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If that is the case, then sure, do so. But no effort is being made. And in the case of disposables, they can be made to have less impact on the environment, in both production and decomposition stages.

Except one can't reasonably opt in to "natural immunity".

Pretty major distinction.

It is absurd to suggest that someone deliberately getting covid is a safer way to get immunity.

> It wasn’t impossible before 1910, just likely more difficult to attain.

Find that hard to believe. It's not like there were meaningful economic restrictions from eating enough calories to get fat prior to 1910.

More likely, people were just more active and food was less addictive.

Actually had to use WiFi calling yesterday and it just didn't work on my main #. Only my app based phone # (Google Voice) worked! That was a really unpleasant discovery since I had no cell service.

Definitely affirms what you are saying -- it doesn't always work! Yesterday was the first time I ever had a problem.

No errors or warnings, the calls just never go through.

What makes Lincoln a lunatic?

It's not sporting to only present bait as your argument. Just go ahead and outline what you are trying to say.

WiFi calling is the answer.

Are these groups of people under represented in company leadership?

Root rot is a death sentence.

That's not moving the goalposts.

It's context. You want to ignore the fact that Trump was blaming China as a whole for coronavirus?

It's racism to blame the coronavirus on Chinese people.

So you want to tell me you are surprised when people see racism by the racist guy who does and says racist things pretty much constantly?

I'm not going sit here and line by line debate you. I lived during it. I know what happened. It was a nonsense policy like basically the whole of the Trump administration's response. It was a complete joke. There was no federal response to the domestic crisis here. We had no supplies. We had no leadership.

It's just a funny thing to point to this as some shining example of Trump doing the right thing when ever other indicator is saying otherwise.

If you ban travel from China but not Chinese nationals, then what's the point?

Nothing stops people from China from flying to Europe and then the US.

Nothing.

Yes, it was racism. Yes, it was pointless. Do you want to continue this discussion further?

Just promote education and economic opportunity for women. They will consequently have less kids and later in life.

Fine, but a cultural shift away from eating meat for 3 meals a day would have a big impact and how does that happen except at an individual level?

That's a pretty big "if" in your statement. I thought HN was better than this.

Not true. Calories are not created equally in terms of environmental impact.

How many people working in a restaurant get tips?

I am sure there are winners and losers, but on the balance, paying a fair wage beats tipping.

It would be a lot easier to just make the point you are trying to make.

Have you tried researching the long term effects of these medications? There is plenty of scientific literature available.

Be sure to consider the age which the treatment starts. A major aspect of concern for all drug use is how it affects developing minds.

> I definitely learned never to call the police unless someone is literally getting ready to jump off a building.

This is an important lesson. Do not call the police unless you literally just want them to remove a nuisance and you don't care what happens to the person or how they are dealt with. Even then, police are just a wild card with the potential for life altering outcomes.

My brother called the police once because his then girlfriend was acting really crazy/violent after a night out drinking (not the first time) and they almost arrested HIM.

I would say drugging young kids with stimulants that have lifelong dependency implications as a kind of sacrifice for the greater good of the larger class is just morally reprehensible.

Let's keep treatment focused on healing the individual, not drugging them into compliance. We are talking about kids here.

I just report my card as stolen and call it a day, but I have noticed sometimes it does not stop recurring payments.

I just went to Canada on Saturday. First time.

I was interrogated for 3 hours. Apparently it looks bad if you travel 12 hours to cross the border to go on a date.

I wonder how they get access to this information.

It didn't even seem like the US govt is coordinated enough between the different states to reliably catch this.

They didn't reject them with guns.

Also I don't believe statistics exist for which states have more guns than others. And I also don't think your comment has any kind of real basis in research as to correlation between COVID lock downs and gun ownership, other than conservative voters being anti-everything in regards to coronavirus.

Not to one up, but Dell is even better. You can extend the warranty after it has expired! You can re-up but they have a clause that you must wait 30 days before making an accidental damage claim (and it cannot have happened during the time without a warranty, but that is not enforceable).

I actually did this once and tried to submit a warranty support on day 1 of buying the new warranty and was turned down, but they called me about a week later saying they would waive the 30 days and ended up doing about $500 in repairs for $130 cost of the new warranty.

(the other condition is that you are only allowed one accidental repair event per year)

The cost of making goods is extremely cheap and will only go down as the cost of energy decreases. This is not an ideological statement.

ETA: HN says I am replying too quickly.

here is my reply to the replies: argue against what I wrote. I said the cost of making goods is going down. Not that rare things will no longer exist. And I certainly did not speak to arbitrarily valued things like baseball cards (lol?) and "numbered art".

Who even cares? That's not remotely in the realm of discussion. No one said lowered energy costs will increase the existence of Kanye West signatures.

The point is the price of goods is going down. It means higher per capita production output. That is the only thing I said. That means cheaper houses. It means cheaper consumer goods. Not "nothing rare will ever exist again" or even "nothing will ever be scarce" -- it means the things we need to survive are no longer resource or labor gated, they are closed off as an act of political will.

If you want, make two different currencies. Some basic gov't scrip for necessities - housing, food, shelter, closing, and you can use BTC or whatever for your rich people shit and pay as much as you want for collectible shoes or whatever catches your fancy.

People will largely not care because they won't be literally starving and dying from lack of access to physiological necessities.

So who are these people that take the "both" perspective because that does not represent the conservative ideology at all -- which is based upon "personal responsibility" aka you get what you deserve. There is no call from conservatives for government intervention to make the poor less vulnerable.

The US has per capita healthcare spending that is multiple times that of their peers in the western world.

That doesn't really matter for the purposes of the comment you are replying to.

> I didn't even do my performance self review, and I wrote a poem instead.

It's not just the brazenness of the act, it's the fact you made your defiance into art that I really respect.

Keep this comment in context of the anti Asian rhetoric also going around and the increase in racially motivated crimes against Asians.

To ignore this context is extremely distorting.