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longdefeaton In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops

From what I understand, space isn't the only limiting issue. You might find more space with some difficulty but you cannot suddenly produce more nurses and doctors, many of whom are overwhelmed or themselves ill and out of commission.

longdefeaton Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

-we should ask "what can I do that has a positive impact?"-

That's part of the point of this essay that was on HN last year: "Fortnite and the Good Life," which seems relevant here.

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-convivial-soc...

longdefeaton Ghislane Maxwell was the first person on Reddit to hit 1M karma

Counter-point: https://twitter.com/hasharin/status/1280890362945560577

longdefeaton Hit by an arrow, mobile phone dies saving Australian man

"An Australian man had a lucky escape while confronting a man armed with a bow outside his home ..."

Honestly, the phone almost seems like the least interesting part of this story.

longdefeaton The Industrial Revolution of Shame

"The closer you get together, the more you like each other? There is no evidence of that in any situation that we have ever heard of. When people get close together, they get more and more savage and impatient with each other. [Man’s] tolerance is tested in those narrow circumstances very much. Village people are not that much in love with each other. The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations." McLuhan

longdefeaton Bill Gates’s favorite books about technology

I'm curious about what titles others here might recommend?

longdefeaton Something is happening on Reddit

As the one who posted the link, I should explain that given twitter threads have no title, I simply copied the first line of the first tweet as the title. I see your point, though.

longdefeaton A Cure for Cancer? Israeli Scientists Say They Think They Found One

"But Dr. Ben Neel, director of Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, told The Post that 'cancer is multiple diseases, and it is highly unlikely that this company has found a ‘cure’ for cancer any more than there is a single cure for infections.'

He said that 'more likely, this claim is yet another in a long line of spurious, irresponsible and ultimately cruel false promises for cancer patients.'"

https://nypost.com/2019/01/29/cancer-experts-react-to-claim-...