This has been known for some time, yet there are those who think its a conspiracy theory. Actually, its conspiracy fact. There were several studies in China that documented the effect of lowering IQ years ago, and there have been studies showing no benefit to at preventing cavities for ingestion over lifespan. National level comparisons show no benefit to water flouridation between countries with and without (European countries do not force medicate). The evidence for topical is clear, but topical application is not ingestion. Unlike water flouridation, topical is an individual choice, and flouride toothpaste is ubiqituous anyway and would give the actual proven benefit without forced medication or ingestion. The government needs to let people make their own decisions on medication and stop the unethical and illegal forced medication. If a doctor were found prescribing medications to someone who he had never seen that would lead to trouble. But you have clown city councils with no medical degrees prescribing a medication to people they have never seen and without their consent. See the problem?

There was a Moderna patented RNA sequence in SarsCov-2 that does suggest possible manipulation of the virus, and perhaps an HIV insert. You cant be absolutely certain its lab manipulated but its quite possible of not likely. The virus could have been a research project where someone was manipulating and playing around with the virus. It right off the bat seemed optimized for humans so may have also been the product of serial passage in humanlized mice. All of this gain of function nonsense has been going on for years and regardless of whether its a lab leak gain of function should not be happening and serves no purpose since a naturally occuring virus is not likely to be the same as one developed in a lab anyway and to respond to a pandemic you need to be able to get vaccines out quickly, which means quickly sequencing and then creating a targeted vaccine from what is going around, and GOF does not have a benefit with that to warrant the risk, having standby manufacturing capacity does, and you can test a vaccine for a virus family with non-GOFed strains on animals. You can predevelop for pandemic families without needing to screw around with GOF expirements. And, increasing human targeting is GOF despite what Fauci says.

Some airlines probably use something older, TPF, that dates back to 1979 running on Z system mainframes, and PARS, which is built on it. I imagine the bad crowdstrike thing probably impacted the terminals at airports that run Windows but interface to a mainframe

OK why with ESG and such is there no pressure on Lennar, Toll Brothers, etc to stop building these outrageous spread out single family home subdivisions where car use is mandatory rather than high density skyscrapers and public transit and 15 minute cities where car use is optional? Why is there not more effort on getting urban growth boundaries in place and removing height restrictions inside the UGB? Something is financing this boom in subdivisions that also eats into farmland and timberland which are lower impact and destroys wildlife habitat. Stopping subdivisions is low hanging fruit because unlike farming which is necessary, no one needs to live in a single family subdivision because there are better options through building high rises and public transit. Urban growth boundaries and mixed use high density in the UGB is the way to go

The main reason there has not been more Linux uptake is most people don't want to install an OS, most dont even know what it is. What Linux needed was a hardware maker that would have sold pre-installed computers that would target the consumer market and had competent marketing and outreach to commercial software and hardware vendors to embrace it. That maker would have then chosen a distro to use. Therefore there is no reason to have a "standard Linux distro", rather ready to use Linux computers directed at consumers. There are also secondary reasons such as a lack of rapid application development tools, also the multitude of package managers. The lack of capable RAD GUI tools makes it a hard platform to port to. There was an attempt to resolve the package manager thing with LSB but even there we couldnt get the larger distros like Ubuntu to stay on board with it. Now there are as many cross platform package managers as there are distros.

The lack of specialized applications, hardware support and ready to use preinstalled systems for consumers created a self reinforcing complex of barriers, so that all 3 would have to have been addressed simultaneously involving a consortium of systems builder, hardware and software vendors, etc to overcome it.

A word on prices, a stock with a moderate price with a PE ratio of 10 does not necessarily mean its a great company. A low PE can indicate the market thinks there is low growth potential, or could indicate some other problem with the company in some cases. When the entire stock market is overvalued, unfortunely the good companies like walmart and costco end up getting overvalued and with how things work today a good company with a low stock price tend to be quickly found meaning its hard these days to find great companies with a low stock price like Warren Buffett used to do due to how everything is online now. When Warren Buffet got started in the 40s information was not so easily available as it is now

By the way there are services that have overvalued/undervalued or overbought/oversold indicators on stocks that give that services view on if a stock is overvalued based on their fundamentals analysis. yahoo finance for example. Some brokerages also have it built in on their stock information accessible in brokerage accounts

This is where fundamentals analysis comes in. Companies are required to post financials. One can look at profits, losses, free cash flow, expenses, debts, etc, price to earnings, price to book, and so on, to get an idea of how overvalued a stock is compared to the measures of a companies revenue, assets, etc. 10-15 is a modest P/E ratio indicating a stock that is valued near to what the company is worth, 30 is getting more overvalued. I have seen Nvidia trading at 200 which is horrific.

Stocks get overvalued because stock exchanges are designed to ensure liquidity. If someone wants to buy NVDA, It may be for instance no one wants to sell NVDA when its stock is at a PE ratio of 30, so the price keeps increasing until sellers start to sell, which may be at 200. Or, if NVDA crashes, and someone tries to sell, and there are no buyers at 200, the price and PE ratio will fall until buyers show up, which could be at a more reasonable valuation of 30. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/06/02/1813237/dead-silicon-valley-unicorns-pile-up-as-unicorpses#

There are two issues, libreoffice charging for it, and the app store.

App Stores and sandboxes are the right thing for most people. Even if your an expert, you should prefer them, you want your apps especially browsers sandboxed. You want the source vetted, You want executables signed. Most people don't use emacs or vim or type arcane commands on a command line, spend days trying to compile things, thats a fringe group. If you have an app store and a sandbox, taking care of updates, t locks out all the email malware download junk. Most people just cant handle figuring out what is legit and not.

Libreoffice charging is another matter, its only for the app store, but you can argue they are violating their principles and its a slippery slope. We' really want an intense accounting of how the money is being used, like no conventions, no fancy offices, just programmers working at home making the product better.

You are the very definition of a mad scientist that could destroy the world and it is scary., All of this over a bunch of mice. Howabout just forget about the problem and stop messing around with crazy stuff that could get out of hand and cause a global ecological holocaust

This is a dangerous virus myth and repeatedly has been denounced by experts, Thats because if the virus has a long enough incubation period, it can spread just fine, despite being deadly, if the deadly symptoms start to show up later. With SARS, its often 7 days to hospitalization, and 3 days to symptoms. So there is a lot of time for it to spread. Higher viral loads can increase spread advantage while making the virus worse. What you are saying is only true of the virus has to kill instantly which is not how things work. Many other viruses don't follow the stupid myth like Smallpox, Measles, Polio, Ebola, HIV, Hepatitis, pandemic Flus, etc.

Even with the platters being broken into large pieces , it still might be recoverable. But it can be expensive. However, its possible to read the data off even a broken platter, using an external reader setup. Its mainly a matter of money. Given enough money, its possible. The thing that would make it unrecoverable is rust or being ground to powder.

The fact is, paying these workers much more would involve inflation and actually would increase poverty and economic misery. This is because while they would make more money, food would become more expensive that would end up driving everyone deeper into poverty, and in fact, these workers themselves because their increase pay would cause inflation, they would in reality see little or no real increase in their quality of living.

The idea you can solve this problem with pay increases is based on really, really bad economic thinking. What you will do is cause increased shortages, declines in living standards for everyone, inflation, all to save some lousy, menial, hellish jobs.

We need to embrace automation and the reality that as many jobs as possible should be automated and we can structure this economically to ensure that we have a ULI universal living income program that is humane and ensures an income for surplus workers. It can also lead to the possibility of shorter work weeks. Because automation should increase productivity, increased productivity can create more room in economic equations for a ULI for surplus workers. The more effective automation is in fact the more generous you can make the ULI program. On top of that you will end up with a highly reliable, dependable and stable supply chain that can scale well to meet human needs.

  We of course will still need workers, often in technical fields, so we also need to invest in STEM education. Of course the need for workers will not go away completely. I know some people say that as jobs are automated new jobs will replace them. I actually don't agree with this, especially if automation is particularly successful that the rate jobs are automated would far exceed the ability for new jobs to be creared to replace them. In fact, I think we should see that as a success and embrace it since it will let us implement shorter workweeks, ULIs etc while having a very productive and bountiful supply chain to ensure a high standard of living. This is why automation is something we should not fear, if it is structured in a manner for the common good, it is what will lead to the most reductions in poverty and increased standard of living for all.

Right. Also, a high level of automation throughout the economy can lead to much increased productivity which can create more room in economic equations for a Universal Basic Income. So, while we will need fewer workers, what this also can mean is that everyone can be guaranteed an income as well. It can also lead to shorter workweeks as well. People ask what will the workers do who are surplus due to automation. This is where UBI comes in. I know some people say that the new jobs will be created somewhere else. I actually don't think that will be the case simply because automation will probably outrun the ability for new jobs to be created, simply because automation will be able to take over so much of the economy. Rather than to get frightened of that, we can embrace it use this as an opportunity to implement UBI and relieve human beings of the burdens of menial labor.

We will still need workers in highly technical fields and this is why we need to refocus colleges on STEM fields to build and maintain the robots.

This is where the UBI comes in. The increased productivity in automation will create enough room in the economic equations for a universal basic income for surplus workers. Of course, we will still need workers, but if automation is successful, far fewer workers will be required. I see that as a success and an opportunity to give people a better life free of menial work. Bring on the UBIs, i say.