Here’s a link to this person’s enlightening opinion on the first thread where OP asked this question: https://lemmy.world/comment/18667047

I’m no expert, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but I found this study indicating among a samples of people with rheumatoid arthritis, having a previous measles infection was actually overrepresented.

I also found this discussion indicating scientists are already studying immunotherapy methods that may give you the effect of an immune system reset but in a safe and targeted way. The measles virus itself likely just has too many potential short- and long-term effects to be worth the risk, but that doesn’t mean studying how it works won’t be useful!

The US giving up on mRNA technology is abhorrent, but also mRNA vaccines aren’t the only way to create a vaccine for a novel flu virus. The US already has stockpiles of H5N1 vaccines produced using traditional vaccine technology. At least until Trump or RFK decide to destroy them. Let me be clear I’m not defending anything these people are doing here

The negative impacts of our systems of consumption and exploitation are different the number of humans that are on the earth, though. We could easily sustain everyone on earth with much less of an environmental impact with current technology and a more just economic system

In ecology, animal populations grow in a distinct S-shaped pattern up to the environment’s carrying capacity. Globally, the human population has been following a similar curve, and we’re already past the inflection point, where population growth rates have begun to fall over time. The global population of humans is projected to reach steady state sometimes between 2060-2100. This could change though, what with humaty’s proclivity for making things awful

They’re just trying to write words that make you click

The sort of event you’re describing is incredibly rare, and I can still only assume you haven’t been to a concert with a GA section in decades. You’re much more likely to die in a car accident on the way to a concert than by a crowd crush at a concert

Like where? I can only assume you’ve never been to a large pop concert

You’re thinking on a global scale where the therapist is likely talking about the small systems of people immediately surrounding an individual

This is devastating and, of course, not at all based in science. mRNA vaccines have the potential to give us vaccines for diseases that had previously been impossible with existing vaccine development methods. The Trump Administration and RFK Jr are deciding that the United States is going to rely on importing foreign-made vaccines in the future when we no longer have the knowledge to make the best vaccines in the world.

Yeah, the theme belongs to Jaw. Right…?

For roughly six hours the tide will take the swimmer ‘up’ the Channel, and then as the tide changes direction, the following six hours will take the swimmer ‘down’ the Channel. This up and down movement of the water is relentless and unavoidable.

When traversing the English Channel, the boat pilot pays respect to the aformentioned tides when heading for France, which means the tidal affect will be perpendicular to the direction of the swimmer. It is incredibly rare for a swimmer to ever be swimming with or against the tide.

The moon’s position relative to the earth and sun changes, creating different strengths of tide. The smaller tides are called neap tides, and the bigger ones are spring tides. Historically, swimmers have made their attempts on neap tides, as the belief is that this reduces the effect of wind against tide. It also reduces the risk of the swimmer missing the land target of Cap Gris Nez in France.

Source: Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation

if your reason for going out with him is to be friends, communicate that

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I don’t think that at all, I have great friends of both genders. My point is you need to communicate with him, because you came in here thinking it was probably a date and asking us whether he wanted to sleep with you.

There you go, if your reason for going out with him is to be friends, communicate that.

(If I’m being very honest, everything you wrote above gives me the impression you like him, so maybe sit with that and make some choices)

Is there any comfortable way to bring up this topic without making me sound like a narcissist who assumed a guy wants to sleep with her just because he asked her out🥲.

I’m less interested in knowing his motivation than I am in your motivation for saying yes and going out with him. Whatever is motivating you to go out with him, that is what you need to communicate, rather than just saying “I’m not going to sleep with you.”

If there’s anything nice I can say about the Texas Legislature, it’s that they like their rules and procedures. If they were to violate the rules in that way, we’d be entering an even darker moment in Texas politics

This went up in 2016. It’s hard to imagine there was a time when Texas’s state leadership would allow this kind of project on the Capitol grounds. Feels like only a matter of time before they start filing bills to remove it as “too woke.”

I found this great story about this picture: Music Monday: Uncovering The Mystery Of The King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra

Uhhh…the average new college student is fresh off of going to school before 9am for the previous 13 years