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So far, the deployment of the JWST is going as smoothly as can be hoped for!

So, so very excited to see what sort of pictures we'll be able to get way out at the Lagrange point.

It's much easier to understand what the video wants to showcase now with Zach's commentary, although I'd still want to see a bit more highlighting of new features, such as dwelling a bit on the modified squad screen.
- I believe the setting to forbid stuff during a siege is a new one (and a really handy one, if it works as it ought to, which the kid behavior indicates it either wasn't, or there should be a second setting that wasn't activated).

I think kids just like to misbehave. That'd be neat, and make Dwarven Childcare relevant again lmao.

Lovely video, though the webcam overlay unfortunately blocked the squad commands mentioned by Zach. Can't wait for subjective time to catch up to reality!

So you want to abolish anything less than direct democracy? Your organization exception sounds like a giant loophole screaming abuse me.

Nah, so long the workplaces are democratic (ie union-controlled and not beholden to outside stockholders) it'll work fine.

Once the ESA gets their telescope up into space (after how many delays now?) I think the hubble deserves a retirement.

It'd be great to salvage something out of it as a historical souvenir but that's so hilariously difficult as mentioned above that it's not at all worth it with our current tech.

Relatedly, druid flashlight: woodshape a case and handle around a relatively smooth rock. Cast light on the rock.

(or get everburning flame cast on it via a friendly wizard and fashion a lever-action cover to make it fancy)

Hey, if it takes the housing market with it I won't be complaining. I'd like to be able to buy a house without having to put up a house's uninflated value up as down.

Here's something the MSM jumped on and had to retract, because they didn't actually bother to fact-check it:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/07/politics/fact-check-oklahoma-ivermectin-story/index.html
That dastardly horse medicine! (Never mind that it won a Nobel prize in 2015 for use in humans.)

for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria

So, uh, looks like it won a Nobel Prize for... being an anti-parasitic medication.

It works by paralyzing parasites to death by binding electrolyte channels open, preventing them from firing/unfiring and moving. Note this affects cells and has nothing to do with viruses.
This is important because it's a goddamn pain in the ass to target parasites, usually. Especially if they're not living in the GI tract.

In large doses this will paralyze a human and kill them by stopping their hearts.
Sure there's no evidence saying it doesn't work (because that's not how evidence works) but there are no in-depth studies with significant results, and why would there be for an anti-parasitic drug being used to treat a viral infection?

There was that Lancet study debunking hydroxychloroquine the MSM was touting that had to be retracted because nobody had any idea where the data actually came from.

Hydroxychloroquine, much like ivermectin, is an anti-malarial and anti-parasitic/amoebic. It also works by targeting living cells.
It's different in that it increases lysosomal pH (makes the digestive parts of the cell less acidic), starving them if they rely on digesting other cells.
In large doses, it will cause hypokalemia (low potassium levels), disrupting your nervous system and causing cardiac arrest... leading to death.

It does, however, thanks to its pH-lowering effects, suppress the immune system to a degree. This may or may not help in rare cases of cytokine storms caused by a body's over-reaction to an infection (say, covid) which could be lethal.

It does not affect viruses in any direct manner.

We know how drugs work. These drugs are not miracles. Hell, Hydroxychloroquine is literally derived from quinine, the main ingredient in tonic water and has been in use for hundreds, if not a few thousand, years by humanity.

Feck off with this snake oil bullshit. It's really getting old.

I live five minutes from the WA border and I had a full-screen popup today for a bluetooth-based contact tracer from the Washington Health Department.

why the FUCK wasn't this developed sooner? It pings nearby phones with the same app over bluetooth (a secure protocol) and checks if they've reported a positive test in the past 14 days, then alerts you that you've been near/in contact with someone who might be contagious. All anonymously and locally without "scary gubmint tracking" due to the design of bluetooth.

God I'd love to see something like this become popular enough to actually be useful.