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You're very free to not get vaccinated and endure the consequences, just as you were free to not get vaccinated as a child and be home schooled.

Any useful comparison of outcomes would need to consider deaths instead of case rates as we have a well-known more-transmissible variant in play now compared to the beginning of the pandemic. Most of your sources don't do that.

The linked articles regarding Iceland in fact contradict your assertion. They provide a very clear graph of cases over time vs deaths over time and it is trivial to see that during the recent spike in cases, deaths are much lower in proportion compared to earlier spikes, a clear indicator of the vaccine working well.

It is also logical that most COVID cases in places with high vaccination rates are breakthrough cases, there are simply less unvaccinated hosts for the virus to potentially infect. It does not follow that the outcome would be better with less vaccinated hosts.

Finally, you've posted links to 7 deaths and 28 complications following vaccinations. Regardless of the merits of any particular one of those articles - this is scare mongering as it completely ignores that around 5 million people have died from COVID worldwide, while around 3 billion people have been vaccinated safely. (Source- Google searches for worldwide covid deaths and worldwide covid vaccinations).

I understand and am quite sympathetic to his argument, but Greenwald and many other posters here are ignoring the known fact that foreign actors are using Facebook at scale to sow division and misinformation throughout the US and other countries.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook...

https://www.cbsnews.com/media/russian-ads-on-facebook-a-gall...

I live in NYC and have a friend in the funeral business. This was absolutely true in the beginning of the pandemic, although perhaps not at every hospital in the city as some were hit harder with patients than others. There was also a backlog in the ability to process bodies (e.g. Getting death certificates, funerals, burial sites or cremations).

This is misinformation, the links you provide do not support your claim. They refer to a problem with the original CDC developed test (which also was well publicized at the time) and recommend switching to another test. Your second link provides a list of at least 100 suitable alternatives with accuracy data.

Make sure to wear gloves so they can't get your fingerprint off of the scooter handles.

To all the commenters critical of this idea, what do you suggest as an alternative? I don't think letting kids belive that Facebook/Reddit/TikTok memes are valid news sources is a great course of action either.

What I've seen used as a shield against FOIA is the label, "DRAFT - For Discussion Purposes Only." This is meant to ivoke the "deliberative process" exemption.

Could you elaborate on this for someone with no prior knowledge of what you're referring to?

Maybe this is all as a result of installing on my own hardware instead of a System76 laptop, or maybe due to my general unfamiliarity with Linux, but I didn't find installation and setup very easy at all.

I was installing alongside Win 10 and it totally borked my bootloader, this in itself took me quite a long time to repair.

The steam installer worked well, but I couldn't move my library to a secondary HDD. So some Googling shows I need to install from apt instead of from the PopOS store. Which I do, but then I also had to do some more Google FU to figure out how to get PopOS to mount the secondary HDDs in a useful way.

As it is now, about a quarter of the applications I need are in the PopOS store. VLC for example isn't. So while the store is setup nice it is only marginally useful.

Finally, switching audio between wired headphones, Bluetooth headphones, and my HDMI monitor has been a nightmare.

Does it run well and is it stable once I'm up and running? Yes. But the devil is in the details. I really want to like Linux, and I am enjoying the lack of forced ads on PopOS compared to Windows, but how is widespread adoption of Linux supposed to happen when this is the onboarding process?

For glasses glare you can use soft lights (large, non directional lights, like lamps with large shades or harder lights bounced off of a white wall) on each side of your face, much more to the left and right than normal - almost perpendicular to your nose, just slightly in front of your face. It's a nontraditional setup.

Without having watched all of the CNN "leak" linked below, I'd like to point out two things that will color my viewing of it:

1 - Project Veritas has a history of misleading / baiting subjects into saying things that sound bad, and of taking pieces of conversation out of context.

2 - A "technical director" in television isn't an editorial role, nor is it very high ranking. The job of a technical director is to physically operate things like the video switcher to choose which camera is on screen or to put up a lower third; their job typically would not be to decide who to interview, what to ask in an interview, direct the on screen talent, etc.

I am sure CNN, like most workplaces, has employees with varied opinions and political views. Seeing any one of those employees statements as evidence of the overall views of the company is kind of ridiculous.

The right-wing angle of most of most of these comments, while not surprising considering the article, belies the fact that the right has a similar free speech problem to the left. In fact, the left response has been partially motivated by opposition to a notably authoritarian former president and his willing allies. Where is any discussion of things such as:

- Anti-BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) statues being written into state and local law in jurisdictions all over the country.

- Efforts to legally sanction corporations that exercise their free speech rights in opposition to certain political issues, such as repealing MLBs antitrust protection for moving the All-star game from Georgia.

- Even if there are not legal efforts, widespread outrage at similar exercises of free speech, such as the rights holders of Dr. Seuss books voluntarily deciding to discontinue publication of a small subset of his not-very popular books.

- Anti-protest bills that in some cases essentially decriminalize violent opposition to the free speech rights of people you may not agree with. (1)

- The Trump White House banning left-of-center media from attending certain events (2), and overall making numerous statements aiming to paint media they don't agree with as fake, lying, etc.

I can readily admit the left has a free speech problem, but this problem is in no way unique to the left.

(1) https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-legislature-oks-bill-t... (2) https://outline.com/dfhh9h

I don't think anyone has really answered your question about why you encountered both in this article. "A herbacious," was only present inside a quote in the article. The author of the article seems to prefer using, "an," in their own writing. I don't know of any situational difference in pronunciation in play here, just regional or formal preferences as mentioned by other commenters.

Light takes about a millisecond to travel 200 miles. Compared to the latency introduced by computation, it is pretty insignificant, unless you are connected to a server very far away.

A comment and a related question:

I went down this rabbit hole several years ago, and while finding quality equipment was important, at some point I had to step back and decide the capture was "good enough" - that the incremental quality gained by spending an additional several hundred dollars on more professional equipment wouldn't substantially improve the poor quality of the source material.

To that end, does anyone have familiarity with putting 640*480 videos on Blu-ray in H264 format, in order to cram hours and hours of video on one disk and allow it to be viewed on a standard Blu-ray player?

I am speaking of the time before that decision, which was only made in response to overcrowded hospitals once COVID was widespread here.

I understand the reasoning at the time was to prevent hospitals from needing to turn more people away, by shifting patients who didn't need intensive care back to other facilities (nursing homes) that could handle them. But I agree 100% it was a bad decision and made the situation much worse in NY.

It is endlessly frustrating to see the tenor of argument around COVID: mask vs. no mask, lockdown vs. no lockdown, flattening the curve vs. eliminating the virus. All of these strategies have arisen and evolved over a relatively short period of time, necessarily with incomplete data, and in places both different and affected by the virus differently. No sane person should be talking about these terms in black and white.

Speaking as someone from New York City: Doing nothing (as in the very early stages) quickly resulted in overwhelmed hospitals and morgues. Doing a fairly serious lockdown along with masking then reduced cases to a very manageable level. The fine balance between these two extremes is somewhere in between, and will be different for each locale depending on demographic details such as population density, number of multigenerational households, etc.

The goal of flattening the curve while still keeping the economy healthy, as some commenters here seem to desire, surely will be easier the closer we are to eradicating the disease.

The leotard is named after its inventor, French acrobat Jules Léotard: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leotard

I recently (a few years ago) flew transatlantic on a 3-5-3 747 (Delta).