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Cake day: February 14th, 2024

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  • Yeah, Ebola is currently spread by body fluids, pretty similar to HIV. When a person dies of ebola there is a lot of vomiting blood, convulsing, spraying blood from all orifices - it’s not a peaceful death, and leaves the room they died in looking like a slaughterhouse.

    Anyone tending them who has even a tiny scratch and gets that infected blood in their body, even if a bit gets in their eye, they are well fucked. A lot of people are also infected cleaning and preparing the body for funeral rites.

    Now imagine that shit mutating to aerosol transmission so it could be spread by coughs etc. That shit would make covid look like a pathetic amateur.

    And from what I understand (I’m no expert, this is just from stuff I’ve read) viruses like this mutate quickly. IIRC a few years ago a team in Sweden or somewhere tried it in a lab, to see how easy it was to create an aerosolised version of ebola and found it was very easy. IIRC their paper was blocked from publication so as not to give terrorists any jazzy ideas.

    Anyone wanting to read a scary book about ebola, I highly recommend the hot zone by Richard Preston.






  • I am in my 50s and I’ve missed a couple of decades of games - stopped gaming in the days of vice city and just started again recently when I got a steam deck. There’s a pretty big backlog of stuff that people highly recommend, but remasters and remakes offer me the opportunity to play these games with modern graphics. For someone who grew up with 8 bit graphics the stuff we can do these days is amazing and I want to enjoy games that are also good to look at. Recently finished bioshock remaster, enjoyed it immensely. So yeah, while it’s probably better for studios to focus on creating new stuff, there are people who enjoy the old stuff updated.