thomasingalls

so you agree

What is this? "Disease is health" nonsense

Even this supreme court has said the way in which ice is "doing the work" that they're doing isn't constitutional. As in, the way in which "federal agents need to do it" is being done right now is literally illegal. Hence, protests. This isn't rocket science

The current context, in case you forgot, was that the trump admin is making direct threats against private citizens who engage in constitutionally protected activities, like speaking and like gathering in a protest. The context is that "getting detained" is half a step away from "getting disappeared".

I get that you don't think this is a problem. Just remember this when you are looking for someone that you can't find anymore.

TFA says he was questioned about his allegiance to Trump. Is that the good reason you were talking about?

Edit: to be clear, I think Hasan is a fool, but detaining him still smells like a political purity test

This seems like one of those situations that's going to turn regular people into outlaws. How could anyone vote in favor of something so foolish?

Also how would that even work, would your device get compromised by connecting to a wireless network inside French borders?

What country are you even talking about? You seem very determined to tell everyone this is the way the world is, but steadfastly fail to show any evidence.

Are you making the frequently repeated but always false assertion that immigrants don't pay into social security?

You know who's not paying their fair share into social security in any country? It's the rich, yo! It's the rich! By a wide margin!

To be perfectly clear, I don't care one way or the other about more immigration or less immigration.

What I am saying is that compound interest and the ability to purchase assets is going to continue to draw wealth away from everyone except the ultra wealthy, and immigration policy has effectively nothing to do with that.

Calling on everyone to hate each other is going to prevent us from acting together to solve this problem. We could instead work together, unionize, vote for policies and politicians that won't let the ultra wealthy continue to hoard their gold like dragons.

Isn't it obvious that this has more to do with oligarchs hoarding wealth than it does with "being full" of immigrants? Immigrants are nowhere near numerous enough to be doing the kind of damage you claim, but the extremely wealthy do have a stranglehold on resources.

I think the evidence shows this isn't exactly true.

"Let them eat cake"

We could tax the wealthy

TAX. THE. RICH.

Oh right.

Pubmed is one of the most reliable services in the history of the internet. Sure the exact issue is opaque, but the fish rots from the head.

The factor that comes to mind for me is genetic isolation, probably a much stronger factor. For instance, the Amish also have a famously higher incidence of Ellis-van Creveld syndrome than the general population.

Major efforts at creating "everything" libraries are usually looked upon as a positive effort that benefits all of humanity, and we generally mourn the loss of any such effort, regardless of whether the effort is against the laws of the state at the time the effort was undertaken, or even if the collection was created in a morally reprehensible way.

See: Library of Alexandria, Library of Congress, GenBank, the Svalbard seed vault, Google Books, Internet Archive and all its efforts, ...the Louvre, and most major museums.

In general, we collectively recognize - without having to be told - that preservation of knowledge is a noble and worthy effort that transcends the fleeting whims of a population at a point in time.

All that to say, people probably don't need to be tricked into liking such efforts. They're popular because of what they are.

I'm not sure if you're trolling or not here, so this is the genuine answer to your question.

Peer-reviewed, published research does not support any kind of link between vaccines and autism: not a link by correlation, not a link by cause.

There was a paper a long time ago where the guy who wrote it committed fraud to get published. This paper, which was founded on lies, did claim a link, and did so in a highly influential medical journal - so a lot of people paid attention to what the article said, even though its claims were never true. Retraction is a very definitive way to signal to scientists not to pay attention to a particular paper.

Problem is, the retraction took more than 10 years, and in those years the internet was becoming social and available to everyone. So there was kind of a perfect storm of misinformation propagation about this particular topic.

Fact remains: many many studies have re-examined the possibility of link between vaccines and autism and there just isn't one.

> thin client

I sometimes wonder if the ipad was made just for this pun to eventually become reality.

Unfortunately, yes

is it a shared belief that the rich should contribute to society through taxation, and regulatory agencies that try to protect consumers?

no it must be <culture war issue>

How is this not huge news?

What exactly are you trying to imply with this comment?

Why isn't France ever in these datasets?

This but not ironically. So many people burn wood to heat homes in France

This is a foolish take, because it ignores the thousands of workers who distinctly aren't high rollers. It's hard for me to see the moral difference between 'public workers pension fund' and 'workers trying to feed their families, who happen to work at a startup'

So the author doesn't think we should do anything about climate change.

Really the rest of the article can be ignored, if that's the starting point. There are no useful ideas to be found.