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And as I've pointed out, 11ng/ml is not a lethal amount of fentanyl. It's been associated with some deaths as much as heart disease is associated with some deaths - increases your risk, but not a death sentence. The knee on the neck was the death sentence.

I think there's some thread drift here, the original article isn't talking about residential rooftop solar, but rather larger solar installations where you can get economies of scale.

In the 4th wave thread - cases are rapidly rising in 30 states, led by Florida among others. Hopefully not related.

Setting up strawmen again. Of course I considered alternative possibilities, but I'll defer to the experts who already reported their conclusion. Unlike someone here who has no medical training whatsoever but thinks they know better. Now you're using Zoe's technique...unless you really don't know. Let me ask you, do you know what LD50 means?

And this is why you really need the experts instead of airdvr determining the cause of death... Luckily, it's not your doubt, because it's not reasonable. You're desperately seeking and trying to interpret scientific reports to fit your narrative, and failing badly at it. The jury will hopefully get better quality information and expert advice before coming to their conclusion.

Okay you just keep digging. From the same link, 1 sentence before the sentence you quoted: So if using it as an anaesthetic, doctors can get it up to 20ng/ml without killing the patient. Yes, 7ng/ml have been associated with fatalities but it's not a fatal dose, it just means that it increases the risk at that level. Like how having heart disease increases your risk of a heart attack and some people have been found dead because of heart disease, but if you strangle someone who has heart disease until they die, the cause of death is not heart disease, it's suffocation. And the official autopsy report says as much - cause of death was suffocation due to neck compression. Are you making your own report with the cause of death? Because we've already established you have no medical credentials whatsoever.

So...the pandemic isn't over? How does this age then:

This is something I'd expect from brenthutch, but you don't have to go down that road. You can still turn back.

My profession is on the machine side of things, and I appreciate your acknowledgement of the technology that got us to the moon, but wow you're oversimplifying the job of the medical profession. I think I'm pretty good at my job but I would never belittle the work of so many of my friends and some of my family in the medical field like you just did. HIV viruses kept mutating even within the same person, how do you target that with a vaccine? That's like trying to nail down water. In contrast SARS-Cov-2 is relatively slow mutating. If you work in a lab I'm sure you already know the differences between different DNA and RNA polymerases and their error rates right? I'm not a doctor and even I could see, even last year, that covid-19 was much easier to make a vaccine for than HIV, because of the technical qualities of the problem rather than the amount of political will or funding. It doesn't excuse or change the injustice that it was stigmatized because of prejudice against the LGBT community, but to real scientists or engineers, political will or funding is only secondary importance to the fundamental technical issues. No amount of funding to my field will enable us to break fundamental laws of physics, for example. The only people who think it will are the ones who have no idea what they're talking about. PS. I do acknowledge you're talking about wider access to the latest breaking edge cures, and yes that is a political/funding problem. But things like an HIV vaccine or a cure for cancer are NOT just political/funding problems, they're really hard technical problems too.

I know it's hard to believe, but there are areas of expertise that I actually have less knowledge or experience on. When this happens I keep my mouth shut until I know enough to ask questions. My own field gets enough idiots oversimplifying and misunderstanding how complex my job is, I don't have to subject other experts in other fields to the same thing. (and when I do understand enough, believe me, I ask a LOT of questions - but not before)

But you weren't asking questions. Below is a statement from you, loud and clear without a question mark: That's not a question. That's a declarative sentence that's contrary to the conclusion of some, if not most, medical experts involved in the case.

Okay, 2 autopsies, then there's a medical doctor here saying it was the knee...then there's your version. If there was a time to flash your medical credentials, that would be now. Yes, my doctor friend keeps getting annoyed by news reports about "cardiac arrest" - he says "cardiac arrest IS death, not cause of death!". The term for heart failure due to heart disease is myocardial infarction I think, but I'm not a doctor. But anyway, let's wait up on airdvr's medical credentials so we know we can trust his expert opinion.

If you knew anything at all about science, it's not just about possibility but probabilities. Same with this - sure, there's a possibility they doctored the report due to public pressure. But if they swear an oath on pain of perjury and present the report as evidence to a court, then at least have some really good evidence if you want to call the medical examiner out. For example, if more 3rd-party experts concur with the preliminary rather than final report, show that. But all you've shown is that the medical examiner might have changed their own conclusion.

So that was the preliminary report. The final report was different. Again, if you think they changed the final report because of public pressure then back up your words with some actions - write to the public prosecutor, at least.

So...believe Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office or random internet user airdvr... who to believe?! /s sarcasm aside, please charge the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office with perjury since you think they're so clearly lying on their autopsy report.

I agree, but Bezos is clearly not seeing that. And that's exactly what I'm trying to do - I'm trying to warn people how companies are going to try to get around these more favourable worker rules. Not having much luck though...

I don't think you're making it up, but I think we're missing each other's points here... CEO pay is definitely out of control and I agree that it's an injustice that Amazon workers have to pee in bottles while Bezos' wealth keeps growing, but I think capping the pay is putting a band-aid over a cracked dam. The problem is how the entire game is set up, and how the players are motivated. That said, I'd still support capping CEO pay though. It's not going to solve the entire thing, but it's slightly better than doing nothing.

I didn't say animals were incapable of altruism - there are lots of examples like the one you said above. Altruism has its own evolutionary advantages, as does selfishness. They're not mutually exclusive. And I don't really have a "theory" - my main point was that humans aren't really that different or special.

Technology is improving and trust me, it is being done as fast as technologically possible. "It would already be done" is not a good argument because tech is always less capable in the past. Humans are humans, they're not really any more greedy or less greedy at any other time and there's really not much evidence to support that this changes. Dogs will eat themselves to obesity or even death if given an unlimited food supply, other animals will take much more than they need if given the opportunity. Humans aren't really much different. (And just to be clear - I love dogs, and also lots of humans, that doesn't mean I have to be blind to their flaws)

The entire system has to be looked at in terms of game theory - to "get around" the issue above, a company simply has to automate all the lower-level jobs so that the lowest paid employee is a relatively well-paid level, below that everything is robots. While unemployed people sleep rough in the streets. The current system gives unequal negotiating leverage to the company - for a job, what's at stake for the company is a bit of revenue, but for the person being offered the job, what's at stake is their ability to survive. Therefore people will accept lower and lower salaries because the motivation to survive is REALLY strong. A minimum wage, while a good intention, won't really fix it either - because companies will continue automating. It distorts the market by putting a minimum value on labour but not putting a minimum value on the goods and services generated by that labour, and when companies compete on price, the outcome is inevitable. A good social welfare system should replace (not add to, as many leftists think) minimum wage by ensuring food, shelter and healthcare for everyone. This removes companies' unequal negotiating leverage (which is powerful enough that even governments lose out!) over people's livelihoods, while removing the distortion on the value of people's labour, making the market more efficient. Wishful thinking from me though. What will probably happen is continued technological development and automation will make the gap between rich and poor bigger and bigger, until...who knows.

summary: https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea actual report: https://webstore.iea.org/world-energy-outlook-2020 A quote from the 434-page report: The table shows that solar electricity is some 20-50% cheaper today than the IEA had estimated in last year’s outlook, with the range depending on the region. There are similarly large reductions in the estimated costs of onshore and offshore wind.

According to the details available his parents brought him over in 2002 when he was 2 years old - clearly too young to remember anything from Syria. Lots of stuff here to unpick, but it's also been reported that he was not particularly political or religious, but complained a lot about racial abuse as well as what seems to be serious mental illness. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/23/us/boulder-colorado-shooting-suspect/index.html

weird thing is, she's claiming that no reasonable people would believe her claims, but at the same time, she herself still believes those claims to be true: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/23/sidney-powell-trump-election-fraud-claims

But that's still pretty cool and a nice story. There's still hope, SpaceX is making stunningly rapid progress!

I was actually following that, very interesting! Do you have any insider stories? All I know of course is what's publicly available about when they went bankrupt.