There’s a whole science fiction series about a race of aliens trying to figure out how to survive the death of the universe. As I recall, it was written before we decided on forever expansion.

Here’s a clue. I do a lot of searches for hardware and parts. When I find a website with a good static home page, I bookmark it. When I find a site that wiggles too much on the home page, I leave immediately.

Hope you can capture that.

You have one half second to fully display the home page, or I’m gone.

After that I’m a bit more forgiving.

Am I allowed to say that I hate websites that exhibit slow performance that seem to be the result of processing something other than my menu choices.

I leave the site and never return. I return to sites that enable snappy searches for stuff.

Odd sort of communism. I see no inclination to eliminate personal wealth.

Are China and Russia Communist?

That’s hard to study, because the most vulnerable people are also the most vaccinated. But, when omicron had its first enormous peak, most of the people hospitalized were unvaccinated.

Now it’s hard to find anyone who is neither vaccinated nor a survivor.

Maybe my reading comprehension is deficient, but it looks to me like the article implies omicron is less deadly because it doesn’t attack the lungs as severely. This is counter to the headline.

Also, the article was written shortly after omicron appeared, and we now have a year of experience with it.

The death rate around the world for the last six months has been the lowest for any six month period, and doesn’t seem to be rising with winter.

The question remains, is this because the disease has changed, or because people have adapted. Perhaps after a non-fatal infection, the immune system no longer goes into storm mode.

Or perhaps the most vulnerable people have already died.

It’s not intended as a rhetorical question. I thought you might have an answer, or at least know why there isn’t one.

Are we sure covid is becoming less deadly, or is it less deadly because nearly everyone has had some exposure?

All those $100 five terabyte drives were once lab curiosities.

Energy density is okay, but for grid storage, you need materials that can be mined without causing more problems than CO2.