You know people might need to get more than two loads of laundry done in a day. While one might not need to supervise the washing machine, you do need to be around to move the laundry to the dryer, so that you know, it drys. Where with a normal washer I could have the wash done in thirty minutes, throw it in the dryer, start ANOTHER load in the washer and then run into town to get some errands done, when I get home an hour later, oh looks. I have a load of dry laundry., and another load of laundry to put in the dryer. Meanwhile you are still waiting for your first load of laundry to wash and I'm getting load number three in the washer.
You'd be amazed at how much laundry two kids and two adults can produce in a week.
Given that I had laundry duty for the wife and three daughters, I know exactly how much laundry can be produced in a week. I also know that it's not unusual for the laundry to sit in the washing machine for three hours after it's run before I get around to moving it to the dryer.
You know, after you hit the 'start' button, you don't have to stand there and personally supervise the washing machine. It will continue to run even if you walk away.
This. If you live in America, add your monthly healthcare premiums on to your taxes to determine your actual 'tax burden.' Then, reflect on the fact that despite your paying those healthcare premiums, you may still have to jump through a lot of hoops, have 'copays,' navigate a morass of 'in network' doctors, etc etc.
Cameras have shown many accusations of police abuse to be false, as well as caught abuses that may have gone unseen before.
To my mind, this is the most important point. For every cell phone video of a couple of cops beating the shit out of somebody for no good reason, there's body cam footage of somebody standing ten feet away from the cops, yelling 'help help these police are beating on me.'
I liked the analogy I think I saw on Slashdot a while ago: A person in a wheelchair complains that they can't get into building X. An activist lobby to have a wheelchair ramp built. An SJW will lobby to have the stairs removed as offensive to differentially-abled persons.
How so? "We reserve the right to refuse service" is an important and widely-known maxim.
"You can't get our device to work, and instead of letting us try to help, you insulted and attacked us. We're telling you, right now, to return it for a full refund, AND we're disabling things so that, should you manage to fix your issue and get it working, you don't get to happily use it while potentially leaving the negative comments and ratings unchanged."
Yes, this is why you don't induce trauma, you find people who have been traumatized, and try adding 'play tetris' to the standard post-trauma procedures, and see what happens.
And 'get them doing something to keep their mind off of it' has been standard advice for literally millennia.
It's the grand story of consoles.
Nintendo ate Atari's lunch, then turned into Atari. Sony swooped in and ate Nintendo's lunch, then turned into Nintendo. Microsoft swooped in and took a big bite of Sony's lunch, then turned into Sony. Sony figured this out, swooped right back in.
Heh, I remember getting a copy of Solaris, oh, 16 or 18 years ago, they were doing a giveaway sort of thing.
Anywho, I really enjoyed reading the release notes and user agreement; notes about increasing TCP windows to deal with satellite communication, stern warnings that the software was not to be used in nuclear power stations, missile guidance or other weapons systems, I think on submarines.....
I believe the legal counter to this which is slowly starting to emerge is 'We're not ordering you to divulge your password. We're ordering you to decrypt the drive. We quite specifically don't want, or need, your password, nor do we care if the drive is encrypted with a passphrase, biometrics, physical token, whatever. We're just ordering you to decrypt it.'
Much like your 'papers' are immune to unreasonable search and seizure, but are subject to reasonable search and seizure, i.e. with a duly sworn out warrant and all that, so are your digital papers. I think this is the correct result.
I believe that, if the cops find a file in a locked file cabinet, said file being labelled 'Plans to murder my wife' and full of, well, plans to murder your wife, you don't get to have them declared inadmissible under the fifth; you get to refuse to answer questions like 'did you create these plans' and 'did you carry out these plans.' Seems to me that a directory full of documents, said directory being labelled 'plans to kill my wife' would be treated the same.
And part of the modern tribalism problems are because Europeans drew some lines on a map and said 'This is now a country, surely you two tribes that have been in conflict for countless years can now just get along, yeah?'
Note that Europeans have done this to themselves; WW2 was a direct result of this sort of crap after WW1.
A few years back, I wrote a letter to a teacher who was teaching my daughter's public school class, I want to say around grade six, the whole Columbus fairy tale.
It was a lovely letter, full of references to Washington Irvine, Ancient Greek origins of geometry 'literally, earth measurement' and experiments demonstrating the globular nature of the Earth, and surprisingly accurate diameter calculations, the Catholic Church fully supporting and backing Columbus's journey, the whole nine yards.
I got back a terse reply that this was the curriculum, so shut it.
Well, there's a difference between a system where all the players a) are trained, b) are licensed, c) are insured, and d) are aware that they're assuming risk, and a system where some yahoo goes for a flight, in direct contravention of laws and custom, in a contrivance that is specifically uncontrollable and a hazard to navigation and safety, with the express intent of causing a disturbance.
So how is Big Vax managing to hide all of the kids running around in polio braces? The walls full of iron lungs? All of the kids rendered sterile by mumps? All of the horrible pox scarring?
Measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, none of these are 'benign.' They're much more survivable, nowadays, due to much better palliative care, but it's also like saying that compound fractures or traumatic intestinal rupturing are 'benign' nowadays because they're not the instant death sentences they were a hundred years ago.
This is also why America, and probably other countries, already have funds and procedures in place to compensate people who do, indeed, have the ever-so-rare actual complications from the vaccine.
Let alone that poor, innocent, pure, virginal whiteboard, unsullied and untarnished, before a bunch of brutes come with their long, cylindrical, phallic markers, touching the whiteboard all over, leaving their marks, all over the poor thing, and finally, once they've used the whiteboard all they wanted, and left it there, marked up like some sort of property, what do they do? Brutally erase it all and leave it, naked and exposed, for the next time.
Not really, but I do make a point to listen to new episodes of the Adam Ruins Everything podcast; I enjoy the show, and the podcasts are usually interesting as all hell.
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Given that I had laundry duty for the wife and three daughters, I know exactly how much laundry can be produced in a week. I also know that it's not unusual for the laundry to sit in the washing machine for three hours after it's run before I get around to moving it to the dryer.
You know, after you hit the 'start' button, you don't have to stand there and personally supervise the washing machine. It will continue to run even if you walk away.
This. If you live in America, add your monthly healthcare premiums on to your taxes to determine your actual 'tax burden.' Then, reflect on the fact that despite your paying those healthcare premiums, you may still have to jump through a lot of hoops, have 'copays,' navigate a morass of 'in network' doctors, etc etc.
To my mind, this is the most important point. For every cell phone video of a couple of cops beating the shit out of somebody for no good reason, there's body cam footage of somebody standing ten feet away from the cops, yelling 'help help these police are beating on me.'
I liked the analogy I think I saw on Slashdot a while ago: A person in a wheelchair complains that they can't get into building X. An activist lobby to have a wheelchair ramp built. An SJW will lobby to have the stairs removed as offensive to differentially-abled persons.
How so? "We reserve the right to refuse service" is an important and widely-known maxim.
"You can't get our device to work, and instead of letting us try to help, you insulted and attacked us. We're telling you, right now, to return it for a full refund, AND we're disabling things so that, should you manage to fix your issue and get it working, you don't get to happily use it while potentially leaving the negative comments and ratings unchanged."
I think he's incorrectly assuming that somebody can pick up your phone, wander over to your computer, and be magically logged in.
I'd assume that a contract of adhesion doesn't count as 'express written consent.'
Yes, this is why you don't induce trauma, you find people who have been traumatized, and try adding 'play tetris' to the standard post-trauma procedures, and see what happens.
And 'get them doing something to keep their mind off of it' has been standard advice for literally millennia.
It's the grand story of consoles. Nintendo ate Atari's lunch, then turned into Atari. Sony swooped in and ate Nintendo's lunch, then turned into Nintendo. Microsoft swooped in and took a big bite of Sony's lunch, then turned into Sony. Sony figured this out, swooped right back in.
Don't forget the implicit second step after 'walk away,' which is 'find somebody else to deal with.'
In the US system, the there's no alternative. The US electorial system is a fine example of why monopolies are bad.
Heh, I remember getting a copy of Solaris, oh, 16 or 18 years ago, they were doing a giveaway sort of thing.
Anywho, I really enjoyed reading the release notes and user agreement; notes about increasing TCP windows to deal with satellite communication, stern warnings that the software was not to be used in nuclear power stations, missile guidance or other weapons systems, I think on submarines.....
I believe the legal counter to this which is slowly starting to emerge is 'We're not ordering you to divulge your password. We're ordering you to decrypt the drive. We quite specifically don't want, or need, your password, nor do we care if the drive is encrypted with a passphrase, biometrics, physical token, whatever. We're just ordering you to decrypt it.'
Much like your 'papers' are immune to unreasonable search and seizure, but are subject to reasonable search and seizure, i.e. with a duly sworn out warrant and all that, so are your digital papers. I think this is the correct result.
I believe that, if the cops find a file in a locked file cabinet, said file being labelled 'Plans to murder my wife' and full of, well, plans to murder your wife, you don't get to have them declared inadmissible under the fifth; you get to refuse to answer questions like 'did you create these plans' and 'did you carry out these plans.' Seems to me that a directory full of documents, said directory being labelled 'plans to kill my wife' would be treated the same.
And part of the modern tribalism problems are because Europeans drew some lines on a map and said 'This is now a country, surely you two tribes that have been in conflict for countless years can now just get along, yeah?'
Note that Europeans have done this to themselves; WW2 was a direct result of this sort of crap after WW1.
A few years back, I wrote a letter to a teacher who was teaching my daughter's public school class, I want to say around grade six, the whole Columbus fairy tale.
It was a lovely letter, full of references to Washington Irvine, Ancient Greek origins of geometry 'literally, earth measurement' and experiments demonstrating the globular nature of the Earth, and surprisingly accurate diameter calculations, the Catholic Church fully supporting and backing Columbus's journey, the whole nine yards.
I got back a terse reply that this was the curriculum, so shut it.
Did I mention that I live in Canada?
Well, there's a difference between a system where all the players a) are trained, b) are licensed, c) are insured, and d) are aware that they're assuming risk, and a system where some yahoo goes for a flight, in direct contravention of laws and custom, in a contrivance that is specifically uncontrollable and a hazard to navigation and safety, with the express intent of causing a disturbance.
You can also safely never use semicolons; nobody else ever uses them.
The risk of sterility comes with puberty, and they stay kids for years after they hit puberty.
So how is Big Vax managing to hide all of the kids running around in polio braces? The walls full of iron lungs? All of the kids rendered sterile by mumps? All of the horrible pox scarring?
Measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, none of these are 'benign.' They're much more survivable, nowadays, due to much better palliative care, but it's also like saying that compound fractures or traumatic intestinal rupturing are 'benign' nowadays because they're not the instant death sentences they were a hundred years ago.
This is also why America, and probably other countries, already have funds and procedures in place to compensate people who do, indeed, have the ever-so-rare actual complications from the vaccine.
I can only assume you're trolling, but:
If you need to get up at dawn, what does it matter if the clock says 4 AM, 5 AM, 12 PM, or 8 PM? You're getting up at dawn, regardless.
Let alone that poor, innocent, pure, virginal whiteboard, unsullied and untarnished, before a bunch of brutes come with their long, cylindrical, phallic markers, touching the whiteboard all over, leaving their marks, all over the poor thing, and finally, once they've used the whiteboard all they wanted, and left it there, marked up like some sort of property, what do they do? Brutally erase it all and leave it, naked and exposed, for the next time.
Something something patriarchy.
Maybe, 'except, you're not surviving Venereal weather?'
I seem to recall that we only use 'Venusian' because 'Venereal' was already taken by the medical community.....
Or it gives them a better answer for 'how did you get the defendant's private correspondence' than 'NSA, bitch.'
Not really, but I do make a point to listen to new episodes of the Adam Ruins Everything podcast; I enjoy the show, and the podcasts are usually interesting as all hell.
Also, Freakonomics Radio.