Yes, they’ve been updating the vaccine every year to match currently-circulating virus strains. This is about an additional update coming out this fall.

Pretty much the same thing is done with flu vaccines, where you need a periodic update for it to be effective.

No, not yet. There will probably be one in September or October.

Historically, the answer on this has involved charging very different amounts in different countries. This both enables some level of access by the poor and maximizes profits.

When uploading images from windows (but not from the mac) .avif files are not included in the supported image types, even though they in fact work. These are common for news outlets to use, and I’m manually uploading to get them used as thumbnails.

Known bug?

That Saudi. The plan there seems to be to sell off all the oil, and then have the royal family decamp to a more northern latitude with their harems while the rest of the population cooks to death.

About a week ago, the Washington Post started requiring registration in order to access the gift link. You need to give up an email address (eg: a burner for just this purpose) in order to access gifted articles for free.

One more upgrade thing I’m noticing: the way the UI elements move around repeatedly during post submission makes it much easier to accidentally double-post.

It’s what happens when you let stores exclude the homeless from bathrooms.

There’s no way this one ends up being only billions; they literally coated the entire surface of the ocean.

Unless your well is drawing from an uncontaminated aquifer that isn’t recharged by rainwater, that doesn’t really help you. This class of chemicals wound up pretty much everywhere.

More that “at no time do enough parts start failing often enough that repair ceases being cost-effective”

Not in the same detailed minute-by-minute tracking of where you’ve been.

They’re also buying tracking data from phone apps, so you’d need to make sure you’re not running any of those either.

One more oddity since the upgrade:

cross-posting doesn’t work cleanly anymore.

When you click the cross-post button, it pre-fills the contents of the form for submitting to another community, but as soon as you select a community to cross-post into, it clears the contents.

After the upgrade, I wound up setting my theme to litely to get more legible fonts; the default theme has fonts that aren’t pleasant to read.

Hence the need to push attendees to take actions like this, instead of expecting them to just happen on their own.

Restrictions on advertising were a key part of the steps to sharply reduce cigarette smoking

Yes, but if you haven’t even taken that first step, take it.

There is still coal, oil, and gas in the ground. There are forests yet standing. It might have been better to get seriously started a few decades ago, and we can’t achieve zero-visible-impact at this point, but we can still change how hot it gets before temperatures stabilize.

I’d far prefer to be getting started now instead of never.

A ban isn’t going to be suddenly imposed; it’s going to look more like “we stop subsidies for fossil fuels, and end advertising for them, and phase them out over 20 years”

So he’s asking for the first steps. Which is a good move.