Hexboare

Probably some minor cross protection but you wouldn't expect much or want to rely on it, and you can't predict how fast the virus will mutate and adapt either

You can always buy some tamiflu from India for $50-100 for peace of mind, at least before antiviral drug resistance develops

It's definitely taking the piss out of liberals being the worst and then feeling morally superior

More than 80 representatives from the South American country are in Baku, Azerbaijan

Really says it all

I don't understand US primaries at all, why does the state help political parties choose which candidates to run in real elections

The HPAI H5N1 outbreak in cows has been limited to the US so far

The Australian government put $100 million towards H5N1 related measures last month, but that's more because they haven't done much about it because H5N1 isn't present on the continent (yet)

Only reason I'm on this alt is because I hit some days back and don't know the password

The curse has struck again, fair enough

it appeared as if everyone is dragging their feet and still under the illusion that normalcy will somehow return

I think it would take something truly dramatic like a significant war between the US and China (unlikely) or increasing devastation from climate change (locked in RCP8.5 baby )

Gossip for an informal discussion regarding people with power / notable / tools of power

That's the best description I've read so far

Glad you're back Carcosa

The connotation of gossip is that it's "idle chatter", based on rumour and/or lies, predominantly undertaken by women (I've never seen a cishet man say they're a huge gossip or that they've been gossiping).

There have been attempts to change the connotations of the word and it sounds like it's been more successful for younger people (or maybe different regions). The attempts to reclaim gossip, as far as I've read, still categorise it as a gendered term, just with positive connotations.

there is a patriarchal dislike of the term gossip, which is just bizarre to me

There is a patriarchal dislike of the activity (by women), which translates into the feelings posted here that it's a misogynistic term. If you were a misogynist and wanted to devalue women talking, you might say they were gossiping. There's no male equivalent that I'm aware of that refers to the same activity with the same (potential) connotations.

It took me reading the slop rules to realise using the gossip community was optional, you can post about more notable people in slop.

That could be a reading comprehension failure on my behalf (either the slop rules or your posts) but I'm probably (I hope) not the only one

Regardless if anyone does read my comment the same way you did, then fortunately they can read down and have it clarified.

Even at 1500 CE, China and India's estimated domestic production massively outstripped Europe and it wasn't until industrial capitalism kicked into gear that this changed

You are quite literally off by more than 300 years giving people just like wrong timeframes

So in my post, I directly claim two things - the first is that China and India has much higher GDP in 1500, and that some time later, when industrial capitalism kicked into gear (i.e. not just commenced but was in full swing), this changed.

'A short time after 1500 Europe started to do capitalism with manufacturies and then industries while asia stood still.'

Do you see how you had to rewrite what I said to get the reading you thought was there?

when you simply didn't write it out

Yes, I didn't debunk a lot of things in the post of a couple paragraphs of a broad stroke of 500 years of history, particularly misconceptions that I wouldn't expect on Hexbear.