You don’t think it’s curious that when the earliest cases are plotted they create a bullseye pattern centered on the market and show no apparent geographic relation to the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the neighborhoods where its employees worked/lived?

Do you not find it curious that when looking at initial sampling researchers actually found the pattern of viral particles increased in concentration near the area of the market where butchering was occurring?

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp871

What’s most curious to me is how it seems like infectious disease experts and epidemiologists are overwhelmingly in agreement it seems most likely this was a typical zoonotic transfer, and it’s only politically driven government agencies in completely unrelated fields like Energy that are pushing accusations on the lab with vague reasoning.

Bro, bullets do not have enough momentum to stop a vehicle. You generally can’t shoot a crash away.

The entire rail industry is run this way, it’s not a state specific thing. Do people think the Ohio government runs the trains or something? The feds regulate rail, the standards that were in place here are the same standards in place for the lines in your city.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/business/self-driving-car-nhtsa-crash-data.html

NHTSA makes manufacturers with automated assist systems in the market report crashes involving those technologies. Despite having only a minority share of ADAS in the market today, Tesla’s crashes represented 70% of the reporting.

Except other automated systems like SuperCruise and ProPilot and whatnot don’t seem to have this same issue. Tesla automation is disproportionately hitting emergency vehicles with respect to how many systems are in the market

If you look at the Pentagon’s statement they didn’t actually make any comparisons to satellites like that

Obviously a balloon presents much different monitoring opportunities than a satellite. A satellite would be 200+ miles up and have only a brief window to observe a target because it’s moving 15,000+ mph relative to the ground to maintain orbit

Being able to float 10 miles over a target for hours or days is a much different situation than a satellite. The takeaway I had from the DOD was that nothing on board was new, it was similar optics/sensing/communication equipment as what goes on spy planes operating around the same altitude

What do you mean what was the point? We’re just supposed to let military equipment float through our airspace and do nothing as it poses a hazard to our national security? The point of blowing it out of the sky is to keep foreign military spy platforms out of our skies.

I mean, what other organizations are looking out for developing nations in relation to things like medicine safety? Sure, if you live in a wealthy nation that has much more proficient regulatory authorities overseeing your medical care systems you’re probably better off listening to them over the WHO.

But if you live in a developing nation that doesn’t have the money to support authorities like that and is beholden to sourcing from less than ideal companies, the WHO is generally better than nothing. Do you think it’s actually a bad thing they are making noise about contaminated children’s medicines and working to expose those companies so people less fortunate than us can avoid them?

Water is a hostile environment for humans. We’re better off trying to keep our surface environment safe than we are trying to move to one we never evolved to live in.

> GPT is just an algorithm that’s been fed tons of information along with a set of parameters (rules), and as impressive and clever as it is, it does not learn and grow independently of its original design.

A human brain is just coding instructions(DNA) that has been fed a bunch of information. Our ability to learn and grow is heavily constricted by that same DNA. On the most fundamental level our neuron/synaptic architecture is analogous to a computer circuit.

By your own definition it seems like humans shouldn’t be considered intelligent. Maybe AI isn’t thrown around recklessly, maybe people have too high opinion of what intelligence actually is.

The Netherlands would disagree that you can’t dam up a coast.

That’s only what’s at imminent risk today. Every year that number will grow as rising sea levels expose more and more of the city. This infrastructure would be the foundation of what will protect the whole of New York City as the century continues and conditions get worse

New York City is one of America’s most efficiently populated spaces. More than half the population uses public transportation regularly and they are densely packed in limiting the amount of land use per person. If the goal is to minimize ecological impact then we want Americans living in places like New York. It probably is worth walling it up than ceding that to the ocean.

> Also, NBC has exclusive streaming rights so I’ve watched feeds where the cameraman was interrupted by Parade employees and forced to stop.

NBC does not own exclusive rights to stream an event that occurs on public streets. Americans have a constitutional right to film things in plain view of public spaces. Anyone on public sidewalks along along the route can film and stream it to their heart’s content. The only thing NBC can control is filming occurring in their private ticketed stage area at the ending point.

I just pulled up a broadcast from the early 1990s and parade starts with a barbershop quartet singing a car commercial. It’s always been a commercial onslaught, I think you just have rose colored glasses

The parade takes place on public streets, anyone can stream it. Youtube was full of exactly what you’re describing yesterday.

“Now” it”s like that? It was started by the department store Macy’s to literally go through Manhattan like some sort of Department Store Pied Piper leading people to the front of their store to go shopping. From Day 1 back in the 1920s it was one big giant commercial. Nothing changed.

Sorry, I couldn’t read this comment because I was too distracted by the screeching sound of goalposts being moved.

>“Account made few days ago hating on crypto”

You, three days ago, responding to someone voicing criticism you didn’t like hearing. You need therapy bro, not crypto.

Virtually no one “prefers” being responsible for their own financial security. Most people aren’t IT security experts and are human and subject to make errors. It’s not rational to take on all that risk yourself

I suspect most people getting burned by these exchanges are just going to go back to banks, not an even worse version of those exchanges. i DiDnT rEaLiZe tHaT wAs DiFiCuLt FoR yOu To GrAsP

Most my money exists digitally in a ledger. 30 years on still have it. Turns out you can safely store your savings digitally if you just know who to give it to take care of it(in my case a regulated federally insured bank)

If they opted for a “centralized” exchange in the first place that suggests they’re not interested in those. A regulatory crackdown probably won’t be good for Bitcoin like you think

They’re just starting to write it, it’s not like they’re filming it next week. In the middle of an event is a great time to greenlight a series about it because having writers plugged in and having financial support/incentive to follow everything live as its unfolding is probably going to capture a lot more than trying to tackle it all after the fact.

Healthy skepticism? Again, how do you figure this works when by definition you can’t ask for any identifying information regarding an anonymous source. By your logic no paper would ever run anything based on anonymous sources and all we would get is State fed information. That would be dumb.

The AP rule for anonymous sources requires multiple corroborating sources unless the source is an authoritative figure in government who provides so detailed of information there can be no doubt to authenticity. James LaPorta represented his source that way as a “senior US official” staking his credibility on it like every journalist does when they send something to the wire, and since he screwed up he now has no career

That system seems fair and is the system that made the AP into one of the world’s most relied on wire services, recognized as among the most robust sources of information. That’s the best way to manage journalists that people have come up with, hold them to task and fire them if they ever lie.

What were the editors supposed to do? For anonymous sources they can’t really ask who the source is without compromising anonymity, they have to rely on the integrity of the journalist to follow the AP’s rules.

Obviously this isn’t a perfect system, hence why when they find a case of a journalist not following rules the response is instant firing and making it public. They’re making sure he will never find gainful employment as a journalist again as a message to the rest of the wire staff that pulling this shit to try to get ahead of a story isn’t worth it.

The core demographic for these animated shows isn’t all that discerning. Most kids aren’t looking for complex storylines, character depth, and multi-layered dialogue, they’re fine with cheap jokes and seeing things hit other things