shrugs

After casting an open invite for people between the ages of 18 and 60 who previously had a mild case of COVID-19, Romano-Silva and colleagues in the preliminary study tested a group of 130 volunteers comprised mostly of women with a mean age of 38 years

Doesn’t look like a balanced test group to me. Do they have any idea what might cause these cognitive deficits? Or is it just wrong self evaluation like this stupid vaccines cause autism study from 1990?

Don’t take me wrong, COVID was horrible and all to real, but I don’t believe these 1 in 4 people with mild cases have long lasting cognitive deficits bullshit. At least not if it is “proven” with studies like this

Pazuzu@midwest.social explained above:

The original post only gave half the explanation. It’s not that lead exists in general, it’s that lead exists within zircon crystals.

Under normal circumstances that would be impossible, zircon crystals strongly reject lead atoms as they form. There’s no way to stuff lead into the crystal lattice in the quantity we find them there. But uranium and zircon go together just fine, we just have to wait for it to decay into lead. The trouble is it takes ~4.5 billion years for just half of those uranium atoms to turn into lead. So any zircon crystal we find with half as much lead as uranium must be roughly that old

Look: it’s a hat

That was my first linux distro I tried, took 12 minutes to boot on my Pentium 75 with 8mb RAM. Still better then win98 though

It’s fucking crazy. I see it like that: capitalism is king at maximizing profits. That’s what capitalism is good at. Capitalism is a tool.

I hate it when someone expects big corporations to act morally. That’s none of its business. Again, capitalism is just a tool that does one thing: maximizing profit. Just like the hammer is not at fault if you hit your thumb the corporations aren’t at fault if their profit maximizing does more harm then good.

We, the people, the benficianries of why capitalism even exists, are responsible to use that tool the right way in the right situations.

And how do we do that? By creating rules and laws that restrict the ways profit can be maximized in situations where it is not at our best interest.

Now please tell me:

Whose fucking idea was it to allow corporations to hire a few dozen lobbyists that professionally influence politicians?

Why should a corporation be allowed to sponsor the election of a person? Don’t you think this is already way too much influence for the cancer that capitalism can be if allowed to grow unconditionally at the wrong places?

Please stop letting immoral corporations influence the rules they need to obey for some irrelevant profit gains that fuck us all over big time in the long run! (fracking anyone?)

The market will sort itself out, or so they say. Let’s be brave and create rules that help us tackle the myriad of problems we all experience right now (global warming, housing crises, health insurance, gun violance…) and watch in awe how the corporations manage to find ways to make a profit while still benefiting us as a whole.

That’s how you use a tool!

Peace out

P.S.: Critique at my train of thoughts or writing style is appreciated. I’m rather stoned right now and english isn’t my first language, so please be gentle.

Here in Germany we had an ad for a “Tiefbauunternehmen” / “civil engineering company”.

The German name translates to “deep building company”. Their slogan: “Experten für untenrum” / “professionals for the parts down below”.

I hope the translation works

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Wasn’t it hooters that was later called butt fuckers in Idiocracy? I expect better from all of you

Source?

I also think it’s a healthy attitude but at the same time it’s sad that people can’t trust their own devices any longer.

Using your real name can have benefits, like metadata in office documents or things like that. If you are sure your devices are yours and secure, there shouldn’t be a reason not to use your own name. Unfortunately this isn’t the case anymore if you are using anything else but Linux

I wonder if there are still people living in their underground bunker believing they are the only one that survived 2000 or 2012

A few days ago I tried to install Windows 11 on the PC of a friend. It didn’t work because of missing SATA drivers. Anyway, I was shocked how many points there are where Microsoft or Apple (we used his mac to create the USB drive) tries to sell something (buy pro version of fan controll now) or wants your permissions to gather all your data.

I convinced him to let me install debian. When it came to creating the default user he was hesitant to use his full name, because telemetry :D