Yes. Our medical services have become inextricably tangled with for-profit insurance companies that usually try to under-pay for services. Medical providers are forced to raise costs for everything to cover the shortfall. The result has been an ever ballooning cost-for-services spanning decades. Now, making money has…

The Mini pickup was also “too small to be useful”, but they were, indeed, awesome AF. 

I think one of the chief concerns with the possibility of a lab leak is whether or not they were doing medical research or military. That makes all the difference. 

I wasn’t making the argument that this coronavirus was a lab leak. I was simply posing the question as a hypothetical example to study the possible solutions that a more (required) collaborative environment would provide. Pathogens certainly need to be exhaustively studied. When the valid question arises as to the…

Certainly it’s “plausible”. Though rare, lab leaks happen. To me the two questions to ask are 1) was it a health or military lab? We’ll likely never know the full answer to that question. It’s important as it relates to intent. 2) how do we (collectively, as a species) prevent such accidents? With a non-zero chance of…

It’s beyond frightening how many people in the medical field (direct and indirect) espouse bogus vaccine beliefs. It should be a terminable offense for anyone spreading demonstrably false information about vaccines. In the case of licensed practitioners, it should come with revocation. 

One could imagine these wild conspiracy theories actually help cover up nefarious acts because so many people focus solely on them…

This ain’t nicecar, boy.

She indeed seems to run the gamut of clinical and environmental reasons to argue for societal removal. The issue is that she will receive no substantive treatment for her mental illness while incarcerated. They’ll medicate her, but that’s about the extent of the “treatment” she’ll receive. Failure to treat, or even…

Florida annexes parts of Arizona. 

Yes, vaccines, by in large, prevent the infection. Yes, a very small percentage of those vaccinated will still contract the disease, but the vaccine virtually insures a non-lethal, and probably non hospital stay sort of infection.

I get it. I only have my old LEAF to compare in terms of “acceleration”, so not a great analogue. I have flown and been flown in a few high performance aircraft. The sensation of acceleration is linear and unyielding. Many of us have decades of experience in cars. In a car with an automatic transmission, the…

All the bros, just one too many powers. 

You are an uneducated moron who has not even the most basic understanding of what a democrat does and does not think. 

Waiting for wwdc to see. They’ve said they don’t plan to merge or hybridize iPadOS and Mac, so I don’t actually have much hope for anything super awesome from the conference - I’m ready to be proven wrong, though! I bought the 2018 iPad Pro after the OS update offering mouse support and access to a “file system”, only…

Is it too much to ask for a sequel film “Dicks on a Plane” with Samuel L Jackson kicking their asses?

And dial “all 9’s now!”

But I thought Epic was fighting the same battle with Android over the same issues. Was that one resolved, or is it just not receiving the same amount of press coverage?

It has an enormous impact on consumer expectations, though. If millions of people go out and buy the new iPad Pro because it has the same “engine” as an iMac, and Apple doesn’t leverage it, it’ll have a large negative PR backlash. Don’t forget, the 12.9 inch M1 iPad Pro is now priced like a MacBook. It needs to have…

I just don’t see the point of an M1 in the iPad unless Apple is planning to drop an amazing iPadOS update that basically is MacOS with touch. I mean, I’m hoping they do just that, but it would mean a really significant change in Apple’s stance on OSs.