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There's probably a selection bias here; if you're sick, you are far more likely to be inside your living room than on an airplane.

> Using a prepaid line opened with a fake name...

Sorry, why is this such a big deal?

I can't agree about the "it just works" part. About a year ago I build a new PC, and I tried installing Mint on it. I ran into two issues that I was never able to resolve:

1. The WiFi just would not work; I couldn't see any networks. 2. I have 2 monitors, and one monitor would display 80% of one screen, and 20% of the other. I suspect that it was because the monitors had different refresh rates and resolutions.

I then tried installing Windows, and everything did just work.

To be fair, that can be a problem with English too. The short form of Robert is Bob, the short form of Richard is Dick.

> The issue here is not refusing to use a foreign third party. That makes sense.

For anyone else who's confused, G-Drive means Government Drive, not Google Drive.

> content that falsely alleges that approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects

The J & J vaccine was approved at the time, but was later banned for causing chronic health effects.

> claims that vaccines do not reduce transmission or contraction of disease

Isn't that true of the covid vaccines? Originally, the proponents claimed that getting the vaccine would stop you from getting covid entirely, but later on, they changed the goal posts to "it will reduce your symptoms of covid".

I disagree; this wristband might be a game changer because your hand does not need to be free to use it (at least in theory, we'll see how it actually plays out). Also, I'm willing to bet that for some people, this wristband might be more accessible than a regular keyboard (i.e. people with limited mobility or missing hands). Compare it to the laser beam keyboard, which is just a flat version of a regular keyboard.

> why have mechanical keyboards become so damn popular and not "keyboards on screens?"

Keyboards in general have become more popular, as more and more people get computing devices. I'm willing to bet the increase of keyboards on screens is much greater than the increase of mechanical keyboards; there are far more smartphones than mechanical keyboards.

> It's not a deal. They don't understand what's happening.

So what? Mutualism happens all the time in nature, even if neither party is consciously aware of it. The relationship between humans and bees is very similar to the relationship between coral polyps and algae; the algae make sugars for the polyps, and polyps provide protection for the algae.

Personally, I listen to podcasts while biking or driving; I can't just sit and listen to them, I need to be physically doing something.

Funny, I'm the opposite; I love Hollow Knight, but I didn't like Ori at all. I think it's because of the visual design; I couldn't tell if that glowing orb is an enemy, a bullet, or a pickup.

Yeah, not to mention that LASIK will degrade over time.

> I wish they'd just sell the fish cells, alone. Would love to try that.

They already sell those at the seafood aisle.

> I believe the anger, if you distill it a bit, comes from an "unlevel" playing field, right?

Why is "unlevel" in quotes? When it comes to physical activities, biological males have a huge advantage over biological females; high school boys routinely beat professional adult women's sport teams.

> But, when students use AI, and if there are some students that don't, the playing field is "unlevel" there as well. The students that don't perhaps want to learn a craft rather than take a shortcut to getting a grade.

I agree that this is a bigger problem than trans kids in sports. I think people are less upset about this because

1. It's a more recent development 2. They think that the kids using AI are actually putting themselves at a disadvantage, albeit one that will only become apparent after they graduate.

That's not the game I played.

The lore was annoying to listen to; whenever I wanted to listen to an audio log, I had to stop playing the game and watch the exact same video of a man smoking and being mysterious.

The cool game mechanics were basically just the gravity gun from Half Life 2, which came out over 20 years ago.

It did have some cool environmental set pieces, but overall I just found the game too pretentious for something that was basically a rip off of the SCP wiki.

That's not the definition of insanity, that's the definition of practicing.

> I have a harder time seeing a world where people ditch phones and start voluntarily wearing glasses which is often uncomfortable and inconvenient

I see this world all the time at the beach; lots of people wear sunglasses there.

To be fair, a lot of the iPhone's first demo was faked.

> Nah I will rather my Democrat state focus on human welfare and giving people opportunities to progress in life

That sounds like it would be way easier if those people had id's...

Eh, it was bad when Apple removed USB-A ports, but here, I don't really care; I have never once used them in the all years I owned the Switch.

If you're smart about spying, you don't get stories published about it.

Most electricity is generated by using steam to turn turbines, right? So it definitely seems more efficient to just use the steam directly, instead of converting it to electrical energy and then converting it back to heat.

> Humanitarian aid should be tied to contraceptive use, World Bank loans as well.

That sounds an awful lot like eugenics, were poor people were paid money to have themselves sterilized. It's also backwards; the best way to get people to stop having kids is by raising their quality of life, at which point they will want to use contraception.

On a darker note, he also tried to use pigeons to help guide bombs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

I like the Sceptre TV's

> There's no reason to send people other than to show we can.

That is true for lots of other things. What's the point of building the Taj Mahal? What's the point of running a marathon? What's the point of getting the world record for the longest time spent underwater? Just to show that we can.

> Elon's plan would make a lot more sense if Mars was an Earth 2.0 and we just needed to move a bunch of people there, but it's not and even if we do find something really close to Earth with JWST, it would take centuries to get there.

I agree that we probably won't be able to have a viable Mars colony in our lifetime. However, I do think that the pursuit of that goal will result in lots of useful inventions; just look at what SpaceX has accomplished already.

Or maybe he was just doing geocaching.

I think that from everyone else's perspective, an ideal copy of me would be me; by the definition of "ideal copy". I, however, would not consider the copy to be me; to me, there is only one me.

> The X-Men are the superhero comic version of the ACLU.

That's definitely what they are intended to be; however, I think that in practice they're closer to the superhero comic version of the NRA.

* Unlike real minorities, they have the power to quickly kill or maim those around them

* They're fiercely opposed to having to register their powers

* A lot of their stories are about how the only thing that can stop a bad guy with mutant powers is a good guy with mutant powers.

It's left leaning universities that push for affirmative action policies, which do judge people based on their melanin.

Scientific American isn't a social media platform; by publishing these opinion pieces, they implicitly support them. Would you be ok if they published an opinion piece bashing evolution and defending creationism?