CitizenVectron

I have definitely heard that the Nobel favours "fast individuals." In other words, you want to be the first to publish something, and you want a singular (or a few names at most) attached. There could be hundreds of people working on a problem, but one middle-manager scientist up the chain is going to get the credit for all the work done by lab students, etc.

Sounds like all federal workers need to be vaccinated by Oct 29. Those who don't will be put on unpaid leave. EDIT - Canada

AstraZeneca Submits Preventive Covid-19 Treatment for FDA Authorization WWW.WSJ.COM The company asked U.S. regulators for emergency-use authorization for an antibody drug that earlier this year showed strong efficacy in preventing symptomatic Covid-19, offering a potential alternative in evading the disease.

These police fraternal groups/associations should just be called gangs.

Okay then, just get mobs to burn the churches down.

There's this weird misconception out there that as a virus or bacteria competes with other variants of itself, the less-deadly variants will spread better because they kill fewer hosts (and thus become the dominant strains). The less-dead-hosts-equals-better-spread idea only works if the virus kills you so fast that you can't spread it. But in the case of SARS-CoV-2, you are contagious before it kills you. It could become 100% deadly and it would not slow the spread. Now, if it mutated to kill people before they became contagious, then yes, it would cause less-deadly versions to become dominant (or at least, the ones that didn't kill you as fast). People use historical examples to prove this...but they are usually incorrect. Viruses become less deadly over time because of our long-term immunity, so future variants are already running into our immune system that kind-of recognizes them. The 1918 flu didn't mutate to become less deadly, for example, we just all either became immune to it or died. It's still circulating around the world, it's just one of the normal strains, now.

It's time to put to bed the idea that "more transmissible = less deadly." COVID-19 variants substantially more dangerous than native strain, Canadian study finds WWW.THEGLOBEANDMAIL.COM While the study does not include what happened since Delta powered a fourth wave of COVID-19 in Canada, it helps explain the characteristic features of that wave tl;dr: Delta is: 108% more likely to put you in hospital than original strain 235% more likely to put you in the ICU 133% more likely to kill you More likely to be severe for younger people

Shut the whole thing down.

Flanagan excels at "mood," so I am in. Hill House was fantastic and Bly Manor was great, too (I really enjoyed the gothic romance elements).

I prefer to just level and then stop playing. I don't have time for thousands of hours of grinding, so the gameplay loops matters more to me than the endgame.

WoW is boring as crap, but it has more players. Conversely, GW2's gameplay loops is much more fun, but is less popular. I don't play for the endgame and the min/maxing, so for me I'd prefer a really fun game for 50 hours than a boring, monotonous one that I'll play for 1,000 hours just to grind.

Is the gameplay loop fun?

Exactly. Sinema doesn't need to be replaced by an AOC or a Sanders (though of course that would be nice), she needs to be replaced by a nameless centrist Democrat who will vote with the party. She's a Democrat in name only—she's there to collect a cheque (or cheques, if you include the lobbyist money) and bask in the attention.

True, but at least that place is more tolerable, which is the goal of the moderation of the subreddit.

When they are constantly spreading misinformation re: vaccines, then I'd say it does some good.

Oilers' Josh Archibald out indefinitely with myocarditis after having COVID-19 THEATHLETIC.COM Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle. It has been linked to COVID-19, especially among athletes, and increases the chance of sudden cardiac death.

I think what Jason meant (I am assuming) is that "not feeding them" is good advice for users, but that mods should ban.

I mod a local reddit city sub, and I might resign because of disagreements about enforcing the ban on COVID misinformation. Most of the mods are white guys in their thirties (like most people on forums and reddit), and all cut their teeth in the 2000s on forums when it was considered a good thing to have "thick skin," and tolerate a bunch of internet-freedom-spew. Basically, they have the view that we should let downvotes deal with anti-vaxxers, and only remove the most egregious posts. I hard disagree, believing that deplatforming large groups and banning individuals are good ways to control misinformation. I recently banned someone for misinformation and the others overturned it, saying that he was being polite, etc. Yeah...while spreading lies that kill people. I also brought up the context around the banned user (that he belongs to an open anti-vaxxer group, what he's posted on other subs, and that he voted for the far-right PPC party in Canada), and was told that we don't judge people on where else they post, or how they vote. Jesus fuck.

Dune crosses $100 million at the international box office.

Little pandemic humour

Our niece (whose family has cut us off because we won't let her see them if they are unvaccinated and won't wear masks) just told us that her dad got his first shot today. He did it because his work required it. So...vaccine mandates work, more than anything else, even appeals by family.