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Comment Re: Imagine if the COVID vaccine cultists (Score 1) 317

wrong, the covid vaccines didn't prevent infection or shedding of viruses, only gave much better odds of survival and less damage to the body after infection. A vacinated infected person could spread the disease. The benefits are to the vaccinated person.

Ah. Not exactly. Even with Omicron, it did prevent some infections. ~30% for a month or so..., ~20% for a few months. The percentage was bigger for the original strains. There were statistics for those too in earlier reports. (I think there was also a page listing related papers)
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Comment Re:Not the worst mobile OS (Score 2) 82

After all these years, I too miss some of the features. Especially the tiles for specific persons were lovely. A combination of person specific notificatios, previews, and if I don't remember incorrectly, photos, was rather nifty.

Yeah, I can get a separate icon for my wife for opening Whatsapp conversation currently. And it shares the notifications with the Whatsapp process. Meh.

Comment Re:While unpopular, I'm not 100% against (Score 1) 449

Nothing is free. Using tax revenue to undercut an entire industry that creates jobs doesn't really sit well. There is no free, everyone is paying for it

Wouldn't it make more sense to promote industries that produce actual productive work? Having an industry that takes money from people on top of the taxes just because they can doesn't really make sense. Especially, as noted here, the actual functionality still needs to exist in IRS. Having a pre-filled suggested form which you correct as needed would save everybody's time.

Comment Re:Countless (Score 1) 279

In Finland there's an app for emergency services. "The 112 Suomi application enables the automatic delivery of the caller's location information to the emergency service dispatcher (in Finland)."

And the app shows your coordinates, so you can tell them to the emergency services if there's no data connection available. Not quite as good as automatic location information sending built into the phone, but better than nothing.

Comment Re:Easy (Score 1) 561

This may sound like the usual iHate, but having a single iPhone in an otherwise non-Apple household is a chore. Just having it sync media with the various other devices requires many extra steps not to mention installing iTunes, etc.

Yeah, there's now an iPhone in our house. So long sharing images via NFC or bluetooth to SO. A minor dissappointment. Nothing that can't be worked around, but since the capability exists on the phone, the walled garden is somewhat tangible.

Comment Re:Censorship. (Score 3, Insightful) 405

The Daily Mail is the exactly opposite of what you describe. A typical story starts with several paragraphs of reaction and outrage, before right at the end on page 7 mentioning the facts.

I came here to post this. This is exactly my experience with Daily Mail. The articles (and I am using the word loosely) start with pure distilled lying shit, and IF you happen to read the end, there is (if they lied enough) their 'get out of jail' card where they briefly state what actually happened (quite contrary to what they wrote above), so they can't be sued.

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