This movie isn't some CGI-fueled Superhero Distraction, it's a dark and serious reflection on a historical conspiracy to commit genocide, fueled by racism and a sense of cultural superiority, covered up and obscured by a web of lies, and it reveals dark, ugly truths at the heart of America. And one would hope that lessons are learned, so that we can avoid making similar mistakes now and in the future.

And we're now in an era where a former president espouses racism and cultural superiority, cheats to get ahead, lies reflexively, has the broad support of White Christian Nationalists, and has perpetrated actual conspiracies, ranging from tax evasions to attempted coups.

How was this speech not relevant...?

The Supreme Court weighed in, and it turns out you're wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Gender may be separate from sex, but that doesn't mean they don't relate to each other, just like sex and sexuality are separate and yet related. If someone was assigned male at birth, and they want to wear a dress because they are transgender and identify as a woman, but their township passes a law saying they can't wear a dress, then that is clearly sex-based discrimination (because you're not letting a 'male' do something that a 'female' can do).

Attempts to disentangle sex as a protected class from gender and gender identity as a protected class are fraught at best.

I've been working in video games for over a decade, and 0 vs 0.05 vs 0.1 vs 0.15 vs 0.2 seconds are miles apart in terms of feel, once you've acquired a sense for it. Trying plugging in an old Guitar Hero set, and then play with 0.2 seconds of audio/visual lag, and compare it to something properly calibrated, and the difference is night and day.

There's no such thing as a singular 'reaction time', the context always matters. Braking your car in an emergency famously takes over a second, because we're talking about a whole chain of events starting with your eyes and ending with your feet.

In a competitive game, sure, maybe your total reaction time between seeing and clicking is 150 ms, but you're cognitively processing things and intuiting the future much earlier than that (let's say at 50 ms, for the sake of easy math). That means that at 60 fps, you're planning and clicking 66 and 166 ms after the fact, whereas at 30 fps it's 83 and 183 ms later (25% and 10% higher times).

The difference is noticeable.

Up to ~2% of people fall outside of the rigid binary outcomes "XX/XY -> Female/Male Physiology": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Saying that Physical Sex is on a spectrum (even a relatively narrow one) isn't being politically correct, it's being more accurate.

And I'm a pope!

Safety and efficacy of the vaccine is easily measured and it's in your doctor's interests to keep you healthy.

I got my shots last fall (Pfizer Phase III participant, voluntarily de-blinded in January, confirmed vaccine group), and am currently in the best shape of my post-adolescent life. Meanwhile, multiple friends who got COVID-19 spent many months dealing with residual fatigue, lung damage, brain fog, etc.

What could go wrong?

I think you're missing a decimal place. The US has ~30x the population of Sweden, and multiplying their 5,894 deaths by 30 is 176,820, not 18,000.

They say that the best samples are worth 10x more than your average sample

*sigh* I Ctrl+F'd to search for 'poop' to make sure I wasn't duplicating another comment, I didn't notice 'defecate' in the summary.

They use it to poop along the North/South Axis: https://www.npr.org/sections/t...

First, the correction: the Case Fatality Rate (percentage of known cases that die) is high, but the Infection Fatality Rate (percentage of total cases) is much lower, under 1% IIRC. That's not to diminish the threat of the virus, since even 0.5% deaths from the 70% of infected Americans we'd need in order to achieve herd immunity is around 1 million people, which is still a shockingly large number. It also doesn't account for additional deaths due to a collapsed healthcare system, fewer deaths due to reduced road traffic, either more or fewer suicides (un-employment may drive it up, but a bunch of people dying from COVID-19 would also cause its own despair, so sacrificing one metric to save the other may have mixed results), etc.

Second, the fine: video games seem to be a relatively safe sector of the economy. Large waves can obviously have unexpected consequences, so there's no guarantee of any long-term stability, but social distancing and isolation seem to be driving an increase in video game sales, which makes my income more or less stable in the short-to-medium term. Working for a fiscally responsible company helps a bunch here, as does being an introvert. That's not to say that everything is rosy, but compared to many folks, I am very fortunate and secure.

Artificial AI Startups?

Does that mean the Truck will be Model ; and the Semi will be Model D?