Jason Etheridge @jasonetheridge@qoto.org

@ElsaJansen@mastodon.social The two aren't that hard to tell apart! One can have an opinion about that's subject to personal taste (e.g. a movie), but when it comes to provably wrong statements of "fact", that is a completely different kettle of fish.

Yet another careful, detailed study showing the positive effect of COVID vaccines.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221221/Brazilian-model-for-COVID-19-vaccination-reduced-severe-case-and-mortality-even-from-variants.aspx

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That was unnecessarily challenging!

This is genius advice, which I can really appreciate now, and only wish I'd heard ~30 years ago when I first started using the Internet. Younger me would have benefited enormously! (Via @pluralistic)

https://www.tumblr.com/ghostonly/667966959023996928/how-to-have-a-good-internet-experience-in-8-easy

When I read a post that takes a lot of words to make a simple point, with a lot of extraneous words, I'm now suspicious that the author was actually ChatGPT, asked to fluff out an idea to maximise word count.

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@Pat So far, but who knows how accurate the data will be that the CCP will provide. The US is indeed a mess, given so many reasonably stubbornly unvax'd, but China isn't really in any better shape, given effectively no background immunity and the less Sinovax, and which a lot of their elderly haven't had.

China's abandoning of its zero COVID policy (effectively letting it rip) was inevitable, and now Omicron is ripping through a population that if vaccinated, has the subpar local vaccine. This won't be pretty. Xi is going to need an invasion to distract from justifiable anger.

@ElsaJansen@mastodon.social Magnificent! Homemade is best, and what a great gift idea.

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@chidgey No! Some things are worth being organised about. And you know you'd forget without the alarm. :)

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