BJHanssen

On the other hand, jitter in a complex system is exactly what you expect to see when that system is undergoing a process of destabilization.

Thing is, (successful) mutation rate is just a statistical probability rising to inevitability following from a virus’ replication rate. Pure numbers game. The only way to stop it is to prevent the virus from replicating to numbers large enough that you never reach that inevitability threshold, AND with wide enough immunity in the herd that even across the entire potential base of infection it can’t get there.

And with the coronavirus causing covid-19, by far the most infectious natural disease known and that happens to rely almost entirely on an insane replication rate in the mucosal immune system, you would need a vaccine that is delivered via the airways and you need to somehow completely reverse half a decade (plus) of reactionary brainfucking across most of western society.

Good luck. (No seriously, I wish you all the luck in the world cos this virus sucks ass and we need to make it gone somehow)

Nah we’re speedrunning the 20s currently, so it’ll probably be another ten, fifteen years or so.

People seem to be missing something important about this suggestion:

In a market system where solar pv is an option, per-residence efficiency and effectiveness matters a lot and the objections raised here makes sense. But a mandate that all new builds come with solar pv changes that logic fundamentally.

You are now in the domain of grid-scale distributed energy production, grid resilience, and production scaling that will force panel prices much, much further down. This is an infrastructure change and should be considered in those terms.

I would personally have started with residential energy storage for the same reason, but honestly both should happen anyway.

I believe the signs have always pointed to it being a one-two punch of lingering inflammation and actual lasting physical damage to the blood vessels, including in the brain. The fatigue symptoms dissipated for me after about a year, but the inability to focus and the shite memory has not and likely will not go away. Also my muscles got fucked by the rhabdo and my EDS got much worse, but hey…

Every new piece of scholarly evidence is good to have.

I need people to understand that a private healthcare sector cannot provide a 'buffer service' for a public one. The reason is very simple; both sectors hire from the same small pool of qualified personnel, so any capacity gained by one is capacity lost from the other. The only sense in which additional capacity can be added is in infrastructure; beds, rooms, and equipment. But in practice, a lot of private health infrastructure is effectively just timeshared public health infrastructure, and what remains would be more effectively utilised if simply made part of the public sector.

The current approach is effectively the most expensive possible approach to alleviating the pressure on the NHS, save for getting rid of it altogether. But I guess the better alternatives aren't acceptable, especially not to ministers and MPs who are paid tens of thousands by the sector that would be under threat by such measures.

If he gets caught (hope he doesn’t), I hope he gets prosecuted, pleads self defense, and wins.

Because let’s be honest, this is 100% a case of community self defense.

I may be wrong about the actual reason for this - as ‘double V’ is also quite common - and it may just end up being some kind of ‘well when the printing press came to England’ thing, but:

In the classical Latin alphabet, the letter ‘V’ was not actually representative of what we today recognise as the /u/ sound (or its variants). It was in fact the written form of the /u/ sound (and related variants). So when the W was introduced to the English alphabet, I guess it was indeed a ‘double /u/‘.

This has been a necessary step for over a decade, honestly. Hoping it goes well.

I’m from Vesterålen in Northern Norway and this is giving me huge home vibes.

‘Collectivizing power from the wealthy’ also known as… democracy? Is the anti-communist just saying the quiet part out loud here?

Sure, and that will be great I’m sure, but an evil version of a character we’ve just been introduced to won’t hit the same.