Notices by MarkusL (markusl@fosstodon.org)

@lowqualityfacts That's why they speak in such old-fashioned English.

@dans

So it seems. I'd never heard of them until now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Record_of_Achievement

After my time, I'm afraid.

@bohemianchic @Edent

@alienghic

Thanks, Diane. Hence (as we've all heard a thousand times before) the need for multiple defences: vaccines, masks, ventilation and distancing -- none of which is sufficient by itself, but which are highly effective when used together.

It seems disingenuous to claim that any one of these measures should be discarded because it isn't, by itself, enough to eliminate the risk (and risks) of Covid infection.

@clacke @strypey

@breadbin

One reason we're not angrier is that we don't see all the abuse that marginalised people get. We don't see people's DMs, for example, and we don't see publicly visible abusive messages that someone else has already reported and had deleted by an admin. A troll can also use message visibility settings to get friends to pile on to a marginalised person while the rest of us don't see the abuse.

Because I'm not a target, I have no figures on how often this happens.

@goatsarah

@goatsarah

A big cable running down the middle of your living room where everyone's trying to walk, connected to a big CRT with high-voltage electronics inside: I can't see what could go wrong with that! 😄

@todayilearned

@todayilearned Back in the 1970s, I visited a family in Greece. They had a remote control that was attached to the television via a thick black cable. That's the only wired TV remote I've ever seen.

@mhoye I've used #Firefox as my main browser for decades, and I didn't know most of this stuff. Thanks!

@goatsarah Wow. He needs help -- but not from you, and not the kind of help he's looking for.

@koval_blazej What are the chances the ad agency itself did this as a publicity stunt? I wouldn't put it past them!

@taxet

More than that, it's dangerous. You could get stuck in the middle of nowhere, late at night, with a flat battery.

@aral

@Aminorjourney Forgive me if you know this already, but you can follow hashtags. If you follow hashtags like the ones you've used here — and TransJoy is another uplifting one — then you'll find more trans people quickly enough.

Here's how it's done, courtesy of the wonderful @feditips :

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

@aral Thanks for the nudge, Aral. We moved into a house with granite worktops in the kitchen, and granite emits radon. It's past time I checked it.

Do you have any tips on buying a radon sensor?

@clacke Thanks. I understand what you're saying, but I don't have any piercing insights to share, I'm afraid.

@clacke It's the first I've heard of this. What's the word being applied to? That might offer some clues.

@tess Just for the benefit of anyone who's never blocked another person:

1. During the reporting process, you get the chance to report multiple posts, not just the last one. As Dana says, there's rarely a need to get people to incriminate themselves further.

2. The other person is not copied into your report and doesn't know who sent it (or even, necessarily, that a report was sent). This won't open you up to abuse.

@clacke According to Collins, the words don't quite mean the same thing to British people and American people:

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/egoism

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/egotism

I wonder if your correspondent isn't on the same side of the Atlantic as you.

In either case, the two words do look pretty similar! Honestly, I wouldn't waste too much time over a dictionary snipe, if that's the way it came across.

@goatsarah We almost did leave in 2001. Had the American INS approved Mrs Wife's work visa before 9/11, we'd probably be out there to this day.

And so I've watched not one but two great countries deteriorate over the last couple of decades. Since about 2015, on balance, I've been glad we stayed put.

If we were planning to leave now, the first question would be: where? The EU is no longer open to us. How do you pick a country that won't end up worse than where you are now?

@taylan

Thanks, Taylan. I'll let Danielle answer if she wishes to. She's far better qualified than I am.

@danirabbit

@mpjgregoire

My ex-boss's infection occurred before vaccines were available. I'm not sure about the other chap.

This article suggests that #vaccination reduces #LongCovid risk enough to be worthwhile, but not enough to let people "vax and relax":

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/vaccination-may-protect-against-long-covid

(For the record, I'm up-to-date with Covid vaccines, and I intend to stay that way.)

@1dalm

@1dalm

What I'd really like to know is how many of the people infected have suffered long-term damage to their immune systems, their cognition, their energy levels or their physical fitness. #LongCovid scares me much more than the risk of death.

@arstechnica