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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Ok so like this shouldn’t be too hard to explain. I assume this is your first time on this planet? Well it doesn’t matter. Sometimes someone will say or imply two separate things in the same sentence. An example might be something like ‘have you seen my new green pencil?’. Now these things might not always have a relation – new and green do not necessarily imply one another. But they have a semantic link nonetheless. Doctor does not necessarily imply intellectual, but may be considered relevant. Idk man stop getting upset





  • I think that’s a different kettle of fish. You try telling AWS (or perhaps more relevantly Palantir) they can’t use a VPN to gate access to internal systems and you’ll have a much bigger fight. And once it’s permissable in some contexts, then it becomes much harder to gatekeep it even in contexts that you do legally forbid, since you can’t just blanket ban it at ISP level. Of course, I suppose you could enforce that ISPs blacklist certain VPN providers, but… Yeah anyway it becomes too tangled once you’re beyond the legislation phase and enforcement becomes a nightmare is what I guess I’m trying to say.





  • mRNA vaccines are, of course, just the absolute tits - but they’re a tiny proportion of modern vaccines and the very first ones are one a few years old, created to treat COVID. But yeah, 100%, we don’t use the virus in the vaccine! Even the first ever vaccine was (as you will know) not created from the disease it was meant to treat, but from one similar enough that it gave protection to the other. And smallpox doesn’t exist any more so, well, that worked out pretty well didn’t it. You don’t give someone the virus to stop them getting that virus, but you might well give them a virus, in an attenuated form of the target