satchlj

Can you explain the cat thing? Why wouldn't cats who are not fed be forced to kill even more birds?

Is it because they would be focused on more efficient sources of food like mice instead?

It’s directed at one individual, not all humans

It would be awesome to have a temperature tracker here as well.

spent way too long looking for that code in the syllabus

Consciousness is not sentience, and if it's all semantics I don't care but if people are going to make moral arguments using this conflation between the two then I have a problem. As it says in the article, sentience is roughly the ability to feel valenced emotions (good/bad). Consciousness is many things, but importantly the ability to feel qualia, experiencing what feels like the 'blueness' of blue, for example.

It's totally possible that all sorts of life forms are conscious. I just think to focus on sentience and call it consciousness is silly.

I feel that for the indie community, the web is dying thanks to modern browser bloat. We need to move to alternatives.

Disappointing that this website is only served unencrypted...

Yes the word 'vaccine' seems misleading to me as well, as people tend to think of vaccinations as ways to prevent contagious illness. I think immune therapy is a much better term.

If by "free" you mean that taxpayers payed huge amounts of money then sure...

It is intended for people who’ve had high-risk melanomas removed, to prevent cancer from coming back.

> The cancer vaccine: Moderna and pharma giant Merck are developing an mRNA-based cancer vaccine, mRNA-4157 (V940), for people who’ve had high-risk melanomas removed.

this is a paid thing but doesn't tell you upfront :(