COVID-19: Gap seen between vaccines for preventing hospitalizations.

Data collected from 18 states between March and August suggest the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduces the risk of being hospitalized with COVID-19 by 91% in the first four months after receiving the second dose. Beyond 120 days, however, that vaccine efficacy drops to 77%.

Meanwhile, Moderna’s vaccine was 93% effective at reducing the short-term risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and remained 92% effective after 120 days.

This is exactly why I wanted and got the Moderna jab. I love being able to read. More people should learn to do it.

It *is* possible to fully abstract cloud providers from each other – you just have to give up every single differentiating benefit of every cloud provider. Multi-cloud is the 'Harrison Bergeron' of technology strategies. https://t.co/UaFhMnsA2T

— Zack Kanter (@zackkanter) July 29, 2021

Indeed. I had to argue with MBAs about that recently. As usual, they were wrong. Multi-cloud is a terrible strategy unless you have 3x the staff to actually use any of the distinguishing features of each provider (which you very much fucking should!). Azure, AWS and GCP are not the same, and you can’t just write some generic Terraform and toss it out there.

This does not work, and to the extent that it does work, it doesn’t help you.

Liberals have decided the Star Trek future is impossible, and want to give us the Mad Max future instead, “for our own good.”

No fucking thank you.

The liberal “completely safe” malarkey is gonna be the death of us all.

They are way too concerned with loser shit. And the tragedy of it all is that it won’t even help. It’ll impoverish us all if it doesn’t kill us outright — impoverish us aesthetically, materially, artistically and in every way that matters. An obsession with what must be taken away will do that.

I reject all of it.

I do enjoy going to a bakery now and having two girls helping me and 0 girls helping the schlubby dudes also in there.

You don’t really realize how much more favorable treatment better-looking people get until you become one. The tighter shirt I wear these days, the better it is, too — at least if it’s women helping me. Supposedly, women aren’t visual. Heh. Riggggggght.

Belgian Draft horse pulling a car out of mud.

That’s an absurd amount of power. That car weighs right under 3,000 pounds and it moved it like it was nothing, and out of muck too.

Man, I got absolutely nothing in common with people my age. Just nothing.