I need to start using old batteries in my bathroom scale.

The crime stats and stories in this case are so bad they'd be comical if it didn't represent desperate people.

Since 2019, police have logged 1,335 incidents in the vicinity of the restaurant on Oakport Street — more than any other location in Oakland, the newspaper reported.

That number includes nine robberies, two commercial burglaries, four domestic violence incidents and 1,174 car break-ins, according to Oakland police data shared with the Chronicle.

I saw elsewhere that a guy got robbed there, came back to do a news interview, and got robbed again. The crime stats mean basically a crime a day at that location.

I thought I was taking crazy pills watching people tell the guy not to join social media, on a social media site!

I think the real question being asked is, should the OP make a social media account that is not anonymous or on one of the mainstream sites. Which I would say go for it if it helps with your IRL social life, just don't post anything you wouldn't say in person in public.

Just because they don't issue a bill doesn't mean they don't track costs. They track labor, labor rates, and consumables.

That said, this particular treatment is very involved. They harvest cells over multiple periods, send them to a lab to be modified, and when they are ready they do chemotherapy to kill your immune system, then do a bone marrow transplant to introduce the modified cells, and then you have to be in isolation in a hospital until your immune system comes back. Even the best facilities are saying they can only do 5-10 of these per year.

Pretty crazy.

Let's not pretend that religious stewardship of any state has ever not resulted in human rights abuses. The idea of a caliphate in Germany should rightly horrify the German people. Fundamentalist Islam (or Christianity) can easily cite scripture to justify child brides, executions, and domestic violence.

So let's flip the question; why aren't you horrified at the idea of a caliphate in Germany, and seemingly hand waving the atrocious results it would bring?

That is the first thing that jumped out to me as well. I've made several posts sympathetic to Israel, but islamist jihad (the group seemingly responsible) isn't representative of Palestinians and isn't even part of Hamas.

I know it takes some effort to get caught up on the history and factions in the region, but I wish people would refrain from making statements without that effort.

My heart bleeds for the Palestinian civilians caught up in this hell.

The schadenfreude is strong watching Jordan, who in 16 years hasn't had a single bill he sponsored or cosponsored pass, has done nothing but rail against compromise and negotiations, now desperately plead with people to negotiate to make him speaker. Good on the hold outs for having an ounce of guts.

I agree it is people looking for reasons to criticize. However, I do think VPN or anything that modifies your route tables should be subjected to more scrutiny than other app features due to potential for abuse. I wish browsers wouldn't bundle them at all, or install them as part of their base.

Dialectically thinking would be to consider the issue at hand, and to form multiple positions to interpret or explain the situation, often contradictory or opposing positions.

The banker example has the philosophy cop browbeat the banker with a single line of reasoning. What he could do is take the bankers position himself, flesh it out, and argue both points (and others) to find the most sound position, that is often a nuanced blend of the others.

I don't see how this change represents de-regulated capitalism any more or less than the status quo. Currently there is a single nonprofit corporation that has been the sole recipient of the primary government contact for over 40 years. Just because they are a nonprofit corporation doesn't mean they can't have many of the conflict of interest issues that for profit corporations have. Indeed, it sounds like there is evidence of that as there is overlap between the UNOS board of directors and their oversight board.

The change doesn't impact the fact that the government is contacting out for services. What it does is allow the government to contact out more ala carte since it seems the current organization has allowed aspects of the service to languish.

I would be worried if the government was moving responsibilities from a government agency to an outside bidder, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm conflicted on this. I want the death penalty abolished, but also recognize that a more humane death lessens suffering.

What I don't want is humane methods of execution being used to further normalize the killing of citizens through a flawed and biased judicial system.

I hope these humans methods are adopted, and that people keep pushing for executions to be abolished.

They had a bug where if you were denied it was supposed to send a notification with a link allowing you to elaborate, but those notices didn't go out. Then, when you've applied but gotten stuck in the unapproved state, your user account exists but is disabled, this you can't make a new account with that same name. Sort of a sucky situation all around.