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by war1025 6y ago
I just looked up the CDC data and it says ~0.7% of the US population dies each year. Out of ~330 million people, that's 2.4 million people each year. So assuming that 400k figure is excess mortality, that means 17% more people died las
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by war1025 6y ago
Honestly, death comes to us all. My dad died five years ago this week. Death is tragic, but the world keeps moving. The main thing I've concluded based on people's reaction to the death tolls is that much of our population has not
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by war1025 6y ago
> Your friend who recommended “not to go out and get it, but it isn’t that bad” doesn’t know if they gave it to a vulnerable person. Yes, I'm sure the 20 days they were collectively quarantined was completely reckless and putting pe
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by war1025 6y ago
> people genuinely begin the pandemic by believing officials and then after a few weeks start to disbelieve officials? (Anecdote) At the start of the pandemic, I took it all very seriously. We were in the fog of war and didn't know
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by war1025 6y ago
Our friends had a bee swarm show up in one of their trees this summer after a big storm. Their neighbor happens to do beekeeping, so he came over and helped them set up a hive for the swarm. I think they still have the bees. Haven't he
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by war1025 6y ago
In the early fall, I got a frantic message from my wife along with a video of something making a hell of a noise in the laundry room. Came home unsure what I'd find, but I figured it was a small mammal of some sort. At first we figured
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by war1025 6y ago
I finally figured it out! Literally the only thing I didn't try moving was that circle blob.
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by war1025 6y ago
It could be, but I think vaporware requires a certain amount of time to have passed without it turning into something real. I don't think we've met that threshold yet.
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by war1025 6y ago
Doesn't work for me on Firefox. I'm guessing it works on Chrome, but it also would sort of surprise me that a maker website wouldn't test against Firefox. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit.
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by war1025 6y ago
Looks to me like a landing page for a probably still-being-built service. It's pretty obviously a response to the Parler incident, so I wouldn't expect them to have the infrastructure actually up and running yet.
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by war1025 6y ago
On the one hand, this is a useful thing to know. On the other hand, it does seem almost guaranteed to be misinterpreted by most news sources.
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by war1025 6y ago
You might end up with strains that could survive in humans, but those wouldn't be the strains being prescribed to people.
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by war1025 6y ago
How do I interact with it? I tried picking the colors, but nothing I tried did anything.
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by war1025 6y ago
The mutation would have to happen in the lab and not in the wild, since the pills would come from the lab. I imagine if such a thing did occur, they would just kill the batch they were breeding and start over from a known strain. (Not a mic
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by war1025 6y ago
That doesn't really follow. For something to evolve like that you need to re-introduce the mutated strains back to the source. If there is no re-introduction (which there wouldn't be, because the worms would be bred in an isolated
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by war1025 6y ago
That's what makes it seem achievable.
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by war1025 6y ago
> Healthcare and Basic Income would do a lot to encourage entrepreneurship. I have a dream that Healthcare will someday be decoupled from employment. So much waste is tolerated simply due to the fact that the majority of the expense is b
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by war1025 6y ago
I just looked and near me (Iowa) the nearest charging stations are over an hour away. It looks like they are located near the major truck stops going through the state. That makes sense I guess, but you don't pass those places unless y
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by war1025 6y ago
Further, if you tell them it's possible they will attack you for suggesting such a thing could even be possible.
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by war1025 6y ago
We bought a Raspberry Pi 400 (the one in the keyboard) and a 27" monitor over Thanksgiving and that has been our TV for the kids that past couple months. Works great. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Youtube. Don't remember how I got Widevi
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by war1025 6y ago
Not nearly as nifty as this, but it reminded me that in college my alarm clock was cron job on my desktop that would launch a program every day at 8am which beeped the system bell once a second until I leapt out of bed and hit Enter. Making
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by war1025 6y ago
> Now their latest political stunt has got heads rolling Care to elaborate? I assume the "political stunt" part was related to all the Trump deplatforming stuff a few weeks back. Hadn't heard anything related to anyone act
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by war1025 6y ago
> That's all they are, they are not facts. And that's why I said, "I think that will be borne out by research if anyone ever looks into it." > You know what else does irreparable harm? Failing classes because you c
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by war1025 6y ago
> but do discuss with your doctor This requires having a doctor you trust. My experience with most doctors is that I can trust them about as far as a used car salesman.
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by war1025 6y ago
I went pretty deep down this rabbit hole for a while. I've always been suspicious of eye doctors since every visit they find an excuse to bump you up a notch or two. Anecdotally, me and my brother had the same prescription in high scho
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by war1025 6y ago
> Why am I being downvoted for seeking knowledge? Because people are assholes. As for the rest, I haven't really gotten a straight answer on the vaccine. Seems there are people who say it is the best thing since slice bread, and oth
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by war1025 6y ago
Call it what you like. I agree our society goes out of its way to mis-educate people on the matter. I guess maybe the difference in my mind vs illiteracy and idiocy is that someone illiterate in a matter may still manage to put together tha
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by war1025 6y ago
> Following this line, most people are financial idiots, which means they are responsible for their poverty? Your whole comment is conflating poor financial planning with actual poverty. If you break people into: those legitimately witho
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by war1025 6y ago
That's just the world shifting around. I wish I could find the source, but I read a quote from someone that grew up back around the turn of the last century. She said, "I never thought I'd be so wealthy as to have my own auto
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by war1025 6y ago
That's sort of the point of it though, right? If you equate your income with your self-worth, then you'll never feel that you have enough. If you can step outside that framework, you'll find that you may still make significan

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