Discover Speechify: Enhance Your PDF Experience

With Speechify. I can multitask and boost productivity with natural voice capabilities. I cannot say enough good things about Speechify. I've scanned most of my books over the years and I have saved them, as well as thousands of articles, in Dropbox (as pdfs). Now, with Speechify everything in my vast collection can be read out loud to me as I'm working out, cooking, cleaning. It's as if everything I own as a pdf can now be a podcast. You can also have Speechify read a live web page.

Further, they offer dozens of natural sounding voices in various languages. I've been listening to articles in Spanish (at slightly reduced speed) and it has been very helpful for improving my Spanish. I'm not making any commission for this recommendation, but I wanted to share this because I just discovered Speechify and it is a game-changer for me. Maybe some of you are looking for this capability on your phone or laptop. If so, consider Speechify. It's not free, but for me it will totally be worth $140/year.

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COVID Public Health Fraud and Incompetence in a Nutshell

From Dr. Simon Goddek:

If masks worked, why did they need mandates?

If the jab worked, why did I need one for yours to work?

If lockdowns worked, why did cases still explode?

If the science was settled, why did they ban debate?

If the vaccines were safe, why did they need liability protection?

And there are many other things the experts got wrong about Covid. Either they were lying and/or they didn't have the humility and courage to say "I don't know."

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On Being Non-Partisan

Greg Lukianoff:

Be willing to make common cause with ideological opponents. As he contemplated the challenges and pitfalls of advocating for abolition, Frederick Douglass began to see that dialogue with those who saw things differently was critical to achieving his goals. When the more stringent and radical abolitionists, whose motto was “No union with slaveholders,” criticized Douglass’ approach, he famously replied, “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”

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Nadine Strossen: Strongly Enforced Hate-Speech Laws Existed in Post-WWI Germany

Nadine Strossen discusses the "Weimar Fallacy." Strong hate speech laws prior to WWII in Germany shoved hate speech underground, out of sight, where it festered and grew. The better alternative would be to let the people say their hateful things out in the open market where their ignorance will be forced to engage with ideas that are better than hate. Strossen explains:

For more on this topic, see Greg Lukianoff's article, "Would censorship have stopped the rise of the Nazis."

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