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by timr 1y ago
> Having read marginally more than you have, it seems to me the AAP's recommendations are complementary, rather than contradictory, save the recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination. I mean...they're recommending a lot more vacc
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Nothing I wrote is incorrect.
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You can nit-pick if you want, but there are major differences between the two schedules, they're different for a reason, and my point is that there's actual scientific disagreement around many of these vaccines. In the case of M
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by timr 1y ago
Neither recommendation is in the WHO document for good reasons. Mpox isn't endemic in the USA, and children under 18 were never a risk group here even during the outbreaks a year or two ago. This is purely political. The Dengue vacci
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by timr 1y ago
> Only if you're dishonest about their recommendations! I literally just went to the PDF guide the OP linked to, which presents it as a recommended vaccination (for a non-endemic disease in the USA): https://downloads.aap
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> It's possible for such biases to persist for a long time: In general, older climate models tended to overestimate the amount of CO2 that would be emitted but underestimate the effects it would have. I didn't want to get into
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You’re putting words in my mouth. I believe that clearly stating the quality of the evidence is what distinguishes science from hysteria. We do no favors to the cause of science by exaggerating. The contention that our models systematically
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Title is clickbait. This is based on 25+ different models, the AMOC is not the Gulf Stream, the authors admit there’s a great deal of uncertainty, and the confidence intervals extend from 2023 to 2076 for the high emission scenario. Moreove
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by timr 1y ago
This has nothing to do with the value threshold. US customs had to know the difference between personal packages and commercial packages before the change. You asked me what distinguishes a commercial package from a personal gift.
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Well, I'm not a customs agent, but I'd imagine they do it in the same way they adjudicate anything else: inspection. Some things get through by chance, of course, but not at a rate you'd want to rely on if you're a busin
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> You claimed Swiss post will continue to accept gift packages over $100, contrary to their press release. I literally just quoted the statement , which was explicit that the change involved “goods consignments”. They are continuing to
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by timr 1y ago
OK. So what? I'm not saying that post offices around the world don't make mistakes, or even make decisions that have nothing to do with the actual rules. I'm telling you what the rules are, right now.
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I'm not sure what your point is? What Japan does or does not do has no bearing on the laws, which I just showed you.
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> So again, to be clear: You're saying multiple post offices around the world are wrong? Are they acting in unison? Well, I don't keep track of what post offices around the world are doing, but if they're not following the
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by timr 1y ago
> If you're saying post offices around the world are wrong, it might be time to reevaluate your own statement for truthiness. ...or you could read the actual changes? Accusing people of lying is not cool when you clearly haven'
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by timr 1y ago
> Labor vs. Trade ≠ Tariffs vs. Free Trade — Democrats’ historic opposition to trade deals like NAFTA and the TPP was about protecting workers from job outsourcing and race-to-the-bottom standards. OK, so we agree on the facts -- histori
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by timr 1y ago
> Current administration is not aligned with labor and poor people are the one who will pay the most. You might want to tell labor. I just listened to an hour-long podcast with the Teamsters leader, where he revealed that over half of th
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> These examples don't prove your point though, so they were easily countered. I guess I missed the part where you "countered" them. Saying "that's not true" is not an argument. > You even gave up the poi
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If so, they're wrong.
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by timr 1y ago
Yes, they have. I just gave you two documented examples, and I didn't try that hard to find them. As far as Biden goes, you do realize that he didn't roll back the tariffs that Trump 1 put on China, right? > Biden, who actually
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by timr 1y ago
Nothing has changed wrt the personal exemption. Imports under $800 are exempt (i.e. you always had to pay tariffs on an expensive watch). I don't know how many commenters here actually realize it, but the de minimis exemption chang
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by timr 1y ago
That's silly. What's actually happening is far more nuanced and interesting: the parties have flipped. For years, Democrats were generally aligned with labor, and broadly opposed to trade agreements -- remember that Hillary Clinto
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by timr 1y ago
> I live in Switzerland and Swiss post, which is the state owned postal service, does not ship to the US anymore. That is not what the link says. It says that goods consignments are not accepted -- which is not at all the same thing as
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by timr 1y ago
The words you're looking for are "substantial transformation" [1]. Exporters in country A (with high tariffs on exports to USA) ship partially completed products to country B (with no/lower tariffs to USA), and then do s
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by timr 1y ago
Declared value. When you ship, they ask you to list the items you're shipping, and what they are worth. These go on the customs forms. Boxes can be opened and inspected, so lying is a gamble, but there's obviously a lot of wiggle
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by timr 1y ago
> No it won't lol, that's not how international logistics work. You don't just flick a switch overnight. I didn't say "overnight". But if you don't think it would happen, you haven't been paying at
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Yeah, it's literally the same as the title on the page so I get it, but unfortunately it's a hot-button political issue and people are eager to misinterpret. I'd suggest something like: "Japan Post stops accepting US shi
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Yeah, they'll do that up to a certain amount. Obviously, they're taking a risk that way.
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> So execute it for China alone. The issue is that these blanket actions are lazy at best and exclusively populist. Same argument. If there's a country that doesn't get tariffs, that country will very quickly become the leading
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I don't know what Amazon specifically will do (didn't know they allowed international shipments to begin with!), but the customs process via any normal carrier is that you get a bill when your items arrive at the port of entry. Yo

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