Just had a request for a "Share on Mastodon" button for a blog.
As far as I know there's no official "Share on Mastodon" button, but there are several third party options.
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@w7voa so where is this all going? Given that the opposition to McCarthy is led by far righters and whoever gets elected speaker will ultimately need their votes I worry it will end up being someone even worse than McCarthy.
No, this claim is disinformation actually. We now have epidemiological evidence that bivalent boosters enhance protection against novel Omicron subvariants.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm715152e2.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7148e1.htm
The entire article is a travesty but this part is pathetic. Stop using terms like "imprinting" or "original antigenic sin" if you have no idea what they mean. People who received a bivalent booster in this study have had 4 exposures to ancestral spike vs. 1 for BA.5.
@aprettyaday @tundenagybanto, this is highly embarrassing for the academics organizing such meetings, given the research on how conferences have commonly been superspreader events. Insisting on in-person attendance is ridiculously retrograde and rooted in poor scholarship. I wonder if these conferences monitored CO2 in real time, provided access to vaccination, and had mandatory masking, free daily RATs, and HEPA units everywhere 🤷♀️
Guessing not.
#climatechange
#inclusion #covidisnotover
Shame on conferences announcing in their call for papers that "no virtual talks will be accommodated"! Truly sad that academics don't show the way #climatechange #inclusion #pandemicnotover
Interesting interview in Welt on Russia with Christoph Heusgen who was Merkel's security advisor. He says many correct things but there is also this bit which makes me want to scream:
>If we had not used our veto when U.S. President George W. Bush wanted to admit Georgia and Ukraine to NATO in 2008, war would have broken out already then.
This is just **completely** backwards.
This quote shows that he STILL completely misunderstands who Putin is and what he is willing/not willing to do.
The worst part is that Scholz and Plötner clearly believe the same tosh too.
Putin is absolutely **not** willing to start a war with NATO. which is why he hasn't attacked any of the Baltic countries as much as clearly wants to have them under his control.
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus242955309/Christoph-Heusgen-Wir-brauchen-mehr-Reagan.html
This is a **great** article. I agree with every word in it.
>The West should avert this (nuclear escalation) by deterring Russia rather than by restraining itself — or pressuring Ukraine to do so — for fear of “provoking” Russia.
I wish western leaders understood this and acted accordingly.
#ukraine #russia
RT @Nigelgd1@twitter.com
Since February we have heard much about #Russia’s “red lines”.
I believe this bad metaphor hinders clear strategic thinking. Red lines are red herrings. Here’s why:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine-war-strategy.html
A nice empirical demonstration of Galileo's principle of relativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMNS0YiHzY
If one replaces the person on the trampoline with a light beam bouncing up and down between two horizontal mirrors, and assumes that the speed of light is \(c\) in every inertial frame, one obtains the well-known 'light clock" thought experiment of Einstein that derives the fact that such clocks slow down by a factor of \(\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2\) when moving at a velocity \(v\).
This is unusually explicit. "Democratic legislation is making things better for Americans. We need Republicans to stop it."
RT @ddayen@twitter.com
Sounds like hell on Earth, we've gotta stop this https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/29/democrats-drug-pricing-medicare-00075246
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