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This federation megathreas stuff is getting out of hand, now there’s two of them! Hello comrades!
we should make a megathread that links to all the megathreads, like a megamegathread or a metamegathread or maybe a gigathread
Maybe like Pokemon they go Gigantamaxthread
Pokeman go to the Terastallizationthread
in hindsight, this is one of the worst things I have ever writtenActually, z moves came after megas. Give us the Z thread
My ISP has to be rate limiting the fediverse, whenever I connect to an instance without VPN it always takes a shitton to load, but when I use a VPN on my Wi-Fi is super fast
I thought I was imagining that.
solution: always use VPN and/or Tor
Maybe some people here will enjoy these:
DPRK Architecture of the Future
Woodland Retreat
More here: https://hexbear.net/post/294804
What if we kissed under the futuristic DPRK ecosocialism retreat 😳
I have to ask my Lemmygrad comrades something very important. What’s the official rum/cola to drink when Kissinger inevitably dies? I’m gonna get wasted on Cuba Libres and I need a good rum and cola for mixed drinks.
Havana Club - the real Cuban version. Great stuff! Though you need to pick it up outside the US because of the embargo nonsense.
Wait you can’t get Havana in the US?
It doesn’t matter aslong as you have a full Blatter at the funeral
Why is lemmy.ml memes comm so bad?
many people are saying it
Oh good it’s not just me that noticed
like any large instance aside from Lemmygrad and Hexbear, lemmy.ml is infested with liberals 😔
“They got mad at me when I said it but they do run the world!”
Can you elaborate what this is ment to mean?
Shared mega
I bought one of those tiny juiceboxes for the first time in years because I forgot my water bottle at home. Paper straws, they’re gross, folks
So uhhhhh you guys like pig balls?
only if there’s excrement involved
Maybe this whole federating business wasn’t such a bad idea after all! Check this out:
whoa, I certainly did not expect that particular image to appear!!
here’s one without excrement for comparison
Hmm. Useful for contrasting, this one appears to be lacking visible balls. Thank you.
indeed, it truly shows the enormity of the impact enacted upon the art piece by the testicular and fecal details
For my summer holiday, I read books in the park and played video games. No travel or anything. I don’t want to be super negative, but after I really can’t stand to be around travelers right now.
What would happen if God uttered to us a word?
the revolution would no longer stop with capitalism
Depends on the word!
We’d probably have to reinvent Marxism due to its dialectical materialist base
da bear is back
Laika! She’s an icon, she’s a legend, and she is the moment!
expropiated
I laika the doggie
god damn it, I got tricked
I wear an N95 everywhere and I haven’t had a respiratory infection since 2019.
Libs think that I’m full of shit, but I was right about the war on terror, right want global warming, and FFS I’m right about what the mainstream medical research is stating.
Before covid I never got sick and ever since I have been dealing with infections from time to time lol. I think the masks had the opposite effect for me and really affected my immune system.
Still, masks have been such a net positve for society. I wish people continued to wear them more often, especially when they themselves have a cold or anything.
i get seasonal vaccines generally, i fucking hate being sick
So according to some research, COVID infections cause a lot of problems with your immune system and actually increase the likelihood of getting other infections. I can link the studies is you’re interested. Have you gotten COVID yet? What kind of mask are you wearing?
Mostly the blue standard ones or the medical mask. Only got Covid a couple of months ago when it was largely deemed ‘gone’ over here (it never left, of course).
I’m sure you’re probably aware that the surgical ones don’t protect you much, they’re mostly a cheap and easy way to keep asymptomatic infected people from spreading the disease to others. If everyone was doing surgicals, it’d be great. But if you’re the only one who masks, they don’t filter for your too well.
N95s and FFP2s have a long history of development, they’ve been protecting workers from dangerous dusts for decades, and the science of how they work is really solid. Again, please ask for my sources if you’re interested.
I read research earlier about wearing two masks being more effective but I don’t know how up to date that is since this was in like 2021
NGL the data is really confusing, since there’s no much research out there and it’s really hard to structure a perfect study during a deadly pandemic. But generally N95s will reduce your risk by 70% or more, while surgicals will reduce it by less than 30%. If you make sure to do a fit test, a N95 is going to protect well above 90%. The main issue with N95 failure is with leakage, if your mask leaks then it will be much less effective.
Yeah, I just wear my KN95 and don’t worry about it beyond that. I’ve got my boosters and am in good health and wear mask and stay away from people. I’m sure I could read more research to lower risk even more but beyond this I’m not really that concerned
