Jake Tapper clashes with House Dem in heated exchange: 'May not be a big deal for you!'

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30. Oh that guy

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Thanks.. I read about that book. Yeah he is an asshole. Lol..I never remember his name. Maybe after this I will..

Edit: That Biden debate yeah. I never ended up watching it. I had a mock lab meeting that day (well not in the US..where I live in the global south) and I stumbled very badly while presenting. I always remember that day because of that. It would have been between 4:00 and 10:00 am (to leave it hazy) your time on that same day.
I am not prone to conspiracy theory and I don’t think stuff like the Havana Syndrome has ever been proven to be a real thing. But well..our tech oligarchs are so sloppy, I did wonder if their rubbish tech can worsen concentration issues.

I usually shy away from such speculation: 1) as a scientist ; 2) as a medical marijuana user who doesn’t want to be labeled a paranoid schizophrenic and 3) most importantly not wanting to add to the stupid din of loose correlations and conspiratorial trash online.

I have had difficulty concentrating all my life. It has been getting worse. I keep telling myself that I am not trying hard enough and my money is still on that. But I am sensitive to noise and lately it bothers me more. I think the best bet is try and monitor day to day variation.

I have mixed feelings about that type of speculation - for one thing it is just bad science to refine too much on coincidences etc. Don’t want to sew a vest on to a button.
Otoh sometimes I find that hunches can have a basis in something real and we are in an environment where these robber baron types (and their shills like this Tapper jerk) gloss over inconvenient realities and represent them as non-issues.

That abundance Yimby type (which this jerk Tapper seems to be adjacent to) tends to Pooh Pooh all environmental concerns ..same basic worldview as that ass Musk. Ignore the effects of light, sound/noise pollution and just build..

But then there are also a lot of cranks who make absurd claims which muddy the water. I have generally viewed the flouting of the limits to growth thanks to human overpopulation everywhere and consumerism the biggest issues typically.
And that all these other things are secondary nuisances.

However if something was causing serious attention issues and it wasn’t like Trumps bs about windmills causing cancer, but a more substantial complaint..like a noise pollution complaint..
Well..don’t know. And at this point I am so sick of being treated as if I was like a “targeted individual” who thinks “gangstalking” is real rather than someone who is only saying:
1) these systems and shills are sloppy and prone to deregulation and casually normalizing atrocious stuff and expecting us to suck it up and 2) systems of trust are broken.

But then I don’t know. I look gloomily at stuff like this and despair at it ever being feasible to untangle a ball of pollution, corruption, mental stresses, type 1 errors, human malice, junk tech and overcrowding etc into their separate things and effects etc:
https://www.audubon.org/news/no-5g-radio-waves-do-not-kill-birds

Certainly people like Tapper, Trump and our awful tech oligarchs thrive in this setting.

It’s not really a scientific statement so much as about the erosion of public trust in governments when they fail to reign in industry, defense contracting etc. It makes separating legitimate safety and security issues from theatre; protest from distractions etc etc impossible.
Too many damn people..all other things aside. Makes everything more chaotic..and these assholes thrive in chaos at the expense of everything worthwhile.