My dad was visiting recently and watered one of my old dead bonsais and said sometimes you water them and they come back.
That plant didn't come back (yet?), but not a week ago I am planting some new flowers I got on sale and I see that a plant that I had written off as dead a year ago was actually had a green stalk still at least up to the soil line. I've seen plants survive and come back from a lot, but nothing like this. I'm going to keep watering it and hopefully it will grow a new stalk and come back to life!
I have quit my software engineering job to focus full time for the next 4-5 months on creating software in some fairly crowded spaces. I’m banking on my “piece of the pie” theory that if I can just get even a tiny piece of the pie (ie market share, across all of my offerings) that perhaps I can earn enough to be self sufficient and pay the bills at least. The most important factor I reckon is the execution of development and marketing objectives, but it really does feel like a gamble at the moment.
We were told the vaccine was the end all be all solution that stopped the virus. Many have opted to forego it and accept the risk. What’s so wrong with that? Now it turns out the vaccine isn’t as effective as originally thought, and the folks who decided to not get the jab are now somehow devoid of critical thinking skills? Explain what I’m missing. Or is it really not about death, but the bottom line?
Given that the vast majority of COVID hospitalizations and deaths are among the unvaccinated, yes, I would say that people who refuse the vaccine are devoid of critical thinking skills.
Given that they have chosen that destiny willingly for themselves, what's wrong with that? I personally feel it's a bit more nuanced of a decision then you're allowing. What do the vaccinated care? Why does this unvaxxed life matter to them all of a sudden when they've had plenty of opportunities to care about life before but haven't?
And no, I'm not talking about abortion, but everything else on Earth that is considered a preventable death; like car accidents (Ban cars!) and wars that we conveniently forget when about the pendulum swings to our favored political party so we can safely and costlessly say that we've learned and grown and now we're better despite the hundreds of thousands of lives we've cost over the years because we just trusted the "thinking heads" and academics and the corporate elite and government officials in bed with them.
I don't particularly care about the health of the people who refuse to take common-sense actions to protect themselves. But their decision isn't made in isolation.
The more the virus bounces around in people, and for longer, the higher the chance it is that it mutates into something the vaccines won't be effective against.
There are people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. They should not be put at higher risk of having the virus transmitted to them by an unvaccinated person.
There are still enough unvaccinated people floating around to necessitate mask and distancing mandates and other restrictions. Getting everyone vaccinated will likely allow us to return to some semblance of normal sooner.
And finally we have a world full of overworked, exhausted health care workers who still have to admit these foolish unvaccinated people into their hospitals when they get sick. They have to watch some of them die, begging for the vaccine even though it's too late. Why are unvaccinated people inflicting this harm on our doctors and nurses?
The thing that gets me about all this is the whole "they've chosen this destiny for themselves" bit, as if their decisions don't impact anyone else. They do. And it's selfish to ignore that.
I personally don’t care. In fact I think we should pay people who don’t want to get the vaccine to engage in monitoring so that we can understand the disease better. I also believe we should pay covid-hoaxers 100k so that we can infect them and then study why the virus is so dangerous for some people and benign for others. I think it’s a win-win for both.
I remember I was a freshman in high school at a new school having just moved from Texas to Montana and was shocked at the cavalier comments regarding it all from my classmates. Very oddly in the afternoon we heard an extremely loud/large airplane flying extremely low over our school which really freaked a lot of us out.
https://www.budgetbloom.com - Personal finance and budgeting app. It began as some Airtable tables I used to manage my own finances, then I realized I could build something a bit better to visualize the relationships between financial data. Hoping it could potentially earn me some money on the side, but either way it's become a labor of love over the last year that I can't seem to quit working on.
I'm actually just using styled components and styling everything one-off (trying to re-use components as much as possible to maintain some sense of cohesiveness). Started building a design system in Figma awhile back, but realized how much time I was spending on something that wasn't adding value and backed off.
Isn't there an online version of Spotify? Doesn't seem like it would be overly complex to login with the users credentials and scrape the data, much like how some of the federated banking APIs work.
I think if you search hard enough, you can find some type or form of misinformation that parts of the left accept as truth. The problem is they don't even try.
We can't as far as I can see. The media is a huge machine that really influences the opinion among a lot of people. I don't know how to break out of this destructive situation other than reforming media, which seems like an impossibility.
I'd argue more specifically social media; countless snarky and sensational memes being promoted by AI to maximize views while propagating half-truths and lies. The Fox Newses and Huffington Posts provide the seeds, but it's social media that twists and amplifies the baseline propaganda.
Also, we have a POTUS that has normalized disinformation and lies as long as the ends justify the means. The extremes of both parties have been happy to take this up since those are the playground rules now. A fish rots from the head.
>The Fox Newses and Huffington Posts provide the seeds
Seeds? They are desperately trying to fight for attention of common man that is sucked into social media dopamine drip.
Its a loosing battle and they are pushing boundaries of journalism (though not sure if that term applies to fox news anymore).
Report something second too late and loose half of potential viewers/readers - when facebook/blogs have no problem reporting anything, how a newspaper suppose to verify story before publishing? By the time its verified its old news and people are already on some other outrage.
Sure, blame someone else. But this is essentially all of us: we want to make money and at the same time everything for free. We simply need a governement to protect us from ourselves.
That plant didn't come back (yet?), but not a week ago I am planting some new flowers I got on sale and I see that a plant that I had written off as dead a year ago was actually had a green stalk still at least up to the soil line. I've seen plants survive and come back from a lot, but nothing like this. I'm going to keep watering it and hopefully it will grow a new stalk and come back to life!