@union @Johncdvorak I read the rest, but that paragraph pretty much clinched it as "this is probably CCP propaganda"
@Johncdvorak The last paragraph is basically one of the dozens of conspiracy theories that have been floated by Chinese media as their attempts at trying to deflect responsibility for SARS-CoV-2, along with the idea that it came in on frozen seafood, that it originated in Italy, that it came from white tailed deer in the US... Every week they come up with a new excuse to throw out there and see what sticks. I suspect the paper is just another propaganda tool from them.
@union You probably have a normal one then, rather than a headline grabbing firebrand like the one I have. Who also ran a open carry cafe up in Rifle before being a congress critter.
@stuff @parker @Moon @coolhandjames @coyote @icedquinn The ACE2 receptor is responsible for regulating your blood pressure, and people who are overweight already have blood pressure problems. When the virus sends your blood pressure regulation out of whack people with lower base blood pressure are probably going to deal with that better. Add blood clotting problems to that from the virus clumping blood cells...
@pro @hector Well, I think I'll just continue to buy in the midrange phone category, where headphone jacks still exist. You can't easily pipe wireless into my home mixer setup so I plug the phone in when I want to listen to something off of it. (Of course, I still use wireless headphones, just have every other device going into the bluetooth transmitter is wired.)
@ademalsasa my Pinephone currently has Manjaro with plasma mobile, but I want to try PostmarketOS on it.
@pro @anti @pernia On the plus side, It's also Java that has been tweaked for higher performance a bit. Java tends to copy data constantly when passing things around, while C# has a focus on doing far more by reference and far less by copying. The performance will still be nowhere near a good C, C++, or Rust program though. C# is used in indie games a bit with XNA and Unity.
@union (This kind of thing is considered to be "kitsch" by the art world though and frowned upon.)
@union I imagine the best place for someone who wants to paint realistic looking portraits would be to get into the business of painting what doesn't exist in a realistic fashion, so science fiction portraiture.
@union One thing I've heard more of on this is more that photography is what decreased demand for this kind of realistic portraiture. Having a painting like the one on the left was expensive, and if you can get equally good results from a fraction of the cost, then you're only going to get a small number of people going through with the older technology. (Such as the presidential portraits that are painted still.)
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-10-system76 I'm pretty much with Lunduke on this one, It doesn't make me use S76 less, and doesn't make me use Gnome more or less. I've largely been fed up with Gnome and their "our way or the highway" attitude for years. I choose Highway.
@fribbledom Oops, I missed the poll. Yes, working color laser printer, but it's all the way out in the garage so it's a paint to go pick up the things I print. Networked though, so I can just print from anywhere in the house.