357635/more-tha... · Posted by u/mhb
behnamoh · 16 days ago
I'm Persian. most Iranians are NOT muslim; that's what the islamic regime's propaganda has tried to convey for 47 years. if anything, many who were already muslim became atheists after seeing the atrocities of the regime in the past decades.

Iran's population is also overwhelmingly pro-West.

GordonS · 15 days ago
No, according to both Iranian government estimates and the US Department of State, around 99% of the population are Muslim.

[0] https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-r...

GordonS commented on Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials   time.com/7357635/more-tha... · Posted by u/mhb
behnamoh · 16 days ago
It does prove who did it; when you see police officers, Hamas mercenaries, and IRGC forces shooting at people using machine guns, and then demand "bullet price" from the families of the dead before they return the corpses of their loved ones...
GordonS · 16 days ago
Please do share these supposed videos. Except, they don't exist, do they?

> Hamas mercenaries

Literally LOL'd at that! What an utter load of nonsense.

GordonS commented on Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials   time.com/7357635/more-tha... · Posted by u/mhb
whyage · 16 days ago
It doesn't erase Israel's genocide, but the question is still valid: why don't these crimes against Iran's own citizens evoke international outrage?
GordonS · 16 days ago
Because Iran claims foreign-backed terrorists were behind all the murder and destruction - backed by Israel, the US and UK.

Mossad has openly said they have people in Iran, and Israeli media has said they've sent weapons to the "protestors" in Iran. Senior figures in the US government have alluded to the same.

Many videos have been published by Iranians online, which certainly do not show "peaceful protestors" - they show gangs of masked men beating random civilians to death, fire-bombing buses and ambulance; they show leaders dishing out weapons and satellite comms devices, and trained men using assault rifles to attack civilians and the police.

We've also seem video of over a million Iranians marching in Tehran in support of the government, and in protest of the foreign-back terrorists.

And we have the MSM happily parroting any death figures they get, from anyone... even if they are literally from Pahlavi's mate or a CIA "human rights" group based in Langley!

We should all be more sceptical when our media and governments try to gain consent for war, and we should be asking who stands to gain - it's certainly not us, the people.

GordonS commented on Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials   time.com/7357635/more-tha... · Posted by u/mhb
behnamoh · 16 days ago
You can already see them in the videos raiding hospitals to "finish off" the wounded... Or you can watch videos of hundreds of bodies in plastic bags if you need further proof that this massacre is actually happening on that place on the earth.
GordonS · 16 days ago
That doesn't prove who went around murdering police officers and random people, and destroying hospitals, banks, police stations and ambulances - it only proves it happened at all.
GordonS commented on Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials   time.com/7357635/more-tha... · Posted by u/mhb
firejake308 · 16 days ago
> As of Saturday, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said it had confirmed 5,459 deaths and is investigating 17,031 more.

The 30,000 number comes from the Ministry of Health. It seems the UN number also aligns with the new 30,000 number. This is much worse than the 3,000 that was reported earlier. But it also seems like the crackdown is over now, and we're still just counting deaths from Jan 8 and 9.

I compare this to the recent protests in Bangladesh, where Sheikh Hasina ordered the military to shoot the protesters and the military refused. The difference between these two countries is proof that people do have the ability to disobey orders from authoritarian leaders, and that decision can have a huge impact.

GordonS · 16 days ago
Isn't HRANA funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a well-known CIA front?

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GordonS commented on Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/6LLvveMx2koXfwn
skippyboxedhero · 18 days ago
your source...is a union? really? you can look at ONS numbers yourself (and you will see this isn't the case).

Scotland has seen a drastic reduction in police numbers (unfortunately for you, not a Tory government :( oh well) despite record government funding levels. Labour's plan appears to be attempting the same trick with consolidation of forces, which should allow massive reductions in numbers. In Scotland, there are some days when there is one traffic car covering an area the size of England, and the expected time to respond to car accidents is usually 6-12 hours (this includes situations with serious injuries).

There is a lot more going on here than funding because government has never had more resources. The Tories, to their credit, actually put money in but (even then) the results were no better.

Also, in response to original comment, I am not sure why you think the Police are competent. Much of the policing function of a few decades ago not lies with private companies. Police numbers are generally high but the level of output has never been lower. You are seeing this in multiple areas of the public sector, public-sector output hasn't increased since 1997 whilst govt spending to GDP has basically doubled. The police have massive structural issues with their remit in the UK because of demographic change, and it is generally seen as a career for people of low ability resulting in fairly weak performance. It doesn't feel complex but than you realise that people don't understand that a politician looking to get elected might say it is even simpler. Does anyone actually work at a company where more spending increases results? I have never seen this to be the case. If anything, more spending seems to lead worse results.

GordonS · 18 days ago
> In Scotland, there are some days when there is one traffic car covering an area the size of England,

Scotland is smaller than England, so this makes no sense.

Furthermore, anyone who drives regularly in Scotland knows this to be completely false - there are plenty of traffic cops around (sometimes incognito too), and they are sometimes even seen waiting in rural and semi-rural areas.

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