cmendel
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Comment · 5 years ago
D.C. has a larger population than Wyoming. I agree with you on Puerto Rico though.
Comment · 5 years ago
Right, so not to put words in varispeed mouth. But their claim is that Right-to-repair that doesn't give you the Right to repair what they want the right to repair is deliberately deceptive and, thus, fraudulent.
The damages would be that the product that they wish to repair are irreparable.
Comment · 5 years ago
Whether government corruption is inevitable is frankly irrelevant to the broader question of political representation. I understand very well the (R) v (D) distinction is predominantly Rural v Urban. I believe in democracy and, as such, believe that people, not land should vote. Any system that is as so incredibly unrepresentative is unjust.
If 1% of CA moved to Wyoming; Wyoming would be majority Californian. Them having equal representation in a co-equal political body is insanity. Wyoming has a population half the size of the city of San Jose.
As an aside; I find the coding of land to be deeply misleading. https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/hpB3wkTVkPJsrJ6-qjtbU...
Comment · 5 years ago
The problem is that our system is broken. Wildly popular policies can't pass because of republican obstructionism in the senate.
Worse, the senate is hugely anti-democratic. It's not 1/3-1/2 of the population; its the reps of 4/25.
""The 25 most populous states contain nearly 84 percent of the 50 states’ total population. So 16 percent of the country controls half of the seats in the United States Senate (and that’s not accounting for the fact that DC, Puerto Rico, and several other US territories have no representation at all in Congress).""[1]
Source to [1]: https://www.vox.com/2021/1/6/22215728/senate-anti-democratic...
I actually highly recommend reading the above. I found it insightful.
Comment · 5 years ago
A large number of teachers need second jobs, that hardly strikes me as highly-paid especially as many(most?) teachers have master's degrees.
Further, "summers off" is not really correct given curriculum development, PD, grading and the like which often extend far past the end of the semester.
Comment · 5 years ago
That's because of the history of coal mining/factory jobs in KY. When The coal jobs dried up and the factories closed a fair portion of the people who were previously employed dropped out of the labor force and never went back.
The other piece is this: Population of Texas in 2020: 29,360,759 Population of Kentucky in 2020: 4,477,251
Comment · 5 years ago
Ha, no worries! I'd thought the same until I went off and got a degree in Chemistry.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'll do my best to explain. So in chemistry, there is a thing called 'chirality' essentially this has to do with how a molecule is shaped. It's assessed by how a beam of polarized light that is passed through a molecule rotates.
There are a few different types:
Achiral, no change Levorotary (L), Rotates anticlockwise Dextrorotary(D), Rotates clockwise
The reason that it matters and what I was talking about above is that the sites in your body that a drug interacts with aren't universal. So if you have a (L) version of a drug that might have different effects and interactions than a (D) version.
A 1:1 mix of both (L) and (D) is called a racemic mix.
When you are talking about Brand name drugs, you're typically discussing a particular mix (e.g. Adderall XR is a 3:1 (D):(L) mix) or a particular conformation. That is not necessarily true with generics which may have a different ratio of (D):(L).
To give an example of how different the effects can be: Penicillamine (L) is used in the treatment of primary chronic arthritis. Penicillamine (D) not only has no therapeutic effect, it is highly toxic.
Here's a link to some Wikipedia pages on it if you're interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality#Chemistry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racemic_mixture
Do note that this is a bit of an oversimplification, but it's 3AM here so I hope you can forgive me.
Comment · 5 years ago
>>Always buy generic drugs, they're exactly the same.
I'm sorry to say. This is false.
This will be a bit technical but often, generic drugs are a racemic mix (both L and D conformations in some mixture) where as a branded drug may be a specific conformation or specific racemic mix (e.g. 75% L, 25% D.)
The issue comes from the fact that L-conformations may have different (better, worse, otherwise) effects than the D-conformations.
TL;DR Not all generics are the same as their branded counterparts and they might effect you differently. Caveat emptor.
Comment · 6 years ago
Sure, but you also need to pair it with free Gov issued IDs for all individuals. The Voter fraud canard is a red herring when electoral fraud is an order of magnitude worse.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yeah, my peer groups have been using dude as ungendered for over a decade at this point.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is an interesting point of view that I hadn't considered before. Thank you for making this argument. How do you square your ideas with musical genres like dubstep, likely not the best example but the one that springs to mind, that lack some or all of these features and are still beloved by a subset of the population?
Would the variance in taste not imply that beauty itself is subjective?
Comment · 6 years ago
Because the devil is in the details. Covid != Rhinovirus. If you asked why HIV is treated differently than crabs you'd get a similar response. Not only is the severity different, they are different diseases and so have different effects.
Comment · 6 years ago
That's not what they said. They're pretty clearly taking a weak stance, and even disclaimed as much.
Comment · 6 years ago
Both in mice and in humans. Link to the original paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18512-7
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