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That's likely due to the Voting Rights act which requires what they call majority-minority districts. It prohibits redistricting to disempower racial minorities. It's another compl…

What if you're not wanting less black people in your life because they are black, but because black people in general are more likely to be Democrats?

No financial incentive to do so. Nobody is organizing to boycott over bigotry towards majority groups, and news media won't cover it. There's very little upside for corporations to…

Absolutely. Protein folding has been worked on by a large part of the scientific community for a long time and they're not going to look at a breakthrough like that and just ignore…

I've never even heard of Tudum before, so I guess I'm not surprised that it didn't last very long.

I definitely recognize this process (and have heard the term euphemism treadmill from McWhorter the other commenter pointed out) but since when has "disabled" been used as a slur? …

This doesn't prove that we haven't taken steps backwards in terms of what is allowed as civil discourse in recent years. You're correct that many things were once completely unallo…

If we're talking about the limit on the global supply only lasting us about 100 years, then it's irrelevant that it costs more now because the point is fissile material still exist…

We don't currently refine "spent" nuclear reactor fuel, in the US at least, which still contains significant amount of fissile material. When the fuel is "spent" we really just mea…

It could, but like another user pointed out the last file modification time isn't necessarily going to stay chronological forever, so something that understands the order in which …

I've really been getting into organization just by chronology lately. I don't separate notes by topic anymore, I just write all notes chronologically with dates to break up days. T…

To add a little perspective, before Covid some 40%ish number of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.

Some people always seem to be in a rush to forget the humanity in people they disagree with so they can justify letting them die in ways they would consider murder if the tables we…

Do Amazon employees underline every instance of the word Amazon with that orange arrow from their logo, even on whiteboards?

You could say the same about investing, and yet a ton of people still don't do that.

Wind and solar face the problem that you can't just start generating power as needed when you're running low. It's good to have a hedge against that scenario which itself does not …

Everything increasing in prices are mostly needs rather than wants too. Not that you don't need any of those thing decreasing in prices, but increasing is housing, healthcare, and …

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It’s the same argument Republicans use against the welfare state. Some people will abuse it so we just as well scrap the whole thing.

> The reality of the long-term value of the research should be enough. We have to decide how to apportion research funds from a limited pool. One project's gain is another project'…

That isn't a sufficient reason not to scrutinize the process by which this research is conducted if the origin of the virus is from the lab. It matters if this virus was of natural…

In regards to the panel being too restrictive or permissive, I think you have to look at the possible motivations for why. If you have a drug candidate that seems safe and effectiv…

I had a coworker who got really sick around the same time. He had the PCR test done and it came back negative. There was definitely a bad flu going around at the same time as covid…

> And it wasn’t optimally transmissible among humans for the better part of last year. Rather, new, more efficient variants have evolved around the world. To name one example, the …

It’s not “think of the children,” it’s “think of the lawsuits.”