I can't bring a ton of shampoo, nor a pair of scissors. Certain laptops or batteries. Now, it's looking like my homemade cosmic ray simulator won't be making it onboard with me...

Little hint for why people get "nasty" about trump: his' motivations are clear (self dealing) and even if what he's purporting to do is something one agrees with in principal he always goes about it in an incorrect and damaging way. How is it that you haven't picked up on this? It's really, really obvious.

None of those staistics nor anecdotes address what I said in my very simple to understand post. I know it's very difficult for so many people in the medical field to accepts, that's why statistics matter. Including those for lung cancer. I'm sure you have access to JAMA - look it up some time. This is so well understood anyone can find it so there's no need to read dowen the dozens of studies over the years, because with someone who posts like the above you're just not going to believe any study because you like anecdotes not data.

And I get it. Accepting statistical outcomes that so goes agains what you truly feel and even think you know based on your miniscule individual experience surely must be correct! But at a population level it's been shown over and over and over to not be the case.

No, not "of course". Over and over again excessive testing and diagnostics have not led to better patient outcomes. They have led to much more treatment and more money going to doctors and hospitals, but not better outcomes.

It is not because they "refuse to change" it's because the laws, regulations and case law around their use cases are not clear or compatible with anything else. This is risk mitigation.

The vast majority of faxes being sent are inbox to inbox with a third party on both sides doing a ridiculous didgital to analog back to digital using voip over the internet then shoving the "fax" into email. Nobody wants that expense if it's not necessary. It still is.

Checks are the same thing. There are no good alternatives, and no - third party services are not what I consider alternatives. Most other countries have figured this out. That's what needs to happen first before checks go away: a true universal alternative, backed by law and regulation, without third parties and with appropriate consumper protections.

Who's "confirmation page"? What portal? How do I know it can be trusted to prove payment? What laws and case law are there around that?

It's great that you don't care, but lits of people do. There is no valid alternative to using checkes for a lot of things right now. No, "Zelle" and other third parties are not valid alternatives.

Other coutnries have figured this out a long time ago. Interback transfers from phones backed by law and consumer protections. That's where things need to be at a minimum before discussing removing the ridiculously outdated method we have of doing this now.

What a credulous moron. Or paid shill.

Then call it what it is: machine learning, not the latest buzword.

There's the really amazing big brained thing we've figured out in rural areas: only drop kids off on the side of the road the live on.

That's ex-post facto bs. Why is it that people are having such a ard time accepting reality on this? When people have to fight this hard over their "thing" to the point of demonizing anyone who thinks differentely or ask any questions about it it typically means they are wrong, don't actually understand their position and hold it as part of groupthink, or are straight up lying. Which one are you doing?

You are part of the problem. This attitude is not only damaging to your own preferred position/understanding but it's also not how science works or should work beause someone asked a question you didn't like.

Was "we're going to have an ice age because of pollution" in the 70s an outlier or broadly agreed upon "scientific consensus"? Yeah, I thought so.

There is very obviously something going on with the climate but there is also very obviously something going on with the peer review system. And a bunch of people green grifting, causing conflicts of interests and perverse incentives. It's very difficult for someone not in the field but with enough intelligence and intellectual curiosity to simply accept the current version of this consensus.

Add to that zealotry of the "correct" opinion-havers on this whereby you're literally hitler if you don't fall in line and believe unconditionally.

The overwhelming majority of those people are in poverty and can't afford an iphone.

You don't get to shirk your longstanding commitments just because "it's too hard right now." That's not how soft power works, a thing that took decades to build that your orange toddler has destroyed.

Don't have any facts to support your pet position? Toos out an ad hominem insult! Nobody will notice and they're think you're so clever. Oh wait.....no they won't.