The Ukraine war has resulted in extremely high energy prices in Europe which puts a damper on manufacturing there; in addition to that China is still hamstringing itself with COVID restrictions. Enjoy it while it lasts, factory workers, it probably won't last long. Most likely the recession will deepen and demand will drop off as well, but even if that doesn't happen, China will eventually get its act together. Maybe even Europe too.

It's a one-party state and CARB are unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats anyway. There are no adults to take charge.

US TV Manufacturers capture Chinese voices without telling them.

Not that one; there are no US TV manufacturers.

Or better, get a folding ebike and carry it.

I have one of those. It's about 60 pounds, so the exercise part is covered too, just not while riding.

We used to call this "poisoning the well". I wonder if maybe someone could make a video about the tactic of claiming that anyone taking a particular position is a no-goodnik, to try to inoculate them against that?

I was trying to make it feel like a kick in the nuts, but this seems to be at least in the ballpark.

That would be one of the classic blunders.

Coward is correct here. In many businesses you can't follow all the laws and still get the job done. So parking tickets just become a stochastic hazard, like the occasional hailstorm.

What does a decision about what a Federal administrative agency was authorized to do by Congress have to do with a voter initiative at the state level?

If race didn't really have a scientific basis, the AI couldn't detect it so reliably. Not only is race detectable by multiple modalities of medical imaging on different body parts, it can still be detected when low spatial frequency information (thus, gross anatomical features) is filtered out, and when high spatial frequency information is filtered out. So race is not only real, it is pervasive.

This is a completely made-up problem, born from a defective mind -- the same kind of mind that would try to charge you extra if you had a movie night party at your house, because more people are watching "their" content.

Sure, if you've got too many people over (friends are OK, family is OK, friends of immediate family OK, friends of friends not OK), it's a public performance and the MPAA gets to sue you for ONE MILLION DOLLARS... err actually $150,000, per work shown.

That this has not happened much keeps Jack Valenti spinning in his grave.

There's a depiction of this in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. It's an interesting movie to watch from a 21st century perspective, especially the parts where James Bond aids and abets the Taliban.

The Taliban were founded in 1994. The Living Daylights was released in 1987.

Even if that's not the case, it is still hysterical how self-defeating his delusions are. As if Ukraine isn't going to join NATO after this bullshit.

If Ukraine is still in a position to request to join NATO after this, they won't need to. But it's rather unlikely they will be.

I haven't found a good dose to probability of infection relationship for SARS-CoV-2. For most viruses it's exponential over a wide range -- that is, a multiplicative increase in dose results in a linear increase in risk. There's also usually two plateaus, one low one high, where a multiplicative increase in dose results in almost no increase in risk, creating a threshold effect.

Masks impede the virus' spread by a factor of Re / R0 = (1 - M P)^2, where M is the mask's efficiency at filtering particles and P is the fraction of people wearing them.

Nope. There's no basis for this equation. The major error is implicitly assuming a linear relationship between viral dose and chance of infection.