MrOwnPut

Feel free to stick your head in the sand due to your own personal bias, but it doesn't make it reality.

Did anyone expect otherwise?

Companies are made up of humans is what he's getting at.

That's not at all what your top comment was getting at and you know it.

So you want to criticize the current system without bringing in a proposal?

You don't have an opinion of a better system?

Wildfires are not because of climate change. They are due to forestry mismanagement. Mainly putting out smaller fires, causing underbrush to build up and fuel massive fires.

I'm essentially asking you what system you are proposing.

That does not include energy outsourced.

While I don't agree with your hyperbole, yes it is an imperfect system, but it is the best system we have.

The global temperature baseline has only increased 1.16~ degrees Celsius since 1880...

Of course it's going to increase as we continue to come out of the last ice age.

It's being blown way out of proportion though to fear-monger.

And don't get me started on Europe and their fake Paris Climate Agreement. They just wanted money from the US. If they were serious they wouldn't have shut down their nuclear reactors and got hooked on Russian gas / Iranian oil. Only the US has reduced emissions while increasing energy output.

Who is "we"? The US has reduced emissions records while increasing energy output for a number of years now.

Europe has increased both, regardless of their rhetoric. China of course has increased both as well with more coal plants being built.

Most of the reduction in the US is thanks to fracking/nat.gas displacing coal. Which a lot of people are against.

Focusing on nuclear could get us a lot farther in displacing fossil fuels with nuclear as the baseline energy source.

Unfortunately most people just want to nag each other or cat-o’-nine-tails themselves or yell doomsday on loop instead of pushing for things that actually matter.

They really messed you guys up with the impending doomsday fear-mongering, didn't they?

Exactly right. I could not agree more.

If those downvoters would comment, we could all have a healthy debate.

That's complete bullshit.

OP stated correctly an honest belief of limited government that people hold and your response was just a misguided political rant.

Each of your misguided points could be torn apart, but this isn't a political thread. It's a thread about Apple VisionOS ffs.

It's not that much effort either as owned slaves were included on the census.

Pretty much if you were an affluent family that could afford one, you owned at least one slave.

Notably, Mitch McConnell's, Obama's, and Biden's ancestors are all confirmed to have owned slaves. Not surprising as they all come from affluent families.

It's not they were considered "not white", that's marxist like thinking dividing amongst visual attributes instead of class.

They were discriminated against because they were considered lesser genetically/socially/etc...

The skin color has little to do with it other than being a phenotype visualizing the genetics that a group hates.

As you pointed out there are plenty of groups (Irish, Italian, etc.) where that phenotype (high melanin) doesn't exist, but the hate and judgement still does...

Sure, but no-one was arguing that.

Let's all start a fund to build bars closer?

Congrats on that break-through.

> A bed frame is the perfect example of stuff. The average western person believes this is a necessity even though it has no function.

There is a function. Having sex with no bed frame or headboard is awful.

If you spend more time driving, of course you're risking more.

If no-one left their house, there would be less casualties for many outdoor activities.

You have to account for per-mile.

Sure, but in this case if it were a zoonotic jump in the lab it would be really really easy for them to have found the animal now wouldn't it?

Zoonotic would mean it was a natural occurrence. The GoF program of adding the spike protein to attach to the ACE2 receptor and putting it in a mouse would NOT be zoonotic, but lab made. It's a lab mouse. Not a jump, but a deliberate placement in a lab.

Obviously the implications matter whether it occurred in nature or deliberately by man. If it was the latter, then the program that was supposed to prepare against the potential of a natural virus actually made something that may never have happened, and then went on to kill millions.

You ignored this part of my statement:

> If there was GoF being done on the sample (adding of the spike protein to infect humans), that could be the remaining percentage.

I do not believe one bit the only "reasonable conclusion" is it has to be from nature.

Between the lab sample, the outbreak area, the GoF program being run, the timing, history of lab leaks, and the reaction, a lab leak is very reasonable...

There is no closer match to SARS-CoV-2 found in the wild. Pangolins were floated for awhile but I believe the samples were 91%~

If there was GoF being done on the sample (adding of the spike protein to infect humans), that could be the remaining percentage.

Could you remind us what the "non-lab-leak scenario" is again?

To be clear, is your "likeliness" determined on whether we can find a creature that is more similar to covid than RaTG13 (we haven't) or something else?

It's also important whether it's active or passive.

Really important for game servers to have active DDoS protection, like what OVH offers. Not one that kicks in after the attack is detected, otherwise your players get booted, which is the goal of the attacker.

We call that sprinkling. If it's a male cat that's not fixed, that's when they actually spray.

The biscuits/kneading usually come first, then the sprinkling starts when the back legs start coming up and the tail starts vibrating.

If it's something he likes, like the fridge, no biscuits get made, it's straight to sprinkling for a few seconds to just make sure it's still his.

Oh and the wiping of gums on literally everything, most importantly every cardboard box in the house.

It's definitely an arousal thing mixed in with territory marking.

Never heard that one.

Also common to say they're "making biscuits".

When our cat comes to sleep w/ us we ask him to make some biscuits, he usually does.

If you're lucky and the biscuits line up he'll give you a nice massage.

an alpha had flaws!? gasp

So your metric is how an animal got to a location?

Birds can fly, not really fair to the feline species concerning which places it's allowed, eh?

Zero cats should be allowed to exist in NA?

No open borders for cats!?