grillvogel (u/grillvogel)

grillvogel commented on Which jobs most often pair together among married couples flowingdata.com/2021/05/2... · Posted by u/thrower123

missedthecue · 4 years ago

I think you'd see a lot of professions of people who culturally value a homemaker, not anything about the highest paying careers. My guess is that the list you describe would be dominated by the trades, trucking, and small business ownership.

grillvogel · 4 years ago

You're making a lot of assumptions there. Is it "blue collar" to only have one working parent while the other takes care of the family? I would think most people would prefer that if they can make it work. I am a fairly well compensated software engineer and my wife stays home to take care of the kids because we can afford it, and many others that I work with do the same. It seems a bit silly to have her work just so that we can pay someone else to raise our children for us.

grillvogel commented on SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies nature.com/articles/s4142... · Posted by u/bananapear

inglor_cz · 4 years ago

So, they detected this variant half a year ago, and yet it didn't become prevalent. Delta rules the roost.

Is it possible that the heavy mutations detected on the A.30 variant also make it less contagious?

grillvogel · 4 years ago

genuinely asking, how do we actually know the delta variant is real, and is the dominant variant causing the current cases? do people actually get tested for specific variants, or is it just a generic covid test?

grillvogel commented on Vinyl records are now outselling CDs twitter.com/robwalling/st... · Posted by u/ofou

TacticalCoder · 4 years ago

Same... Except that in addition to a CD player my car also has its own "jukebox": a HDD on which I can upload either mp3 or wav files (but no FLAC sadly). The nav system shares the same HDD. To me its great: it's just enough technology, while still being off the big nasty Internet grid.

No worries about neither battery levels nor data caps nor corporate surveillance.

grillvogel · 4 years ago

I've got a ~10 year old audi with the HDD as well as Dual SD Card Readers. When i first bought it I thought that was absurd, but now that i have it loaded up with multiple 128GB SD cards its actually a pretty good feature.

grillvogel commented on COVID vaccine injury claims mount, but recourse is lacking for those harmed reuters.com/legal/governm... · Posted by u/AndrewBissell

help_quanted · 4 years ago

Actually, delta is hospitalizing and killing children at a significantly increased rate relative to the initial virus.

Congress is going to hold blue chip stocks..what specious argument are you're trying to make?

grillvogel · 4 years ago

source on "significantly increased"? children are more at risk from the flu

grillvogel commented on Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/throwawaysea

kitsunesoba · 4 years ago

Electric trucks like the F-150 Lightning and Rivian R1T with their built in electrical outlets and massive batteries would solve the problem almost entirely. With that you’d only need a couple of backup batteries in a charger plugged into the truck.

Naturally companies won’t roll their truck/van fleets over right away but this pressure has potential to advance the timeline of that particular transition significantly.

grillvogel · 4 years ago

most landscaping operations are just a couple dudes and a old truck. now they have to buy a top of the line electric F150 to do their jobs?

grillvogel commented on Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed thepointsguy.com/news/sou... · Posted by u/walterbell

brandmeyer · 4 years ago

> On my pilot group's FB page

Social media has optimized the process of finding groups of people that think just exactly like you do. The fact that you are listening to one specific echo chamber that feels this way does not tell you that the entire industry feels this way.

Consider the following counter-example: United Airlines also has a vaccine mandate, and got well over 99% compliance.

grillvogel · 4 years ago

Well united airlines employees also once beat a man unconscious and dragged him out of an airplane to make room for more united employees. Maybe they hire a different sort of person there.

grillvogel commented on Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed thepointsguy.com/news/sou... · Posted by u/walterbell

unethical_ban · 4 years ago

Vaccine mandates aren't new. You weren't protesting them 3 years ago, but now you are willing to take the side of 3.5 million members of the community slowly dying so you don't have to get a shot. Your persecution complex is out of control.

The absurdity of peoples' accusations of world-ending authoritarianism and censorship is baffling.

grillvogel · 4 years ago

which brand new rushed vaccine was being mandated 3 years ago?

grillvogel commented on Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed thepointsguy.com/news/sou... · Posted by u/walterbell

shartacct · 4 years ago

Stop crying and get vaccinated, or find a way to make money without endangering other people.

grillvogel · 4 years ago

compelling argument

grillvogel commented on Iceland stops using Moderna Covid-19 vaccine www-visir-is.translate.go... · Posted by u/busymom0

margalabargala · 4 years ago

> You have to come up with a definition of “experimental” that suits you, and “emergency authorization” doesn’t sound like very well tested and understood.

I think you may have misread my comment. I agree that "emergency authorization" constitutes "experimental". My point is that there is now a vaccine that is no longer experimental, i.e. is as fully FDA approved as any other, and the mandates in place were put there after that approval.

To the rest of your comment, when dealing with a contagious disease which spreads throughout society, I think that the people participating in a society should be able to set prerequisites for participating in that society. One person's rights end where another's begin, and with contagious diseases, a given person's low risk of death does not prevent them from spreading it to someone with much higher risk.

grillvogel · 4 years ago

the "full approval" happened much faster than any other vaccine or medication in recent memory. also the approval was based on the exact same dataset that was used for the EUA, to me that does not inspire confidence

grillvogel commented on Iceland stops using Moderna Covid-19 vaccine www-visir-is.translate.go... · Posted by u/busymom0

margalabargala · 4 years ago

> I don't think "we've always mandated vaccines" is a good argument. Applying the label of "vaccine" to something does not guarantee anything.

That's a fair point, I agree.

> Especially when the definition was changed in the past year.

Could you elaborate on this part? I went ahead and checked the dictionary definition:

> A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.

Which tracks with what I remember from my molecular bio degree ten years ago.

grillvogel · 4 years ago

the CDC recently changed their definition of vaccine from (paraphrasing) "something that provides immunity to disease" to "something that provides protection from a disease"

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25411126...

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