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I've taken the liberty of setting up an official folding@home team for Soylent News. In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's.
There is more information on the project here, which explains it much better than I could.
Clients are available for Linux, OSX, and even Windows (if you swing that way), so come join our botnet!
That Other Site's team is ranked at 1817, so we've got some catching up to do.
On a personal note, my Dad carries the gene markers for Huntington's disease, and will eventually succumb to it. Research like this is very helpful for understanding, and hopefully developing treatments for it.
tl;dr Our Soylent News team ID is 230319
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @10:25PM
I will not use folding stuff because it destroys anonymity. Running a program written by someone else on my machine that connects to its own server for instructions does not inspire confidence.
As for cures for diseases and medical science, one needs to look at what medical breakthroughs have been made in the last few decades. None. The sick murderous criminals responsible for this tragedy are people you don't want to be friends with. They will do anything to keep cures from you. They control the pharmaceutical companies and have control over all research. Their religious laws spell it out clearly [biblebelievers.org.au]
They are NOT allowed to heal anyone who is not of their kind.
Anyone not of their kind cannot get their head around this and how such sick, twisted murderers are allowed to roam free. But it is true. It is happening.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @12:49AM
Ya know, you should really get that checked, I hear they have a pill for that now.
I'm only half kidding.
Everyone I've ever met who starts talking conspiracy has later found that they had a mental health issue, likely that they weren't even aware of.
This includes myself. Your post sounds exactly like me just a couple of years ago. I was absolutely convinced about the "truth" that was being hidden from me and there were organized groups seeking ill intent for the whole world.
I would think about it to the point of obsession. Late night chats with like minded people and thinking I was in the know about some secret conspiracy.
It all made perfect sense, the Bilderburgs, the Illuminati and an organized Jewish conspiracy to bring the world to heel by controlling the worlds resources, money, medicines etc.
It ended for me when I became convinced that my wife's changing behavior was because she had been "chipped" by the government.
I literally woke up one morning and remembered a simple fact.
Conspiracies do not exist. They cannot exist because people are shitty at keeping secrets and not everyone in a group is like minded even if the group is as small as two or three people. There is an old saying "the only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them is dead".
Yes sometimes there is weird shit and occasionally for short periods of time people can in fact conspire and sometimes they get lucky and pull it off.
But prolonged, long running conspiracies fall apart under their own weight rather quickly. People just can't keep their mouth shut, either they feel giddy because they know something no one else does, or they feel guilty. Eitherway they have a yearning and find that they have to talk to someone.
Organized religious conspiracies are even less likely. You'll get nutters and cultists once in awhile, but on the whole people join religion because they want to feel close to the divine and the only thing the divine tells you in every single religion is to be good to other people. It's whackjob religious leaders that tell people that God says anything else. If you think God is speaking to you, that is actually a strong sign of mental illness. Seriously if he/she/it created the whole universe and wants the world to know something, they aren't going to tell it just to you. Put another way, if God wants to talk to you he knows your cellphone number :)
Anyways long story short, I found myself considering the possibility that my spouse had been reprogrammed by the government because she was acting shy and scared and different somehow. I asked our mutual friend if she had noticed anything and she told me pretty bluntly that my spouse of 10 years was planning to leave because I was acting more and more erratic every day and frankly she was scared for her life. It was at that moment I took a long look at myself and sought professional help.
As it turns out I had a psychotic break after being terminated without notice by a company that was bought out and gutted while I was on vacation. A few pills and some 30 or 40 counseling sessions later and I feel a lot better. I no longer need meds and I don't have these sorts of thoughts anymore, but if I do I now know what to look out for and where to turn for help.
Medical science is amazing!
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday February 13 2016, @05:42AM
Conspiracies do not exist, huh? Ever hear about Enron? Tuskegee?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday February 13 2016, @02:19PM
Also don't forget the LIBOR scandal [bbc.com].
I think we're back to the theory that the number of conspirators is inversely related to the length of time the conspiracy can be maintained.