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"loud pipes save lives" I don't necessarily agree with it, but that's the common refrain yes.

I happen to entirely agree with you, but the counterargument is that a treatment (not vaccine) becomes available earlier which makes the incidence of actual lasting damage from wuf…

Alameda backed off elon musk pretty fast, probably because they had little legal footing https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/05/13/elon-m...

There's likely to be a teary-eyed politician who goes up in front of Congress as unemployment benefits end and insists they be renewed because it's almost Christmas and how heartle…

I live in Boston and drive every day still. This is anecdotal - but I've seen the same amount of bad driving as ever (largely around merging, roundabouts, and turn signal usage) bu…

Is this the same general concept as in Spaceballs (1987)? Lone Starr : Listen! We're not just doing this for money! Barf : [Barf looks at him, raises his ears] Lone Starr : We're d…

>In 3 weeks I assume they re-assess and could very well leave restrictions in place I had assumed that as well. No reason things will look better by then, and the preventative meas…

Love the quotes on this. Those individuals you're asking are guaranteed to be risk averse from a game theory perspective, rightly or wrongly (probably rightly here).

Don't just call, get it in writing if you're in the USA. At the very least record that call if it's legal to do so in your state, but that's problematic for other reasons. When the…

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This is incorrect, it was somewhere during/after the 2008 recession that these circuit breakers went into effect (because I remember they didn't exist at that time)

Commercial aviation had barely begun when the Spanish Flu occurred, and the world was nowhere near as connected.

Kazaa was chock full of adware and possibly full-on malware and centralized solutions like Napster were shutdown. Still using Usenet to this day tho..

I'm not defending the US healthcare system, which is deeply broken, but the particular statistic on infant morality rate can be deceiving. For example: "...very low-birth-weight in…