KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
Has anyone been tracking H5N1 bird flu? I see occasional doomposting updates from accounts like https://x.com/outbreakupdates/ and I'm trying to figure out if we're all sleeping on something about to go very bad, or if it's "under control" and/or likely to burn out. Haven't seen any recent posts about it on LessWrong, and I'd expect to if it were something (since they were right and early on SARS-CoV-2).
KingOfTheBailey
11mo ago
I love this place so much.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
I found discussion of this on a site about the 14th amendment. It links to a page from the Congressional Record, which seems to match a similar page in wayback from the Library of Congress. It records Sen. Jacob M. Howard (MI) as saying:
Mr. HOWARD: I now move to take up House joint resolution No. 127.
The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the joint resolution (H.R. No. 127) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The first amendment is to section one, declaring that all "persons born in the United States and Subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside. I do not propose to say anything on that subject except that the question of citizenship has been fully discussed in this body as not to need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.
(Emphasis as per www.14thamendment.us.)
I am not a constitutional scholar, but this seems fairly straightforward to me. What am I missing?
KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
Nice hat...
KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
Gave us the Ebola vaccine
I have been able to find things saying that we now have a couple of Ebola vaccines but nothing for a lay audience about their method of development. Do you have a link for this?
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
That was my experience with Mechanicus, a game that I really enjoyed until I was beating every fight in a single turn. Except it was so easy to fall into that part of character-build-space that you didn't even have the "else, die" to worry about.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
Haven't yet but probably should.
KingOfTheBailey
11mo ago
I think you mean "effect".
KingOfTheBailey
5d ago
I can only assume that his mind latched onto the most extreme "solution" to the extreme "problem" with which he diagnosed himself.
The closest I get to this world is the Manowar cover of Nessun Dorma and I never knew what it meant, so thank you very much for writing all of this out. (For Manowar, a man sitting up at night, having put it all on the line, and ending in a cry of victory is actually really thematically appropriate. It was also apparently recorded as a tribute to the singer's late mother but was sometimes performed live for the band's Italian fans.)
I don't know if opera is for me, but I certainly respect the hell out of the performances in it. How much of this is comprehensible if you just turn up to a performance, or is it one of those things where everyone already knows the pieces and the stories?
P.S.: I actually meant I thought this would be a great fit for a standalone thread; the stories from the wider world are IMHO the best part of this forum.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
I thought "plushie" specifically referred to stuffed toys with a particular outer fabric.
KingOfTheBailey
6mo ago
I know you asked specifically for a book, but https://learn.cantrill.io/p/tech-fundamentals is a pretty good free course about the various layers of the networking stack. If you want to go deep on the protocol-level stuff then maybe Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated could be what you're after? It might be too TCP-focused, since you also have questions about VLANs and UDP.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
That's the one. How did you find it? I couldn't get DDG nor Google to cough it up.
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
Grim, but about where I'm at too. Thanks for the cross-check.
KingOfTheBailey
8mo ago
My current strategy for Gleba is to think about it later. I'm not yet sure if it's going to be fun or "fun", but I'm hoping for the former.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
Please provide a pitch deck in next week's Tinker Tuesday.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
Pretty much everywhere I go, modern housing is appalling. Buildings thrown together; decorative panels falling off new-built apartments; concrete slabs rush-poured and not given proper time to cure; residential towers that catch fire or crack so badly they become uninhabitable; just enough lighting that you can photograph it for a real estate listing, but not enough to actually live in it; cupboards shallower than the width of a single mug; I could go on. It is not clear to me that we know how to build things any more.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
Seconded. Please make a top-level post about this, @UnopenedEnvilope!
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
I knew it had to exist, I just didn't know who to follow.
KingOfTheBailey
3mo ago
The big problem I had was the two-hundred-rupee-a-pop deciphering fee for each of the eight McGuffin shard maps. That made the whole thing feel bloated and not worth replaying.
And the lack of tacking.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
I see you have also discovered the speedrunning community.
KingOfTheBailey
4mo ago
That's some great context, thank you.
KingOfTheBailey
5mo ago
KingOfTheBailey
7mo ago
Congratulations, ceasing nail-biting is very difficult. This makes me think you have a better shot at fixing your diet than a random obese person off the street, since you've already achieved one lifestyle change from willpower alone. I hope that you have greater success now that you have chemical assistance. Good luck.
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