The vaccine underwent the exact same rigorous testing that literally every other vaccine or medication gets. The only difference is that COVID vaccines were given a free pass to the front of the line at each step necessary. As well, due to them having a much shorter timeline and higher competition, it was economical to run multiple tests in parallel that would normally have been done in series.

It wasn't "rushed" as in sloppy, it was "rushed" in that it was given priority in the various governmental queues.

Hard disagree. I find Sync the best user experience so far, including the best looking UI hands down

His problem wasn't offering the deal, his problem was saying yes after they called his bluff

He like.. actually legally agreed to it before he looked into it at all. What a fucking dumbass

It being a third-party investigator means they aren't "investigating themselves."

There are common, well-known tracking parameters that Google uses such as the ones starting with "utm_"

You're less likely to get a transplant if you're more likely to ruin it based on your lifestyle.

no

This gets funnier the further away from 2003 we get

I don't often toot my own horn, but this is basically me. My work is pushing for people to move to LA into the office after being almost fully remote for a few years. I've never set foot in LA, and was hired fully remote. They're struggling to hire junior devs because their frontend is almost wholly custom JavaScript and nearly completely undocumented. They're currently stuck with expensive senior devs. I could easily take my title elsewhere for more than they're paying me, but I like the lax work environment enough to stick around.

The last I heard about the move back to office was February, and they just hired more people out of state. I don't think they're pushing for it anymore, haha

The apps need some work, but overall it's "okay." The rest of my gripes lie entirely around the lack of content, which can't be helped

Not sure about "unnecessary." 5% works for Ukraine but also it has a much smaller land mass. You can't use that 5% to protect the entirety of the US' borders along with every other place we are stationed along with the required ongoing maintenance

I'm not saying the budget isn't ridiculously high, but also saying it's unnecessary as a whole is just incorrect

Wealth taxes are stupid. That said, nobody needs multiple hundreds of billions of dollars.

The solution is to have regulations and laws in place that prevent them getting this large in the first place. The fact that Amazon and Google own 90% of the internet is absolutely fucked.

Lemmings makes more sense to be the users

You've tracked them, but that doesn't mean you've followed up at every second of every day to see if the company still exists.

I've been seeing it more regardless of group size. I went to a restauraunt alone and they had the audacity to charge a service fee and ask for a fucking tip

I wouldve tipped more than the service charge! So I gave nothing instead

Lemmings

Transportation is a quarter of global emissions, with passenger vehicles making up half of that number and is only getting larger as more people in the world decide they need a car.

The number you're looking for is 20 companies making up 30% of emissions. They're almost exclusively oil companies, with more than half of them being state owned enterprises. Reduce the need for oil and you reduce the amount they pollute.

So, how do you do that?

Personal vehicles are the most flexible in terms of emissions. Increasing the usability of public transportation has a direct correlation with the number of vehicles on the road. Sure, people out in the middle of nowhere need a vehicle and nobody is looking to take that from them, but you could HALF the number of people in the US with a car if cities had proper public transport or were as walkable as they were barely 80 years ago.

The private sector is more difficult. We'd need to rebuild our train infrastructure that has been gutted and raided by our rail companies in order to get trucks off the interstate. Coincidentally, that would get MORE people off the road since you wouldn't need a car to go between cities.

Additionally, you seem to be under the impression that we're incapable of solving multiple problems at the same time. We can make cars unnecessarily (not GET RID of them) while also cutting emissions in other areas.

Make no mistake, we do need to address other areas, but cars are an easy target that would reduce tons of emissions and increase people's quality of life as well. Cars are a massive waste of space and a huge ongoing drain on taxpayer dollars for very little benefit when you compare it to the alternatives.

You just have to move to the new API which is still free, the old one is temporarily still available by paying

If you have a masters and 20 years of experience, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a job that has the health insurance to pay for all of that. If you don't, then you need a new job

People take the word "observe" at face value (no pun intended) a bit too often