Moronic. There are to many reasons to list why doctors should not be able to give a patient anything they ask for, but I'll start with the most fucking obvious: if that was how things should be, why have prescriptions at all? It's fascinating watching the contempt for specialized competence eat the United States from within.

I'm a 25+ years of experience C++ programmer, and Rust is great. Entrenchment will mean C++ will be around in meaningful amounts for awhile, but I have no qualms about Rust increasingly eating its lunch.

what a dystopia

Post something Ron DeSantis doesn't like online?

Yeah, nobody has every done that before under their public name. *rolls eyes*

I don't think you fully appreciate the difference between marketing and "being made aware of". You'd hope the billions of dollars companies spend on both improving their ability to influence decision making, and analyzing the performance of their marketing mandates would clue people in to the fact that the vast majority of advertising is not designed to "make you aware" of a product, let a lone a whole class of products as per your analogy.

Recording Engineers generally try to master separately for vinyl if they are allowed to do so, but whether or not that is actually done depends on the record label and artist's wishes. Most of the time, the label wants to do the thing that costs the least. Given the opportunity, those same engineers will also create separate mixes for mono and stereo and possibly some flavors of multichannel (e.g. Atmos) as well.

I don't like the way vinyl sounds and I hate the idea of a medium that degrades every time it's used, but my much-younger partner generally thinks of vinyl as decorative anyway. It's the only physical audio media she owns and we definitely don't have a turntable, either.

actually, people being too lazy to take an hour out of their day to recycle their waste is about the same as people being too lazy to take 10 minutes to look into the most basic facts of an issue before they voice an opinion is to blame

people are lazy and problems shared among all people means nobody or anything specific is "at fault"

If they were really serious about this severe problem, they would kick all the people out of their state, so that nobody would ever see anyone else. Until humans are eliminated, Texas' vision cannot be fulfilled. FUCK HUMANS! (Err, I mean that figuratively, of course. You should never literally fuck a human. That's not even a thing, kids, I swear!)

Next step: State of Texas sues all their ISPs.

Yes, a metric fuckload of information when condensed down to smaller amounts of information could mean something else if you were obstinate about misinterpreting it. Give yourself a pat on the back for bringing this all to our attention.

so you believe that there would be the same number of murders if there was no legal consequence to committing it?

that's ... quite stupid

Yes, because the means to achieving a end and the intent in the committing of an act are both factors very much taken into account in classifying a criminal act, the severity thereof, and punishments suitable if found guilty of committing them.

"I can't imagine"

Yes, I know, that's basically your personal slogan. We've already determined you're incapable of seeing anything from outside of your own perspective, cayenne8.

Although if you don't understand how this might affect how much $$ it will make you, congratulations, you're a lousy investor (which is independent of how much success you've had in investing to date, to be clear)

Panasonic definitely wins for video features overall but someone used to shooting on a contemporary hybrid mirrorless camera from another manufacturer will definitely have a "WTF is this?" moment for dealing with its contrast-based autofocus system.

I've never seen a Blackmagic camera in the wild, but I do have a couple Panasonic MFT cameras and every time I use one, I'm reminded that I have to be so much more deliberate in my shooting compared to the "point in vaguely the right direction" of my newer gear.

All the information available to investors is "somewhat useless" without the context of other information available to investors. Guess what information is available to investors? What the company they're investing in actually does. Entities have plenty of opportunity to put any information they make available (voluntarily or not) into sufficient context.

I thought people liked free markets? Free markets depend on sufficient transparency, and I don't know who these days would think environmental externalities aren't a type of risk exposure with present or future potential consequences.