There were many bad colds and lingering coughs this past winter. I knew someone with multi-week symptoms at any given point from September all the way through February. Everyone I know who was convinced they had Covid and got the antibody test turned up negative. There are a lot of other sources for these things.

This is why it was impossible to block robocalls for 20 years, but now they're planning to go ahead and do it.

I'm guessing "extremist or not extremist?" is just a dead end in trying to determine whether an idea or movement should be supported. Philosophically speaking, I'd rather look at it from a different angle: "Does it enhance or diminish the humanity of other humans?"

You've asked questions, but most of them seem to be of the "I don't know what's going on here" variety rather than evidence of anything actually going wrong. Do you know how voter registration databases are maintained? Do you have evidence they're out of date? By how much? And what does happen to ballots sent to addresses where people no longer live? Why do you think they're fraudulently used, instead of just thrown away? If YOU got a ballot for a former resident, would you try to vote for them? Why or why not? Can you forge their signature? Would you know they're not voting somewhere else? There's a clear paper trail to your address, so if two ballots from the same person end up in the system, where do you think they're going to look first?

1) You can drop your ballot off at a safe drop spot. Or any mailbox, anywhere. You don't have to put it in your own personal mailbox for outgoing.
2) If one district had a suspiciously low ballot return percentage - say 40% instead of 60% everywhere else, I think they'd investigate.
3) Many states have methods where you can look up online and confirm your mail-in ballot was received.
4) Any mail carriers handling ballots would have to have a pretty good reason to believe the ballots in their hands skew opposite their own voting preferences. For all they know, they could be hurting their own cause.
5) They'd be taking all these chances in exchange for felony charges, and as mail carriers also losing their job forever if caught tampering with mail.

And if you get them on tape messing with your vote, they're going to prison on felony charges. If this was rampant, even if 90% of them were getting away with it, we'd have at least some cases. So either being a felony is already enough of a deterrent, or people don't find it worth it to coerce one vote at a time.

Several states have had vote by mail for decades. Have you seen a single headline about a boss buying his employees' votes?

An article posted on Slashdot just yesterday suggested 40% of infections occurred before the person doing the spreading was experiencing any symptoms.

Antibody tests in my area are coming in under 4%. That doesn't gel at all with an assumption that 20% of the country has been exposed already. I think New York is an outlier.

Admittedly, I'm rural. Exposure in dense urban areas is probably higher, and that also has a greater proportion of the population. On the flip side, those antibody tests were open to the public, and presumably went to people who had at least some reason to think they've already had the disease, so the results are probably higher than the general population.

Curious how it's possible to have an AR tool that doesn't have some sort of camera associated with it? How does it know what YOU are seeing unless it also sees it? Or is it simply locked down so that it won't record anything?

I was wondering about that. Did they license the term? Has "Glass" been Kleenexed already as the only thing to call augmented reality? Was the nickname "glasshole" just too strong an attractor? I don't get it.

Also, iGlass? With a pun on eyeglass, even? How is that not the winner?

The perfect solution for me would be to work at the office somewhere between 1 and 5 days a month, so I could occasionally catch up with people and do things in person, and spend the remaining work days at home.

Yes, because that's a bigger logical error than a fictional character returning to the real world as a zombie and confusing cell phone towers for windmills.

I want a superhero called The Mother, as in one who does moth things or wrangles moths, but who is always confused with a mother (meaning mom).

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To revive a slashdot classic: Correlation is not causation.

The two things were found to chart well together, but to my knowledge there's never been any indication one caused the other.