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  • You don't recover from diabetes by receiving insulin, so it doesn't fit into the "recovery virtually guaranteed" part of that category.

    But, yes, there are a number of chronic diseases with no cures but excellent treatments, and those treatments should be available free to the patient but are often targets for Capital to rent-seek from patients as much as "the market will bear". And, when market failure means a painful death, the market will bear quite a bit.

  • When the treatment is clear and the recovery virtually guaranteed, the support is freely given.

    When the problems aren't visible, the treatment plan is more improvisation than schedule, and recovery is hard to quantify. Support is harder to give and rarer to receive.

    Mental problems are more likely to fall into the later bucket, but there are a swath of physical ailments from the metabolic and hormonal to the structural that also get lumped in.

  • I'm also a little sad about it. I still think it is a "net positive", and I try not let let "the perfect be the enemy of the good". Yes, in a "perfect" world, he reformed, went into remission, and started working to remediate all the suffering and damage he had caused.

  • I don’t see it happening soon in Europe

    Well, it's probably not coming out of the US, Russia, or China sooner.

  • I agree that it probably should be legal-ish. I think maximum curb gaps are a great idea, and minimum curb gaps are probably a good idea in areas where curb cleaning might frequently overlap with parking. But smarts and cycles should almost always be allowed to double-up within the same F-150-sized space.

  • right wheels need to be within 12" of the curb

    park nose first

    rear passenger wheel still more than 12" from curb -> ticket.

  • I agree that the status of violence being monopolized is a net good for society, it fact I tend to agree that it may actually be the most important distinction between "civilization" and not.

    That said, state violence needs to be intensely reviewed and unjust or overuse of it should be rectified. The U.S. idea of qualified immunity tends to be eliminated, and in the few cases where it is justified can be replaced with a much more narrow policy/practice. And that's just to start.

    Also, restrained violence in defense of self or others, including resisting unjust state violence, is universally acceptable. It's necessity shows problems with how the monopolizer of violence is imperfectly dispensing violence, which must be expected from an imperfect actor.

  • women are too stubborn to pee with the seat up

    I think that's sarcasm, unless you actually meant to communicate that women are stubborn.

    In any case, I think due to Poe's Law, you'd have gotten better votes if you included "/s" or "j/k" or another marker. (But, votes might not be a concern to you.)

  • Ah, the old PieFed RooSwitch!

  • ^ /s ?

  • If you flush with the lid down, don't you consider the lid dirty, since it caught all those "poo particles" you are scared of "flying around"?

  • I too prefer the commercial oval/egg bowls to the to residential round bowls.

  • Video is unavailable in my region, but thanks anyway.

  • I'd have to re-watch those segments. The part that remains stuck in my mind is that they found fecal particles on a toothbrush that was in a closed drawer.

    I don't believe closing the lid helps that much, and I grew up with (and still have to deal with) a toilet that sometimes but not always needs a second (or third) press of the handle, so I keep the lid open so I can be sure the water really got flushed. (It drains the tank into the bowl, but sometimes it just slowly, but steadily, flows through roughly maintaining water level instead of crossing a pressure (?) threshold and flushing out the bowl and then refilling.)

    But, I'm all for closing the seat and the lid when you are done. It keeps pets and dropped items out of the bowl, if nothing else. If we have to leave the lid up, I still say seat down; that's the "ready to use" configuration for all female and some male uses.

  • Mythusters found fecal particles everywhere even when the lid was down. There's no escape from gross, just finding an acceptable level.

  • Bah, there's a LOT of devices that could talk to my father's phone over the LAN if they were programmed that way. But, they aren't. They report to a wall-known "cloud" server, and the app on his phone checks that same server for the latest status or to relay command/control.

    Nice advantage: can get status / send commands even when he is not on the LAN. Bad disadvantage: when the rural Internet blinks out (like every time it rains) he can't tell the robo-vac which rooms to start cleaning.

  • It's a sin I had to scroll this far down to find the Silicon Valley reference.

  • We'd know our impact, but we might still keep unsustainably stealing angular momentum, for a variety of reasons.

    Similar to we know we need to stop extracting fossil fuels, but we do it anyway.

  • We already monitor the length of a day to figure out when to add leap seconds, if we do start using a significant portion, we'd know. (Of course, we know we are lighting the world on fire by selling LNG and letting people have private jets, and still haven't stopped.)

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