I understand your anger and agree that anti-vaxxers are stupid. I believe public health education should be part of the school system.

I also agree that it’s responsible for a society to impose reasonable restrictions on members that endanger it.

I think people do have an ethical obligation to take reasonable precautions avoid potentially exposing others to pathogens. Vaccination is an example of reasonable precaution. People have the right to bodily autonomy, do not vaccinate them against their wishes.

I do not support the firing of workers for refusing vaccinations if they can do their job remotely. People shouldn’t have to decide between their religious beliefs and employment if their employment doesn’t bring them into contact with others. (Imo anti-vaxx is essentially a religion, this may say more about my beliefs regarding religion than about anti-vaxx sentiment).

By all means exclude the unvaccinated from places where they can be reasonably understood to endanger the public, or others that have a similar right to be there.

Stegosaurus has spikes on its back

to keep away predators trying to attack.

This was anti sinovac because the Chinese vaccine wouldn’t have chips in it, pentagon wanted Phillipines to get American vaccines with mind control chips…

Not my belief but pretty easy to see how they’d deal with it.

I live in Vancouver but didn’t grow up here. I know of the 88->HH dog whistle, and um 14 words or something like that but are there any others I ought to keep my kids away from?

Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.

Oof.

In the defense of engineers, they are usually trying to optimize around a few more variables than ability to stand. Cost is a big one.

If a car has a warranty of 10 years, it will last 11 years.

…If it’s well engineered.

I’ve had lots of led bulbs die. I think it’s because I bought them at the dollar store.

Totally.

I’m not sure it’s that simple. I think if you offered someone 150k to do the job, they’d do it for long enough to build some savings then quit and live off of that while they found something more fulfilling to do.

I think that really the only way to keep people in that job is for them to have terrible alternatives.

The job was to put a small piece of metal into a machine (brake press), push a button, and take the now slightly bent piece of metal out of the machine.

The metal is part of a hinge for something like a knee brace. The factory makes a bunch of metal components for different things but didn’t make the whole knee brace.

I guess the company could try to get a higher price for the part, or just say they don’t want that contract… but people need knee braces. So yeah, I don’t feel bad about selling them a robot. Some jobs are just better done by machines. The issue is wealth concentration.

Maybe a worker’s council could have found a way to make the job less bad.

So I work in industrial automation, and live in a high cost of living part of Canada.

Back around 2017 or so, companies said we were in a labor shortage. I sold a few robots to factories that couldn’t keep people in a few of their jobs (I’m thinking of two different small factories). These are tasks that are so boring that people lose their minds. The factories would hire someone and they’d quit after a week.

When the cost of continuously hiring new people became apparent, they bought robots.

Would it be too optimistic for me hope for him to be sentenced to one day in jail, and 1 year house arrest?

they aren’t just going to out themselves as pedophiles

Of course not, that’s why I asked if you had evidence.

The US hosts more CSAM than any other country in the world

I think it might be more accurate to say that the US has detected more CSAM within its borders than any other nation.

Also, I reckon that the US also has more web hosting generally than any other country in the world (36% of global webhosting).

I think what you’re perceiving as reluctance to prosecute Jared Fogle is actually reluctance to bungle a prosecution by being hasty. Just like many people are frustrated with how long it has taken for Donald Trump to see any consequences, it takes time to assemble evidence to form an airtight case.

I think the fact that Epstein was able to kill himself while in jail is much more compelling evidence that there is at least one very powerful pedophile. But how can we figure out who it is? Do you have any specific evidence that would help with that?

You’re saying that the potential for the economic development of historically exploited colonies under Biden is a more grave risk than the potential end of democracy in America under Trump?

Trump did a lot to alienate allies too, way more than Biden has a far as I know. You really are clueless.

I believe there are some rapists and pedophiles in elected office in the USA. But based on statistical probability, not specific evidence.

I’d read it, but I’m skeptical that you have reliable evidence.

eg. An English loyalist blocks George Washington from being president by fraudulently getting him convicted of a felony; is that a reasonable thing we should have codified in the Constitution?

An English loyalist that can prove beyond reasonable doubt, as judged by 12 peers which George Washington can help select…

A felon can be elected, but committing felonies should have consequences, for example it being more difficult to get elected.

If you have evidence of this claim you should share it.

I just said that evidence can be collected and interpreted to make reliable predictions. Isn’t that what science is?

a culture that’s progressed through time

But all cultures are equally progressed through time because as all humans share a common ancestor, so too all cultures must share a common ancestor.

I think what you’re saying is that more egalitarian societies are more progressed through time. As though time inevitably leads to egalitarianism. It doesn’t.

Would a technologically superior alien consider modern Canadian society to be more advanced than a more caste based, misogynistic patriarchy (like the roman empire)?

Maybe they would look at how we treated women and the poor/the enslaved and say we are culturally advanced compared to the Romans.

Maybe they would look at the number of animals that we kill for the pleasure of it (spectacle, and the taste of flesh) how do you think they would judge us vs the Romans? (The meat industry is about pleasure, not sustenance)

Maybe they would look at the way we leave the earth for future generations how do you think they would judge us vs the Romans?

Maybe they would be scandalized that we are willing to eat other life’s DNA, can’t humans see that it’s cannibalism?

I’m not the person you’re replying to, nor an expert but wouldn’t they be things like:

1. There is a reality which behaves according to certain principles within time.

2. Humans experience reality through flawed faculties, but experiences can be aggregated in ways which reduce or eliminate the impact of those flaws.

3. The more thoroughly those flaws are eliminated from the aggregate, the more reliably predictions can be made about the principles that govern reality.

He’s the arch-twit

I love to be pedantic so I’ll point out that it had to be 3 equal mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles