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My philosophy is this: I’ll answer truthfully, and if my country gets to the point where I’m worried that being truthful in my census questionnaire will put me at risk, this is no longer a country I want to be living in and I’ll move.

I know this is coming from a place of privilege but I can afford it, and I believe that everyone that can afford it should do it too.

Not sure what exactly they’re expecting to have happen.

Great opportunity to go inform yourself then :-)

What new Gear Hub Tech?

I think nowadays most tech innovations have been in internal and integrated gear systems and drivetrains around continuous gear shifting, though most often related to gearbox and e-bikes.

eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Ak8ZsQpl8

But then new gear hub tech comes out, and you start considering ebikes, also a pannier would be nice... maybe a cargo bike makes more sense instead...?

Any hobby entry point can cascade into upgraditis

Interesting research but very early stages. There's a good chance that this isn't really specific to bikes, but more generally applies to the benefits of people enjoying hobbies and a good quality of life translating into a better psychological state, which is known to affect health outcomes in a myriad of ways specially related to brain function and hormones.

Interestingly, the data also shows that mixed-walking is associated with reduced dementia as well... and I find it a bit confusing that the authors are lumping driving and public transit together in the nonactive category because public transit usually involves a good deal of walking too without people categorizing it as a walking mode of transport.

Beyond separating public transit from driving, I think major factors to control for are: 1) how often these non-commute activities happen; and 2) what's the stress level of that transportation mode. With those three things in mind I think it would clarify why would walking be associated with worst outcomes than nonactive...

A bike (the bicycle kind, not the motorbike kind, that's a different wallet-sinking hobby)

Looks like we have different groups of experts in our respective informational sources

Ah ok, "they" meant cannabis magazines.

experts were ignored

The experts were on the side of legalization, so they weren't really ignored. If by experts you mean people who study public health policy and narcotrafficking.

Now that the consequences are being seen, what are we going to do about it?

What are these experts saying nowadays? What I see is a consensus that legalization was a pretty good move. There's probably more we should do, but it's stuff that builds on top of legalization.

Not really what serious advocates ever said. Maybe what random people on the Internet sometimes said?

This is all starting to turn the gears in my head.

Be careful with being too open minded so that weird debris come in

there is no such immunization requirement for summer camps.

Instead, Goodman says it will be up to individual camps to decide what their policies are.

That's a misleading headline. The vaccination record is the "ticket", not actually being vaccinated

This seems like a piss poor allocation of resources.

Yes doing extra things costs money. And if we don't have the budget, it's understandable to deprioritize this. But I'm not defending a particular timeline or prioritization, just that it should eventually evolve into that. Like many things in universal healthcare, a bunch of things that should be will take a long time to materialize. We barely have universal dental care... and we don't have the resources to just give it, but we should, eventually.

It kind of works in the opposite direction in this case as he’s an anti vaxxer but would you want a nut like RFK being able to compel you to take medicine you didn’t trust?

Indeed, my worldview is not compatible with being prepared for deranged individuals rising to power like it's happening in the US, which is one of the major reasons I consciously discarded the US as a place to live.

Okay, so now we’re back to interviews

I don't know what you get out of being like this. It's so tiring to talk to someone who is actively seeking the extreme interpretations of my words. So I'm just going to say it one last time and then I'll block you - unfortunately that's the most effective method I have to take care of myself in this kind of forum.

A pitch is the literal opposite of an interview, and the point of having supervision to fill the form is not to treat it like an interview, but to make sure this person understands the purpose of the process and fills the form in good faith. The personal touch of a community worker is super valuable, specially to someone who has concerns with the campaign. So no, not an interview. Not "back" to interviews because it was never about interviews. Sure it will cost 30 minutes of a government employee, which costs dollars from healthcare, like literally any other outreach and education work regarding immunization.