Cry about it, I'll not be changing my language to suit the left.
I learnt a man was a man, a woman a woman. And I learnt it as 'the ukraine'. It seems to rile up all the right people almost as much, so I might start saying it more.
It took 2-3 years into the phase III of the dengue fever vaccine trials before ADE was seen in a specific cohort (only those who were yet to be exposed to any variant of dengue). And that's in a disease (dengue) where ADE was known to play a role, so they'd be on high alert for it. And it was still only found late into a phase III of normal timescales. With a bias against looking into ADE/VDE and antigenic original sin effects in this treatment, but with coronovirus vaccines having shown ADE in cats back in the day, I'm unwilling to take it until at least 7 years have gone by. And even then, it will be a protein subunit like novavax, never getting the mRNA shite
Have you taken it? And do you see these as longer term risks that are being properly investigated?
If both weed and alcohol were discovered today, and you had enough political capital to get one banned but not the other, which would you opt for?
There wouldn't be the long tradition of whiskey making, not the loser hippies. Just the drug itself.
That's my standard. I'd much rather be on public transport with some giggly idiots who might order some maccas than some drunks. Far safer. And I think society would be better off as well.
Is it at least good stuff?
To be fair it was mighty brave of them to sacrifice themselves by taking such an experimental procedure.
The best one was that one where he stole the little girl's flag, walked off with it, stomped on it in a puddle and then slipped on the ice breaking his ankle.
Arg need to find that one again.
E: https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusCirclejerk/comments/srurdv/instant_karma_man_steals_flag_from_girl_and_snaps/ ah there it is. Beautiful.
Holy hell you just described my cupboard and habits to a t.
And they can do this with a straight face
Gay face
Overlooker's cavalry girl: https://klukvaminiatures.com/goods#!/Overlookers/c/56634528
Huh, seems dva is one of the few they didnt have yet. But my point is they have a load of them.
Let Russia declare all foreign copyrights null and void.
They basically did already ;-)
You like d.va? Well here's a model of korean mech-girl for sale. No shame.
Isn’t that where Epstein got off the first time?
I don't want to know where epstein first got off.
Ok but that's a different argument.
Meta with its instagram, oculus, facebook and whatsapp might live on.
Meta VR as a social media platform isn't a serious thing. I'm not saying they might not ever turn it into a serious thing. But what they have shown is clearly a rush job very suspiciously shown right after their stocks take a tumble.
They're not doing well now, but from the sounds of things, they're going for longer term goals with VR
I'm very bearish on this.
What they pumped out took 5 days to make. It's not a serious effort at a VR social network, it's the shoddiest little app ever made, that is 30x worse than existing and popular programs like VRchat.
Look at how awful it looks, and how few features it has. From the company that owns oculus!
It's not a serious program, it's a "oh shit, our stock has fallen, hey boomer investors look at how futuristic and cutting edge we are..." messaging campaign.
She'd be great at blocking the hoops tho
So not as painful then, can't they make anything right?
make felons out of millions of Texans: every person who has streamed Cuties since its arrival on Netflix;
Yes
First of all, there's no evidence that long Covid exists.
Post viral fatigue and chronic cough are both long documented things. What makes me very suspicious is this new term long covid for an existing phenomenon.
Critical Race Theory goes all the way back to the 60s,
Critical theory goes back further, critical race theory is just a natural offshoot of it. It goes back to the frankfurt school and Horkheimer who first coined it in 1937, though it existed with other names and as a process prior to being given its name,
If I’m reading this correctly, the vast majority of born-deaf people don’t learn how to fucking read?
Yep.
In addition to what the other person mentioned, there's also some real difficulty in establishing a language initially. I can't teach you to read unless there's another language to scaffold that off of. If you don't understand spoken english or a sign language, and your parents and teachers don't understand a sign language, and their spoken english isn't getting through, how are you going to learn much of anything?
From my limited interactions with this community and from what I've heard from those more acquainted; It's the fault of the community itself.
Oh for sure, the community is to blame for many of their ills, it is a toxic victim-based culture for sure.
But I don't think that explains what happens at age 10, it can't explain how when 90% of deaf kids are to hearing parents, they have poor as fuck literacy, the few deaf kids with deaf parents do quite a bit better.
the deaf are too stupid to read
There's a difference between stupid and uneducated. The god awful public education and health systems have failed them. When it's 90% of people with a physical disability, not a mental one, who can't read before they hit 18 (when personal responsibility kicks in) then we need to look at what the parents, schools and hospitals are doing. If it were just double the base rate of illiteracy then sure, it would just be the deafness exacerbating existing issues. But roughly 90% of them? Something else is going on.
I'm all for personal responsibility, but these kids are being let down somewhere while they are children.
You aren't wrong about the decay in western civ, and I'm looking at the trend towards mainstreaming/inclusion instead of specialist schools with expertise and resources as a major contributor. Not only do the disabled kids not get the resources they need, all the other kids get a major distraction in the classroom. It's lose/lose, with children's futures.
Ok so, this is my area
This isn't as performative as it might appear.
90% of signing deaf people, are deaf from birth or nearabouts, and have had the education system massively fail them. Their literacy is at a year 3 or 4 level, they are still learning to read, instead of 'reading to learn'
People able to use subtitles have already learnt english, and then lost their hearing to the point they need subtitles, or its for people playing late at night or in a noisy environment...
There is actually very little overlap between the two. Not that there aren't a couple few deaf people who became literate, but it really is 10% who overcome that barrier at about the age of 9 or 10, and don't plateau.
u/vebent isn't wrong, if I became deaf, even though I understand a sign language myself, I'd much prefer subtitles/closed captions, but then we'd be among the 'post-lingually deafened. But if we were born deaf, we likely wouldn't be able to read them.'. The 'pre-lingually deafened' are an entirely different population, with different needs.
I'm as anti virtue-signally as anybody, but this isn't that bad. I'll tell you what is bad though: For a live interpretation, what the interpreter signs is roughly 6 seconds behind what the person is saying. The reason for this 'lag time' is that we don't interpret it word for word, it would be a pretty awful and meaningless interpretation doing that. The 6s lag time lets the interpreter process and understand the actual meaning of the sentence and sign that. So each time the news broadcast shows some tosser politician with an interpreter and ends right as the politician says something, then cuts, that is entirely performative of the broadcaster. The last 6 or so secconds of the important announcement were cut. But the hearing people don't know that, they think the deaf were given access, after all they could see an interpreter right?
I've long been of the opinion that if you are going to offer foreign languages as classes and as subtitles, it should be your native ones first. Including your area's sign language. Not spanish. Not french. They can and should learn English if they're coming here. But the native languages and the sign language, in this case American Sign Language (ASL). There's a nationalist argument for pushing this over foreign languages.
nu star wars.
Wait, but there should be a natural bias towards local warming that you need to correct down for.
They build the stations, and then as urban sprawl hits them, the area gets warmer from all the roads n buildings n shit.
So you should need to adjust for that and tweak that down. The fact they still need to add warming when theres a natural bias towards it based on weather stations being in now warmer spots...