Seems like we're there: https://xkcd.com/1425/

To recap for those who get their news from right-leaning Xitter influencers or Infowars: He was democratically elected as the President of Ukraine in 2019, winning a landslide victory with over 73% of the vote His term was originally set to end in 2024, but due to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, elections have been postponed under martial law. Ukraine's constitution allows for delaying elections during wartime, as organizing a fair and safe election under these conditions would be extremely difficult. The Ukrainian parliament regularly votes to maintain the state of martial law, most recently on Feb 26th where there were 286 votes for and none against the extension. Therefore he has, with the blessing of parliament, the status of President.

You say "stupid and obviously" illegal.

I can search Google today by typing in things, and it brings back suggestions. Some of those suggestions may include copyrighted material that the author intended to be publicly available but still under their copyright. I can then decide to copy that material directly into my editor, and then use it. I made the decision, Google just made a suggestion when I searched for something.

Now, let's replace Google with Co-pilot:

I can search Co-pilot today by typing in things, and it brings back suggestions. Some of those suggestions may include copyrighted material that the author intended to be publicly available but still under their copyright. I can then decide to accept that material directly into my editor, and then use it. I made the decision, Co-pilot just made a suggestion when I searched for something.

What's the difference?

> and your third link is the same as the second link third link is the same as the first link I mean.

Your first link doesn't say anything about any bad side effects, only that the overall immune response from an actual COVID infection is different to that of the vaccination. It goes on to say that there is a reduced cytotoxic effect from the vaccines vs contracting the virus itself, which is a good thing, plus other things the virus itself does to your body that the vaccines don't, whilst still exhibiting a strong immune response. Why are you using this paper as one to support your cause? The paper is also marked as not being peer-reviewed.

Your second link just says that immunity decays over time, both after a COVID infection or the vaccination, but that with the vaccination it appears to decay faster.

Your third link says that people who are vaccinated still can be infectious. We know this; the vaccines have never been heralded as a cure, but something to prime your immune system so that you don't get as ill from it. This is working - the number of acute illnesses in places with high vaccination rates has fallen dramatically.

Your last link says that people who had COVID show immunity for a while afterward. That's great. I and many others haven't had COVID, don't want it, and want our bodies to be primed and ready for it if we do. We also don't want to be a burden on the health services any more than necessary, as we've seen that people get seriously ill from it, and taking up all the ICU space when there is a readily available vaccine that likely reduces symptoms down to a manageable-at-home level seems more than a bit selfish. There is also a current concern that the number of mutations on the Omicron variant mean that re-infection is possible regardless.

I hope you don't end up in the roughly 2% of people who die from it, but more than that, I hope you don't end up taking an ICU bed from someone who actually needed it.

Your first link says that it's a potential use case for mRNA technology, not that the current vaccinations use it. The second link doesn't mention gene editing at all, and your third link is the same as the second link, just with a different title. I'm not sure you're proving your case anywhere near as much as you think you are.

Taking this simplistic view of what is said in the article at face value, we should see a dramatic rise in autism diagnoses over the coming years due to a long period of COVID lockdown, where babies and toddlers were unable to attend playgroups and activities that would usually have been available to them, nor in some countries, even visit close relatives for an extended period of time.

Of course, that's not what the article said at all, but you should be able to prove your own hypothesis with actual data in the coming years.

It's about 4.5 times slower than today's leading-edge desktop processors (and many more times slower than "workstation" class ones). Does it run fine for you? May well do. Is it "fast"? Not really, when compared against these others.

I understand today that what marketing people call "AI" are usually just jazzed up standard algorithms, and in the best case a genetic algorithm or some form of rudimentary machine learning, but imagine a day where we have machines that are far more sophisticated and do express desires, can decide to write their own fiction in their "down time", etc. What then? Do you ever see a point in time where that argument can no longer be made?

I mean.. https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/...

Or it could be your own internal default for what a grandson is. It doesn't make me think of a child at all on first reading, just that it is ambiguous and I need more information.

*sigh* yes, because advocating for single payer healthcare and medical leave, government policies to combat environmental change, repairing and upgrading current infrastructure so that it isn't so wasteful, clean air and water, and a security net for retirees is just _soooo_ extreme left it's unbearable...

To "ditch" means to "get rid of" here in the UK. "I ditched the car after the exhaust fell off for the 5th time", or (google's example) "plans for the road were ditched following a public inquiry".

Given that most of us don't have these problems doing simple activities like logging in or using BitTorrent, did you ever stop to wonder if it was more a _you_ problem...?

The whole notion that anything about this is a conspiracy by 'the left' to target Trump is ridiculous when there are studies going on in the US and many other places, the virus is literally everywhere on the planet, and kills regardless of your political affiliation. Hell, this very article is about studies that have been ongoing and here you are saying that research was essentially shut down because of some claptrap. Broaden your horizons man, America is not the only place on the planet.