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you do know that the support of israel in US politics is completely bipartisan, right?

If not, you should read up on AIPAC and who speaks at their events year after year.


It is, and they promulgate a complete fiction on the importance of keeping Israel close to the US

Tell them to go cozy up to Russia, make good on that ‘threat’, have fun with that


Sort of. The "Patriot" Right and the "Progressive" Left are less pro-Israel than the mainstream Republicans and Democrats that cater to the donor class (and Republicans who cater to the Armageddon-seeking class.)


Nicely written!

I once also wrote a guide to access remote IoT devices using SSH tunnels: https://phillip.dornauer.cc/unix/iot/2019/04/12/set-up-ssh-t...


I dont know why you are getting downvoted, the mortality rates are on the WHO / CDC website etc. FOR EVERYONE TO READ!


Because it's not all about the mortality rates. Just because the bug doesn't literally end your life doesn't mean you won't be left with long term (expensive) complications or handicaps, that could very well kill you years after you get over the virus.

Per the CDC [1]:

>Among patients with COVID-19, 76.8% had respiratory complications, including pneumonia (70.1%), respiratory failure (46.5%), and ARDS (9.3%). Nonrespiratory complications were frequent, including renal (39.6%), cardiovascular (13.1%), hematologic (6.2%), and neurologic complications (4.1%), as well as sepsis (24.9%) and bacteremia (4.7%); 24.1% of COVID-19 patients had complications involving three or more organ systems. Among COVID-19 patients, nine complications were more prevalent among racial and ethnic minority patients, including respiratory, neurologic, and renal complications, even after adjustment for age and underlying medical conditions.

This isn't the fucking flu, and at this point, it is intentionally dishonest to downplay the effects of the virus.

[1]:https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e3.htm#:~:text=....


You're 100% right, "the fucking flu" still holds the record for people killed in a pandemic by a long shot.


There is no evidence that long term complications are worse than those from particularly nasty flu seasons. Nothing you posted says otherwise.


That’s hospitalized patients, which are a small fraction of all patients that get Covid.

And the CDC literally has a webpage that calls out all the similarities between the flu and COVID-19. Including the risk of long term complications from the flu.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm


We're all aware of the mortality rate, but not everyone finds sacrificing hundreds of thousands of sick and elderly to be viable just because the denominator is sufficiently large.

It's the same reason we don't tell wheelchair users to "just stay home" if they can't deal with a world that only has stairs.

We're trying to be a more advanced civilization with structures to ensure quality of life for as many as possible, not only the young and healthy. We're evolving beyond the raw survival of the fittest that determined who lived and who died when we were essentially animals.

Many of us spend most of our lives healthy enough not to need help, but either we care that others do, or else we selfishly recognize that we could find ourselves needing help someday for unexpected reasons outside our control. So it's in our best interest to invest in these social structures.

It's like a society-wide marshmallow test.


We all die. Let that idea sink in. Even you will one day cease to live and the important thing won’t be the extra year or two you lived by sapping the prosperity of future generations. Life isn’t worth extending at all costs.


I'm young and healthy myself, and feel the temptation of that mindset on a base emotional level.

But I'm also smart enough to realize that someday I might be 62 and benefit from living in a society that doesn't give up on addressing a pandemic that can be mitigated by something as simple as wearing masks. Should ideology not get in the way.

I could have 20 quality years of life ahead of me before attempts to keep me alive become needlessly heroic.


If you dig sigur ros and god is an astronaut, check out my post rock band MOLLY, we kind of go in the same direction :)

/shameless selfplug


Has anyone experience with System76 laptops?


I use karabiner [1] to remap the capslock key to esc.

[1] https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/


No need for Karabiner if that’s all you’re using it for, you can do it natively in System Preferences → Keyboard → Modifier Keys.


Karabiner Elements is user for a more complex modifier [1]. I use Karabiner to remap Caps Lock to hyper (cmd+ctrl+option) or just esc when pressed alone.

[1] https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/complex_modifications/#modifi...


Interesting.. so this is how the esc key is now? I guess it's compromise. Maybe I'll get used to it eventually.

Sigh I'm just sad apple wont budge on a high end non-touchbar model


Touchbar can be useful especially with apps like Pock to save some screen real estate. The only thing that they should do is to bring back ESC key and maybe allow for switching numbers row to F-keys with Fn. That would allow for rich media control and whatever you want on touchbar and still have proper, tactile functionality of keys.


I recently switched to using a metronom when I play live with my band and it changed everything.

When you play live, you are always rushing a little bit, the louder you play, the faster you play.

Now when we play according to our own tempo from our recordings, I really have to concentrate not to start rushing again - but it is so worth it, everything sounds much better in a precise way.


I tried switching to Firefox so many times but have to go back to Chrome for performance reasons.

There is still an open problem on Retina Macbooks with scaled resolution where the performance drops like 10x over non-scaled versions.


I’ve been using Firefox (quantum) on my 2016 retina MBP for years and haven’t ever noticed any performance issues.


Just today, I had to resize the swap on a raspberry pi so composer could update the dependencies.


The funny thing is, they have a threshold of 100.000 users that must be registered at the site.

So a site like unzensuriert.at (like breitbart in the US) which is a right leaning / government favourable website will not fall under such a law and won't get penalties.


> The funny thing is, they have a threshold of 100.000 users that must be registered at the site.

It's 100.000 users OR revenue of €500.000 OR being media with press subsidies of €50.000+ OR being a service partner providing an online service for such companies.

That the law was made in such a way for "unzensuriert.at" ist just nonsense propaganda, there are plenty of left-leaning or straight opposition blogs and forums that are exempt as well (e.g. kontrast.at, run by the SPÖ). It's a law targeted at online forums by newspapers and FB/Google/Twitter. Also, unzensuriert.at is not "right leaning" it's pretty far right and not very friendly to the conservative ÖVP, i.e. the larger part of the government.

Exempt are also (apparently) forums on e-commerce websites and reviews/comments, support forums.


The fun part is that unzensuriert.at is notorious for the dehumanizing and racist comments posted under their articles but still won't be affected by this law. However, they have turned off their forums a few days ago.


If the government will decide whom to prosecute then of course, pro-government websites won't have any problems no matter how many users they have. Laws like this are usually made to be applied selectively.


So, will a site maintainer simply remove the older accounts that have not accessed the site in a while, to keep number of accounts below 100 000?


Interestingly, the current draft of the bill says that the site owner has to delete accounts which were inactive for a year.


I wonder what will happen if somebody motivates a lot of people to register on a site, to push them over the threshold.

It may also be possible to split your forums to different sites / domains if you reach the thresold.

Anyhow I can't see how this will play out in real life and I hope our president will step in and prevent it from happening at all.


So distributed social media communities like Mastodon will not have the problem?


I guess not, since there is no single entity/company which holds 100.000 users.

But I am 100% sure, our current government would never ever grasp the concept of a federated social network and probably just try to ban it.


I imagine sensible website operators would limit signups to below the threshold, so they don't run the risk of legislation unexpectedly applying. Otherwise it also becomes an avenue for malicious actors.


I run a lot of websites, and this is exactly what I would do.

I'd probably keep the content but orphan it and kill the underlying user and profile.


If it works out, and there's no public outcry, they'll just reduce the limit to 10k after a while.


It’s completely unclear and ridiculous. There are some people on wikipedia atm that try to figure out how wikipedia could possibly comply and what it means: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Liberaler_Humanist/...


Depends if the law says currently registered users or historically registered users.


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