thebuoyancyofcitrus @ thebuoyancyofcitrus @beehaw.org

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This prompted a question I'd never consciously considered. Is the difference between pack and herd just predator vs prey?

We've inflated prices but now people aren't buying as much stuff. Why is this happening??

If you're not going to share the sources of these "studies and sources" or provide a meaningful definition of "excess deaths" then you're asking complete strangers to rely on anecdotal evidence and your own personal judgement. Seems far more irresponsible than sharing an article with multiple public health organizations and medical professionals among it sources.

Having a hard time remembering the details but isn't this a major plot point in A Brave New World?

I thought Stadia was great too! It definitely helped me get through pandemic isolation. And I definitely felt like the controller fit my hands well.

It's evident their taste in design matches their taste in ideology

I have four... somewhere around here. There's usually one nearby when I need it.

Fair point. I would say that something similar happens with private insurance as well. I don't claim to have the solution for greed but it sure would be nice to enjoy a system where health outcomes take priority over profit.

Not sure why people say this like it's a surprise or somehow bad. Paying for public health measures, or just healthcare in general is way better than where a lot of tax revenue winds up.

I remember having my mind blown back in 2020 when reading about a bubonic plague outbreak in the early 1900s in California and learning that wealthy businesses owners and investors tried to pull a lot of the same stuff that they were again pulling in 2020 to keep businesses open. It was the same political game, the same use of media to undermine the attempt at a public health response.

I guess it always was a bit of a fantasy that we would all respond according to our own self interest.

It was such a an opportunity to normalize masking in public, especially when sick with any respiratory illness and the opportunity was squandered by selfishness and greed. The pandemic also served to gut my faith in humanity, so there's that.

Some number of years ago, I was an intern within a department of state government. I was tasked with helping to enrich their databases. So they sent over an Excel file. I did my thing and added new columns, then I had to send it back over to someone within each division so they could do the data entry. To my horror, when I went to visit one of the division heads, I saw their admin sitting at a computer with a printout of my changes sitting on a document holder next to the screen...manually typing geographic coordinates into a data entry form.

Same here. I tried a few different instances but Beehaw hits different and has come to feel like home.

I can smell this picture. What a happy pup!

A few years back I found a reusable Swiffer style duster at Ikea and it is still working pretty well for me on the rare occasion I think to actually dust.