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And we shouldn’t be surprised when they politically witch hunt and otherwise get nothing accomplished.

The criticisms and holding folks accountable seem to be selective, best.

Don’t let anyone fool you. We let a generation of progress go to complete waste because some fools wanted to run JS on the front end and backend instead of actually fixing the front end debacle that existed.

It’s a shame we didn’t make better use of our time solving the problem before the JS posers did their horrors by pretending that the solution was to take front end languages and code the backend.

So many voters exhibit the desire to be hassled by their government under the pretense that their government is going to hassle someone else.

Got to be honest. This sort of thing is why I dropped Java and went to Golang (with all its warts).

Just about every smaller grocery store I’ve seen places themselves into some of the highest priced real estate in the city.

This far negates the overall cost under most scenarios by my calculations.

I’m unaware of any data showing that children require vaccines to avoid hospitalization and death in large numbers.

Can you share some?

Serious question. Was there some epidemic of running over children that I missed in the 18 years of operating vehicles before I got one with a backup camera?

It sounds a lot more like sexual abuse to me.

You’re not really buying actual return of investment dollars via dividends anymore. You’re buying access to market share.

Companies drive revenue so that they can drive market share more than anything.

Owning a piece of the economy is what folks are doing with their 35 PE share purchases, particularly if they think the revenue as a percentage of market is going to grow.

Some of this equipment weighs 150,000 pounds. The dealership lets you demo the machine for a certain number of hours and then you get used to it.

It’s hard for an area to support more than a few dealerships because this equipment isn’t rotated out very often (10-20 years?).

It’s hard to unseat an entrenched player, but loss of right to repair is a big step towards an upstart moving in.

Also an established line of credit basically with the farm makes buying them easier than competitive offerings by other manufacturers. There’s still enormous cultural inertia with Deere.

Mandatory prenups that have to be approved by a judge along with the marriage license.

Mandatory coursework on what divorce looks like.

Affirmative renewal of the marriage every 7 years.

Marriage is nothing more than an implied legal contract, whose terms are set upon dissolution, and a lawyer would be disbarred for advising their client to enter into such agreements.

I have some small trouble believing that the fact checking is in fact, checking facts. They are checking narrative.

I too have seen these, generally my subject matters are insurance of some sort from one of the “Mutuals”, despite having not received any legitimate emails in this category for years.

I can’t imagine how these are slipping through, particularly with the consistent random characters at end of the subject line.

What gives??

I’ve seen firsthand numerous people walking around 60 meters from anyone wearing tightly fitting N95s and face shields. I’ve seen several instances firsthand, not just on Reddit, of people putting surgical masks on their car AC vents.

Pardon me if I detect a mass psychosis for an illness that almost assuredly will be troublesome, but overall less of a discomfort than draconian lockdown and so forth. And overall will (statistically) kill almost no one who contracts it.

Yes, cue the “but 900,000 people”, and I’ll cue the litany of unforeseen consequences that will reduce life expectancy even further.

But I’m pretty sure there is some mass psychology applied to our response to covid, and it’s generally overblown when we involve mass psychology. Just ask Charles Mackay.

It’s similar to the idea that central planning doesn’t allocate resources most appropriately for everyone to benefit.

Sometimes I get really tired of the endless PM driven “new features” or “rebranding”.

Some products were fine in their target use case 9 years ago. I must be old.

I’m pretty sure this is only working if your other party has an Android - and effectively is doing the same thing, perhaps with RCS, that iMessage is doing.

But that’s definitely not the case if your counterpart is using an iPhone, right?

Can you expound upon this? As someone with severe allergies I tend to take quite a bit of antihistamines.

Most of this thread is about how people dont use iMessage, and summarily most of this thread misses the point.

It’s not that people need a blue bubble to indicate that the other party has an iPhone. That would be silly. It’s about the features afforded to you if you use iMessage, which were revolutionary for a phone when it was introduced. remember that this was introduced a couple years after the iPhone - it wasn’t a first gen feature.

Knowing if my recipient received the message, that my recipient will receive the message at all, and seeing if they are replying — these are the reasons I’m an iMessage fan. And perhaps most importantly, on my Mac I can respond to and send such messages as well. All of this works works with wifi connection only, no cell signal needed. Making it usable on airplanes etc.

None of this works with the dreaded green bubble. None of this.

With green bubble, I can’t guarantee my messages were sent in order. If I send a message with a photo it just as likely won’t be received at all of their phone can’t receive it in the proper time or if they are in a bad signal area. Suffering through this is not worth the effort to talk to most people (and call me whatever you want but it’s true and you know it).

It’s not about what device my other person has. It’s about being able to communicate with a technology that doesn’t resemble a dial up modem.

Do you have an iPhone, but everyone else in your contacts has some other type?

FYSA: one's "interests" are very, very similar to ones "motivations and needs."

But I agree to walk away. If you ROFL at the prospect of someone who is legitimately creating jobs being an interested party in the discussion of our economic structure, it's probably not worth the typing energy to debate with you.

Rather, “capitalist elites who benefit from precarious workers”, is not neutral or objective. That’s an editorialized and oversimplified view of what are the motivations and needs of people actually creating the jobs in the first place.

There are likely more unproductive (deliberately) workers on balance who are siphoning wages from companies than there are “capitalist elites” who prey on their workers needing a job.

The entire article and thread of comments demonstrate that people would prefer to stay at home and be paid than to work and be paid. It’s not hard to imagine why and see the negative downsides unless you’re one of the people trying to justify being paid to stay at home.

> a political danger to capitalist elites who benefit from worker precarity.

This seems like an unusually pejorative way of describing the desire to have a functioning economy, where workers actually have an incentive to work instead of being paid to Netflix and chill.

And this article and its commentary are replete with examples that defy the usual straw men associated with arguments for UBI, if that helps. CERB at $2k a month is the prime example and the source of the original article.

Man, I had forgotten entirely about roadrunners. I am pretty sure when I went to Sun Micro for Java training in the 90s, we learned Java on computers that were called roadrunners.

> All else being equal, though, cars and trucks with internal combustion engines (ICE) would have the advantage in coping with a sudden challenge such as the I-95 fiasco. It is much easier to rehabilitate a disabled ICE vehicle. Rescuers can deliver gallons of gas in convenient jugs; gas stations are still far more numerous than EV charging stations; and ICE car batteries can be jump-started in minutes.

This part concerns me.

You could almost consider this to be a version of a vaccine, but acquired via natural contact with other carriers rather than injected into your body.

While most of what you have stated I can find myself agreeing with, I am also an avid fan of scooters.

If you realistically want people to avoid having cars, you’re going to need to make the prospects of transit without a car (whether they would have walked or biked or driven) much more palatable. Scooters do this. They are more convenient for the trips you otherwise would have walked (faster, easier, less sweaty) or biked (a lot more work to lug the bike up and down the apartment block stairs and find a place to lock it and hope it’s not vandalized when you return).

Someone could start by giving me data points that show if I’m asymptomatic and not exposed to someone with covid that I’m being “selfish” for not adopting your disposition of fear.