Spanish flu killed young healthy adults; the weak and elderly were actually safer. That virus triggered a cytokine storm - an overreaction of the immune system - that slagged the patient's body as collateral damage, like a twisted game of "stop hitting yourself." The stronger your immune system, the harder you'd hit yourself.
SARS-CoV-2 followed the normal pattern, and hit the weak and elderly harder. Admittedly, the original strain was a wildcard, and did take down some healthy 30yos at random while others never showed symptoms. It also tended to provoke micro-clots throughout the body, rather than hemorrhages.
Omicron evolved to target the upper airway rather than the lungs, which is the main reason why COVID is so much less lethal these days. I'm not sure how Spanish flu evolved, but I don't think it was an issue of the tissue it targeted as much as some immune pathway it hijacked.
I agree, but the hard part is how. Splitting up Germany required winning a World War. The next World War will be nuclear. Mass starvation from nuclear winter will result in the death of the vast majority of humans. That's too horrible a price to pay.
I really don't get how so many people find Python "ergonomic." kwargs and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race. they break type hinting and intellisense, and there's all kinds of proxy class shenanigans that all the libraries use. matplotlib is a horrible experience because there's just a kitchen sink of options, and it's hard to dynamically update plots. if there were a TypeScript-like dialect of Python I wouldn't have problems, but Python's type hinting is absolutely wretched.
All of this "evidence" boils down to "this is very inconvenient for my side, and very convenient for the other side, therefore it's obviously a false flag." It's the same logic that led Alex Jones to say Sandy Hook was faked by crisis actors: 1. the shooting would justify gun control, 2. the US government wanted gun control, so 3. the government faked Sandy Hook to justify gun control. in this case it's 1. the shooting would justify claims that pro-Palestinian activists are violent, 2. the Israeli government wants to portray activists as violent, so 3. the IDF shot their own diplomat.
Rational skeptics start with the facts and follow them to a belief. Conspiracy theorists start with their belief and find facts to support it. Do better.
and ironically, LLMs could be great for this! recognizing what's ads and what's content, what's slop and what's high-effort, wading through the cesspool of feeds and dark patterns to find the stuff that's relevant to you.
unfortunately, the money is in using LLMs to generate more slop and make things even worse, not make it better.
imagine how hot those brake pads were, converting that much momentum directly into heat in a flash. glad they didn't bump into each other, since even a minor crash could turn into an inferno if leaking jet fuel contacts brakes that hot.
not so fun fact: Ann Coulter wanted to sleep with my dad when he was in college, and once invited him to her house for the weekend, but he turned her down. I thank my lucky stars everyday that Ann Coulter isn't my mom.
the content is better than I remember, having watched the video you linked. I guess I'm just cranky about the particular way that thumbnails and video titles have converged on YouTube.
eh, he's okay. he puts out a lot of slop content like "REAL LAWYER reacts to $MOVIE" and "r/LegalAdvice DISASTERS!" with those annoyingly exaggerated YouTuber faces. I guess you have to play to the Algorithm, but slop is slop.
I like Liz Dye's legal analysis when she appears on his channel to discuss current events, but I wish I could just watch her directly, rather than suffering through LegalEagle's bombastic and superficial framing to pump up viewer engagement.
her save: DLvl 40, Amulet of Yendor acquired, wand of wish with 999 charges.
my save: DLvl 3, +FoodPois, +Starving, cursed by my deity after hallucinating that my pet kitten's corpse was a cram ration, pursued by the Keystone Kops.
my unpopular opinion: homeless encampments in the US are a result of housing becoming unaffordable.
I'm not saying most people ended up in tent cities because they couldn't afford rent. usually people will sleep in their cars, find a spot in a shelter if one's available, crash with relatives etc. at least here (Seattle) most of those who live in big tent cities are homeless because of mental illness: drug addiction and/or psychosis.
but serious addiction isn't new. where did addicts live in the '80s? crack houses! before real estate turned into gold, there was plenty of mold-infested, aabestos-ridden, lead-painted substandard housing left abandoned or rented cheaply by slumlords. junkies could sleep there.
now, most of those buildings have been torn down and luxury condos rebuilt in their place, at least in the big cities.
I'm not pro-crack den. the old buildings were health hazards. but junkies can't afford the upscale housing that replaced them. they can barely afford tents.
JD Vance is Catholic. he converted right around the time his political ambitions deepend. Leonard Leo (Federalist Society president) is Catholic, as are most of FedSoc leadership. Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh are Catholic.
the deep power in the RNC is very conservative Catholic.
Different symptoms/mechanisms.
Spanish flu killed young healthy adults; the weak and elderly were actually safer. That virus triggered a cytokine storm - an overreaction of the immune system - that slagged the patient's body as collateral damage, like a twisted game of "stop hitting yourself." The stronger your immune system, the harder you'd hit yourself.
SARS-CoV-2 followed the normal pattern, and hit the weak and elderly harder. Admittedly, the original strain was a wildcard, and did take down some healthy 30yos at random while others never showed symptoms. It also tended to provoke micro-clots throughout the body, rather than hemorrhages.
Omicron evolved to target the upper airway rather than the lungs, which is the main reason why COVID is so much less lethal these days. I'm not sure how Spanish flu evolved, but I don't think it was an issue of the tissue it targeted as much as some immune pathway it hijacked.