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- Sun Jul 18, 2021 2:05 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Covid news and views
- Replies: 185
- Views: 159213
Re: Covid news and views
I would like to see this quantified. From what I can tell, most of the people who "can't be vaccinated" probably can be vaccinated. It's just that clinical trials haven't yet been conducted on them. Children for example. Children seem to be at very low risk from serious illness from covid so I don'...
- Sun May 23, 2021 4:17 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: AAA: Ask America Anything
- Replies: 179
- Views: 76242
Re: AAA: Ask America Anything
Are vacations really that shit in the U.S, like where you'd be lucky to string together two weeks of unpaid leave? I forgot to address this. People taking unpaid leave can usually take two weeks if they just ask for it. But they can't afford it. People with paid leave can probably take two weeks if...
- Sun May 23, 2021 4:13 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: AAA: Ask America Anything
- Replies: 179
- Views: 76242
Re: AAA: Ask America Anything
More questions ... The thing with ambulances. Is it true that folks will try to avoid taking ambulances to avoid the crippling (no pun intended) costs? Is this something that only affects poor or unemployed people, or is this like a general thing that might even affect the middle class? Like if you...
- Sat May 22, 2021 3:16 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: AAA: Ask America Anything
- Replies: 179
- Views: 76242
Re: AAA: Ask America Anything
Oh, so many. Like ads. Your TV is full of ads all the time. Like even sports have ads all the time (compared to football/soccer or most European sports where you get at least a half hour of action at a time). Do you all mind or notice? Do you turn down the ads? Do you watch the ads like as if they ...
- Fri May 21, 2021 11:00 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: AAA: Ask America Anything
- Replies: 179
- Views: 76242
Re: AAA: Ask America Anything
Re: tipping, you can tip on your credit card at restaurants. At hotels you can ask for change at the front desk. For people helping with your luggage you need small bills. That’s really the only time I worry about having small bills. You said you have a lot of questions but only asked three. What el...
- Mon May 03, 2021 2:00 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: The uneasy partnership of feminism and trans rights
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22362
- Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:05 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: Billionaires should (not) exist?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 18886
Re: Billionaires should (not) exist?
No doubt, I feel at least a version of what you feel, although my "number" is a bit lower. I can't help but to believe it's a perversion of what my natural desires and ambitions would be given something like a post-scarcity society. Also- is it beneficial to society that everyone be made to feel th...
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 1:01 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Billionaires should (not) exist?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 18886
Re: Billionaires should (not) exist?
Bezos and Musk are only billionaires on paper. Most of their wealth is tied up in their companies, and if they were to try to liquidate it, it would plummet. So it's kind of not even real money. Who knows what their actual liquid net worth is. I don't even know if there are billionaires whose wealth...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 2:29 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: Covid news and views
- Replies: 185
- Views: 159213
Re: Covid news and views
What were you looking for? Sweden's fatality rate is about 10 times its neighbouring Scandi countries (Finland has 846 with a population half of Sweden which has over 13,000 deaths). The decline in economic activity is no worse in Finland. Did you just want to directly compare country statistics? S...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:42 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Covid news and views
- Replies: 185
- Views: 159213
Re: Covid news and views
There's an interesting article in the New Yorker on Sweden. https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/swedens-pandemic-experiment?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_040621&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5f8291c86e831e0a1424a24a&cndid=62419996&hasha=a4b23674ebb100b8e816c7122...