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That said, you f'ing matter and you deserve to be friends with people. You can do it too. Just get out, talk to people in the real world, whatever just do something different from what you are doing now.
I'm rooting for you man.
Most of us remember the period where almost everything in computer stores were "free after rebate." "Emachine 1997 model FREE AFTER REBATE", "Pack of 50 CDR FREE AFTER REBATE".
The rebate involved you filling out a form with the original proof of purchase, sending it off, and either never hearing from them again or having it denied. "Sorry, wrong receipt, send us the real one" but it was already gone.
Now, I assume anything with a rebate is fraud. The insight from this article is that we were right.
Its just... noone wants to hear people hawking their pedo pesos constantly and how "WEB3 (powered by pedo pesos) will help us all!".
Its tiring. I'm over it. Most of us are. We wish you no ill will or harm, heck most of us hope you all wake up, but in the meantime we don't want to hear it.
Think about how far we have swung in one direction. Its going the same distance in the other. May god help us.
That said, neurological covers more than just self-reported concerns like this. Take a look at this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02001-z
You can ignore a lot of these (and I do) as they are self reported, but some are not. Consider Cerebrovascular disorders or some of the others.
There appears to be an association that is non-subjected non-self-reported between people who got covid and people who did not. The study makes NO statement that can be attributed to people who got covid with/without the vax because the study was started/concluded prior to the vax being in general circulation amongst a high number of the population.
So yes, I think "long covid" has a large amount of general anxiety - but not this much. I think its likely we will find this is 1/2 our brains just making up symptoms and 1/2 actual legit f'ing scary problems. I hope I'm wrong. This study implies I'm not.
Cheers.
Check out hazard ratio - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_ratio - it covers the increase in likelyhood above base case. You seem to be implying it doesnt matter because the absolute number is low. Thats not how life science studies work. If this causes a 10k% increase in your hair turning orange, even if it affects a low number of people, its still a drastic increase in hazard ratio.
P2P platforms and those who violate copyright are routinely shut down (or attempt to be shut down) in the US. If co-pilot sits in that same space, it seems the books been written already... we know how it ends.
Suppose we add a button to a visual studio plugin called 'Copy me a function' and when you click it, it 100% grabs some random code from github and plops it as-is into your code base.
I don't have to argue the ethics of if the button is 'thinking for itself'
The place is a literal cult. In every meeting, no matter how short, you hear people argue not points but leadership principles. "We need to learn and be curious about this ! Lets dive deep!", "Sorry, no, we need to have a bias for action. We've learned enough, lets do this.", two way door / one way door.
You can think you are going to jump into the cats mouth and steal some cheese, but theres a chance that you get changed into a literal cult member by this organization.
Avoid at all costs.
Germany was facing a cold winter, without energy for heating, and the potential for rolling blackouts. With this change, it does not eliminate the threat but makes it less likely.
Who in their right mind would decom any type of energy that could help stave off pain for their citizenship - especially one that has no carbon footprint.
https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1582050941682954240
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> For all those commenting "only until April 2023":
> No utility will decommission a nuclear plant knowing this kind of reversal is possible even with Greens still in government occupying key posts.
> They will not even mothball the plants. They'll just sit and wait for elections.
There was a time period when the left was for free speech and the right was wanting to constrain it. Maybe its just a giant pendulum - there is no right/left difference when it comes to free speech - everyone wants to censor / filter the speech of the opposite side.
If things come in cycles, then I expect the right to take over more and more (see the european shift) and then for them to slowly become in favor of censorship. Maybe then - if we are lucky - the left will remember that censorship is always the enemy even if it helps them currently.
Congress holds the powers of the purse and this is an executive order by a president a few weeks away from midterm elections. This is going to be litigated.
Like college debt, it was taken on willingly and its hard to argue that consumers having more money to spend won't drive economic growth.
This is transferring debt people willingly took on to get a college degree, to people who did not go to college.
Look, I am not trying to be rude and I am trying to be gentle when I ask this: Where do you think the 'assistance' the government is going to provide comes from?
The alternative to nuclear is to either use fuels with a massive carbon footprint, or introduce a level of energy suffering on the population that is beyond the pale.
You are exactly right - this is the only way.
I am just pointing out that there is no forgiveness, the education expenses incurred by college graduates is now being paid by blue collar workers, and its the most regressive tax we have ever had. That doesn't mean I am against it.
I just want folks to know that the person paying your college off is a guy who wishes he could have gone to college.
This is, in essence, transferring the debt from people who graduated college to people who - on average - did not go to college. The most regressive invisible tax hike we have ever had but sure. . . yay.
You understand that if your information got out, its likely to result in you being unemployable right?
"I don't get it. Why are they confessing?" "They arn't confessing, they are bragging."
If you have two equally qualified candidates - one anglo saxan male from boston, and one african american female from georgia - at many places, one is going to be consistently chosen.
I agree - that is absolutely bias based on protected characteristics. Do you?
It seems like every youtuber that I watch now has their own coffee brand that they ask you to buy. Heck - a vtuber rabbit was pushing their coffee brand too. Did I just miss the memo?
Either the foam will compress, or it won't compress and the energy will 'dissipate' in the human body.
In this case, we had foam that appeared non-compressable with sharp points that hit on the back. This feels like a level of stupid that it takes an MBA to come up with.
Who in the world believes this utter tripe.
"In many ways, the challenges M² aims to address — how to get a bunch of disparate users to agree on a shared notion of temporality — is also a core challenge that blockchains solve for." - oh come on.
This feels like a case where having this 'foam pit' may be more dangerous than not having anything. Something like bike helmets positively correlated with more dangerous behavior / more accidents.
In this particular case, airbnb is having issues as people are starting to run away from them. Having a pitch that is 'basically airbnb but we dont charge money' during a macro-event where companies are trying to focus less on growth and more on maximizing cash flow... this is going to be a hard sell. I wish you luck, but the response you will get today may be very different than 2 years ago.
I spent my childhood using an old 8088 dialing up boards / exploring our local areas bbs scene. Hell, I met my wife on a BBS originally - we were chatting later at a party and it came up and we realized we had spoken a few times before.
The BBS period reminds me of freedom, exploration, and a time when everything wasnt monetized by ultra corps. Its that memory that worries me. I sometimes wish I could go back to that time but you can never swim in the same river twice. Its moved on. We need to also.
Its a trap. One I fall into every once in a while.
Its the rebirth of the promise of a censorship free internet. A lot of people have decided that its time we shut peoples mouths and stop them from talking 'for the greater good' - this is a pushback against it.
One day we will all remember why we should support free speech - god help us on that day.
I make literally no statement on what is worst (trans suicides are a thing, and infertility is a thing also). Its a tough place for parents to be to help their children.
What does not help anyone - including yourself - is making up statements that you then get hot and yell about. If you scream about dog whistles / terfs / transphobes it has the impact of shutting down conversation.
Lets be better and lets trust the science.
From Nature - affects fertility in both boys and girls treated in early adolescence: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41585-020-0372-2
From Lancet - importance of informed fertility counseling for trans young people: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4...
While some may claim the resulting infertility condition that impacts young people given puberty blockers is the price worth being paid due to trans suicide rates, it is worth stating: it is not benign and it is not reversible.
The treatment side effects are permanent and are life altering for most people. Imagine a person finding out at 26 that they are infertile - it is a life impacting event that causes mental anguish, divorce in some cases, and even suicide.
Lets trust the science here.
I had to cover it up with a sticky note on my nice tv until I finally gave up.
Anti consumer patterns.