macrocephalic

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[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 117 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Fuck the Olympics. This stinks of a way to sterilise the city of anything that isn't new, shiny, plasticky, shit. Let them stay.

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

He's pretending to be obscenely rich while he's just quite rich.

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Isn't it? Shouldn't it be? Isn't it supposed to be a disincentive? What's the risk of losing $200k to a man who is supposed to be worth billions (but is surely worth hundreds of millions at least)?

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I actually really liked season four in its original format - where you saw the story from one person's perspective and then later saw it from another's. The way the story lines intertwined was really good IMO. If you watch it now then you get the recut version where it's all in chronological order and it's just weak.

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depending on the jurisdiction, you never had those rights. In Australia anyone is free to take your picture in (or from) a public space. The only issue is when that photo is used to damage the subject - and that is done under defamation laws. In the US the photographer owns the rights to a photograph unless there are other contractual stipulations - even if you are the subject of the photograph.

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it's only fair, now they have to pay the hookers and join a boxing gym; they used to get those activities for free.

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Just as long as their were no photos of the birth

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The ones you had to wait for in the west were mRNA vaccines. They are newer, more complicated, and in theory customisable to a wider range of infections. While I'd love to see these opened up and used for their full potential I can see why the pharma corps don't want that.

While I haven't looked, I'll bet that the Cuban ones were"simply" using a deactivated virus - which is less effective and especially less effective against mutated strains.

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I really admire what Cuba has done in the last half century. They're a fairly resource poor island nation who were cut off suddenly from the trading partner who accounted for 85% of their trade. While they're constantly struggling financially, they have a huge rate of tertiary education, better female participation in the professional workforce than almost all nations, a decent happiness score and a now a better life expectancy than the richest nation in the world.

However, the creation of COVID vaccines was not difficult. COVID is not that dissimilar to a number of existing viruses which we already have vaccines for. The production of a simple vaccine is easy, but rounds of testing and approval take a long time. This is how come Cuba could create vaccines based on existing techniques with slight tweeks.

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I personally only store things that are hard to get again. Things like obscure domestic TV and really old movies. If it's something I can get again easily then I watch and delete.

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm so glad I was here to witness the defining moment of a burgeoning platform.

[–] macrocephalic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Are we winning, it just trying to hide our HIV?

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