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Do you think the pandemic will be over with Omicron?
  • Do you still stand by this?

  • [Discussion] How do you feel about age verification on Porn sites?
  • The good old "Think of the children" argument again... This is an attack on online privacy, again. I hate it.

    It is the parents responsibility to keep their kids safe. We don't ban knives either just because a child could accidentally get hurt by one. And apart from that the regulations are not even well thought out, they will not stop a determined teenager with a lot of time on their hands.

  • Should you get a COVID booster? Here are 7 things to consider.
  • The vaccine does not stop covid, it does not make you immune, it does not stop you from spreading covid and you will have to get another dose after about 3 months. And then there are possible adverse effects like myocarditis, especially for young men. All this should be considered.

    There are other ways to strengthen your immune system. They should be considered too. Most people that have died due to covid have been severely ill, morbidly obese or very old. Eating healthy, getting enough exercise and making sure Vitamin D levels are sufficient will make covid much less dangerous. I much prefer that to constantly getting new boosters.

  • I switched from KDE to [bspwm]
  • Not OP, but it looks like they are using texlab for completion: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/server_configurations.md#texlab

    Apart from that there is https://github.com/lervag/vimtex with file type support, document compilation, etc. For grammar checking I use https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/server_configurations.md#ltex and for snippets https://github.com/L3MON4D3/LuaSnip. See https://github.com/iurimateus/luasnip-latex-snippets.nvim for latex snippets and what you can do with them.

  • Palestine-Israel Crisis Megathread
  • Some facts about the Gaza Strip:

    • Population: ~2.3 Million
    • Area: 365 km² (141 sq mi)
      • 41 km (25 mi) long, from 6 to 12 km (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide
    • Population density: ~6300/km² 1

    Gaza is very densely populated. In Gaza live as many people as in Houston. But Houston has an area of 1658.6 km² (640.4 sq mi). Thus Gaza has nearly five times the population density of Houston. New York City is the only city in the US with a population of more than a million and a higher population density than Gaza. 2 The tallest building in Palestine stands at 76.1 m (255 ft). 3

    A little less than half of the population of Gaza is made up of children. 4

    There are only three ("legal") ways in and out of Gaza:

    • Rafah Crossing into Egypt in the south
    • Kerem Shalom Crossing into Israel in the south
    • Erez Crossing into Israel in the north

    Gaza has a very small port. It can only be used by small fisher boats. 5

    Israel built a wall and fences around Gaza. 6

  • Elon Musk angers German government with post backing far-right party - UPI.com
  • Considering that recent polls show the AfD at ~30% in some states, I doubt banning it will work. The only reasons it's gotten this big is abysmal politics by the current and former govt. I'm pretty sure banning it is only going to make things worse. And I am not at all convinced you can truly consider them ban worthy like actual Nazis, even though the current govt would very much like you to think this way.

  • They never admit they were just wrong
  • You know what's also been disappearing? The clip where Rachel Maddow claims "the virus stops with every vaccinated person" on MSNBC. Has anyone admitted that the efficacy of the new vaccines has been massively overstated?

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    China lab suspected of Covid leak stripped of US funding for violating biosafety rules
  • Less regulations, it's easier to do "funny stuff" like gain of function research (frankly a euphemism for biological warfare research) in China than in the US. And it's not like the US is just funding the biolab, they have people on site and oversight as well.

  • durh durh russian troll
  • Meanwhile in Germany:

    Krieger wider Willen - Warrior against his [Olaf Scholz - Germany's chancellor] will

    Putins blutige Spur - Putin's bloody path

    Gefährlich schwach - dangerously weak

    Putin ist ein Drache, der fressen muss - Putin is a dragon that needs to feed

    Wie schwach ist Putin? - How weak is Putin?

  • Russia has planted suspected explosives on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant roofs, says Zelenskiy (cross post)
  • Please explain your argument, I do not think it makes any sense but instead dangerously misjudges the Russian government/military.

    Assuming they have a child-like mentality:

    • Why is there no massive bombardment of Ukrainian cities and infrastructure? Might as well do that for cities out of reach instead of blowing up a NPP.
    • Why didn't Putin order to have all Wagner soldiers killed after what happened a few days ago?
  • Are there long-term myocarditis risks after Covid vaccination?
  • Scientists still don’t have a clear explanation yet for why the vaccines cause the condition, according to Dr. Paul Burton, Moderna's chief medical officer. He expects the virus’s spike protein, once produced in the cell after vaccination, may generate a reaction in the body that can cause inflammation in the heart.

    “We don’t understand yet and there’s no good mechanism to explain it,” he said.

    And that's the exact reason why, under normal circumstances, it takes years until you can bring a new vaccine on the market. Even more so, if said vaccine is based on a new technology that's never been widely tested on humans before.

  • Are there long-term myocarditis risks after Covid vaccination?
    www.nbcnews.com Are there long-term myocarditis risks after Covid vaccination?

    Both Pfizer and Moderna are launching clinical trials to track health issues — if any — in the years following a diagnosis of vaccine-associated heart problems in teens and young adults.

    Are there long-term myocarditis risks after Covid vaccination?
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    OUT TO SEE - A Film with John Ioannidis (Epidemiologist, Stanford University)
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    A Film with John Ioannidis from Patricia Marchart, Georg Sabransky & Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis "I think that science is like swimming in an ocean, it is swimming in an ocean at night, so it is dangerous but at the same time it is extremely enjoyable. For someone who has been swimming in Gre...

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    Pfizer COVID vaccine price hike to boost revenue for years, rivals may follow
    www.reuters.com Pfizer COVID vaccine price hike to boost revenue for years, rivals may follow

    Pfizer's plan to as much as quadruple U.S. prices for its COVID-19 vaccine next year is beyond Wall Street's expectations and will spur its revenue for years despite weaker than anticipated demand for the new booster shot so far, analysts said.

    Pfizer COVID vaccine price hike to boost revenue for years, rivals may follow
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    The US has more people in prison than China, despite having a 4x lower population. Who's more authoritarian?
  • True two months ago but now China has achieved something entirely impossible for the US, namely the imprisonment of more people than even live in the US: Nearly 400 million people are under covid lockdown in China

  • Anti-US/NATO protests in Kyiv today
  • Can you give a little more context please? Do any news outlets report on this, how many people did protest?

    While I think this is very interesting, this submission kinda breaks

    Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc

    doesn't it?

  • Do you think the pandemic will be over with Omicron?

    Of course the virus itself won't disappear but hopefully all measures limiting our daily lives.

    Personally I think Omicron is the last variant of concern and as many countries have agreed on it's fortunately not dangerous enough for restrictions to make sense anymore.

    I don't think a new more dangerous variant will emerge. If it did, I'd think that to be rather suspicious.

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