Oh, of course how could i possibly forget, there's always a way for the liberals to be at fault. The President has no independent agency, we can, nay must, only judge him through the lens of his opposition (since we've already preloaded the idea they are just nutters to not be taken seriously). That whole measles thing in Samoa? Wasn't measles it was TDS!

Andrew Wakefield, the demon himself said Trump was "on our side" back in 2016.

Eh, I don't buy this was some inevitable thing or one regard as president means we have to discard the very good concept.

The first precedent on if vaccination could be compelled was 1905 and unofficially even before then. It has never been an issue until this guy, we just might have to learn a hard lesson for it to sink in again.

Without "government dictate" smallpox would still be a thing.

Most people cannot make any of the following at home:

Meat (beef, chicken, pork, etc)

Farming is not making in common parlance. And people have been farming livestock at home for thousands of years, clearly it ain't that hard. A few people round my way have a few chickens and I live in London.

Butter

Yeah you can. You can churn it by hand with a whisk and a lot of effort. If you've ever tried to make whipped cream at home with an electric whisk (this is incredibly easy and common) you should know to not over beat it otherwise it starts to separate into butter and buttermilk.

Cheese

I got a cheese making a while ago. There's not much to it, really. People have been making cheese for millennia. Not ultra processed american cheese of course...

Vegetables

You can grow tiny amounts of vegetables as a houseplant what the fuck are you even talking about.

Fruits

My comment about farming not being making in common parlance still stands. And my comment about being able to grow tiny amounts at home as a houseplant still stands.

Flour

Chuck some grains in a coffee grinder or pound them in a pestle and mortar. Job done. It won't be great, uniform flour. But it will be flour.

Spices
Tea
Coffee

Farming ain't making. You can grow some herbs spices at home easily enough. In fact I've been doing that with herbs (like English Mace) which are not widely sold. If you had fruits straight off a coffee tree you could make coffee, it would just be rather involved

Sugar

https://www.instructables.com/...

You didn't just pwn the scientists with your "common sense" that ultra processed foods don't exist because most people don't have a small holding. Farming isn't processing. Most people can do most of those things with a bit of land or labour.

Probably not. My knowledge is probably out of date by now but it used to be the case that the top end processes not only would be wasted on analogue radio stuff, but they'd also need to be adapted to it a well. You want different features.
 

Has been pushing hard for decades to get those religious lunatics into a fervor right? The Republican party actively encourages religious extremism so that they can Farm those people for votes.

It's always about the same thing. Taking all the money and leaving voters with nothing. If you're going to rob somebody blind and do it year in year out like the Republican party does you have to keep offering them something in exchange for all the economic security you are stealing.

It needs to be something intangible since the Republicans are taking all the tangible stuff like money and property and food and medicine and healthcare and education.

And that's why you will see religious freedom bills that give people the right to leave their children unvaccinated risking the lives of everybody else.

They get all the money and you get to skip your vaccines or teach your kids the Earth is 6,000 years old or whatever lunatic nonsense that isn't real you insist is real.

Before 2000 the government paid for 70% of college tuition. By 2003 after several rounds of cuts it was 20%.

Meanwhile here's Donald Trump telling us we need more immigration and h-1bs because Americans are just too dumb. Seriously Google it. That's what he said.

I wish my country would stop proving him right...

Yeah, that was a big goof, thanks for understanding.

Apple is capable of hiring talented people and creating a useful product. They just don't seem to be capable of being user-friendly in the ways that matter to me. TBH they were never great at it, and MUGs did the heavy lifting in the customer relations department for them for free. Anyway I'm totally capable of believing their performance claims, to a reasonable point, especially when the results aren't putting them first.

I wish they were friendlier, because their hardware is reasonably impressive. I'm also just not in their target demographic apparently because I'd rather have a slightly thicker device with better cooling and battery capacity.

The risk of creating a viable competitor is too big so they will do pretty much anything a government wants in order to avoid being kicked out of the country.

It's not about the profit they can make in the country it's about making sure that there is never a viable competitor that could enter into any of your other markets.

Ultimately there really isn't a lot these companies do that's special. The most we survived because they're the ones who when the market was developing survived via survivorship bias. When you're talking infrastructure including internet infrastructure you are generally going to end up with some form of Monopoly forming. At least if you're not extremely careful to enforce competition. And I don't think there's a country on planet Earth that does that

Also to Doc Holliday.

China has a lot of large cities, a lot of trucking is probably just inside those areas where an electric truck can really shine and where that lack of emissions really makes a difference.

It's still a huge country and I wonder if they rely on long haul over-the-road trucking as much as the USA does or if they offload a lot of that to rail.

A login cookie doesn't need consent, but it does need explicit information to the user. Yes a popup is required for any session tracking cookies. What isn't required is an opt-out mechanism.

No one is being tricked here. The banners are explicit in their intent and outcome (and actually dark pattern banners are illegal). The reason the banners exist is because tracking companies don't stop tracking just because they were told they need to ask for consent. They just ask knowing users will mash any button on the screen to make the popup disappear.

A completely voluntary scheme not backed by any regulation in any country is ignored? This is my shocked face. I'm shocked I tell you, I may look like I'm questioning your intelligence but trust me I'm as shocked as you are about this revelation.

Hint: A law being passed won't have the same outcome as someone saying "hey I have an idea, how about I send some metadata in the http request header and you can decide what to do with it".

Managing cookies on a domain level is wildly inaccurate and messy compared to managing cookies by classification of how they impact you.

Bugs that affect a small number of users are a great euphemism for "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck we're about to get fined... but it's okay I'm sure Americans will just say it's unfair that we break EU laws and that the EU is in the wrong".

I'm glad you discovered the problem with your approach. The domain tells you nothing about the functionality or the necessity of a cookie. It's a dead end way to manage the entire situation that succeeds in only breaking internet functionality.

Probably because it's factually incorrect and precisely no EU rules apply outside of the EU or to companies which don't do business in the EU.

False. Precisely none of the EU regulations apply outside the EU. If you want to do business in the EU, follow their rules, if you don't want to then doing. You're more than welcome to ignore that massive market.

Just don't be a French company like Amazon S.a.r.l, or an Irish company like Apple Operations Europe Ltd, or Apple International Sales Ltd, or a German company like Microsoft Deutschland GmbH. You're free to not be a multinational and then you don't need to comply with any EU rules (which again, apply exclusively in the EU to EU residents).

And we've had vaccination schedules for adults and children since the days of Salk and yet there has never been any slippery slopes as you describe.

Also there is clear precedent on this even before Salk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"in every well ordered society charged with the duty of conserving the safety of its members the rights of the individual in respect of his liberty may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand" and that "[r]eal liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own [liberty], whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others."