CabSauce

What about the rights of a private (in the sense of government) company to make their own decisions?

You're trying to find data to fit your pre-determined conclusion. We're dealing with different variants now, which are more contagious.

You could bribe someone to do something in the public interest too... I'm betting it would still be 'illegal'. It's a distiction without much of a difference.

I don't belive this is correct for postgres. It's true for other RDBMS, I believe. <https://medium.com/@smitagudale712/distinct-vs-group-by-in-s...>

Unfortunately, anything passed in the senate requires 60 votes or need to be passed during reconcilliation (one bill per year). This is due to the use of the fillibuster to stop anything else from being considered.

OSHA is in the executive branch, under the president, who we voted for.

Agreed, that forces us to vote more overwhelmingly against whoever is gerrymandering.

No argument here.

It's the only way to get anything done since the senate doesn't function without a super-majority.

You do realize that we vote for our government representatives, right? The 'government' is us.

Many health insurance plans already do this. And being fat isn't contagious. Although it is more expensive, hence the insurance differentials.

A few of those things listed are crimes and should be (and probably were) investigated. There's no guarantee he should feel 'welcomed'. He wants a safe space to spout his views and is complaining when others speak out about him. He's a whining hypocrite.

I'm not sure why he's quitting then. That's exactly what he brought up in his resignation blog post.

According to him. And even if that were true. So what? The university should investigate claims. They seemed to find that he shouldn't be fired based on the findings. What's the problem? He's just whining. And now he's trying to get a bigger stage.

Whoa.... Pretty big left turn from education free speech to "I was accused of stuff". It seems like this grandstanding might really be about the latter.

Edit: Downvotes for expressing an opinion contrary to the thread. Very fitting.

It looks to me like the pictures may have been for his... uhh... own self-gratification.

"That means only 58% of Israel's total citizenry is fully vaccinated."

"But Israel paid a price for the early rollout. Health officials, and then Pfizer, said their data showed a dip in the vaccine's protection around six months after receiving the second shot."

That doesn't exactly fit your narrative, imo.

"Masks and vaccines do far less than you've been led to believe."

What is this based on?

They're pretty good for solar and wind farms.

That's just clearly not true with current incentives. Healthy options are more available now than any time in the past.

Let's leave the Great Lakes where they are. Thank you very much. It's not their fault people decided to live in the desert.

An alternative approach is to encourage people to make more effective decisions by actually including the negative impacts of their decisions as actual, dollar costs. If we included the higher healthcare costs of obesity into the cost of soda, it might not be as enticing.

This isn't forcing people to make a decision, it's including all of the costs in the dollar value of the product on the shelf.

Do you really think we can't come up with some definitions that at least push in the right direction? They don't have to be perfect, but just start somewhere and keep evolving in the right direction. Let's not pretend we have to get it perfect before we try anything.

That's a great start. However, any tax/subsidy filters down to the consumer in a roughly efficient market.

We (Americans) didn't understand CICO any better in the past. I'm not saying you're wrong, but the way we get our food has changed dramatically. For the most part, we know what we're supposed to eat. It's just so much easier to eat poorly now. We need to change incentives to make it more costly to eat unhealthy food.

At a minimum, make it more costly to eat unhealthy foods by taxing added sugar and subsidizing healthy foods.

Getting a degree in a field that has jobs helps too.

Really? Their UI/UX within a call is the worst of the major video conferencing tools, IMO.

I don't think that's what he said at all...