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I really like the idea of plant based Virus Like Particles as the active component of a vaccine. I like this technology for the following reasons:

1. Almost as flexible as mRNA
2. Easier and cheaper to produce than mRNA
3. Doesn't have the problem associated with bacteria's made VLP

Alas they are currently being tested so unlike mRNA it's an unproven technology.

Hello soylentnews!
English is not my native language, while I can JIT seamlessly to French while I read or listen, I fallback to interpreted mode for writing and speaking.

That being said I would like to know what is trollish in that comment of mine :

My mom participated in the medicago trial. It's a really nice technology, they use tobacco plants to generate Virus like particles https://medicago.com/en/covid-19-programs/#vaccine [medicago.com] but she had to get 2 additional shot of Moderna because the Canadian preferred to invest in a vaporware vaccine in China (CanSino) instead of investing at home. Therefore the medicago vaccine is still unapproved ;(

Next election I will vote for the Bloc Québécois even if I am not a separatist... Trudeau gouvernment is both dumb and woke. If I wanted true wokenesss I would vote for Sings' NPD and if I wanted true dumbness I would Conservative !

Is it the missing word after Canadian, is it the mention of the Block Québecois , is it related to my disdain of the current Liberal, NPD, Conservative and green party, or did I simply used some overly aggressive phrasing? Or is this completely unrelated to the structure of my text and is simply explained by my negativity towards the failed partnership with China?

I thank you for your rationale explanations.

I was searching for some code to satisfy my curiosity about CVE-2021-22986.

I searched for "CVE-2021-22986 poc"

Google was borderline useless. Yandex returned a github repo with working code¹ in the first page.

1- I did not run the code from the repo but I translated it to a curl with json payload that I understood and I successfully tested it against the infrastructure at work. Someone going to upgrade the F5 tonight and I got a thank from the infosec team ⚡?

Do you enjoy python but wish it had a strong type system, pointers, and compiled to C?

If you answered yes to the preceding question give nim a try !

I have tried it during a boring remote meeting and I was able to code a simple 2d game in 200 lines using sdl2. It would have taken me a minimum of 2000 lines to write the same thing in assuredly bugged C¹.

That language need more exposure!

If you program have a look at https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/06/30/ray-tracing-in-nim.html to see how powerful nym is !

nim it's less ambitious than zig, less pretentious than rust but more fun than both of them !

This week, in my province, the majority of new Covid cases came from peoples who have gone to some bar to have a drink or twelve.

Nightclubs appears to be among the perfect place for Covid transmissions, should they stay closed until we have a vaccine?

Are the bars in your area also Covid incubators?

A letter that should be read: (emphasis is mine)

Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion—which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides.

The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement.

This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time. The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom, which cannot exist without each other. As writers we need a culture that leaves us room for experimentation, risk taking, and even mistakes. We need to preserve the possibility of good-faith disagreement without dire professional consequences. If we won’t defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn’t expect the public or the state to defend it for us.

Elliot Ackerman
Saladin Ambar, Rutgers University
Martin Amis
Anne Applebaum
Marie Arana, author
Margaret Atwood
John Banville
Mia Bay, historian
Louis Begley, writer
Roger Berkowitz, Bard College
Paul Berman, writer
Sheri Berman, Barnard College
Reginald Dwayne Betts, poet
Neil Blair, agent
David W. Blight, Yale University
Jennifer Finney Boylan, author
David Bromwich
David Brooks, columnist
Ian Buruma, Bard College
Lea Carpenter
Noam Chomsky, MIT (emeritus)
Nicholas A. Christakis, Yale University
Roger Cohen, writer
Ambassador Frances D. Cook, ret.
Drucilla Cornell, Founder, uBuntu Project
Kamel Daoud
Meghan Daum, writer
Gerald Early, Washington University-St. Louis
Jeffrey Eugenides, writer
Dexter Filkins
Federico Finchelstein, The New School
Caitlin Flanagan
Richard T. Ford, Stanford Law School
Kmele Foster
David Frum, journalist
Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University
Atul Gawande, Harvard University
Todd Gitlin, Columbia University
Kim Ghattas
Malcolm Gladwell
Michelle Goldberg, columnist
Rebecca Goldstein, writer
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
David Greenberg, Rutgers University
Linda Greenhouse
Rinne B. Groff, playwright
Sarah Haider, activist
Jonathan Haidt, NYU-Stern
Roya Hakakian, writer
Shadi Hamid, Brookings Institution
Jeet Heer, The Nation
Katie Herzog, podcast host
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College
Adam Hochschild, author
Arlie Russell Hochschild, author
Eva Hoffman, writer
Coleman Hughes, writer/Manhattan Institute
Hussein Ibish, Arab Gulf States Institute
Michael Ignatieff
Zaid Jilani, journalist
Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts
Wendy Kaminer, writer
Matthew Karp, Princeton University
Garry Kasparov, Renew Democracy Initiative
Daniel Kehlmann, writer
Randall Kennedy
Khaled Khalifa, writer
Parag Khanna, author
Laura Kipnis, Northwestern University
Frances Kissling, Center for Health, Ethics, Social Policy
Enrique Krauze, historian
Anthony Kronman, Yale University
Joy Ladin, Yeshiva University
Nicholas Lemann, Columbia University
Mark Lilla, Columbia University
Susie Linfield, New York University
Damon Linker, writer
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Steven Lukes, New York University
John R. MacArthur, publisher, writer
        Susan Madrak, writer
Phoebe Maltz Bovy, writer
Greil Marcus
Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Kati Marton, author
Debra Mashek, scholar
Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
John McWhorter, Columbia University
Uday Mehta, City University of New York
Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University
Yascha Mounk, Persuasion
Samuel Moyn, Yale University
Meera Nanda, writer and teacher
Cary Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Olivia Nuzzi, New York Magazine
Mark Oppenheimer, Yale University
Dael Orlandersmith, writer/performer
George Packer
Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University (emerita)
Greg Pardlo, Rutgers University – Camden
Orlando Patterson, Harvard University
Steven Pinker, Harvard University
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Katha Pollitt, writer
Claire Bond Potter, The New School
Taufiq Rahim
Zia Haider Rahman, writer
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin
Jonathan Rauch, Brookings Institution/The Atlantic
Neil Roberts, political theorist
Melvin Rogers, Brown University
Kat Rosenfield, writer
Loretta J. Ross, Smith College
J.K. Rowling
Salman Rushdie, New York University
Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment
Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University
Diana Senechal, teacher and writer
Jennifer Senior, columnist
Judith Shulevitz, writer
Jesse Singal, journalist
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Andrew Solomon, writer
Deborah Solomon, critic and biographer
Allison Stanger, Middlebury College
Paul Starr, American Prospect/Princeton University
Wendell Steavenson, writer
Gloria Steinem, writer and activist
Nadine Strossen, New York Law School
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Harvard Law School
Kian Tajbakhsh, Columbia University
Zephyr Teachout, Fordham University
Cynthia Tucker, University of South Alabama
Adaner Usmani, Harvard University
Chloe Valdary
Helen Vendler, Harvard University
Judy B. Walzer
Michael Walzer
Eric K. Washington, historian
Caroline Weber, historian
Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers
Bari Weiss
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Garry Wills
Thomas Chatterton Williams, writer
Robert F. Worth, journalist and author
Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Matthew Yglesias
Emily Yoffe, journalist
Cathy Young, journalist
Fareed Zakaria

Wednesday my wife was supposed to undergo a major procedure, however she passed out when we were preparing to go to the hospital.

We still went to the preop room and to my surprise they still took her to the surgery bloc but the anesthesiologist canceled the surgery and ordered a battery of tests. So we spend the day, her in a stretcher¹, me running with the patient moving crew from exam room to exam room between long periods of waiting alone while the technician ran the tests. It was exhausting.

1- I dont know if it's the correct word, google suggest litter but it sounds to much like a cat litter box. Looking in a thesaurus for litter it seemed to me that stretcher is a closer equivalent to the french word "civière", anyway I means a medical bed with wheels and side saftey rails...

At the end of the day they concluded to a vagal shock mostly because all the test were negatives and her last words before losing consciousness we're: "I don't want to sleep at the hospital". We were sent home with a recommendation to increases the sodium in her diet to increase her resting blood pressure. Her surgeon will call her back to reschedule.

Friday, we received the report from her last CT scan. It really made my day as the conclusion went farther (part in bold) than mine. No sign of suspicious metabolic activity; we can conclude to a complete response.

We celebrated that great news with sodium ritch junk food, just like the doctor ordered. I also had a dash of Scotch from the secret stash at work with my teammates, who told me that it was great to finaly see me smiles. It's goes against every campus policies regarding alcohol but it does wonders to cultivate "esprit de corps".

Many thanks to those who gave me strength in my 'i am stressed out' post, especially Gaark, having read what your going through with your wife, your words had a special strength behind them and i wish you a report that end with: "we can conclude to a complete response".

The black raspberry, not to be confused with blackberries, are some of the tastiest tasteful berries. They are incredibly easy to grow. So easy that they were introduced into my backyard by a bird dropping.

  They produces a lot's of fruit but you have to trim them in the spring when they reach 38 to 46 inches else they turn into long unproductive fast growing fragiles vinelike canes that reach up to 15ft. As they break and fall on ground each section that touch the soil gives rises to a few plants that if not trimmed will also grow into monsters.

They won the fight for my backyard, they have planted their spike in my hand through my gloves more than i care to count and I only manage to thoroughly uproot a few plants. According to some guide on raspberries I will have to buy a small rototillers to uproot most of them. I plan on keeping only a dozen of well placed plants. That i plan to trim so they look like this https://www.tenthacrefarm.com/how-to-train-and-prune-black-raspberries/ (the picture after "Early Spring Pruning")

Any suggestions on what kind of rototillers should I buy ? I am looking at the electric models but I wonder if they have enough strength.

My wife is getting surgery Wednesday, that means that the scan were cancer free but it also means that she will stay under general anesthesia for 2hr if there are no complications, a minimum of 2 days at the hospital and something between 6 to 8 weeks at home before full recovery.

That surgery is purely prophylactic. A drug she takes to prevent BC reccurence can cause a hard to detect cancer in her uterus. A month ago, she asked if it was rational to have that organ removed and the oncologist told her that it is infrequently done but that her clinical reasoning was flawless and that if she is willing to undergo a painful surgery a second time , he would recommend it.

So here we are a month after.... the surgery is Wednesday and I don't know how not to think about it. Work will be a tough thing Monday and more so Tuesday. I wish I could speed up time so we were Thursday.

I feel the need to quench my anxiety with a bottle of fine Scotch but I am unwilling do to so cause I have to be strong and there for her. I don't know what to do to calm myself and this post is a desperate attempt to do so. My wife is a Vulcan, she thinks rationally and manage to consider the odds without stressing out, I need to be more like her....

So please accept my apologies in advance if I am even more grammatically challenged than usual.

This DICOM reader requires you to learn how to use it but damm it is so powerful.

I used to use a trial of radiantviewer to try to read my wife CT scan, at her request, before we received the official report from the radiologist. This time I tried 3dslicer, I had to invest a day before obtaining a satisfactory 3d model, for comparison it was a click in Randiantviewer. But damm that was worth it, I was able to make the body translucent and highlight and colorize the radio active tracer. I was also able to make a 3d model that shows the port-a-cath and were it is routed to the heart trough the translucent skeleton.

The last 3 scan, I viewed and noted the same things as the radiologist. I hope I did not miss anything this time and that he reach the same conclusion as I had: no suspicious metabolitic activity detected.

1. https://www.radiantviewer.com/
2. https://www.slicer.org/