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Polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis, chicken pox, diphtheria, meningitis, pneumonia, tetanus, hib, whooping cough, smallpox.

Thank you vaccine science for helping generations of children grow into healthy adulthood, and keeping many able to survive the ever changing flu.

#science #medical #vaccine #health #children #illness

Benefits of being born between the years: stollen instead of birthday cake.

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If security and privacy are your main concern in a cloud storage app, Proton Drive is the best choice. But that peace of mind comes at a price. My full review:

pcmag.com/reviews/proton-drive

Nichelle Nichols, forever Lt. Uhura on Star Trek, was born on this date in 1932. In addition to acting, she was also a fierce supporter of NASA and encouraged diversity in NASA's programs. #NichelleNichols #Uhura #StarTrek

@jmb I think you probably get the same bad experience talking to some politicians too.

I want to take a moment to brag on the #Jewish Mastodon community (aka, #Mazeldon )

I've had the chance to participate in several discussions on very touchy topics over the last couple of weeks (including about issues related to #Israel/#Palestine) and I've been very pleasantly surprised by the quality and civility of conversation, even when those having the discussion have very different perspectives.

It's not perfect, but compared to #Birdsite or FB, this is a breath of fresh air.

@fasnix Hopefully Facebook, Microsoft and any big tech company

It stinks of desperation and is a little bit creepy to send unsolicited “spam chocolate” to my home address, @openuk.
I will be putting in a GDPR complaint — I have not given you my home address to receive unsolicited mail…

@BrideOfLinux

apt remove - removes the software packages

apt purge also does this but also removes configuration files.

We should think about ways to make it easier to remain nonprofit and resist investors that care only about making money and not about democracy.

There are some parallels in previous technologies: radio brought debates about public platforms vs corporate control, and one answer was the BBC.

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@zleap @avedik You're right, Wikipedia is not really a source at all and one should always look at the references there instead of just accepting whatever is written but it does still matter what is there. Not everyone is going to check sources and Google for example displays parts of Wikipedia articles when you search for something that has one.

Thankfully Wikipedia should be reasonably to correct too but it becomes easier if you can point to quality sources.

Makes me feel absolutely crazy what a catastrophic mistake leaders and public health people made by framing masking as an unfortunate inconvenience that we just have to suffer through instead of a wonderfully convenient and inexpensive tool that allows us to return to something close to freedom.

19-year-old Environmentalist, Greta Thunberg, just destroyed 36-year-old misogynistic creep, Andrew Tate, in a single sentence.

John Bird obituary - Satirist and actor whose pairing with John Fortune gave him a long career in popular entertainmentThe satire boom of the early 1960s heralded the end of the age of deference in public life generally and in the media specifically. On television, Robin Day began giving politicians a tough time, and in the theatre Beyond the Fringe set a tone of mockery and irreverence that spawned Peter... #theguardian

theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

"Xfce 4.18 will be coming soon to MX-21 users. We intend to add Xfce 4.18 to the main MX repositories sometime in January, and the update should come to existing Xfce users via the usual update channels": Xfce 4.18 coming soon to MX-21 – MX Linux mxlinux.org/blog/xfce-4-18-com

For the next few evenings seven of the Solar System#s planets will be visible stretching across the sky. In order left to right: Mars, Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, and Mercury. Binoculars/Telescope/Camera needed to see Uranus and Neptune. Look from 4.20pm, south east to southwest. #AstroDon #Astronomy #Astro #Space #Astrophotography

"For IDAD 2022, FSF staff took to the streets to ask passersby what they think about digital sharing. Read our wrapup and watch the first in a series of videos we are releasing in the coming days": IDAD 2022: Celebrating the freedom to share with a new advocacy video — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software fsf.org/blogs/community/idad-2

@avedik @73ms

You could always try a indirect approach ask for more information and links to sources to help verify the information.

Eitehr that we ignore the bad journalists and promote / praise those who are doing the right thing, but I guess we need to balance that wit helping the less experienced do a better job.

Everyone has to start somewhere, it is the attitude to improving what and how you do things that should also count.

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