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by learc83 5y ago
I ran into a person in a technical forum recently who kept referring to the themselves as we and us. I was very confused for a while until someone asked them about it. Turns out they had purposely created a “head mate” and now insisted on b
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by learc83 5y ago
I don’t think it’s most everywhere in Atlanta because I lived there until 2 years ago (I still visit regularly), and it wasn’t the norm anywhere I regularly went. Atlanta is a big place, so I’m sure there’s room for variation.
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by learc83 5y ago
The only time I’ve seen an armed guard at a retail store in the southeast is when they have off duty cops late night at very high crime locations. It is extremely uncommon here for a Target or Best Buy to regularly employee armed security.
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by learc83 5y ago
That vast majority of retail chains would fire an employee who stopped a shoplifter with a firearm. When I worked at Best Buy, loss prevention was very clearly instructed that using force to stop a shoplifter would get you fired.
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by learc83 5y ago
It's a terrible gotcha. It's only effective on people who already agree with you. Imagine a town council meeting where someone is proposing a $25 fine for crapping on the sidewalk. And a libertarian pops and screaming "You&#x
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by learc83 5y ago
Libertarians like to make this argument about any government enforcement action. If the government tells you that you can't play loud music after 10pm and you do it anyway, eventually someone will issue you a citation. If you refuse to
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by learc83 5y ago
>That may seem obvious to you and I. Hence my question. I think it seems obvious to everyone, and anyone saying the entire economy was shutdown was just being hyperbolic. Everyone who lived through it knows that they were able to buy gro
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by learc83 5y ago
Of course the “entire” economy wasn’t shut down. But the unemployment rate would have been massively higher than it was had the government not stepped in with loans (essentially grants) to encourage companies to keep people on the payroll t
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by learc83 5y ago
Viruses tend not to work like that because to effectively spread via respiratory droplets and aerosols they require a high viral load in the respiratory system. This generally causes symptoms. I’m sure it’s not completely impossible, but ne
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by learc83 5y ago
There is no realistic theoretical mechanism for a delayed attack on the female reproductive system, and billions of mRNA doses have been administered over the last year with no measurable drop in female fertility.
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by learc83 5y ago
The main point of the person you were replying to was that the finger amputation thing is an urban legend because you can shatter a tungsten ring. And the point of my reply was that an EMT won’t amputate your finger. I just assumed that you
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by learc83 5y ago
Just confirmed with my wife (ER doctor) that there is no situation where an EMT amputates your finger because they can’t get a ring off.
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by learc83 5y ago
EMTs aren't amputating your finger either. You'd go to the ER and they'd call the surgeon. They'd also know that you can crack a tungsten ring, so they wouldn't need to do that in the first place.
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by learc83 5y ago
I got a tantalum ring. It look a bit like tungsten or titanium but it's much softer.
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by learc83 5y ago
Hahaha maybe not the best time. Minimum enrollment isn't too bad if you ever do decide to do it. I believe it's just 1 class every other semester as long as you finish within 6 years I (10 classes total).
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by learc83 5y ago
Bachelor's. I also have half of a Master's from Georgia Tech, but I was only talking about undergrad above. I've been too busy to finish (married, baby, building a house, and a new job in the same year), but I can definitely
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by learc83 5y ago
I was a self-taught programmer for about a decade before I went back for my degree. Mostly to satisfy my own curiosity rather than to help my career. I was rather shocked by the amount of gaps I uncovered in my understanding. Sure there wer
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by learc83 5y ago
Multiple mRNA vaccines have been tested on humans since 2008 and on animals before that. None of them produced any “late-onset” side effects. And there is no sound theoretical mechanism for late-onset mRNA side effects. No drug approval pro
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by learc83 5y ago
If you steal potatoes, the government considers the value of the potatoes when sentencing you. That doesn’t mean that when you make a profit selling potatoes that you can pay your taxes in potatoes.
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by learc83 5y ago
Here's what the bulletin actually says "Through the remainder of 2021, racially- or ethnically-motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) and anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists will remain a national threat priority
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by learc83 5y ago
Look through a list of vaccine safety recalls. Here's a highlight of the big ones--this is the list that most vaccine hesitant people talk about when they discuss their issues with vaccine safety. https://www.cdc.gov/va
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by learc83 5y ago
My wife is a children's ER doctor. They are now seeing all patients up to 25 because the adult ER can't handle the number of COVID patients. The pediatric ICU is also now full (in contrast to the earlier COVID waves were virtually
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by learc83 5y ago
There has never been a vaccine that was recalled because of side effects that didn't show up until over a year later.
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by learc83 5y ago
You might want to reevaluate your definition of low risk thanks to the delta variant. My wife is a pediatric ER doctor (but because the adult ER is so swamped with COVID patients they're now seeing all patients up to 25), during the fi
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by learc83 5y ago
It's unclear to me that being allowed to work at a specific company without taking a vaccine is an "essential Liberty". I don't believe that attending public school while unvaccinated is an essential Liberty.
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by learc83 5y ago
Do you have any specific examples of this?: "weird, Orwellian ways that the government talks about it" Public schools, colleges, and the military have been requiring vaccines for decades. >It ends up feeling less like the decis
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by learc83 5y ago
Going well here. Glad to hear that things are picking up!
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by learc83 5y ago
I think it is completely appropriate for an individual to do this in their own self interest. I think it’s wildly inappropriate that our industry rewards it though. Someone taking a year off to study the interview process itself shouldn’t b
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by learc83 5y ago
It’s important to note that that is physician and clinical services . That’s very different from doctor’s salaries are 20% of healthcare spending. Edit: I noticed that you already mentioned this in your other thread. Also in the US physici
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by learc83 5y ago
I have talked to many friends in other industries. Some of them are heavily regulated—my wife’s a doctor and her interviews are basically just people spending a lot of money showing her around and begging her to work there. Some of them are

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