burke_holland
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Comment · 6 years ago
I think it’s more like if you are a first responder, the math tells you whomever you are dealing with has a gun. That changes the dynamic entirely.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, but Siri
Comment · 6 years ago
Given that most recycling ends up in landfills anyway, I’m not sure it matters much. We have a much bigger recycling problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfil...
Comment · 6 years ago
Just to be clear, the government literally does lie to you about what’s in the water.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/flint...
Comment · 6 years ago
This is exactly the problem, though. By suppressing this stuff, they validate the narrative that “THEY don’t want you to know the truth” (whoever the hell they is). This stuff doesn’t go away. It just migrates to different platforms and every time it’s taken down it gains credibility among the faithful.
This is the current paradox that plagues us.
Comment · 6 years ago
Seriously looking forward to this movie. Jessie Eisenberg maybe?
Comment · 6 years ago
Looks alive and well to me...
Comment · 6 years ago
It's possible that what we've found is that we can only intake around 7 million jobless claims per week. The number could be much higher, we just don't have the bandwidth to receive all the claims, so they continue to pile up.
Comment · 6 years ago
I had this same thought. Here's Pelosi encouraging people to come to Chinatown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCzoXhNM6c
Also, we should be careful about how much we eviscerate people on both sides politically during this time. If our leaders are too afraid of repercussions to make difficult decisions, they may make bad decisions instead.
I'm calling for moratorium on partisan finger-pointing. I think we're all in this together, and that's the only way we're getting out of it.
Comment · 7 years ago
I’m your biggest fan!
Comment · 7 years ago
The odds of being shot at school are incredibly low (~1 in 614,000,000), and have been falling since the 90's. It's just that when it does happen, it's so horrific that we cannot bear even the 1 because that 1 might be ours - myself included. That's ripe territory for companies to come in a make some good money on those mathematically irrational fears. The ones who suffer, though, are still the kids. While the likelihood of getting shot is lower than that of dying while simply traveling to school in the morning, the odds of being stressed and paranoid about it in school are now fairly significant.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/school-shootings-are-...
Nothing drives an economy like fear.
Comment · 7 years ago
Inbox still hurts
Comment · 7 years ago
> Instead of helping patients know their out-of-pocket costs, this rule will introduce widespread confusion, accelerate anticompetitive behavior among health insurers, and stymie innovations in value-based care.
So people are too dumb to understand prices, and unlike any other economic system to ever succeed, knowing the value of a thing will DECREASE pricing competition.
I was waiting for the good argument on why this is a bad idea. Instead we got _that_.