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> Therefore, it is unfair to suggest that an individual who sees themselves as low risk to COVID, and potentially exposing themselves to a yet-to-be-fully-understood drug, does not have a valid dilemma in the choice around vaccines.

Especially if the person has already had Covid, since natural immunity is arguably comparable to vaccine protection, and vaccine side-effects are arguably more pronounced in those who have already had the infection.

I guess there's the potential problem of the inspector suggesting repairs for the sake of business. Mandatory repairs would likely be gamed unless there are robust checks and balances.

Problem - reaction - solution

> The researcher displays an image of a Siberian tiger brain, full of amyloid beta. “We have seen changes similar to Alzheimer’s in many mammals, but the disease never develops,” Rábano explains.

Interesting

Anonymity probably accounts for a decent portion of the discrepancy (meaning some of your co-workers would probably be anti-WFH in person, and pro-WFH anonymously)

I think WFH will be a way for non-FAANGs to make their offers more competitive.

The problem with this is that you increasingly have to put your trust in the hands of a shrinking group of owners (people who have the rights to the automated productivity). At some point, those owners are just going to stop supporting everyone else (will probably happen when they have the ability to create everything they could ever want with automation - think robot farms, robot security forces, all encompassing automated monitoring, robot construction, etc.)

> But when they seem to be pushed by a different incarnation of the same person every time, I get desensitized

That's a problem. And I think that's more on you than anyone else. Ignoring something with potentially significant consequences just because its proponents are annoying doesn't actually make it insignificant.

Oh, I thought it was "the featured article"

Unrelated, but I once came across a post claiming TFA stood for "the f**ing article", and I now can't unsee that. I wonder for a split second, before I remember what it actually stands for, why the poster is so angry.

I mean, as long as they're basically using the same ingredients and process, why not say something like "Wisconsin Parmesan" instead of essentially "Fake Parmesan"? I couldn't care less about getting Parmesan from the actual place in Italy, but I would like the same ingredients and the same cooking process.

Does it need to be whole?

Ah, not bad

I think they are relatively expensive, ~$200. Probably worth it though.

We would need some form of official recognition of antibody tests though. Pretty sure most places that require vaccination don't accept antibody test results.

Having people pay you for solutions to problems you create seems like a pretty successful business model.

Found this awesome simple demonstration of Flettner rotors.[1]

One question I have is, how would this work with a sort of semi-circle fan version, where the blades retract when they start getting pushed into the wind. This could theoretically have the rotor turn off of just wind power instead of external power. Here's a crude drawing lol [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsGin7CFaF8

[2] http://draw.to/D47BxHT

What about Odysee (LBRY) [1]? Seems promising.

[1]https://odysee.com

You're right, I could see them panning to these doors in their video, and the irony would be obvious. But like gp said, instead, this is reality

I think this is naive. Individuals are probably overwhelmingly good, but a corporation generally gets away with as much as it possibly can. I think this is because you can diffuse personal responsibility to a much greater extent when you are acting on behalf of a corporation. Corporations probably do good things insofar as they provide them cover to act increasingly selfishly. An individual on the other hand runs into their own conscience much more frequently when they're acting on their own behalf.

Avoiding drugs doesn't require you to give up on the system. You can avoid drugs and act to make the system better.

Ignoring negative outcomes makes you vulnerable to negative black swan events.

The key is humility. By accepting there's a possibility you are wrong and letting others know, you can get away with most beliefs.

I think one reasonable and effective way to act in this sort of complexity is to reduce your dependency on pharmaceuticals as much as possible. It may not be doable for some, but those that can stay healthy while avoiding pharmaceuticals are likely to be better off.

This in conjunction with the context that Big Banks are rapidly taking over as land lords [1] is truly absurd. Directionally, tax payers are transferring their wealth to Big Banks.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448175

This is old, but regardless, one thing I've noticed in the Covid Era is that there are many people giving pharma companies the benefit of the doubt, when there's plenty of evidence suggesting that we should instead be constantly skeptical of them. It's not cynicism when there's history to point to.

Looks like it's not loading at the moment. Really curious to try this out.

Edit: Nvm, just not loading in Safari

Wow, this works seriously good at some level then.

I don't that makes sense to me. The more it becomes clear that natural immunity is comparable to vaccine immunity [1], the more anti-vaxers would want to get proof that they've had it.

[1]https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...

Isn't methane much more of an offender than CO2?

Seems plausible