Amazing article, thank you. Sets out clearly how we got here and what is at stake.

I’m pretty sure most creatures in nature die before they are adults.

I’m glad people are studying this, and I do agree there is a lot of unwarranted fears mixed up in this topic. But full acceptance of this science will not answer the whole issue, as in this study

All transgender participants had undergone hormone therapy for over a year

Which is not the definition of transgender used by teams and organizations in most of these controversies, if athletes even want to disclose their health history.

This was my question, too https://sh.itjust.works/comment/11976255

They say “soldiers” for sympathy but it’s the politicians who are rightfully scared.

All they need is a third developer to divide up the project for them and design the interfaces

So much “if we can just ignore atrocity a little longer we can break through to a new reality where there is one fewer problem.” Magical thinking at it’s worst.

Sounds like a movie premise

I like the DocuSign model. Just focus on securing your one account (email) and then make all the others use it as single factor.

I had the same thought. Like, I think Aurora is one of the most expensive ways to do this in AWS. But, since this particular set of data is so well-defined, and unlikely to change, roll your own is maybe not crazy. The transactions per second and size don’t seem that huge to me, so as things grow I imagine they can revisit this.

Ice-9?

I see it all the time I think, but maybe my standards are low. Often what I see the traffic isn’t quite equal in both lanes, so it’s not abab, but people see the guy ahead find a space and they pick a space behind the next car and so on. It’s there more to it? Like if someone doesn’t get it, you just continue the zipper behind them, right?

No. So maybe this is state of the art, but I hope someone who does will tell me it’s not.

Ok, the article is written badly, but the source is not much better, at least the intro you can read for free.

I propose that Machiavellianism is positively related to environmental activism. Forming alliances and leadership are likely effective strategies in the context of environmental activism, which involves convincing other people to change their environmental attitudes and behaviors

So like, the dysfunctional extreme of a behavior is positively correlated with the high end of a normal functional behavior. Is that news?

No comparison with activism for other causes. The author still strongly supports environmental activism.

Also it was literally a questionnaire given to a few hundred people in one town in Germany. It’s hard to believe people are wasting their time peer reviewing this high school science fair level stuff.

Yeah, I wonder, too. I’ve done the same for $15 copay through Kaiser (individual, marketplace) and Blue cross (employer).

My kid prefers to be texted for dinner. Knocking is iffy because of the ear buds.

That’s awesome! So much more flexible than group text or whatever.

I don’t know, but last month three people in my family, including one who is on immuno blockers, caught swine flu from 2009 (verified by PCR) and did have cold-like symptoms, but no hospitalization or other complications and no longer than a week. We got it tested because one sick person is non verbal and has a history of pneumonia, so whenever she gets a bad cough I take her to have someone listen to her lungs and this time they opted to test for the strain. I kind of wish we could do that more often as it’s very interesting to know and see these things come around. They all had this year’s flu vaccine, which every year includes some h1n1 variant, as had everyone else in the house who didn’t get sick at all. So anecdotally and unscientifically, I would say Spanish flu is not a threat, especially if you’ve been getting flu vaccines every year.

I think what we lack is the understanding that just knowing the right thing to do doesn’t make it happen, individually or collectively. Because if you look at any of the issues we face you can find people talking about it a hundred, three hundred, a thousand years ago, but it’s like the solutions only get traction under some special lightning in a bottle circumstances. So you have to keep up the consciousness and the effort and especially creative inspiring things, and know that the failures are to be expected and the successes are so rare they need to be celebrated even when they are imperfect.

Oh, I think he can bank on that. What I see is people looking to third parties. I just don’t think anything good will come of that.

Personally, I can’t honestly threaten to vote against him, but I do understand other people feeling differently, and I definitely wish he’d make it less gross for me.