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While I'm not an expert - to my knowledge the land/resources were pretty thoroughly exploited and agricultural productivity wasn't exactly high. You'd have seen a lot of farm fields/pastures stretching across vast areas and things like that. Not that much "wild", unaltered/unworked land.
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In the Northern New England states (VT/NH/ME) that have a sort of freedom to roam codified in law (basically - unposted, undeveloped property is generally free to access for low-impact uses like hiking without requiring permission) - there is broad liability protection provided to the property owner.
For example, the law in VT for liability in that land access situation is only if the injury that occurs is "....the result of the willful or wanton misconduct of the owner." (and has further exemptions from even that if the injury is with regards to accessing equipment/machinery/personal property - which you're not entitled to access).
You pretty much need to be setting traps or creating some truly absurd unnatural hazards to be at legal risk.
Outside of the most popular locations for tourists that's pretty much the default.
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If you've had trouble finding this, have you been limiting your search to parks? Parks are usually more heavily restricted in terms of camping.
https://www.boeing.com/commercial/737max/space-bins
Pretty sure Airbus has some similar thing.
Not saying I expect the anxiety to fully disappear/that there will never be a forced gate checking of a bag again in the future, but I do think this will become much less of a problem than it's been in the past 5-10 years.
Pretty much no one raised an eyebrow about this sort of thing, certainly not at the 10 day total mark.
Why do you think the rules have remained the same?
Similarly, I don't think I ever had an "excused" absence, I didn't have to provide evidence or doctor's notes to the school when I was sick. That simply wasn't a thing that was tracked at all.
The terrible drivers are often those with the most timid inputs, especially with regards to acceleration. It is perfectly normal here to need to merge into heavy, 60mph+ traffic from a dead stop, or to need to quickly match speed and identify an appropriate merge spot to not wind up stuck at the end of a ramp.
And it's not like they sit there for 15 minutes waiting for some exceptionally large gap to match their acceleration habits - that would be very annoying to other drivers, but theoretically "safe". They enter in the same length gap as someone that actually uses their gas pedal - but rely on oncoming traffic to hit their brakes/evade, as they fail to get up to speed quickly enough for the small gap they've entered in.
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Hard braking is something with fewer reasons it should happen regularly - but I'm still reminded of the usual adage about metrics. Do you really want people to be mentally reluctant to hit their brakes as hard because of the insurance hit? That seems like a recipe for increasing decision time and accidents.
That's a pretty huge difference in terms of modal share.
And even with the sprawling size of the US network (and differences in things like labor costs), US freight rail is still more efficient at moving cargo in terms of costs.
- Exposure to a strain is not the same as exposure to all strains. Few are likely to have been infected with all of the strains that the vaccine protects against, and infection by multiple strains is not a rare event.
- There's research being done on if the vaccine can reduce symptoms to people who already have HPV. Early results seem promising. Certainly nothing large enough for the CDC to be making recommendations on yet (that I know of/could find from a quick search), but worth noting - there may well turn out to be a significant benefit to the vaccine even after exposure, we just seem to be relatively early in that research.
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Additionally (something I only became aware of from knowing a person dealing with it) - there's a modest body of clinical research suggesting that vaccinating for HPV in someone who already has it and is symptomatic (warts) can significantly lessen or eliminate their symptoms.
It was recommended for the person I know on that basis by their doctor as a thing to try, and they've noticed significant improvement. Anectdata, but mentioning anyway.
These are very small studies and I won't claim that this is definitive (nor that I've put that much effort into a review of all literature), but to provide some support for my claims that this is a thing being suggested/investigated in research:
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6541142/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38068369/
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I believe that it's too early in the research for that to be factoring into the analysis going into current CDC recommendations, but it's an additional possible upside of vaccination (reducing symptoms/likelihood of symptoms, even if already infected) if the research continues to pan out.
The best argument I see for allowing the merger is that Spirit has been consistently losing money since the pandemic and may no longer have a viable business model. If they're destined for shutting down in the long run anyway, then you may as well let them attempt to merge, that'll probably lead to less of their market share winding up with the 4 biggest than them simply closing up shop will.
- They need to work well together, and the better rapport they have with each other the better they're likely to perform in an actual incident. Regular interaction on the job is a part of that.
- They work a job that is often remarkably boring for much of the time. Drowsiness setting in is a real concern - a degree of social interaction is good at both keeping people engaged, and at helping them gauge how alert the other crew members are.
As such, it's a large liability, and most companies retain those sorts of records for the minimum amount of time acceptable by law/regulation/customary expectations.
I wouldn't even consider a piece of used upholstered furniture today, regardless of price or product quality.
That used sofa today represents a large risk to my wallet, property and health that it mostly didn't in the peak pesticide era.
Poor people are aware of the same - and if possible they too will opt for the shit-tier couch they can afford vs running that risk with a nice used one that would have been valued the same 30 years ago.
This seems a lot like intentional obfuscation of precisely what that "relatively harmless stuff" or "certain art style" is because you know it's going to sound a whole lot worse if you actually explain it.
I'm fairly pretty sure the actual answer here as to what's likely to get you flagged is: "drawn/animated characters that look like children in explicit or highly suggestive settings", maybe with the lip service of calling them 18 in text, maybe not.
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That content is in a legally risky area of it's own AFAIK and is a massive political/PR risk in a way that other content is not.
Pirate radio in the UK in the 1960s was often from actual ships floating just offshore in international waters (or disused forts/installations located in them).
There was more of a "evading the authorities at sea" aspect than I think you're giving it credit for.
And in some cases they may actually make traffic worse with increased circling behaviors in the highest-demand (and often, most congested) parts of the city.
Anyway, the problem isn't so much in an average or good water year but in a bad one. CA is prone to lengthy droughts.
(Interactive map of these crops, not recommended for mobile: https://databasin.org/datasets/57a5c9c0ddf54e75861b0621a7e41...)
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This is in some senses, not that big a problem for growing annual crops - just plant less/don't plant, and if you have to give up on the crop, you at least are only losing that year's crop.
However, this doesn't work for tree nuts.
If the tree isn't watered in the year(s) of drought - and watered significantly more heavily than usual, (because of the drought), the tree dies, and it will take a decade or more for a replacement to start yielding significant amounts of that crop again. That's a much larger loss than a single year's crop.
This makes the almond and pistachio farming a much less flexible form of agriculture in an environment where water availability varies drastically.
The rest is basically irrelevant. Every one of those few "billionaire" buildings could be 1-bedroom market rate units at 100% occupancy instead and it wouldn't do anything significant for the overall problem.
For one example of how broken NYC policies are: 60% of residential lots aren't zoned for anything over 2 stories. The city needs to have much of it moderately upzoned to get decent (and decently distributed) housing development, not to somehow start building affordable skyscrapers in Midtown.
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There's a fantastic non-partisan report here that lays out the scale of the failure and various ways to improve the issue very clearly: https://cbcny.org/research/strategies-boost-housing-producti...
If you want to just skim, the various charts show it clearly enough without actually reading every paragraph.
I've had points in life where school or work demanded I wake up early. After a few weeks I could go to bed and sleep at something approximating the time required for an appropriate night of rest and would automatically wake up at the time required - true.
This sounds like success, but is significantly less so than it sounds:
- It didn't change the time my body wants to do those things.
- Waking up: I'd wake up because it's the time I currently wake up daily and know I need to, but the feeling of wanting to go back to bed for hours was still there - not even feeling like I'm not rested, just a vague sense of "this is a time for sleep". Performance for the first 3-5 hours of my day was noticeably poor.
- Going to bed: With enough practice I could usually sleep early enough. I never once wanted to sleep early enough or actually felt tired when I had to go to bed. I had to have multiple alarms set to go to bed, because even though that was the time I'd been going to bed for months - my body still does not give off a single signal to sleep at that time.
- One single night off-schedule would completely blow up the whole thing and take a week or more to feel back on the schedule fully. Months of being on the "early" schedule could be instantly thrown away and I'd be back on the "late" - adaptation is only required in the unnatural direction, the natural one is instant.
- I have actually spent weeks off-grid hiking and away from screens/artificial light before and the behavior still persists. It's not until hours after dark that I feel tired and I don't naturally want to wake up until far past sunrise. (I am also perfectly happy sleeping in full daylight, room light/darkness has no impact on my sleep).
For all they know you've got a father or uncle or whoever that's huge and has anger problems who broke it.
One abusive family member and a partner who's covering for/trying to make up for their behavior (and may be being abused themselves) is a pretty common type of abusive situation.
No, we really haven't been. It doesn't seem to be well appreciated just how deeply housing construction collapsed at the end of the 2000's and has only recently returned to something approximating the long-term averages. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST
However, there's a still a whole lot of deficit from the decade of underproduction to make up for in that sense.
As you sort of get at - housing production "where the jobs are" has been far shakier. Many of the metro areas that did the best with job creation in the previous decade were among the worst with housing creation. SV, Boston, NYC, etc.
I've seen a similar price increase in the branded cereals, so I am not disagreeing with you in that sense.
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However, the store brand cereals, which are cheaper, haven't really gone up at all. At this point the branded product is more than double the unit cost of the store/no-name brand version in my local stores.
This suggests to me that it's not an actual increase in the cost of producing the product. If it was driven by commodity/input/manufacturing cost prices we should be seeing price pressures coming through in the cheapest cereals.
College tuition is free, you're required to live and work in NY State for the same number of years that you accepted the state funding for after graduation. If you don't do that, the scholarship/grant becomes a loan.
Banning smokers actively made your life better - removing the behavior increased your enjoyment of the setting.