Even if your claim were correct… with every infection the pathogen potentially gets better at infecting humans, and you’re giving it another opportunity to improve and spread to others.

Entire species have been wiped out because natural immunity doesn’t always outpace pathogens’ ability to adapt—letting nature take its course has no predictable winner.

Those who benefit from the way the police currently operate are incentivized to preserve the status quo—mental illness and all.

Syncthing uses a centralized discovery server to connect device IDs to IP addresses (although you can change this to point to your own discovery server, too).

I don’t know if Funkwhale has a similar option.

Sometime after sunrise.

If your criterion is that the theater isn’t making as much as they otherwise would, then failing to donate your entire paycheck to the theater is also “objectively wrong”.

I generally don’t eat in the theater anyway, but when I do I buy from the theater’s concessions… as a courtesy, not because I think it exemplifies some kind of objective morality. And if I did bring in food, I’d be supporting some other business that may be equally or more deserving.

I think another source reported he was shot in the stomach. And I saw a video of the truck after it was found—there were many bullet holes through the cab.

Edit: A later report clarifies that it was the bystander who was shot in the stomach, while the driver had a more minor injury.

It’s possible they thought the truck was full of explosives, and was trying to blow up the bridge to the Coast Guard island.

There are actually two issues:

• The most obvious effect of inbreeding is the increase in homozygosity for deleterious mutations, causing more birth defects.

• A subtler effect is the loss of genetic diversity reducing a population’s ability to continue to evolve in response to future selection pressures. This would be especially important when migrating to a new environment with new selection pressures the species has never encountered before.

Cucumbers or radishes?

No—unless you’re eating eggs from your backyard hen, the eggs are unfertilized. Laying hens on commercial farms never even come into contact with roosters.

Nah—see Goodhart’s law (“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”).

As soon as Santa published his lists, people would start figuring out ways to game it.

Historians don’t talk about “good” or “bad” unless there’s some unambiguous metric within the historical context.

There’s not much value in money that can only be used to purchase land/raw materials.

On the contrary—with automation converting raw materials to finished goods essentially for free, raw materials would be worth more than ever.

There are still (some) consumers—other capitalists.

Labor might become worthless, but money would still have value derived from ownership of capital (factories and raw materials). A tiny capitalist class would still produce and sell to each other, while the rest of humanity would be left with literally nothing to work with.

You’re not wrong—the protests in their current form aren’t going to achieve anything by themselves.

But adding some specific set of demands will accomplish even less: it will alienate supporters who don’t agree with all the demands, and it will allow Trump to claim to address the issues by cherry-picking and distorting the demands beyond recognition (see the Black Lives Matter protests a few years ago).

If we reach a critical point where mass protests can achieve some real, concrete good, it will be due to contingent circumstances that neither side was able to predict. But the contribution the current protests can make to that moment is to give everyone the confidence that the numbers are on their side, once suitable leverage is found.

If a bus driver is trying to drive off a cliff, the passengers can band together to stop it even if they haven’t all agreed on a preferred destination.

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Jenkins in the article: “there has to be an arrest that takes place of an agent, which requires an intermediary set by another law enforcement agency.” Seems she’s passing the buck to law enforcement.

Edit: I’m not trying to defend her, I’m just quoting her actual excuse for reference.

Bureaucracy.