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Comment Re:Infectocausation (Score 1) 44

The best word is probably just "autoimmune." In an arms race between molecular mimicry by pathogens and the immune system, it's inevitable that the immune system sometimes gets trained to defeat something that looks like a good cell and creates antibodies that target both the disease and the healthy cell.

It's likely that all autoimmune diseases are related to pathogen exposure/infection.

Comment Re:Verizon's Profit in 2024 was $17.51 billion... (Score 1) 38

They are seeing an upcoming recession/depression and are removing as much risk as possible from their balance sheets and stockpiling cash in some kind of fungible form. And the stores are a huge one aside from employees. They usually don't own the buildings, which would actually be an asset - they have possibly long term leases or leases up for renewal soon that they want to stick on someone else before it is unaffordable.

They aren't the best and they aren't the cheapest. So they are going to go downhill fast when the economy drops a little more.

Comment Re:Here's a thought.. (Score 3, Insightful) 38

They do not speak or understand our English. HIRE AMERICANS for America!

That story does not sound like it was a language barrier issue. We have idiots in America too. The problem is going for the lowest cost human being and giving them a script instead of training. They literally can't go off-script unless they've been around for years and have accidentally learned something.

Comment Re:Already an option for 'advanced users' (Score 2) 36

It has to be at least a little inconvenient, though. The end users DO NOT READ. No matter how scary the warnings are, whatever told them to do it is scarier and they ignore these warnings. We're at the point now where we don't even need malware to steal someone's bank account information. Just fake virus warnings on a web page with a toll-free number. And this is across the board, at all education levels. Critical thinking skills work against this but even those with the skills forget to put them to use if the sirens are blaring loud enough.

Comment Re:Planned economies (Score 1) 154

They probably forgot to tell the companies they subsidized that they were trying to dump on the global market in order to buy a longer term lead. And that it may not work out too well in the end. I can't imagine any other purpose for them propping it up so hard. The US never became a market for these, but the US trade war has had ripple effects in their other markets and is probably collapsing the propping up that China is doing.

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