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I’m going door to door trying to gather pledges from all technology subscribers.
Will YOU downvote all Musk posts in this community until people post them in their proper place (c/enoughmuskspam)?
I’m going door to door trying to gather pledges from all technology subscribers.
Will YOU downvote all Musk posts in this community until people post them in their proper place (c/enoughmuskspam)?
The “old idea” is actually baked into one of the parameters of the new model. It’s why I said the old hypothesis “was not in line with observation” rather than being “wrong”. It predicted some trends correctly, but failed to predict many others. Like all science, it needed to update as we gathered more info.
The “new” hypothesis also isn’t perfectly predictive of viral evolution, but it’s more accurate with the observed spread of other diseases. Like all models, it’ll get replaced eventually by something more powerful. Likely sooner rather than later specifically because COVID put a spotlight on a lot of holes in the idea.
Just a very small correction- as with all biology, natural selection will drive a virus to replicate more effectively, that’s it. This does NOT mean a virus will automatically become less lethal over time. That’s an older hypothesis that scientists found was not in line with observation.
The newer hypothesis is known as “virulence-transmission trade-off”. The oversimplification of the idea is that if a mutation increases both transmission and virulence, it will also tend to be selected for. COVID is inconsistent with both hypotheses in certain ways though, so really predicting its virulence in the short or long term has proven difficult. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10066022/
Me freezing my glove in leftover LN2
Funny…. But I don’t see this as a good use of advertising.
You’re not swaying anyone visiting the site, and may instead be invigorating R voters.
Oh no thanks, with the release of Ahsoka I’m filled up on fantasy for a while
Is every vaguely prominent leader in Russia dumb as rocks? How did he think he’d get away with an attempted coup while leaving the dictator in power?
Did he expect to get points for being bad at a coup?
Are we referring to Musk as a glitch now?
We should really have another name other than “think tank” because I’m not convinced there’s a lot of thinking going on here.
Suggestions?
Copium should be a controlled substance
People who are single in the age of internet dating are single for a reason.
And that reason is EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG AND I’M NOT GONNA SETTLE FOR THEM MOM
Who is this woman and why is she always right about everything
While I totally agree that climate is a worldwide topic, not sure what you think the options are here…
If the majority of users submit and upvote US based stories, that’s what will appear in the community.
If the majority upvote more global stories, that’s what’ll appear.
The only other option I can think of would be adding a rule prohibiting US stories, but that feels like it’s going too far the other direction, no?
Oh god, the Nintendo DSi is actually retro now, huh
God I would kill for 2 real friends