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The actual title of the article: Say goodbye to Gangnam Style, treadmill running for next 2 weeks: Some Level 4 distancing rules being called ‘illogical, nonsensical’ "Under Level 4 rules, taking showers within fitness club premises is prohibited and only a limited number of users are allowed in each area at a time. At the same time, the running speed on treadmills is capped at 6 kilometers per hour. Music played at…
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This is what we call "compromise"; when you've got a reasonable position on one side, a reasonable position on the other, and the solution is to meet in the middle and produce policy which is totally unreasonable and makes no one happy.
This reminds me of how grocery stores were allowed to remain open, but the greeting card aisle was taped off because they didn't want people going to birthday parties. It felt like insanity, what if I wanted to send a card in-lieu of going to a gathering? Didn't matter. They weren't going to sell me one.
South Korea has had 2044 deaths, out of 51.7 million people. That's a death rate surely under the usual "flu and pneumonia" rate. I don't understand, I really don't. I anybody can explain, I'd very much appreciate.
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This reminds me of how grocery stores were allowed to remain open, but the greeting card aisle was taped off because they didn't want people going to birthday parties. It felt like insanity, what if I wanted to send a card in-lieu of going to a gathering? Didn't matter. They weren't going to sell me one.
Surely you are joking about the taped-off greeting cards?
"Free Democracies" are passing the weirdest restrictions. It's mind boggling just how much power our governments are allowed to wield. I'm not even a libertarian and I think this is government overreach. So you're going to allow people to work out in gyms, but playing music that's too fast is somehow too dangerous to allow? Come on. If it was a real problem you'd just close the gyms again.
A democracy is just government by its people. People will try to pass any sort of law they fancy will do the thing they want it to do, whether or not it actually will is besides the point. The quality of the government is still going to be a factor of the quality of the people that a government can be drawn from, and legislative branches are often the most powerful in a free society precisely because if they could sp…
Democracies without explicit limitations on government power too often just become tyranny by the majority.
costco has removed relish from their hot dog condiment dispensers .. to fight covid I hear california is considering banning birthday cakes with more than 5 candles because the wind to blow them out can spread covid
Some of the covid cost cutting takes a fair bit of mental gymnastics to justify. But really it's just cost cutting.
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This is what we call "compromise"; when you've got a reasonable position on one side, a reasonable position on the other, and the solution is to meet in the middle and produce policy which is totally unreasonable and makes no one happy.
This reminds me of how grocery stores were allowed to remain open, but the greeting card aisle was taped off because they didn't want people going to birthday parties. It felt like insanity, what if I wanted to send a card in-lieu of going to a gathering? Didn't matter. They weren't going to sell me one.
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Let’s keep in mind how crazy the average citizen is. Half are even crazier
That would be the median, not the average (but then it sounds less funny somehow...)
Usually we mean “mean” when saying “average” because it’s the most common - but not always.
costco has removed relish from their hot dog condiment dispensers .. to fight covid I hear california is considering banning birthday cakes with more than 5 candles because the wind to blow them out can spread covid