Oh, I absolutely understand what was going on and why. I have no issues with the care he received, and he has nothing but good things to say about the care he received.

It's just kind of weird that in the flow chart of medical diagnosis, all the arrows end up pointing at Lupus.

I already have the higher taxes from living in Oregon, and the fewer rights due to this federal administration. Can I have fewer $10B storms?

And what about those of us that buy an EV and then drive it emissions-free for 10+ years? Especially those of us that "fuel" the EV with renewable energy from the grid or otherwise?

Seems that goes over the "break even" threshold you criticize, while ICE cars just keep pumping out the carbon as a course of normal operation as long as they are in the fleet.

And maybe if we stop the casual "otherism" from people like you, we can learn that people are just people and we should probably learn to get along rather than be divisive assholes living on the flawed premise of "I got mine because I was lucky enough to be born in a rich country, fuck everyone else."

So you're pro-pollution?

Why is it a bad thing to try to keep plastics out of the environment? What purpose could you possibly have in mocking such efforts?

Idiot.

Yes, because new challenges are never discovered while you are building a thing that's never been built before.

You sound like someone that has never been involved with an engineering effort in your entire life.

So you think that if estimations are not 100% correct when they are made, they should never be revised as new challenges and more context is revealed?

This makes you a myopic idiot.

Scientists live and die by objectivity.

If a scientist does their job properly by assembling un-arguable evidence of their hypothesis / claim, then that becomes an accepted hypothesis / claim.

I don't know what the hell you're talking about - scientists are not "go along to get along" types - they have hypotheses and test them. And if the tests result in data that correlates with the hypothesis, they write papers and publish them in order to get other people looking at the work and either punching holes in it or running their own experiments to replicate the results. That's the point of publishing it.

Here's the thing: that's actually how Lupus is diagnosed, at least in my limited single-data-point experience - my father.

He had a random fluid build-up in his pericardial sac around his heart that was basically squeezing his heart to the point it couldn't function any more. After two weeks in the hospital of diagnostics and so on where the eliminated all kinds of other causes, they defaulted to Lupus and started putting him on steroids, and he's been healthy ever since with absolutely no recurrence.

It will be interesting to see if the causal link between Lupus and Epstein-Barr holds up to further scrutiny - it would be great if we could eliminate the occurrence of autoimmune disease through future vaccination.

Of course we'll need the political loonies to GTFO of the Department of Health and Human Services in order to allow approval of any new vaccines...

All the integrated cameras in "smart" TVs have gone straight to hell where they belong.

If I want a camera on my god damn TV, I'll very well plug one in via USB.

You used a whole lot of words to still be describing collective punishment, which is still a war crime under the 1949 Geneva Convention.

But do go on about why that's perfectly fine in the circumstance of a brutally oppressive authoritarian regime and how the "western media" got it all wrong.

And 10 of those past 15 years were under Democratic administrations that actually cared about environmental concerns.

5 of those years have been Trump doing as much damage as possible. Imagine where we might be without a 2/3rds effort.

Well, you see: the word "socialism" is bad, but the concept is just fine.

See: the Trump Administration seizing the means of production in the tech industry by having the government take a stake in Intel, Nvidia, AMD, etc. while also saying that the medical insurance companies are evil parasites all of a sudden while simultaneously shitting on anyone that dares to talk about a single-payer health care system.

That might be the worst ad I've ever seen.

So they make a gimped product that nobody buys, and then they think it's the product class that is the problem, rather than their gimpy execution.

Sounds about right.