Yeah, I thought it sounded unhinged. But I'm desperate, and don't want to put myself at risk of a preventable death.
I've spent the greater part of my life as a shut in largely because I'm a sniffling, coughing, sneezing mess all day and night every day for 6-8 months of the year. And simply a sniffly mess for the rest.
I had one good summer last year and I can't believe what I'm missing. Being able to do activities like hiking, or biking, going to the grocery store without being treated like I have the plague. Actually being able to go out to a restaurant or public places. Making friends, and actually being able to join them. Going to the movies...etc Not having to carry a whole-ass box a Kleenex with me everywhere I go.
It made me into a desperate man, realizing how much life I'm missing.
The comments here are fantastic, and incredibly helpful.
My allergist mentioned these, and noted that this is likely to be ineffective for me. Insurance also didn't want to pay for it, though they shoveled out $4k for the serum for shots.
If I can't get shots here though, I'll try anything.
It is society's responsibility to inform protect and educate those that are less capable in order to maintain the functioning of that society. Otherwise that society breaks down and falls apart. "A rising tide raises all ships"
My point here is that we as oregonians should be doing better. Instead of adopting nationalism and referring to each other as "The Other", we should be looking at the root cause and not attacking each other's throats while the true enemy just watches and laughs at us peons doing what peons do best: Ignorantly blaming each other.
It's a bunch of propaganda aimed at people in these counties that shift their opinion one piece of propaganda at a time.
I've gotten so many flyers in the mail or put on my doorstep or stuffed in my door over the last 3-4 years about this it's unbelievable.
Someone with a significant amount of money is funding this, because the advertising isn't cheap.
And they all show the same misleading information on them to convince oregonians that the grass is greener on the other side. When it most definitely isn't.
Just because it sucks at one-shotting programming problems doesn't mean it's not useful for programming.
Using AI tools as co-pilots to augment knowledge and break into areas of discipline that you're unfamiliar with is great.
Is it useful to kean on as if you were a junior developer? No, absolutely not. Is it a useful tool that can augment your knowledge and capabilities as a senior developer? Yes, very much so.
The problem with energy storage isn't a lack of incentives, it's a lack of solutions. There are currently no proven, grid scale, economical, and robust energy storage solutions.
There are lots of storage solutions that work within limited geographical areas (ie. Pumped hydro). But past that it's a crap shoot.
Batteries are absolutely nowhere near the capacity or longevity needed for grid scale storage.
The largest battery storage system in the world is primarily used for grid leveling and emergency power. And would be depleted in minutes under its maximum load.
We do not yet have effective and economical means of storing energy in grid scale quantities that are readily deployable near where that power is consumed.
It's a huge problem actually, the biggest one facing renewables like solar.
Good to see that Lemmy is becoming as toxic A wasteland as Reddit ever was.
Armchairing ✅
Personal attacks instead of attacking the arguments ✅
Silent downvotes instead of actual discussion ✅
Misrepresenting an anecdote ✅
All I did was provide an anecdote to show how easy it is to lose a round of ammunition. No one is strictly inventorying their .22 ammunition, it literally comes in boxes of loose rounds. Holes in the corners easily cause some to be misplaced during transportation. It's not common but it happens, and when it does you're not going to know, because, again, no one is inventorying their loose rounds.
Despite me calling out the armchair opinion, you decide that doubling down on the armchairness was more appropriate, and used an anecdote as a way to personally attack me, instead of my argument.
You made no attempt to actually address the point I was making, and instead took the easy route which is just personal attacks...
