Think of the real estate value living near the food forest... Like central park in NYC, why don't we cut that in half and put up more high rises on our precious expensive land.
"breeding out" is the horrible version of eugenics.
Gene editing is the less family destroying, individual abusing way to go. As long as it's more focused on disease removal and less about having thousands of [insert favorite movie star/model here] walking around.
Like klyrs said, we want some weird in the gene pool
I do love lucid dreams but I'm going to need milder non-prescription chemicals.
Just need to be content practicing the mnemonic induction I guess, I've never done it seriously enough to see if it works. Similarly with those games to try to improve your working memory.
I cowardly use tabs viewed as 2 spaces so if needed in the future some quick lazy code like sed can convert it to 4 spaces or something if someone demands.
Notepad++ has a nice feature to convert leading spaces and tabs back and forth though I never used it on a big mess of a file to convert to tabs to see if it is successful there.
Every editor I've encountered beyond Notepad/Wordpad let's the user specify tabwidth.
The accessiblity issue for me is poverty and eyestrain. I like big fonts on my small monitor in my small apartment.
Throwing around 'psychopaths' remember a good number of people grow up with abuse or neglect. Probably easier for them not to care about distant strangers and meaningless numbers. We are a vast planet with 99.99% of people in need of serious therapy. (Probably everyone)
I'm curious the statistics of how many people have lost a close contact in the pandemic to COVID. Maybe a lot of deaths are neglected parents and grandparents which is why it seems like so few people care about taking COVID precautions seriously anymore. In the US it seems we are past fatigue into exhaution in the majority even as cases continue in the unvaccinated kids and adults.
There are 2 kinds of people/governments during a pandemic: Those with okay parents, and those who need that inheritance/medical savings
On a serious note, were Sweden's larger deaths early on in the pandemic when the government could be given a pass thinking COVID would be more easily controlled than it was? Or was it a long slow crawl? It's not like it would be easy to move thousands of elderly out of nursing homes to control things anyway. Nursing homes are not anywhere close to isolation wards so it might have been inevitable outcome.
Probably not. Because that turns lives into statistics and he is making an emotional appeal about the 10000 theoretical families affected by lost loved ones.
I for example, frequently look at local hospitalization rates and remind myself that a good number of them are mothers and fathers on ventilators so I can't F about in public like everyone else while the numbers are rising so I reduce risk of leaving my wife alone with kids while I'm stuck in a hospital bed for a week or 2 and the worry about keeping up on the rent that follows. -not perfectly healthy
I'm vaccinated but I think that just makes me certain to not die, but not necessarily keep me out of a hospital bed.
Sometimes it helps to remind numbers are people.
I'm talking from the point of view that the lockdown measures managed to keep ICU capacity open which reduced our current excess mortality observed. As far as I've read ICU capacity dropped greatly in many countries over the past decades, but my thinking is that we can't easily argue the various lockdown measures were bad using figures like national excess mortality because our current measures don't share the same baseline as an unrestricted pandemic free society.
Everyone has had vastly different experiences with the virus which affects views of the lockdown and behaviors.
Within the first few months of it in the US lost 3 coworkers to it, 1 known personally all around the same time. No clear mortality rate at the time, lockdowns made sense to us, it was real, we stayed masked up and crazy isolated.
By comparison to my father who knew no one affected at all for the first year or longer.
So to everyone outside of NY and California or wherever it started it was a whole lot of nothing. Either anxiety of virus that wasn't nearby for the vulnerable or another media hype like Swine flu or Avian flu or MERS that never really hit.
I'm sure there are still plenty of people who haven't been directly affected by the actual virus just the restrictions, only know people who maybe had a positive test or a short fever with their kids.
When people only get news loosely from posts on the internet I'm sure many ignore or miss the semi-regular pleas from doctors and nurses to take it seriously and keep the F out of the hospitals. Like one I recently saw from Florida.
I consider COVID a new killer in addition to flu, I assume flu vaccines actually work (imperfectly) to lessen symptoms and everyone's annual clichè claims that the vaccine makes them sick or does nothing is just repeating the same old shtick. To be fair I have no data to back that up that the influenza vaccine does anything but I think it just underscores the vague distrust of medicine floating about. I'm almost a scientist and optimistically drink the koolaid and get my flu shot annual and trust that government fda, cdc, whatever generally does want medicines to actually work to keep people working.
"to ease some kind of mass anxiety and to make us ready for a new kind of governance focused on ai, big data and techocracy."
I don't usually go along with these things that sound like grand control conspiracies.
The anxiety about globalization and digitization is probably part of all the conspiracy thinking. Globalization is moving what used to be semi livable jobs out and replacing livable wage work with software engineering and advanced degree jobs or rent seeking almost exclusively. Everyone else is getting squeezed by big corps, franchise contracts vs minimum wage, high tech gear with no right to repair, etc. Grand control conspiracies in my mind are a weird commiserating hope that the world sucks on purpose because some elite levers of power are making it that way when really the world sucks because a bunch of simple systems chasing money or power are making a big complicated mess the crushed the unlucky under the cruel invisible hand of the market.
On the other hand hearing vaguely about Turing being part of a team successfully handling details from the cracked enigma machine to steer WWII without letting Nazis realize the code was broken seems to give credit to the idea that the knowledge collected by agencies like the NSA could be used by geniuses around the world to manipulate things. But if they exist they do a great job making governments look dumb...
I guess it helps to know where/when you can stop assuming everyone else is a seething virus cauldron.
Or from more testing...
Peace of mind for the testee, social liability coverage for self or employer, knowing if infections are increasing or not, vaccines blocking transmission or not, death rate lags by a few weeks for anyone hoping to see a quick change from a new/killed policy.
Necessary for what? To convince everyone to stop with masks and restrictions?
It's not just about mortality rates. The other problem is hospitalizations. If you get in a bad car accident, get a bad infection, or have a pregnancy go bad you want an ICU bed not occupied by someone drowning from COVID. I expect most of these mortality rates are from places that didn't have their hospital systems collapse and have to ration care. I think US is heading there in some states, then mortality will get closer to that hospitalization rate.
Excess mortality has to somehow account for reduced commuting, reduced regular medical visits, more domestic violence, etc it's a mixed bag when you are dealing with pandemic behavioral changes do they have real models for all that?
Probably why most of the richest Americans are working on spaceflight to colonize the moon instead of carbon emissions.
Not going to get enough people to do these things and they don't want to foot the bill themselves.
They have those fancy carbon sequestration plants but who will be the first to build them, dump dry ice somewhere and keep up while the developing world is just trying to get enough food on everyone's tables.
We need nuclear powered carbon sequestration and/or CO2 catalysis back to ethanol or graphite (wouldn't that be nice).
Then every year when you do your taxes, the government with your electric bill, vehicle registration and travel history ships tonnes of dry ice to your house/apartment and it's your job to deal with it, Look at what you've done!
For all we know a few choke point suppliers could say let's be like De beers and manufacture more scarcity of something like Neodymium or further down the supply chain buy most of a resource up and sit on it.
Uncertainty of the future supplies could have some companies stockpiling materials so they can keep up with their contracts and not worry about more COVID disruptions to their own operations.
I'm not saying any of that is real but generally there is no public knowledge of supply chain. The secrecy of sales leads, output, and prices might be the only thing keeping them from being undercut or priced out by another company.
Also all the stock market woes for a company if the public found out their output is crippled ahead of any shareholder reports.
Maybe you can get data from something state owned or a trade group insider news?
"I think Facebook spends much more resources than TV channels and newspapers trying to address such issues."
Proportional to their extremely greater profit they better be.
"All of those nasty effects of social media existed before, they just moved to the most efficient media form."
Back in the day you could kill a few people with arrows and spears, then you had automatic rifles, now we have nuclear and chemical weapons. We actually try to regulate those...
Government Warning: (1) According to the Surgeon General, people should not pursue "likes" as it may lead to mental health defects. (2) Consumption of social media impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery and may cause social problems.