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donaldthrow 3 points ago +3 / -0

I think Google tends to hide anything bad about people from its suggestions and it does it for everybody. Try typing "Trump racist" and it won't complete that either.

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donaldthrow 2 points ago +2 / -0

And-a I would click five hundred bikes, and-a I would click five hundred more

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donaldthrow 13 points ago +13 / -0

Further, modern weapons are largely tactical in nature.

No, most missile-based nukes are in the hundreds of kilotons. Not as big as the multi-megaton air-dropped bombs of the 50's, but much bigger than Hiroshima.

It would be irresponsible not to warn people. Taking cover can save a lot of lives. Obviously not when it's right on top of you, but there are large zones of moderate damage where it can make the difference between life and death. Simply getting away from windows can save a lot of lives and eyes; look at the Russian meteor explosion, where almost every injury was caused by flying glass. And getting any barrier between you and the bomb can protect from thermal radiation burns.

Countries no longer would intend to wipe out an entire city. They would only go for military and political areas.

Lots of military and political targets are in cities, as well as factories which are strategically important in war. And in a full-scale exchange, populations could be targeted as a retaliatory measure.

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donaldthrow 2 points ago +5 / -3

The White House is well armed, but will they be willing to use them?

Suppose a large number of unarmed protestors climbs over the barriers and tries to enter the building. Too many for them to arrest or stop with nonlethal weapons. Then what? If they open fire than it'll be reported as a massacre of unarmed peaceful protestors.

I hope the have plans for this scenario. Hopefully the building itself is robust enough to resist entry, but there was that incident years ago where someone ran past security though an open door and got in. So I wonder.

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donaldthrow -1 points ago +1 / -2 (edited)

It's not a flu, it's more contagious than the flu, and there's no vaccine.

The elderly it is most prone to effect are already going to be either in a hospital or some form of nursing home so no additional care will be needed.

No, that is not remotely true! The vast majority of the "elderly" (over 60) population are not currently in a hospital bed on an oxygen machine or a ventilator, which is what 10-20 percent of patients are requiring!

There are not nearly as many ventilators as you think, and many of them are already to keep patients with other ailments alive:

Accounting for nonrespondents, we estimate that there are 62,188 full-feature mechanical ventilators owned by US acute care hospitals. The median number of full-feature mechanical ventilators per 100,000 population for individual states is 19.7 (interquartile ratio 17.2-23.1), ranging from 11.9 to 77.6.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21149215

It's not nearly enough: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article240933291.html

Again for the healthy many won't even notice they have it past a day or two of slight fever and a bit of flu aches.

If you're referring to the 80% of "mild" cases, keep in mind that they refer to anyone who doesn't require hospitalization to breathe as "mild".

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donaldthrow 2 points ago +2 / -0

He downloaded scientific journals with the intention of making them public. He believed that since much scientific research is funded by the taxpayers, that people should be able to read the results without having to buy private for-profit academic journals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#United_States_v._Aaron_Swartz_case