It’s like a wedding venue—you have to hire the stadium catering for it, it ain’t cheap.

Also holy crap just looked immune privlidge up and the central nervous system is part of the group—is that why rabies can lurk for years and then crawl up your spine and kill you?

Ah thanks—that sounds much more accurate than my vague description. It’s so interesting that there are these sort of autonomous zones in our bodies. My understanding is that when the viruses are in there, they aren’t necessarily a threat to you anymore—basically just sorta hiding out. But certainly in the testes you could imagine it being a problem for transmission sexually…

I think it’s like the dude who had Ebola in his eye, it can get inside the environment and stay there and the body’s immune system doesn’t follow it in. So, I guess, hantavirus is stored in the balls?

I do not understand the vagueness of most of the reporting on this, nor the ironclad insistence that it requires intimate/prolonged contact to spread. They keep insinuating that it’s being spread through contact or surfaces in their messaging, but there have already been some transmissions this time that make that seem iffy. The case study on the Argentinian outbreak of the same strain (2019) seemed to suggest some possible airborne transmission and did not necessarily require close proximity or long duration exposure—some of the people infected by the wedding were sitting tables away from the infected person and only overlapped with them for about an hour before that person went home feeling sick.

All that to say; I don’t see strong evidence to freak out, but I also hate the very clear political/post-covid hesitance to treat this as a thing that is actually threatening. Letting people wander around in public with a disease you suspect might be airborne and that has a proven fatality rate of 30-50% is really irresponsible, but “muh freedoms” I guess. In the atomized marketplace that has been subbed in for “society” it’s up to you to maintain your fitness for work, bucko!

Oh good, it’s gonna be clean, lol. Crazy. Thanks for excerpting that

Have they stated a plan for how they’re going to get the energy? Presumably the Utah grid doesn’t have 2x unused capacity sitting around.

Yeah this was my thought—we don’t have the department that works on that stuff, sorry! Someone could eventually lawsuit or drag execs into a hearing over their poor performance responding to statutory required requests, but how likely is that at the moment…

So good

Wait do we get extra treats with plus? Less ads at least? Awww no, nope. We still get ads.

That… that’s no cat, that’s an inter dimensional being

I’ve heard Jeffry Sachs use the same terminology and assumed it was UN/Diplo speak for topic/issue/area of discussion. Like you keep a different file in different issues and work each one etc

giving off some very “Ilsa, Nazi She-Wolf of the SS” vibes

I remember watching some of this show because my wife was into it, and being sorta shocked at how much SA there was and how gleefully the show revolved around it.

‘When you’re burned…’

My wife and I will randomly say this to each other whenever a phrase brings it up “damn I burned the toast” “when you’re burned…”

That os a spectacular design

Why is this… posting an article from Feb 2025…

This kinda nails something that I feel like a lot of speculative media get wrong. I remember watching terminator salvation (random anecdote) and being sort of annoyed that the terminator factory still had regular doors, control panels, all of the stuff needed for human workers. It should have been more like a “dark factory”, I guess I could hand wave it that they were reusing an older space or whatever, but basically the insistence on this alien/powerful thing that was still oriented around purely human scale design.

This object kinda breaks that, and suggests a vaster, non-human oriented purpose (even though, in this case it’s exactly the opposite). Basically just dig the aesthetic/scale. If you weren’t already terrified of your cancer diagnosis, this thing would certainly finish the job of asking you feel small and insignificant…

Who’s laughing now Alex, who’s laughing now?

Great detailed analysis