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Comment Re:Robots.txt? (Score 1) 158

Granted, Obamacare/RomneyCare fixed a lot of the issues

Really?

I contract and pay my own medical insurance.

Obamacare caused my rates to skyrocket....it was quite reasonable in the past, but after OC...it immediately skyrocketed my rates and they kept going up year after year, often with somewhat less coverage.

I'll add a +1 here as this is similar for me. OC massively screwed my healthcare up and has ultimately resulted in my paying sometimes 10x the cost for procedures (like hernia surgery.) It's great if all you want to go is get an annual checkup, but hell, I'd be happy paying that out of my pocket and having insurance actually cover bigger procedures.

Comment Re: "The stakes couldn't be higher for Amazon"? (Score 1) 118

Amazon won't capitulate to Union demands, they'll replace the workers with tech and send them packing. Amazon, unlike many companies, also has the funding to make it happen and the technology to do so already pretty much exists.

Hahahahaha. Amazon makes Walmart look like a pro-employee company. They have already automated every position they possibly can and are working on automating the rest, union or not. You didn't think those delivery drones were for the customer's benefit did you?

Exactly my point.

Comment Re: "The stakes couldn't be higher for Amazon"? (Score 1) 118

Anything they can automate they already have or it's in the backlog.

Of course you're here to spread FUD so. I dunno try harder you're bad at your job.

I guess I don't feel bad about failing at something I wasn't trying to do. But hey, believe what you want. Time will tell.

Comment Re: "The stakes couldn't be higher for Amazon"? (Score 0) 118

Found the neolibertarian collaboarator / useful idiot!

Except that it's true. Amazon won't capitulate to Union demands, they'll replace the workers with tech and send them packing. Amazon, unlike many companies, also has the funding to make it happen and the technology to do so already pretty much exists.

Comment Re:Net Neutrality Was A Scam (Score 1) 204

Wow, talk about left wing bias. Has the end of Net Neutrality resulted in any of the horrors that left wing activists said would occur? The answer is no. Net Neutrality was a solution to a problem that never existed. You are all still streaming, downloading, surfing with no issues just like before. The Internet is just fine without more gubmint regulation.

You don't see any wrong or harm being caused when telcos slow internet speeds?

Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire

CenturyLink Blocked Its Customers' Internet Access in Order To Show an Ad

US Telcos Are Slowing Internet Traffic To and From Popular OTT Apps Like YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video, New Research Finds

Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft's Skype Service, Study Finds

How about the misleading "unlimited" data advertising by the wireless carriers and how consumers have to pay extra / add on additional service(s) to get real unlimited data?

Hahaha you're high if you think the incoming administration and FCC is going to do anything about any of these.... Especially the "unlimited" claim. There isn't an FCC or administration that has done a damn thing about any of these before, and they're not likely to do it now. Doesn't matter D or R, both have equally fucked up on it.

Comment Re:Hate speech doesn't exist (Score 0) 334

"Hate speech" doesn't exist, it's only whatever the prevailing majority deem offensive at any point in time. If you are triggered or offended by words on a screen, you have deeper issues that need resolved. Silencing other's voices because you don't like what they say is the definition of intolerance.

This! All moves like this do it create echo chambers.

Comment Re:Plans for re-opening (Score 2) 349

I've also found that communication has been really lacking around re-opening. All those protestors seem to think that the plan is to be locked down for a long, long time.

I can't imagine where they'd get that idea from... https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09... https://www.foxnews.com/scienc... https://www.washingtonpost.com... https://www.yourlocalguardian....

Comment Re:There's something really ridiculous here (Score 1) 284

Not really... Your link didn't say a thing about my original assertion... Chloroquine Phosphate is not the same as Hydroxychloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine is a formulation specifically designed to reduce many of the concerns that surround Chloroquine Phosphate. In fact.... your article didn't say a thing about Hydroxychloroquine... maybe you should feel stupid? You appear to be using the same logic as the person who drank the fish tank cleaner...

Comment Re:There's something really ridiculous here (Score 3, Informative) 284

All I ever saw was MSNBC, CNN, et al claiming it was the same as fish tank cleaner,

They never claimed that. They claimed it was the same as chloroquine phosphate which is used to treat fish ich... and... it is.

The drug just can be fatal if the wrong dose is given.

What an asinine comment. Most drugs are fatal if the wrong dose is given... Many people commit suicide every year using this very method. To say that Chloroquine Phosphate is the same as Hydroxychloroquine is like saying that Polyethylene Glycol (Colonoscopy prep) is the same as Ethylene Glycol (Antifreeze) - It's a very disingenuous comment.

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