@jalcine @phryk Except "pretty good UX". It makes me run away screaming.

@carnage4life survivorship bias.

It truly hit home at a conference I was in '11, that startup success advice is little more than that.

@cmdrmoto @randomgeek @JessTheUnstill @maddiefuzz Charlemagne? No?

Maybe you have to be German to have heard of them...

Now guess what the connection to Dracula is.

@cmdrmoto @randomgeek @JessTheUnstill @maddiefuzz He's the emperor after which the Carolingians are named.

But he's also the topic of a metal album made by Cristopher Lee.

Who famously played Dracula.

@cmdrmoto @randomgeek @JessTheUnstill @maddiefuzz Anyhow, that's how Hitler tried to tie his shit back to the ancient Roman emperors, and why so much Nazi architecture imitates Roman styles.

*shrug* You didn't need to know, I'm aware.

@strypey @clacke I'm aware of the psychological issues mask wearing can cause. But it's also something you can get through. This isn't supposed to minimize the effect, it's merely stating that it is treatable. Long COVID is not, not yet.

You cannot compare the two. In particular, because the exact same arguments you raise against masks can be raised for masking. Long COVID sufferers or other immunocompromised folk face the same pressure and exclusion if they wish to participate in life.

So...

@strypey @clacke The question of which masks to use is one of the size of particles you want to capture. Since COVID is airborne, you should absolutely go for the best filters available; some masks mostly capture droplets.

But that doesn't stop the masks from being effective. See e.g. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi9069 for a study that focuses on effect rather than mechanism. The likely conclusion, then, is that droplets contain more of the virus and are more infectious, but that's also a given really.

@clacke @strypey You might be lucky and get through this faster than others. But you will have suffered damage. To the brain, to your lungs.

I mean, people also *smoke* and survive for a long time, but these days few people think that's a good idea.

@clacke @strypey It's not a cold at all, it's a virus that, aside from producing cold-like symptoms, causes cardiovascular damage (primarily, as is normal for these things, in the smaller blood vessels like those powering your lungs and brain), and which leaves the immune system to deal with a persistent irritant, which produces a long term immunoresponse.

Please stop calling it flu-like. What looks flu-like are just the outward symptoms of our immune system going under extreme load.

@clacke @strypey Research also goes in the direction that long COVID, MS, Crohn's and others are all caused by viruses, because they seem to share things. We may actually be closer to treating some because of COVID. Which is nice...

... but you know, it's also a class of illnesses causing disability, so it's a bit of a dick move to try and downplay it.

@icing If your idea of travel is tourism, yeah, it's pretty messed up.

But what's IMHO more messed up is to treat travel and tourism as largely equivalent, as the author contests.

Why do kids exist at 6am on a Saturday? Why?

@valhalla @clacke are you wearing socks with sandals?

@valhalla @clacke @az Well, I keep telling people that the Romans wore socks with their sandals up north, so it's really the height of Italian fashion - right @simoxsimo ?

@clacke @valhalla Now for the real test. Was there pineapple on the pizza?

@ArneBab @EU_Commission As long as the industry gets subsidized, the market cannot react. Stopping subsidies is a necessary precondition, it may very well not be sufficient.

@ArneBab @EU_Commission So much this. Just stop subsidising meat and dairy production, and the market will likely regulate itself.

@onepict It's part of why I talk about distribution. One part is because a distributed architecture is more robust than a decentralized one. Another is that decentralization is just less centralisation, not anti-centralization, as evidenced by us having a few super dominant fedi instances. But one part is also to use different language from crypto bros.

@feonixrift @vortex_egg @thegibson @RadicalEdward If it's any consolation, this is how the monotone DVCS was working, which Linus copied to make git. Which means practical implementations existed around 2003.

@logan Gave me the push I needed to move. It's fine.