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Habitat destruction is the leading cause of biodiversity loss.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_destruction

Investors?

LEGO Group A/S remains privately held by the family that started it in Denmark.

There are multiple indicators that the currently available vaccines probably are three dose vaccines. But time and trials will tell.

You speak as if you've never read about the US opioid epidemic and how we got here. Do realize, this makes you sound like a religious prohibitionist extremist..

Your proposal is bunk. Someone who became addicted to prescription opiates does not deserve to play roulette with their life by being forced to buy street drugs after their own physician arbitrarily decides not to provide any more.

A prescribed drug, mind you, where one of the known side effects (of opiate consumption) is addiction, but the physicians prescribing aren't responsible for curing the addicts they create. Because <regulations, guidelines, prescribing practices, etc> mandate they cut patients off. This is "Just say No" all over again, but now it's the doctors saying "No."

What utter BS..

And to think that possession of fentanyl testing equipment is illegal in dozens of US States. It's as if the laws are designed to funnel humans to be slaughtered by adulterated product. Under the revenge-ethics banner of "they deserve it".

The US system: - humans that are too poor to pay an expensive private doctor get to buy street drugs.

- Rich folks get private doctors that will prescribe what they physically depend on.

Ex: Prince didn't accidentally die from taking Fentanyl-poisoned street drugs. He was adequately supplied with whatever he needed, for years. Years! While also functioning!

Prince was a functioning human, while also being addicted. There, I said it.

What harm to society was he? Why must we eliminate all addicts as you suggest?

https://archive.ph/86CMF

That sound you hear from aircraft overhead -- yeah, that's wasted energy.

Do you want waste? Because that's how you get waste!

Vote parent up.

Accurately describes the public costs of private for-profit businesses' whipsawing the labor force, and foisting all the consequential costs of periodic waves of unemployment onto the public.

Re: shorter benefits

Every corporate downsizing is an example of a "private decision" with clearly visible public costs, unemployment insurance payouts among them. Social and emotional distress have a cost, not just to the employee, but their social group and family.

But, did I catch your opinion correctly? You believe we(society) are(is) providing unemployment benefits for too many months?

In your mind, who benefits from decreasing that assistance benefit? Cui bono?

Yes on the current facts, but good luck to any district that thinks it'll be attracting new qualified teachers in that scenario.

Current Los Angeles teachers' wage penalty is 25% vs neighbors with same college degrees. [1]

One only need look at the current starvation in teacher training programs' rosters to see the coming implosion of supply of new teachers.

Paper with methodology and citations: https://utla.net/app/uploads/2022/08/UTLA_ShortageReport.pdf

ISOs may have a 10 year limit, but that's only for their ISO tax treatment status... they don't (necessarily) need to expire. They can convert to NSO by way of an extension. https://www.esofund.com/blog/nso-extension

Yes. They are the largest source of extraterrestrial mass. https://www.sciencealert.com/5-200-tons-of-micrometeorites-a...

Why do you love it?

It looks like you've described a tool with 1) a terrible UI, and 2) trains users to use commands that will eventually cause them to lose unsaved work.

When it comes to tools you use every day, everyone should be critical. Does this tool decrease my workload? or do I need to expend extra work just to operate it?

I'm a user of mercurial. I've learned enough git to know it's an inferior tool. git's CLI complexity (and mental model) is patent overkill for 99.9% of all users.

Mercurial gets out of my way.

I'm able to clone and push git repos with it just fine (thanks hg-git!)

This is because both (git,hg) are tools that manipulate the same simple data structure: the DAG.

hg CLI's verbs match my mental model from decades of use of other VCS's. I'm able to perform my daily tasks with simplicity (including n-way merge/cherry-pick tasks that git "expert" colleagues often struggle with).

My 2¢.

I've used local (SCCS, RCS), client-server (CVS, subversion, perforce) and distributed (bazaar, git, hg)

Drug consumption is at least as much a demand side problem as a supply side one.

Perhaps you meant "drug importation is at least..."

The importation of fentanyl is not due to demand.

The importation of fentanyl is due to it's low cost (synthetic ingredients) and high potency (less mass, smaller volume when smuggling) - and its ability to be added as a potent adulterant to any other drug (can be used to cut any other drug, to increase dealer profits) - all without end consumer's knowledge or desire that it is in there.

Bottom line is that you need centralised state intervention to eliminate dealers and distributors, coupled with renditions to remove the vulnerable from the exposure to opportunity, coupled with pathways out of poverty for those who wish to take a different life.

An overwhelming number of accidental overdoses begins with patients becoming addicted to pharmaceutical pain medications after surgery/medical-care. Those patients need continuous, unfettered access to both the medication they are addicted to, and no-cost medical care (and income replacement, if they are working), in order to allow them to enter inpatient detox programs. The FDA's approach to treating doctors as criminals if they provide long-term access to Rx pain medication is an injustice to every patient in need.

Patients that are unable to provide themselves with the pain medication they have become addicted to (through no fault of their own) will seek other sources, which is where non-pharmaceutical (black-market counterfeits) and fentanyl enter the picture.

The US government and drug cartels can't even agree on what constitutes harm reduction.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-cartel-operatives-di...

Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States [1]

It would really help all of us if all media used the phrase "accidental overdose" because that's what they are.

When media uses the word "overdose" alone, most readers believe the individual who "overdosed" was ingesting illegal drugs and knew there was a risk overdose.

This is patently untrue.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29262202 - Opiod Overdose

Being prepared, at the capitalist-society level, for a future possible pandemic wasn't profitable, so it wasn't done.

It will continue to be like this until laws change.

Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32362363

Good insight into the merchant side of customer return fraud.

Thumbs up. Very fun to solve.

My solution: use mercurial.

Works with git repos (w/hg-git extension). Designed for humans. Sanity provoking. Gets out of your way, as a good SCM tool should.

we have a lower class subsisting on a low barely livable wage >> because that's how they prefer to exist << while the rest of us work...

Citation required.

Show evidence a population exists, anything close to as large as you're intimating ("lower class" as you called it), that actually wants a "low barely livable wage"?

Add the required enzymes at the point of manufacture...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/19/intropic-plastic-decomposi...

Close.

It's not about pay equity, it's about a small minority (employers/directors/shareholders) currently deciding what happens with the profits made from the labor of all the WORKERS. (And about that same small minority also deciding whether to burden society with a newly unemployed person by firing any worker.)

Those decisions should instead be made by the workers, democratically, in the same manner we pretend to glorify for civil society's governance: one person one vote.

This is how worker-owned co-op's operate.

Society is a heat engine.

Full stop.

In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. [0]

Perhaps it is the largest industrial category with the largest % of its output turned directly into CO2 and methane? (food waste placed into the landfills instead of composted.)

0: https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs

±required maintenance, materials and sensors reaching their end-of-planned-service-life dates.

I'm not so sure it's "clearly cheaper" to extend the lifespan of a vehicle that's approaching the end of it's planned service life.

No moral claim required.

When price increases exceed the increases in costs/raw-goods... then it's "greedflation", not "price gouging". Increasing profit margins are also a good signal of it.

Inflation and Price Gouging - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/briefing/inflation-supply...

Are Large Corporate Profit Margins Causing Inflation? - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/22/opinion/inflation-corpora...

I Listened In on Big Business. It’s Profiting From Inflation, and You’re Paying for It. - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/opinion/us-companies-infl...

If you're going to force employers to give more, a lot of them will just close shop and you'll end up with massive unemployment.

Strawman argument. See: countries that already have said 30+days of paid vacation -- without "massive unemployment" (read: France, Germany).

You can propose all you want, but if you want it to have the desired effect, you actually need to think through it

I'd say the GP has done this and explained it well... but you have avoided its main proposals.

and consult experts.

Of which, you are definitely not one (read: an expert).

A company (read: the employer class) != what employees would choose if they designed an equitable workplace for themselves

Have you considered archive.org?