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For sure, but also I don't want "Joe's Discount Basement Insulin" to be on the market. I do think we should allow imports of medicines from some places in the world as long as they…

This is great news. Honestly, I hope to see more nationalization of widely used services (or whatever the equivalent word for nationalization is at state or municipal levels.) Muni…

Walmart needs to either earn a profit or use the item as a loss leader to earn a profit elsewhere. A government can provide services without expecting them to be profitable. (See: …

"All these safety regulations slow down the free market! Anyone should be able to make and sell insulin! If it's poisonous, people just won't buy that!"

Thanks. That's the opposite (the government is protecting corporate interests too much) of what the usual "It's the feds fault" usually implies.

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I assume this is a joke about autistic folks disliking change?

You should understand that your definition is out of date, but I'll respond: > If somebody has coping strategies that effectively mask their autism (in the early childhood/developm…

Science has improved, yes. We've discovered there are many people who are able to produce a set of coping strategies that effectively mask their autism. This is what science does -…

Welcome to being a senior dev. Your job is teaching, coaching, and developing others. Because the better and faster you do so, the better and faster the team will be at achieving y…

Let me tell you about the Luddites. People hear "Luddites" and think "Anti-Technology, backwards mentality! Closed Minded!" No. The Luddites were highly trained, technical workers …

Have you seen cops? Cops know one thing -- doing violence. They are already terrible at handling folks with mental health needs, folks who aren't neurotypical, folks from other cou…

I mean, no, right? Obviously no? Is this even a question? I can think of many significant countercultures across all sorts of political spectrums?

Discord is not a "chat app". That's a pretty narrow view on how it is both used and vended. It's a communications app, at a minimum, and people use it for audio, video, chat, event…

Yep. Housing is the big one. And transit.

Trains can't cover long distances? Surely that's a typo -- trains can cover incredible distances... And they can change routes within their network. So yes, there's some cost to ge…

WotC licenses some of their content using the Open Gaming License. It ostensibly covers both the rules* of D&D as well as key elements of the setting -- particular monsters, charac…

When you don't spend the time and money on preventative care as a society, you end up spending much, much more on emergency care. I feel like this has been quantitatively demonstra…

People are saying 'ventilate'. Makes sense. I've got a resin printer in a large room with a crossbreeze, but I'd like to put in some more forced ventilation. Is there a quick thing…

I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that the normal levels of inhibitions and reading social cues aren't present in many stalking cases. There is a belief that if they are j…

I object specifically to this: > Saying "there's no way to avoid the bias" is just an excuse to get away with being biased And specifically to the implied idea that there is an unb…

If you set this expectation up front, and explain the premise, this rules. If you simply present problems to students without this caveat, you are being needlessly cruel. It seems …

Banning this is the right move for the wrong reasons, imo. TikTok (and Youtube shorts) are both terribly addictive and we should make sure we understand their impacts on developing…

> The goal is to be as unbiased as possible given that limited amount of effort. So you are therefore biased. You have a finite set of resources, and you are choosing to allocate t…

The approach you describe has the problem that it's asking majority people about the experiences of minority folks -- for instance, if you ask a statistically significant sample of…