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Have people been getting rewarded with hustling more than their peers? Promotions that aren't popularity contests are exceedingly rare from my experience.

Have you been to Canada? It's not hard to walk in a pharmacy and get it.

Trump only won thanks to the electoral college, not because of democracy.

But neutrality is imaginary in reality. Because law is a flawed reflection of society's morality

How is it a symbol of fear? Masks for infection control have been used since the late 1800s. It's purely practical.

Maybe a little fear would be healthy for some people if it makes them act in a socially integrated manner. Anybody who's had covid probably doesn't want to get it again.

The things we do to avoid covid also help with avoiding other respiratory infections as well, all of which are pretty terrible to get in case anybody forgot about them.

But saying that covid isn't causing damage is itself highly myopic.

I personally wasn't, but I turned 17 during the 2008 financial crisis, so that jump started getting engaged with things.

My sisters are way more aware of the world than I was at the time, for instance. But if you talk to some younger people, you'll find that things are different than even a decade ago for younger people.

Teens are either far more informed about the world than their parents or completely oblivious to it. Not much in between.

It's about non destructive editing, a very powerful tool for professional workflows especially for fine tuning changes and making things repeatable.

They spend more time iterating on existing products rather than replacing them, not perfectly, but Google will throw away something good for seemingly no reason.

Sounds like he's just trying to speak Elon's language to me.

The first thing to try is to bring that up. By stating that you struggle to trust people, you can ask them to help you examine what thoughts you have that are associated with trust in the first place, and that's really helpful in developing a mindful understanding of what's happening.

Trust is also a push-pull thing in the first place, so going in with an honest attempt can help you gauge your reaction before learn who to trust.

Calling what therapy does as "creating delusions" helps nobody. Therapy offers a number of tools that helps a person get grounded in reality, helps a person create boundaries, and helps strengthen a person's abilities to deal with their life stresses by creating the framework to either deal with them or help move on to a new environment that doesn't create as much stress.

Not all therapists are good. If you try somebody and don't connect or trust them, try to find somebody else. Internalizing stress really destroys the body, and it's important to find somebody you trust to help process it.

Right. Humans are animals. Trying to make a distinction on a biological level is always going to be tenuous.

A phrase I've heard that demonstrates that concept is "hiding your power level"

How exactly do you determine who is a woman though? Because appearances alone don't cut it, and the more you pick things apart, the less you can make any hard lines. Simply put, trans women are women.

Blocking trolls is good though. Plenty of people want to watch the world burn and avoiding that is just fine.

What strikes me the most about the anti vaccine argument is how it relies on not understanding basic fundamentals of biology and ignoring that individual choices have impacts outside of their body.

The only rational way to view unvaccinated people is the same way we view drunk drivers. They might not hurt themselves or others, but they probably will so society makes rules to prevent that behavior.

Only the most extreme cases would end up on the street because the rest will die. That's a fundamentally antisocial approach that will lead to people being exploited to death.

Come on, give them a chance to make fun of the things the youths enjoy

You don't do do science by being skeptical of things. You do it by asking questions and by developing experiments that can test the hypothesis within ethical bounds. How do you start to make these experiments where the outcomes could lead to an increase in deaths?

It's hard to see sarcasm when people also genuinely hold the belief.

What distinctions between men and women are being denied that you feel need to be made?

Have you done any work to asses your biases along these fronts? What makes you think that the immunity after getting infected from covid is better than getting vaccinated and not getting sick at all? I know I don't personally have the time to be sick, I have a family to feed.

Sociology teaches the sociological imagination, which is specifically a form of critical thinking. This isn't something people tend to just pick up on without higher education

First question: with what money?

Are you aware of how often science and medicine has been used specifically to repress non-white populations? I'm not saying that's an inherent trait of science, but it can easily be employed in that way if people aren't actually aware of the biases people hold implicitly.

Sex is just an activity. It's a workout and feels fun and exciting. The fact that you think a person sacrifices their heart for sex mean you don't have a healthy relationship with it. It's not a one sided thing, of giving or taking, it's consensually shared between people.

Sex can be, and I think should be, an emotionally fulfilling experience, but it's not a requirement as long as each person gets their needs met.

Cycling will be rate limited by the speed of the polymerase involved in the reaction. Short sequences are usually fairly quick regardless, but the extension period is still measured in seconds per kilobase.

Also, some primers really do not cooperate at fast cycle speeds. PCR is really quirky even in optimized conditions.

How long do you think people will survive if they aren't working? Not calling employment servitude is dishonest.

Phase 4 is like the RC, and by that point it seems to be pretty stable.