Should a human impersonating George Carlin (or anybody, really) be able to profit off of that person's voice, mannerisms or likeness?

This exactly. Hasn't it struck anyone as odd that living on a cruise ship can cost less than living in an apartment?

Someone should mod parent up. It's the only comment on this page that gets steering correct with the Uniwheel.

How about getting rid of ads on podcasts? Having to listen to ads despite paying for their existing "premium" service is maddening.

They may as well be explaining a magic trick to a dog.

Perhaps the author has shorted Bitcoin and has released this paper to manipulate the price down.

Why not tax emissions (highly), and let the market work out where that pollution should come from. We've already had accurate emissions measurement equipment for years.

Once a year you get your car exhaust measured (as you already doing most states for purposes of inspection), multiply that by the change in odometer, and multiply that by the emissions tax rate.

EVs would pay a tax of zero, which would encourage their adoption. "But power plants pollute!" you might say. That's true, but power plants are already required to buy pollution credits very similar to what I describe above. This seems like an unobtrusive tax, simple, easy for an individual to optimize, and benefits the environment to boot.

The FairTax deals with this by issuing a "prebate" - an equal cash payment at the start of every year to each individual. Think of it as universal basic income if you like, or as a way to make the first $X of spending be tax-free.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but has anyone found the actual video, or any videos by the alleged mafia fugitive? Tons of stories all over the net *about* the videos, but not one story contains an actual link.

If it's a good idea to ban apps that can display unmoderated content, then what about web browsers that can do the same?

If the vaccines need to be "tweaked", I wonder if the United States will require full-blown phase 1/2/3 trials of the new vaccine formulations.

The one truly competent idea that Trump promoted was pre-manufacturing multiple vaccines in case any of them later proved to work. This was announced on March 30, so what happened? Is it really not possible to scale manufacturing within 8 months, or did the stockpiling part never happen?

Why not simply raise gas tax even higher? At some point, employers will have to pay employees so much extra to commute to work that they will adopt work-at-home policies for day to day stuff, and require in-person work for only the most important things.

This is a morally sound policy as well, because when you pollute by burning gas, you are creating externalities - impacting the health of others who have nothing to do with the particular company or their employees. This is exactly the sort of thing that should be heavily taxed. Determining what that tax rate should be is difficult, so...

Eliminate fixed gas taxes. Instead, auction off pollution licenses and require anyone buying gas to also buy an identical number of pollution licenses. Have a fixed number of such licenses available, traded on a marketplace. (Practically speaking, gas companies could buy the licenses and bundle them with the gas sold, so consumers would never have to deal with the minutiae.)

At some point, buying that Tesla becomes much cheaper than filling your car with $20/gallon gasoline. Then, the only thing decided by politics is how many pollution licenses to sell each year (how much pollution are we willing to tolerate.) Even that could be decided by a sort-of vote where you take the median (not mean) number that voters support. Environmentalists could make a case for a very low number, industrialists could advocate a high number, but I suspect the median (not mean!) would result in a very tolerable amount of pollution.

Although we don't yet have results from any clinical trials involving Hydroxychloroquine, we do have at least two observational studies for both HCQ and HCQ+Azithromycin that failed to find an effect. This is not surprising because it is believed that it is the Zinc that prevents virus replication, not Hydroxychloroquine. The Hydroxychloroquine is what allows Zinc ions to get into the not-yet-infected cells. Azithromycin is likely helpful against secondary bacterial infections of the lungs.

Zn2+ Inhibits Coronavirus and Arterivirus RNA Polymerase Activity In Vitro

Chloroquine Is a Zinc Ionophore

Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc has shown a positive effect in a preliminary (not yet peer reviewed) report. This was an observational study, and it was among patients that were already sick enough to go to a hospital. So the treatment would be expected to have only a modest effect:

Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc vs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone: outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

The real study to watch is this one:

A Study of Hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc for the Prevention of COVID-19 Infection

It is looking at HCQ+Zn given prophylactically to healthcare workers and their families. I expect this study to show a positive result - they may have preliminary results within a few weeks.

This is all based on in-vitro studies, but it goes into some depth why the combination of chloroquine and zinc may be particularly effective. You can also infer from the video why zinc lozenges seem to help a bit with colds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...