If 95% of everyone got the vaccine protocol, it would have stopped transmission. Not individually but epidemiologically. Go ahead and argue the pedantics of the semantics.

We're sure that the absence of vaccines won't stop any virus. But the skeptics aren't telling you that either.

Will that make it stop checking if that value that I clearly defined is null every freaking line?

What, was the LLM trained on Go?

They're not just wrong, they're stupendously, stupidly, idiotically wrong by street-level human standards. Sure it can find & assimilate amazing things, except when it can't, and then you wonder about what you thought it just did correctly.

Not just Lincoln, the North made a mistake after the Civil War, like Congress and The People made a mistake after J6. Insurrectionists who are put down, we now know, can't be forgiven and allowed to make nice. We see that they with their misguided culture breed and grow and rise back to cause a load of trouble. Rather we have to prosecute insurrectionists severely, to show everyone that this was serious, damaging, deadly, and they can't be allowed to break the law with impunity again - because they've been executed or imprisoned for life.

You'll never know which opinion I hold, muahahah *smoke bomb escape*

Damn, thwarted again!

I don't think the US actually enforces anything approaching the spirit of robust anti-trust law now. The goalposts have been moved back so many times, they're on another field now.

The last great recession was due to precisely this sort of spending pattern plus a collapse in payment. Banks may be healthy, for now, but they can't keep lending forever with no recover. This is not a good sign.

Telescreen monitoring would have required a crazy amount of manpower.

Probably the closest real-world analog was the East German Stasi, which may have accounted for nearly 1 in 6:

The ratio for the Stasi was one secret policeman per 166 East Germans. When the regular informers are added, these ratios become much higher: In the Stasi's case, there would have been at least one spy watching every 66 citizens! When one adds in the estimated numbers of part-time snoops, the result is nothing short of monstrous: one informer per 6.5 citizens. It would not have been unreasonable to assume that at least one Stasi informer was present in any party of ten or twelve dinner guests. Like a giant octopus, the Stasi's tentacles probed every aspect of life.

— John O. Koehler, German-born American journalist, quoted from Wikipedia

Where's the champions for solar power? Elon Musk? He got burned politically for trying to speak up, or rather his cars got burned.

For as articulate as your comments are, I'm surprised you think that's why Elon Musk got burned.

There's no reason to believe it would not be.

In an of itself, that's a perfectly cromulant opinion to hold, but I doubt it's going to be shared by a bunch of people with Robinhood accounts paying electronically for the delivery of "freedfrom from techy surfdom". :D

What kind of weird world do we now live in, when I find myself agreeing with some of the statements from Alexis Ohanian, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Tucker Carlson? What's next, Rupert Murdoch telling me that Trump should release the Epstein files?

In the USA is it common to have self service tills at supermarkets that accept coins?

If it accepts cash, it should accept both coins and bills. Any change I manage to accumulate usually gets fed into the coin slot at a self-checkout before I swipe a card to provide the rest of the payment. It's better than handing it off to a Coinstar machine, as those skim off a percentage of what you feed them.

Low quality PC to console ports have always existed (and vice versa for that matter.) Define broken - crashing your console?