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"What's a bigger liability? People using substances … or somebody dying from an overdose in your bathroom when you could have had something to prevent that overdose?”

How the effective altruism discourages collective action....by design.

The Book of the Dead served multiple functions, including helping ancient Egyptians in the afterlife.

The founder of Easymocs says he knew he had to set up shop in Lewiston

A refreshingly balanced take on why the Supreme Court was correct in shooting down the Biden employer vaccine mandate.

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I can’t say about the US, but there’s a plenty of outside of US people, quite a few falling into the category you describe (well off, educated, travelled) who honestly believe Joe Biden is about to instill a communism in the US. I’m speechless when I hear that, as even Sanders, who’s way left of Biden would, in his wildest dreams, get it to about European welfare state, and Biden would classify as a firmly right-wing in pretty much all of the Europe. PlutoniumKun I think that because t...

Yves here. It’s distressing to see the press largely sidestep the question of how much any of the vaccine candidates reduce the transmission of Covid. Pfizer did no research on this question during its trials; Moderna and AstraZeneca claim to have preliminary evidence that they do reduce contagion, at least to a degree. Experts have warned that even a very effective vaccine is unlikely to achieve the gold standard of sterilizing immunity against a respiratory virus. But a considerable reducti...