I’m working on my private pilot license. Recently learned the most common AV fuel in the US is 100LL. 100 octane Low lead. That’s right, it has lead!

Commercial jet fuel doesn’t, but all those small planes you see running around (and that I’m training in) are running leaded gas. It was supposed to be phased out by 2018, but reasons…

Today is also my son’s 10 birthday!

Don’t forget the placebo effect works both ways. All the antivax people that got the vaccine even though they may not have wanted to, are going attribute everything weird that then happens to the vaccine.

This is all going to take years to sort out and figure out what’s real and what’s not. And we’ll never know 100%. The bigger issue is whether we’ll be able to trust our present or future leaders to let science do its job.

> This is all going to take years to sort out and figure out what’s real and what’s not.

This is usually sorted out before mass vaccination. We rolled out completely novel technologies and skipped the medium and long term safety steps.

If these negative outcomes turn out to be true, there will be no going back from this. The future of mRNA will be circling the drain, and vaccination in general may go down with it. Distrust in science and government will soar and it may take decades to fix.

> If these negative outcomes turn out to be true, there will be no going back from this.

I really hope that we can have a sensible discussion about safety and relative risks with 90% of the population.

(Naive, I know...)

That seems incredibly unlikely. People who have been hesitant to get the vaccine have been mocked and ridiculed for months. I honestly can’t even imagine what will happen if it turns out that they were right to be hesitant.

There are no caveats to all the statements that the vaccines are safe and effective.

Speaking personally, they’ll need to do an amazing job quantifying the risks and performing further long-term studies before I would consider an additional booster shot.

One thing IMO - that would help our leaders is if they recognize “science” is not a person or a thing… it’s a process. Away if thinking that allows for the discovery of both positive and negative outcomes. It is a process. /2cents

"This is all going to take years to sort out and figure out what’s real and what’s not."

It shouldn't have to if the system actually works. The problem is VEARS sees significant under reporting. In theory, you should report every little thing that has an unknown cause. Then researchers can view the data and eliminate symptoms by comparing them to the population baseline occurrence.

We have unvaccinated control groups in countries that don't get a vaccine, so we probably will know at some point.

Cool, I was planning on using ubiquity gear, so will look more into this.

Self hosted bitwarden (well, vault warden) is pretty good. With a lot of passwords (600) the browser extension is a little slow, but not bad. I left 1password once they moved to cloud and subscriptions and haven’t missed it.

Plus, set hosted BW gets you all the premium features, like shared vaults for the wife and family.

Always surprised more people don’t use countly. Runs nice in docker or digital ocean. https://count.ly. Been self hosting it for years with few issues.

For example, check out VGSLX.

You can actually use cloudflare workers to mitigate this. You use a worker to act as a proxy so that most blockers won't block the tracker. More details:

https://blog.garble.org/using-cloudflare-to-increase-analyti...

I don't believe it would scale well to a big site though ($$)

You can do this but please don’t! Respect that users have signalled their intent to not be tracked in this way instead.

Plausible has docs on how to set up proxying: https://plausible.io/docs/proxy/introduction

I think one thing the aristocracy got right was that your children are a reflection of you as a parent. That seems to have been lost nowadays in the US. Nowadays, a problem kid is due to video games, school, peers, you name it. No, it's the parent, 95% of the time. But we let the parents off with they did their best..but did they?

While I agree with you that it's mostly the parents, I think we poorly equip and support parents. Many have had poor role models to begin with and without external influence are doomed to repeat history. Support for parents is quite poor IMO and should be massively increased. Unfortunately, our society requires children to continue the next generation but we seem to value child-less people more (in our rewards to them).

The phrase I like to tell people that tends to stick better, IMHO:

You can do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want.