It turns what should be a good, bittersweet moment into… resent, envy, and chiding.

And for what? Because so many cancer survivors campaign against cancer research and helping people with cancer? In my experience, they’re not exactly the pull up the ladder types.

Just a podcast.

Do you know what good mass transit could do though? Imagine cities without parking lots and garages. Imagine having spaces that are much safer and more comfortable to walk. Imagine solving the housing crisis, since you can now build downtown complexes where those parking garages were.

Imagine getting most semis off the road and reducing road repairs by more than half.

Trains could do a lot, and it doesn’t take much imagination.

0.6ish% fatality rate in a population of ~350 million, with obviously a much higher hospitalization rate sounds about right.

More than one million is “millions” in English.

Sometimes. Probably not on Facebook.

There’s a pretty good This American Life about it. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/740/there-i-fixed-it

In case you want the actual link:

https://bsky.app/profile/maxberger.bsky.social/post/3m6d2ed7lbc2d

Remember when people used to have 7-12 kids in the hopes that some would survive?

These people want to go back to that.

From diphtheria at https://maps.app.goo.gl/TosrRknL1aJeNu728

https://www.ajc.com/opinion/opinion-visit-to-historic-cemetery-shows-power-of-vaccinations/VGZMNQOI3ZDZBE6AN4LMM7CAJY/

Nvidia is the stock.

Good luck with the timing. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

That might be true. But it’s important to note that we want the world to be more kind to everyone, and not universally unforgiving.

Okay then, tackle climate change.

How is that message board going to be immune to this?

Actual solutions are to hold the people who raped a 13 year old accountable.

I don’t really give a shit which less specific term you want to use. 13.

Lindsey Stirling, lofi girl

But not much more. Here’s a fun experiment you can try at home.

Go into a thread you generally agree with. Post something that supports that vibe, BUT start your paragraph with a negative word.

People will take the vibe from that one word and not consider the meaning of the rest of your post. They don’t comprehend sentences or paragraphs, they take the vibe of the first charged word they see.

Slightly?

The “status quo” is partly that way because Democrats don’t provide instant gratification. The changes tend to be significant, but slow. In the next ten years, if the plans don’t get demolished, I’m going to be able to take passenger rail to Chicago.

The problem is progress is slow, but destruction is fast. Every few years people get frustrated with how slowly the Dems are building the house of cards and they bring Republicans in to knock it down.

And then people look back over the past decade and wonder why the house of cards is in the same state.

It already happened there 90 years ago. AND they get to see our results within this decade. They think afd is different from Trump somehow? Not significantly.

That old autocomplete is great. It’s specifically the AI autocomplete that’s less useful.

21 days? What the hell.