Gosh, it’s almost like different variants had different thresholds for contagion or something.

It boggles the mind how your preconceived biases are preventing you from connecting the dots here.

Airborne virus + tens of thousands of people packed in close proximity is going to result in spread of said airborne virus. Fewer people packed into less close proximity won’t.

They didn’t just pull that “social distancing” thing out of their asses.

You missed a rather important data point… where?

Show your work.

It would also be interesting to compare enclosed stadiums vs outdoor, but there may not be enough data here.

Science is going to keep studying the mountains of data that arose from the pandemic, probably for decades to come.

However, this result may (and should) prompt further research to confirm or refute that. This is exactly the sort of thing public health officials and medical professionals need to be looking at, to inform health protocols for large gatherings and analyze the cost/benefit of not only health protocols at the event (what works, what doesn’t) but also whether an event should be held at all.

It would also be very interesting to see how the numbers differ for disease with airborne spread vs contact spread, as having some baseline data could provide valuable early input into determining how the next novel pathogen is spread.

We also need a really robust, anonymous, and automatic contact tracing system. The one Apple and others have implemented is pretty solid, but that whole process is currently infected with politics.

This should surprise absolutely nobody who was paying attention and doesn’t have their judgment clouded by conspiracy theories, but glad someone put in the work to show the data.

Lot of that in Kansas. Grass is one of the best solar farms there is, using solar energy to convert CO2 into oxygen, H-C bonds (sugars and starches) and biomass (cellulose) and storing much of it underground.

The Kansas tallgrass prairie was probably one of the best carbon sinks on the planet (along with the Russian Steppes and the Argentine Pampas) and about 150 years ago, right about the time we really needed to not do so, 98% of it was plowed under, and the 60 million grazing animals that lived there were almost completely exterminated.

Pasture land is unable to be used for any other crops and so livestock becomes the best way to grow food from that land. Cattle are quite good at turning captured atmospheric carbon in the form of plant biomass and then turning it into protein, rendering that land quite productive while keeping the ecosystem going (they are a vital component of that grassland ecosystem) without having to mechanically work the land.

That’s basically cropland, just on a longer cycle. Engineered wood products and pulp usage allow that cycle to be shortened, though.

It’s all one of the better carbon capture mechanisms we have right now.

LOL, “audiophiles” are nothing more than peddlers and consumers of electronic woo and snake oil. They wouldn’t recognize the difference.

Audio pros laugh at these people as soon as the payment clears. I don’t put any stock into what they “know” (usually what they have convinced themselves is real)

And travel headphones.

After just getting off an 8 hour flight, can wholeheartedly recommend Apple’s comically expensive AirPods Max. First set of ANC cans J have owned that can be worn for 8 hours straight. And the sound is amazing.

Since they started making them out of actual pie.

Latency is not a function of your speed.

Millimeters of pizza is an odd metric.

It’s a high volume, low margin business. Any net income that is positive is a good thing.

The numbers from a year ago are terrifying.

Lufthansa does similar volume and lost money in the first half of the year.

delta is pretty good about lots of details in their financial quarterlies.

Good catch! I wasn’t fully paying attention when typing out the title. Can’t even blame autocorrect.

Yeah, that was a surprise to me too. vertical integration FTW

Most likely, but that would be whatever the local state tax is at the point of purchase

Just like RyanAir, the report is pretty lean on frills 🤣

That’s close enough to the statutory rate that is not particularly significant. They may have some capex that could offset some of their tax liability, or they may have overprovisioned in a previous quarter.

It could be that some of it is also subject to tax outside the US at a lower rate.

I’m sure the accountants have their reasons… and they probably don’t make any sense to us plebs.