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- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
is it cool if I skip ahead to the next exit?
No, you will be fined upwards of 240€, lose your license for a month, and get 2 points on your license (8 points means you lose it permanently, you will have to redo the license and take a so-called “idiot-test” beforehand).
- Comment on We're so back 2 weeks ago:
So I should ask the Nobel prize winner to find out he doesn’t have an opinion on the matter and that is supposed to be evidence that it doesn’t work?
No you should take it as evidence that what the person answering you before me said, that Ivermectin is not intended for use against Coronaviruses, or any viruses for that matter, is true. There was a false quote from Campbell floating around on social media and he publicly disclaimed it. Ivermectin is not an antiviral, its intended use are roundworm infections. That was the point of OPs comment I believe.
Haruo Ozaki made his recommendation to use Ivermectin as a treatment for covid on February 9th, 2021. Not exactly “early days” of the pandemic. It was well over a year into the virus spreading and nearly a year into it officially being a pandemic.
Well you know, relatively speaking it’s early days, we are in year 6 now. Kind of besides the point really. Anyway I think I tracked down the (second-hand) quote from Haruo from some pro-Ivermectin website:
The Chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, Dr. Haruo Ozaki, recommends Ivermectin for use with COVID patients.
He notes that the parts of Africa that use ivermectin to control parasites have a COVID death rate of just 2.2 per 100,000 population, as compared to 13 times that death rate among African countries that do not use ivermectin. – SurfguardCR
brightworkresearch.com/how-the-media-lied-about-j…
You will note here that he specifically refers to parasite infections, i.e. worms. He could just be saying “Hey if your Covid patient has worms, maybe take care of that first”.
On a side note the Tokyo Medical Association seems to be a private company, not a public medical authority. Japan did recommend and distribute vaccines as soon as they became available.
As far as I can tell there is no “current consensus” regarding Ivermectin outside of the mainstream narrative that its “deboonked conservative quackery”.
It’s a bit more complicated than that, but if you want a one sentence summary I guess it fits. It was a meme that mostly conservatives seem to have fallen for.
Looking into it further there seems to be one side that is willing to point to clinical data like Haruo did when making his recommendation
Any specifics you can share? Like I said above, it seems Haruo was referring to worm infections and was taken out of context.
Coincidently, only one of these positions seems to have a financial incentive for big pharma but im sure that’s not relevant to the conversation.
Lol, who do you think sells Ivermectin? Small pharma?
Looking at the timeline of events regarding Ivermectin there isnt a single study from before the topic became a political issue that found it to be ineffective.
That’s untrue AFAIK, but anyway - My original point was that most of the studies that showed a positive effect came from places with relatively high incidences of roundworm infections. And it just makes sense that if you use ivermectin to treat a pre-existing worm infection it will help a patients immune system to fight an additional later Coronavirus infection. There was a false signal in the data and people just ran with it. No need for big (or small) pharma conspiracy here…
That alleged recommendation from Haruo Ozaki you keep quoting for example is five years old now, and specifically citing “parts of Africa” (many of which have a relatively high incidence of roundworm infections).
Anyone who’s actually looked into the matter and is honest would conclude that at best, we still dont actually know whether its effective or not because the more recent studies on the matter seem to have gone out of their way to ensure that any effect from the ivermectin wouldn’t be found.
Or maybe they are showing no effect because there is no effect (except in patients with a pre-existing roundworm infection, which Ivermectin is meant to treat). Sorry but unless you have something more concrete I’m sticking with my “people were panicking and grasping at straws” perspective.
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
I dont remember either of the people who won the Nobel prize for ivermectin ever publicly stating anything about its use in treating covid.
One of them specifically said it’s not his area of expertise:
I am a biologist with no claim to expertise in the clinical evaluation of drugs against viral infections. Thus, I have not taken a stand in support of, or against, the efficacy of ivermectin against COVID-19.
drew.edu/…/drew-university-nobel-prize-winner-ref…
I remember the chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association Haruo Ozaki publicly recommending the use of ivermectin for treating covid based on several observational studies
A lot of people said a lot of things during the early days of the pandemic. The current consensus seems to be it only helps if you have Covid and also a coincidental worm infection that the ivermectin treats. Which is often true sadly on large parts of the planet.
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
They could be sick from something else but get rid of a long standing comorbidity of a pariste infection, you bet they are feeling good. They just think that relief from the varied symptoms from parasite is actually something else cured.
Pretty much this, although it seems freeing the immune system from fighting the worm infection really does help it in fighting the Coronavirus infection: astralcodexten.com/…/ivermectin-much-more-than-yo… (Ctrl+F “The Synthesis”).
TL;DR: Studies showing a positive effect from Ivermectin on Covid came mostly from areas with high worm infection incidence, areas with low incidence showed no or smaller positive effect.
NB: Link is a selfhosted Substack, works better with JavaScript turned off. - Comment on The virgin wiki Glossary of mathematical symbols (EN) VS the chad Liste mathematischer Symbole (DE) 3 weeks ago:
To be fair the article is called a glossary, so I guess it’s understandable. But if you click the switch language button it brings you to the German one with the table. Guess if we want a real equivalent in English somebody needs to create a new article for that.
- Comment on The virgin wiki Glossary of mathematical symbols (EN) VS the chad Liste mathematischer Symbole (DE) 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 1 month ago:
Well yeah kind of, except for the caveat that there are some things in those tests a website can’t really check. The tests are standardised and publicly available. There isn’t really any reason to not implement a (half-way) proper test, even if you are just harvesting data.
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 1 month ago:
Above average that has to count for something right?
Well they aren’t though, 345/1000 people having a worse score than you means there are 654/1000 people who have a better score.
Corollary, “IQ 100” is a moving target that gets regularly updated to the new average (which relatively speaking has been mostly climbing for decades).
- Comment on CONSTANTLY being one upped by Uncle Ronnie 1 month ago:
True, but colloquially your grandparents bloodline is still (one of) your bloodline(s). So you share a bloodline with your uncles and aunts.
- Comment on The Sounds of Silence 1 month ago:
Nah other way around. The astronauts asked NASA a administrator if they are still on the line or if there was a handover. Then Tump replied “I am, yes, I am”.
- Comment on CONSTANTLY being one upped by Uncle Ronnie 1 month ago:
Both you and your uncle are in your Grandpas bloodline.
- Comment on You may not like it, but in England, this is what peak corn looks like. 5 months ago:
Can confirm. In German a wheat field like in the OP would be called a Kornfeld, immortalised by Jürgen Drews in his song “Ein Bett im Kornfeld” which is about two people fucking in a corn field.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 9 months ago:
No I’m going to tell you that is still irrelevant. The OP said:
I’ve had one that thought that “SSD” was a kind of RAM, and insisted on installing Windows on a hard drive.
It seems the student thought a SSD is RAM in the sense of “volatile CPU storage” and thus unfit for an OS install. And a SSD is not RAM in that sense of the word.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 9 months ago:
In the context of setting up a PC a SSD is a drive, not RAM. You couldn’t pull out your RAM DIMMs and just run on your NVME/SATA SSD as RAM instead (unless your CPU/MB support that which to my knowledge isn’t common). I’m not saying that flash memory isn’t random access memory in the general sense of the word, I’m saying that when talking about a PC specifically RAM refers to special memory the motherboard makes directly available the the CPU, and a SSD isn’t that.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 9 months ago:
Well it’s special in the sense that opposed to the most common kind of RAM, DRAM and SRAM, it has non volatile storage. Which is why it’s referred to as NVRAM instead of simply RAM. Saying RAM usually implies volatile storage in a PC, certainly does in the context of an OS install on a HDD and SSD, and in that context a SSD isn’t RAM. Yes there are minutiae to the terminology, but I don’t see how that’s relevant here.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 9 months ago:
A special kind of RAM that is power cycle persistent but has other downsides and thus didn’t really have success on the PC market?
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 9 months ago:
Well, could it be considered random access memory?
Not really, a bit further down in the Wiki article it says:
RAM is normally associated with volatile types of memory where stored information is lost if power is removed.
Which is not really the case for SSDs (except for cached data that hasn’t been written yet). That said, yes you can use a SSD as RAM through pagefiles, swap partitions, or whatever, but the same is true for a HDD. So in the context of where to install an OS it’s a rather irrelevant detail. SSDs are power cycle persistent storage.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 10 months ago:
PSA if you are worried about link parameters giving away where you came from, you should really be worried about HTTP Referrer headers, which are of course turned on by default in most browsers. Be advised turning them off may break some (parts of) certain websites, but most still work fine in my experience.
In Firefox go to about:config page and set
network.http.sendRefererHeaderto 0. - Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 10 months ago:
There are rights and responsibilities associated with a proprietary model… and IMO you (and your permissive government) should not be overriding those rights for your own short-sighted benefit.
Kind of sounds like you misunderstood the initiative to be honest. This only affects games which have been abandoned by the developer, the proprietary model stays perfectly intact as long as you actually keep selling your games.
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 1 year ago:
For many European languages and some non-European ones there is the CEFR, so you could look for an “A1” or “A2” level language course in whatever you want to learn. They aim to establish exactly this basic level of communication.
- Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign 1 year ago:
According to your opinion. But you are not in charge. He is. And he’s doing what people who voted him in, asked him to do.
Well of course it’s just my opinion. I think it is pretty clear we disagree, no point arguing that. Just wanted to let you know my perspective, since that seems to be allowed here instead of being an echo chamber, which I respect. But you seem to be hell-bent on learning this lesson on a personal level, so no stopping you I guess. Kind regards from Germany.
- Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign 1 year ago:
Then you have nothing to worry about, right?
The thing that worries me is that Trump seems to be consistently acting against the best interest of US foreign policy.
Hasn’t happened yet.
Alea iacta est.
- Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign 1 year ago:
I don’t care about that. You all can fix your own shit. If you don’t like how we do something, then you all fucking do it.
You know what, if that is how you feel, fair enough actually. I just don’t think that’s how your former and current governments, including Trump, really feel about it.
I don’t think so.
You don’t think losing the US dollar as the world reserve currency would hurt you economically? Because that’s where this is going.
- Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign 1 year ago:
It has damaged your reputation as a country. It hasn’t damaged you domestically (yet), which is why I advised looking at it from a foreign policy perspective.
And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run. Not that I’m opposed to it, on the contrary actually, it just strikes me as utterly misguided since it’s done for selfish, and I think foolish, reasons.
- Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign 1 year ago:
The argument you are getting and setting here seems to be a domestic one primarily, but I think from a foreign policy perspective it becomes much clearer, especially given what this post is about.
US global hegemony after WWII rests on a several aspects, a few key ones of which are free trade with US dollar as the world reserve currency, a system of international alliances, and resulting from that the ability to have bases all over the world for immediate power projection anywhere.
Trump is practically giving all of that away for no discernable reason whatsoever. He basically just publicly announced to all of Americas allies that your word, like as a country, is worth nothing.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 1 year ago:
Not what OP said over on the (now deleted) Reddit post:
So the ad was supposed to play in that black box and this is a bug?
I had Bob’s Burgers on in the background but was playing a game with my kid. The silence caught my attention, but not at first. At first I assumed it was a, “choose your commercial” thing.
After some more time I thought maybe it was asking if I was still watching, that’s when I looked up to see this
I waited, nothing. I made a verbal comment and the whole family started looking. We waited, nothing.
I grabbed my phone, snapped the pic, made the post (but didn’t actually post it), and it was still sitting there.
I guessed an answer, got it right, and the show came back
Then I hit “post” to actually make the post.
Some people say it went away on its own. Others say, like me, they had to answer, and others said even after answering it didn’t go away
I’ve had Bob’s Burgers on all morning and I’ve yet to see this again
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 year ago:
Maybe you are confusing this with the news from a year ago that Steam doesn’t support Windows 7 and 8 anymore?
By the way MS-support for 7 ended in 2015, so that’s 9 more years of Steam support after updates from MS stopped. I’d count on Steam working on Windows 10 for years to come.
- Comment on If landlords didn’t exist anymore, how would shared flats work? 1 year ago:
I moved into one recently and the the process was pretty much like any other flat I rented before. You apply, get invited to visit the flat, you say yes or no, they say yes or no, done. The only difference was that instead of a deposit I was paying for shares of the cooperative. Maybe it’s different in smaller towns though, this was in a university town.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 year ago:
FYI you have a typo in your last screenshot (This sign m[a]y not…):
