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agesboy posted...

dyson sphere program is pretty great now, they've done quite a lot of QoL since it released. including blueprints and much easier mass placement of stuff in general. obviously it's nowhere near factorio's complexity and power, but 3d building is something pretty unique about it

@adjl u should totally check it out sometime

I've been keeping an eye on that one. It doesn't seem to be getting anything more than a 10% discount any time soon, which makes me think it's going the Rimworld route (similar philosophy to Factorio in that they aren't using sales to manipulate people into buying it, but easing up a bit on that so people that wishlist it will still be reminded of it), but it certainly seems like it'll be worth the price. I figure I'll take the plunge if it happens to go on sale when I'm in the mood to buy it.

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Huzzah!

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Revelation34 posted...

Why did you get the wrong test?

I can't speak for his area, but around here, anyone that's symptomatic is directed to get a PCR test, which can take 1-3 days to process (that post was at the 2-day mark), depending on how busy the lab is. Rapid tests take less than an hour, but they're more prone to false negatives, so they're generally only advised for low-risk people that are testing as a proactive precautionary measure, rather than for people that are at higher risk.

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Mead posted...

I think Im gonna look at getting a booster within the next month or so if possible

My second dose was unpleasant enough that I'll hold off on a booster shot until they're actually definitively recommended. Once they are, I'll be in there as soon as I can, but unless there are actually clear, significant benefits, it's not worth it.

Of course, even then, I still might not. My province is currently average 1-2 new cases per day, which isn't exactly high risk. We'll probably see a fourth wave when students come back next month, though, so perhaps it'll be recommended then. Either way, I'll be listening to local recommendations.

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That's understandable. As tempting as it is to just treat everyone that's hesitant about the vaccines like they're idiots, humans really are inherently bad at risk analysis. Not everyone has the ability to be reassured by numbers that show vaccination is clearly the safer option, which is something that's difficult but important to sympathize with in interacting with skeptics. Actually seeing the near-worst case scenario arise and be dealt with so trivially does a lot more to assuage those concerns than any number of statistics will. On the flip side, this is why so many families are making the decision to get vaccinated after a family member dies of Covid: Until they actually see the disease first-hand, it's hard to recognize just how dangerous it can be.

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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

I'm honestly surprised winter hasn't been banned yet, especially after they've constantly harassed me for nearly three years at this point.

Have you reported him for harassment? If it's a chronic problem, reporting every instance of it (ideally with notes to explain context) should cause something to happen.

OhhhJa posted...

"Sensible"

What don't you think is sensible?

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Revelation34 posted...

There's no reason to get the covid test if you're fully vaccinated.

It helps avoid spreading it to other people that might not be vaccinated. Vaccinated or otherwise, covid-positive people should be isolating.

OhhhJa posted...

I'm glad I don't fear for my life every time I leave the house. Seems like a horrible way to live

Why are you people so bent on characterizing informed, sensible risk analyses as "fear"?

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Blighboy posted...

So is the 4th wave gonna be worse than the 3rd? Starting to look it

Assessing it very subjectively, the slope of daily case counts looks shallower this time than for wave 3. That doesn't conclusively mean anything as far as peak case rates go, but it does suggest it won't be quite as bad.

Perhaps more significantly, deaths haven't been spiking nearly as hard as case rates. Part of that is because there's a lag between spikes in cases and spikes in deaths, but the fact that a decent number of people are vaccinated is going to help a lot. Not as much as it should, because vaccination rates are not where they should be, but it'll make a big difference.

helIy posted...

we aren't even out of the 1st wave dude

Nah, there have been multiple, clear waves in case numbers. I might actually call this the 5th wave, since there was a pretty decent surge in April on the way down from the peak of the third wave (probably Easter travel), but there are definitely discrete peaks that can be identified as waves.

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Mead posted...

well that is good to know

I hear blood clots and I immediately start thinking about people having strokes

Yeah, it's concerning, and the risk is enough to warrant preferring other vaccines when they're available, but it's not worth seriously worrying about.

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Sahuagin posted...

here's what I wanted to post before. they fixed the time slider apparently. this is for UK.

Yep, that's about what I was expecting. The first wave was a desperate scramble to catch up and figure out how to save patients with far too few resources, so mortality was much higher, but cases numbers stayed fairly low because everything was locked down hard and almost everyone was being super careful. By the second, infrastructure and strategies were in place to save patients, but restrictions had relaxed and people were getting more complacent/frustrated, so case numbers exploded. For the third, restrictions are even more relaxed and people are even more complacent/frustrated, driving cases up, but vaccines are widespread, dramatically reducing mortality rate. If you added a chart of vaccination rate to that comparison, I believe you'd see that number climb as the second wave shrank.

Joshs Name posted...

yeah, teleconference with doctor then recommendation to go to the emergency room and a couple of hours / tests given the OK. Just monitoring.

Really happy with that turn-around though.

As scary as they sound, that's what a lot of these blood clotting issues amount to. They're serious enough that they do warrant a hospital visit, but it's exceedingly rare for them to be genuinely dangerous or beyond treatment. They're really not bad enough to warrant avoiding the vaccine, even if you do end up being unlucky enough to have them happen at all.

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Lokarin posted...

hops combos with barley, I don't know if hops combos with other grains as well

It does, though you'll typically use different hops for other grains than you would with barley, based on which ones best complement the flavour of the grains used.

Sahuagin posted...

as for why that is, who knows.

Hospitals are better prepared (both in terms of procedures and equipment), testing infrastructure has improved enough to allow earlier detection of infections, masks have become widespread (even if the virus gets past the mask, having a lower initial viral load improves the prognosis)... More recently, vaccines have been quite thoroughly demonstrated to dramatically reduce the severity of any breakthrough infections, which is making a huge difference in the current wave. It's a number of factors, really.

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Sahuagin posted...

since cases are spiking again but deaths are not.

Deaths are starting to creep up. Not as strongly as case numbers are (yesterday's 7-day daily case average was 110,000, compared to 20,000 a month prior, while yesterday's death average was 516, compared to 205 a month prior), but a delay is to be expected because it tends not to kill people immediately after diagnosis. I doubt deaths will end up spiking as hard as cases do, in the long run, but that's mostly because some of those cases are vaccinated people that are vastly less likely to die. I don't think it indicates much about Delta's deadliness.

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wwinterj25 posted...

I'm happy you understand.

You're proud to say that it's unreasonable to call people stupid for making stupid decisions that objectively make the world around them worse?

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JTekashiro posted...

that picture is not acceptable for kindergarten.

Full Throttle posted...

He's the principal at Colleyville Heritage High School

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KodyKeir posted...

Or are accelerationists who think they would actually survive in a post apocalyptic landscape, instead of succumbing to run away climate change that they will be unable to stop because they destroyed the global infrastructure.

Or are just cowards that had their spirits crushed long ago, and now can only lick the boots of their dumb masters.

I think that's giving them too much credit. There's no ulterior motive or actual plan, they just suck at risk assessment and hate the idea of being remotely inconvenienced to manage the risks they fail to comprehend.

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KodyKeir posted...

It's totally possible, but like the inevitable alien invasion or robot uprising, there will always be those few who side against humanity.

The difference, however, is that the people siding against humanity in those cases are siding with another force that they think is going to be more beneficial to them. Here, they're just being whiny and refusing to stop getting in the way of the people that actually want to fight the war.

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wwinterj25 posted...

It's something we will have to learn to live with. Like other viruses.

Or, instead of giving up like like a bunch of whiny, defeatist babies, we could cooperate with very simple, straightforward infection control measures like wearing masks and getting vaccinated as soon as possible and actually stand a chance of wiping it out. There's no shortage of diseases throughout history that have been successfully nullified by coherent, sensible public health responses. Nothing about Covid suggests that it's genuinely impossible to beat. People are just being stupid, and then people like you seem to think calling them stupid is unreasonable.

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helIy posted...

it's literally doing what your body is supposed to do. if you don't actually burn off the calories you take in, you will gain weight.

that's how gaining weight f***ing works

Indeed. With no other changes, increasing the amount of insulin in your blood will cause weight gain. In practice, because increasing the amount of insulin in your blood affects your appetite, you'll often self-correct the amount you're eating and ultimately end up stabilizing at a similar weight to what you had prior to starting on it, but that's introducing extra variables. All other things being equal, starting insulin can be expected to cause weight gain.

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Mead posted...

sure but I think if most people are actually asked about it they would prefer that even animals being raised for slaughter not experience unnecessary suffering

This is measurably true of California, because that's exactly what happened to prompt this change.

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THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

I had a sore throat for a few days and am now in the middle of congestion and some coughing.

It's not too bad though, so I'm not sure if it's COVID or not. Not really worth the hassle to get tested because I don't even feel sick.

Do they not have rapid testing available in your area? It's not really a hassle to get one of them done, and if you are positive, you should be trying not to spread it.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Incorrect.

Incorrect that he might get it, or incorrect that 99% of hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated? The distinction doesn't change the end result, because both statements are objectively correct and you're therefore completely wrong, but for the sake of better understanding your difficulties in comprehending the world around you, I'm curious about which specific point you're completely wrong about.

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Zeus posted...

tbh, that would make more sense, although even then you'd have issues because games aren't a consistent, static thing.

I think it'd still work. Presumably, any sort of "e-lympics" would change which games were featured each time they happened based on what's popular at the time (I'd expect, if they're doing it every 4 years, they'd decide the games 2 years before each one). That would have the unfortunate effect of effectively forcibly retiring "e-thletes" whose game of choice fell out of vogue, so you wouldn't have the kind of consistent presence regular Olympians have, but that's not that unusual when a game stops being popular enough to attract viewers in the broader E-sports scene.

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Zeus posted...

You and your stupid, shitty gimmicks, Clench. You know what? I'm done. There's no point in taking you seriously because everything you do is a goof so I'm just ignoring you.

Maybe I'll block you as well. I don't fucking know.

Of all the interactions you could have with Clench that might justify blocking him so you cut down on the number of scientifically literate people you have to see disagreeing with you on this board, this is perhaps one of the least plausible ones you could have chosen. I don't think you're going to manage to save any face here.

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JixHedgehog posted...

.. then again he did say our darkest days with the vid are ahead of us 8 months ago

8 months ago was early January, and January/February did see some of the highest death rates of the entire pandemic. That period was already underway at that point, but it still wasn't wrong. The third wave was really rough. Now, case numbers are tracking upward roughly as quickly as they did for that third wave, and deaths are starting to follow suit, so I'd expect quite a few more.

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Mead posted...

I wouldnt think that would even be clinically significant, especially considering what a lousy barometer for intelligence and mental function IQ tests happen to be

this entire thing seems bunk

Whatever the limitations of IQ, it does provide an internally consistent metric. You can't necessarily say "having an IQ of 94 makes you dumb compared to everyone else," but you can say "your IQ has gone from 94 to 87, which is a measurable decline in that aspect of your cognitive function." Ideally, there would be other metrics of cognitive function to get a more comprehensive picture of the effects, but losing an average of 7 IQ points is still significant and worth reporting.

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If you just register, no (at least, it's not supposed to). If you cast a vote at an advance poll, I believe so (at least, it should).

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No, plus I'm renting and therefore wouldn't have the option even if I did.

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Carter-A259 posted...

Remember, not all Americans in Republican majority districts are Republican.

And a lot of Republicans are fat and old, so the chances of them dying are significantly higher than Democrats.

79% of COVID hospitalizations and deaths are from obese and older people.

There's likely to be some bias, but even eliminating 10% of the republican base (which requires the assumptions of 100% infection, 10% mortality, and 100% of the mortality being republicans, all three of which are very generous assumptions) isn't going to be enough to sway most republican-dominated areas.

Some Democratic gains wouldn't surprise me, but I don't expect anything tremendously significant.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

It was reported that dead people voted in the last US election. Why would they be unable to vote in the next one?

Oh boy.

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OhhhJa posted...

Or at least keep their profile private and only have friends and family on there. Just adjust your privacy settings people. It's not that hard

Except they didn't ask him to adjust his privacy settings (which may even have been fine, we don't know), they asked him to remove the pictures altogether.

OhhhJa posted...

We've had too many cases of teachers and students involved in extracurricular activities to not be careful about this stuff. I think it's fair for teachers to have to maintain a higher standard on their social media in this day and age.

"Some teachers have raped their students so now no school staff members are allowed to make even the remotest suggestion that they have a happy, healthy, consensual sex life with their spouse."

Really? You're defending that as a reasonable attitude?

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They almost certainly have. They might even have been right. Just make a habit of trying to assess your driving to see if there are ways you can improve or mistakes you can try to avoid repeating, and try to incorporate those improvements. That's all you really can do.

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Presidential elections? Fairly slim. I don't expect total deaths to break more than 800-850k (throwback to when Trump was confident they'd never break 100k >.>), maybe a million if it really drags on. The 2020 election had a difference of ~7 million votes overall, while the 2016 one differed by about 3 million. Even if we were to assume that 100% of those deaths belonged to one party or the other (which is flat-out incorrect), that's not going to be enough to make up those differences.

More local elections? It's not impossible, but areas where the vast majority of people dying are of similar political affiliations are generally areas where the vast majority of people in general share that same affiliation anyway, and Covid's not killing enough people to change that. I expect a few elections will be influenced by Covid deaths in particularly contentious areas, but nothing on a really large scale.

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shadowsword87 posted...

I also believe in a heater element creating an electron gun through an anode, being adjusted for its position through a focusing coil, and then a deflecting coil.

~And a Mormon just BELIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEVES~

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Veedrock- posted...

Nothing. Zero incentive, plenty of potential fallout.

DrPrimemaster posted...

Id probably ask about the trash, at least bag it up so the place doesnt smell when they get back.

Pretty much these. If there are garbage bags around, it's possible that they just forgot to ask you to take them out (or thought you wouldn't want to), so asking/offering is considerate. Doing anything else uninvited, however, is an invasion of privacy and a major passive-aggressive judgement of their lifestyle. Most people aren't going to be keen on that.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Maybe that's less of the virus and more of the induced coma.

Perhaps (you could test that hypothesis by finding data on IQ loss following induced comas, incidentally), but if surviving the virus requires an induced coma, that distinction is largely academic.

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This isn't particularly surprising. It makes sense that a disease that causes major circulatory issues and respiratory difficulties would cause some brain damage, simply because the brain's going to have less oxygen available to work with for a few weeks.

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KodyKeir posted...

I can understand removing the photo as it is kind of sexual in nature, in a PG-13 sort of way, but we all know it wasn't about how sexy the photo was.

That's about my thought. Duckbear's headline makes it sound like it was just a picture of them kissing, but that's a pretty sexy photo shoot. There are actually some grounds to say it's not appropriate for a teacher/principal to have such photos on public display.

Of course, given that it was his social media (meaning they're only public if they're deliberately displayed publicly), I'm more inclined to believe that it's a racist issue. It's not like these are pictures students could accidentally stumble upon.

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Insulin literally tells the body "hey, take that sugar and store it somewhere." Sugar storage is weight gain. If you've been correcting for an insulin deficiency with your diet, taking insulin is going to cause weigh gain unless you adjust your diet accordingly.

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Mead posted...

They shouldnt have to see posts that they have decided they dont want to see.

I don't know why you keep bringing this up in the context of blocking. That's what ignore is for. Ignore works fine and doesn't require any expansion of blocking to continue working fine. If you don't want to see certain posts, ignore the user. Sometimes, blocking may also be necessary to keep them from noticing you're there and actively harassing you in ways that get around being ignored (personally, I'd rather see more robust, consistent moderation responses to harassment, but blocking's an okay workaround for that goal), but that's beyond "I just don't want to see these posts."

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Mead posted...

If someone is quoting multiple users then they should keep the block feature in mind, cause this is just how it needs to be since there are so many people on the website that cant behave themselves in a civil manner

No, the block feature just shouldn't axe entire posts over one quote. Expecting every user to be cognizant of the possibility that somebody in a topic has blocked somebody else in a topic and isolating each user's quotes to account for that is not remotely reasonable. That's just a really awkward way to approach any conversation that relies on quotes.

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DrPrimemaster posted...

It isn't a study, they're just saying that this might be worth looking into and it would make sense for it to be true.

Oh. Well then, it would make sense for it to be true and it might be worth looking into, but I'm skeptical that there'd be any appreciable improvement above the baseline improvement associated with better-managed weight. As an effective way to manage weight, IF would be a decent strategy to access that benefit, but I don't know that attributing any Covid resistance to it directly is reasonable.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

I like how skipping meals is healthy if you give it a new name

Skipping meals is mostly just unhealthy because it destabilizes your eating schedule (it's generally good for you to eat around the same times every day) and you end up with an unhealthy caloric deficit. If you're making sure you still get enough calories for the day and your eating schedule remains reasonably consistent, you can certainly skip meals healthily.

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Judgmenl posted...

Why are minors taking pictures of themselves?

Generally because they're in sexual relationships and want to share those pictures with their partners. Minors being in sexual relationships is nothing particularly new, nor is it inherently a bad thing.

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DragonClaw01 posted...

Evidently he was stamping his feet in court worrying about whether his toys are safe and corrected the judge a few times about misgendering him during the initial proceedings, so it safe to say he is pretty much fucked

The idea of sending a person like this to prison - whatever they've done - is really just fundamentally messed up. Isolate them from society, by all means, but this is somebody who needs extensive psychotherapy, not to be stuffed in a cage and forgotten about. Jail as a punishment is going to do nothing to change their behaviour.

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Unbridled9 posted...

I voted in favor just because I want to see the Olympic Committee try to 'grade' something like Pokemon in the same manner that they grade gymnastics.

There wouldn't really be a need for subjective judging, unless we bring Minecraft to the Olympics (... I might watch that >.>). Pretty much any competitive game has scoring and/or victory conditions built right into it.

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Mead posted...

but they are only looking at what the filter catches

They're looking at whatever their filters catch. This is just one of many filters, one which they're advertising because it makes people feel better about the data that's being collected. Others are less PR-friendly, so they don't get advertised.

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What if I told you that fish also have ribs?

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Lokarin posted...

I hope y'all like buying your own power plants!

I mean, that's basically what putting solar panels on your roof does. That is actually going to be reality for many houses in the not-too-distant future.

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Mead posted...

what privacy does this violate?

The part where they look at everything in your phone regardless of how guilty you are.

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SilentSeph posted...

I get that, but the fairies are a fairly large part of the game so having to ignore all of it makes it feel emptier. In general I prefer when higher difficulties make the enemies stronger and smarter rather than restricting the player a lot.

I feel that. There were some that just straight up made the game easier (like the one that made every spike in the game disappear), and penalizing the player for using those makes sense, but the ones that gave smaller stat boosts were a way to customize the character, and taking them away meant "optimal" play was exactly the same experience for everybody.

That's one of the reasons (the main one being that I'm just not good enough, but we'll ignore that) I never pushed into really high Heat in Hades. At the higher Heat levels, you no longer get to choose most of the things that really define a build, which takes out a lot of what makes Roguelites fun to play in the first place (to say nothing of dramatically increasing the chance of getting RNG screwed).

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Kamala-Harris posted...

As of we don't have all your dataz anyway...

Yeah, this makes it considerably less of a specific concern. They're not ramping up the data collection, they're just implementing a filter on the data they're already collecting. The fact that they can do this without ramping up data collection is a privacy concern, but not this specific filter.

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Mead posted...

Im not even trying to be involved in the aquatic realm

Then why comment on your fish counts?

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Mead posted...

dude I blocked the aquarium on purpose

Which dramatically impairs your ability to count fish, such that commenting on the number of fish you've seen means virtually nothing.

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