Quality of Life has to be extended as well, otherwise you exasperate the problem by having more people unable to contribute to the system. But even with that it boils down to the problem of telling people that the light at the end of the tunnel is getting further away.

I would prioritize the agricultural reforms over desalination. Not that we don’t need to do both, but desalination by itself is going to mask the problem and introduce additional environmental costs.

Ya where I am it was weird. The court baliffs got bodycams before the police or sheriffs department by a few years.

It’s odd. US groceries stores heavily leverage just in time logistics so that they don’t have to keep as much back stock. A very significant part is that US supermarkets tend to serve a large population of individuals who shop weekly as opposed to other areas where you see smaller market stores serving people who tend to shop for the day.

Ya, I think we are likely to see AAA PC Gaming give more way to consoles in that light. The consoles themselves are cheaper and easier to optimize for.

To be fair, Euhler's will mess with people's heads, and it's honestly the answer to this question but it sure isn't ELI5 :).

The cynical assumption that it’s just people accepting their long covid as normal instead of something exceptional to report on. As you said though the article doesn’t indicate why it changed.

(Edit) the odd bit from the article is that is the number of folks who report ever having long covid symptoms is down. Which is an indicator that there may need to be some follow up with a longitudinal study.

Just to share the story of when I decided to start getting the flu shot regularly. Not to judge or anything, just to share my story.

I had gotten the flu a few times before, but honestly, felt like "well, it's only x effective anyway, I'm going to get sick anyway." that normal spiel. Well, this changed at one point at my job. My working space was such that a few of our coworkers were sick-buddies effectively. If any of us got sick, the others would be getting sick. Sure, we should take sick time off, but by the time you feel bad enough to do it, well, you've already spread it. Happens. Again, no real judgement there.

Well, then one of my coworkers had a kid, and it was really close to the start of flu season and I just thought "If I get sick, I'm going to get him sick, and then he'll get his kid sick." And I didn't want that. Sure the vaccine is only whatever percentage effective, but that's just more likely not to get my coworker's newborn sick with the flu.

Now, that's an anecdote, and honestly one without much veracity in terms of if it was effective or not.

I think they'd need federal law to change first because it sounds a lot like interstate gambling.

And thankfully, we won't be around to be proven right or wrong.

Is this just a modern Smart Pipe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

Not really. Those gains and loses haven't been actualized.

In a practical sense for the rich it means that they are less able to take out loans using that 'paper-value' as collateral.

It may just be my cynicism wrt the US justice system that it's possible enough to be used to justify harassment of someone the police 'know' to be guilty.

But I guess to be fair on that, all they need to do is look at you and decide they smelled some grass to have probable cause.

Depending on how many segments on your trip they could.

Always has been.

Well obviously it would be left to Clarence Thomas specifically to secure the border.

You can read the Roe v Wade decision yourself if you want specifics, but the premise of it was that the government could not ban abortions due to the mother's right to privacy regarding her medical treatment.

And then they are left to figure out why oil, gas, and chemical companies leave LA anyway as the water levels change how valuable LA's port is.

It does a good job of saying why AI shouldn't replace humans in those jobs, but not how those jobs aren't being replaced by AI anyway.

It's interesting since those are all fields that are currently being heavily encroached upon.

>Pretty wild how a business with a 27% EBIT margin is getting an extra 7% back in tax credits.

Tech companies love those 'research' tax credits.

I've gotten one of them before because the company was seeking to encourage employees to quit (no raise, benefit reduction) and I was one of the employees they did wanted to keep.

They also won't tell you this is the reason (it's something you often have to intuit or find our from senior leadership who is on their way out).