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Yes but no because it is the law. It should be law that car companies provide a seat-belt but not that I wear one. Your one sentence straw-man wont suffice here. Again, it's all about personal risk. I could go climb a cliff face with a rope or I could do it without. I don't need GOVT to tell me not to do the latter.
I agree with your second comment but not so much the first. Infectious disease control 101: Lock up the infected people but leave the healthy alone. Or else you may have a dwindling economy due to excessive spending, people too scared to work and a rapidly inflating currency... I may sound like an armchair epidemiologist but given that there are so many proclaimed 'experts' out there, the bar can't be thaaat high?
Tl;dr a reminder that you are on the internet
My bad, I'm not talking about vaccines here. More replying to this general comment about people that don't comply with governmental decree. Leaving out the fact that GOVT was saying at the start of the pandemic that masks do little to protect you or others and they made a u-turn on that, the real way to let people keep their freedom is to let people decide the risks they want to take. If you are old, fat or otherwise ill, don't go outside if you think you might die? I sounds harsh but don't impinge on my freedom to not have to wear a mask because you can't go for a jog once in a while.
I want people to be able to calculate risk for themselves rather than have GOVT decide what risks people can and can't take. If one doesn't deem it risky to themselves, perhaps because they are in their 20s and the average age of covid mortality is 80, then it is up to them and it is their personal freedom to choose what to/not do. If you are 90 and have 5 more years left to live, then my all means, stay indoors. Or don't and spend your last years with your family rather than dying alone in some care home that you are locked in and can't leave... Forcing/mandating mask wearing in democratic countries does more damage to democracy.
This will probably get downvoted/flagged but I wanted to say it.
My only objection to the legalization of weed will that the smell is horrific (IMPO!) and it will begin to plague busy streets. How would lawmakers address this because I don't see them making designated areas?
So to get this straight, you are just going to be getting free money for doing nothing, what from your dad? How is this in any way related to UBI? I can already predict the outcome. You are just going to accumulate next thing and consoom product...
I don't see anyone one here talking about this. It is already happening with the furlough scheme. Isn't that the experiment already run already? If the furlough scheme meant (some) people don't want to go back to work because they are already earning enough to live comfortably whilst doing nothing, then why would we want UBI?
Another problem is the risk of inflation. If everyone in the country has a certain amount of money coming in then shop-keepers are just going to raise their prices. Why wouldn't they? After a few years of this, we are back to square one and the only solution would be to keep raising the UBI.
Sure:
1: Download UBlock origin: https://ublockorigin.com/
2: Open Youtube
3: Right click on any element in the page and click "block element". Do this for anything you don't want to see. If you make a mistake you can unblock it by deleting the line in the "filters" part of Ublock settings.
It can take some trial and error to get it working properly but once you do its so nice. I don't even have a sign in button anymore because I don't have a google account.
Edit: For maximum procrastination prevention you can even block those end card recommendations once a video finishes.
Youtube is also massively better with "enhancer for youtube" [1]. It's not FOSS I don't think but it is too good to not use.
Also, slightly related:
If you want to watch less YouTube, you can use uBlock element picker to remove everything but the search bar. My YouTube web interface is just that now, no recommendations, no nothing. Bliss.
If you watch a lot of YouTube (i try not to these days), might I just shill for the "Sponsor Block" extension [1]? It blocks those sponsored segments in youtube videos. You can also submit segments to save others time so they can consoom more content.
I have saved 2.5 hrs and saved others nearly an hour through my submissions.
Thanks for you're reply, I will look into the Motorola's then.
I still love the patent name for it: "Catastrophically buckling compression column switch and actuator". Still wondering what is catastrophic about it.
I like it a lot and it is very responsive. One thought though, is there any way to reduce the amount of JS/ trackers you are using? UBlock blocking is at 10% and it is still working fine.
Isn't this handled by the fact Lindy-like things have to be non-perishable like ideas or technology?
And if you are writing a blog, it should be written in a way that it could be read 10 years ago if you want it to be read in 10 years if we're following Taleb's thinking.
Citation needed here. Iirc, the media were quite anti-brexit.
What’s a secure way of searching without disclosure by either party?
Download the original data set. US records are around a GB file.
I checked someone who was part of the leak and the correct initials came up so unless that is by chance, it does seem to be querying the database. You can also read the source code [1] where it does an api call to get the data.
We can be pretty sure the results are legit but yes of course it could be running malicious code and stealing phone numbers. Check the raw data if you are worried[2].
[1] https://github.com/Fumaz/haveibeenfacebooked-api [2] https://archive.is/MZqak
I have never used a contact tracing app before. I never leave the house with my phone, and when I arrive at the pub, I get funny looks when I say I can't scan their barcode because I don't have a phone. This pandemic is just further enforcing the idea that you need a phone to operate in this world...
fuggedaboutit
What a very thorough reply. Are you saying that right now, you would rather be in the EU? Frankly, I would rather be able to go to the pub. Have some nationalistic pride (assuming you are British) and please don't encourage the discarding of our currency.
Yeah I don't doubt it, I just wanted to straighten out the facts.
I am pretty sure this has already been proven wrong. Please give credit where credit is due. If it weren't for operation Warp Speed [1] and the millions of doses bought under the Trump administration, Biden wouldn't have anything to take the credit for [2]. CNN neglected to credit the Trump administration for this. Yes, his (Trump's) handling of the crisis was awful but it doesn't help to lie.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed [2] https://nypost.com/2020/12/16/biden-should-credit-trump-on-c...
Edit: Clarity
Ah ok
How does Israel manage to be over 100 per 100 vaccinated?
Thank God we left the EU, else we would be in the EU debacle regarding vaccines. We are ahead of every member state in terms of vaccinated population. Don't take this as me supporting Boris but its definitely a good thing that we left and the fishing thing we be sorted at some point in the near future. Even if it isn't, the benefits outweigh the cons and we can now act as our own nation free of the EU's bloated bureaucracy.
That's not what I was querying. I was wondering why you thing the UK will move to the Euro? We just left the EU and even when we were in it, we kept our currency.
Citation needed