TheModerateTankie

If you haven't tried niri yet, it's pretty great. If you are interested in a tiling WM and don't want to mess with the omarchy/hyprland fascists, I recommend checking it out. The tiling behavior makes sense and there aren't several dozen shortcuts to learn before you can use it properly.

And if you want to play around with a distro where it's set up my default, check out zirconium. One of the reasons that kept me away from trying a tiling window manager was because I didn't want to mess with a bunch of config files before my laptop became not-annoying to use, and this has a decent set up from the start.

It's a universal blue (fedora atomic) derivative built on niri and dankmaterialshell, and it's great for older hardware. I installed on a 10 year old laptop, and it feels brand new. From what I can tell Niri+DMS uses about half the resources as a gnome or kde desktop. It's extremely smooth, stable, and has very sensible and minimal default software installed. It's focus is developers, but you can still game on it. It just won't have all the bells and whistles of something like bazzite preinstalled.

Niri is also easy to set up with CachyOS from what I understand.

I rate it 9 out of 10 linuxes.

The worst people on earth don't want you to get vaccinated.

Despite all Americans having been either infected with and/or vaccinated against COVID at this point, writes Califf in the commentary, the studies’ findings demonstrate that “updated booster vaccines provide continued protection against major adverse clinical outcomes, including lower risks of major cardiovascular events, hospitalizations, and all-cause death.”

And even though the magnitude of the protection is modest and wanes over time, argues Califf, the cardiovascular benefits of vaccination outweigh the potential risks. What’s more, he adds, studies continue to suggest major risks tied to COVID infection, including neurodevelopmental disorders in children born to those with serious COVID infections.

Post-COVID condition, also known as long COVID, is another important consideration. “Ongoing studies point out the substantial effects of post–COVID-19 condition. Millions of individuals in the US, including a substantial number of children, experience loss of function and diminished quality of life due to the disease’s sequelae,” Califf writes. “Many observational studies have found an association between previous vaccination and a reduced risk of post–COVID-19 condition

This also means covid is still fucking people up to a significant degree.

A Mississippi police officer shot 1-year-old Kohen Kartier Wiley while responding to a shoplifting call on Sunday, killing him and critically wounding an adult.

The June 14 shooting involved officers from the Senatobia Police Department and the Tate County Sheriff’s Department. The officer shot Wiley while he was inside a silver sedan in the parking lot of a Walmart.

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety released a statement on June 14, alleging that the shooting happened in response to one of two subjects driving “in the direction of” officers. A clip of cellphone video obtained by Fox 13 Memphis shows a car driving away from officers, but it does not appear to show the shooting itself. A photo of the car shows multiple bullet holes in the windshield, including a bullet hole on the passenger side of the front windshield.

Notably, the DPS statement appears to acknowledge that police witnessed the presence of Kohen Wiley prior to the individuals entering their vehicle, and before the officer discharged the weapon. The officer has not been identified.

The capitalist republic of Mississippi has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against the African American population which has often been characterized as a form of apartheid.

Among minority populations there have been frequent reports of public executions committed by secret police, arbitrary terrorism and violence from unofficially sanctioned militias, arbitrary detention, torture, mass surveillance, withholding of lifesaving medical treatment, cultural and religious persecution, family separation, forced labor, withholding of necessary services in the face of natural disasters, forced displacement, sexual violence, and violations of reproductive rights. State sanctioned slavery was ended in 2013, although the state still participates in the exploitation of forced labor as part of it's "criminal justice system".

The federal government of the United States is known for frequently turning a blind eye, or actively encouraging, the human rights violations of it's own people, especially among minority groups and those forced into poverty by it's corrupt economic system.

Capitalist world powers refuse to condemn the United States for the frequent human rights violations of it's own people, in part due to political alliances and the economic and military power it wields on the world stage.

Still set in the alt-history introduced by For All Mankind, Star City shows how the paranoid Russian space program won the race to the moon under the watchful eye of the Soviet surveillance state. This is not the ’60s optimism found in the Baldwin household, but rather a molehunt for an American spy feeding Uncle Sam space base plans. Amid the espionage, the Soviet Union pushes forward with its plans to reach the moon first, and they don’t care how many Cosmonauts they have to lose to get there.

lmao

This shit sucks so hard.

Sci-fi laser-focused on appealing to Apple stock shareholders.

At the beginning of For All Mankind when the soviets beat the USA to the moon, it made me laugh so hard watching the Americans stewing about it. The rest of the show is boring and mostly sucks.

#Doctors share why it’s still important to take the virus seriously.

#Key Points

• COVID still causes significant hospitalizations and deaths despite declining severe impact rates.
• Re-infections increase risk for certain health issues.
• Annual vaccination is key to preventing severe disease and reducing long COVID risk.

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID was associated with an estimated 290,000 to 450,000 hospitalizations and between 34,000 and 53,000 deaths between July 2024 and July 2025, the most recent year that data is available. These stats show just how much the virus is still impacting us.

For comparison, here's how the flu impacted people in 2024-2025 Which was a more severe flu season than normal:

CDC estimates there were 51 million influenza (flu)-related illnesses, 23 million medical visits, 710,000 hospitalizations and 45,000 deaths during the 2024-2025 flu season. Based on CDC criteria, the severity of the 2024-2025 season was high.

The estimated flu-related illnesses and medical visits are higher than the 2017-2018 season, the last high severity flu season. Estimated hospitalizations are the same as 2017-2018, while estimated deaths are lower.

I guess this is the new normal. Double the amount of severe respiratory disease than before, and little to no seasonality.

This was published on nature.com.

It looks like the whole article was AI generated.Here are responses from pubpeer.

I never thought I'd see professionals just kind of collectively give up on putting effort into things. Maybe by "fexcectorn" and "frymbial" levels are abnormal?

É Preciso Dar um Jeito, Meu Amigo is a song composed by Brazilian musicians Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos released in 1971 as part of the album Carlos, Erasmo.[1] The song addresses the need for a response to the crimes committed during the Brazilian military dictatorship, including the disappearance of deputy Rubens Paiva, whose story is portrayed in the film Ainda Estou Aqui.[2]

Cumulative effects of COVID infections

During our talk the physicist summarized what the science now says about COVID infections, whether they appear mild or severe. Every infection increases the risk for heart attacks, strokes and heart disease; for new-onset diabetes; for cognitive decline and dementia; for deregulating the immune system; and for reactivating viruses like Epstein-Barr or shingles.

An epidemic of shingles, for example, is now afflicting young Chinese adults who have just recovered from a bout with COVID.

At the beginning of the pandemic researchers worried about the effects of an acute infection requiring hospitalization. Now the focus has shifted to the long-term impacts of repeated infections and long COVID, says Bar-Yam. Here again the science shows that risks are real and cumulative, particularly among those suffering from long COVID.

“The science is saying our health is progressively deteriorating,” says Bar-Yam.

Because COVID destabilizes the immune system, researchers are now beginning to see a link between repeat COVID infections and rising cancer rates in young people. One study recently found that a COVID infection can accelerate or increase cancer risk, while another study revealed that a COVID infection substantially heightened the risk of six cancers caused by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus.

In this vein Bar-Yam has also co-authored a new peer-reviewed paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine Focus that draws some disturbing comparisons between repeated COVID infections and untreated HIV infections, noting each can cause chronic inflammation, immune exhaustion and accelerated biological aging.

Bar-Yam and fellow researchers are not saying that COVID is the same as HIV-acquired AIDS — the two are vastly different viruses spread in very different ways. But a comparison of the two immune destabilizers helps us see something that public health discourse has largely neglected: “We may be living through a slow-moving immune decline crisis.”

SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1, though distinct, share parallels in their biochemical traits and mechanisms (1, 3, 7), long-term impacts and societal responses (4). Both can establish persistent infections in tissue reservoirs (37, 127), immune dysfunction (21, 42, 56, 57), vulnerability to other infections including opportunistic (68, 70, 71, 74, 222), systemic damage including hallmarks of accelerated biological aging (184, 187), and premature neurocognitive disorders (117). HIV integrates into DNA, whereas SARS-CoV-2 and its parts persist in organs like the blood vessels, brain, heart, tonsils, and lungs (127).

The statement that SARS-CoV-2 is “airborne AIDS” may be an oversimplification, but it draws attention to emerging evidence showing that the virus induces a distinct form of acquired immunodeficiency (AID). The phrase emphasizes key similarities and is grounded in evidence of shared outcomes, including immune dysfunction through T cell depletion and exhaustion(16, 39, 101), persistent systemic damage, and neurocognitive decline. These outcomes are further highlighted by the increased vulnerability to infectious diseases (50, 62-66), including those that are signature indicators of immune deficiency typically associated with HIV/AIDS(66, 68-78), as well as likely several types of cancer (79-85). Combined with its airborne spread and high transmissibility, SARS-CoV-2 is an ongoing threat to immunity and contributes to the population-level spread of many infections, amplifying its impact on public health.

What can anyone say at this point?

As the Flu Surges in Asia, Could Getting Sick Year-Round Be the New Normal?

This is like year 3 or 4 of record levels of flu activity.

keep up to date with vaccinations and wear masks if you can.

Here's something we've known for years being reported in major news publications. Pretty much every major study on this has shown the same results. A cumulative damage effect is shown with a virus that can attack our vascular system, immune system, brain, and all our major organs.

And people whose ability to focus or concentrate on anything is shot are blaming social media and vaccines.

The study, of nearly a half-million people under 21, published Tuesday in Lancet Infectious Diseases, provides evidence that Covid reinfections can increase the risk of long-term health consequences and contradicts the idea that being infected a second time might lead to a milder outcome, medical experts said.

Here's another article about the study in time:

“The message is about how seriously you should treat your potential risk of getting a second COVID-19 infection,” says Chen. These results, along with other research, suggest that there might be a cumulative harmful effect of repeat COVID-19 infections on the body, and scientists are trying to better understand those potential long-term effects. Chen is also continuing the work to study what effect getting vaccinated following a first infection might have on not just the risk of additional infections, but on the development of Long COVID as well.

I would be surprised if the risk didn't increase with age.

And a relevant post to someone who predicted this would happen early on:

When I told everybody here and argued with many overly confident people that the evidence appeared to me to show that Covid was a serious and exceptional infection, and that the long Covid risk would remain and probably increase after infection, I was accused of not understanding that immunity builds with infection.

I tried to explain that the virus harms immunity and was called an alarmist by people that had more advanced credentials than I, whilst I was still a medical student.

...

It’s hard to convey the indignant rage I feel over my future- and your futures- having been robbed from us.

Anyone with a chronic health issue has to become an expert on their chronic health issue because regular doctors can be dismissive of chronic heatlh problems, so I thought these two threads should be shared with anyone who has long covid.

Here's a thread by Ryan Hasner, who tracks covid variants, about the evidence for viral persistance being the cause of a lot of Long Covid cases.: bsky or xcancel

TLDR; His conclusion is that due to the types of antibodies they are seeing covid is likley peristing in deep lung tissue or places in the body with a similar structure to deep lung tissue. He thinks the idea that it's viral protien fragments to be unlikely due to the traits exhibited in the antibody response and for how long these antibodies are being produced in people with long covid.

Also:

I don't know if this is replicable, but here is a twitter thread by a user who recovered from long covid and how they treated themselves by concluding that viral persistance was the cause: https://xcancel.com/sun_in_winter12/status/1962944555826676006#m

In particular she recommends Glutathione and CoQ10, some dietary changes, and anti-virals.

Glutathione, CoQ10, alpha lipoic acid can all help with this.

Glutathione in particular has been shown to have multiple antiviral properties.

It's often depleted in chronic infections such as HIV, and supplementing it can help restore immune function.

She hasn't detailed everything yet, but some of her process and dietary changes that helped are detailed in the thread and on this page: https://longcovidbegone.substack.com/p/a-positive-update-how-i-stopped-needing

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Here is a new study showing people who were vaccine only had better immune responses to new covid variants than people who had "hybrid immunity": https://xcancel.com/brownecfm/status/1961839511496806594#m

"The unexpected finding that vaccination-only participants showed superior cross-neutralization compared to individuals with hybrid immunity challenges conventional assumptions about hybrid immunity advantages'."

This is something fitterhappieraj predicted in 2020: "cov2 is built by nature to distort memory formation. vaccines dont have those machines. i believe we will see the first time a vaccination regimen yield superior immunity than a nonseroconverting natural viral course. the first person to write this up gets an honorary MD"

Would you be surprised to learn that this article doesn't mention any health effects of getting covid, a virus that can cause brain damage?

Sussman and Frankel are not alone in their anxiety. Eli is one of more than 3.6 million children born in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic who are walking into elementary schools across the country this fall. They're children who came into a world full of masked adults dousing themselves in hand sanitizer. Many spent the first year of their lives either in isolation in lockdowns or with only a handful of trusted people in their bubbles. And the long-term impact on these "COVID kindergartners" remains unclear.

Maybe we should ban hand sanitizer?

A 2023 study published in Epic Research found that children who turned 2 between October and December 2021 were about 32% more likely to have a speech delay diagnosis than those who turned 2 in 2018. That rate increased dramatically, up to nearly 88%, for children who turned 2 between January and March 2023. Overall, the speech delay diagnoses increased from an average of 9% of children in 2018 to nearly 17% in the first quarter of 2023.

Did people mask at home around their babies? How many strangers do infants normally interact with for significant periods of time? Wierd how having more time with their parents due to brief lockdowns wasn't a good thing.

School attendance and preschool enrollment levels have also suffered since the pandemic. The U.S. Department of Education's most recent study on attendance found that the rate of chronic absenteeism — which is when students miss 10% or more of school — averaged 28% across the country during the 2022-2023 school year.

Would you be surprised to learn they don't mention several years of record rates of other diseases like RSV, Strep, and Flu in relation to these statistics?

Anyway, it's certainly not the disease that causes brain damage and memory problems, or how it takes a toll on our immune system, it was our reaction to the virus that was the real problem becuase it disrupted our routines.

Here's another news article that's probably not related to the brain damaging virus we are letting infect everyone: Memory problems increase among Nordic children. The article entertains the theory that cell towers and microwaves are to blame, but I'm pretty sure the problem is hand sanitizer.

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