bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@Stridermcperson imagine getting dragged off into a rainbow coloured police car. right out of a dystopian nightmare. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Happy_Few comes to mind.

@velartrill their stuff is more secure than most other things, but i'd venture it isn't as secure as they believe it to be. technically it's quite ok by me, only the people are often the equivalent to haskell people for programming languages. elitists who think they have found the philosophers stone and everything else is shit.

as always, not everyone is like this, but it sure seems to attract those people.

openbsd may be fine software, but why are so many people using it elitist know-it-alls.

it's almost as if using openbsd brainwashes you into being theo.

@velartrill it is beautiful, isn't it? :)

@velartrill quick, throw some * and & at it!

@b6hydra

> Morbidity is rate of infection,

The term [morbidity] may refer to the existence of any form of disease, or to the degree that the health condition affects the patient. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease#Morbidity)

i mean this definition of morbidity. we target the spike protein which binds to ace2. binding to ace2 seems to be related to a lot of problems there are with covid. by using vaccines which generate antibodies against the said spike protein, we enable selection for other methods of binding to the cell than ace2.

@b6hydra that's what i've meant, increased evolutionary pressure to select for another way to get into the cells.

mutations are nearly always spoken about as more dangerous, but it should work as well into the other direction. there is no evolutionary benefit in increased morbidity, it is a side effect of other benefits. the ideal virus has no noticeable negative consequences for the host and is easily spread.

ok theory time, very likely bullshit:

could it be possible that the vaccinations will cause the virus to mutate into attacking another receptor than ace2, therefore by chance getting reduced morbidiy? as ace2 getting attacked seems to be one of the main problems with covid.

@thor i just don't like to just leave a conversation, it feels a bit wrong :) @Publius

@velartrill i think it boils down to git having a bad user interface, at least more than submodules being a bad idea.

it's just so unpleasant to use them that i avoid them whenever possible.

@thor just a note: i got to go now, might answer later :) @Publius

@thor i think seeing/interacting with too many people overloads my brain.. i can do it for one or two days but then i'm mentally exhausted.

that really sounds nice, exactly what one wants in this kind of situation :)

@Publius

@thor
> he was trying to fit his cap on and it wouldn’t because his head was too big
and his boss was like “you have to wear it”
and the guy was clumsily trying to force this too-small cap over his noggin

could be right out of monty python :)
@Publius

@thor it's funny, i never was in GB but i'm not really interested in england.. every other part seems more interesting. that i'm generally not really interested in big cities, may play a part :)

@Publius