Let me get this straight: So we have been flailing about for years now over micro aggressions and critical race theory calling everything under the sun “white supremacy” but outright, blatant white supremacy has a market cap of $4 billion dollars. And the people calling everything under the sun “white supremacy”, are likely to be the same people that contributed to the $4 billion market cap of legitimate white supremacists(young people are woke and young people buy NFTs. Both being woke and NFTs are trendy. Hence the groups are likely to overlap). Talk about irony.
It's almost like a dogwhistle slips under the radar by design.
This isn't the own that you think it is; even if a lot of the people talking about CRT are the ones buying Bored Apes (which I am not conceding), this would just be evidence on how easy it is for racism to sneak into the common culture. It proves their point, not negate it.
I have plenty of issues with Google's posture on privacy, but I don't expect them to steal credentials for other services, drain my bank account, blackmail me based on personal information, or any such thing. Conflating the two removes a lot of much needed nuance from the discussion.
"A bad actor within the manufacturer" and "the manufacturer itself" are entirely different threats. There's no particular reason why Google would be more exposed to that sort of bad apple than Apple, or any other provider.
Have you talked to the parents of young children? Because those are exactly the people that are over it.
A)kids are at statistically zero risk of covid unless they have cancer or something B) we have all already had covid because little kids are germ factories 3)the vaccines have been available for over a year now so you have had ample time to get one if you want to 4)the masks and lack of social engagement for children is very detrimental to their development.
I was completely on board with the first year or so of all these restrictions. But I am done sacrificing my child’s well being to spare the elderly. If the vaccines work, then why are people still afraid? I believe they work, so I am not afraid. I don’t understand why even the most ardent vaccine evangelists are still cowering in fear if they truly believe in their effectiveness.
The case count has exploded so what? Just think how many people actually have it but never bothered getting tested because it was so mild. The death rate is the same/similar to when we had a fraction of the cases we currently have.
> kids are at statistically zero risk of covid unless they have cancer or something
At risk of what? Dying? What about passing covid on to others? Or covid symptoms that do not go away? What about merely needing to be hospitalized? That still seems pretty bad. My local Children's Hospital has more pediatric covid patients than at any time during the pandemic and the city has re-authorized crisis standards of care.
> the vaccines have been available for over a year now so you have had ample time to get one
Kids 5-12 have only had a few months and kids under 5 still have no vaccine.
> But I am done sacrificing my child’s well being to spare the elderly
That strikes me as rather cruel. What exactly are you sacrificing? Isn't every school in the country back to in-person? Is it having to wear a mask?
Look, I'm also tired of covid and don't want to have to think about it ever again. But the problems with the actual virus still far outweigh problems caused by our response to the virus.
Good lord. I know this is hyperbolic but do you have any idea the affect that 15 years of isolation would have on children? And you are willing to place the well-being of random strangers over your own children? You seem to think that your comment is morally superior, but that idea is abhorrent and evil to the idea of being a parent. You should be ashamed to be a parent.
I would love to see how your children feel about that.
Current logic:
There are hospitals that are forcing covid positive staff to work but not letting staff that has had covid already but isn’t vaccinated work.
Similar logic: shutting down nuclear power plants and then complaining that there isn’t enough power.
More similar logic: allowing decades of fuel to build up on the bottom of forests and then expressing befuddlement when wild fires burn out of control.
A)wasn’t hard to see covid coming, no insider info was needed. 2 years ago I, an insurance adjuster with no inside info, was freaking out about what was happening in China.
B)The unwinding of the covid trade has nothing to do with the current stock market implosion. Peloton and Netflix aren’t down because covid is ending. All stocks were inflated because of a decade of quantitative easing and 0% interest rates. Some were further inflated more due to covid. But the money printer has stopped going brrrr and interest rates are going to rise soon which is being priced into the market. Buckle up, we are heading for recession. Also not hard to see if you are paying attention.
Cannabis? Or are you looking for a hobby? How about painting along with old Bob Ross episodes? That’s how I learned to paint landscapes. If you mix it with the cannabis, it’s even more fun;)
I didn’t resign because of the pay. I resigned because they never replaced other people that quit, fired, or promoted, so those remaining continued to get more work with no increase in pay. Not that I would have stayed if they even doubled my salary, it was simply an absurd, impossible amount of work and stress and nobody there gave a damn about the toll that it was taking on us. So I found a new job and told my old job to kick rocks. My new job is actually more pay and less work, go figure.
The real equation is how much of your life do you trade (contracted hours, overtime, life-shortening stress, compromising your hopes and dreams) for financial compensation.
If the money stays the same, but the job got worse, the pay got worse.
By that metric, everything just happens though. Humans just happened, we didn’t will ourselves into existence. Human free will cannot be proved and may very well just be an illusion in our perceiving of a cosmic causal chain. Are our “desires” for reproduction any different? Or are they artifacts of our internal calculations of the future? When we are optimistic, we reproduce. When we are pessimistic, we don’t. That seems more like opportunism than free will to me. And that seems very much like what a pathogen would encounter: favorable or unfavorable conditions.
I guess what I am saying is that either you are right and that can be extrapolated all the way up the chain to humanity. Or that you are wrong and you can apply free will all the way down the chain.
