you would actually have an extreme advantage in this since 66% of people would choose to die off - leaving you with a much smaller 100+yr group

generally when you get in a car and don't wear a seatbelt everything is fine
generally if you work on a construction site and don't wear a helmet everything is fine
generally if you don't look both ways before crossing the street everything is fine
generally eating raw chicken is fine
I wouldn't do any of those things

when is the last time you walked into a store and bought something with rare metals or stocks or anything that by definition has a speculative value?

Actually no baseball cards , like bitcoin act as an investment rather than currency. The problem with crypto currency is that it really isn’t a currency since the currency needs stability as it cuts as the measuring stick. In order for it to act as currency it would needs to have stable value because owning a dollar of currency can’t incur high risk or it makes things like business and commerce impossible, if you spend so many dollars on stock that tomorrow you have to sell for dollars x10 tomorrow and one one hundredth of that the next day there is no way to sustain commerce.

last I heard covid is spread mainly by aerosol contact, not by shitting on the ground. The real issue is that the gov't leaned heavily into the astra zenica vaccine and that the government did fuck all to mitigate the spread, hopefully in the next few months we can get other vaccines to them to start building more herd immunity though likely it will mainly need to be J&J for storage purposes

Just FYI j&j is an mRNA vaccine, the difference is a natural vs synthetic delivery system

Yeah I got mine from a first come first serve community site here and am now fully vaxxed, 3 weeks outside the second dose

As long as there are a large number of unvaccinated everyone should be wearing a mask, but if you are wearing a good mask like one with a filter or kn95 or better you do a great deal to protect yourself. I will admit that those that don’t tend to believe in it end up wearing thin surgical masks under their noses so yeah, that doesn’t do anything to protect them

If you are vaccinated there are still concerns that have not been fully studied that you can become a carrier for a period without actually contracting covid, this would cause a spread to unvaccinated people (who if they took the vaccine would solve some of this) so the masks are for them, and for kids since some of the variants show a higher infection and more severe cases with children. As far as economics go, you really don’t understand economics if you think not wearing a mask or standing 6’ away fixes your finances

I worked in an office once where a sales guy kept complaining to me that his tower kept shutting down and I kept telling him I am not in IT and finally he said that I needed to fix it or he would get me fired so I popped it open and saw that the PS had a broken wire in it so I fixed it by joining the wires and wrapped it with with some tin foil from my lunch and a couple of days later it caught on fire.

it really doesn't, any more than you can make boost mobile a utility or fox news a utility because government officials use it for communication. There s a reason that there is government infrastructure to communicate with the public

yes but they don't exclude, if someone breaks the terms of service they are banned, this can happen with utilities as well. if you are talking about feeds, that is promotion and not exclusion

that is because as we have learned conservatism is a joke of itself, they are pro business until businesses doesn't want to be pushed over by the right party line. at this point the right has no values except: if you aren't on the right authority needs to be used to force you to capitulate to whatever the hell they want.

yeah it is called urectum now

honestly, this is the only way to tax equitably and if it doesn't happen eventually things will either collapse or people will get violent over it.. that is the way it has always worked historically