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barfingclouds··on Prevention of HIV
Just to interject, but I’m a bisexual male and I’ve never once heard of a biohazard party in real life
barfingclouds··on Prevention of HIV
Vaccines could be cool to give to entire populations, or for really poor or hard to reach places, doing a one and done approach. It could be part of kids’ shot regiment that they don’t even think about, like the hpv vaccine now.

Then for moderate and high risk people they could do the twice yearly shot once it becomes relevant.

I’m no expert in this field at all, just doing my armchair analysis here.

barfingclouds··on Prevention of HIV
Clinics are pretty good. But in general, if you’re a woman in a first world nation your odds of getting it are really low, unless you do significant amounts of anal sex with bisexual men or inject drugs.

Same thing with men. Straight men aren’t at much risk. Bi and gay men are at high risk.

If you have a hiv+ partner, prep is good enough to keep you safe. Just take it always as prescribed.

Pep in for when you may have been exposed, and you need to get it as soon as possible. It’s like a morning after pill. Within 72 hours of exposure but sooner is better.

Then for anyone who does unprotected casual sex, there’s doxypep which reduces likelihood of bacterial stds by a lot, so gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis.

If you want a person to explain this to you in real life, there’s different clinics in every American city that would love to take the time to teach you about all of this. Part of their funding is to educate

barfingclouds··on Prevention of HIV
Well we have a hiv prep shot already that’s every two months. I forgot the name, but yeah I think it’s very expensive
barfingclouds··on Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
I do. There’s an age minimum for presidents
barfingclouds··on Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
I’d be into that
barfingclouds··on Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
Less fungible
barfingclouds··on Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial
From my understanding they make you do it in pill form for a bit first to see how you react
barfingclouds··on Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial
Well and I have to go in to get tested every 3 months anyways
barfingclouds··on Safe Superintelligence Inc.
The goal of this company likely wouldn’t be to win against OpenAI, but to play its own game, even if much lesser
barfingclouds··on Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
Please have her respond to any intimidation with the following message. It’ll hurt them bad in china and freak them out for sure.

动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想

barfingclouds··on Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
Or try this:

动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想

barfingclouds··on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers
A lot of social consensus is often made when huge threads on twitter or Instagram have a massive number of supporters behind a topic. So when bots get better at all saying the same thing in seemingly human voices, it trains us to believe that is popular, and likely that that is right
barfingclouds··on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers
Yeah just to second this, there has been credible proof that Russia has interfered in our elections, let’s not diminish that reality.
barfingclouds··on Sam Altman is showing us who he really is
It doesn’t sound like her
barfingclouds··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
Who here has actually compared the two voices? Because they don’t sound alike. I think this whole thing is absurd
barfingclouds··on GPT-4o
I don’t think Llama being open sourced means Meta has lost anything. If anything it’s just a way to get free community contribution, like Chrome from Chromium. Mega absolutely intends to integrate their version of Llama in their products not so unlike how OpenAI is creating uses for their LLM beyond just the technology
barfingclouds··on GPT-4o
They showed just that in the demo with the voice call example. Screen share can be a live video feed
barfingclouds··on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
I could see sodium ion being a good use case for cars even.

I just did a little perplexity search and it seems that lithium ion is maybe 50% more energy dense than sodium ion. So instead of a 300 mile car, I could get a 200 mile car that can charge 10 times faster, and has a longer lifespan battery. That’s a trade off that doesn’t sound bad to me

barfingclouds··on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
Well I think for as amazing as this technology is, we probably don’t need it in a cellphone.
barfingclouds··on Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later
How are those both having the exact same order ranked of upvotes? Seems possibly fake to me
barfingclouds··on Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
Yeah I just recommend people skip the first half of season 1
barfingclouds··on Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
Everything I see her in, her acting style to me resembles a lifeless cardboard cutout. I get that that’s “the point” of the Americans, but if that’s all she’s bringing, something’s not working here. And in the diplomat it seemed exactly the same. Lifeless acting, and it seemed a lot of her personality was expressed by other characters because she wasn’t doing it herself.
barfingclouds··on FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules
On Reddit there was a lot of bot activity downplaying net neutrality. May be the case here too
barfingclouds··on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
Nope it doesn’t ban TikTok from having Chinese owners. TikTok could very well continue to have Chinese owners, and if so the US will ban the product domestically
barfingclouds··on Meta Horizon OS
Wouldn’t we call the Apple Vision Pro the high end?
barfingclouds··on Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals
Disagree. Sounds like you acknowledge other recalls get reported, but those other recalls aren’t going to hit hacker news, Reddit, and other more mainstream places. Like I bet this will be on most social media platforms.
barfingclouds··on Meta Llama 3
I listen to Lex relatively often. I think he often has enough specialized knowledge to keep up at least somewhat with guests. His most recent interview of the Egyptian comedian (not a funny interview) on Palestine was really profound, as in one of the best podcasts I’ve ever listened to.

Early on I got really fed up with him when I discovered him. Like his first interview with mark zuckerberg where he asks him multiple times to basically say his life is worthless, his huge simping to Elon musks, asking empty questions repeatedly, and being jealous of Mr Beast.

But yeah for whatever reason lately I’ve dug his podcast a lot. Those less good interviews were from a couple years ago. Though I wish he didn’t obsess so much about twitter

barfingclouds··on Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem
You’re referencing the wrong joke
barfingclouds··on LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
Darn I guess you’ll have to go back to living in the dark ages and actually write it yourself
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