Chetzemoka @ Chetzemoka @kbin.social

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I've had multiple issues with very recently released movies (like Crazy Rich Asians) not playing at all and only giving me pixelated nonsense or the aspect ratios being completely fucked up. Never happened on HBO Max. Only since the forced migration to the new app

Correct. Which is why cheap and agile renewables will remain a good option for less wealthy countries.

We rich countries would be really stupid to worry about money when trying to save the planet.

There's a lot of world outside the US, Europe, and China.

Oh that's wild. I recognized your username, and never realized it was suddenly coming from a different instance

But it's also about cost. Nuclear is far more expensive upfront, more expensive to maintain, and more expensive to decommission. Cheap, agile renewables will be an easier option for the vast majority of the planet

You ever try to draw from a syringe while you're hypotensive, gasping for breath, and panicking as you're about to pass out? That's the primary innovation of the epi-pen. Remove cap, stab through clothes, press button.

Granted, syringe and vial would be better than not having epinephrine though.

I only have WhatsApp because I have so many non-American friends ¯(ツ)/¯

I dragged my mom and sister over to using it, and everyone has been warned that the second I see Meta trying to monetize it, I'm going to whine until they all move to Signal (which has pretty much identical functionality.)

(I mean, we're talking about radioactive water from one nuclear power plant. I'm pretty sure the adage applies in this case.)

The solution to pollution is dilution ¯(ツ)/¯

You're sure reading a lot of things I never said.

Malala Yousafzai is a famous activist for education of young girls who the Taliban attempted to murder for her activism. Hence her comment "Boo 👎" on this young girl's post about skipping classes.

Young girl is just shocked she got called out by a famous person.

It'll continue to be better than the long term health problems caused by actual Covid infections.

This is not going to be different from the annual flu vaccine. None of this is unusual or surprising. Get your shots, folks.

Who on earth suggested we drop any precautions? I didn't. The continued evolution of SARS-COV-2 is going to happen even with all precautions taken.

Yeah, it seems pretty apparent that the reason this lawsuit coincides with the GA indictment is because the GA charges are the clearest violation of the 14th Amendment and therefore the strongest argument to make in court. That lawsuit happened so fast that someone clearly had it prepared and was only waiting for the GA indictments. No conspiracy here.

What gamble exactly? I'm not sure what you're talking about. This is simply the pattern that experts predict will develop in the future

I would also comment that a lot of this is probably a facility-specific artifact. The Massachusetts hospital where I work had a similar Covid outbreak among staff about a month ago, and we started masking up again as a result. It didn't get any worse and we're already back to not masking routinely.

Employees share breakrooms, computer stations, and often socialize together outside work. But the overall Massachusetts data like the Boston wastewater testing doesn't look like any major outbreak is happening: https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

But a big hospital like UMass or MGH has a problem and it makes the news ¯(ツ)/¯

"Worse" only in regards to increased number of cases. I haven't heard any indication that infections are more severe with this new strain. It's just that it's mutated enough that even vaccinated people are susceptible to reinfection.

All of this essentially means that Covid will be with us for a long time just like the flu, which also mutates and requires frequent vaccine boosters. We've been expecting Covid to settle into a similar seasonal pattern as the flu and RSV, but so far it's stubbornly refusing to do so.

And some experts think that Covid reinfection will decrease with successive generations who are exposed in young childhood until SARS-CoV-2 becomes just another nothingburger childhood viral illness like the other four or so endemic human coronaviruses.

EDIT: Successive generations OF HUMANS not of the virus. I think maybe that wasn't clear. As in like, in 100 years enough people might have been exposed to SARS-COV-2 in early childhood that it starts to be just another one of our endemic childhood coronaviruses.

Current generation of humans remains fucked ¯(ツ)/¯

Yes. Literally.

If the United States Constitution were really being respected, extrajudicial killings would be exceptionally rare events.

Almost nothing also means he knows exactly what they did.

I mean, that is how it's pronounced lol