Met a guy I know while I was walking the doggo. We chatted a bit, and because I know he's smart and I like him, I told him he still needs to be masking, and I told him why. I told him about viral persistence. He said "so it's like herpes, HIV and measles." I said "exactly." 1/2
As much stored water and food as possible.
Lighting
Heating
Cooking
Carbon monoxide detectors
Home security
Hand-crank radio
Hand-crank torch
Medical supplies
As much prescription medicine as possible
Water filtration
Water purification tablets
Sanitary& cleaning products
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accepting a job offer is insane behavior. you're committing to drastically change your life based on knowing maybe 10% of what you're actually agreeing to
A friend who is a municipal arborist just called to tell me about a guy who cut down 32 big mature trees on his neighbor's NJ property to get a better view of NYC. He hired a guy who hired another guy. Cut them down and left the debris there. The fine per tree is $1000 so the 1/
The HIV pandemic was first suspected in 1981 when cases of a rare form of pneumonia started to pile up. By then, the people who were dying had, on average, become infected 10 years earlier, in 1971.
I like to watch people’s reactions when they begin to realize how much we’ve known all along. People are SHOCKED to learn The Great Unmasking and Mild Covid™️ was a giant scam to keep people working and consuming.
I think about billionaires a lot (kinda my job?) so let me say this:
Most every billionaire on the planet would happily kill you for an extra few points on their investment. This isn't theoretical, it literally happens. They literally make decisions they know will kill people.
@davidmackau It is so insanely stupid and the news cycle is wasting so much of humanity's collective time on it in comparison to the hundreds of things that have killed five people in the past week roasting the heck out of everybody involved is more than justified
Here we go again, a new record anomaly for North Atlantic sea surface temperatures.
Today's anomaly is a full 1.15°C above the 1982-2023 mean for the day. I thought the previous peak was high, but I may need to extend the y-axis again soon!
Data: https://t.co/RxO8s5Y85O
Being a software dev at a non-tech company means getting assigned IT/networking work you have no idea how to do like I’ve ripped out all my eyebrow hair what the fuck is subnet mask prefix
An early glimpse of the AI Content Apocalypse:
GPT-Author creates a mediocre short book based on a premise, makes cover art, and gives it to you in a format can be listed directly on Amazon. https://t.co/3mgaCq87TR
Here's a bit from the sample, "Requiem of Shadows and Whispers"
The pandemic branding team deserve a gold star ⭐️
Brain damage = “brain fog”
Cardiac damage = “fatigue”
Long Covid (vascular disease affecting every organ system)= “anxiety”
A leading cause of death worldwide = “mild”
Hospital admissions = “probably in with something else”
i bought three sets of vegan shoes a few months ago to be a good person and let me tell you it turns out MEAT is an important aspect of a functional shoe