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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • This shit is getting old. I was in the Novavax trial here in Australia and one of the things the clinicians said that stuck with me is that they were “surprised that there wasn’t much interest”.

    See, Novavax is a traditional vaccine, not an MRNA vaccine. It is (and has been) approved everywhere.

    They expected that all the antivaxxers who were afraid of “changes to their DNA” would come in for this traditional vaccine.

    Except they didn’t. Because it isn’t about MRNA, it’s about being part of a group, part of people who “understand you” and echo and validate the fears you have about living in this world.

    This is killing people.


  • I am a disability support worker, and would like to add a little context that may affect how this expense is perceived. One of the types of in home support for the very disabled, injured or the very old, is nursing.

    Some types of in home care require a nurse - administering certain medication, handling a ventilator, wound care, etc.

    If there are not nurses in the community offering these services the alternative is that these people go to the hospital for the round the clock care they need - a much more expensive proposition.






  • I bought Red Dead Redemption for myself and three friends, super excited about the game, the lore. I had never spent that much money on a game.

    We all played through the single player tutorial, and finally into the open world. We meet up and begin exploring and trying to complete quests when suddenly one of us just … drops dead.

    Then another is hit by a meteor and caught on fire?

    I am thrown up into the sky.

    An alien ship?! Appears and messes with us for a while. I try begging in pub chat for the hacker to please leave us so we can play, which seems to goad them further. This continued for an hour.

    A quick look around the internet told us that this was par for the course for RDR and GTA and Rockstar couldn’t/wouldn’t do anything about it.

    We ended up refunding all the games through steam. Sad times.