IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, November 28, 2022

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The article and the day's work are of course lost but if the backups were

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done responsibly it should be less than 24 hours lost.

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Encryption is another matter though.

schestowitz-TR

some days ago, when ipfs was having issues 'upstream' (nothing wrong at our end, no changed had been made)

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I turned on ipfs on the pi

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a couple of days later the lockfile got stuck

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I only turned off ipfs there a day ago

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and I noticed no updates in gemini since 25/11

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I deleted the lockfile, reran, but some older articles are not in gemini

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I suspect it limited itself to maybe 10 latest posts -- less than the total in the RSS feeds

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I can check in a bit, but the weak link in the current work flow is that

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the links are gathered from RSS.

schestowitz-TR

yes, but if ipfs is not running, then the weakness does not manifest itself

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after several days of ipfs request timeouts I decided to temporarily run it on the pi, at least for older objects

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ipfs worked like a charm again this morning

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I suspect their hive/network/swarm had some issues with itself, maybe last week and some of this week

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it's hard to find any real news about ipfs

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there are reasons for that

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I think I narrowed down the io issues on "vonick" to quiterss and disk churn

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it not only takes more ram then before

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it would hog io

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leaving other processes on the queue

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the simplest solution, for now, is to close the application

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it's possible that the db itself is not in a good state

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Running batch processing of old, missed pages for Gemini.

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checking

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Updating Gemini hierarchy and Gemini index

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just expanded camelcase a bit

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some new sites emerge, but not as many as go offline or become inactive and barely active

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the issue isn't so much cleaning feeds or finding enough feeds

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the issue is lack of circulation of information, a lack of journalism

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which in turn means harder to write, rather than repeat (WSL)

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Done: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/

Nov 28 08:38

schestowitz-TR

excellent, thank you!

Nov 28 08:38

schestowitz-TR

biab exercise

Nov 28 08:38

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Nov 28 08:41

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was afak last was "np"

Nov 28 09:43

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nothing missed

Nov 28 09:43

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ack

Nov 28 11:53

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The Decline of COVID-19 Severity and Lethality Over Two Years of Pandemic (Center for Health Emergencies, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/28/covid19-paper-italy/

Nov 28 12:01

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » The Decline of COVID-19 Severity and Lethality Over Two Years of Pandemic (Center for Health Emergencies, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy)

Nov 28 12:01

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busy with upc these weeks, very crucial time

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I responsed to the journalist after she had sent me email

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the 'proper' way, not Microsoft 'social' 'media'

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upc is a political issue, not a technical or legal issue

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seems to be widepread knowledge... over time

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UPC is very important and getting coverage of the problems is crucial

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in making sure it stays dead. The more companies which get suckered by

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team UPC, though, the bigger the scandal will grow and the longer they

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all will try to draw out the admission of its demise.

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UPC is a "monster" bigger than any one company

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because it is convergence of several companies, across fields,a dn their controlled regimes and policial parties

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but we must give it a fight

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sometimes we even win

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Law is on our side AFAIK but the largest problem over time is the

Nov 28 13:03

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lack of accountability and oversight enforcing any aspect of law there.

Nov 28 13:03

schestowitz-TR

yes, _exactly_

Nov 28 13:04

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motto of mine (not inspired any oneone): no regrets as long as you knew you did your best at it

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in the case of the upc, I did my best. whether others join in and help... not my problem. As I did my best

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to get others involved in the issue.

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when orgs crush the law in their path (microsoft, eu, upc), they will struggle to paint critics as "haters"

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It'd be nice though to get a little help on the sw patent problem from EFF, FSFF, FFII, OSI, or others even if they operating fulling i

Nov 28 13:09

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y independently from TR on it.

Nov 28 13:09

schestowitz-TR

EFF is mostly shit

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I did a 44-min video to show that it did or didn't do on EPO, swpats directive, and swpats in the US

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FSF is not doing much (still better than doing evil)

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FFII 2 pres releases ina year(and some... tweets... boo)

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OSI = Microsoft front group, part time

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Shit or not, they need to stop ignoring a problem which affects the long,

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medium, and short term viability of general purpose computing and digital

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rights.

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The FSF could stir from its dazed state this once.

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OSI could grow a pair.

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I'd just defer to what Pieter said about misbehaving orgs

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they won'r reform

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they will go under or keep at it (the "new" agenda)

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I've yet to see an org going bad, then good again

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there is a human flight element

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like gillmore getting the boot (eff)

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Right, they won't reform but that does not mean they can't be squeezed or

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cajoled into doing the right thing one more time.

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ack

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I tried with EFF and OSI

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and nothing came out of it

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they are cajoled by others and better funded interests

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and they love their pocket more than what the orgs stand for

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cannot think of topics for articles or videos today

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already went through lists of places to check

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i know it is extended weekend in usa

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but still

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got lots of spare time, even slept a lot more lately

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and writing or recording just "for the sake of it"

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always results in low-qualify cruft

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so better not, better silence

Nov 28 15:23

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thanks, I will try to contexualise that with "news"

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btw, lanier is a microsofter

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he 'rebranded' some eyars ago as some 'guru' on harms of social control media

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fter some books he wrote

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*after

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I saw an interview with him about that

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he doesn't say anything too novel

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jus rehash

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the media made him what he is

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and then Microsoft hired him

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iirc, he wrote a log in TheEdge along with Jeffrey Epstein

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edge.org

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now he's just some very obese man who pretends to be an expert in whatever he sells a book on

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like vr, hey hi...

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iirc, his claim to fame is some vr stuff

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his latest 'blockbuster' article is in bill's guardian 'uk'

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schestowitz-TR

still chewing on eff and twitter etc.

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now sure i have anything new or witty to say just yet

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*not

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even though about it on the way to the shop and back

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writer's block

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the slant du jour is,

Nov 28 17:00

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saying "bad" things (saying something about what's bad) is "illegal" because "privacy"

Nov 28 17:00

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"CoC" takes that to another level

Nov 28 17:00

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100 day blogging challenge: Let's get those RSS feeds going again: Dissociated Press ⚓ https://dissociatedpress.net/2022/11/28/100-day-blogging-challenge-lets-get-those-rss-feeds-going-again/ ䷉ Source: Joe Brockmeier

Nov 28 17:08

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-dissociatedpress.net | 100 day blogging challenge: Let’s get those RSS feeds going again: Dissociated Press

Nov 28 17:08

schestowitz-TR

this is what we want! back to blogs!!

Nov 28 17:08

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:) :)

Nov 28 17:09

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i think I know what video to make... while afk I got an idea

Nov 28 17:44

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herding people from twitter to mgemini and rss/blog challenges

Nov 28 17:44

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ack

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OTA in a moment...

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daemonfc has taken covid-19 very very violently

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after 4 shots

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he is 37

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I hope he survives unscathed

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DaemonFC: ^

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Thank you.

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you look 37 ;-)

DaemonFC

I have a 3 PM appointment to see the NP.

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I chose Highland Park CVS Minute Clinic and 3 PM because I know that's usually when that NP that Mandy saw is there.

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She didn't give us crap about not wanting to prescribe Paxlovid.

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So you go with what you know. :)

Nov 28 18:22

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who took it harder?

Nov 28 18:36

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you or mandy, so far? (day 1)

Nov 28 18:36

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different genetics, same vaccination

Nov 28 18:36

DaemonFC

I got it much worse.

Nov 28 18:41

DaemonFC

I couldn't move last night to get water and a pouch of Tylenol pills sitting right next to me.

Nov 28 18:41

DaemonFC

I had to dial him on my phone using my nose because it hurt too bad to move anything other than my head.

Nov 28 18:42

schestowitz-TR

so there might be long-lasting damage

Nov 28 18:43

DaemonFC

Then once the Tylenol kicked in, I got up and drank some hot mint tea and gave my throat a few blasts of Vick's numbing spray.

Nov 28 18:43

DaemonFC

<schestowitz-TR> so there might be long-lasting damage

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Too soon to tell.

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Hopefully, they give me Paxlovid and it works.

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schestowitz-TR, The COVID is much worse at night.

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It hits you hard at night while you're trying to sleep. This is the second night it did that, and then it lets up a bit during the day.

Nov 28 18:45

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don't know what Paxlovid

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just the brand, "Paxlovid"

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what chemical it is and what it does

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there must be SOME side effects

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"chilling man, start upping your antibodies"

Nov 28 18:47

DaemonFC

It's an antiviral drug.

Nov 28 18:48

schestowitz-TR

how does it work?

Nov 28 18:48

DaemonFC

The other one is Merk's Molnupiravir, but they don't use that much because it's not as effective.

Nov 28 18:48

DaemonFC

Paxlovid is a protease inhibitor and a medication booster that causes the protease inhibitor to stay in your system longer.

Nov 28 18:49

DaemonFC

It basically inhibits viral proteins from coming together in a way that they can invade more cells.

Nov 28 18:49

schestowitz-TR

so it's for survivor

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won't prevent infection either

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hence, masks, distance

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still most effective

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if you can afford to

DaemonFC

Mom thinks she's coming down with COVID again.

Nov 28 18:52

schestowitz-TR

congrats

Nov 28 18:52

schestowitz-TR

maybe she though it's a one-trick pony

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many love to think that

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my mom got it thrice already

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Says symptoms began today. But she thinks it was that nurse's aid that goes around with her mask hanging down.

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Came to speak with her for 15 minutes that way last week then tested +.

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I asked if a fourth one is there already, she through it was a mean wish

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because she likes to socialise like a superspreader

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and covid minimiser

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I wasn't near her long enough ago that it would be from me.

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but got 4 shots

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Yes, church, work idiots.

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Work is the Catholic church even though healthcare.

Nov 28 18:54

DaemonFC

So they get COVID in there all the time because religious bullshit on top of hiring idiots.

Nov 28 18:54

schestowitz-TR

superstitution can be lethal

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Church people aren't brilliant, you know.

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like cancer patients who threw away the pill

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and relied on teleevengelists

DaemonFC

Germs become "God is punishing that person for some sin in their life.".

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Yes, like cancer.

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Same exact thing there.

schestowitz-TR

repent!!

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and heal! HEEEEL dog!

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schestowitz-TR, I think I'll recover but I sure wasn't trying to get it.

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And I know you can get it 5-6 times in rapid succession.

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Immunity is not durable to this. You've got a few months, perhaps.

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1)it still mutates

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2) it mutates faster when more people contract it

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and (2) is why the current strategy is inane

DaemonFC

Yes, "breakthrough" infections.

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they will never stop it

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Lots of them, you know.

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people will just get more ill over time

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and fatalities will be higher

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not per capita fatalities

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but fatalities overall

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they likely deal with a biolological weapons

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likely leaks by ACCIDENT in the Wuhan lab

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and they can't put the genie back in the mottle now

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bootle

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*bottle

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and it keeps mutating

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You'd think a biological weapon would be more deadly than this, though.

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another incarnation might hit young people hearder

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lots of dead babies

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government: no,no, it's milsd

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it's OK, let it do its thing

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Unless maybe it's just to harass another country so they can never get their economy to work right again.

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biological weapon need sto spread

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check

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Ironically, this is happening TO China now, where the government was experimenting on it.

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needs to be hard to combat

DaemonFC

People want to rip Xi's head off and shit down his neck.

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easier to deny

DaemonFC

Their government is destabilizing.

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Don't be fooled.

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It did to them perhaps what its job was to an "enemy country".

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And now it's time for a sneezing fit, apparently.

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don't suppose you do blog posts atm

DaemonFC

Should I?

DaemonFC

Near as I can tell, I'm getting this as hard as most people do who aren't vaccinated.

Nov 28 19:14

DaemonFC

It's pretty crazy.

Nov 28 19:14

DaemonFC

I'll be back in a few hours.

Nov 28 19:15

DaemonFC

Oh, I was looking at the clock I didn't turn back an hour.

Nov 28 19:17

schestowitz-TR

should you? maybe later

Nov 28 19:24

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take notes

Nov 28 19:24

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or use irc logs for pointers

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yes, people who get the shots take it harder than any shots i ever took

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i don''t feel anything after taking them

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all of them get the RealThing later

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and all of them feel it VERY well