MrShankles @ MrShankles @reddthat.com

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Not all parents are equal. It'd be cool if we valued our young, regardless of from whom they came from. Nobody gets to decide whether to be born or not, but they're still forced to accept the terms of service.

Maybe we should try to value... people?... in general? But who honestly gives a fuck, I got too much on my own plate to really think about it anyway

You can check out the lemmit instance. A lot of instances have defederated from it (with good reason imo, because a bunch of lemmit communities are just links to reddit).

But some of the communities (that the lemmit bot creates from scraped subreddits) are just links to other sources. It doesn't scrape comments but just the content. So I subscribe to the "TIL" and "World News" communities from Lemmit, because it's just links for me to read.

Personally, I'm trying to move away from those as well, because I prefer to rely on the fediverse for the content I want. But it's been a good option for me to still get certain material, while never actually using reddit myself. Some of the communities only link to old.reddit, so I ignored those. But mainly for news is what I've used it for, and it's been good for weaning my last remaining ties to that sunken ship.

My next step will be reposting that same content to Lemmy communities myself. But I gotta handle up on some current (personal) life issues, before I can start contributing more to the content around here

Does "visual voicemail" still work when using e/OS/? I bought an unlocked Samsung a few years ago, but it's apparently an issue to get visual voicemail working. Not sure if it's only an ATT problem, (like they're just being dicks about me not buying my phone through them), but I gave up cause it wasn't worth my time. I just don't really check my voicemail anymore cause I'm too lazy to call it, but I wouldn't mind having it back if it's a quick fix

That's always kinda been my assumption, but not like it's just China to blame. Their Wuhan lab was funded by many other countries. We played with fire and got burned, is how I view it

Thank you, because the journal article is a pretty long read and rather technical, if you're looking at the methodology and everything else. That's a nice succinct summary

The study was specifically using samples they had before the pandemic hit. They did go into more studies (to try and verify their findings) that did include a vaccinated person, but they were mainly focused on samples before the pandemic/vaccines.

They go into the possible short-fallings of their studies, but nonetheless it does show promising interest

And idk if it could become something "injectable", but I think that would be the goal. Or to at least have a better understanding of how to make vaccines more effective/targeted. I'm not sure, but I've always said from the beginning of the pandemic, "I can't wait to see the studies that will come from this over the next following years/decades".

I was referring to genetic testing for the T-Cell alleles (that the study refers to) that were more present in some of the population, before Covid hit.

I've already been vaccinated and exposed, so I'm not entirely sure how that effects the results of testing for those alleles now (I'm no immunologist)... but just curious

And just a side note for clarity: "Antibody" testing will detect prior infection and/or vaccination. "Antigen" testing can detect current infection, which is what I think you're referring to. It gets confusing, and I STILL get tripped up with my terminology... and I work directly with covid-19 patients (in the hospital) and the testing to see if we can take them out of isolation precautions. I actually just had to do a swab for "Antigen PCR" testing 2 days ago, which is why it's kinda fresh in my brain right now. So "antibody" means exposed (either infection or vaccination), but doesn't really mean "contagious". "Antigen" means possibly still contagious... I'm pretty sure. This is not medical advice lol

This article is from December 20th, 2022. A little late to be relevant now

I had the same thought. The curiosity kills me

I found this research interesting because of personal anecdote:

My family and I have joked that my mom must have some kind of immunity to covid. Before a vaccine was available, she had several direct (and sometimes lengthy) exposures... but never any (noticeable) symptoms or illness. And after being vaccinated with the monovalent rounds, she had several direct exposures to omicron... and still nothing

I myself have worked the front lines as an ICU nurse in the US since the first wave, and have never had covid, that I know of. Never symptomatic and never tested positive (granted, I am much more fastidious in regards to infection prevention). The kicker on my end is that my wife is immunosuppressed, and she also has never gotten covid, even with me working covid units and coming home to her (also why I have been so incredibly anal about not bringing it home).

Could be luck, or anything in-between, but I still wonder if my mom and I are resistant. We both have had many (sometimes severe) respiratory infections when I was growing up, and I've wondered if those exposures to other Corona viruses helped train our immune systems.

Like I said, that's my personal anecdote. We both still get every vaccine for covid-19 that becomes available, because fuck all that. But I've always been curious what future studies of the immune system might reveal. Because we have been wildly lucky, all things considered

Looks like that vehicle could use a little Freedom

I really wish the US would put Metric numbers in parentheses next to any Imperial numbers. I really want to have a better grasp on metric in my head.

As a nurse in the US, it's a bit silly that we measure in Imperial and then have it converted to Metric for things like drug calculations. We have this awkward mix where we speak about mL in the same sentence as inches and feet.

I now can visualize about how much a few liters is, but still struggle with about how long a few centimeters is. I know Celsius only in reference to body temperature, but STILL have to convert to Fahrenheit if the Celsius reading is abnormal. Anything really above 38°C or below 36°C, and I start looking at Fahrenheit because I want a better understanding of how much trouble my patient is in. It's rather silly and inefficient

And much of the US Southeast in general. And probably the Northeast as well. But many people in the US can evacuate inland. Countries around the Caribbean Sea... not so much

Low-income households in the US are also disproportionately affected; cause it's hard to evacuate your family without a car, or to rebuild your life after it's been hurricaned away.

Thank you for that read. That honestly gave me a lot more perspective than I had, and that speech was quoted from over a decade ago!? The more I know, the more I realize how much I don't know... but hot damn. I know it's been a fight, but "a war" really does seem more apt

It's a subreddit/event that they do every year (or I think it's only once a year?) where every user can place a single, colored pixel on a large digital canvas.

Your pixel can be over-written by another user, and each user can only place one pixel every 5 minutes or so (and there's a lot of bot-use, which is lame)

So different subreddits will band together to try and orchestrate a picture and protect it from being over-written by other users (or bots... if possible)

So alliances between subreddits are formed, fall apart, some backstabbing and deception... all until the event is over and the final canvas is locked-in.

It was actually a pretty cool event. You could maybe join a discord, a pattern and placement would be followed, and you'd just drop a pixel where it needed to be when you could, to help the overall picture. Or go rogue and try and etch a tiny little corner somewhere yourself

I had fun with it last year, but c'est la vie. I ain't going back there for anything. Would be cool if the different instances could somehow do something of the same nature across the fediverse one day. It was the comradery and light-hearted fun that really made it

God damnit, now you're gonna have me watching the enitre mini-saga again. You wanna be a tree? Cause if I had the power, you'd become a tree

Lmao, alright alright... ya got me with this one. Just saying thanks for the little laugh

I mean, I guess whatever makes ya happy man! Different folks with different strokes or something like that lol

I mean... your rational has merit. I don't really have a way to definitively prove I'm not a "reddit bot shill." I would assume my grammer, wording, or whatever, would kinda show I'm not a bot?

Am I bot and don't even know it yet? Hell of an identity crisis, that's for sure

Oh, I've been gone. Deleted all my accounts except one, and never went back... until I saw that the coins would go away. Figured I'd put them somewhere fun real quick.

Not surprisingly, the first comment on the post I awarded (on r/pics) was a 10y premium account with the most basic-ass response that was "totally not a reddit shill".

Verbatim, they commented:

"Ok, it's been weird... but weird stuff is what the place is all about!"

Take from that what ya will, but looks AI generated to me. Doesn't matter, I've been loving bullshitting around the fediverse since the day I joined and have relegated reddit to the level of quora. It might answer some questions if I'm searching for something specific, but I'll be asking around here first