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I haven't played the game in years but my mind immediately went to cliff racer too.

That's a self reported survey too, so the real number's probably a little higher.

I think those people from Scotland maybe have rich parents. Full time UK minimum wage jobs 23+ pay about 18500 (~US $25000) a year with a few thousand taken for tax, so it's possible they could save up for overseas vacations, but they won't be in luxurious hotels and they won't be renting or buying a house on their own at the same time (UK average rent is currently 969 ($1300) per month, and average house price 330000 ($450000) according to Zoopla).

There are 47 countries in Europe though, so there's a lot of varation. Minimum wage in Ireland is like 12 times the minimum in Belarus.

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2211

"Most people who report a change to their period after vaccination find that it returns to normal the following cycle and, importantly, there is no evidence that covid-19 vaccination adversely affects fertility."

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"Menstrual changes have been reported after both mRNA and adenovirus vectored covid-19 vaccines,1 suggesting that, if there is a connection, it is likely to be a result of the immune response to vaccination rather than a specific vaccine component. Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) has also been associated with menstrual changes.9 Indeed, the menstrual cycle can be affected by immune activation in response to various stimuli, including viral infection: in one study of menstruating women, around a quarter of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 experienced menstrual disruption.10"

I've noticed young people are really bad at troubleshooting. Like everyone 25-40 probably knows what three buttons to press when a program freezes for too long etc, but younger than that they've grown up with streamlined apps and operating systems that actually work most of the time, so they don't know where to start if something goes wrong. IT departments must get some hilarious boomer-esque questions from them.

A bit less than they sell them for. Rolex is like a non-profit charitable trust though, so it's maybe a big bit less, so that there'll be more money to go to charity.

The economist estimate is over 20 million worldwide now too, roughly the World War 1 death toll. Makes sense with the US being about 4 - 5% of the world population. Let's hope it doesn't reach a million.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates

Yes, those were awesome, did they not have a Stegosaurus one too in the later issues?

Xavier_On_High posted...

Who are we betting on to replace him? My money's on Sunak.

Oh, hopefully not, he can comb his hair but he's still an out of touch billionaire with a record of voting against stuff like human rights, welfare for the disabled, climate change policies etc.

But then any other conservative mp would be awful too. A cardboard cutout of a clown would be an improvement.

Yeah, it seems like he cares more about being anti-vax than having the opportunity to win a record Grand Slam. Maybe after winning 20 of them, the 21st just doesn't mean as much anymore. Maybe he's just a dumbass.

Just to nitpick the unusual statistics, you can't really get a 222% reduction in odds. The study has the the adjusted odds ratio for severe psychological distress for past month for adolescents in the 14-15 age group at 0.3, but doesn't detail the adjustments. The equivalent relative risk reduction would likely be around a 55% decrease compared to those in the group that never had hormone therapy (it would be that the no hormone therapy group have a 222% increase in odds ratio instead, or around a 120% increase in relative risk).

Still though, 55% is a significant drop, that's good news.

The actual research article is here, if interested - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261039

Far more simply, if the ship was made of one single piece of wood, and you moved it to the side and put an identical piece of wood in its place, I'd say the ship at the side is the real one, and the other is a phoney taking up the original's space. Both parts are discrete things. Maybe same if you swapped halves or even thirds (with a break in continuity during replacement for what you consider a 'whole' ship) but at some point you'd maybe flip that around. But what point?

Far more complexly, your whole body replaces all of its atoms every 5-10 years but you'd consider your continually rebuilding self as the real you. The you part of you is a continuum that persists through the changes. Even if some weirdo scientist thief collected all your lost matter and managed to rebuild a clone from it, you'd still consider you as the real you, and the indentical Frankenstein you to be a phoney clone. Your atoms are interchangeable, but they form a continuous and uniform result.

A real ship is somewhere in the middle then, it's many planks somewhere in relation to each other, which we collectively conceptualise as the 'ship'. But the ship could be defined as the continuum of the set of planks in any order which would allow it to stay afloat on water, regardless of how those planks are arranged, rearranged, removed or replaced. But also separating a ship with only one or two parts would break that continuum, seeing each part as essential 'components' rather than indistinguishable 'pieces'.

'Pieces' in this sense meaning something that you wouldn't assign individually to (eg. pints of water in a barrel) and 'components' meaning something you would, even if identical things exist (eg. a car engine with unique serial number). So it's not a well defined question - if you consider the planks conceptually as pieces then it's the original ship (with parts replaced) that's the real one, where the ship is like a piecewise convergent continuous function. If you consider the planks conceptually as components then the new ship (with original parts) is the real one, where the ship is like a uniform convergent semi-continuous function.

tl,dr: I don't know, feat. ship calculus

Shablagoo posted...

I got tested once.

I dont personally see the value in the tests tbh, because you could easily contract the virus immediately after testing negative.

The test is more to check if you're contagious for other people, which takes a day or two after contracting it. Like if you test negative to go to an event and catch it from the first person you see, you won't immediately start passing it on to everyone else.

Yeah, 100% vaccination would have got the R number lower than 1 and with moderate restrictions would have eventually eradicated each of the original virus, and the alpha, beta and delta variants. Omicron though, it's ridiculously contagious, so maybe not. 100% vaccination probably would have prevented it from mutating into existence though.

Everyone in all countries 100% sticking to their initial lockdowns in March 2020 would have done it too.

I really liked it, just a quality, fun self contained story. The CGI and general art direction was pretty impressive in places too.

It was great, the controls were tight, and the time trials were fun too. Would be cool if they made an Astrobot sequel with the playroom format.

No, pets are family, and that's just what eyes do sometimes.

What kinda city do you live in? There are definitely a lot of people in the same situation just happen to live in places that don't really have a 'dating scene', and it's even worse in smaller towns or villages where there's hardly anyone of a similar demographic nearby.

There will be people who are interested, the trick is just knowing where to find them.

UnfairRepresent posted...

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1236548/uk-road-traffic-signs-test-drivers-law-safety

9 out of 10 express readers would struggle with those, sure, but most other people probably read the highway code when they were learning to drive, which tells you what all the signs mean.

I think the phrase 'fear mongering' is growing about as fast as omicron. It's a weird way of saying 'caution'.

Depends how much of each, and also what the rest of your diet and health is like.

An occasional Big Mac is more good for you than bad, plenty protein and some vitamins in one. There's nothing actively doing you damage, unless you start having too many too quickly, or if the rest of your diet is already too high in carbs and saturated fats.

Energy drinks are just sugar and caffeine. Nothing inherently good or bad about them, but drink too much (which is easy to do) and you'll spike your blood sugar & insulin levels, which is bad if you're already super fat or have diabetes. Some have added juices or vitamins but there are better sources for these.

Smoking kills 8 million people each year
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco

Alcohol kills 3 million people each year
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/alcohol