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Just not a big fan of hypocrites. I see it as similar to a country that preaches peace and diplomacy while manufacturing weapons and selling to beligerants.

Actually yes, another country should "lead" the transition. It's a global issue. Doing a good thing for your own population while continuing to export fossil fuel is hypocritical.

Self reported survey without a dose of caffeine. This is less than useless

It sounds like satire, reminds me of the Black Mirror episode.

China has been a threat to US interests in the Pacific for decades. Now China is the regional hegemonic power which dwarfs the weak US Pacific partnership. China's international influence will continue to grow and they will likely achieve their 100 year plan. That's not really fearmongering, China has plenty of problems but they will eventually succeed.

I've never been to an Aldi, but at this moment in my life I would have a hard time switching from HEB/Central Market. Perhaps I would have liked it as a student.

I'm not really a fan of copycat brand labeling though. If a product is going to be plagiarized, I would hope they would produce original labeling. That takes money though, and would affect their slim margins.

They're irrelevant differences to me. I care about local and state issues. For instance local infrastructure, local school districts, local road maintenance, local taxes, etc.

Federal politics is a distraction. A useless distraction that you're obsessed with. That's the kind of thinking that's "dangerous".

The destruction of the Western Roman Empire due to enormous migrations comes to mind. Those migrations were due to 'unsustainability'.

That would be great. You don't need a floor length mirror and changing rooms if you can just have your rendered body and face to exchange clothes on. Need to get accurate measurements for the right dimensions though.

Why would I look closer? I don't need more time to digest your silly idea.

So you want to give the homeowners houses to the homeless people and your "disenfranchised" problem will be solved. Great theory, you should definitely pursue it.

"Communications Decency Act, which says that internet companies are not responsible for what is posted on their platforms"

So Pelosi opposes this and thinks "internet companies" should be held accountable and monitor every single communication or media file posted on a website/platform. So it's just private censorship mandated by the government. Pretty unoriginal work around to suppressing free speech.

Use in anxiety disorders is not really a new phenomenon. It's a non-selective beta blocker that's been used in performance anxiety for decades. I have to give a talk in 6 months and I'm going to prescribe myself propranolol so I can give the talk without feeling adrenergic sympathetic activation/fight or flight. So if I can't feel a sympathetic response centrally or peripherally, I'm going to have minimal performance anxiety and therefore no fearful memories of the event. Hopefully it goes smoothly. I would hate to be calm and give a pathetic shitshow of a talk and then not feel bad about it later..

Yes. I grew up in a lower middle class family with uneducated parents. Then I was enlisted in the military. Now I'm a resident physician working primarily in a county hospital. So when I say someone is a narcissist it's backed up by current DSM knowledge. And when I say despicable, I say it knowing that this spoiled author has no idea how the majority of America lives.

SV types seem to not understand that a "hyper competitive" educational environment is not a pitiable condition.

Not really, if you don't have money you likely don't have insurance and you are moved to hospice care. Maybe you can get a round of palliative chemo when tumor burden is high enough to cause symptoms (shortness of breath, gastric outlet obstruction, liver dysfunction, etc). So it's less of a financial devastation and more of a life ending diagnosis.

If you have money and insurance then a hospital and insurance company will gladly work together to take what money you do have. Sort of like a chicken wishbone.

That was a giant logical leep pretty early in, I had to stop reading. He says his father was in the military which allows him to claim some kind of inherited expertise. That's not how it works. Making sweeping generalizations about uniform of the day when he isn't even familiar with that term is absurd. Tangential pathologic mental processes are going on here.

None of their samples contained micrometeorites, that must have been really frustrating.

He said they lost a cool looking one during transfer with a wet toothpick, they could try using micropipettes like some biology labs use.

"the US version will start at $8,950"

I don't like that price point at all. With $9k you can get a much better vehicle that has far more utility.

Anecdotally,

I bought a Huawei matebook laptop this past year. It was very cheap but looked cool - like a macbook. Funny thing though, the windows software was bootlegged and I had to use my institutional registration to get Windows software.

I used to use Amazon's market place and have now stopped after accidentally purchasing Chinese fraudulent goods (I still use for digital content).

My exposure to Chinese tech and goods, while limited, has now totally predisposed me negatively towards them. I haven't seen any innovative product personally. Just inconvenient knock off which have effectively stolen my money. If all Chinese tech goods were taken off the market, innovative or not, I would be happier knowing that I could start using a more trustworthy Amazon market place.

I'm a physician for a non-profit and I'm going to continue making my blanket statement. But thanks for the link.

Non-profit is just a tax structure. They make plenty of money and reward themselves handsomely.

Call 911 and chew (chewing it up is important) 4 tablets of 81mg baby aspirin. If you don't have baby aspirin then chew up a regular 325mg adult aspirin.

Typical chest pain is on the left side but atypical chest pain often experienced by diabetics or women can be abdominal pain, right sided chest, vague discomfort, or can be completely silent/missed. Sadly not everything behaves exactly the same.

If you're very worried, you're having symptoms, and the EKG comes back reassuring, just ask for a set of cardiac enzymes. However, ED doctors often don't want to get enzymes because it means they have to do it 3x in a row spaced 6-8 hours from each other - so it might get you an observation unit stay.

Anyways, I'm not an ED doctor but I worked in one for a month during residency and I can assure you - there are plenty of providers who are not great at interpreting EKGs. There is pretty high variability in EKG interpretation skill between them. So if someone with weak EKG sensitivity uses that test to screen you out, then that's pretty poor care.

He sounds a bit silly. Escape rooms are group events, he's not the only customer in the room. If the rest of the group wants hints (it's not fun to just be stuck on a clue) then they will give hints. One customer throwing a tantrum on Yelp afterward probably sucks though. Can't please everyone, especially not people like him.

Are you comparing 1940's US with 2019's China?

Should you not compare 1949 China and Mao with 1940's USA and then compare 2019 US to 2019 China?

Maybe they could torrent Wikipedia from academictorrents.com and they could have the offline copy?

I'll take the troll bait. So if the US military does it then it's perfectly fine?

Epic lets you change provider context to Emergency department, internal medicine, etc. I think they just need to make the provider context suck a whole lot less. Epic Haiku (mobile) is a pathetic joke as well. Nevermind, I think you're right actually, the whole thing needs to be burned to the ground and built completely different. The only thing Epic has going for it is that it's not Cerner.

I'm not sure that out of those thousands of words that's the idea that deserves notice and discussion.

Not extending credit to a person vs not allowing you to spend your existing money is not really comparable. Credit scores are not "massively opaque". Your bank should report it monthly to you and you can see it rise and fall based on your number lines of credit lines (loans, mortgage, car, credit cards, etc) and whether or not you're in repayment.

It's not punitive. If you have too many lines of credit out and you can't pay them, why should a company extend credit? For charity?

Cycle of debt and poverty statement makes no sense. Credit scores do not do that. People can easily repair credit scores by beginning to repay their existing loans. They don't even have to be paid off, just in repayment.

Your ideas regarding credit score and "social credit" as comparable similar systems is false. I don't think you're an American at all now that I think about it.

This is just an advertisement right? $600 is absurd for a toaster oven, camera or not. "Bubble of everything" indeed.