cnelsenmilt

You might look to see whether there is a law on the books that allows you to "proceed cautiously" or similar language, after a certain amount of time without it changing. (It's probably intended for cars at lights that are malfunctioning, but to my mind it should apply.)

This and don't even get me started about the cars coming up a freeway on-ramp that seem to think the yield sign is for the people already on the road. :/

In a purely moral dimension, it's hard to disagree. On the other hand from an environmental perspective the best thing to do with a car is to get it up to speed as soon as possible and keep it there to the journey's end. Cars that repeatedly slow and idle use their resources (brakes, fuel, etc.) less efficiently, and emit worse fumes. This is of course somewhat mitigated with electric cars, but not entirely.

On bike or foot, I especially hate to see the one last car in a line slow, stop, and wait for me. It would be less polite perhaps but big-picture preferable for them to just keep rolling.

I agree with you, certainly, but you must see that a shareholder could believe that Twitter has this potential under current management but wouldn't under Musk, or under a different management but still not with Musk. Whether they are mistaken can only be determined by playing out the future.

> Except centrism isn't a real position - by definition.

> they're in fact [...] very definitely asserting a position by doing that.

You seem to have talked yourself out of your own argument through the course of making it.

I feel ya. As a childless person of the same age, I have several of those things you mentioned. I count them as blessings but also see that there has been a big, big trade made for them. I see that my siblings have made different choices with different blessings. I suppose this is just life.

I can't remember, unfortunately. Possibly it was forwarded by a friend? Or it showed up in some feed or another.

> I have reached a point where I feel Libertarianism just isn't compatible with the realities of the modern world as much as this child of hippies wishes it was

You may have interest in the writings of the Niskanen Center https://www.niskanencenter.org/ They work from a similar position. For example, I was hugely impressed by this essay https://www.niskanencenter.org/what-the-pandemic-revealed/

I don't know a regular publication devoted to this view, unfortunately.

There is more to it than that one bar. One example, note (from Table 1)

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Unvaccinated (n = 657)

Death while hospitalized

¶¶ Denominator excludes 129 patients who remained hospitalized as of January 27, 2022

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Approximately 20% cannot be assigned either way for this outcome yet.

One way to look at it then is that we have dealt with similar issues before and survived.

Uh, it is? A business contract isn't indentured servitude. You can always break a contract. There will be consequences, but they are civil consequences, most likely losing a bunch of money.

The president (and president-elect) weren't anywhere near the building and their safety was not at issue.

There is no federal procedure or "chain of command" for replacing individual Representatives and Senators -- that goes back to the states they represent, with either elections or appointments.