This is inherently political, but I think the overall intention of the article is to highlight one of the larger media pushes against Trump, and one of Biden’s campaign promises, and the hypocrisy therein of his escalation of this.

I believe it’s a reference to this.

How is this political spam relevant to economy?

I enjoyed watching that when it was first created! Any word of a 1080p for that one? I’d even take a release of the timestamps so that I could make the edit to my 1080p versions.

Rescheduled from 1 -> 3. Not sure I understand the significance of this change other than to look like doing something without legalizing it.

How did Biden kick off the process that was designed to take more than 4 years? I actually didn’t know anything other than the push to reschedule.

Massive non sequitur there. Taliban does not have military bases on US soil to fortify with 100 personnel.

I’m not disagreeing that the US is assisting in genocide. Has been for a while, and the top two projected candidates for US presidency will further perpetuate this.

But this 100 troop movement is insignificant and is being played up for drama and clicks.

First off, as with every time domestic terrorism is discussed, US armed forces cannot carry out hostilities on domestic soil.

Second off, it’s 100 personnel. Barely a blip on the total number of deployable personnel, and it’s an air defense group without offensive capabilities.

Clickbait is clickbait.

Another election cycle, another useless pledge to legalize marijuana as a push to pander votes. She said this prior to running as Biden’s VP, then did nothing with her time in office.

Similarly, I recall similar propaganda from Trump in 2016 and 2020. Nothing came of that, either.

And yes, it’s tiring being this hopeful and this cynical at the same time.

Reading through this discussion and considering my own daily life, I find that indeed my utilization of smartphones is limited to primarily other existing advances in technology not directly associated with phones. Primarily Internet. In fact, I might be a bit abnormal because my 8 hours at work, my phone is not directly on my person and rarely used. I do, however, need to utilize it for 2FA authentication ~1-2 times per day. Which, digital personal keys were a thing before phones.

So yeah, I’d say that smartphones aren’t a big advancement, but the combination of multiple other technological advancements.

The picture says “Ferring Delicatessen”, which does correspond to the area after an Internet search:

Ferring Delicatessen 1181 Grand Ave, Baldwin, Nassau County, New York 11510-1115

As a Minnesota Vikings fan, I’m so conflicted by all of this.

you…like…Hitler

So you’re saying that you like Hitler? Holy cow, get a load of this guy!

Everyone, get in here and rally against this person!

It IS a sport, but unfortunately illegal.

I’m a hospital worker in Ohio. I’ve had plenty of positive tests. I’ve not admitted anyone for COVID in ~3 years.

It’s just not deadly anymore.

15 minutes is just reactionary spitballing to exaggerate.

Most of my previous “office work” was primarily back end development, and the approach tended to be hands off from my supervisor. So long as work was getting done in a timely fashion, my hours and daily schedule was up to me. I much preferred that approach as opposed to rigid hours and direct management. I suppose different strokes here.

One employee said they want to see new safety protocols in place … and is calling on Wells Fargo to do more.

How is this at all negligence on the company? How terrible would it be if company policy mandated 15 minute buddy check in system to prevent this? Are we just searching for someone to blame when there may be nobody to blame?

As someone who switched to Linux before discovering that it would break the PC integration (quest won’t let it run without their shitty app and it won’t run in Linux), here’s hoping that this is a good step towards improving quest functionality in Linux!

Good for them. Whatever the reasons for their son’s crime, it’s not theirs. With all of the vitriol out there, a lawyer is a good idea.

The tag line on this with regards to IQ is very misleading. Setting aside that IQ is a terrible form of measurement and no weight should be given to it, the study actually reveals that measured IQ is unchanged. They measured after discharge, and then several years later with no change. With no pre-covid measurement, this is a more than useless bit of data.

Depression and anxiety are increased, but so did that of the general population. So hard to tie any of that to COVID or long COVID.

Seriously doubt it. Elective surgeries were likely cancelled, which could certainly prolong suffering for some, but life saving surgeries can absolutely happen and do without computers.