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Everyone quoted this in regards to theocracies. It's clearly a way more abstract principle.

> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

Chaos and order is another scale for left and right.

> or the rising Opioid epidemic

For me it was the dead family members before it was reported. Victims have victim shit to do. They aren't watching the news for updates.

Yes, and sometimes even listing can take days.

I worked somewhere that a person decided using Twitter Firehose was a good idea for S3. Keyed by tweet per file.

Ended up figuring out a way to get them in batches and condense. Ended up costing about $800 per hour to fix coupled with lifecycle changes they mentioned.

Because of the sheer numbers the amount of vaccinated still are the majority in the hospital. You rate of going to the hospitalization is lower, but the raw numbers show more people in the hospital that are vaccinated.

The people are are unvaccinated in some cases have medical reason not to be and therefore be more likely to be hospitalized for anything. You'd need to stratify the numbers by age, vaccine status, and comorbidity status to get the full picture.

Early on when the 99% are unvaccinated line was going around all the data used was usually from before the vaccines were available.

The internet variety of Anarcho libertarian is quite anticop. Frequently see things like, "a cop will enforce any law up to and including the execution of children".

Doctors were parroting the line and prescribing the drug anyway. Despite their perception as experts apparently a lot of them never bothered to cross check the alleged study with their common sense and previous training.

Curious about your thoughts regarding misinformation like, "only 1% of patients get addicted". In a single year that line killed more people under thirty than under thirty unvaccinated to covid will ever die. And it was propagated by expert consensus.

Consensus among experts hasn't meant anything more than protection of the ruling class. See Wright brothers and even vaccination for other examples.

My favorite story about scientific consensus is the Wright Brothers. They didn't get credit for heavier than air flight from the Smithsonian until the 1920s. Also, NYT said the same week the Wright brothers flew that heavier than air flight would take millions of years. Should have shut down the bicycle mechanics for misinformation.

> They had offered it to the United States National Museum, as the Smithsonian Institution was then known, in 1910. Officials at the Smithsonian, particularly Charles Walcott, were "anxious to redeem the reputation" of former director, Samuel Langley, who had spent thousands of government dollars trying to invent an airplane which he called an "aerodrome."

https://libraries.wright.edu/special/wrightbrothers/flyer/hi...

There was a place in San Francisco called Darwin Cafe that had the best kale salad ever. It used a lot (though not 1:1) prosciutto fried in garlic oil and tossed with lemon and balsamic with almost equal parts parmasen. The recipe called for the kale to presoak a bit tossed with the lemon and some salt to break down some of the kale fibers and make it more palatable.

https://food52.com/recipes/26414-addictive-raw-kale-salad-wi...

It's just a good dish, even if you don't like kale.

In my experience northern California is fruitier. Paso is jammier, though I've not had that many. Santa Barbara area is starting to do some cabs just to north (Happy Canyon) in the hot area. They have less fruity wine the colder you get to the west.

> For Pinot Noir, there are a couple spots like the Russian River Valley that do a good job, but Oregon has a stronger claim.

What about the Pinots from "Sideways" in Santa Ynez area? Paul Lato, Sea Smoke (maybe played out) to name a couple.

Funny enough I'd been to Lompoc a half a dozen times before I realized it was the region from the movie.

The Paso airport, which is untowered, routinely has Citation jets in the pattern making traffic calls. Seems it's definitely been luxury for a bit.

I'm more familiar with Santa Ynez and the Pinots from Sideways. The only Paso wine I've had has been Justin, which seems to be a large producer since it's in Costco.

I always fall back on hobbies for friends. Certain times in my life I've gotten the idea I should make friends the normal way. This led to forced meetups and social gatherings I had no real interest in.

Obviously that wouldn't work And it always led me back to things I had a general and natural interest. Which ultimately led to more natural relationships.

And the tooling is better. I always found it hard to find working examples with bison.

And $10 trillion dollars.

My cats also drink out of the toilets.

You're in a metal shell in the plane. Even the small trees can impale you under a parachute.

Skydiver and pilot here. A skydiving rig can't be used for paragliding. Also a skydiving rig is incredibly uncomfortable worn as pilot of the plane. Pilots use emergency parachutes that are smaller and designed to be used sitting in an airplane seat. Pilot rigs are used primarily for aerobatics.

The most suspect thing is jumping with a selfie stick.

This is a good one: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/

Often said as, you can have 10 years of experience or 10 one year experiences.

It more mirrors the "FOQNEs" or "Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities" from Snow Crash. Sovereign individuals that hold massive bitcoin stores can transact to anyone because they can afford the fees. Normies that can't will be beholden to these large corporate interest. Transferring money to a business or person will happen in a database in Coinbase or other exchange, much like now with a bank. Settlement will happen between banks and organizations they've partnered with. For the common person the interface will be the same. Settlement between organizations will change.

2010:

> While this view of Bitcoin might sound like it is a betrayal of Bitcoin's original vision of fully peer‐to‐peer cash, it is not a new vision. Hal Finney, the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction from Nakamoto, wrote this on the Bitcoin forum in 2010: Actually there is a very good reason for Bitcoin‐backed banks to exist, issuing their own digital cash currency, redeemable for bitcoins. Bitcoin itself cannot scale to have every single financial transaction in the world be broadcast to everyone and included in the block chain. There needs to be a secondary level of payment systems which is lighter weight and more efficient. Likewise, the time needed for Bitcoin transactions to finalize will be impractical for medium to large value purchases. Bitcoin backed banks will solve these problems. They can work like banks did before nationalization of currency. Different banks can have different policies, some more aggressive, some more conservative. Some would be fractional reserve while others may be 100% Bitcoin backed. Interest rates may vary. Cash from some banks may trade at a discount to that from others. George Selgin has worked out the theory of competitive free banking in detail, and he argues that such a system would be stable, inflation resistant and self‐regulating.

Shaq money or $200k a year scruffy nerfherder money?

Do you not eat out? Most restaurants of all caliber use that garbage.

I know I'm still consuming it when I eat in a restaurant. Best you can currently do is just not buy it for home use.

It's related to the Lindy effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Or maybe spraying roundup on everything and suing small family farms for not using your GMO seed makes them the James Bond villain.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto...

I have no idea if true but I've heard a heuristic is 1 subscriber equals $1/year.

If it hasn't been out five years you're a test pilot.

Unless you live on the airport in a hangar it's not going to be in concentrations high enough to worry about.

The wealthy are in jets or turbo props which don't use leaded gas.