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D.C. has a larger population than Wyoming. I agree with you on Puerto Rico though.

Right, so not to put words in varispeed mouth. But their claim is that Right-to-repair that doesn't give you the Right to repair what they want the right to repair is deliberately deceptive and, thus, fraudulent.

The damages would be that the product that they wish to repair are irreparable.

Whether government corruption is inevitable is frankly irrelevant to the broader question of political representation. I understand very well the (R) v (D) distinction is predominantly Rural v Urban. I believe in democracy and, as such, believe that people, not land should vote. Any system that is as so incredibly unrepresentative is unjust.

If 1% of CA moved to Wyoming; Wyoming would be majority Californian. Them having equal representation in a co-equal political body is insanity. Wyoming has a population half the size of the city of San Jose.

As an aside; I find the coding of land to be deeply misleading. https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/hpB3wkTVkPJsrJ6-qjtbU...

The problem is that our system is broken. Wildly popular policies can't pass because of republican obstructionism in the senate.

Worse, the senate is hugely anti-democratic. It's not 1/3-1/2 of the population; its the reps of 4/25.

""The 25 most populous states contain nearly 84 percent of the 50 states’ total population. So 16 percent of the country controls half of the seats in the United States Senate (and that’s not accounting for the fact that DC, Puerto Rico, and several other US territories have no representation at all in Congress).""[1]

Source to [1]: https://www.vox.com/2021/1/6/22215728/senate-anti-democratic...

I actually highly recommend reading the above. I found it insightful.

A large number of teachers need second jobs, that hardly strikes me as highly-paid especially as many(most?) teachers have master's degrees. Further, "summers off" is not really correct given curriculum development, PD, grading and the like which often extend far past the end of the semester.

That's because of the history of coal mining/factory jobs in KY. When The coal jobs dried up and the factories closed a fair portion of the people who were previously employed dropped out of the labor force and never went back.

The other piece is this: Population of Texas in 2020: 29,360,759 Population of Kentucky in 2020: 4,477,251

Ha, no worries! I'd thought the same until I went off and got a degree in Chemistry.

I'll do my best to explain. So in chemistry, there is a thing called 'chirality' essentially this has to do with how a molecule is shaped. It's assessed by how a beam of polarized light that is passed through a molecule rotates.

There are a few different types:

Achiral, no change Levorotary (L), Rotates anticlockwise Dextrorotary(D), Rotates clockwise

The reason that it matters and what I was talking about above is that the sites in your body that a drug interacts with aren't universal. So if you have a (L) version of a drug that might have different effects and interactions than a (D) version.

A 1:1 mix of both (L) and (D) is called a racemic mix.

When you are talking about Brand name drugs, you're typically discussing a particular mix (e.g. Adderall XR is a 3:1 (D):(L) mix) or a particular conformation. That is not necessarily true with generics which may have a different ratio of (D):(L).

To give an example of how different the effects can be: Penicillamine (L) is used in the treatment of primary chronic arthritis. Penicillamine (D) not only has no therapeutic effect, it is highly toxic.

Here's a link to some Wikipedia pages on it if you're interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality#Chemistry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racemic_mixture

Do note that this is a bit of an oversimplification, but it's 3AM here so I hope you can forgive me.

>Always buy generic drugs, they're exactly the same.

I'm sorry to say. This is false.

This will be a bit technical but often, generic drugs are a racemic mix (both L and D conformations in some mixture) where as a branded drug may be a specific conformation or specific racemic mix (e.g. 75% L, 25% D.)

The issue comes from the fact that L-conformations may have different (better, worse, otherwise) effects than the D-conformations.

TL;DR Not all generics are the same as their branded counterparts and they might effect you differently. Caveat emptor.

Sure, but you also need to pair it with free Gov issued IDs for all individuals. The Voter fraud canard is a red herring when electoral fraud is an order of magnitude worse.

Yeah, my peer groups have been using dude as ungendered for over a decade at this point.

This is an interesting point of view that I hadn't considered before. Thank you for making this argument. How do you square your ideas with musical genres like dubstep, likely not the best example but the one that springs to mind, that lack some or all of these features and are still beloved by a subset of the population?

Would the variance in taste not imply that beauty itself is subjective?

Because the devil is in the details. Covid != Rhinovirus. If you asked why HIV is treated differently than crabs you'd get a similar response. Not only is the severity different, they are different diseases and so have different effects.

That's not what they said. They're pretty clearly taking a weak stance, and even disclaimed as much.

Both in mice and in humans. Link to the original paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18512-7

The 14 lowest extents in the satellite era have all occurred in the last 14 years.

I don't have a dog in this fight. I don't follow the aforementioned blogger and don't live on the west coast. That said, your response is interesting, how is my query toxic? To be honest, I don't even think I'm being uncharitable; if a previously reliable information source starting being unreliable then I would expect folks to pay attention to notice that and cease to use it as a source.

Since you have an opinion on this, what sort of questions should I have asked the OP?

To be explicit; I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely curious.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, are you advocating for continuing to follow a blog that is known to give misinformation because you like the writing style? Because if that is the case I would highly recommend changing your mind, the Bayesian prior has changed and unfortunately it is permanent.

In general. Fewer people == Less Carbon

Existential dread is not used in the sense of Existentialism but in the sense of existence.

So rather than:

Existentialism -> dread it is instead

existence -> dread

This article is rather premature. With the 2nd wave beginning to hit across the world, and some places where the first wave has not yet begun to crest, we can expect that the trends noted by this article are noise rather than signal.

This is a single image. It has no sources or discussion and the axes are unlabelled.

Would you care to elaborate?

It is going to be a rough rest of your life, buckle up.

In this instance wouldn't 'preceding poster' be more correct than 'last poster'? ;)

Alpha-ketoglutarate for those who don't want to read the article.

Here's the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-Ketoglutaric_acid I don't expect it to be terribly helpful though, it's a bit dense to the layperson.

Wow. I know that folks prefer better looking produce, but I hadn't realized it was quite that dramatic.

Jesus Christ, we're really doing this aren't we?

A broader question would, I suppose, be do we have rights at all on the internet?

We've already lost the right to privacy, we don't have the right to not self incriminate, we don't have the right to be free of arbitrary punishment, we aren't presumed Innocent until proven guilty, and we don't have unlimited free speech.

Do I think this as it should be? No. We exist, as humans, on the internet and therefore should have human rights.

This is not true, there is a large amount of case law in the US that discusses what is and is not allowed in the context of free speech.