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I really wanted to like QAnon as a conspiracy watcher. Unfortunately I was never able to wrap my mind around its stream of consciousness writing. It seemed like a bunch of right wing blather that used buzzwords to tantalize pro swamp drainers.

You should follow through on some of those links to the actual papers. They have structural problems. The first assumed that there was a 50% chance of the individuals living to 100. That is not realistic. But the business insider article does allow for people to sensationalize and feel smug in their knowledge that the long term economic and existential damage from bunkering and collapsing the economy was all worth it.

We don’t know that. The body could heal. Also there was little thought to comorbidities in most papers.

No. Most of Sweden’s deaths were due to poor management at the beginning. They shoved the elderly into old folks homes with Covid positive patients.

The disease will not be wiped out by masks and hand washing. Germany and other countries are finding their rates of infection increasing as people leave their bunkers. The model used by most of Europe is not sustainable. People can’t bunker down in their homes forever.

Sweden’s model shows that you can keep your economy open and reasonably manage the disease. People who are going to die are the elderly by enlarge. That is sad. However they would die soon enough due to their age and pre existing issues. Why sacrifice the economy for the elderly’s two years while harming the next generation by poor remote education and harming the current adults due to destroyed economic activity?

Van Gogh tried to sell his art for more than the price of parts. He was unsuccessful in his life due to being ahead of the curve. Much like Betamax, he died before being appreciated.

But pretending is key here too. Harry Potter porn? Here she’s pretending to be Emma Watson’s most famous role but not Emma.

Yes. The Swiss have safely encapsulated their waste into a building smaller than Norte Dame stadium. It will safely house their waste for centuries to come. The US doesn’t recycle its waste because the Democrats were afraid brown people would get nuclear material in transit and build dirty bombs. Europeans knew that was stupid and both recycle and store their waste reasonably.

Further if we spend money on thorium you don’t have much waste at all. In fact you can use your current waste as the medium to kickstart the thorium reaction.

Solar and chemical storage requires poisonous materials that will leech into the ground water.

Let’s play make a Facebook. You need profile information. That’s information that’s access as block. We can use documents for that. We then want to track relationships. Friends. Friends of friends. We can use a graph. We might need a lightweight cache. Opaque entries accessed by key. We can use a key value store for that. ArangoDB does all of theses. Some times you want to join documents to documents or any other form of pairing. ArangoDB does that too.

You can then scale this across multiple machines as necessary. The benefit of such a design is that your team only needs to learn on technology not many. You don’t need to know redis, postgres and Neo4j to derive the same benefits.

They are until the fed can no longer print money through various ways.

While I agree with this in the abstract, government force is needed to prevent a vendetta system to rise in its absence.

You can do this with a republic. California’s direct democracy has shown itself time and again to be a bad idea. People vote emotionally. They approve expenses without requiring funding. They vote property taxes down. Ultimately you need the buffer of a republican system to cool heads.

Direct democracy is bad. All one has to do is whip people into an emotional frenzy. Essentially you are arguing that the people should further circumscribe Individual rights like entering into a contract. Now people that made extra money, probably needed extra money, will be denied this option because the people will put the requirement of health benefits onto the contracting company.

All of which would be banned by the government kitchens. I’ve found that people don’t really need or want choices. They want the government to take care of them from cradle to grave. No matter how crappy government, people want to give it more power. At this point we should.

The United States has done poorly because we are a country whose population hates each other. It’s a country comprised entirely of people whose ancestors said, “You know what? I hate you so much that I’d rather cross an ocean, face bears, wolves, and the elements than to spend another day with you.” That’s why we won’t wear masks.

Doesn’t matter. Look at those who try to ban guns and free speech. Millions use both responsibility every day. Besides science has shown little benefit to alcohol and tobacco and no benefit to junk food.

What we need is to ban cooking at home. Government soup kitchens. All consumption needs to be documented and controlled.

It’s not just encourage. What we’re finding is that the government has to be authoritarian. China welded people into their homes to keep them from spreading COVID. They literally caged them like animals and threw them into trucks. Now Mexico is denying children potato chips.

Think about universal healthcare and alcohol. How much money is spent on alcohol related issues? The best answer is to ban its sale. Same for tobacco. Enough people have shown then are unable or unwilling to do the right thing. As a result junk food, booze and smokes need to go the way of freedom of speech. We need to ban them.

Why distribute the compressed air? If you have the ability to store compressed air, you can put a generator on top. When you have an overabundance of power, you run the compressor. It pushes air into large underground holding facilities built in various geologic formations. When you need power, you run the compressed air through your generator. Dot the land with these systems.

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.51...

Why cut that check to the Feds? They have destroyed schools. Look at the American placement in international tests since the Feds took over in the 1970s. Downhill.

Why have them control health? They've shown they are incompetent with Medicare (look at the waste, fraud, abuse, and anger by doctors due to red tape).

Why not have the States set the wealth tax? Be like Switzerland. The cantons and municipals set the wealth tax.

Ultimately, for me, this entire topic throws into stark relief the fact that the Federal government needs to be brought to heel. It is too large. Too incompetent. Too impossible. Look at the EU (the closest thing in the West to the US by population and economic scope). The EU doesn't set an EU wealth tax. They do not set an EU health service. They set regulatory requirements that the individual countries (from a GDP perspective equal to US States) implement.

Keep in mind that the Swiss model would be analogous to the US charging wealth taxes at a State level. One can move between cantons to reduce the tax.

Here is an article that directly contradicts your assert. It discusses how congress promised to only tax the really rich and then through drift and power grab we’re all paying taxes. https://soundmindinvesting.com/articles/view/promises-made-p...

While I get being touchy about such a term, I think bias is the proper term here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_(statistics)

As do I. The fact of the matter is that the cops average 11 minutes to respond in good areas. They take longer in high crime areas. Further, we've seen that the cops are generally bad people. So leave policing to the average person.

If the Klan attacks people, they can freely be shot. If the Klan parades around in their sheets, meh.

He was only 85? Wow. The dude looked 85 in the 90s.

My response is that everyone should carry. If the Klan goes nuts, the Klan gets shot. Eventually the system will react an equilibrium.

I agree with your freedom of association. My only note would be that removing people from the means of financial transactions is the same as limiting speech.

Don't prohibit speech. That's it. Repugnance is part of life. If you suppress speech, you only push it underground. Light is the best disinfectant. Daryl Davis, a black musician, attends Klan rallies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw). By knowing who to speak with, he's helped people out of that racist pit.

I extend speech so far to include calls to violence. Then you know who to watch and who to protect. Hiding this does nothing but make intel harder to get. You can't try to prevent radicalization, because you've pushed it so far out of the light, it might as well be a mole. They'll still eat the roots of your modern democracy, but you'll be surprised.

Those are not necessarily at odds. Amazon does not want to collapse the US. If it did, it would collapse too.

No. Amazon has a view of what it thinks is best for the US. That view is informed by its own self interest. Others have a view of what they think is best for the US. Their views are informed by their own self interest. Ultimately when a view does not align with the law of the land, the holder of the view can a) comply, b) comply and seek to redress their issues, or c) fail to comply. Amazon, in the speech above, says it will comply. There is nothing hypocritical in wanting a voice in a policy decision.

Have to watch when applying this. I was dehydrated and in the ER. Very stressed. I hate needles and giving blood. Had to do that. Then had a sit up, stand up test. Stated to panic. Counted. Then started to pass out.

The AMA corrected course on this. The problem is not a lack of schools. The problem is a lack of hospitals to train them in as part of the residency. As long as residency is a thing, we have an insurmountable bottle neck.

Evidence to the limitations. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4561/does-the-a...