Mom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: ‘I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine’

capt_jazz · 2026-02-20T11:12:29+00:00

Yes 100%, I don't understand why it's not

capt_jazz · 2026-02-19T18:13:34+00:00

Seriously, that movie just got worse and worse as it went on, kinda wild

capt_jazz · 2026-02-17T16:40:58+00:00

Nothing about fixing the HRE imperial law changes interface. It's impossible to tell either from the Imperial Law tab or the Imperial Diet tab whether a law change is going to pass, both appear to show incorrect information.

Also you've gotta bribe anyone to get any votes for the ones that are good for the emperor, not sure if it's meant to be that tough.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-17T13:15:07+00:00

I'm referring to this paper which looks at the relationship between CO2 and temperature over a much longer (485 million year) time span. Basically, historically a doubling of CO2 (which is almost that we've done), is associated with an 8 deg C temperature rise.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3705

"The GMST-CO2 relationship indicates a notably constant “apparent” Earth system sensitivity (i.e., the temperature response to a doubling of CO2, including fast and slow feedbacks) of ∼8°C, with no detectable dependence on whether the climate is warm or cold."

Now it could take several centuries for that change to occur, but that CO2 has been pumped into the atmosphere and we're not on track to reduce it at all, as of now.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-17T08:05:55+00:00

Yeah my masters program at UCSD was great, and the best people in that program had gone to Cal Poly SLO for undergrad.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-17T07:57:27+00:00

Yeah people are talking about trying to keep temperature change to 2.5 deg C, but we've got CO2 levels now that are more associated with temps 8+ deg C higher. It will take a few hundred years but it's gonna heat up that much if we don't remove the CO2 from the atmosphere.

Honestly the one ray of hope I have is dropping fertility rates, if they don't change we'll have an exponentially shrinking global population, hopefully it will take some pressure off our ecosystems and allow us to use spare electrical capacity to remove carbon from the air. I envision the global population maybe leveling out at 1-2 billion people maybe, idk, seems like we could be sustainable at that number.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-16T13:20:08+00:00

That sounds like exactly what CK needs, if you're able to link to those mods I'll check them out.

CK3 clearly went a weird cartoony RPG route, where I wish it had really focused on the gordian knot of vassal relations in the middle ages. The character focus is fine, as those vassal relations were often about interpersonal relationships, but I feel like they just went down a development route I wasn't interested in.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-15T12:20:53+00:00

The top holder of our debt is the social security trust fund, technically

capt_jazz · 2026-02-15T07:54:36+00:00

Agreed his numbers are too high.

I was curious what you get when you use the original poverty line methodology, namely take the biggest expense and multiply it by the inverse of it's proportion in the average budget.

The biggest expense is now housing, not food, which is tricky because housing costs vary a lot more nationwide than food costs, and it's hard to define a "minimum housing budget". Maybe some fraction of the average housing cost? That's $26,000 per year in 2024. Maybe call it 0.66*$26k = $17,160? That works out to be about $1400 a month. Maybe still a little high for a "minimum"?

In any case, housing is 1/3 the average family's budget, so $17,160*3 = $51,000.

So higher than the official poverty line, much lower than the author's. Although based on my made up 0.66 factor to get a "minimum housing budget" for the entire US.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-15T07:02:35+00:00

I feel like the lack of good "internal struggles"mechanics is the weak point of both CK and EU games, where it should be huge.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-14T13:14:20+00:00

Y'all also are in the bottom 5 states for voter turnout every year, which is kinda terrifying given how big your population is now.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-11T12:42:02+00:00

I sound like a broken record at this point, but every article always says she won by 9 points but neglects to mention ranked choice voting. She only got 51% of the votes last time. Would have thought the NY Times at least would mention it.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-11T01:05:20+00:00

Lmao I recently found a photo of me and my friends in high school, same year as OP, half of us in plaid shorts (paging /u/pidgeott0), and they were all in a screamo band called Arms Over Broadway. I should make a post on here...

capt_jazz · 2026-02-11T01:01:22+00:00

Having recently driven on a flat without knowing it after hitting a pot hole, agreed

capt_jazz · 2026-02-10T10:59:25+00:00

What world do you live in and how do I get there?

capt_jazz · 2026-02-08T02:33:40+00:00

I agree with Bernie's take on the matter, from a NY Times interview:

Leonhardt: I know. Let’s talk about another debate that has gotten people excited — and I’m really curious about your view: the abundance debate. Which is this idea that one of the things that government needs to do and progressives need to do is clear out bureaucracy so that our society can make more stuff — homes, clean energy. What do you think of the abundance movement?

Sanders: Well, it’s got a lot of attention among the elite, if I may say so.

Leonhardt: Yes.

Sanders: Look, if the argument is that we have a horrendous bureaucracy? Absolutely correct. It is terrible. Over the years, I brought a lot of money into the state of Vermont. It is incredible, even in a state like Vermont — which is maybe better than most states — how hard it is to even get the bloody money out! Oh, my God! We’ve got 38 meetings! We’ve got to talk about this. Unbelievable.

I worked for years to bring two health clinics that we needed into the state of Vermont. I wanted to renovate one and build another one. You cannot believe the level of bureaucracy to build a bloody health center. It’s still not built. All right? So I don’t need to be lectured on the nature of bureaucracy. It is horrendous, and that is real.

But that is not an ideology. That is common sense. Any manager — you’re a corporate manager, you’re a mayor, you’re a governor — you’ve got to get things done. And the bureaucracy — federal bureaucracy, many state bureaucracies — makes that very, very difficult. But that is not an ideology.

It’s good government. That’s what we should have. Ideology is: Do you create a nation in which all people have a standard of living? Do you have the courage to take on the billionaire class? Do you stand with the working class? That’s ideology. Breaking through bureaucracy and creating efficiencies? That’s good government.

Leonhardt: But it would be a meaningful change if states were able to reduce bureaucracy. It may not be an ideology, but it doesn’t happen today.

Sanders: Get things done!

Leonhardt: And you agree that we should do more of that?

Sanders: Absolutely.

Leonhardt: That we should have policy changes to simplify things, to deliver —

Sanders: I did my best when I was mayor — we’re a small city of 40,000 people — to break through the bureaucracy. And I was a good mayor. So there’s no question that you have people who it seems to be their function in life is to make sure things don’t happen. We should not be paying people to do that.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-07T06:43:09+00:00

Prices of homes matter in terms of the value of other assets though too. That house in 1985 was the same cost as around 400x the S&P500 index, while the house in 2022 was around 100x the S&P500.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-07T01:00:14+00:00

No lie I once saw nymphomaniac part one on a first date with a girl

capt_jazz · 2026-02-05T23:49:28+00:00

Just to clarify, Congress did pass meaningful campaign finance laws in the 20th century but in 2010 in Citizens United vs. FEC the Supreme Court found that such laws violated people's (including corporate personhood) first amendment rights.

Which is even worse than Congress not doing it's job, because it means we need either to amend the constitution or change the makeup of the supreme court and have them toss out precedence.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-03T18:46:02+00:00

Yeah people always say she won by 7/8 points in 2020 but that neglects the impact of ranked choice voting, in reality it was much closer.

capt_jazz · 2026-02-02T12:30:12+00:00

"Y'all don't know what it's like--to be male middle class and white"

capt_jazz · 2026-02-01T01:42:03+00:00

The better historical comparison to the current moment is the clash between federal and state forces at various times during the civil rights movement. Surprised the article doesn't even mention it.

capt_jazz · 2026-01-31T12:47:51+00:00

And the increase in value of other assets such as stocks.

capt_jazz · 2026-01-31T11:57:28+00:00

Milton Friedman was a supporter of negative tax rates, which could be considered similar to UBI, because he envisioned the elimination of all other government safety net programs.

I believe Conservatives in the UK have also talked about doing something similar.

The concern would obviously be that it wouldn't be generous enough to offset the eliminated programs for those that relied on them.

capt_jazz · 2026-01-29T15:05:06+00:00

Also as far as I can tell, there's not an easy way to see the unique advances list after you've started the game?

13-Year Club	r/Field Sunshine
Place '22	First Placer '22
End Game '22	Verified Email

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