Untrue, but for all mammals that are, the main causes are probably choice and knowledge, both certainly not widely considered bad factors in our modern environment.

Plenty of evidence to show that other mammals are often confused about what to eat: a prime example of this is Cetaceans, especially Orcas in captivity. Unsurprising as they are some of the cleverest animals!

The pandemic seems to have taught humanity heaps about safe development and deployment of vaccines. Typical vaccine development and testing takes 5-10 years, which had to be done in a fraction of the time with COVID-19 specifically: in retrospect, we can see that countries that didn't invest/manage heavily enough in preventative responses like these caused their citizens deep suffering in terms of number of deaths and long covid cases, or less direct harm by preventable lockdowns causing economic problems. After vaccine rollout, there's still no "clear zone" yet, uptake could still fall, commonly in lower-income areas, and require more effort to reverse.

The two main separate goals of a vaccine ("prevent death to the patient" and "prevent infection to other patients") were conflated by elected officials in some countries, providing fuel for conspiracy theories to accelerate the vicious disinformation spiral, and clinical trials of the time were ill-fitted to combat this.

A more effective response could have been helped globally through education, but it would also be nice if the morale and motivation of the entire medical workforce hadn't been slashed by intensely personal attacks and death threats on hard-working doctors publicising vital research regarding the pandemic by high-profile extremists or conspiracy theorist figureheads. Yes, I'm talking about the attacks on the at-the-time US infectious disease chief Dr. Anthony Fauci.

The case is slightly weaker for me as I'm not personally at high risk, though I interact with people immunosuppressed from chemotherapy (very high risk from covid/flu complications and fatalities) regularly; from this it's clear I should continue being pro-vax for both their and my benefit, as well as herd immunity for society and decrease load on health services.

Especially during peak covid, mandatory vaccinations policy would have been obvious from a safety/death and infection reduction standpoint, though could worsen or create staffing problems if exemptions and rollout is not properly accounted for, including for doctors and other care fields like hospice/care home workers. Rare side effects (at most ~50 cases per million) should be accounted for pragmatically, especially if they affect specific age groups.

Finally, nasal spray vaccines, being easier + faster + more effectiove + painless, I think are awesome. I suspect the only reasons they're not used more are high cost and currently rather low adoption.

tl;dr: Pro-vax. Call it Vax-skeptical if you want, skepticism drives research.

Ahh remembering the good old days, back when I'd have VSCode open for 14 hours at a time while not actually writing or debugging anything at all

opus & mkv > mp3 & mp4

Thoughts on "yous"? Much more natural to me

Just 507 more years until we can use C++20 modules 🎉

I envision a future where nobody is famous, because if they were, they would constantly be harassed by time travellers saying "I'm your biggast fan" and would get sick of it and attempt to purge every shred of info about themselves.

I'll try, I've attempted previously but haven't been able to get it working. I'd like to do selfhosted as I already run a full node.

Issues that decentralisation solves well that I'd criticise federation-based serviced for not working as well with in practice. For open-source oriented charities and foundations themselves, these are more hierarchical and organisational problems than left-right political ones.

Decentralised communities without a central discussion area work really nicely in this regard (as in, there's no "official" community). I'm currently learning about decentralised source control as a way of solving the other parts of the issue, which is really cool to me.

Fork the world!

In these contexts, "you made us" can generally be substituted for "we don't have enough self-control and can't regulate our violent impulses".

The mentality can be changed.

Keming

GM Miladys... wait fuck, this isn't Farcaster

Going on global feed in public is the only type of gambling I enjoy more than memecoins

Every time this is mentioned we come out of the woodwork to say "please, just call us Shitcoiners instead"

I'm trying to get my hands on stimulants and antipsychotics so bad because I just want to sit in a chair indoors all day without going crazy

The day I learned that "Kafkaesque" doesn't usually mean "relating to sudden and unexpected transformation into a giant insect" was my 9/11

Peep the facial expressions, that's the most telling thing to me. One of these things is not like the others!

Hodl on a sec, didn't Satoshi do some pretty critical work on Namecoin?

Buidl bridges, not walls

That's just decentralisation with extra steps, and given that it's free and (arguably) unlimited, take as much as you need