Yes, I think I understand your point now. You are saying that while this paper shows a patient with necrotizing encephalitis and myocarditis that is correlated to, and possibly contributed to by infiltration of COVID spike proteins, it does not demonstrate that this is unique to vaccination with an mRNA vaccine and may be present in persons with a COVID infection.

GP's point seems to be that this may be caused by an mRNA vaccine so why take the risk and instead use more traditional vaccine if it has the same efficacy.

If those are fair summaries (big if), then IMHO, we require more research in these corner cases and should continue to develop mRNA based vaccines for novel uses.

I'm a strong believer in vaccination and science based healthcare. I know I'm grateful for the safety that vaccines have provided my children and myself. I just had my second shingles vaccine, what a relief to know that I'm now mostly protected. I probably don't have to worry about my children with the current measles outbreaks.

Thank you for taking the time to reply and help me understand.

From the paper:

"Immunohistochemistry for SARS-CoV-2 antigens (spike protein and nucleocapsid) revealed that the lesions with necrotizing encephalitis as well as the acute inflammatory changes in the small blood vessels (brain and heart) were associated with abundant deposits of the spike protein SARS-CoV-2 subunit 1. Since the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2 was consistently absent, it must be assumed that the presence of spike protein in affected tissues was not due to an infection with SARS-CoV-2 but rather to the transfection of the tissues by the gene-based COVID-19-vaccines. Importantly, spike protein could be only demonstrated in the areas with acute inflammatory reactions (brain, heart, and small blood vessels), in particular in endothelial cells, microglia, and astrocytes. This is strongly suggestive that the spike protein may have played at least a contributing role to the development of the lesions and the course of the disease in this patient."

The paper seems to clearly support GP and contradict your accusation that they are lying. Can you explain?

Sony has the best processing and motion interpolation. I agree that this is what has set them apart. They have been using other manufacturers displays, chips, audio processing, etc for years now. The only "Sony" part has the processing and quality control.

If TCL can bring Sony processing to their new 85in-130in class displays... well that will be amazing. I'll be first in line for one.

This is the code they show:

||/ Fetch edge features based on 'input' struct into ['Features ] buffer.
pub fn fetch_features (
    &mut self, input: &dyn BotsInput,
    features: &mut Features,
) -> Result<(), (ErrorFlags, 132)> {
// update features checksum (lower 32 bits) and copy edge feature names
    features.checksum &= 0xFFFF_FFFF_0000_0000;
    features.checksum |= u64::from(self.config.checksum);
    let (feature_values, _) = features
      append_with_names(&self.config.feature_names)
      Unwrap ();

Because it is just factually wrong and Slashdot doesn't have a "wrong" or "incorrect" mod option.

NEM was modified to drive investment and demand in battery energy storage. CA massively over produces solar energy. So much so that utilities are forced to PAY out of state utilities to take our excess production. The solution is more storage, not more generating capacity.

The market was not driving investment in batteries and demand is too low to drive economies of scale and reduce cost. The State decided to change the market to benefit everyone (the whole world) by driving battery demand in California. As demand rises and costs reduce, the rest of the world benefits as well. Simple facts, the debate was public, records exist, it's not a conspiracy or hand out.

The poster is just angry and spreading misinformation, thus a "troll" in the Slashdot mod scheme.

Sure, enclosing your antennas in a Faraday cage will block all harmful interference (and all other signals as well). Your shack on the other hand is not likely a source of RFI.

This just isn't true and can easily be verified by anyone looking at Google Earth. Outside of the cities and mountains, almost the entire island is covered in farms and ranches. There is almost no empty land that is not being used for agriculture. Just hop into google earth, zoom in to a mid-level and scroll around. Every large patch of "empty land" is nearly 100% covered with agriculture. The difference in "empty land" between the UK and Canada/USA is shocking. It's a small country with 10,000 years+ of civilization, no surprise that it's all in use.

They provide no real detail on their website, just "+13.6%" with no other data or information. Is that the Nominal price return? Nominal total return? With dividends reinvested? The annualized rate???? Without more detail it's not even possible to tell if they beat a blind investment into an S&P500 index fund. For reference, the same six month period the S&P500 did:

10.4% Nominal return
18.3% Annualized return
11.2% Return with dividends reinvested
19.8% Annualized with dividends

Smells like hype from dummies.

Late reply, but would you help me understand why the membrane in your example is not discrete?

It seems to me that any membrane that actually exists in our universe must be made up of discrete components and is therefore discrete itself. To extend your example, I may continue slicing holes in a pattern until I am left with a one-atom wide but very long strip. This can still be considered the same membrane, just in a different shape. It still has length and width as required for a plane or membrane (for loose definitions of width.) It still has the same total surface area. It now no longer has any holes(and weirdly only ever one hole as I cut) but exactly zero is still an integer. If I now cut the membrane in two (can't cut an atom in two halves) I have two discrete membranes. I can continue this until all membranes consist of two atoms only. The number of membranes is an integer. If I further divide each two-atom membrane, I am left with individual atoms and no membranes. Both are discrete integer quantities. It seem like any physically existing membrane (or any object) must be discrete. I know this is a simplified but long-winded descent into Max Planck's work but I'm wondering what I'm missing or not understanding.

OK, I did some math.

From their most recent Schedule 990 they had $62 million in income, $58 million in expenses with a net income/profit of $4 million.

Total expenses for the event itself, not including any wages, travel, insurance, legal costs, etc. was $18.1 million. With 80,000 attending, that is $227 per person to cover the basic cost of infrastructure.

Salaries and other compensation for employees was $26.6 million or 46% of all expenses.

Form 990 here: 990

The question then becomes is SpaceX profitable? As a private company they release limited information. Several reputable sources(WSJ, CNBC,MF, etc.) have done independent analysis and determined that SpaceX became profitable in 2024 with some losses in 2022 & 2023. This is including the massive losses around developing Starbase, Super Heavy & Starship. Without those losses it is likely they would have wildly profitable the last three years. Informed speculation is that the current prices are in fact high relative to cost. When a competitor has a compelling alternative we are likely to see sudden and significant price reductions, perhaps a loss leader then.

I feel that most of this misses the intention. It is easy to get caught up in the edge cases, in the you vs. a powerful State actor... This is not reality, the vast majority of first world users (the reality of what we are talking about here) are not trying to hide anything from the CIA or the State, they don't want Hilton to snoop their porn browsing on the hotel wifi, they want some additional privacy from simple snooping and tracking at Starbucks. A VPN combined with some simple anti-tracking measures accomplishes this and at a low cost, in time and money. The day is coming soon with DNS over TLS and the like when VPN's won't matter as much but there will always be software that communicates in the open that some people want to hide.

What you are saying is true if you really need to hide from the CIA. I don't and neither do you(I hope).

Yeah, it's an oddly comforting sensation to see a part of the web long gone by. The heady optimism and joy of those early days were potent and infectious. It was a new world, a better world if we would only build it. We've come so far but some days.... some days I miss it more than I should.

YNAB has done more to reduce anxiety and worry in my life than any other piece of software ever. It has helped me to be debt free, to build wealth and have financial security. If you worry about money or how you make your finances work, take 10 minutes and check it out.

There are still dozens of us!! Mostly genX though so we don't really care about any of this nonsense.