I think the modern definition has absolutely changed.

The origin of the word though is elucidating, because it did always mean a disaster, it's just that 10,% swings were considered massive. People nowadays are so used to :stonks-up: :stonks-down: that a change of 10,% is almost blase, so people assume "decimate" means a much larger change than 10,%.

I'm not sure what app it is, it's functionally impossible to distinguish something like as real or fiction I think... Someone made that dress though, anything's possible.

I've only got anecdotes. My fiancee's son and daughter-in-law were in Shanghai for its entire lockdown. They couldn't leave their apartment building for weeks at a time, but always had food supplied. They're in a fairly ritzy part of town all things considered, I don't really know how the decisions were made but they always had some kind of fruit & veg, and of course rice.

Toward the end they were able to walk around outside for a bit each day, I feel like that could've been coordinated throughout the lockdown since it was clearly done per building and then later in groups of buildings. Luckily their son was across the bay in Chongming which didn't lockdown at all.

I shudder to think what would happen if we could test for ASD in-vitro.

I don't think it changes anything for those were/would've been before before the testing was available.

Eugenics at the family level just doesn't concern me, it's none of my business.

He's giving himself away though, I don't think anyone would even think of this unless they wanted to fuck their brother or sister.

For some it isn't, but for others it is.

It made it into Maslow's hierarchy.

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Does the player assume control of this character or something?

(I've never played the game but) Was the castle built for her? Or did she just move into an abandoned castle maybe?

I'm sure the decision to buy vs build came up, I wonder if the furries and anime avatars came up. I can't imagine it was that big a deterrent, most people would probably have never even been aware of the hypothetical VR Chat origin of the app. But maybe it was enough to make them say "can't be that hard, right?"

Oh yeah, I've never used it but more independence from these tech monopolies can't be bad. It still seemed like the obvious move, even if they kept VR Chat totally separate and just started forking off it for their Facebook VR.

Might makes right :blob-no-thoughts:

But seriously, the only legitimate position is the one that is exercised by those with power. If you don't have power, you're obligated to use any means to attain it, so that you can actualize your position. Of course taking care to not alienate allies in the pursuit of power.

Somehow they didn't just decide to buy VR Chat. That's basically all they've got I think. Shittier VR Chat and something that's somehow worse than what Linden Labs would've done to Second Life if they'd taken VR semi-seriously.

They couldn't have spent 10 minutes making the fill on the shirts national flags, instead of just pasting them in the corners? Also ditch the top text and bottom text and just have the Euros be cold and malding or something.

:kim-drip-too-hard:

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In a perfect world some state agency would've tracked the experience of identical twins split between drug and control groups in a clinical trials, considering the scope and seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alas we only have pre-clinical and bad clinical data without a real control group.

You can get an antibody test if you've got a few tens of $ hanging out in a HSA/FSA or don't mind parting with it. Health insurance doesn't cover it. I haven't been vaccinated but I think the assays available at eg Quest/Labcorp are all for nucleoplasm antibodies and not spike protein subunit antibodies, so if you are vaccinated it won't give a false positive. But I'd double check, it wouldn't have affected my results but there should be info on their website.

That's the only way to know if you've had it if you were asymptomatic like I was.

They could get a local phone number in Russia from lots of VOIP providers, probably. Even with sanctions.

There's services like "mysms" which sync calls to their "cloud" service, but I'm not sure if you can place calls. That might work, worth investigating.

There's also these boxes that are sold as remote VOIP which accept SIM cards. They're marketed as "IKOS" online, can be found on Alibaba as well. I don't think they've made an LTE model, not sure where Russian cell carriers are in the lifecycle but most US ones have dropped 3G entirely.

There's some free ones but I don't know of any open source ones. Stuff like Microsoft Phone Link probably need you on the same LAN but you might be able to make it work using a VLAN VPN setup or something. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/setting-up-calls-in-the-phone-link-app-c7e75908-c65d-bd42-fcb2-ea4d5fb783f1

Someone who's used this feature says it works remotely:

You can turn on sync via cellular so it will not require the same wifi network to work

But I still think the initial setup of Phone Link/"Your Phone" requires a LAN connection. Not sure how technically inclined you are but Wireguard and OpenVPN are both fairly easy to setup but I have no idea what ports this Phone Link thing uses for instance to really give a lot of advice. The closest I can think of are people setting up Wireguard on Windows for games with LAN multiplayer over the WAN. Basically the same thing, just more finicky. Here's the first result on the web when I looked for guidance on setting that up https://geekoverdose.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/play-lan-only-games-together-over-the-internet-with-wireguard/

Other ones worth investigating: iovox, Remote Phone Call (costs a few USD)

Having only seen the Toby Mac Spider-Men, first two Chris Nolan Batmen, Iron Man 1 and the Hulk movie that isn't part of the Avengers thing: yes.