paypalcust83's comments

Yup, that's a sensible conclusion. The article could be an expression of sour grapes bikeshedding.

Mail it to them in a legal-sized envelope on dead tree carcasses. Harder to ignore, they'd print it anyhow for candidate finalists, and virus FUD is a non-issue. Send them an email copy as a backup or in-case they need an electronic version too.

Find a fiduciary financial adviser / asset manager perhaps who gets paid based on service rather than periodic commissions.

I got the heck out the SF Bay Area to semi-rural NorCal, and have a good 12 months of food that would normally get eaten anyhow. Curiously, I frequently see drivers speeding down the street here with their vehicle windows down, no masks, and acting like there's no such thing as a virus. One of the adjacent properties is constructing a house and multiple neighbors have been chainsawing pines and oaks nonstop for the past month. In 3 months, I've only been off-property once for an emergency dental visit.

I don't think there is, or ever will be, sufficient testing evidence to justify similar-to-past public interaction until if or when there is a safe and effective vaccine deployed that covers all strains. The prevalence is basically unknown and will only be worse when there is no longer mindshare or patience to keep up the fight... I think nearly all of this socioeconomic pain will be for naught because of the endgame.

People don't necessarily touch, especially anymore and unlikely any longer.

MEMS camera "dust" with a/v recording, storage, and GNSS would be nice.

A safety match would do this in the real world and be much cheaper.

Steel or steal?

Isn't Bluestar better than Luminol?

What then is the converse of retrofuturism where the present or future is represented with a mix of obsolete technologies along with contemporary and/or hypothetical future ones?

Technologies used in neocolonial occupation and conquest will eventually be applied domestically. It's only a matter of time before the US government elites have a real-time panopticon like China and Reapers fire weapons from the air at civilians.

Back when music videos were awesome works of cinematography, production, visual, and musical art:

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (complete with CG and 80's pastel graphics on live video) - https://youtu.be/csje_Tb0U0c

Here's a playlist of 80's MTV videos, starting with the Space Shuttle and Apollo launches followed by landing the MTV flag on the moon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBhuf1g-rY&list=PLDHCLXs2vT...

Like most things on Internet Archive, individual videos are not annotated very well so you have no idea what's in the content. Digging through it would be, sadly, mostly a waste of time. It would be more useful with annotations.

It's good for rough pathology of certain infectious diseases and fluid and tissue conditions. Also, you're throwing around a strawman about fixed costs that are amortized in volume. Plus, robotic manufacturing and packing can produce these in massive quantities that drive the net unit costs down.

I've played with similar microscope prototypes IRL and they were quite impressive for something seemingly primitive at first, they were quite usable and adjustable.

I saw laser-cut prototypes of something similar at Stanford around the med school at some sort of "science fair" ~6 years ago. The cost is mostly the magnifying bead. What's also great, besides being cheap, is that it doesn't need power, packs down quite small, and can work in the field.

UB started with the right observations, but arrived at the wrong means prescriptions. He wandered off alone into the weeds, in both senses.

A wiser realization is that it's those in established power and the rich who are actively or willfully ignorantly sabotaging the planet and condemning billions of people to relatively more poverty, misery, disease, and death.

A million people nonviolently showing up to the seats of power, arresting crooked politicians and their enablers, and fine-tuning what cannot be fixed (by any POTUS, SCOTUS, or COTUS) from within (separation between church and wealth and state, public campaign financing, clean elections observed with exit polls and international observers, de-emphasized celebrity political promotion perhaps by lottery [as the ancient Greeks] rather than mainstream media popularity contest) are the necessary first steps before fixing anything else.

FCC comments are like petitions: useless, virtual-signaling, pseudo-actions that are easily ignored. Calling reps and challenging their re-election prospects are the most fundamental ways to influence the FCC because the corporations have the most say when the people don't make enough noise.

Next, they'll require IDs and use IVRC to delete comments based on "too similar names."

I accidentally left my passport in the microwave for 1 second while heating up a pain au chocolat. Now it can't be remotely sidebanded and is no longer Turing complete apparently too. Silly me!

The USN has been watching too much Macross in their free time. And couple this with fuzzy deep fake videos, media complicity, and high-ranking "reliable authorities" behaving as actors must be getting a good kick out of trolling the public for "natsec" "reasons." Without independently-verifiable evidence, big claims are most likely big yarns.

Troll elsewhere, thanks.

What a piece of junk this ship turned out to be. - Global of the SDF-1

Meat packing and agriculture jobs in the US are presently incredibly dangerous, under-regulated (wink-wink regulated large corporations who have immense political power through lobbyists and trade PACs), and often done by undocumented persons who cannot get compensation if they are maimed or killed. Interestingly, these industries often advertise wages in Central and South American countries' newspaper to encourage migration, legal and otherwise.