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by surfpel 6y ago
Link to the study: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n693 From the study: > At baseline, individuals with covid-19 had a mean age of 64.5 (standard deviation 19.2) and 54.9% were men. Compared with the genera
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Plastics eventually break up into micro-plastics that enter the food chain or leach other chemicals and they stick around without chemically changing much. Metals don’t do that, they’ll either oxidize and eventually become nutrients for som
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But that’s not enough. The company might guarantee all those things and that’s great, but when it’s left in a field somewhere because the user forgot about it or if the tube blows away then it still turns into plastic pollution.
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Here's a video from Sabine Hossenfelder (2018) which explains the subject in a simple way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VNcDoLNJk8
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> Bose QC35 II for example can store multiple bluetooth connections on the device and switch between them I have these and it’s annoying to switch them because they’re stored and switched via the app - if you’re switching between more th
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Weather is the day to day fluctuations in atmospheric conditions. They are extremely sensitive to minor changes making it hard to predict. It’s even possible to actively change the weather by seeding clouds to start rain for example. Climat
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Tunnels can actually be one of the safest places during an earthquake, so long as its well built and doesn’t pass through a fault line.
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> If you _want_ these notifications, then my argument does not apply. Then your argument has a very minimal reach and doesn’t apply to the post you replied to. Few apps have irrelevant and useless notifications. They usually have some re
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> Unwanted notifications are not a vice like snacking or the like where obviously you get some endorphins every time you do it and therefore you can get addicted Except they’re not unwanted, at least not completely. Sometimes apps don’t
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While I’m also not an anarchist, I don’t believe these are good examples. In fact, they could be an argument for anarchism. With a lack of stimulus or even just in this economic system, bars and businesses in general are incentivized to s
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I would like to see some good arguments as to why a brick and mortar store deserves a significantly larger cut. > Making your own CPUs is cool but ultimately not all that for a product that most users won't have even the slightest c
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> cripple your devices and both dump you in their walled garden What? This certainly doesn’t cripple the devices, and I’m the one who purchased products I knew would only work with Apple. That’s consumer choice.
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1/0.85 => 17% more. If we’re gonna nitpick, let’s not ignore that it’s 15% after a year.
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> Life has risks - you could fall off a ladder and injure yourself Great analogy actually. Ladders are dangerous, yes - but we don’t make them necessary to daily life and they’re certainly not something most people interact with
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> So, how many Apple products Apple said could not be repaired have you repaired? Ok so... A) Non-repairability is not planned obsolescence. At Apple’s scale, they can’t repair every breakage with the quality people expect, so they opt t
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The only people who buy the idea of planned obsolescence are the ones who haven’t worked on products like that. Also, Apple doesn’t have to provide software support to 6 year old phones when nobody else does
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There are many tech illiterate people in this world, and many who would be easy prey to someone pulling a scam, getting them to flip that switch.
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They’ve also been wrong for years
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> or buy an android
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> or buy an android
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I try to use first party apps because they’re usually better. When I can, I stick to the browser app - which doesn’t have a 30%/15% commission. If I can’t AND I need to pay, I’ll pay 30%/15% extra if I need to.
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A consumer can jailbreak their iPhone and install apps that way, or buy an Android phone. You have choices.
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> Smart TV manufacturers, companies like Roku, Automobile manufacturers, etc... It’s more than just the Google Play Store.
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> People pay huge overhead to apple exactly because apple makes choices for them... That’s exactly why I use Apple products. I don’t have time to mess around with third party stores and risk security issues when I need an app that doesn’
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The effects it’s had are far reaching. The Arab spring, right wing extremism, anti vaxxers, the rise of Bernie Sanders just off the top of my head. Seems quite serious to me
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Repairing boards with quality at this scale is unrealistic and in the end, every repair is some kind of replacement.
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A line has to be drawn somewhere. The swastika was a very popular symbol, and remains popular outside nazis. The swastika shouldn't (and really can't) be banned, but the Nazi usage of it should be. The confederate flag had a bun
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The rising sun flag was adopted before the turn of the century many years before the war. The confederate and nazi flags were used explicitly for those hateful movements (post civil war racism and nazis). These are quite different.
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Slavery was a huge economic driver as the economy of the south was largely agricultural. > Wasn’t that a factor that was emphasized later? States rights was a factor that was emphasized later. Historical documents indicate that the war w
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The "confederate flag" that everyone refers to was never actually used by the confederacy but was used by racists after the fact as a symbol of white supremacy. If the Mexican flag only stood for racism and not any nation, then ye

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