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    I'd prefer details to trickle out.
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    I do it for the rush, the adaptation, and the general backwardness of the act.
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    What do you get when you play a country song backwards?
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    I work in a relatively narrow field of research that almost nobody has heard of (rheology). Been studying and working in that field for 16 years. I go to the annual conference every year and there's still tons of shit that I don't understand. My colleagues at work call me the rheology "expert". Sure, to them I am an expert but even in this narrow field, it takes a lifetime to become a true expert, and even then the expertise may only be in 2 - 3 subsections of the field. This is precisely why we can't just listen to one or two sources of information and form a rigid opinion, especially about something as serious as covid. You will have to trust the network of scientists and peer reviewers who have put huge amounts of human-hours into this problem.
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    IMO the most important thing that is learned from a post-secondary education (primarily Ph.D.) is that you learn very quickly that you're absolutely clueless. You're forced to read mountains and mountains of publications from researchers who have made both large and incremental steps before you; and this mountain of papers is just in your own narrow area of research! You know when a Ph.D. student is ready to defend their dissertation when you ask them a tough question about their own area of research, and their response is that they don't know (and that it's OK to not know), but they do know where to go look for it and how to piece together different pieces of research to get the answer. It really causes you to think differently and more critically about things, and to have a more well-adjusted perspective on things like COVID research, even if it's far from your area of research.
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    J&J looking like a stronger option, although with limited data at the moment.
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    Natural feedback loops love to work in exponential fashion.
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    587.67°R you're welcome
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    Oh yeah I'm sure they know this and are betting on it being dismissed. All they care about is getting people to donate money. Easy scam. Make a big announcement that you're suing these big "socialist", "evil" entities, open up the donation lines, profit, play the victim when the suits are dismissed.
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    The only people who will benefit from all those lawsuits are the lawyers.
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    Lol at a corporation doing anything altruistic.
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    Yeah OK that's fair, he never changed his stance or story except for that one time he testified in court that he gave ludes to all those women and then assaulted them.
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    For JnJ vaccine, no booster needed for delta variant, and no general booster needed until likely 12 - 24 months after the first dose.
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    JnJ vaccine shows strong persistence of immune response at month 8 (in a small cohort of ~20), and a strong response against all variants of concern including the delta variant.
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    LL
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    Seems like they're leaning on an exec (Weisselberg), threatening to charge him with not paying taxes on benefits received from the Trump Org. to try and flip him into testifying against the Trump Org. in exchange for a deal. Seems these types of charges (failure to pay taxes on benefits received from an employer) are rarely pursued and the regulations are even unclear in some cases, so it's pretty clear what they're doing (not that I have a problem with it).
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    Sinkhole?
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    Those "run out of oil in X years" predictions were probably somewhat accurate at the time. The thing is that oilfield tech keeps evolving and finding ways to extract more oil from difficult formations than we ever could before. I don't know what's really driving the recent EV push, I'd venture a guess to say it's largely because of the "new tech" appeal and status symbol of Tesla, with environmental considerations secondary. However, if that gets other major automakers into the game and gets normal people like me into "affordable" EVs, I'm for it.
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    Depends on the battery type but the way that GM is designing them, their capacity at "end of life" for vehicular use will still be good enough that they can be used as powerwalls / backups for homes. In instances where these large batteries will have to be recycled, we are lacking in that infrastructure currently and I'm hoping that it's just because there isn't enough of a market yet. I'm hoping that once a large enough market exists, some companies will find a way to recycle the batteries in an environmentally-friendly way but I don't think that should stop us from moving forward with EVs to replace ICE vehicles.
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    The reality is that people are going to want to drive avg. 15,000 mi/yr and that shifting the points of pollution from millions of point sources (internal combustion vehicles) to a few hundred power plants is still much better because even if those power plants are polluting, it's much easier to control the extra harmful stuff in those few hundred smokestacks than it is on millions of tailpipes. A major problem with EVs is the upfront carbon cost that it takes to manufacture the batteries. It takes quite a few years of that vehicle being in service before you overtake a typical ICE vehicle. I have had an EV since 2017 and I love it. Almost no maintenance, fun to drive, simple to own, "refueling" is more convenient, total cost of ownership is lower. EVs are by no means a final solution but they're a good step until we find something better, especially if we can generate electricity with more renewable sources. Also, they're talking about using EVs in the future to balance peaks and dips on the grid (always having your car plugged in when not in use), by drawing from or charging the battery as demand on the grid changes. This would make existing power plants more efficient and thus less polluting.
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    I can only speak to my unique high school experience, which was quite laughable. I'm from a very rural area in Ohio and my school district was 100 square miles (260 square km) but my graduating class was only about 90 kids. The curriculum and textbooks were unchanged from the '70s, most of the teachers were farmers without college degrees, there were no AP courses, and everyone (I mean everyone) took exactly the same courses. There were no choices at all. I never felt challenged and wasn't interested in anything except Chemistry and Physics. Since they had to teach to everyone, I could skate by in Chem. and Phys. with zero studying and I resorted to just slacking off in everything else and occasionally cheating to get Bs. My parents were pissed at me because they knew I could do better. Once I got to University I found a subject that I was really interested in (Chemical Eng.) and got practically all As all four years, then went to grad school and got a Ph.D. I was a bit behind compared to some of my Uni and grad school mates who went to better high schools and had to work a little harder to catch up. Some of my current colleagues who are European (German, Belarussian) tell me how they had specialized paths in high school depending on what they were interested in. Some schools here in the US have that, but I think they're mostly private schools that cost buttloads of money.
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    In the olympics, yes, on channel 45, no.
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    Lookin' just like my lil' guy ??
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    Like a few of you, I stopped paying serious attention after Beaucoup Fish, but still bought the Drift boxed set and Dubnobass & Second Toughest boxed sets, and have been getting back into them recently. Recently gave Barbara... a serious listen and I really love it, especially with the bonus track from the Japanese release.
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