That seems quite upstanding of them and changes the dynamics of the situation quite a bit in my opinion.
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You can't follow the science on something as complex as pandemics and lockdowns. There are too many tradeoffs that people will weigh differently.
In the summer, we started slowly going out more and doing things with people more. At this point, I think the country just needs to get on with life.
Everyone around here knows a dozen or two people who have had it, and a handful of elderly people who died from it. It's a tragedy, but so is their treatment this past year. My Grandma is 98 and has gone downhill so significantly this past year from lack of interaction. At least now she's allowed to talk with the other residents of the nursing home. She spent six months locked in her room. And they all caught coronavirus anyway last fall.
It's been clear since late Spring of last year that politics was driving the lockdowns far more than any real hard science.
Unfortunately, we can't really count on people being at all competent like that.
If I was in Texas this past week, you can bet that I would have monitored my lack of heat and shut off my water and drained the pipes in my house.
Instead, there is an astronomical amount of water damage from burst pipes now.
People who haven't considered or dealt with the worst case scenario will always be caught off guard. That's just the nature of it.
Just because that was the most vocal faction doesn't mean they are the only faction, or even the majority.
Maybe they were just demoing the resolution scaling stuff?
My wife does a lot of sewing and garment making. She has convinced me that a properly designed and fitted girdle is actually a net-benefit for people. The trouble is proper fit is hard at a mass scale, which is why women transitioned to bras, which also have notorious fit issues, but are at least manageable when mass produced.
My experience is that my older relatives get new phones frequently because they get their old ones so malware laden that they no longer function correctly.
That and apps grind to a halt because the developers use top of the line hardware and don't notice how wasteful of resources they are being.
I wouldn't say he did it single-handedly, but I went from tripling my monthly donation in the Spring to cancelling my membership and getting rid of my radio in October.
I think the focus on "diversity" or "intersectionality" is largely to blame. If you need to check off 6 boxes on your diversity checklist to cover a story, that rules out the vast majority of subjects.
Could only look back and laugh.
Not sure where they took a wrong turn, but "fair and balanced" or even "well-rounded" are not terms I would use to describe current NPR.
Our pediatrician made a quip once about a family that came in and said "Our girl only plays with the dolls and our boy only plays with the trucks" despite the parents doing the whole "gender neutral toys" thing.
And her response was, "Yes, duh, that's what little boys and girls do"
My experience is that it's good not to limit what your children are exposed to or have available, but don't be surprised at all if they fit nearly every stereotype regarding boys vs girls.
So I just go directly to their page, and I check in often enough that I know when I'm to things I have already seen.
I've fallen into the scrolling pages and pages on YouTube, and it is far less satisfying than when I used to just binge watch channels as I learned about them.
My wife has commented that I have been a lot more relaxed and less likely to snap at the kids since the change. I know that I feel more emotionally balanced without it.
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Our neighbor has a "scraggly little white dog" as you describe.
It bit my (then three year old) daughter while she was riding her bike a year ago.
It certainly didn't do any favors for her trust of dogs.
Doesn't help that everyone and their mother seems to leave their dogs off leashes and then just say "oh don't worry, he's nice" as my kids are screaming their heads off while a creature roughly as big as they are sniffs and yips at them.
Conveniently remove your own relatives from nursing homes and long term care facilities, then institute forced lock downs and mandate that they accept Coronavirus patients.
The people can't get out, but do your best to guarantee that the virus will get in.
In the context of a city, I guess it makes sense that this is fairly anonymous.
In my moderately more rural part of the world, where owning a home is much more common, a person's house is part of the public record, and very easy to look up.
Granted that doesn't work for people renting, but the number of people renting instead of owning drops pretty dramatically once you start looking at demographics older than 25-30 around here.
Your intestines are full of poop. Your stomach isn't full of poop. Your throat and mouth aren't full of poop.
Vomiting is very unpleasant. Vomit isn't poop. The thought of poop in your mouth is very unpleasant.
I really don't understand how a comment stating, "I really think it would be a toss-up for me which method I would prefer" is down-voted through the floor.
I would guess it's "possible" but also there is probably a lot of logistics involved in "take my poop and put it into your guts".
Back fifteen or so years ago I saw a video somewhere talking about some people doing this to help with an immune condition. What I remember was basically, "We put my poop in a blender with some water to thin it out, and then they stick a tube up their butt and pour that in"
Sounded like it wasn't just a one time deal, more something that needed to happen on a regular basis.
The nice thing about IBM is that they have an army of lawyers and industry connections that a small company like mine can piggy-back off of now and again.
It's great to be able to say "here is the list of changes, and I can re-run them and come up with the same hash, so nothing was tampered with"
The "here is a random key that took a lot of work to find and when you add it to the hash chain we get X number of zeroes" part is really not that useful in most cases.
> "The Clintons have always been very careful to walk about two inches inside the line,"
Makes you wonder why we are always so quick to trade away our freedoms...
So assuming that 400k figure is excess mortality, that means 17% more people died last year than normal.
That is tragic, but the way it gets talked about, you would think we were at 10x or more.