The flu is a familiar disease, and young people with strong immune systems rarely die from it or experience long-term health consequences from having had it. So it's not scary to most people, because they've never lived through a flu outbreak as bas as the spanish flu, and because they don't know anyone for whom getting the flu would be a death sentence.
But Covid was a worse pandemic because when it infects, it can be completely benign or completely suffocating, and there's very little way of knowing which will happen to you. And if you do get it, there's a much higher chance it leaves serious scars that you'll carry for the rest of your life.
People need to treat bad things as bad and be willing to set aside familiarity and comfort for the safety and well-being of others. Instead they downplay how bad something they don't understand is going to be, because they want others to believe the same and not change their behavior, because their own comfort is more important than protecting the people who will be hurt the most
Shaking my partner awake violently at 12:00am just to look into her eyes and say "First" before immediately falling asleep
Verbatim? No, probably not. But when "Free Speech Absolutist" Elon Musk censors criticism about himself on Xitter, but allows and promotes Nazi content, actions speak louder than words.
This animal simultaneously looks like a lizard, a weasel, and a bird.
He also runs as independent, specifically because the Democratic party pulls this shit
Bad take. You don't shame people for being unable to make sounds that aren't in their native language. If someone spoke Mandarin all their life and learned English, but had to approximate the "L" sound with "R", you wouldn't have this reaction claiming that allowing that approximation is turning everything into Mandarin
Aint no way he has the FreeBSD android theme
Threee mile island was only a partial meltdown, and very little fission product was ever released to the environment. Nowhere near as blatant and drastic of a failure as what happened in Chernobyl.
Recount time?
If America hadn't responded to Chernobyl with fear of atomic power and instead adopted a "this is why communism will fail, look how much better we can do it" attitude, the climate crisis would be a non-issue right now
Tommy Tuberville is slept on as a candite for the "Most harmful senator" award. He's such a bold-faced boot licker and hasn't done a single thing to uphold his oath of office
Unless there's nuclear war, there's no such thing as the point of no return. Just a further slide into more egregious civil rights violations. Eventually it will get better, hopefully through democratic means and not violent ones.
Hey now, they're happy to decentralize the feed management so they don't have to worry about processing user's custom feeds themselves!
Not necessarily. If it's after the electoral votes are cast, then yes, definitely.
But the electors are bound by different rules, set by their respective states, on how they would vote if Trump died before then.
This move actually makes zero fucking sense. Having people in our country who are willing to work less money than the average citizen labor costs are low. That basically means more money for him and his oligarch buddies.
He's already won the election. He doesn't have to keep posturing like this. And he's not going to be elected again, so either he (hopefully) has no third term, or he'll prevent the 2028 elections from being free and fair.
My prediction is that nothing will actually come of this and he's saying this to keep his approval rating high.
Either that or he's even more racist than he is greedy and self-centered
Hyundai is listening to what consumers want much more readily than other manufacturers, and their body designs strike an incredible balance between modern familiarity and retrofuturism. It's almost exactly what I want from a new vehicle, other than the fact that they use all the same forced telemetry that other brands are using.
They're also offering a great spread of electric AND hybrid vehicles to satisfy consumers worried about charger availability as well as consumers worried about the impact of gasoline-powered vehicles.
I won't be surprised if they continue to increase their market share for a long time to come. If only privacy concerns were as common among the broader population as they seem to be here in the Fediverse, then maybe they might address those issues as well and be a no-brainer purchase.
The birth year range for different generations is fuzzy, but I can't find a single source saying that 2006 or 2007 would be considered gen Alpha. The youngest population that voted in this election is gen. Z, and not all members of Gen. Z are eligible to vote yet.
Bonus points if you buy your Bloc no more than 2 items at a time, from multiple stores, including thrifting, and using cash for at least half of it.
This was immediately above the 196 post you copied in my feed
However, the economy being good is not often actually good for the customer. It's just a slowing down of things getting worse.