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Living on the Curve

  Originally written: 3/14/17 Living life on the curve. What does it really mean? The basics comes down to this: Principle 1 - The earth provides a 7-billion-person sample size which means that every person falls on a bell curve somewhere, right? Principle 2 - There are variable curves and robust curves in life. For example, personal traits/attributes are more dynamic, as the principal size is oneself. A more robust bell curve is something such as height, income, education, etc. revolving around genetic factors and sociofactors. Principle 3 - Changes in dynamic curve may have or have not any impact on more robust cell curves. But how do changes in the curve happen then? Is it a matter of changing the right dynamic variables, or is it changing enough dynamic variables? 2021 additions I remember vividly how this thought came to be. My first large professional setback happened, and I didn’t take it very well and fell into a large slump where I didn’t write for some time. Thi

Searching online with Searx

Author's note: This is to have a piece of content out this week while I work on finishing this week's writing, which should be released some time tomorrow. This is a visual guide to setting up Searx as your default web engine for your browser. Searx install guide for chromium based browsers What a search result looks like  

I'm with Stupid on COVID

Introduction About a month ago, or so an extension of the 2019 COVID19 pandemic entered the US. I call it an extension at this point only because it’s got people triggered to near early pandemic behavior despite current reports from South Africa and the US showing that this new variant, dubbed “Omicron,” is milder onto the scene [1] [2] [3] . Although nothing has changed in my now heavily appreciated hometown in the country, it’s my current city that continues living in dystopia. This applies for many other cities around the country as they adopt the next round of draconian measures. Many places have seen mask mandates come back into place, and many employers continue to press their employees on vaccines. Lastly, another dose of the vaccines has seen a massive revival in importance, and social pressure to consider another round of lockdowns have been proposed by politicians and commoners alike. What’s driving dystopia? It’s the testing. Over in my current city, there’s a social u