my dad’s tongue turned black and he developed jaundice when he was living in Germany. they sent him to a tropical disease institute. never figured out what it was; it eventually went away. I’m guessing he happened to cross paths with someone who traveled from an exotic location.
there’s a lot of viruses: rhinovirus, other coronaviruses, RSV, etc. and other kinds of bacterial infections too. checking ProMED Mail I don’t see anything too out of the ordinary. there’s usually a flurry of emails there before an epidemic emerges.
if both parents are very sick it’s extremely unlikely to be ME/CFS. ME is a rare consequence of viral illness.
guessing that granddad wasn’t Jewish and served in WWII, so the spam was what he ate in the trenches.
…you’re literally on the fediverse right now?
whoa Lowkey mentioned! yeah, that’s the kind of politically conscious hip-hop I meant. Immortal Technique was even moreso, but he’s been inactive for a long time and the extreme homophobia makes it hard for me to listen to, which is a shame.
well, it worked out for him but it didn’t really work out for him.
yuck. he apparently groomed a 14yo he was tutoring and eventually got her pregnant, and later preyed on a 12yo (per Wikipedia.)
never meet your heroes.
this is sounding sketchier and sketchier. so every website that serves 18+ content in Denmark will need to check tokens against a central database upon login? forget censorship and surveillance, that sounds like it plain won’t scale well. also does Denmark really expect every website to implement this? what about Lemmy or other fediverse services?
why is this needed at all? why not just use parental controls on devices? why is this such a crisis now, for the first time in 20 years?
I feel like they could just, you know, not do this.
what prevents you from leaking your token on the internet, so everyone can use it? it has to be revokable somehow. to be revokable it has to be correlatable, so you can tell where the same token is used across multiple sites. which leads to easy deanonymization.
ZKP is window-dressing. it’s still a major privacy intrusion. don’t fall for it.
(also, it paves the way for lgbt issues, sex ed, harm reduction and activism to be censored behind the 18+ barrier, but that’s a different matter.)
hugs
DM me if you need a friend. being isolated sucks.
whoa that one is like 4000% worse than the others. Jesus. they’re not all bad though, just wildly inconsistent. it’s giving radical centrism.