For other viruses we have vaccines, clinically proven and effective treatments we can get at any pharmacy, and built up immunity from years of exposure. We have literally none of that for coronavirus, you blithering #COVIDIOT. I know you’re paid to be stupid in public, but JFC...
Technically, yes, we would benefit from social distancing for literally any virus transmitted in close proximity. But we weigh the idea against the ease and efficacy of testing and treatment. It’s trivial to get tested, vaccinated, or treated for the flu. #COVIDー19? Not at all.
We have very limited testing, a vaccine is a year away in the best case scenario, and we’re still figuring out what treatments will work reliably. The only think we know is that the #coronavirus is stable and mutates very little so a proven vaccine would be highly effective.
If you had the flu and couldn’t get tested, had to hope it didn’t develop into pneumonia or significantly worsen any heart conditions you might have because Tamiflu wasn’t a thing, and had no antibodies to it because there was no vaccine since the virus was brand new, yeah, ...
... we’d be shutting everything down. And in fact, if you open up Google for like ten fucking seconds, you’ll see that’s exactly what happened in 1918 and our response was also to try and shut down as many things as we could to prevent its spread. It’s almost like there are...
... people at the CDC and it’s equivalents around the world who know what they’re doing and why, and their advice is both more nuanced and deliberate than the social media ramblings of professional idiots mad at the world for daring to keep changing at the passage of time.
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From The Atlantic's profile of Licht comes this gem, one screamed at us by pundits and media executives since the Tea Party uprising of 2009. It seems impossible to explain to them that we heard all these views a million times and simply do not like them. Yes. As a country. 🧵
Like the annoying devil's advocate at a dinner party, they keep telling us "no, see, if you really heard them, then you'd understand." Well, we did hear them. We are force fed right wing outrage, temper tantrums, and increasingly histrionic, nihilistic GOP talking heads 27/7/365.
It is impossible to live in America and not have to hear right wing views or get 10K word, soft focus profiles of rural Republicans. And here's the kicker. Their views are statistically despised by between 2 in 3 and 3 in 4 of us, according to numerous public opinion polls.
Because Matt is an Extremely Online Centrist Opinion-Haver, he raises an interesting question and answers it with the equivalent of a wet fart. But there is a good reason why Millennials are a bit better adjusted: our lives weren’t dominated by social media and culture wars.
Let’s make no mistake, the current coterie of vile monsters like Gingrich, McConnell, and Hastert were turning national politics into an absolute shitshow and culture wars were well underway. But they weren’t front and center in literally everything on the news. Politics were …
… still pretty damn boring, and the GOP still hadn’t completely lost their minds and descended into retrograde reactionary insanity. Social media was just starting out and you frequently talked to and met people in your age group, with no one caring about what you did online.
Microservices are a critical for scaling any cloud native platform. Turning off almost all of them means you're either shutting off actual features or redundancy and failover capabilities which allow Twitter to handle billions of requests per hour. This is a very stupid idea. 🧵
If all of Twitter was one service, it would have horrific memory and CPU needs, costing absurd sums to set up and maintain. Breaking it up into logical modules that can run independently, or microservices, means you can automatically spin up enough instances to handle requests.
So I'm thinking that Elon was looking at a diagram, saw a bunch of services he didn't understand, decided they were unnecessary because he assumes Twitter's employees are incompetent and make mostly useless crap, and gave the order to start shutting them off "to speed things up."
Ah, the Russian trolls found this tweet. You can tell it’s a troll farm from the lazy drive-by rehashes of the same two of talking points from Channel One: any critic of Putin’s little empire of fascist thugs is a Nazi, and everything bad is a false flag by Ukrainians and Jews.
If they sound an awful lot like the Trumpglodytes who want to know where Obama was during 9/11 and that Trump actually took out bin Laden, it's because they are. They're allowed to wallow in their rage and fear without learning, without growing, without having to adapt to change.
Russia is what happens when they have unlimited and unrestrained power. You get a nation with no values or morals or goals beyond satiating the greed of its elites and the bloodlust of its worst citizens. A nation where cheating is expected and genocide is totally justified.
THREAD: It physically pains me to say this, but your least favorite neoliberal pundit is right. NATO can’t get directly involved in Ukraine baring a direct attack on a member state. It's not even about nukes, it's about not protracting and escalating the war globally. Here's why.
Russia has labeled any anti-war sentiment treason, is jailing children for laying flowers for killed Ukrainians in public, and using the FSB to harass "foreign sympathizers," the final step in becoming a textbook fascist dictatorship. This is deeply disturbing to may Russians.
Putin has effectively made their country exactly what they were always taught to fear and hate, given that he supported numerous neo-Nazis and far right groups across the world, becoming 21st century fascism's and right wing terrorism's top sugar daddy. news.yahoo.com/us-intelligenc…
Why does Ukraine matter? If Russia is allowed to violently annex Ukraine, it means big nuclear states can now simply decide another country should not exist and invade it without consequences. Cue runaway nuclear proliferation and MAD that will make the Cold War look like a joke.
Everyone will want nukes now that they're less of an insurance policy but a basic requirement for your state to exist. Nuclear armed Canada, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Turkey, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia will suddenly become inevitable, and every skirmish means nukes could be fired.
And remember, this is not the 1950s, when nuclear weapons were too complex and obscure for anyone but a superpower. They're so well understood, you can learn about every facet of a thermonuclear warhead's design on Wikipedia. Canada and Germany could have nukes in six months.