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The mutations in this strain (EG.5) shouldn't be affecting the rapid-test target. Most kits use both the N -gene and S-gene to account for potential future mutations, and both genes have only small number of point-mutations across those two genes. If you want to waste an afternoon check out outbreak.info and look at the lineage comparison tool.

Wastewater-based emidemiology guy here. Thank you for your recognition of the field! I work at a competitor of Biobot, and what I find interesting is the article claiming Biobot data showing a plateau, as our data is showing a significant uptick over the month of August.

On a different note, the majority of funding for WBE and wastewater surveillance comes from state/federal coffers, so please ask your colleagues to write to your representatives and ask for more funding towards WBE.

Hopefully I won't get crucified for this take, but Dune. I love the Barsoom series, I love Tremors, but Dune did nothing for me. I tried reading it near the end of spring semester in high school, which is arguably a bad time as I was dealing with track semi-final/finals as well as school finals, and after a month of reading less than a page a day, I gave it back to the friend who loaned it to me. That was 12 years ago, though so maybe I should give it another shot.

Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom had a major part of the plot completely left out of the trailer, which I appreciated, but there were multiple suspenseful moments with the resolution in the trailer which was a bummer.

My wife and I started using cozi a few months ago. Shared to-do lists, shopping lists, etc with widgets. It's been nice.

Nah, 10 years ago it was 1990.

Right, guys?

Connect sometimes randomly throws me into All on launch.

Sadly, it's not the schools fault for the waste of time, it's the fuckle-chucks in the legislature. Every single name change request should be routed to the dumbass that authored the bill, then to every other dumbass that voted in favor of it.

Look up pangolin COVID naming.

That's because we literally don't know much. EG.5 has only had 183 sequences submitted to GISAID, and EG.5.1 has had 3400 sequences submitted. This means we only have about 3600 cases confirmed as EG.5, but it's growth rate since May is crazy fast. 10% of sequences submitted to GISAID by the end of July were for EG.5, compared to 0.02% in May.

Part of the problem is that people have stopped going to the doctor when they can just do a COVID test at home, so we are less able to track individual strains and calculate things like transmission rates. When's the last time you heard the phrase "contact tracing"?

Source: https://GISAID.org/lineage-comparison and also I work in COVID monitoring.

Not OP but for sticking you can probably get square labels from Avery, or be lazy and print on printer paper and use packing tape to adhere.

FOSS = Free and Open Source Software

Basically it means anyone can view the code and tinker with it/look for security failures/add features for themselves, etc.

This is what happens if you take it out as a lump sum. If you choose to take your winnings over an extended period of time (20 years or something), it is taxes more like income.

That said, I totally agree with you!

yeetZ++

Check out his tell-all "Ghost in the Wires". Definitely an interesting read, and a great lens into cyber security in the 80s and 90s.

There's probably a mod to do this in RimWorld.

"yeah but we won't run out in my lifetime, and I can horde enough so my children never have to work, so everything is fine." - capitalists.

me throwing the bar: "please be humans, please be humans, please be humans!"

the original image without the jpg-ing

Failure is always an option. - Adam Savage