svardilfari

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Because the majority of opinion holders are refusing to read and internalize the parent article. You're just echoing sentiments that people make regarding their opinion on typical welfare - which your parent comment already addressed completely.

Either TRY and refute those comments or don't comment at all.

Comment · 1 year ago

First thought: Cash grab

There's no way someone who designed, manufactured, tested and refined all this original equipment wouldn't include some technical photos, documents, experience or anything to 'sell' the product. And with pre-orders? There isn't even a single video of it making espresso without total cropping.

For reference - The owner lists his studies in media design and works for Terra Kaffe - claiming involvement in building Terra Kaffe TK-02

I'll happily change my opinion if anything resembling original invention is presented.

Comment · 2 years ago

That's survivorship bias and thus your comment is just an opinion and nothing more. During restrictions covid vaccines were rapidly handed out and improved upon - this undoubtedly halted the spread of a virus that ultimately killed 1,212,000 people. So please go ask those peoples family and those people themselves if 'everyone was fine'

Comment · 2 years ago

I'd challenge you to read those results again. They admit to the evidence for health effects being elusive (due to limited or no robust studies), yet there is still enough evidence to summarize the following:

There is substantial evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and:

The development of schizophrenia or other psychoses, with the highest risk among the most frequent users (12-1) There is moderate evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and:

Better cognitive performance among individuals with psychotic disorders and a history of cannabis use (12-2a) Increased symptoms of mania and hypomania in individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorders (regular cannabis use) (12-4) A small increased risk for the development of depressive disorders (12-5) Increased incidence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts with a higher incidence among heavier users (12-7a) Increased incidence of suicide completion (12-7b) Increased incidence of social anxiety disorder (regular cannabis use) (12-8b)"

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24625.

I would warrant that these summaries should be a concern for anyone using cannabis and that blanket statements regarding the overall tone and summation of the report negating health effects of cannabis is somewhat misguided.

Comment · 2 years ago

"I'm not spending a dime or a second of MY time cleaning this toilet (that I also use) until someone fixes the root-cause, now AND forever! (never mind that I am also at least partially a contributing factor if I've ever eaten a single fish in my entire life)"

Comment · 2 years ago

As an 11,000 word explanation on what stock buybacks are, decent article.

What this article fails to do is repudiate the 'hook' espoused in the first paragraph. Workers are pissed because stock buybacks are highly visible reinvestments by companies of their profits unto themselves and shareholders. The single article source used to argue against flat-line wages through the ensuing decades (from 1997 no less) is all but worthless as it contains no real data, but only expositions without factual source claims. Regardless, flat-line wages ARE real and ARE felt by almost every single person. You would need to waste 11,000 words arguing against that to have better effect.

Finally, spending all that hot-air to explain buybacks and calling workers economically ignorant is lazy writing. No one cares if it's dividends or buybacks, they want to be paid more for the work output they provide. Buybacks are just highly visible and reinforce the point even more so.