Comment Re:And Now We Repeat The Chant (Score 1) 315
Don't we need a list of denizens of the underworld as well?
I sure wish that corporations would get back to being places of employment for the agreed 40 hours a week (only) and allow us drones to go home and drink, support sport, worship, have fun, party, support charity, participate in politics and eat food and snacks OF OUR OWN CHOOSING - or not, if we so choose. Instead of forcing their makebelief on us and we pretending to be teambuilt by it. Wishful thinking, I know...
1000x
I prefer Robert Heinlein's take on the subject: History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
One should be weary of attempts to dismiss massively complicated subjects with a few sentences.
This sounds like an amazing movie. And it is by Christopher Nolan (Interstellar), so you know it is going to be good. However, COVID is real, and you risk dying to enter a movie theater. I recommend you wait until the vaccine is out. Stay inside, wash your hands, wear a mask, and SOCIALLY DISTANCE (the most important part).
Why isn't this modded as "Funny"?
People will die because Trump wants to look good. Trump has equated more testing with more cases and more cases make Trump look bad. So testing has to go down.
More testing should lead to getting more people isolated which long term leads to less cases.
Welcome to Trumpistan where the idiot in chief makes irrational decisions that lead to death and suffering.
More testing does equal more cases. That much is obvious to anyone that knows how to divide two numbers and is not absolutely blinded by their desire to use everything for political points.
This is Slashdot, I thought a basic understanding of math and percentages would be a given here...
Last year's Greenland melt added 0.06 inches (1.5 millimeters) to global sea level rise.
This is some bullshit number they're models spat out - how do you precisely measure a 0.06 inch increase in ocean levels around the globe? What is the margin of error on this? Not all that ice went into the ocean, perhaps we're also seeing more evaporation, more winter snowfall, more rain and a million other things. Again, even if it was an 0.06 inch increase, this is nothing now and nothing in a century... just ask the Dutch.
No, they cannot.
Much of the problem is NASA cannot duplicate the equipment because it is literally huge and expensive stuff (parabolic dishes, which are on gimbles so they can be pointed to any part of the sky). These things are massive.
They should just put it in the cloud!
AI Can Make bad Music, bad Screenplays, and bad Poetry. What About a bad Movie?
FTFY.
To be fair, bad music and bad movies made by AI have a good chance at being better than a lot of stuff out there at the moment.
Herd immunity via infection with the pathogen is a murderous strategy. Delay the spread as much as possible until a vaccine or cure is developed and proven, that's the strategy that saves the most lives. Herd immunity should be created by the vaccine. Unless you're a serial killer who wants 1% of the population to die? Going about business as normal when there's a pathogen spreading in the hopes of creating herd immunity causes needless deaths
We don't have an effective vaccine for the flu nor do we have herd immunity for it and loose up to 650,000 people every fucking year to it. Yet we still go on living our lives normally without destroying our future and scaring our children (which are much more likely to die from flu than Covid).
Lockdowns cost more lives than what they save. In BC we've already lost more people to increased opioid use than to the entire Covid pandemic. We've lost people to cancelled heart surgeries, we'll loose people to missed cancer screening, we'll loose people to suicide because they lost their jobs over Covid. As a result of Covid, Canada has accumulated the highest national debt in history, higher than WW1, WW2 and the Great Depression combined! That will cost tens of thousands of lives in the next decade.
Stay in your basement.
"Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit!" -- Looney Tunes, "What's Opera Doc?" (1957, Chuck Jones)
