While I think this is kinda dumb, there are SO many exceptions it includes almost everyone. I understand they want to generate more data to determine the effectiveness of these vaccines, but this exception list is just pointless. Either open it up to everyone like it was or make the exception list more restrictive if you want to do actual science.

Here is the exception list. Some of these should truly be exceptions, but inactivity? Depression? Granted I’m no doctor but this seems asinine.

Key Underlying Health Conditions Include: • Chronic Diseases:

•	Diabetes (type 1 and type 2) 

•	Obesity (BMI >30 kg/m² or >95th percentile in children) 

•	Chronic kidney disease (including those on dialysis) 

•	Chronic liver diseases (such as cirrhosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic liver disease, autoimmune hepatitis)  

•	Chronic lung diseases (asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary hypertension, cystic fibrosis) 

•	Heart conditions (heart failure, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathies, etc.) 

•	Cancer (including hematologic malignancies) 

•	Cerebrovascular disease (such as stroke) 
•	Immunocompromised States: 

•	HIV infection 

•	Primary immunodeficiencies 

•	Use of corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive medications 

•	Solid organ or blood stem cell transplantation 

•	Neurologic and Developmental Conditions: 

•	Dementia, Parkinson’s disease 

•	Disabilities (including Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, neurodevelopmental disorders, mobility disabilities, and others) 

•	Mental Health Conditions: 

•	Mood disorders (including depression) 

•	Schizophrenia spectrum disorders 

•	Other Conditions: 

•	Pregnancy and recent pregnancy 

•	Smoking (current or former) 

•	Physical inactivity 

•	Tuberculosis 

Having lived in a rental for many many years the inability to make small mods is SO annoying.

But this does beg the question, who OWNS a balcony. 99% of the home owners I know have single family houses. Granted I live in the south so owning an apartment is not the norm but I assume some people own an apartment in places like New York? But I’d assume people do?

I tried to look it up and from what I could find only about 15-17% of housing units in the US are apartments, and of those only about 15% own. So maybe 2% even have the opportunity. And this is assuming THOSE units have balconies, which I’m assuming only a small percentage of that 2% do. I’d think this is a major factor to balcony solar not taking off.

I thought so.

I don’t understand the self-cooling. Isn’t it harder to keep things cool in space since there is no conduction or convection cooling? I mean everything is in a vacuum. The only place for heat to go is radiative and that’s terribly inefficient. Seems like a massive engineering problem.

They should just change the name of grok to Neural Artificial Zenith Intelligence.

I probably have like 3 or 4

I love this thread so much.

I do not trust Mark Zuckerberg. Period. End of sentence.

The part that always bugged me is they would be going the same speed and direction as the truck they were on not shooting backwards at bullet speeds.

The physics on this just always really bugged me.

I’d settle for a holodeck or a brain device that lets you feel others experiences or makes VR completely real.

All replaced my AI and stock holder profits.

Fuck I hope not. I’m 54 now.

I got mine in ‘87. Hello fellow old person.

No that parasite usually stays around for 18 plus years, sometimes longer.

Things that shouldn’t exist: TikTok clout

Good analogy …. 🤯

This way to human trafficking.

I want this on a bumper sticker.

I think that stroke might have killed more brain cells than we originally thought. Almost as many as that brain worm.