Look, get it straight. Fantasizing that 99.8% of the people of the world die so the plants can grow is eco-fascism. Fantasizing that 99.8% of the people of the world just sorta aren’t around any more so the plants can grow is evocative.

Run, do not walk, to your favorite purveyor of nonfiction and seek John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. The TL;DR is enough important people were so desperate not to miss the next big thing—getting in on the ground floor of franchised medical testing—they simply ignored everyone in…

Maybe the next thread over. What I had in mind was more a “What is this guy doing that merits intensive press coverage, again?” thread.

Is THIS the story that will make me overlook the man’s mediocre musicality?

Folks curious about where it came up when, there’s a paper about it here: Arthur Boylston - The origins of inoculation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407399/ .

It’d be worth considering, at least; it does have some insecticidal effect, too. (In the sense that it’s much more toxic to insects than to humans, which is what distinguishes an insecticide from a poison. https://www.cell.com/trends/parasitology/fulltext/S1471-4922(20)30290-7 )

Credibility: 404.

Turns out that it’s a lot easier to ask for very high levels of specificity than to deliver it. Also, y’know, CDC has another kinda big thing going on right now, so some of the resources that might have gone to pondering the distinction between sopressata and capicola may not be as readily available.

Yep. Among other things, the USA is very bad about seeing to it people from the bottom few quintiles get routine preventive care, while indulging every hypochondriacal moment of folks from the top few.  No routine bloodwork for the poor, CAT scans for sore knees for the rich.  It’s not easy to combine a higher…

You can also make a stethoscope out of two funnels, a tube, and a balloon. Since that costs about five dollars, clearly any time a cardiologist charges more than five dollars for anything, that means capitalism is bad.

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“It can’t be that simple,” he typed, reordering “Nestlé Coffee mate Coffee Creamer, Original, Non Dairy Powder Creamer, 132 Ounces (Pack of 12)“.

If you’re adding up all the transactions and saying “multiplier effect”, you’re talking about the GDP whether you know it or not.

Thing is, “number goes up” doesn’t solve a problem. If you and I spend a week selling the same rock back and forth to each other for a penny less each time, the number measuring economic activity skyrockets; our contribution to the Gross Domestic Product is incredible. The multiplier effect is present—with a small…

No, the whole point of robots was to help us pitiful humans by reducing the amount of work we need to do.

Fortunately, in the real world we send teenagers out to incur eternal nonexistence as the price of war.  Also, many of them are not cute.

Well, no. Remember, capital is MEASURED in dollars, but it is not MADE of dollars. Rapidly circulating money results in a lot of measurable economic activity, but “the economy uses that money more than once” doesn’t magically make more stuff exist.

Since this was more of a fun experiment and less of a science-y one, there weren’t thermometers involved, so I’m wondering if you could technically consider the cookies baked by some objective standard.

Just as the song pays unsympathetic tribute to the dead,

Elora puts a roll of currency back into her pocket just after Ansel--the nitwit with a pool cue--says, “I thought it was `Hakuna matata.’” They’re not shown finding the driver or giving him anything, and I don’t think we’re supposed to infer they did it off camera.