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That's defeatist. Everything they do right now is a mockable waste of time by those standards. This is better than nothing and signals intent.

"We consider it an outage if we don't ship every hour" is the dumbest thing I've ever read.

I really mean this. Does it benefit the business? Does it benefit the users? When you optimize for the wrong thing, you inevitably fail.

You're an example of what's wrong with the system, you hold Democrats to the standard of a functional political party, while the other party is openly corrupt with respect to this topic and hasn't even bother with "puffery" legislation even though they dominate every branch of government.

The other party in question is the problem, and you're nitpicking an utterly powerless minority party's efforts to make things better.

to the dead reply: "is currently the problem" then. The party alignments have completetly flipped in 150 years. Nothing is permanent, and I thought that didn't have to be explicitly stated. Since I was incorrect about that I'm talking about the current state of the world, with no naive attachement to a particular label.

Not in a gain of function lab. Or the lab worker, knowingly working on this specific pathogen, would probably still be alive.

It's unfounded in Ukraine and it's unfounded in the context of the casus belli which had as much to do with WMDs as when the US invaded Iraq, which is to say nothing.

Since they can't waste a paragraph satisfying pedants, "unfounded" is as good as anything.

I think you can safely agree that they are not mutually exclusive and both of them are problems. In this particular case, it was a 100% fatality disease in a gain-of-function lab. It is being handled extremely seriously by Russia.

Perhaps the Russian military is overreacting with the blanket quarantines, but the odds are more likely that they understand the nature better than anyone else.

Again, normal pneumonic plague approaches 100% fatality rates. This is potentially a weaponized form.

This is an "oh, fuck" moment.

Probably to survive or profit from the imminent collapse of human friendly global climate conditions.