In many many countries Ivermectin is sold OTC in your neighborhood pharmacy alongside the aspirin, decongestants, etc.
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You mean the medicine that has been used on humans for 40 years and then repurposed for animals? You mean the medicine on WHO list of essential medications to alleviate human suffering?
I'm really surprised this hasn't bubbled-up to normies yet. I suspect this Christmas is going to be a shocker.
I know Ars knows this because they allude to in bottom of article. Click-baity.
They = The public-private partnership (NIH/CDC/Pfizer/Moderna/JNJ etc) that grants themselves monopoly license AND total legal immunity. Must be nice.
They are truly desperate to prevent any alternative treatments available, no matter how modestly successful, otherwise it invalidates their EUA.
This private-public partnership (where NIH gets a royalty on vaccine tech) is an abomination.
Neither of those of idempotent.
It seems likely you are coming at this from the perspective of "when I find an ansible playbook on github its hard to follow whats going on".
There is a certain truth to that, but much of its complexity is probably related to said playbook developers trying to abstract away specifics and create a playbook that works on a variety of distributions / configuration options.
Ansible can be as simple as a single file that proceeds sequentially like a bash script.
nothing really specific to Coinbase.
Why not also put fat people + diabetics at lower priority? Why is someone killing themselves by being 350lbs and having high-fructose corn syrup blood somehow more forgivable than someone waiting for FDA approval?
Maybe focusing on preaching about "White Fragility" wasn't the best use of their time.
You must admit there is some sort of grand comedy in this: Nietzsche's one 'novel', "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" entire plot line is about a man who tries to warn society of the evils of nihilism and instead of being scared-off by it, all the people he warns fall in love with the idea (ie. willing trade their dangerous freedom to gain safety).
Its a deeply ironic that the current pedestrian understanding of him is that he advocated "atheism and nihilism". You almost couldn't make it up.
Hopefully someone invents an Immune-System-As-A-Service we can all subscribe to!
Similar story. My lab had 2 NeXT cubes (the monochrome version) and the first time I saw a graphical browser was eye-opening. I had only experienced telnet and gopher before that...
I think this was probably '92-93 - like 3 years before Windows 95 even existed. This experience is what pushed me headlong into the nascent Linux, as the idea of going from NeXT to Windows 95 was like moving from a Ferrari to a tricycle. Linux was no Ferrari but it was at least a pickup truck....
Whew! I was worried there for a minute. Maybe for extra safety I could say "SIRI I DISAVOW OF THIS MESSAGE!"??
1. Send someone you hate a message with cartoon making fun of tyrant-president.
2. That person is now on a list.
Its swatting-as-a-service.
Its been clear Tim Cook was going to slowly harm the brand. He was a wonderful COO under a visionary CEO-type, but he holds no particular "Tech Originalist" vision. He's happy to be part of the BigTech aristocracy, and probably feels really at home in the powers it affords him.
Anyone who believes this is "just about the children" is naive. His chinese partners will use this to crack down on "Winnie the Poo" cartoons and the like...before long questioning any Big Pharma product will result in being flagged. Give it 5 years at max.
I've already had covid in 2020 and recently had another antibody test which still showed a strong response...
Against the original Alpha perhaps. However Delta effectiveness is nowhere near 90%...this is precisely the reason for the push for boosters.
"Leaky vaccines" result in catastrophic situations like Marek's disease.
How is this not understood?
Vaccines should only be used for targeted at-risk population. Everyone else should strive for natural immunity.
Its been increasingly shown that "Phthalates act by mimicking the female hormone estrogen, which in turn inhibits production of the male hormone testosterone. As such, phthalates are considered to be endocrine disruptors" [1]
In fact, Phthalates are one of the candidates to explain the significant drop in male sperm production [2].
The point here is its possible that the effects of plastics are much more significant than anyone realizes...how much of the LGBT / gender identity issues could be related to environmental toxins?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate
[2] https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2003/05000/Phthalat...
yea, I think you are probably right. I was a linux user from 95-05 then switched to mac from 05-13 now back to linux. I'm well aware of the "this is the year of the linux desktop" joke, but honestly over past 4-5 years I think linux has reached the point that its fairly painless for 95% of common desktop usecases.
Not being dismissive, simply pointing out...what fundamental leverage does a developer have against inelastic customer demand? Are customer going to stop using FANG products because advertising feature 3.2.97 isn't added this quarter?
Its a good point, but that ignores that co-opting "useful tragedies" are how authoritarian fanatics grasp power.
There is no reason why it can't be both: A bottom-up response that has morphed into a dystopian power grab.
Fedora-IoT effectively does this with rpm-ostree + greenboot.
Greenboot specifies a series of directories under /etc that organizes your custom scripts (scripts that must not fail, scripts that may fail, scripts to run on success, scripts to run after previous failed, etc) then it marks your current ostree as either being active or auto-rollsback into previous.
Its painful to realize the web has turned into a giant propaganda network.