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That David walked and it pleased the knees
'Cause you don't really care for jogging, do ya?
It goes like this, the foot, the hips
The minor fall, the pedal lift
The Briskly Walking king spoke "Hallelujah"
But also, yeah. If you need someone to watch you do X so you can enjoy X, maybe you don't like X all that much in the first place.
[15 years later]
> I remember i could spend weeks just walking around in the office and do "action items" every now and then. For regular user stories they asked me every other week what I could finish and let me write it down in a schedule and expected me to just learn it on my own and if i needed help i could ask around for help. This led me to do the absolute minimum or pretty much nothing.
Which leads into your point -- the author didn't/doesn't have that temporary notion of "This will pass; For now, just get me away from these people." He's in it for life-o and has a totally different set of realities to cope with than a transient convict.
I think it has more to do with school being the first place you have those pseudo-professional experiences of "Ahhhh! I blew it! I didn't work hard enough!" So your brain is like, "I think I have this one in the archive somewhere."
Saved a lot of money this year making Covid-19 at home using the SARS viruses I already have. Takes like 2 seconds
Yes, an article comparing two possible originating locations should obviously show both on that graphic (especially when both places are well-within the frame of the image); I can't see any good reason for the author to have omitted that.
> but then you also grant that it looks like the market was the center of spread
Yes. And that's not contradictory to the lab leak idea, because people aren't trees and they go places after work. I think it's entirely reasonable to hypothesize that the virus escaped from the lab on a person and ended up successfully taking root in a less-than-sanitary wet market just across the river. If two-headed turtles started showing up at a Popeye's 20 minutes away from the Turtle Experiment Laboratory, would you say that Popeye's was the source of the two-headed turtles?
> You still need to explain how there are two distinct lineages at the market among the first cases!
Again, there's no reason both theories can't be true here. The caged, dirty animals definitely seemed to be the virus' first stronghold, but that doesn't mean that the new bat virus couldn't have come from the New Bat Virus Laboratory 20 minutes away from the wet market.
> Picking and choosing one data point to be skeptical of is useless, the totality of the evidence needs to be weighed.
My point is that it made the bias of the author nakedly apparent. It's an pro-wet-market argument piece, not an objective look.
[0] https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_...
[1] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Huanan+Seafood+Market,+Fazha...
It's not at all far-fetched to think the virus piggybacked 10 miles before finding a nice home for itself at a wet market, after which it went gangbusters and infected lots of people. Obviously the virus proliferated in the market, but that doesn't necessarily make the market the origin. The two bottom 'Weibo data' maps from the first link show clusters on both sides of the rivers and also very close to the lab.
That's just the most obvious bit of bias, but I'm confident that article isn't being as fair-handed as it's pretending to be.
Doesn't that just add to the comedy?
Sounds like the peg was more-or-less a perpetual motion device that relied on a strong wind
> The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.
Then, the next time it appeared, it was reworded as
> A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no person religiously scrupulous shall be compelled to bear arms.
Before being whittled down to nix religious exemption and leave ambiguous who runs the militia
> A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Judging from the Congressional record nobody focused on the fact that the militia clause got flipped between meetings, so take from that what you will.
That's how I read it as well. In fact, I consider the whole first part of 2A ("A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,") as more of a quick justification that has no legal bearing on the actual right that follows ("the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.")
So, essentially, "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State [begets that] the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
Reminds me of those machines that would smash your penny into a longer penny with something else written on it
If free software begets other free software simply through its replication, then I think the juice is worth the squeeze
Per person? No way.
Also note that the ClipboardItem API doesn't work in Firefox unless specifically enabled :^(
I guess I'm okay with that, considering the API could be used for things way less fun than your magic trick
Books are nice, but I'm not sure they determine whether or not you think for yourself.
Unless we're including religious colleges, this seems hyperbolic.
While I did find this[1], which appears to support the idea that left-wing voices are more likely to get fired/kicked out of universities for their speech (though not by a magnitude), I have no idea how that study split up which speech was 'censored by right'/'censored by left', because when I tried to do so myself with the dataset[2], the results were closer to 55/45 (left-wing firing/right-wing firing) for 2015-2017, which was the years the study chose to focus on, but almost exactly 50/50 for the entire 2006-2020 dataset.
[1] https://www.niskanencenter.org/there-is-no-campus-free-speec... [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eeTHZQOh9faZ2P3C_O3s...