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New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vaccine neutralization"

readflaggedcomm — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:57:29 +0000

Before a couple of years ago, masks were often banned at the local level in the US. There's no good reason for bans or mandates in normal circumstances, and that includes being a democracy.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vaccine neutralization"

readflaggedcomm — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:55:23 +0000

Consider that the information you get could be one-sided because the major platforms ban dissenting views (in cooperation with partisan NGOs identifying it).

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Human geneticists curb use of the term ‘race’ in their papers"

readflaggedcomm — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 03:18:01 +0000

Maybe that leveling is itself justice.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "My career of treating patients has ended"

readflaggedcomm — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 06:03:28 +0000

If the engineer responds by harboring a grudge against all encryption, and silently failing to employ secure industry standards, then neither he nor his other customers win. Medical professionals treat individuals, not political groups.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Stop Facebook"

readflaggedcomm — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 01:55:49 +0000

Do you mean passive third-party requests I could block on my end, or something built into their backend that exposes their entire registration list? I thought it was only the former.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "If 6G becomes just 5G+ we’ll have made a big mistake"

readflaggedcomm — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 17:06:47 +0000

Owning your own phone outright often solves this rent-to-own upgrade problem.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results"

readflaggedcomm — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 17:56:47 +0000

You're right. I noticed this on Bing Maps before, but hadn't noticed Google following suit.

It makes these sites so much less useful. Their unique location catalog is the reason I usually prefer Google, then Bing, over Here Maps or whatever OSM thing. But it's harder and harder to query it to receive anything useful.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "The web is fucked"

readflaggedcomm — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 17:46:49 +0000

Early adopters and enthusiasts always have different values. That's why we act differently toward technology in the first place.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results"

readflaggedcomm — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 01:06:04 +0000

At least you can -exclude those names. Gas station convenience stores come up for "grocery store" searches, yet they're all named differently.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis"

readflaggedcomm — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 01:03:44 +0000

Not all, not even most from the listings I looked at a few years ago. Only one of the three old Android phones I have supports it, and it's one without a recognizable brand (the other two are Samsung and LG).

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening"

readflaggedcomm — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:49:01 +0000

The browser team could implement the ad blocker itself, instead of relying on third-party code. But even the apparently-best one of those (Brave) has a lousy interface for it.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening"

readflaggedcomm — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:42:48 +0000

They basically did, until the underlying browser became incompatible. That was the point: to have a stable API instead of extensions relying on implementation details, which includes multiple processes.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "The pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness"

readflaggedcomm — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 18:01:01 +0000

Which is made all the more difficult when people react violently to your attempts to connect with them, because they perceive your political stance as a threat (usually through misunderstanding). No wonder we clam up and brace for war.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Bank of America execs warn junior staffers to ‘dress down’ as NYC crime surges"

readflaggedcomm — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 03:02:37 +0000

If you go to another country dressed however you wish, you might be acosted, too. We share our cities.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Cancelled by his college"

readflaggedcomm — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 02:56:33 +0000

She is a Democratic hero. There is nothing to cancel in her work which remains.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Cancelled by his college"

readflaggedcomm — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 02:55:36 +0000

The Union celebrated General Lee. Maybe we should tear it down, too.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "To regrow forests the U.S. needs billions of seeds–and many more 'seed hunters'"

readflaggedcomm — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:17:16 +0000

>a cache of pine cones worth $15 a bushel. These woody cones are in steep demand

A bushel, even of lightweight pine cones, is fairly large at eight gallons. For some varieties*, a bushel of pine cones delivers 1.2 pounds of pine nuts per bushel.

$15 per sounds unlike "steep demand" to me, based on my observation of prices of raw pine nuts in areas I've been where they're harvested by locals. But they provide no justification for their idea, or market context. It just leaves me suspicious.

* https://www.fs.fed.us/eng/ref/seedlings/conecoll/determine.h...

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "A drama professor told students they got their feelings hurt too easily"

readflaggedcomm — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 20:41:45 +0000

Correct. Like I said, he had had no business remarking on their list of associations or dis-associations.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "A drama professor told students they got their feelings hurt too easily"

readflaggedcomm — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 20:34:15 +0000

>they saw the list and were left with the suspicion that those on it had been singled out with racist intent.

They aren't wrong. Earnest had no business remarking on students' appearance in or how they express feelings in Theater.

New comment by readflaggedcomm in "Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy"

readflaggedcomm — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:46:19 +0000

He was larping as an EMT, actually, offering medical help.

When GI Joe was fighting, there were also combat medics doing the same with weapons to defend themselves.