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Semi-related: I use a music stand as a "monitor" for textbooks that I use for reference while working at my desktop. I have it at the same height as the rest of my monitors so I can just swivel my head to see it. I call it my "book monitor."

Call it fascism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, social darwinism, cyberpunk dystopia, whatever, I think we’re here now.

I think we've been there a long time it's just taken someone as chaotic and despotic as Trump to actually use those reigns of power for this kind of thing. I remember feeling similarly about the kind of shit we let Dubya Bush get away with, and then learning some history and realizing this kind of overreach horseshit went all the way back to Reagan... then all the way back to Nixon.

The system was already this way, it was just waiting for the right twisted freak to fuck it all up from the inside.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

-Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from a Birmingham Jail

This is what you sound like right now. Because it got the people in power's knickers in a twist, you'd rather have someone who didn't upset the establishment so much by... *checks notes... promising to really help people?

That’s a pretty huge shit.

fixed that for you

god help us all

I hate to say it but I think the ultimate authoritarian, god, is probably... helping the authoritarians.

We are god's unwanted children.

How many international incidents are we up to now?

This isn't so much what I think will happen but what I hope will happen.

A lot of CPU's are moving to on-die RAM so the RAM is closer physically to the CPU, reducing the time it takes to travel between the two, increasing RAM speed.

The downside to this is you can't upgrade your RAM and there will be less on-die RAM than traditional RAM.

Currently, with traditional RAM, computers use a portion of hard drive space for something called "swap" which is space for when RAM runs out of usable address space to offload some data to until it needs that data again.

I'd like to see the rise of on-die RAM along with traditional RAM where traditional RAM becomes more of a "swap" for the on-die RAM. This allows for upgrade-able RAM to still exist while also leveraging the speed of on-die RAM.

Should have checked the weather before planning a picnic, duh!

Don't blame yourself. Viral spread happens and even condoms aren't 100% effective, depending on the area it is presenting in. Don't let anyone tell you it's something to be ashamed of. The shaming aspect of disease needs to stop, I would have thought we had learned that with HIV. Shame does nothing but harm the communities already affected by these problems, and the treatments get better and better all the time. While some aspects (like potential long-term effects) may be nerve-wracking, they are never a guarantee of that outcome, as there is only correlation and no specific proven causation (that I know of).

The common cold is a virus. Viruses are trickier than bacteria in some ways. The main thing is to remind yourself that while you may have made mistakes, the existence and spread of viruses is not entirely your fault. It is nothing to be ashamed of and anyone pushing shame on you for it is not worth associating with. It would be like someone shaming me for having cancer. It's absurd.

It may take time to come to terms with and work through your depression, and it may help to talk to a therapist who is familiar with the virus and the shame-culture built around it. The first poster in this thread is right on the money that the stigma came from an advertising campaign promoting antivirals for it. Which, if you are insured, the antivirals are often covered. They will prescribe them based on the frequency and severity of outbreaks

Good luck!

Some people have more outbreaks and more painful outbreaks than others. It's helpful to take an antiviral that suppresses the outbreaks. When there are no outbreaks, chances of transfer are low but not zero. It's tends to be higher risk for the penetrated party rather than the one doing the penetrating. Since she never had an outbreak and the penetrated party is less likely to transfer, this may be why.

Frankly, though, like all viruses, long-term effects can be kind of scary, like the evidence of a correlation with higher rates of alzheimers and dementia in patients with HSV-I/HSV-II. Viruses do a lot of things to the body long-term that may not be readily obvious or related directly to the virus itself, much like human papillomavirus is correlated with higher instances of cervical cancer and throat cancer. Long-COVID is another example.

While transfer probability is low, it's still valuable to try to stop transmission by using prophylactics.

Always has been.

Someone left a cake out in the rain. Who even does that?