cylinder

There’s lots of shit there, but it’s not in a hole, unfortunately. It just sits there right on the pavement.

Why do Americans keep comparing crime rates to 30-50 years ago?

Compare to other societies now.

There’s supposed to be progress, and in other places, there has been.

How does it feel to post outright incorrect information? Do you delete now or leave it up?

Not an expert on GDPR but can't imagine privacy strict EU agreeing to this.

US shutting down visa waiver for EU would be dumb as the Consulates are already swamped and absolutely cannot handle that level of B1/B2 visa applications (the wait times are already 1 year+ around the world).

This would hurt US travel and tourism.

Europeans aren't going to riot if they lose visa waiver to US.

So American business suffers, EU looks strong standing up for privacy against the bully, and EU can still offer visa waiver to inbound Americans. Call their bluff.

are you kidding? this is basically a blog for a group of politial scientists

so you don't get desperately ill for several days / weeks? why is this so hard for you types to understand?

you're an ass. my child is a toddler. they need to be exploring and interacting with other children, in person, playing, learning and receiving stimuli, not locked at home staring at screens.

Sounds to me they likely don't have children. Even one week at home for my kid is damaging let alone a year. The kids weren't spreading covid to teachers. Teachers could have worn respirators and been fine.

Governments should have kept covid out but harming children in this way to make up for disastrous decisions and behaviours of adults is unacceptable.

It's easy to romanticise the early days of the internet but seeing this brought a tinge of depression.

We are back in offices in Sydney for a while now. I think Singapore too. Most flexibly and tech the slowest to return.

Trust me things get back to normal quickly, it's just about momentum

We check in with a govt app and QR codes in NSW and all of Australia does this and venues confirm before letting you in. It's integrated into the Service NSW app so I don't need a separate one. Same app where my digital drivers licence is. No paper. In fact I don't carry a wallet here anymore because public transport is with NFC - Apple pay.

We had a 5% decline in suicide this year in Sydney. Although it wasn’t a very hard or long lockdown. The hypothesis is that increased welfare payments may be the reason but personally I believe the slow down/pause to what was a hectic pace of life, and being at home with family more contributed.

I keep saying this about the silly island argument. It's not like the virus is coming into the US via Mexico and Canada. And domestic travel was halted with state border closures. The key is slowing movement. It's been perplexing watching Americans proudly travel and holiday, even internationally, during all this.