The assumption that those who are unvaccinated were ever scared of dying from the virus is inaccurate and so you fail to predict their behavior by assuming they would do what you would do.

True common sense would have dictated that people way the risk/ benefit analysis and stopped all this mask and social distancing non-sense about 3 months after it started when we realized that only a subset of the population needed to be in quarantine. Instead because of bias news reporting and already conditioned fear response we continue to assign the acceptable risk level to zero and the benifit level of acting like normal human beings and being able to smile at each other as inconsequential.

Or you sell wedding cakes or do wedding photography or run a business that is open to the public.

*LOL*
YOU COULD BE after all, _I_ don't have any proof either way ;)

there has GOT to be a third alternative. Maybe something made with biodegradable plastic? because your right, paper straws are all but useless.
how about hollowed baboo straws. Those bio degrade and grow fast.

I mean it is heavy and all but 100% recyclable, so why not use glass if it is actually that important? Also, seems like there are other good choices , maybe corn based bio-degradable plastic?

Second what percentage of plastic pollutants are actually bottles. I'd think candy wrappers, food wrappers.. straws all probably contributes as much or more, so many more sources. How much would this change actually mean.

3rd, seems like a lot of waste for all the people who open 2.3 liters of soda and then it goes flat because they don't drink it fast enough .. all that has cost too.
I think the bottles are probably the size they are because of the needs of the people buying the products.

I know folks from south Africa with families going back 3 or 4 generations there , who have white skin. If they move here, are the 'African Americans'?

So google needs to updates its policy to say:
We are unable to determine if you are a primary news source unless you mark your site with if you choose not to do so please send us an e-mail.
In either case we will ban your IP from all searches until we decide it is worth paying you , which is likely never.

Good plan , then the government can decide what is and isn't news for everyone.

It's gonna be kinda sad for Australian news agencies when all searches for 'news' on google stop showing them because google complies with this law.

I mean, why pay anyone, just stop linking to anything with an Australian IP ( maybe display a warning when someone searches 'Australian news' that says , showing such a hit with no link just a name that say ( link removed by Australian law). Don't show the URL either. Then if an Australian organization wants to be seen in a google search they can pay for an Ad that they sponsor and ... win for google, loose for all Australians.

never though about that before. What does it degrade into? smaller RNA? how does the body flush it?

To suggest there is some equivalent between using selection to modify an organism and injecting random bits of DNA into it is wrongheaded.

When you can show a way of naturally selecting a tomato plant to get a grouper gene the produces anti-freeze in it or corn that is resistant to round-up then we can talk about it being nothing more then a short cut. The possible things that could go wrong due to cross pollicization alone are bad, but what about trans species viral vectors? What does it do to an echo system when various plants stop freezing , or what kind of cool new viruses will arise because now there are proteins and gene's in hosts that were not there before. Great potential for risk , so mitigation at least needs to be well considered.

who fully understand mRNA and how it works? Do you? Apparently there are many Medical Doctors who don't or disagree it is safe.
I have 2 MD I'm friends with, one took it ( he is 70 a semi-retired heart surgeon) the other younger ( 50 is pediatrician) is waiting until she has seen its effects on more people, she is by no means anti-vax being from the Philippines and having seen many children die from lack of vaccine.

There is no reason to think the FDA is acting anything other then politically here , with the idea the ANY level of risk is better then just letting this thing play to it's natural end.

  Myself I have all kinds of answered questions. Some of which I'm not sure I have the time and education to answer, but what do you do when you don't trust the professionals.

except the set the prices. I've also herd they mess with your rating depending on where and when you are willing to work , so that doesn't sound fair either. Ratings should come from good service to customers.

I think what makes you a contractor is the ability to call your own shots. First of all you decided from amongst multiple jobs and multiple prices and then choose one for some specific amount of time.
So I think Uber has really violated the 'line' on that one. If the drivers could bid on requests for rides and were not penalized any way for when they decided to work or not work ( other then not getting paid.) They would be contractors.

I occasionally use a 'handyman' around my house. Just the 1 guy no business behind him. I call him up and hey, can you do this? How much do you want for it? When can you do it? That is a verbal contract. If i found him through homeadvisor it would be no different. He would still estimate the work cost.

THAT is a contractor. a BROKER finds people who have work, and provides a services to the contractor for a finders fee, but they don't interfere with the contractors ability to set the price, or negotiate his own schedual.