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There aren’t enough administered vaccines. Many areas have vaccine doses but lack infrastructure to deliver them or just simply have ineffective government.


I don't know why people don't understand this. There was a twitter spaces a few weeks ago after one of these ETF delays where a bunch of bigwigs pushing these ETFs seemed clueless or willfully ignorant of this fact. Its just pathetic.


> I don't know why people don't understand this.

That old Upton Sinclair quote comes to mind: the finance guys are making a ton of money getting people to ante in and when you buy a cryptocurrency the only way you get your money back is by talking it up so anyone who's already in has a big incentive not to ask questions.


Seems unlikely to be a quadcopter given the 100mph airspeed it was capable of


Nonsense - you can build a quad capable of that speed for ~$500.

It won’t have a flight time of more than a few minutes, though. For that, you’d need a fixed wing, or a non-lipo power source (like, say, hydrogen)


Mavic FPV goes to 100mph in Manual mode.


I’m on my second Steelcase Leap and don’t have enough good things to say about the chair. Only reason for the second one was having to leave it behind in a move otherwise I’m pretty sure these chairs can easily last 5-10+ years of everyday use


I can really get behind your first bullet. Taking clearly defined medical terminology and exporting to strange contexts just sound like nonsense to anyone that uses those terms with any regularity. Like every time someone uses the term antisocial to refer to someone who doesn't get out much I can't help but wince.


Metaphorical meanings for medical issues are some of the most common metaphors in most languages, and I would be surprised if you aren't using them yourself. Rejecting it seems frankly as bizarre as rejecting metaphor entirely. Are you wincing when you read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Dostoevsky, etc, who all use this regularly? You're never been shocked or dumbstruck, never find anything lame or sickening? Never describe anything as crippling, mad, callous, stupid, idiotic, crazy, never get drowned in work?

The metaphorical use of paralysis even predates its modern precise medical usage, having meant more broadly enfeebled before relatively recently taking on its specific motor function related meaning--so that would be the medical field assigning a new clear definition to a term with a 2300+ year metaphorical history.

Anyway, please sign my petition denouncing libraries everywhere for putting all these joke books in the humour section. It is a real hassle for melancholics trying to balance out their bile. Then we're getting onto this Jesus fella for all this fancy double-talk about eye debris, I've had specks in my eye before and cornea scratches are a legitimate problem.


People using "paralyzed" or "blinded" in a more metaphorical or abstract sense is very common, and has been for some time: paralyzed by indecision, blinded by love (or lust), etc.

This argument that we may only use words literally feels very Drax-like: "Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it."


If you control mining you do control how transactions work. You are running the code that handles transactions and you can change that code to handle transactions in any way you want. There is a history of this happening too but thus far with little effect on the entire network but worst case you could create a hardfork.


I really hope there is more to this story than the public is privy to, and I hope we find out about it soon.


I guess the ship has sailed on academia resisting this nonsense


It’s time for academics to fight for the right of « scholastic sanctuary » as featured in His Dark Materials.


Step 4: go to jail


Tesla has such absurd volume and short interest that buying a large amount of puts on it would not be suspicious at all.

It's an ocean of contracts out there.


The ocean is not so wide or deep as to guarantee that the FBI treating it as a high-priority case wouldn't find correlation between evidence the hacker left on their Twitter attack and market motion. They have a lot of resources to invest, and are willing to spend more than the short-term value of money changing hands in the fraud.


The suspicion doesn't trigger until the twitter scam happens. Once the scam happens though then a huge amount of scrutiny is triggered on all of the TSLA market activity. Will you still be able to hide? Maybe. But the high profile nature of the Twitter scam guarantees that they will be looking for you.


I would definitely advocate for this approach. At a minimum this is a worthwhile experience if you can get your mind fully behind it.


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