Thursday, July 25, 2024

Google flights is an excellent tool for estimating real travel costs

 

                                                           Video by Travel for every budget

What I learned:

Google flights is an excellent tool for estimating "real travel costs". You are able to put in travel dates for high and low seasons and have some perspective of what is a deal and what is regular and what is over-priced.

The video shows google flights can be used to separate a long international flight into separate flights  using known major transportation hubs. Sometimes this results in the two or more smaller flights that can be significantly lower priced than one large flight.

Google flights can be used to create price/date grids for comparison purposes.

Additional Videos Demonstrating Google flights

Find CHEAP Flights on Google Flights [UPDATED TECHNIQUES]

What I learned:

Sometimes using a VPN can change the prices that are available.

How to find the CHEAPEST flights on Google Flights!

What I learned

Sometimes 2 one-way tickets are cheaper than a return ticket.

Shows the use of a chrome extension called Travel Arrow that searches and compares prices.

Saturday, July 13, 2024

Marketplace went Undercover to Investigate Life Coaches

 


Many life coaches help clients work on things like mindfulness, goal setting,  boosting confidence and offer career and relationship advice.

Life coaches are not therapists and there is no organization regulating the industry. Anyone can call themselves a life coach even with no training.

Marketplace wanted to know if they’d cross the line and offer unqualified advice about mental illness. To investigate Marketplace producers created cover stories with the help of several experts and met with a number of life coaches. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FygdK--wT8

More on this story

Additional advice

Be wary of how much a coach is charging. If they’re offering you a time-sensitive sales pitch, or pressuring you to sign up, take a step back. 

Go elsewhere if you want mental health support. If you deal with mental health issues like anxiety and depression, you may want to go to someone who has been specifically trained in treating those issues. If you or someone you know is struggling, here’s where to get help: 

● Canada Suicide Prevention Service: 1-833-456-4566 (phone) | 45645 (text). 

https://www.crisisservicescanada.ca/

● Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 (phone), live chat counselling: 

https://kidshelpphone.ca/

● Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention: 

https://suicideprevention.ca/resources/

 ● For adults in crisis, try the Crisis Text Line (Text:686868) 

This guide from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health outlines how to talk about suicide with someone you're worried about:

https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/guides-and-publications/when-a-family-member-is-suicidal

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Pseudoscience Does not Help You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj71yGp-8WM

Video: Biomedical Scientist Answers Pseudoscience Questions From Twitter by Tech Support on WIRED

00:00 Pseudoscience Support 00:11 What is pseudoscience? 00:36 Flat Tummy Tea 01:17 Chiropractors 02:19 Anti-Science 03:07 Autism and Vaccines 04:30 GMOs 05:25 Health Influencers 06:31 Homeopathic Medicine 08:26 5G 10:00 Organic Foods 11:20 Cleanses and Detoxes 11:52 Lyme Disease 13:22 Non-Fluoridated Toothpaste 14:34 Gluten-Free 15:56 Reliable Study 17:47 Artificial Sweeteners 18:53 Supplements 20:13 Crystals 21:00 Fasting

What I learned:

The independent scientific method takes time and is a lot of work - it seems to reveal the best results.

Indivdual product test observations can be true for a very select set of times, places, test subjects, materials and not help you at all because your circumstances or metabolism may be totally different.

Greedy businesses will corrupt data, reviews, results etc etc to sell you a useless or dangerous product.

Looking Back at Previous 4 years NEWS and REVIEWS

Politics

Chinese document discussing weaponising coronaviruses provides 'chilling' information Sky News host Sharri Markson has assessed "chilling" details from a document produced by  Chinese military scientists, in which they discussed weaponising SARS coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Ms Markson said the book was written by People's Liberation 

Army scientists and senior Chinese public health officials in 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuKPBur_TiI

Proof Wuhan Lab Manipulated Coronaviruses

Peter Daszak and the WHO (World Health Organization) was tasked with going to Wuhan to investigate the origins of the novel Coronavirus. They all but absolved the Chinese government of their hand in the outbreak. However, there was a lot going on in regards to coronaviruses found in China prior to the outbreak. Here's what we found. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrQxWUYHAvc

The Full Story of Trump and COVID-19 | NowThis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOYYUkZG6b8

WHO & Wikipedia What’s Legitimate Information vs. Misinformation?

News Roundup | WHO Eyes ‘Protecting’ Ivermectin from use for COVID-19, Refocus on NTD Programs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQGYwvSg4CQ

Courts

News Roundup | NY Judge Orders Hospital To Use Ivermectin, Woman Recovers

New York Supreme Court Judge Order: Give The Patient Ivermectin As Court Battle Leads to Ivermectin for Successful Treatment Against COVID-19: A judge ordered the Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital to allow an 80-year old woman to be treated with Ivermectin. According to the family their attorney, the treatment saved the life of Judith Smentkiewicz. Although not yet approved, according to court documents, the woman’s daughter referred to it as a “miracle drug,” as do her attorneys, Ralph C. Lorigo and Jon F. Minear. Apparently, a doctor ordered the drug off-label in the intensive care unit (ICU), and as she improved, she was moved to another unit, and the doctor there stepped in and disallowed the use of the drug. Family members immediately involved lawyers and legal action to resume treatment. And now, The New York Supreme Court Judge Henry J. Nowak has aligned with the family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6pm5T_E4rw

FDA To Delete Ivermectin Posts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo8bbnSPWX0

Doctors

Dr. John Campbell

Ivermectin, Mexico, Peru, India - Reductions in excess deaths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJSUKDng_Ww

Best ivermectin meta analysis 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j7am9kjMrk

Successful Covid Doctor SILENCED by Federal Trade Commission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FqITndW4-U

Ivermectin and COVID-19 - my name is dr christy reisinger and  today we're going to continue to talk about ivermectin - the previous video i published on december 22nd about ivermectin was taken down by youtube but because i think this information is important i'm again publishing a video about ivermectin 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u21N8Vu4kOk

Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19 Despite this growing list of failed therapeutics in COVID-19, the FLCCC recently discovered that ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medicine, has highly potent real-world, anti-viral, and anti-inflammatory properties against SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. 

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/wx3zn

Natural Immunity VS Enhanced Immunity: New Data from Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaIqLW9gtLk

News Roundup | Prominent Indian Physician Talks Impact Of Ivermectin In Home Medicine Kits in India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoFaJCoAw7g

Directory of Doctors Prescribing  Outpatient COVID-19 Therapy

https://www.exstnc.com/

Historians