My friend's father got pancreatic cancer. His chemotherapy was delayed because the hospital was full of covid patients. Now he's dead. People who get mad about being harangued to take the vaccine are failing to see the whole picture.
ok, so s/Jew/Zionist in the post and it's all ok? The thrust of the essay seems to be condemning violence in the name of an identity, whether that's a religious, racial or national identity, and it seems to me Zionists don't make a distinction between Jew and Israeli.
Uh, yeah. That's the point. That to be Jewish, to be Israeli, and to be in support of the Israeli government in power are three very distinct things.
Next up, let's write an article critical of Hamas and start with "If I were a Muslim, I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing".
> it seems to me Zionists don't make a distinction between Jew and Israeli
This serves their interests, but the framing shouldn't be accepted. There are plenty of non-Zionist or anti-Zionist Jews, or even Zionist Jews who have specific concerns about the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere; it's a little funny seeing people like Bernie Sanders being deemed antisemitic, for example.
My parents went through the Cultural Revolution, which involved being sent to a labor camp for a couple years, having various relatives harassed into committing suicide, and even though everyone in their age cohort experienced equally horrific things, I could tell something wasn't right about them, even as a kid. They, however, would not think of themselves as traumatized. I don't know about your case in particular, but in general, I think psychological injuries tend to leave a mark, even if they are normalized, and even if the sufferer is not necessarily aware of them.
Aren't children supposed to be better at learning new languages than adults, though? There's supposed to be a critical period where language acquisition is much easier.
It’s not like they are better it’s just repeating everything a million times and talking the whole day without shame of making a mistake is more fun when you are 6.
The fact that vocabulary of a 6 year old child is much smaller and takes less time to remember of course helps
On the other hand, when you are adult , you can actually understand abstract concepts of grammar. It’s just too boring to repeat everything enough times to train your neural network to get it right without thinking.
What children are actually really good at are sounds of language.
You'll note that there was one completed in the 2010s and one in the 2000s. There were 33 completed in the 1920s.
The US produces 30 times as much as it did in 1920, in real terms. It is "economically plausible" for a nation 30 times richer than it used to be to produce some tiny fraction of the infrastructure it used to produce.
Californians might not want to build reservoirs, Californians might be too incompetent to build reservoirs, Californians might prefer blaming a snowpack that melts out slightly earlier to building reservoirs, California might prefer saving snails and slugs to building reservoirs, but California, undeniably, has the money to build reservoirs.
Has it occurred to you that we already built ones where they're geographically and economically feasible, and that's why we've slowed down their construction?
Reservoirs require land with natural geographic boundaries (such as valleys), will displace any human populations in them, and will completely destroy whatever existing flora and fauna exists in there. Perhaps Californians are trying to wrangle with the idea that destroying ecosystems at great financial expense to deal with the problems caused by destroying other ecosystems isn't the right way to approach problem-solving.
Saying that there is not an economically plausible way of producing or keeping water is just saying that you don't want the water very much. This immediately proves that, if you are in a drought, it doesn't really matter.
If unionizing is so pointless, why did Google suspend her for even talking about unionizing? Also, the article states quite explicitly that management did not want employees talking about wages. Now employees can. Is successfully protecting freedom of speech really such a small thing to you?
To put myself in the shoes of the worker, of course I want better working conditions and pay.
To put myself in the shoes of management. My company has a class of workers who do activism instead of their job. If one of my employees wants to join that class, I’m probably going to be disappointed - although firing them for this would be idiotic, because it’s illegal and will get me in trouble with the NLRB.
I think the workers here absolutely deserve representation that can get them paid more than $15 an hour, but this union doesn’t seem to be it. It seems more like an institutionalized pissing match between a clique of employees and management. It’s like a hack that exploits labor law to protect workers from the peril of at-will employment. Don’t like the expectations of your job, but still want to get paid? Join the union! Now if they fire you, it’s retaliation!
It does say in the article it could be a helpful treatment for people who have tested positive for covid. Do you think that's just hype, or could it actually be helpful?
Seems boilerplate "could be helpful to cure xxx" statements written in press releases and grants for most research findings; neutralizing antibodies do seem to help in mitigating worse outcomes (among others Lily sells a concoction) but even when they have good half lives it looks like the neutralizers don't do too much; there's no benefit I can see for something with orders of magnitude lower half life still.
“Could be” in this context is more like “hasn’t been conclusively proven impossible”. Unless somebody is taking about human trials it is exploratory and not worth getting anybody’s hopes up unless your hopes involve grant money and publishing papers.
Oh please, it would've been extremely easy to title it "The Life of Einstein's First Wife, Mileva Marić," and thereby make it clearer she was a notable person in her own right, not for merely being Einstein's wife, to even a casual reader who didn't click through.
