wow, you're uneducated as hell. Flu can absolutely do this to healthy people. More often the case is that people mix what a "cold" and "flu" is when they get sick. And without proper viral testing, it'll be difficult to tell exactly which one is which. The easiest way to describe it is: A flu is generally worse symptoms than a cold--but that may not always be the case.

Either way, not every situation in which someone gets sick and dies is "because they had an underlying health issue". Sometimes you just roll the dice wrong and for whatever reason you get totally fucked over by whatever you're infected by. It's like saying that someone died from a brain eating amoeba while thousands of other people swam in the same water and didn't get the brain eating amoeba. There's nothing particularly special about why you may not have been impacted versus them. Just luck of the draw sometimes.

The flu can cause serious problems in even healthy adults. So the best recommendation is to get vaccinated.

While we may not get results as good as covid vaccines, we should be able to aim more consistently I'd guess with mRNA flu vaccines than what we end up with today. So even if we go from "50% this year, 14% that year"--and we get to "60% year over year", that's still a pretty huge improvement.

Is this not a simple issue of Supply & Demand?

A) UK kicks out tens of thousands of EU truck drivers. (Supply Reduction)
B) UK requires 100,000 truck drivers. (Demand Increase)
C) Companies in UK pay more for UK-based truck drivers?

I mean, I know that businesses don't want it to work that way--but clearly that's what people want. It also means the costs of goods will go up as the costs of delivery go up.

There's a very stark difference between protesting in the street, burning cars, and shattering some glass, and even stealing items; and attempting to overthrow our Democratic government. Like, there's a wild difference. The two can't even come close to being compared.

One group wants to be treated equally, and shatters some glass and maybe sets a few fires to make that known--and the other group wants to murder democratically elected officials because of conspiracy theories about "adrenochrome", "eating babies", "drinking blood", "the gays", and other bullshit.

Sorry, the two "sides" aren't comparable here.

All they literally did, quite literally, was search the network for all channels with "Libera" in the topic and took them over. They didn't do this because of spam. They searched the network for any channel that had libera in the topic and took it over. Through dubious claims that those channels and communities now belonged to Freenode as soon as the channel owners decided to either move or spin up an alternatively linked channel on Libera.

For those that don't know, many channels these days have bots that link disparate communities together: Most commonly this is between Discord, Slack, and IRC. Some channels stood up an additional one on Libera. But because "Libera" was in the channel's topic, the Freenode admins stripped channel ownership and banned everyone.

Why? Because their claim was "If you move to Libera, you've given up all rights to the channel namespace on Freenode--and it's now our property to take."

The worst part? The channel I was in hadn't even completely moved to Libera. The expectation and thought was that many would move, but due to the channel being a larger channel with web presences that linked to Freenode, we would maintain it and support communications across the networks.I can definitely assure you, this action by the current Freenode administration sealed that deal. Seriously, his "apology" is such BS. The very first paragraph is bullshit.

Utah has no legal standing to pass such a "filter".

That's because, realistically, nobody cares about doing this on Android. It has happened on PCs: See Steam, Epic Games Store, Bethesda Launcher, etc etc.

finally someone called this out. I tweeted this link and said the exact same thing. Everyone all in this thread talking about Appleâ€(TM)s 30% cut when literally the only reason this bill exists is because they are upset Apple booted off the QAnon app off of its store.

Good riddance.

If you're scared of this, wait until you see what your company can do with their EDR solution!

You say this, but let's share your credentials for kernel development.

I love the complaints in here over DST, I especially like the suggestions that "schools should adjust schedules so that kids should not go to school in the dark."

And therein lies the problem. So instead of adjusting the clocks, we'll now adjust everybody's schedule. In the winter time, you work from 9A-6P. In the summertime, you work from 10A-7P. Bam!

You now sleep until 8A instead of 7A, or in the winter time you sleep until 7A instead of 8A!

And....you're doing exactly what you would have fucking done with DST, except where you change the timings...

I am reading lots of arguments where people go "Well what about THIS random edge case? and THAT one?" You won't win against these people. These are the same people who willingly drop $20,000 on a new truck because they might get 2 inches of snow in the winter, rather than simply $1,000 on a set of good winter tires and wheels. Or $20,000 on a truck because there is the rare occasion they may need to haul something, rather than renting a truck from the local Home Depot or UHaul for a hundred bucks or two.

Funny thing about Pebble is that they weren't a "smart watch" company. They were a data mining Silicon Valley company. Pebble was looking for more data scientists than they were giving a damn about making a hardware product. I met a few of them.

The hardware product was just barely a thing to allow them to collect the data they wanted (where their real attempt at money was in data collection and sales). "Big Data" is going belly up it seems.

I agree with you, but I still think it's a problem for most American workers. Though there is a large bit of uneducated populace that could take on these jobs. Though I highly doubt someone who obtained a 4-year degree is going to come out and do laborious farm-hand type work even if you tied the minimum wage to the cost of living. (That said, at least in the short term, it might help because a cost of living min wage would be far higher than what the education was worth itself).

Honestly, while I don't disagree that being a good farmer takes a lot of education, dedication, experience, and time; the average American college student is going through many tens of thousands of dollars in debt, being told that this was what they needed to do in order to compete in the educated world economy; only to get out of school and find the jobs are at worst "internships" that are unpaid, and at best are jobs that are paid like absolute garbage. For that matter, the universities also are not necessarily providing them the skills they need to actually contribute in the workforce. I often times interact with college students in my career and I find that while they are energetic and want to learn, they were woefully unprepared for even the most basic understanding. And this is an absolute problem for anyone entering a Bachelor's program. The problem is, our education system is doing this en masse, to every single student. "Get the paper! It will get you a career and you'll pay that loan right off! Your American dream will come true!"

Again, I'm not discounting the farmers. Though I do discount the farm hands who do nothing but do menial tasks in the field. Though I do agree that farm work should pay more as well and incentivize hiring locals to do the jobs.

At any rate, the problem is multi-pronged and requires a multi-pronged approach to fixing. Unfortunately that requires analyzing both education and VISA policies. And Americans love their college football culture too much to give a shit about the actual education quality received. It's pretty terrible.