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by mattzito 5y ago
So - let's say that a business owner in Texas thinks BDS is at best misguided, and at worst anti-semitic, and does not want to align themselves with them. However, they also believe that the Israeli government is creating a humanitari
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Yes, you are allowed to protest the French government by boycotting French companies. The courts in this country have recognized boycotts as a protected form of political speech. You still aren’t allowed to discriminate against individual
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Oof. I’m very sympathetic to the complexities around the BDS movement, but this is a pretty challenging take to get behind. Discrimination against blacks is illegal in the context of denying individuals things like employment, access to hou
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“ it is very hard to see in the pile of punitive-only measures.” Aka unreasonable. Which sort of makes the point. But also - it’s tough for me to be civil when your argument is, “why isn’t anyone taking my feelings into account?”, when that
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I’m not arguing that everyone should be forced to get vaccinated - I’m saying that people who choose not to are selfish. And they shouldn’t be immune to some level of personal impact, lots of people make personal choices that have negative
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I guess we are pretty lucky that we don’t all have heart attacks simultaneously or it could be a real drag on the hospitals. But yes, the risks and concerns are absolutely equal between those two scenarios.
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I’m just confused about the argument you are making here - that if our options are: A) let’s all get a couple of shots to reduce our risk of death, serious illness, and make it less likely that other people get sick, not to mention making i
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Aside from the absurdity of comparing recommended vaccination as a responsible social welfare act to the murder of children, the comparison isn’t even apt. My point was about short-term and critical healthcare resources, and the eugenics a
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Except that the resources that are going to care for the unvaccinated might block someone who is vaccinated from needed medical care. It also increases the amount of exposure someone who IS vaccinated needs to contend with, and as is menti
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Sure, but we can make the virus largely irrelevant in terms of its impact on peoples lives. We can reduce the number of people who suffer long term consequences, the number of deaths, and the load on hospitals. We can make it harder for n
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He was both incredible and incredibly exacting - something the discussion of west side story doesn’t cover is that he also hated some of his work in that show. For “I feel pretty” he regretted that the lyrics were more poised than the char
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It might be a difference without a distinction, but technically the provider is participating, non-participating, or opt-out. In the first two cases, the provider has to meet those standards, and while I'm sure that there might be
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No, of course not, but that's not what I was referring to - I was referring to, are doctors allowed to leave standing orders for patients? Can they give them over the phone? What kind of procedures can nurses and NPs order? Those sor
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Except that the role of the CMS, as established by congress, is to set the guidelines of care and standards of participation for providers who opt to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. They set rules for everything from how many hospita
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FWIW, my office building was quite transparent about the fact that pre-pandemic, there were 1.5-2 ACH, well below the recommended 3-6 for reduction of Covid spread. They have since upgraded/reconfigured the HVAC for 4 ACH. Two of my p
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by mattzito 5y ago
When I worked for squarespace, their beautiful new offices had glass conference room doors that swung one way, the other way, or slid on a track, depending on the room configuration. However every one of those doors had the same handle on b
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Stephen Sondheim, one of the greatest American musical composers, dies at 91(nytimes.com)
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We have a major one of those in NYC, queens boulevard, and it’s a disaster. It’s dangerous to cross, and wide enough that it’s inconvenient to get across, so it effectively divides neighborhoods in half.
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Let me frame it another way - if someone said, "Hey, I have ALS, and here's what I did to fix it" - would we be having the same conversation? Or, "Hey, I have pancreatic cancer, and instead of medicine, I'm going w
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I don’t think anyone would argue your experience was ideal, though context matters. That being said, it’s anecdata- the clinical definition of the various forms of depression are fairly well defined and a qualified mental health profession
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>I often wonder what would happen if they removed all parking from one side of the street to make long loading-only lanes, and strictly enforced it to prevent people from stopping on both sides. They do this a lot in midtown - commercial
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Right, but the GP-linked study disagrees with your assertion: “ We now have results for over 1500 RCTs on Vitamin D supplementation. Some of the largest and most significant trials are listed and summarized at the end of this article. When
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As someone who believes in this approach, this article doesn't give the right advice or level of detail about how you do this right as part of a management team. You can't just repeat "year of the hound" over and over a
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A surprising number - sure, google has turnover like everyone else, but in general I am always surprised at how many people have 5+ years of tenure. I work with a number of people where google is the only place they have ever worked, which
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by mattzito 5y ago
You can’t call a conclusion a lie because you don’t agree with it. A lie implies falsehood, where you’re just saying, “I don’t agree that this situation where raising the minimum wage of a small towns core business didn’t have negative imp
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It’s not a lie though - the sawmill did indeed raise its minimum wage. The author posits that the experience of this sawmill defies what “we” have been told about wages across the state, because this company raised their wages and didn’t ex
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> greater than 1 time Most people have ~5-8 sexual partners, so that’s not that likely. As far as what I think is a lot, if I’m seeing someone who slept around a lot, if they did it because they enjoy sex and were having healthy sexual r
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What would you define as "a lot"?
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> maybe not as many guys will want to marry a 35-year-old. Maybe! Though if the 25-year-old women don't want to get married, and the 30-year-old women are just starting to think about it, the primary options for guys will be the 35-
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Isn't it possible that women are less interested in long-term relationships in college than they used to be? My parents generation, many women went to college to get their "mrs" - my generation, people dated casually, but mo

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