I’m one of the people who had an adverse reaction to the COVID vaccine and boosters, a mild allergic reaction resulting in shortness of breath. Sucked to have to spend an extra hour or so at the vaccine centre each time to be monitored, but a small price to pay. My father-in-law unfortunately did develop pericarditis, which was a known side-effect of the vaccine he received. He’s doing better these days, but it took over a year to clear up.

But despite that, I’d still recommend getting those shots. Apart from these side-effects being rare, I’ve seen how Long-COVID fucked up two of my friends. Both in their 20’s, healthy, worked out very regularly and in peak condition. COVID completely wrecked them, one catched it before the vaccine became available and the other now regrets his decision to put his trust in the crap floating around social media. Hard lesson to learn.

Personally I came down with COVID at some point and it made Influenza feel like the common cold. I don’t think I’ve ever felt worse in my entire life and I shudder at the thought of how it might have ended had I skipped the jabs.

Joselyn doesn’t want to get her children vaccinated despite the outbreak because she claims to know people who’ve had adverse reactions

Because ‘death’ totally isn’t one of the possible adverse reactions from measles. Oh wait…

a lot of European countries have a policy of 5 years legal residence -> permanent residence/green card.

I would like to stress that rules vary (wildly) between countries. In the Netherlands for example you’ll probably need a sponsor, e.g. a partner, employer or educational institution to qualify for a residence permit.

Ensure you familiarise yourself with the rules of the country you want to move to and don’t expect things will be about the same in other EU countries.

Thanks, I hadn’t come across the term, TIL.

Vibe… what now? Is that like coding in all caps when you’re pissed off or in a bastardised flavour of “CaMel CaSe” for those moments you want some spice things up with some sarcasm?

Why is he figuring things out himself? Surely that’s the AI’s job, right? Right?

And although it isn’t LGBTQ+, it definitely looks mentally ill. Hopefully it will shed and slither back to whatever hole it came from.

Ubuntu, the Nickelback of distros.

Ah, so he’s going to stop posting there? Right?

Titanic.

The hype here was insane, when I finally saw it the experience was… underwhelming. Such a boring slog of a movie, mediocre CGI when disaster finally struck and that stupid end… Get on the piece of wood that is obviously big enough to hold you both, you dolt.

Only upside is that I watched it on TV, so apart from some hours of my life I’ll never get back it didn’t cost me anything.

I cannot come up with a use-case for ChatGPT in my personal life, so no impact there.

For work it was a game-changer. No longer do I need to come up with haiku’s to announce it is release-freeze day, I just let ChatGPT crap one out so we can all have a laugh at its lack of poetic talent.

I’ve tried it now and then for some programming related questions, but I found its solutions dubious at best.

Haha, guess so. Ah well, no harm done.

Guess I should have used /s.

It’s, in my experience, the ‘universities are liberal/woke indoctrination centres’ folks are also the ones whom have issues with grasping the difference between evidence, facts and opinions.

Evidence is just a fancy word for opinion, right?

Unfortunately in my country HBO was only available as an add-on, so you’d need an expensive cable subscription you didn’t want and then pay extra for the concent you’d actually wanted to see. Pretty bad deal.

When I moved out my first decision was to not get cable anymore. Streaming wasn’t even a factor in that decision as Netflix was only just starting here. I just didn’t care about all the drivel broken up by increasingly long commercial blocks. Lack of quality killed TV for me, not streaming.

I seriously doubt if the radiation perv scanner doesn’t get people to do anything

You mean the backscatter X-ray units that have already been phased out 10 years ago?

The modern milimeter-wave scanners both do not reveal anything and do not use ionising radiation. If radiation is a concern to you, you really shouldn’t be flying at all to be honest. The dose you get up there is much higher than you’d get from an X-ray scanner, although it is still negligible.

If it’s written in the law, it’s lawful. You can of course (and should!) debate about the morality of the diverse forms of lawful interception, but a blanket statement like ‘“lawful interception” is a fallacy’, is a fallacy in of itself.

Which, as a non-American makes me wonder: what happens if this oaf is elected, but at some point turns out to be impaired to the point of non being able to hold the office anymore? Assuming the Republicans will ever acknowledge that, seeing how it feels like they’d support him even if he was swinging on the lamps while throwing faeces everywhere.