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Gift_of_Gab (they/them) @ gift_of_gab @lemmy.world
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  • I don't think people understand how bad measles is:

    Furthermore, measles's reproductive number estimates vary beyond the frequently cited range of 12 to 18.[17] The NIH quote this 2017 paper saying: "[a] review in 2017 identified feasible measles R0 values of 3.7–203.3"

    The measles virus can deplete previously acquired immune memory by killing cells that make antibodies, and thus weakens the immune system, which can cause deaths from other diseases.[42][43][44] Suppression of the immune system by measles lasts about two years and has been epidemiologically implicated in up to 90% of childhood deaths in third world countries, and historically may have caused rather more deaths in the United States, the UK and Denmark than were directly caused by measles.

    Just wait until a third of the US doesn't vaccinate for it -- you're going to have 1980's levels of deaths to it, and it will be mostly children.

  • RFK Jr. as Health Secretary.

    Measels is going to fuck the US up.

  • rule

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  • I'm pretty sure it's spelled 'bolognese' 🤔

  • This is exactly how systemic racism works. White people weren't kept as slaves and called 'cracker' as a label. Black people were kept as slaves and called the N word as a label. The implication, via the word, is that they were less-than-human. We're just about back to the time period where lawmakers openly use the N word again. I'm in Canada, yet even from here I can see it happening, and it's terrifying for me, so I can't imagine what it's like for American people of colour, or women, or 2SLGBTQIA+, etc.

    If you are one of those people, whomever is reading this, just know you have allies.

  • The movie itself (obviously) isn't on par with Terminator 2 or The Matrix, but Winstead is fucking incredible. The movie can't do a sequel, but I want to see her in more roles similar to this.

  • Kate. Ever since that above scene pictured, it has been, as the kids say, #goals.

  • I think it's the sunglasses.

  • "Mr. Gideon, you're not paying attention."

  • Is that gasoline I smell?

  • Fair.

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  • If you shout "I have inside me blood of Kings!" is a store worker required to shout "Yeah!" back?

  • Fair.

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  • ... Heeeeeeeeeere we are!

  • Just look at religion for answers to that puzzle. The entire schtick is a manual for giving yourself and your friends easy outs from your constant and consistent bad behaviour

    I guess that could be why; up here in Canada it's political suicide to be openly religious (though I think the Cons will change their tune on that next election.)

  • As a non-American (Canadian), it's baffling to me. Our Conservatives have been quite horrific in many decisions (like refusing to admit climate change exists, for example), but I do actually think they would turn on one of their own who was a pedophile. Maybe not in a year or so, but for now, I do believe they would. To see people celebrate these monstrous things in their leaders is terrifying.

  • I wish you the best, I'm looking outside software in general. I used to offer to help people find employment in games but now I just can't. I've seen too many people broken by it.

    I do hope you find something, anything, so you can continue to survive.

  • I’d argue that the skills required to work in the videogame industry are easily repurposed for other IT or creative jobs.

    I know dozens of people who've been looking for over a year, for anything in the software field. The issue is companies would rather hire a kid straight out of school than pay for someone with experience. I'm in a discord channel of people (from the last place I worked at that has now gone bankrupt) and the vast majority are still without a job. Most are going outside the industry into the standbys (food service, warehouse, etc). My linkedin was so depressing, post after post about people who used to be engineers I worked with now getting hurt working in Amazon Fulfillmment centres, I just stopped going there and use discord/indeed for job searching. I'm really close with the QA team from my last job, and all but one of them have moved back in with their parents.

    It is fucking bleak in software right now.

    The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has more than 130,000 job cuts across 457 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized startups have also seen a fair amount of cuts, and in some cases, have shut down operations altogether.

    Not sure where people think everyone is going to go; there are more closures than job openings.