mine is a pi 4 but basically the same, just shoved inside a box for protection

I’m just gonna post any findings I do notice as a comment as not to mislead in the original post.

1. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-reveals-covid-vaccine-safety-patients.html

So the one thing I see a lot of skeptic accounts mention is “blood clots” and heart/circulatory issues following vaccination, which the study mentioned in this article directly addresses. From what I can tell from this analysis, however, is that: yes the risk of “thrombo-embolic events” does increase post-vaccine,but only if you were already suffering or at risk of atrial fibrillation/flutter. Furthermore, this increased risk was only if at-risk patients weren’t given anti-coagulant medications post-vaccine.

The IRR across the whole population was 0.93 (Which I’m taking to mean more-or-less no difference in risk?) whereas for the untreated, at-risk group was 1.88.

2. https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/major-vaccine-study-finds-heart-risks-are-rare--and-the-real-is-being-unvaccinated/

So personally I don’t think these articles are as helpful because it has more opinion to it, but then I’m still personally too layman to understand the source material either. Then again, I’m only mentioning it here because Salon has some actual journalistic integrity from what I gather, unlike the Daily Mail.

This one covers claims of myocarditis and Guillian-barre syndrome, and points out that these “side effects” are also present in… getting COVID. I’m well aware that COVID and long-COVID are strongly linked to heart/circulation issues so it also makes sense if the vaccine had these rare side effects - no different to getting a snotty nose and a headache after a flu shot.

3. https://pennstatehealthnews.org/2022/09/covid-19-infection-causes-myocarditis/#%3A~%3Atext=The+researchers+compared+patients+with%2Cdid+not+contract+the+virus.

This link is one of the papers mentioned in the Salon article, about the risk of myocarditis being 7 times more likely from COVID infections over vaccination. Honestly this is more helpful for me to digest; It’s good enough to look at “X times in Y doses, Z sometimes happens” but that isn’t the dice roll I’m making - the game of chance is what side effects of infection am I risking that would be avoided/mitigated by vaccination which might be a good in-road with my FIL.

inb4 it’s actually some microcode change introduced to intel management engine

that was my reference lmao. all this freikorps ahh posting to go from 6% to 5% is fucking embarassing.

I’ve swiped a few things through self checkouts - usually extra pricey vegan meat lmao. It’s just so funny how these same stores usually have a food bank collection at the front that’s entirely customer-funded when fuckloads of perishable meats, dairy, etc. are just thrown out or sold at a massive discount via those discount food waste apps.

depends on the store.

Though it was cheese I saw that was locked up in actual fkn boxes. Similar articles mention other measures like only stocking 3 or 4 expensive items at a time so a smash n grab isn’t as lucrative.

Also, shops about the size of a bodega or gas station store often have private security during evenings, but that has been a thing for years now??? idk I only noticed it since I moved to England from Wales in 2017. Theyve been a thing at larger stores for longer but now even smaller (usually chain) stores enlist them.

As a Brit, it’s really funny seeing this “russia is toast ANY second now, guys” propaganda when we’ve had lurpak locked up in plastic alarmed boxes since 2020.

Of course the Russian economy is gonna struggle, but even an imploding post-soviet neoliberal hellscape is gonna roll an identical post-soviet neoliberal hellscape but with half a dozen f-16s and a fraction of the population.

Kerala is unironically the best state of India and unbelievably based

David Lammy’s first call after becoming Foreign Minister was his counterpart in… the UAE

Motherfucker is kompromat af

I’m assuming next to one of those “I gOt thiS bEforE i FouNd oUt hE’s aN ASshOLe” stickers

Zelensky has been spotted in Kupyansk. the kiss of death from a front line Ukrainian city

Yeah unexpected blackouts are v bad, but with hospitals usually on their own power grid (and with their own generators) people in those situations are usually taken to hospitals or other areas where generators are available.

Though if you’re in a state like Texas, you’re pretty much at constant risk of being fucked by blackouts anyway tbf

Using tinder like a ranked FPS is surely something

Nice! they updated the date on the little medal :) I donated 20EUR a while back to support their awesome work with KDE 6 and the general Wayland efforts.

KDE, GNOME, Linux etc. all help by having one big foundation for loads of projects. It would be nice to have some foundations for other projects that don’t/can’t fill those particular niches.

that’s the only hope, because Nintendo knows that as long as it goes to court, they can bleed out the palworld developers with endless legal attrition. I’m sure they know that these patents aren’t concrete; they’re just an easy way to drag people to court who can’t afford to fight back

Then not even sell the damn things

Sorta true. Nintendo has been monetizing emulation for years, ever since they started releasing “virtual console” games on the Wii web shop.

The Switch now offers NES/SNES games as a benefit of their online service, and has released a handful of games as standalone releases which are literally just nicely-packaged emulators (Mario Sunshine and Galaxy 1/2 bundle for example)

If emulation and “piracy” of old consoles is allowed, then Nintendo fears it won’t be able to charge as much to repackage identical technology as full-price game releases.

Software parents, specifically game mechanic parents, are fucking insane. You should see the stuff Square Enix has patented following death stranding.

I get the whole “they just reskinned my game mechanics!!!” but also: I don’t. It’s like saying Go, Draughts, Chess, etc. are copies or “infringing” on one another for being a board game set on a grid with black/white pieces.

Even the idea of intellectual property is shaky for me but at least it’s more clear cut whether you’ve directly copied or deceived someone with a similar design of a character.

the author’s barely disguised fetish spotted

libs when they think calling out a Nazi as a racist will be the end of their political career