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I guess in the same way that white South Africans immigrants to the US can be considered African Americans, and Russians can be considered Asians.

Otherwise no, Pacific Islanders are not Asian. They even have their own checkbox in ethnicity polls.

My friend does some auxiliary work for Site C. He said everything is over budget and a mess. The initial contractor underbid because they thought they could get migrant workers in. But now they are dealing with union workers so the contractors messed it up badly.

I thought they determined already it was a hormone released in the womb during pregnancy, similar to left-handedness. That’s how you can get identical twins, but one is straight and the other is gay.

Are you suggesting it’s less racist to have less blacks people and more white people?

Asians have basically no representation in the NFL. In your opinion, should we limit blacks in the NFL to their population percentage so that it’s more fair, and give those spots to more whites and Asians?

The number of people in the US interested in getting vaccinated is very high, especially compared to Europe where it’s something like 20% in France.

I do think that what they did is setting themselves up for regulation. To shut off a service used by millions overnight is dangerous.

UXG-Pro is the successor to the USG. It’s available in the EA store. I was tempted to get it but it’s $500 so I’ll wait for it to go GA.

Child sexual predators have one of the highest probabilities of recidivism, so for the sake of your children I hope you change your mind on that.

Tesla has already lost market share in Europe and North America. There are many smaller and cheaper alternatives and that’s what people are buying.

It clearly says “sent as text”when it’s green. There really is no confusion and takes a second to understand.

We have a known vaccine that works with 2 doses. We don’t know if 1 dose will work. We have single-dose vaccines with higher temperature tolerance from AstraZeneca and J&J ready to be approved.

Let’s not snatch defeat from the Jaws of victory. Let’s let the 2 dose vaccines goes to those who need it the most and the most at risk. They need more care and monitoring to entire they get both doses.

In a few months when the other vaccines come online then we have unimaginable more flexiblity.

Now is not the time to confuse Americans who apparently are easily confused. Take two doses now. Splitting them up and then some getting Moderna and some getting Pfizer is just a clusterfuck.

There’s nothing except lockdowns that will stop what is happening in LA right now. It will be quick and effective and we really don’t have any other tool. We still don’t have a prophylaxis or treatment. People are going to die that shouldn’t be dying and I’m not just talking about COVID patients. When hospitals are full, people die.

Ivermectin is not a supplement. It’s an expensive anti-scabies drug. I’ve read it’s supposedly somewhat effective but I haven’t seen anyone implement it in treatment yet at least in the US. I’m familiar with the IMASK+ protocol. I believe they are using that in Peru but it doesn’t appear to have been making any changes in the death rate.

Regardless of politics, I think places like LA need to institute a full lockdown. No one leaves their house except to go to the grocery store and pharmacy. No one leaves more than 2 miles away from their residence. It should be enforced by the military. Essentially martial law. It’s not something I suggest lightly. But 6-8 weeks of complete lockdown and pay people to stay home. It’s the only way that California is going to survive this.

Yes, I know that the death rate is low, ~0.2%. But when hospitals are full like this we need to have a circuit breaker and the only thing we have is a full, military-enforced lockdown. We should also stop all traffic on the highways. Set up tanks on the I-5 and 101 and turn people back. We have to stop this uncontrolled catastrophe.

It’s the third best Star Wars movie, behind New Hope and Empire. It’s actually fantastic.

Air fryers are freaking awesome! We use it for 1/2 of our meals these days!

Endgame stuck the landing, which was extremely hard to do, but wasn’t the best movie of the bunch. That goes to Infinity War which was near perfect.

Nah. I watched this a few nights ago, and was largely confused. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t anywhere close to “great”.

Most people won’t like it because it gets more and more confusing, and at some point you’re like okay whatever and give up trying to understand. That’s the way it was for me.

They were trying to shove too many complex ideas into too short of a timeframe and it didn’t work. It felt very self- indulgent to me.

Paul Graham says differently. You need to hire A players because otherwise B players hire B and C players and water down the strength of the startup.

Even worse is AMT. it was supposed to be a way to prevent rich people from hiding from taxes but now it just gets regular middle class people, and rich people avoid taxes other ways.

My mother has dementia, and I know 5 other close friends that are starting to deal with it as well. This is becoming an epidemic and what people don’t realize is that it is extremely expensive and exceedingly cruel. Most health care systems, including Canada and the US, do not handle dementia well at all. You have the choice of becoming financially destitute keeping your parents in a dignified setting, or you can let them essentially rot in a public facility which is basically a hospital. It’s terrible and needs a better solution.

I wish the SEC would force companies to plead guilty instead of weasel out and pay a fine without admitting guilt. It doesn’t help anyone. If Robinhood is engaged in fraud or lying to their customers they should be forced to admit guilt and all the consequences from this. All this is is a slap on the wrist and political theater and I’m sick of it. I want some real teeth even if it results in less fine being paid. Or have them pay a crippling fine, one that takes away most of their cash. Something with meaning, not a meaningless fine

If I get arrested recording the police in public, do I have any recourse? Can I sue the police department for false arrest?

Yes. And then it’s not just one kid. It’s the entire class plus teacher. It would be a fire drill per day. And then they would need to take the tests every day until they are cleared. It’s not feasible.

Yes thank you I corrected.

Those are the tests that gave Elon musk two false readings and two positive readings. Not super reliable either.

This is wrong. Too false positive and people will start ignoring the results. Thats what happened in the current climate. You need consistently good days otherwise over the long haul people will distrust and ultimately not follow.

I don’t care where he made most of his money. I can what he is doing NOW. Patent trolling is sickening and I wish they would simply kill software patents entirely. He is a patent troll so fuck this guy. Also fuck all the other patent trolls, but this guy is a patent troll.

They use shredded tires in children’s playgrounds as artificial turf. A few years ago a soccer coach made the connection between that turf and children getting weird cancers and has been campaigning against them ever since.

It looks like tires are much more toxic than we thought and we should reconsider their composition quickly.

Your situation is atypical. So masks may not be a good solution for you. But for society in general, masks are the best solution. No amount of maskless social distancing can keep you safe but still be able to socialize with others. 6’ is not a number that was derived from science. When investigated, scientists said it was more like 20’.

But having masks and learning how to wear them properly allows people to engage in almost normal social gatherings. This is based on the fractional levels of infections in countries with extremely high compliance like Korea and Japan.

People who say that masks aren’t the answer frankly mystify me.

If you were to tell a child “there is a disease that is spread from our breath. What do you think a good solution would be?” I would be dollars to donuts that their answer would be “what about a mask?”

The answer is so obvious that even a child could come up with it. And it takes an adult to convince themselves otherwise. Even science says that masks are effective.