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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
As an example, 9 million people die each year due to hunger or hunger-related issues, many of them children. 135 million face food insecurity. Due to lockdowns and recession, the World Food Program estimates the toll will double this year. And hunger is just one cause of death that a recession can lead to (suicides, substance abuse, etc).
Lockdowns might save lives, and I can't blame public health officials for protecting their community, but I personally fear more lives will be lost due to economic costs. They just might be poorer, quieter lives. And while death is, of course, final, suffering in life should count for something too.
https://www.wfp.org/news/covid-19-will-double-number-people-...
Comment · 6 years ago
Whoa, you have local businesses?
Our leaders have deemed that even curbside pickup is far too dangerous, so Amazon is the only shop in town.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm sure Ticketmaster knows this is illegal. They probably weighed their options and saw:
1) refund every ticket as required and run out of money immediately
2) do whatever they can to have some operating capital, and maybe continue existing until summer 2021-ish when live music is once again legal, then deal with a lawsuit in a time when courts are once again operating
I loathe Ticketmaster, so #1 seems fine to me, but I get their decision as a business. Honestly even #2 seems like a hail mary.
Comment · 6 years ago
You gotta get on at midnight, order two weeks out, and get a weekly pipeline going. I used this method to get a bag of flour the other day, it was amazing.
Comment · 6 years ago
> Touch a door handle?
Like... with your hand? Not in a glove that you throw out immediately? I just can't fathom touching a door handle.
I saw someone just open a door at a public place the other day and it was utterly baffling to see.
Comment · 6 years ago
6:45am-7:??am: Convince a toddler to put on pants
Comment · 6 years ago
Like everyone else, I'm indoors with just my family, ordering food/groceries, wiping everything down, wearing masks/gloves if we ever have to go out, explaining to my toddler why he can't play with friends, etc, etc. For the last month, and probably the next two or three.
What else do you want from me? Do I really have to spend every moment watching the slow train wreck from every angle? COVID is covered literally everywhere, you can't not see it.
The good is just maybe not falling into total depression, alcoholism, or worse.
Comment · 6 years ago
I really don't want anyone to have the impression that this team tried to take shortcuts
- man who let his team take shortcuts
NASA is still thinking whether to allow Boeing to proceed with its first manned flight to prevent delays or to require the company to successfully complete an unmanned flight first.
Yeah, it's probably fine now. I mean, ugh, look at all these passing tests!
It's staggering to me that Boeing is confident enough to not want another unmanned fight. After all this, you really want to roll the dice again?
Comment · 6 years ago
> It stretches a hundred metres from a bend in the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming.
100m? For real?
> Burying them doesn't sound very green.
Why do I care if something doesn't sounds green? Tell me an actual consequence.
Comment · 6 years ago
You're located in Berlin. It found a page on Reddit about buying phones in Berlin.
Not saying you're wrong about the dates but... I dunno... seems like an odd query. "Phone to buy?" And why not just search Reddit?
This site feels like we're just complaining about nothing these days. (Downvote away!)
Comment · 6 years ago
never? What does that even mean? We've only been driving cars like 100 years. Only had computers for 60, and decent portable ones for 20. Self-driving literally just became remotely possible, and you're telling me never?
This is an off-the-cuff remark turned into a clickbait headline for a fairly bland article.
That seems like a pretty sterile way to describe it.
Right now, in the (presumably) developed US, 1 in 5 children don't have enough food, 3x the amount during 2008. That's a result of years of policy choices, but one particularly policy choice caused it to spike. If there's a resource buffer, it's not buffering.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/05/06/the-covid...