This is a WSJ article about "success stories" for an unsuccessful Apple product. There's little more to be said, aside for pointing out that this is how marketing desperation looks like. Somebody needs some "independent" good news to show when asked uncomfortable questions at investor meetings.

> If there were advances in the state of the art of sky color,

My analogy is sensible and your attempt to extend it, is nonsensical. I don't think you're interested in good faith discussion, but I'll try to make the world a slightly better place with some facts.

There are multiple classes of Antiarrhythmic agents that address different chemical channels, to the same effect. Heart trauma, from surgery scarring to infarctions, and variable base chemistry, requires an array of different channels to reduce heart rate consistently. Multiple channel treatments are often used in tandem or rotated. These are called beta blockers for simplicity. ie These drugs stop the signals from the spine from getting to the heart the same way they normally would.

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Beta blockers are not magic, nor were they invented in the 50s or the 90s. The invention of a treatment does not correlate with the performance of a formal study accepted by modern medicine in some locale. Studies are necessarily narrow and it can take decades for a particular treatment vector to be confirmed or decried, despite the treatment being widely used prior in a more general application. Heart arrhythmias, have a very similar treatment across the world, across time.

> I've lived long enough to watch drugs be introduced, grow popular, and then be declared ineffective and even harmful.

As a heart patient of 50 years (first surgery at age 2), having spent a non-trivial amount of my life in hospital and bedridden at times, I am painfully aware that beta blockers are not one of them. Going from 200 bpm to 80 with an IV/pill is demonstrable and prevents the heart from tearing itself apart. Beta blockers save lives, period. Statistically, you will be treated with beta blockers as well, regardless of your feelings.

If you want to argue about blood thinners, the advances in that chemical realm are varied and a mixed bag. If you want to argue about valve technology, the blood flow dynamics and testing is generations beyond even my second valve replacement over 20 years ago due to automation, material technology, sample data, and evolved standards.

I hope this helps you in your next discussion about the topic.

Let's skip over the fact that your original post referred to TFS, not TFA. There's also no reference to 0.6g/kg in TFA. There's the explicit reference to 0.8:

and your quote, where the relevant part is

Last time I checked, 0.6 is half of 1.2, not of 1.6, that would be ... 0.8, surprise! - so I'm not even certain what you were trying to prove with that quote?

From the Ancient Greeks. That's how old. Arguing there is no citation when someone says the sky is blue, is not compelling.

Maybe take your own advice? from TFS

In fact, 0.6g/kg is nowhere in the summary, the recommended amount is 0.8g/kg.

Especially true when merely reading TFS is hard.

They also poured money into Lennart Poettering which cancels out Linus on the scoreboard.

Rod Serling went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio which is just a few miles from Centerville physically (but light years away philosophically). It's why some of his Twilight Zone episodes were set in "named" Ohio cities. Nick of Time, It's a Good Life, Stopover. A Stop at Willoughby is supposedly named after Willoughby, Ohio but set in Connecticut. There were also a lot of New York set episodes as a nod to his time there too.

Oddly enough, Dave Chappelle is a current resident of Yellow Springs.

Wow. Just wow. Giving someone money or not taking earned money away from them are the same thing? Karl Marx would be proud of you. I think you mean, the economic effect is the same. Calling them equivalent is the moral argument that the socialists have been pushing forever where "rich" is anyone with more money that the socialist.

This we can agree on. This is why I fully support the government assistance class being required to make a work effort. This increases productivity and means more goods and services. Too many liberals think that free government handouts work like a kid's allowance with no economic or social downside. This is how we end up with perpetual generational poverty and eternal government dependence.

Many places these days have terrible acoustics without any drop ceilings or sound baffling, just open high metal ceilings with terrible echoes. Some of them then crank up the music so loud that customers have to raise their voice to be heard across the table and that reinforces the racket. It's like having a meal on a factory floor. I have two friends that wear hearing aids and they both struggle to follow the conversation in noisy environments.

I avoid these places unless someone insists that we meet there. One bar/restaurant that I used to go, plays music I like and has food I like, but the din is now so overwhelming it's not worth the visit. If I have to shout to be heard two feet away over dinner, I'll find somewhere else to go.

Exactly. I think this is startups with too much funding and not enough places to put it. The folks that should be paying attention are the investors in these startups.

I never claimed I "matched" it nor do I try. My claim it that it is a far better experience for me. Much cheaper. No distractions. No inconsiderate assholes. Can pause and rewind. No driving and looking for parking. No planning my evening around theater schedules. No ads. Same movie. Good enough.

You're still trying to push the old vinyl vs mp3 type argument again. Enjoy your vinyl if it makes you feel special. I'm happy with my convenient mp3s.

Here you go:
https://www.macrotrends.net/st...

Steadily increasing profit over the last 15 years. Revenue was up 16% from last year, totaling 245 billion USD.

Now, my real question. I'd like to hire you for investment advice. Are you available?

Saw that at the theater. I was disappointed. Saw Solo next. It was so bad, I haven't seen anything Star Wars since. My last trip to the theater was for Joker. The first one, not the musical sequel. I enjoyed it. Not what I expected, but good anyway. But then COVID happened and I beefed up my home theater setup. I have no interest in going back.

And I'm not sitting 50 feet away from it. I have a 75 inch 4K HDR TV and a Sony sound system. I can sit as close as I want. Or I can fire up my projector on the 120 inch screen.

Last time I went some idiot kept checking his phone down in front of me. During dark scenes, I would have a big spot my night vision and take time to recover. Still not as bad as the time some asshole was taking pictures of his family during the start of the movie. Flash photography blindness takes much longer to overcome.

Something I do not care if I miss, just like the teen behind me talking during the whole movie and his girlfriend telling him to shut up. I also don't miss the guy ripping farts for the whole two hours. Can't move because my seat is assigned now.

Ads just make the experience worse. On my last trip, I took my son and it cost way more than buying the BluRay. A single bucket of popcorn, two drinks and tickets for two cost me $75 bucks. Atmos and a 90 foot screen aren't worth $75 to me especially when you throw in all the other problems.

Dude... It's not just one network. Perhaps you are unaware with the NBC, Washington Post and CNN settlements to Nick Sandmann. Or the defamation settlement by ABC to Donald Trump. Or the CBS alteration of the Kamala Harris' gibberish interview followed by a lawsuit. CBS is trying to settle with a lowball offer and their enablers are jumping ship. Just to be fair, look at Fox News' settlement to Dominion. Even Karine Jean-Pierre wrote a book on the Biden denials that were true. And apparently she was working on that book while still acting as press secretary.

These are all irrespective of the years and years of other repeated lies and calls to ignore our own eyes and ears. This is why the mainstream media is losing out to social media. It might be time to exit that smug bubble.