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Comment Re:Used fuel still has a total kill count of zero. (Score 1) 104

Taxes involve taking money from people. Poor people have very little money. Trying to take money from people who don't have money is a plan that most Republicans are not stupid enough to try to implement.

Poor people spend a disproportionately large portion of their income on food and housing. Housing is mostly not imported, hence not subject to tariffs. In the U.S. most food is grown in-country, not subject to tariffs.

Alas, both parties are in favor of high taxes. The Democrats are more honest about wanting to steal from everyone.

Comment Re:Shocking, but... (Score 1) 104

The English slang "drinkypoo" was what an alcohol abuser might call an alcoholic beverage, to hide from himself that he is about to increase his inebriation. Alternately, "drinkypoo" might be used in a flirtatious or humorous manner, also to lessen the mental impact of an invitation to drink.

Comment Re:Why the conversion? (Score 1) 107

Unconcentrated conventional solar cells might run 25% efficiency.

If the space mirrors are properly designed, they could reflect to Earth only the wavelengths that solar cells can efficiently convert. Is 50% efficiency possible? The Earthside solar farms could be smaller.

Microwave rectennas can do better than 75% efficiency, so a rectenna farm could be even smaller.

Microwaves are invisible, so in principle a rogue beam could cook you before you knew you were in danger, The light from space mirrors would be visible, so when you see a bright spot in the sky where it shouldn't be, run for cover.

Sometimes, all you want energy for is heat. Reflect light to targets in Alaska and Norway in the winter.

Comment Re:Surveillance state incoming (Score 0) 375

People who are overweight enough to be unhealthy but not overweight enough to be considered grossly obese, are not going to pay (or endure the pain of injections) in order to get themselves to a healthy weight, unless they have a weight-consciousness mental illness. The portion of the population that is mildly obese is likely to increase because the computer-bound portion of the population will increase.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 0) 375

Funny thing, both horses and humans are mammals, and Ivermectin is an approved drug for both horses and humans, and other mammals also.

There has been a lot of research done on both the RNA injections and Ivermectin in the last 5.5 years. More and more, the RNA injections are being shown to have long term damaging effects, often in excess of the damaging effects of COVID. I'm not saying the RNA injections are worse than COVID (except in the young, there's little doubt there), but that there's room for doubt and that room is growing. The increased interest in Ivermectin has shown effectiveness against some cases of COVID and unexpected effectiveness against other diseases. Bad effects from Ivermectin are rarer than bad effects from the RNA injections.

It's time for commenters to take a new look at current data and stop parroting obsolete government and industry hysteria.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 0) 375

Insurance companies are a huge portion of the medical expenses in the US. That's why some hospitals offer discounts in excess of 50% for self-pay. Not only are patients paying the salaries of insurance company employees, but also independent insurance agency employees and hospital employees who have to process insurance claims.

Insurance does not make you healthy; it makes you too poor to afford to do things that would make you healthy.

Single payer health care (which means government paid and/or provided health care) seems attractive only at first glance, because it hides the payments. It also hides the restrictions and controls over medicines, procedures, and doctor's personal rights.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 0) 375

the clinical purpose of both exercise and medications and indeed all health interventions is to extend healthy life years.

That's demonstrably and obviously untrue. The use of painkillers in end-of-life care is to reduce suffering, and seldom extends life healthy or otherwise. Morphine given to people within a couple of days of death may hasten death. (The medical personnel's happy-talk claim of easing breathing notwithstanding.) Similarly, the use of NSAIDs to reduce pain and fever will in some cases extend an illness.

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