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Yes. It's called the stock market.

There are strong incentives in higher income brackets for tax purposes and such. In the lower/minimum wage sphere, marriage can have the opposite effect. You can loose access to various government programs such as food stamps because suddenly your family income counts. I've heard that support for single parents and low earning single parents has been increased in recent decades, which has led to lower rates of marriage and subsequent erosions to the general fabric in that socioeconomic sphere.

Greenwald, Snowden, Matt Taibbi, Lee Fang, Aaron Maté, Max Blumenthal, Bret Weinstein, ...

None of these can be called right-wing or conservatives. I'm not even mentioning people like Rogan. All of them are aware or actual targets of the censoring.

It's a political piece about regime change ops that highlights phrases like "... U.S. backed authoritarian capitalist regime ..." and "... Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program ...".

This isn't a critique piece against today's MSM. It's a piece that makes the point that the US is the evil force in the world today. You can feel that way and have arguments about that. That's fine and fair. But it's certainly not an example for critique against the MSM in the context of today and this discussion.

More and more very highly esteemed journalists, not pundits, are starting to voice their concerns about this more and more publicly. At the same rate they are being censored. I wouldn't be surprised if Snowden gets a pardon before inauguration. Imagine that. How the tables turn.

The HN community is using political speech guidelines to clamp down in critique against MSM (Main Stream Media) and Silicon Valley conduct. At the same time I find political topics all the time on the front page that are deemed fine as long as they stay away from the above topics or are leaning "liberal" or "progressive".

It's been three weeks and I still can't use Instagram. They are still blocking #hashtag-recent-lists with a banner: "Recent posts from all hashtags are temporarily hidden to help prevent the spread of possible false information and harmful content related to the election." The hashtag I used to check is #handtoolwookworking. Very political indeed.

Is he talking about 2008 or 2012? Or the 'truth decay' he is peddling in his newest book.

It's not funny that even four tests can't give you a conclusive result. He should've taken 5?

At this point the testing infrastructure around covid19 is just a money printing enterprise. Just like you can't have a scientific discussion around covid19 anymore, you can't have one around testing either. I'm expecting enormous amounts of fudging and 8-ball diagnostics.

Anything "specific" in writing would most likely be unconstitutional. So you wont find anything in writing anywhere. Not in a law, a regulation or even a handbook printed in this century.

Which is why this is a complicated topic bordering on religion or a general mindset. I would recommend to listen to the "Black Intellectual Roundtable" with Bret Weinstein to get some general ideas. It's an hour of discussion.

Reminds me of this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickhess/2020/09/21/prince...

Another example of woke-ness going terribly wrong.

Those hearings are also used to get representatives of these organizations on the record. Cruz certainly asked pointed questions, albeit driven by his political interest.

I'm still surprised how unprepared and naïve Jack seems to be for these kinds of procedures. The NYPost article in question and the entire account is still blocked to this day. I can only assume that they squashed it in such a way that they cannot recover it anymore. I know people find a GOP election win unlikely (Not including me), but he is doing his investors a great disservice by not being prepared for a landslide GOP win that could transform Sec 230 greatly.

The questions is if a stronger case would see the light of day in the next four years with a change in administration. Maybe Barr thinks the answer is no.

Or are you suggesting that they should have known they were going to be kicked out and destroyed everything in preporation?

That's precisely what I'm trying to say. A campfire is certainly the fastest way to get the job done. It's just a very open public acknowledgement that you have stuff to burn. Every embassy or consulate on foreign soil has plenty of documents that are very confidential. Not all is criminal by any means. There is plenty of supporting material and analysis of economic concerns that are treated very confidential.

Don't know if you are sarcastic here, but yes, the destruction of documents and "evidence" or traces is certainly expected. What isn't is the method in which it is done. The fact that they had to make a fire indicates they were cought unprepared, which is a position you don't want to be in. You want to have enough intelligence information from sources so you can destroy evidence without a rush or with your pants down like this. This is certainly seen as an embarrassment. Not more or less.

Is there any indication that all these locations have stopped all elective surgeries and procedures? Most early states did that, which hurt the bottom line tremendously, but enabled all hospitals to stay below capacity. From what you are writing, this doesn't seem to be the case. Covid19 doesn't cause a shortage in medical staff. It causes a shortage in capacity and beds.

And we still only have 31 confirmed death by Covid19 on children under 14 years.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-...

Because it takes time and you probably are not getting paid for participating. Most people have lives and obligations. Give'em $1000 and they wont refuse. And guarantee to pay for downsides if they test positive. And don't say it's just a swap and it only takes 5 minutes. Everything that involves the medical bureaucracy takes hours.

The administration is clearly following the currently available science and what the global community is doing. On the other hand the teachers Union in LA wants to use this opportunity to increase federal funding and get a moratorium on charter schools. If that isn't political I don't know what is. I heard them say they didn't have time for preparations? What have they been doing for almost 5 month?

Both, NY and LA, the big school districts that won't open this fall, are in deep blue states and not swing States. They hope to signal a strategy to the rest of the country. We will see how that's gonna work out.

I always find an outright ban bad publicity. An alternative is to only allow operations in a particular country under such harsh restrictions that the actually company refuses to do business there in the first place. Or you get what you want that way. No?

Fwiw, I always found the "Hide Ad" functionality within fb and other places working okay. I do that for a few minutes in 5-10 ads and things get better quick.

Think of Musk and Tesla what you will, and I'm not the biggest fan of his, but good for him that he gets rewarded for his entrepreneurship. Unless Buffett gets his name on a hundred buildings through "donations", nobody will remember him in 30 years.

I wonder when and if there will ever be room again for objective reporting in the US. In many European countries there is still something resembling that, albeit has gotten worse. I'm familiar with the German model and it comes at a high price. Every household pays a flat fee of around 20-30$ I think.

Even the "independent" news in the US are far from objective reporting.

What has become of the New York Times in recent years is sad to watch. The last couple of weeks just finished up a trend. The entire country is unlearning how to debate, and is descending into tribalism.

Can somebody explain what is meant by viral shedding here? Some of those links mention cotton swabs used for testing. So viral load is shedding of infectious "compound" into throat and nose mucus. But no symthoms means there is no cough yet. How much of that is shedding into air you breath out? Is it assumed this is the same?

Totally agree with you. I'm not a vegan. Here is what I would like people to feel guilty about to start with: Waste food in general, in particular meat. Waste water. Waste electricity. Waste gas.

If you throw out a pound of beef because you didn't get around to cooking it in time, I want people to have gut wrenching feeling in their stomach when that pound drops into your trash bin. Getting to that place will save more pollution than 100 times what the military produces.

I totally get what you are saying. But it still doesn't mean picking out a very polarizing industry, or any industry in particular, is going to help your cause.

And solving the issue of organizational pollution will have a much quicker and longer-lasting effect on the environment than pushing people to stop eating so much meat.

You may have a quick effect, but certainly not a lasting one, or a big one. I couldn't count how many vanilla families and teenagers I know that are concerned about straws and plastic bags, but have a pool and fly on a vacation twice a year. The seat on that airplane is probably worth a millions lifetimes of "straw pollution". You could eradicate all military pollution and it would probably be a rounding error. Jack up an airline ticket prices by 250% and you'll actually see something real. Jack up gas prices in the US by 200% and you'll actually see something. Industry will happily throw anything under the bus as long as individual consumption isn't talked about.

If you can't criticize people because that's "alienating" then we should go to Mars already, Earth is fucked.

That's how the game a is played, and we end up with grid-lock. Think what you will, but the military community is huge and is not going anywhere. It includes not just your 2 000 000 active military. Add in the veteran community and their extended family, and you get close to 50 000 000 people. Many of those will happily advocate with you for climate action. So long as you don't single them out as scape goats for your goals. Advocate for carbon tax policy etc. and make sure the Military is not exempt from it. Advocate for naval traffic pollution action, and don't exempt the military.

The percentage of pollution produced by military air- or naval- travel as a percentage of regular civilian is minuscule. For every military airplane in the sky, there are thousands of civilian airplanes. The same is true for sea and land transportation.

- The US cruise business is a bigger polluter than more than 100 countries combined.

- The US churches are a bigger polluter than more than 100 countries combined.

- The US Airline industry is a bigger polluter than more than 100 countries combined.

I'm not a proponent of the bloated Military Industrial Complex, but comparisons like this are not helping any discussions. They are just click bait for people to click on and get a warm feeling thinking "That's right, screw xyz". And then they go home in an SUV, eat a meat heavy diet for dinner, run the AC on full blast, water their lawn, eat fruit from around the globe, produce a gallon of waste that wont decompose in 10k years or gets burned.

It's a political mechanism to funnel activism for one cause into activism against another cause. I believe whenever you do that, you end up hurting your own cause. If you want to advocate for fighting climate change, it's not a good tactic to alienate the military community.

Wherever you may stand on such a question, it's wise to anticipate this issue in many countries. In the US, we will probably have a supreme court decision by next year.

- It was never possible to mandate the flu vaccine in the US. Don't know why. It is only mandatory in particular professions like nursing.

- This will likely be litigated in the context of public school districts trying to mandate it.

- This probably wont be a single vaccine. There will be dozens with different risks, benefits, age-target-groups and side effects. And this will probably be an annual vaccine.

I appreciate having a discussion. It's very simple to to paint an opinion as xenophobic. I think that is too easy. And a sign of our times to cancel people, opinions and debates.

If people are concerned about half a million adults educating themselves, than please also be concerned about 100 million people of a country trying to make it through a difficult time. Black and white thinking is all there seems to be these days. Either we close schools and businesses, or we don't. Either we allow the beach, or we don't. But whenever it suits we put on our refined thinking hat and try to think about all the consequences.

If a person supports closing schools, closing businesses and to not have political gatherings, all of which impacts hundreds of millions of people in the US alone, but finds excuses for exemptions, that for me would be a convoluted narrative. You quote an earlier comment of mine. Which is still valid. I made it two weeks ago and look around you. Are we accommodating peoples lives, all of them, or are we not. If you don't want to accommodate a gym instructor, nail salon owner, or working parents with what they need, its hard to get the policies you want, or the country you want. You want to prevent the spread with heavy handed measures, ruining peoples lives, and at the same time walk a fine line for expat students and protesters? You can't do both at the same time.

I see that as a plainly xenophobic motivation.

Why is that? The pandemic drags on. Half of the country remains under severe restrictions. Schools and summer camps are still mostly none-existent. Why would a country continue with exemptions when similar privileges are not granted by many originating countries?

Students ... paying through their teeth ...

Do you have any sources for those students typically paying through their teeth?

While other countries close their borders to visa holders due to the pandemic, we don't do that in most cases. Only if your particular institution doesn't need you to be here. This rule is not void of fairness. It's compromising a difficult situation.

I'm not naïve about the bigger picture, which certainly doesn't make this any easier. We have a gravy train setup for higher education, with students paying full tuition, often displacing the local population. We have higher ed with signaling power to schools across the country. We have political disagreements with the biggest origin country. And we have a pandemic.

If there is just one student saved from coming here, that would've caused an elementary school to go into a month long covid19 shutdown in September, then this by-the-book enforcement is worth it to me. I would never assume a University would adjust their attendance plans for a semester just for foreign students alone. That wouldn't be very rational, or would it be?

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/233880/international-stu...

* https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...