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That probably would work, certainly not a silly suggestion at all. (It's not actually based on chimp DNA it's based on a adenovirus that attacks chimps, cf Sputnik which uses 2 human targeting adenovirus viruses as its base) Flu vaccine is a bit of a special case in many respects though, much as flu as a virus is a bit of a special case. Even if you take it every year it still isn't (comparatively) very effective. (Personally it's the only vaccine I've ever had an adverse reaction to. Fine for five minutes, then a really weird feeling followed by a 10 second black out, then fine again. Does reinforce why they make you stay in the waiting room for 15 minutes after getting it. Also, won't stop me taking it again)

Dunno if Twitter can survive on its merits though, it's far and away the most vulnerable* major social media platform. They have nowhere near the service breadth and integration/ lock in level of Facebook or Alphabet, and nowhere near the brand loyalty of Apple and they rely a lot on big name users to draw attention. They've had their relevance steadily nibbled away at already over the past few years, ironically often by Facebook etc. Even more ironically, Trump was great for their bottom line, because he got them lots of attention. *Reddit might be as vulnerable, but it's also arguable if it would be counted as a 'major' platform in the same way as its model is different. It certainly doesn't rely on big name accounts nearly as much as Twitter does, and has way less mainstream exposure.

AWS is who they're suing though and they're a contract service provider, not a 'publisher' (sic, since both Apple and Google actively and strenuously disclaim being actual 'publishers'). Dunno, maybe that's a random quote off the internet too though. For a non random quote off the internet: Now of course Glenn could be wrong about that- personally I'd be surprised if some weren't Parler users, just from a pure statistics viewpoint- but then he's hardly the typical pro Trumper.

It's- obviously- a 'quote' of what Forbes is saying, not what you're saying. Try reading it again, without the knee smashing through the desk. As for the rest, not my fault you've developed a reputation for defending any press stupidity that fits your beliefs. Russia going bankrupt in 6 months back in 2014? You still defended that garbage, six years later. Heaps of sites already have that though. More worryingly, 'real identities' for online content is one of the planks for most progressive politicians' wet dreams for internet reform, and they have far more chance of getting those accepted now.

Technically that's a Monopsony when applied to Parler- effective control of a marketplace required for selling- rather than a monopoly which is a single supplier of a product. So GooglePlay on Android, Steam on PC or the Apple Store are all monopsonies rather than monopolies. Not sure what the definition would be for Trump, since as a free service Twitter was selling him as a product. How useless is Forbes is they don't treat all the information they're fed as potential disinformation? Typical Gromnir that he actually seems to think "we will only properly scrutinise those we disagree with politically"- which is what they're actually saying- is a good thing instead of something they should do for every bit of information they're fed because it's being fed to them with an agenda. It's not something to be admired, it's them admitting they're usually an acritical PR mouthpiece.

Certainly could be faulty, it's very much a presumption. I'd expect even most non intensive care hospital types to have been exposed though, no matter the precautions, too much covid about for general patients not to get it with the variable symptoms and the tests not 100% reliable especially when the symptoms aren't severe. But that is very much supposition, as is it being the reason why there's some, uh, resistance to the vaccine among them. There'd certainly be some general distrust of a vaccine that has not been subject to the same length of scrutiny as would normally happen.

Korea is colder than western Europe in winter though, by a decent amount too as they get their weather straight out of Siberia rather than the Gulf Stream. -16.1 celsius in Seoul a couple of days ago, and Seoul isn't even far inland or very elevated. You'd have to get to Lappland or eastern Europe to get colder. My presumption would be that health workers would expect to have been exposed already, and potentially have had asymptomatic infection and thus some level of immunity. If they were worried about new technology it would have to be what the mRNA is suspended in rather than the mRNA itself. If you get infected the virus will make that mRNA anyway, it's how it reproduces and ultimately how you get the immunity 'naturally'. All the vaccines do is skip the infection step for getting the mRNA expressed directly; so whether you got immunity naturally or through a jab you'd have had 'foreign' mRNA made. BBeing worried about the adjuvant or whatever is still a bit weird, all medicines have potential side effects of some sort, even stuff like aspirin.

Difficult to complain about something passed in a plebiscite, even if you strenuously disagree with how the plebs voted. Because there was a vote, and you either believe in the 'will of the people' (lolrofls) or not. OTOH, Social Media wants those using their systems to be responsible for what is posted by 3rd parties via TOS but they themselves to be excluded from that responsibility via governmental TOS. They've applied their TOS selectively, they continue to apply their TOS selectively, they will apply their TOS selectively. Only reason Parler is going now is because Trump would potentially go there and bring a lot of people along with him. Should have made the whole thing inheritable, so if the root company ain't a publisher all those using its services can't be either and make them choose what they want. The funny thing is that the sort of people who get riled up about Uncle Rupes' News Corp are absolutely fine with Dorsey/ Zuckerberg/ Bezos etc wielding more influence. Not as funny as Lindsey Graham complaining about the US looking like a Banana Republic considering how that sobriquet came about, but still, pretty funny.

Honestly, it's not that hard to find out the reason they didn't. Same reason Twitter only banned Trump today when they've obviously wanted to for years.

For Parler? It's global, so far as I'm aware. Probably get the same ban on Apple too within a day. Telegram is better anyway. Alphabet/ Facebook/ Apple etc desperately need to be broken up, if Trump had done it- even for the wrong reasons- it would have been one thing to genuinely be very proud of.

That was more management at Zenimax than Arkane itself, and their power is either gone completely or massively diminished now that MS owns them. That style of game is what just about everyone at Arkane wants to make and so far MS seems pretty good at allowing studios it owns to do what they want and are good at, within reason. Considering the MS ownership pyramid that exists now you could get a Dishonoured RPG from InXile, a Thief/ System Shock style game in the Fallout universe from Arkane and Obsidian doing a... Doom RPG maybe?

He can still use @POTUS presumably if he wanted to, might be amusing seeing his tweets archived as official communications. And no forum software, that isn't a username. It wouldn't matter in the slightest. Thinking Trump was ever going to nuke someone randomly on the way out is a clear indicator of Trump Derangement Syndrome at work. Conventional strikes on Iran, sure, considered and rejected by Trump a few weeks ago but could still happen and is being actively promoted by Israel and KSA. Randomly nuking someone though? Ludicrous. Has to be said, if you think now is 'scary times' you should be very very glad that those protesters weren't met with a 'hail of bullets'. Because that would have had far worse consequences.

Why even bother with that though. If Trump's conduct is so disqualifying and unpopular he wouldn't get elected if he subsequently stood anyway. Barring him from office would give Democrats a chub no doubt, but that shouldn't be the main aim, and it will play into a persecution narrative perfectly. "They're so frightened of me, of you the American people, and all our winning that Sleepy Joe has to ban me because he knows he'll lose so badly next time even fraud won't save him. SAD!" etc From an out and out punishment perspective the worst thing that could happen to Trump is not being banned from office- if anything that'll bolster his ego, as above- but being allowed to run and failing miserably. Which, if his conduct genuinely has been so bad, should happen.

Bolivia would have been the most recent one, and that was about a year ago. Most of the people involved don't need to be paid though, that's the genius part. It's far easier to whip them up with, er, false narratives of stolen elections, ignoring the constitution etc. If you pay someone it's only the military guy who orders troops to start shooting Morales supporters having done nothing about the people installing a 'popular' leader with a staggering... 3% support. You're not aiming to de-escalate the situation with those people though. 70 odd million people voted Trump, something like 2000 (?) stormed the Capitol. The trouble is that you simultaneously have people talking about reconciliation while even here advocating for the protesters to have been machine gunned down (after all, while bother going for Bolivia and Anez when you can go straight to Syria and Assad), show trials for treason etc. No doubt the usual suspect will complain about a thin end of wedge analogy being used, but we're talking about a situation which is massively polarised, if you're talking about show trials, massive use of force etc etc you are fulfilling the worst fears of many of the 70 odd million people who voted for Trump. I like historical analogies rather a lot, and what did the damage to the Roman Republic from their Capitol being stormed was pretty much never the storming itself, but the response to it- and the systematic stake inflation resulting from those who were 'just defending the republic from the mob' and used it to justify pretty much anything and everything escalating from political murder to mass political murder to outright invading Rome and publishing literal death lists. Just about every step that resultd in the Republic's collapse apart from mobs in the Capitol was taken by an Optimate, not a Populare.

MS already owns Dishonoured, which is a perfectly good steampunk setting. I doubt they'd even be bothered doing the paperwork to acquire Arcanum as well.

Trump did at least say explicitly no violence. No doubt there will be a fair few who say that he meant the opposite, but it is what he said. And let's be honest, it was hardly the storming of the Bastille. It was extraordinarily embarrassing for just about everyone involved though, on every side. OTOH, it really does illustrate what the real problem is when you have experts on TV simultaneously talking about how all americans should come together in harmony now; and simultaneously throw a bunch of people into prison andor execute them for sedition/ Treason, impeach Trump and instantly remove him, invoke the 25th amendment, purge any politician who supports Trump from Congress- because the situation is as bad as the Civil War, after all- and generally do just about anything and everything to ensure there won't be any coming together. Two more weeks of Trump and he's gone, and there's nothing he can do about it. There's no need for purges, and all knee jerk reactions will do is more damage to the institutions they theoretically want to protect. Ironically, exactly what happened after every time the Capitol got mobbed in Rome, too. Makes me glad the polarisation here is relatively minor. If we had equivalent coverage Andrew Falloon driving a tractor up the steps of the Beehive to protest the fart tax would have been a brutal assault on the seat of Democracy and New Zealand itself by radical National Party cadres obviously intent on a coup since they were equipped with the base model of a Bob Semple tank, instead of some dumb yokel future sex pest MP making a tit of himself and showing off his premature baldness on national news while somehow contriving to stall the tractor.

Meh, not much of a difference really, I'm pretty sure they think AP sucks as well as CNN. After all, many of them won't even like Fox News for being too liberal or whatever. I have to admit, there's a great deal of schadenfreude to be felt over the pearl clutching about protesters storming the US Capitol given all the revolutions the CIA has and had been sponsoring, often against democratically elected leaders. Not so great when the shoe is on the other foot, hmm.

ISIS existed from 2005, it's a direct successor to Zarqawi's Al Qaeda in Iraq. Which was a separate entity which joined Al Qaeda as a franchisee so probably 2005 is the fairest time for its establishment. It became the Islamic State in Iraq, then ISIS, then formally 'Dawlah' IS as a 'Caliphate' once they reinvaded Iraq from Syria and took Mosul. Now, the rest is more interesting. ISI under Baghdadi sent support to the Syrian rebels- Jabhat al Nusra, the 'Support Front', now Hayat Tahrir al Sham and supposedly independent of Al Qaeda (now officially Hurras ad Din, in Syria)- while it was still under the umbrella of Al Qaeda, its very name tells you that it did exist before the US gave them weapons, though it was not significant at the start. They had a lot of success though since they were ruthless, got support from US allies and eventually grew. In 2013/4 JaN split along the lines of Al Qaeda and ISIS loyalties, and a bunch of other groups joined ISIS, they reinvaded Iraq and took Mosul etc then became enemy #1. In terms of support for ISIS/ JaN from the US, there was quite a lot of it though most of it was clandestine and indirect, and hence deniable. By the measure of the US itself they definitely supported ISIS- almost all the top ISIS leaders including Baghdadi were held and released by the US previously, they operated with impunity for years and were armed and trained via operations like Timber Sycamore. Ironically, these are exactly the accusations the US levels at Iran to show they support Al Qaeda... To be fair, most of the arming and training done was to 'moderate rebels' that somehow despite the no doubt careful vetting joined decidedly non moderate ISIS later, and not directly to JaN, though they certainly knew that US allies (Turkey, Qatar) were supporting JaN directly. That is also the source of the infamous 'McCain meets Baghdadi' photo, while it isn't Baghdadi the 'moderate rebels' he was photographed with went on to become senior ISIS leaders. The US never, bar one occasion, significantly bombed IS if they were attacking the 'correct' targets and infamously never targeted their main source of revenue, oil, since most of that money was going to/ from Erdogan's son. The one occasion in which they did attack ISIS on a frontline with Assad they 'accidentally' attacked Assad's troops instead, and handed ISIS the main defensive position overlooking Deir Ez Zor airport. Indeed, that attack persisted so long that the Russians allegedly only stopped it by directly threatening to shoot down the Danish and Australian planes involved, after the senior US officer on the deescalation line was for some reason absent for 45 minutes. Overall there's no doubt in the slightest that the US under Obama was at minimum fine with ISIS, so long as it was attacking Shia militia and Assad, supported those who later joined it as 'moderate rebels' and even post Caliphate declaration tolerated it, so long as it was threatening their mutual enemies. It was only when they started threatening US interests that they became an evil that had to be stopped. It's very doubtful that Obama had any direct operational knowledge of most of this, but then if you use that excuse for him you have to use that excuse for Bush as well.

The US did use the Roman Republic as a model. Invading the Capitol with a mob was a pretty established tradition there especially in the later republic when the strain was showing.

It's the RTX thread, presumably he's talking about a 30x0 Aorus Master OC graphics card. Gigabyte's naming schemes are a bit annoying now they're using the same branding for GPUs and MBs but 700 quid would be fairly pricey for an Aorus Master motherboard.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the Express thought Norway was in the EU. If they're better than the Scum or the Daily Fail it's only because they have less people reading.

Thing is many of the Nazi techniques are visible in the politics of, say, Athens in the 5th century BC- and it's pretty unlikely that Cleon invented them either, no matter how much antipathy Thucydides and Aristophanes felt towards him. They're effective techniques in times of crisis or apparent crisis, always have been. The German 1932 elections really aren't a good comparison to, for want of a better term to describe the current US polarisation, 'Trumpism'. Why? Hitler got ~37% of the vote in 1932v1 after a load of race baiting nationalistic triumphalism during a massive Depression, that is for sure. But- and it's a but Sir Mixalot would appreciate- he then doubled down on all his electoral strategies and violence plus obstructed forming a government and in consequence got... 33% of the vote 6 months later, with 2 million less votes. His strategy actively turned people off and he only got to be Chancellor with that reduced share because Hindenburg was a tired old man in failing health, and frightened of commies. If it had been an alternative conservative war hero like Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck as President- or a ten year younger Hindenburg- instead Hitler would not have been Chancellor. OTOH while it isn't of absolute importance in the US system Trump actually gained 12 million votes over 2016, it's just that Biden gained 15 million over Hillary.

Some of it* definitely looks like credibility shopping. Much of the rest is pretty lol. Some of it sounds like the sort of stuff that was cut from Witcher 3- Iorveth and the plague, Wild Hunt attacks Novigrad, Devil's Pit etc- most of which seems to have been cut for a sensible reason**. The trouble is that saying it was all cool 2 years ago isn't really credible from what we know of development, the logical answer is that it was just a buggy mess, but with a larger worldspace. The counter example for cut content is probably KOTOR2. Very short dev cycle, absolute masses of cut content/ retasked content. Remember its release state and imagine if they'd tried a release with the ~20% more content of the Droid Planet still in... *specifically "There will be major departures from the studio in the coming months". That's obvious, they happen after every single major release, successful or failed. Even the basic maths of it is pretty simple, if you had 300 employees and the average employment length was 5 years then you'd be losing an average 60 people per year even without contracts for specific projects running out. Wow, 60 people leaving in a year!!! Sounds major, but it's just attrition. Even if everyone stayed a ludicrous average of 10 years you'd still be losing 30 people to natural attrition. But, if you say departures will happen then when they inevitably do you look like a genius... **cutting stuff that simply wasn't working to make time for fixing stuff that mostly was. The only real loss from Witcher 3 was Iorveth, since that was almost certainly going to lead to a elf/ human Decision as in the prior two games. The two really stupid ancillary plot points in WItcher 3 both could be easily fixed if Iorveth was there- Iorveth was involved in the plague plot so Keira taking research to him would make sense, to Radovid... not so much; and Iorveth vs BROche with Geralt input makes infinitely more sense than Dijkstra deciding potential personal combat with a Witcher was a good idea.

If they'd said Epstein had been murdered Assange probably would have been extradited. But instead he 'committed suicide', while supposedly in supermax and under suicide watch, showing they were incapable of preventing people from killing themselves. Absolutely hilarious.

Maybe they could swap him for Anne Sacoolas, who unlike Assange is responsible for actually killing someone. (The extradition has been rejected, basically due to the US having an awful prison system)