That God is not real. That we are more enlightened then the ancients because science.

I believe there is a god (or some higher being). I also believe that humans are inherently imperfect, and that probably no religion (a manmade construct) has it correct.

If I believe my religion to be correct, then I must believe that other religions are incorrect. If religions can be incorrect, then my religion can also be one of the incorrect ones.

I will never fault anyone for their beliefs about a god, because then I must be faulted as well. Though god ≠ religion, and I am not a fan of some religious practices.

Believing that my religion could be incorrect does not affect my ability to practice my religion or believe in its teachings.

Yeah wondering the same. Would be good to understand some of the criteria for choices and some top 3 type recommendations for each choice.

Meh. He probably voted for mayor breed and newsom

Upvoted for Luke Smith. I find his take refreshing although I can see how many here will disagree

You won't know until you try. If I were you, I would jump on it.

What is a woman ?

As Jocko says, Good.

Good

What do you use for a laptop?

There's some beastly new laptops that recently came out, with Intel gen 12 and Nvidia 3000 series GPUs, the price is around 1300-1700 USD range. The power usage is higher than MacBook but if you use it plugged in for programming (and gaming) it's really the best thing for most people.

Reviews seem to say battery life ranges from 4 to 10 hours depending on the configuration. This gen is way thinner than previous also. Refresh rate is 120-300hz. Anyway I've not personally used it but I'll be trying them out in the store soon.

Silly.

I find all these mandates silly, but in a way this makes more sense than the places here in the US which have a vaccination requirement but still accept proof of shots from early/mid 2021, which are known to have worn off long ago at this point.

It doesn't make sense because the immunity does not "wear off" but rather the virus mutates beyond it. Mandating vaccines on a regular basis doesn't help because the vaccines aren't being updated to target newer variants.

Why not? Well, they tried. Moderna did a trial of an Omicron vaccine. It failed because the vaccinated population simply generated antibodies against the 2019 WIV strain "wild type" spike, not the Omicron spike. It only worked in the unvaccinated, but that's not a market for obvious reasons.

The underlying issue appears to be a form of imprinting or lack of resolution. Our bodies lack the ability to quickly differentiate the different spikes. The immune system just says, ah ha, a spike! I know what to do now, I've seen this problem before! Then it generates antibodies that don't bind properly, which is why the boosted are now getting so frequently sick with COVID even just months apart, which isn't meant to happen. In normal times, even after the virus mutated such that the body can't tell it apart from earlier variants, it doesn't matter because the virus keeps hitting people who were never previously infected and whose immune systems thus develop properly targeted antibodies. It acts as a firebreak and slows the whole thing down pretty dramatically, which is why most people can go many years without re-catching flu. But now we've broken that diversity by homogenizing the entire population. Almost everyone has now been imprinted with a spike that's long since extinct in the wild, so there's no firebreak anymore.

Given that context, insisting on COVID vaccine every nine months is catastrophic. It won't slow down Omicron, it would only make it worse, and the spike protein is cytotoxic. It's not at all free to repeatedly flood your system with it.