If you're not wearing an N95 in all indoor public places you are refusing to mildly sacrifice to help others, since we are still "during covid".
Reflecting on this may help you understand the people you are rightly appalled by.
I'd like to talk about why we've done nothing at all to clean indoor public air in those six years so those of us who depend on our brains, hearts, and immune systems working properly don't continually get reinfected.
Linking attendance to grades when you willfully make them sick and don’t do ANYTHING to make life easier for them is fucking cruel. Read that on the radio. Turned the radio off to avoid this shit last night and here it is waiting for me on infoam. No attendance convos until the air is clean.
I'm a late Boomer, and this is 100% correct. Except the word I got was "retard", and resisted diagnosis for decades b/c it would mean that's what I was, I thought. I did build a very successful career on my autistic abilities, and a better life than I could reasonably hope for, but the scars remain.
If he thought he could use our money to buy himself a private jet just imagine what's on his phone records he doesn't want us to see.
STUBB: We need to turn the tide. This is no longer about giving aid to Ukraine. We have to think about it other way around. Can we afford to keep Ukraine 'outside' — in the sense that they now have greatest military know-how? I hope Americans understand this and see it clearly.
Some good news.
“A vaccine during pregnancy which protects newborns against nasty chest infections (RSV) is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say.”
...from the conceptual scheme users develop while interacting with it. This makes support calls and user feedback sessions interesting. I've observed this in practice, but don't know of anyone who has studied it.
A maybe-interesting toy model of this problem is how users think about software vs how the people who wrote it think about it. Applications represent information--both to the user and to the machine--and developers typically have a conceptual scheme for the application that differs significantly...
The subject of scientific concepts and their legitimate operationalization is one that I think philosophers of science should have lots to say on but, in reality, rarely weigh in on as it requires differentiating between sound and poor science.
Recently have been putting a lot of thought into what norms govern the movement between folk concepts and scientific concepts. What concepts are resistant to operationalization? Really interesting thread from a cognitive scientist on what concepts we can have “theories of.”
I floated this for Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands but sadly there were no takers. Failing that, I'm a permanent Standard Time person. I go for a 4-5 km walk a few times a week with a friend, starting at 8:30 AM, and now that will be HALF AN HOUR BEFORE SUNRISE in the late fall/early winter.
Now I want to see a poll that asks Canadians one of two questions, selected at random: "do you support a move to permanent Daylight Saving Time, as supported by BC NDP premier David Eby?" Or "do you support a move to permanent Daylight Saving Time, as supported by AB UCP premier Danielle Smith?"
#DontSayCovid is the real life Don't Look Up.
The Energy Revolution in Two Words: Molecules vs Electrons
What an energy transition looks like in real time: the steady expansion of a new global energy system that grows faster than the one it is replacing.
#energytransition
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-energy...
Not even one tech company names itself after Samwise Gamgee or Goldberry.
So listen. We have this data. Showing hospital admissions for ‘resp’ infections 2x pre-pandemic. But ALL school absence discussions - see CBC! See the National last night! IGNORE growing illness as biggest absence factor (or ANY factor!). This is horrible reporting/journalism. /1
Like cmon. Clearly what is happening is bad enough to have a horrific effect on hospital admissions. How are high-paid journos, school admins, politicians, and healthcare professionals still getting away with REFUSING to acknowledge & deal with student/worker ILLNESS as a driver of absence?!!?
People really don't appreciate how powerful dynamic stability is. I was pulled into high school robotics because my kids' team was having stability issues and I was asked to help: we pulled data off the bot, did some dynamical modelling, and it was stable! Literally just a damping coefficient.
"The Royal Navy - and later the United States Navy - should always win. This is the entire International Maritime Law; the rest is commentary."
This kind of assumes that the international law that the US says no longer applies, applies. Under the old rules-based order it was legal. Under the new order? Depends on who comes out on top: the new coalition of Western democracies Carney et al are working toward, or the fascist powers.
Yes, because there was a bargain: the US ensures freedom of the seas--as Britain did before--and we give the US special status globally--like using the dollar as a reserve currency--in part because of that.
Interesting bargain you have there. Too bad if something happened to it.
This is a really good argument that I'd not thought of before. I eat relatively little meat, and that almost all fish and fowl, and I'm pro-choice, and I don't see either a morally pure positions, merely the best I can do under the circumstances.
Veganism is a consequence of limited moral attention in a very similar way to how anti-choice is, which I'd not thought of before, but thinking about it based on these posts, it's pretty clear. We have very little attention available. Emotional triggers hyper-focus it and result in unbalanced views.
No one objects to eating eggs on that basis. They object based on the treatment of hens (and male chicks). You're taking the argument far too literally. Look at the points of similarity. They are valid.
Dominoes.
In that sense all the people saying there’s an obvious explanation and would you shut up already are all on the same side despite mostly not agreeing with each other at all. Their objection is to being asked to think about it.
One thing that’s interesting about vibecession discourse is that if you point out the basic mismatch exists you will inevitably get dozens of leftists flooding in to call you the dumbest SOB alive for not seeing the obvious explanation…
and then all offering completely different explanations.
The combination of plug-in solar and battery storage (and relatedly, cheap e-bikes and mopeds) is going to be unbelievably revolutionary in the Global South.
Great job by Ross here, setting out why the gas tax cut is ill-considered.
I like his final point that it is a sign of freedom and a free society to have prices fluctuate. Societies with stagnant prices that never move are not the kind of places you'd want to live.
