So, I might have non-life threatening symptoms that last a few months? Ok... You do know you're arguing for me to inject a foreign object in my body right? You're going to have to do better than that.

That's an excuse, not a reason. I'm not injecting something into my body because you think have a good excuse for not testing it thoroughly.

It's not. Entire countries stopped distributing that vaccine.

While I'm sure you'd love for me to believe that I'll need a new lung if I don't take your vaccine, the burden of proof is on you and you've nowhere near met it. I've been going to work every day for a year since this stupid virus has been floating around. For at least 6 months of that the government wasn't even making us wear masks. Both lungs are still working.

True and not FUD. This is the first widespread use of an mNRA vaccine in history, which is what I said. That is a fact.

Pot, meet kettle.

While Im sure you feel pretty good about that response, you didnt actually say or provide anything beyond "nuh unh".

What are the death rates of healthy 37 year olds? Show me. Am I really likely to die from COVID? We both know the answer to that and can take a clue from your projection: youre just spouting pro-vaccine propaganda, and irrelevant talking points.

The COVID vaccine is the very first wide-spread vaccine to use mRNA delivery, is it not? You can ramble all you want about "the science being settled", but this is the first and "the science has been settled" many times in history to produce unintended consequences. So forgive me if I don't want to be your Guinea pig.

Finally, you admit that some people get pretty sick but then imply I should just suck it up? Why? Because you're irrationally angry and calling me stupid. No thanks. You probably would have made a great Nazi, bud.

While Im sure you feel pretty good about that response, you didnt actually say or provide anything beyond âoenuh unhâ. What are the death rates of healthy 37 year olds? Show me. Am I really likely to die from COVID? We both know the answer to that and can take a clue from your projection: youre just spouting pro-vaccine propaganda, and irrelevant talking points. The COVID vaccine is the very first wide-spread vaccine to use mRNA delivery, is it not? You can ramble all you want about âoethe science being settledâ but this is a first and âoethe science has been settledâ many times in history to produce unintended consequences. So forgive me if I donâ(TM)t want to be your Guinea pig. Finally, you admit that some people get pretty sick but then imply I should just suck it up? Why? Because youâ(TM)re irrationally angry and calling me stupid. No thanks. You probably would have made a great Nazi, bud.

Do you know what a coronavirus is? They are a species of virus that is responsible for everything from the common cold to the flu, and they mutate, very, very fast (COVID-19 has already mutated at least 3 times). It seems unlikely that the vaccine will really do anything, tbh. Regardless, the burden of proof is on you to show me that COVID-19 will be the cause of my death at 90 if I donâ(TM)t get vaccinated today. Im not just going to take your word for it.

Vaccine passports do exist in many countries AND states. If you donâ(TM)t understand what is wrong with a vaccine passport, a basic course in Western civics might be in order.

In my opinion, suggesting that natural selection is how evolution works is like suggesting that wheels are how a car works. Our understanding of the process of evolution is utterly incomplete, and will stay that way given the dogmatic nature of the field.

That's a weird, sadistic take on work. You don't get paid to do your job because you don't like it. You get paid to provide a product or service to someone else. It's commerce.

If they tried to make me wear a clown suit to work every day, I wouldn't shrug and say "oh well, they're paying me not to like it!". I would probably get a different job. Preferring work from home is no different.

I can imagine the perspective you must have to generate this concern, but I would challenge you: Tell me exactly why I should take the vaccine. Here are the facts:

1) I'm 37 years old, healthy, no pre-existing medical conditions. If I were to attract COVID my chances of dying are essentially zero.

2) For all of the available vaccines, not one of them has passed the level of regulatory approval that is common for even cold medications or heart burn pills. We simply do not know or understand the long-term side effects. We couldn't possibly.

3) Anecdotal evidence (the only evidence we have due to point 2) suggest that the vaccines might have serious issues. Blood clots, fainting spells, severe COVID symptoms. I personally know someone that was down for 3 days, violently ill, after getting their first shot.

4) The Moderna vaccine (and the Pfizer one) pioneers a new delivery system (MNRA) that has never been used in a vaccine before. The Astra vaccine has been removed from distribution in many countries due to blood clot concerns.

So, while I understand the frustration you might have if you assume these vaccines are wonderful, how can you deny that, given the above, a person might calculate it's just not worth the risk?

Maybe next time you can not be 15 years too late.

>Tech analyst Gene Munster also tells CNN "Something most people can agree on... Electric vehicles are the future. I think that's a safe assumption."

Well I guess I'm one of the few that disagree. Most estimates have us running out of Lithium in only a couple hundred years at projected consumption rates, and there's no cost-effective method for recycling on the horizon.

All hope seems to, recklessly, be in some new battery revolution that might never come, so what then? Back to gasoline? This is not to mention the fact that there is currently no real prospects for electric planes, transport trucks, tankers, barges, trains, buses, etc..

The electric car industry, to date, has been one big crony capitalist scam that is only being held together by tax payer subsidies and draconian government policy, as TFA outlines. This is a common theme in everything related to "green energy", so the final nail in the coffin will come when people realize that governments cant operate in the red forever, and rich countries that continue to ignore reality will not stay rich very long.

The electric car "revolution" is not real. It's just feelings and hope.

The meteoric rise of Bitcoin and the fact that mining it is also a massive racket canâ(TM)t just be coincidental. Like I said, if youâ(TM)re part of the very elite and specialized sector of chip manufacturers that can design and fabricate 5nm chips, you basically have a license to print money right now. To assume Wall Street hasnâ(TM)t noticed this and all this parabolic growth is just organic is naÃveté. Furthermore, Bitcoin is not a great protocol. Thereâ(TM)s literally hundreds of alt-coins, all of which are a serious and important improvement on Bitcoin, yet almost none of them see the same marketing and PR as Bitcoin. Why? Because thereâ(TM)s no mining racket around these other coins and therefore no reason for Wall Street to give a shit about them. This is a bubble, in my opinion, and itâ(TM)s a bubble thatâ(TM)s approaching a hard stop. ASICs will eventually taper off in their exponential improvements and Wall Street will cash out leaving Joe Middleclass and his progressive IRA holding the bags.

Well it's not like I'm lazing around just putting off work. I have a job to do, and I do it. My deadlines, like most office people, are largely task and time oriented, not number-of-hours-spent-working-on-it oriented. That type of measure of productivity kind of died out with assembly line jobs.

So assuming that I'm still getting the same amount work done every week, which I would have to because I have deadlines, then I don't see why it wouldn't work out the same.

This is profoundly stupid. Last I checked, there is no electric truck, EVs don't work well in the snow, and there's none I'm aware of that have a range over 400 miles. So RIP road trips, camping, off roading, work, and towing I guess.

When will these morons learn? Let the market sort these things out. You can't legislate morality.

Not really.

I'm no proponent of Bitcoin, but this is different. The problem with Ripple is it actually isn't decentralized - one company controls the entire supply. That company that controls the entire supply is now facing a massive lawsuit, so this is naturally a huge problem for anyone holding the coins that company exclusively controls.

It would be cool if you're right, but I don't think you are.

Did you notice how all of a sudden the entire world learned about Bitcoin? Ya, that was weird, and I don't think it was a coincidence. My hunch is that Wall Street learned that ASIC manufacturers basically have a license to print money. Developing ASICs, espeically these increasingly small 5nm ASICs, is expensive. Wall Street has the capital to back, and they're very eager to do so as the business model is basically better than a Casino. Here's how the scam goes:

Develop a new ASIC unit and mine with it. As Bitcoin difficulty starts to get less profitable, put it up for "pre-order". Head on over to Bitmain and see for yourself. Pre-orders are almost sold out and the shipping date is "estimated" to be August 2021. If those units they are selling are still profitable in August 2021, you'll see a "delay" in shipping. You can guarantee that.

After all, would you sell a money printing machine? It's a simple calculation to see if your Bitcoin miner is profitable. If it is, it's the next best thing to a money printing machine. If it isn't, sell it to some hobbyist for more than it cost you to make it.

Wall Street is of course doing their part, as the underwriter, to pump Bitcoin in the news. Millions of fools buy in, thousands more buy their defunct mining hardware, and the whole house of cards has to come crashing down eventually.

The reality is that the Bitcoin protocol is pretty flawed and has been for a long time. If you wanted to push a real Cryptocurrency that could do some good in the world, you could push something like Peercoin. This isn't being done, quite simply, because there's no money in being fair and actually trying to better the industry.