Team Monsanto's Lead Junior Red Dawn war re-enactor/co-ordinator for Anniston, Alabama
I haven't been sick in over two years, and I have a public facing job where people will lean over and breathe directly on me.
EMEL - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
This is so good.
Emel Mathlouthi (Arabic: آمال المثلوثي) (born 11 January 1982), also known professionally as Emel,[1] is a Tunisian-American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger and producer. She rose to fame with her protest song "Kelmti Horra" ("My Word is Free"), which became an anthem for the Tunisian revolution and the Arab Spring.
My understanding is that the rate of mutation per infection for covid is not unusual, but the amount of people (and animals) it can infect, and how quickly it can infect them,is unusual, which is why we have been seeing covid mutate so rapidly.
When the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many scientists thought it would evolve slowly, like other coronaviruses.
But that was one of the first big surprises from the virus dubbed SARS-CoV-2. It evolved like crazy.
"SARS-CoV-2 so far has probably been even faster than influenza virus, which is really remarkable," says Jesse Bloom, who studies viral evolution at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle. "I thought it would undergo some evolution, but the speed at which it's undergone that evolution and the ability it's shown to undergo these big evolutionary jumps is really remarkable."
In fact, SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus, punctuated by several large evolutionary jumps, scientists say. Most notoriously, SARS-CoV-2 jumped a huge evolutionary hurdle to spawn the omicron variant, which spread around the world with shocking speed.
A lot of the biggest mutations, like omicron, are believed to have come about as a result of long term infections in people with suppressed immune systems.
Is COVID quietly sabotaging our immune systems?
Anyone who says covid doesn't effect the immune system is a liar. All viruses take a toll on the immune system to some degree, and we can measure it after covid and it can be quite severe. Similar things happen after a flu. For a while after you will be more prone to opportunistic infections, like from bacteria and fungus and other viruses. Except most people only get the flu every several years, while covid can infect you several times a year due to being a coronavirus, being airborne and incredibly contagious, and mutating so quickly due to infecting so many hosts. Of course it's making us sicker.
What they mean is "it's not HIV", but it's also been shown, like other viruses, to persist in parts of people's bodies, and while it's not the same, long covid is effecting a lot of people in a similar way across the world. The pro-infection people are betting that covid was only dangerous because it was new to humanity, when signs are there that's it's still plenty dangerous even after p
I wish it was easier to flee the country
The 'new China' in Thailand: ‘if you want hope, you have to leave’
After 30 years of relentless growth and capitalism, a new trend has emerged in China. The search for a simpler, calmer life is leading some Chinese people to seek a life abroad. The trend is so popular that it’s gained its own internet buzzword: the “run philosophy."
This video popped up in my feed andabout 2 and a half minutes in they start talking to a former policeman turned artist name Ye Fu. His story is that after Tiananmen Square he renounced his job, and then was sent to prison after being framed by a friend. After he was released he left the country and eventually settled in Thailand and runs a place for Chinese people fleeing China, basically wealthy chinese liberals.
He claims that before Tiananmen square people were full of hope, and that now people are miserable and desperate, etc. Says everyone is miserable and the economy is about to collapse. The usual.
So I looked him up and his name is Zheng Shiping, and his pen name
Bioconstructor - Dancing by video (full album playlist)
Bioconstructor was a soviet synthpop band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1990.
Looks like this album was only available on reel to reel until the mid 90's when it got a full release.
Is the fork still going to happen?
I've been looking for stuff to install and ran across this list, it's pretty comprehensive. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Right now I only have jellyfin and pi-hole with unbound.
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Pop or mint like everyone else suggests.
There are only a handful of major distros that are significantly different from each other (debian, fedora, opensuse, arch, nixos) that all other distros base themselves on. Apart from that, for the most part, the difference is basically what desktop environment they install by default, what apps get bundled, and maybe a few more tweaks here and there. It's easy enough to change all of that regardless of what distro you end up on.
Pop and Mint are based on Ubuntu (which is based on Debian) and will probably have the most resources for support for new linux users. They come with default programs and custom software which makes the new user experience easier.
If you have a problem in either one of them, or want to do anything more complex than install software or tweak settings from a gui, and you can't find what you are looking for in pop or mint forums, you will likely be able to find the solution in ubuntu forums, or even debian support groups. If you are using a computer that's relatively new and wasn't built with linux compatibility in mind, it's not unlikely you will run into an issue that you'll need to search out a fix for so it's good to have those resources.
If the distro you choose doesn't handle your monitors right, it might be a problem with the desktop environment you are using and it's typically easy to install an alternative to try out before you nuke the whole thing to try again.
The idea that reinfections would be benign was inspired by politics and vibes. There's plenty of evidence that reinfections are bad. It's a virus that can damage all our organs, brain included, cause micro clots, vascular damage, and harm the immune system itself by trashing our t-cells, and it's a virus we can catch multiple times a year and is mutating so rapidly we are having trouble knowing what to target when we develop yearly vaccines.
It's kind of a problem if reinfections are bad for us when we are counting on perpetual infections to "build our immunity".
US dept. of Health and Human Services https://twitter.com/HHSGov/status/1659589815887712256
New Zealand government covid updates https://nitter.kavin.rocks/covid19nz/status/1670943608428539905#m
Another study showing cumulative risk upon reinfection https://nitter.kavin.rocks/i/status/1688769749868490752