joseph m. gabriel is expressing vague ideas with little clarity

Tbh i think that person was also just kind of a jerk

Asking questions like this

a good practice: register your code with the copyright office, which can make legal action worthwhile; it’s relatively simple (form based) and inexpensive

Not sure thats possible tbh

I actually think it might be impossible to find someone more dangerous in this role than Prasad

I could be wrong. And I know it is hard to believe. But he was very, very, very bad

I am going to institute the "block and move on, it is the Bsky way" with that person

they might also just be an asshole. hard to tell

That's not even what the post says

Might also be a case of "this is the internet, insulting people doesn't matter"

tbh I fall into that myself sometimes so

okay thanks. That's basically what I was figuring.

You know, I was just talking with my wife last night about how incomprehensibly little I know about such a vast, complicated region and then I looked at her and said: But I probably know more about it than the guys planning this shit show do

good lord, no

Can you explain your thinking here for those of us who know even less about this than you do? Thanks

also academics who have critiqued pharma for many, many years. We are also a part of this

Yeah, me too. And in addition to my own anxieties I know many people who are vaccine skeptical or resistant, including close friends, students, and a former lover. I am deeply sympathetic to the perspective.

This is very hard

But if public health is actually political then the fundamental question is not uptake or other behavior/practice per se but instead political power

How do we acquire the power to make vaccine rates go up?

Thats the question, at least imho

The "you get nowhere" argument is about getting nowhere with increasing vaccine uptake. Imho it is part of the framework in which public health is either non-political or political in only certain narrow ways....

And no, this is not good

There is a difference between dunking and demonizing a vulnerable group - which parents concerned for their kids safety and are vaccine hesitant certainly are - as a path to political power. Unfortunately I am starting to think this is the only path forward

I've always been in the "empathy and try to understand" camp, but I am beginning to move into the "demonize them for political purposes" camp. Not good, and I don't like it about myself, but I don't see a lot of options

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

I'd also say that this minimizing of Infectious Disease is a market calculus.

The 'wellness' industry functions by rewiring public health anxiety from distinct high-risk externalities... to amorphous and diffuse (e.g. 'metabolism') behavioral risk profiles where money can be extracted ad infinitum.

I remember when my neighbor got Pong. I was like, wow, that's cool

If you must pay for a Proton account for a radical project, pay with cash (you can mail it) or washed crypto (Monero -> Bitcoin).

All credit card payments are traceable, even to a privacy-focused company.

Your security model should not rely on a business to fight the state on your behalf.

Someday he'll fire RFK Jr. too, because he's a savvy politician, and RFK Jr. is viscerally disgusting to the human sensibility. When he does - and he will - public health will have to grapple with the fact that it was doable, and we could have tried harder, sooner

After Iran, why this Florida city is considered vulnerable to nuclear attack Fears of 'World War III' have intensified. See why Florida, including Miami, is on a list of potential nuclear targets.

The kind of article you always enjoy reading in your local paper

www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...

If she gets a pardon she can be compelled to testify under oath and incriminate everyone else... so that's not a sure bet

No, they caved. Claude just bombed that school in Iran and killed a bunch of kids

Uh... to anyone reading this... please don't feed your health or education records into the AI slop machine. Really. Please don't do that. Thank you.

I mean, we both know the role that tech plays in military conflict, including vis-a-vis the industrial revolution, so that's not too surprising to me. what's more interesting, I think, is the extent to which it made location and other decisions autonomously and the implications of it doing so

Yes could be better!