No because no one else says that phrase so people would be confused
No because no one else says that phrase so people would be confused
it helps to actually give a shit, is the thing
The pandemic is over, it is now the #2 deadliest endemic respiratory virus behind flu and very far behind many other causes of death
"COVID" as a distinct event is over, it is now an endemic disease. Using it in the past tense is reasonable and largely correct
I remember buying a bunch of good stuff with my wife, including a couple beers, and having a fantastically enjoyable meal on our ways down to Osaka
But there are still amazing vendors in the station that you can buy for the train, right?
Though the site does has an extremely obnoxious form of discourse where the counterargument to anything is "but why are you talking about this during fascism and a pandemic and a global recession when 99% of people live month to month while marginalizing people who can't read"
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fact check: false
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Will Stancil is completely correct that a bunch of people on this site revel in dogpiling and being assholes in general and I'd rather they stop or leave than the rest of us "get over it"
yes i am sure
Grandpa's having a bad day. We all just need to be a little patient sometimes
The novel thing was the mRNA platform and I think the specific antigen was relatively easily swapped in and out. The research on SARS-1 spike did give researchers a significant head start in guessing which spike antigens to use for SARS-2
Apparently the placebo arm might not even be necessary
If they'd got everyone into a hotel and sprayed cultured covid viruses up their nose a month after they got their shots (a duration which we could have inferred by monitoring antibody levels in trial participants) we'd have these same results a couple of weeks after that
He could have just ignored trans people and still had his career, his family, and his dignity
No. They did normal placebo-controlled population trials and relied on the trial population slowly being exposed to COVID. Which wasn't happening very quickly because most people were taking lots of precautions! So it took many months to see any signal of people in the placebo arm getting COVID!
Also the critique that they changed their minds when the summer protests started, for pretty scientifically unfounded reasons (sometimes rationalized as "racism is worse than covid so it's worth it") is sadly pretty correct. Consensus should have been it's relatively safe to be outside much sooner
Nope. You can get that signal from other places. Placebo controls are helpful but not necessary. The efficacy of the mRNA vaccines would have been statistically evident from challenge trials without them
More keep coming!
I think all the criticisms of the prevailing culture on Bluesky are basically correct tbh, I just don’t care that much because the alternative is ran by a insane billionaire who hates people like me shot through with literal Nazis. I’ll take the occasional annoying millennial with an MSW over that
Nah, still annoying. People will link and screencap and brigade. Otherwise interesting people will get the mania and pile on
Insofar there were any postviral symptoms at all, it wasn't rare. But for most people it was mild and receded pretty quickly. It's pretty rare! And I can say what I want, it is not only OK it is good for laymen to understand and critically evaluate the data!
We had a fairly clear idea by then, and honestly, a % of a few thousand people having LC is a very reasonable sacrifice compared to the lives saved from getting a vaccine available months earlier
The first mRNA vaccine candidates entered stage 1 trials in March 2020. Get them in a few thousand arms by April and then expose these brave volunteers to COVID. We were already aware that healthy, young people have a low death rate, even if the vaccines were ineffective it'd be a reasonable risk
Rolling out vaccines several months sooner could have saved an enormous amount of lives. IMO, when we had candidates we should have immediately initiated human challenge trials with a few thousand healthy volunteers, and simultaneously begun speculative mass production
[wet fart sound]
This is what people are starting to do as the panel price starts dropping below mounting hardware and labor costs people are switching to simpler and cheaper methods. Zip-tying them to a fence is a thing! And it's defensible
"Ooh, that's an idol. You shouldn't do that."
There is a prescriptive checklist-based approach that is much simpler now
I have read through the residential NEC and it indeed seems extremely reasonable. There are some dumb parts like kitchen island outlet requirements and # of kitchen circuits but mostly it seems very reasonable
I understand. It's pretty easy to spend more per panel *just* on mounting hardware with no labor, which is crazy. You can see why commercial farms who can really optimize it are outcompeting rooftop
Nope! It's legal for homeowners much like any other electrical work. Still need it permitted and inspected. Apparently it's non trivial permitting though.
It's possible that NEC requirements are part of the problem! Does Australia have a higher rate of electrical fires and electrocutions than we do? What explains their rooftop residential solar costing 20% as much as here?
Is electricity more dangerous in places where electrician labor is much cheaper?
Scrambling on a roof I get paying for, but electrician labor is just insanely expensive
$120/400W new, open box solar panels from reputable manufacturer, delivered, on eBay. If you have the time and ability to DIY that seems like a good deal. Installed, they seem to cost 10x as much
That awkward thing where you recognize a dog but don't know the person walking it
Mastodon has a more write-only vibe
Do you notice he's not wearing his orange makeup in these most recent pics? I don't think I've ever seen a photo of him without it on
There probably is a lesson in the fact that Obama shepherded the most left-wing piece of federal legislation since the Great Society, over opposition in and outside his own party, and is chiefly remembered by the left now as a do-nothing moderate.
a very strongly worded post!
that's the idea
i want the literal basement of the house I live in to be uncluttered and tidy
Bluesky: the niche website for literate people
Looking good, sir
Going to hire someone to come watch me clean my basement and tase me every time I slack off. Worried that people will think this is a sex thing, it is not, I just want a clean basement
It's funny how that is pretty true in a lot of the country but in a place like Portland the valence is moving the opposite direction. You need to be able to afford an expensive house if you want to walk places
Great post
It is honestly delightful how much this stuff is getting standardized on USB-C. Thank you for getting the ball rolling, EU regulators
Between Taliban rule, mass deportations in Pakistan and Iran, European governments trying to send them to the Taliban, the US refouling people who worked for them, and the earthquake in Jalalabad the situation for Afghans is nightmarish right now.
I've dropped stuff off before and the attendant kind of shrugs as they glance over
The area looks very hard to serve with school buses efficiently, it might be a very long ride, walk to the bus stop might be long and dangerous, and there is likely some very strong classicism against it even besides all that
"that's dirty, I could take it if you clean it and bring it back" apparently means "fuck off" and me wiping down with a spray bottle and rag on the spot was seen as offensive enough to threaten calling the police. OK
Don't want to complain about Goodwill too much but whether or not they accept your donations seems highly dependent on the mood of the person working
Looking at the area this school serves, I simply don't have an easy answer besides going back in time 30 years and changing planning rules dramatically
My boys just started kindergarten a two block walk from my house. I feel incredibly fortunate for this and it boggles my mind that people don't seem to consider this desirable at all, even with the insane consequences shown here. Car culture is crazy
He's looking increasingly fucked up, but it's been (so far) a slow and steady process
There was a Roma camp near where I lived in Budapest and it ranks as one of the grimmest examples of poverty I've ever seen
Nah these are influencers doing all this for clicks. Totally reasonable target for mockery
Someone should go and build a 60 foot tall cairn on the peak of Mt Rainier and move it up five spots in the tallest mountain rankings
You can watch it pretend no other Star wars exists. Honestly it'd probably be better with less context
Yeah, this doesn’t really get around the fact that 2-3 young people have a lot more money to blow on rent than 1-2 parents. You need to absorb all demand for 1BR and studios before young professionals start turning the 3BRs into effective studios/1BR lol.
Pretty crazy that both Giuliani & Trump died on the same weekend.
Yeah, I think some significant amount of batteries are absolutely necessary here. The peak instantaneous power requirements for this equipment are going to very high
I often see temporary power poles set up very early in the construction process, and I don't really see much reason they couldn't be installed even earlier
I do wonder how much battery power concerns at job sites could be mitigated by just running some easily accessible cables
or a dozen possible other little things like that, yeah
it's Frisco
There's probably something to this. Americans no longer have to speak to or directly interact with the nice Mexican guy who makes their delicious tacos. Add another thing to the list of pernicious effects of delivery apps
I think there is a significant and politically counterproductive tendency in America that might be called "hairshirt leftism" where pretty much everything must center that purported fact that we are an irredeemable nation of sinners
No I really don't think this is even remotely true
This sounds like a pure shitpost but is actually an 100% accurate description of a policy proposal by actual people in a position of influence
Always curious about the EV conversion kit landscape, it's changing rapidly
Her explanation for some risk factors seems literally to be "the vibes"
a classic!
Falklands (Malvinas) all that's left of Argentina is good
Subsidized housing in Seattle is more than 10% vacant, with rents often near market. And Seattle isn’t alone. We need to focus on making the market work for the top ~80% and focus subsidy at the very bottom, subsidized housing for all is a failed strategy. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
That is not where the resistance is concentrated, no
Yeah 57th & Sandy, where the Jack in the Box is now
It's funny to get all "back in the day" nostalgic for Portland cuisine from the 90s or earlier, because it is so obviously pure nostalgia. Food is just so, so much better here than it used to be. I wonder if any other city has made such a leap
You're good. It's not terrible, but... You're good.
Read my point about derivatives, there is stunning progress in technology lowering emissions and a whole lot more to come very soon. Things aren't good! But real reasons for hope.
Let's remember some fast food chains that are barely holding onto life
Sure, but it is important to litigate the truth of climate doom! And doomerism is often about rationalizing why it's worse than it actually is
You're doing the doomer thing. Since the film came out, first order is worse, first derivative has improved, higher order derivatives have improved greatly. There are reasons for hope
Hoffman's character is not without nuance but is such an enormous piece of shit
One of the grimmest films I've seen. But man it's good
That starship captained by Frasier spent 80 dang years stuck in that time loop but the Enterprise crew was built different and figured it out in 17 days. Lol
Dwarf Fortress
Old Onion had some fucking bangers
Why is the media suppressing this
Oh yeah that was parked by me awhile back. It's a vibe
Looking somewhat worse than the other day, which was somewhat worse than the week before that...
The right grassroots eagerly slurping up the slop from billionaire-funded astroturf and media organizations while the left has a freakout about someone paying some people for pro-Democrat messaging is a pretty clear asymmetry in US politics
Trump won't see your post but your dying kleptocrat authoritarian head of state friends might
*sigh* you got the spirit but mt st Helens is a stratovolcano and does not have a caldera