Point prevalence is only 15 to 22 per 100k, so it's pretty unlikely. Not impossible, but...

No the point is the problem is fundamentally misunderstood. The concept of secret filming wasn't invented with Metas glasses, but we-the-stupid chose this hill to suddenly die on (and when we do so videos of our stupidity will be all over the internet ... not recorded by such glasses).

This sounds like the fundamental problem of the entire US banking system. They have an idea, a concept of what good could look like, and get 90% of the way through the implementation and then proceed to fuck it up.

E.g. Create a system to digitally scan a shared thing describing a transfer, but instead of using a standard QR code, keep using cheques.
Or Adopt a system that finally eliminates the use of unsecured magnetic stripes on credit cards, but then keep the completely unsecure signature for verification.
Develop systems to allow transfers of money between parties, but administer them in companies like Paypal that aren't covered by banking laws.

It's like a competition to see how close they can get to a good idea while still fucking up the implementation.

You just fuck other guys like them?

I'm blown away by your comment. You started by saying when the payee is small, yeah makes perfect sense (though I'm surprised you can't find services that offer far smaller fees than the $25 example). But then you mentioned ... property taxes. That is government... how THAT hasn't been resolved is mindblowing.

I'm curious as to why businesses would prefer them? The entire concept seems rife for fraud as they are nothing more than a promise of payment backed by nothing. Credit Cards are promises of payments backed by an intermediary. Debit Cards are direct payments. Cash are direct payments. Cheques on the other hand... I can't imagine the risk beats the cost of doing business a different way, especially when that cost is usually passed on to consumers anyway.

This is a classic case of mixing with the plausible with the unknowable. IV to administer drugs causing bruising? Yeah absolutely. But to jump to Alzheimer's drugs specifically rather than the many 1000s of drugs that could be administered this way is an attempt to push an unverified and usually politically biased narrative.

It could just as well be cancer.

The point being newly wrong doesn't mean medically relevant. Except you won't know that until you cut it out of your body. How many times do you go under the knife looking for things that are not related to symptoms? The pain and risk of going after ghosts in your MRI are often worse than the symptoms of you experience of actual problems that would prompt you to go look for something.

Live your life, listen to your body. When something is wrong with you, go get yourself checked out (don't be a man and say you're too manly to go to the doctor just because you've felt sick for a week or two, that's how you die).

The only thing that a full body preventative MRI will cause is light wallet syndrome and a dependency on Xanax.

To draw a parallel, as an engineer we measure specific things for specific purposes. We don't measure everything at every point because it would be prohibitively expensive and potentially detrimental to the device being observed.

To be fair TFS postulates a situation where the language has better alternatives for literally every scenario. I'd argue that Cobol and Fortran have carved out a niche where they *are* the best in their class. Comparing the three sort of shows you missed that point of that second sentence.

Err you're talking about a car made in a country that literally is just hills coming out of a fault line in the ocean. Kei cars don't struggle on hills. They may not accelerate as quickly. They may not be able to tow a heavy load up them, but they'll do perfectly fine. Hell they are far better than the Fiat 500 - staple of the South Tirol alps.

There's cars significantly less powerful that had no problem maintaining speed. You weren't maintaining speed. You were accelerating - and yes that may happen slightly better. But don't pretend the cars aren't perfectly fine.

No one is suddenly slowing down. Especially not at a speed that a truck or car behind them causes them to rear-end them. Please stop being hysterical.

What went wrong in your life that you rage about not *checks notes*, not being on a highway 2-3 seconds faster? Ask your doctor if Xanax is right for you.

That are all the things which describes impatient drivers who feel the need to be on the highway a second or two faster. Another term that often comes up is "dead". Seriously man, Xanax. It may just stop someone from laying a flower wreath on the side of the highway for your moronic arse.

Technically incorrect. The term engagement was *created* by those monetising the use of media services. It was fundamentally a measure of the ability to monetise.

We didn't have that term back when Facebook was used to send pokes to each other on campus.

Trump's disastrous mishandling of the covid pandemic and his inability to do what Obama did and keep the virus overseas like Obama did with bird flu means that it spread and devastated supply chains. Furthermore 4 years of trump refusing to enforce antitrust law created even more consolidation with less competition and more monopolies. Finally Trump gave away trillions of dollars to the 1% who used it to buy up even more companies and jack up prices on everything.

Biden came in like a Democrat always does after a republican crashes and destroys everything and started putting things back together. But because he didn't do it fast enough and because you are easily distracted by woke PC dei trans girls telling you happy holidays while playing esports Mortal Kombat Mortal panics you didn't go by the 8 years Democrats normally get to undo some of the damage while the Republicans sabotage everything they can in the meantime.

So even though Joe Biden had a plan to lower prices by doing extensive trust busting all that's gone now because you're a 12-year-old child and a grown man's body and orange man good.

You will spend the last few years of your 12-year-old life homeless and if you're lucky one of your crotch fruit will let you crash on their sofa.

In my feed lately. And I'm guessing it's because the news media really really wants to cover Trump's MRI but isn't allowed to. I mean except for the British press.

A member of Congress just pointed out that the spots on Trump's hands are probably from an IV used to administer in Alzheimer's drug and that the MRIs are likely because the drug has a side effect that can cause brain swelling and they are monitoring for that.

What's weird is while this is going on suddenly I get all these stories in my feed and on pages I frequent about mris. The algorithm knows that MRIS or being searched for by people because even though the regular news media isn't allowed to talk about Trump's medical condition people have Google and are using it.

I suspect what's happening is that most newsrooms will monitor frequently searched keywords and start running stories about them to soak up ad revenue. People are searching for MRI because Trump is in the news and The newsroom is ordering stories about it.

It's kind of bizarrely cool and a cyberpunk kind of way.

You guys have absolutely deranged yourself on trans stuff. You think it was important in your political success, but you will find out that it was absolutely unimportant to most people, who care much more about the economy. Lots of them believed that their economic woes could be blamed on the Democrats and that Trump would fix them. And now a substantial proportion is finding that the grass turns out to be shittier on the other side, and are moving away from Trump and the Republicans.