Klingon. I would love to hear my cat yell about glory while attacking a random bit of lint he found on the ground.

Edit: I realize you said “human” language, but a human invented klingons and their language, so I’m saying it counts.

And UFC.

Ok, but it’s providing information to advertisers about your activity, right? When I click on something, Firefox sells that information. Whether you consider it “personal data” is irrelevant; it is data about me: my actions.

You seem to be pretty hell-bent on defending Mozilla here. You work for them or something? It really is very simple. They started out more idealistic, but then they realized that things are expensive and there’s money to be made, so they sold out a little. It happens.

This counts as a “sale” even though no actual identifying information about you was exchanged. They mention this in the paragraphs I attached, when they talk about data sent via OHTTP.

I mean… it should count as a sale, because it’s a sale. They are selling information about browsing habits for money. Regardless of whether they include identifying information, it is still personal data that they are selling. They removed that line from their FAQs because they changed their minds about selling personal data. It has fuck all to do with weird legal definitions. They promised they wouldn’t ever sell personal data, and then they were like “wellll…”

As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

Yes. That is selling. If you exchange customer data for money or other valuables, that is the definition of “selling”.

And if the vote never materializes, or ends in inevitable failure, will you apologize for posting stupid fucking hypotheticals like this one?

So wait… does he still think Ukraine started the war? I’m so confused. Did Putin turn him down for a loan or something?

Because the Russians have mostly stopped using armored columns after getting a huge percentage of their stocks destroyed during armored column assaults. They still have a bunch of artillery left, though, and Russian military doctrine leans HEAVILY on artillery, and has done since the Napoleonic wars.

553 fucking UAVs? Man, fuck you, Russia! That’s fucking nuts.

As evidenced by the fact that you described your girlfriend as a leftist? Seems like an incredibly small sample size to make that judgment on, but you do you, boo boo.

I was using some facsimile of “comedic effect” in an attempt to make a joke.

How recently was he hanging out with Elon Musk?

Way better shape. The police actually arrested the traitors on the day they did the treason. What a novel fucking concept.

That was way better than it had any right to be.

You aren’t escaping your periods. Try like this:

location ~* \/(fileA|fileB)\.txt$ {
        return 404 'nothing here';
}

Ukraine’s coming up on 4 years of war with an invading enemy that’s got more than 3 times their population. Of course there’s going to be some less than ideal military recruitment. The whole point of this article is stupid as hell.

I’m conflicted on this. On the one hand, I love the idea of a stupid tax. On the other, I hate the idea of Trump getting all the money the stupid tax generates.

No - this is something completely different, unfortunately. Allergen response is mediated by T-helper type 2 (T_H2) cells, while autoimmune disorders like diabetes occur through a T-helper type 1 (T_H1) pathway.

With allergens, the foreign body will bind to antigen receptors on professional antigen presenting cells (usually dendritic cells), which will then present the bound antigen to T_H2 cells. These will then release a particular type of chemical called cytokines that will signal the B cells to produce a shit load of IgE antibodies tailored for the particular molecular pattern identified. The IgE will bind to the antigen and also to basophils and mast cells, which will secrete a bunch of chemicals, including histamines. This is what causes you to get all itchy. It’s also what causes swelling (such as when someone with a peanut allergy feels their throat closing up when they find out their snack had peanuts in it).

With Type 1 Diabetes, T_H1 cells will recognize patterns on the surface of your islet cells, and will then release a different set of cytokines that will attract cytotoxic T cells (T_C) to the area. These will bind to the surface of the islet cells, and will release a cocktail of chemicals that will kill the cell.

The mechanism by which allergen immunotherapy works is that it slowly trains your immune system to shift from a T_H2-dominated response to a T_H1-dominated response for that particular molecular pattern. This means that your body will treat the foreign substance as more of an invading pathogen (like a bacteria, for example) than an allergen, so there will not be the huge release of IgE antibodies, and consequently, far fewer mast cells and basophils releasing histamines. The precise mechanism of how this works is too complicated for this discussion, but suffice it to say we’re dealing with a completely different biological pathway than with self / non-self recognition, like what’s going on with autoimmune disorders.

Well… it’s not a cure. Not really. People with type I diabetes have a disorder where their immune system attacks their islet cells in their pancreas. These cells are what produce insulin. This therapy replaces some of the cells that they’ve lost, but it doesn’t stop their bodies from attacking those cells again. The way they’re doing that is by having the patients take immune-suppressing drugs forever, basically.

The problem with this is that there’s currently no way to target immune-suppressing drugs to say: “Hey, just stop attacking your own cells, but continue doing everything else an immune system is supposed to do.” By suppressing the immune system with these drugs, the patients are at an elevated risk of disease and cancer. And that’s forever. Or, at least until we figure out a better way to do it.

Still, it is a really cool therapy, in that they were able to direct the maturation of stem cells into insulin-producing islet cells, and they were able to successfully home those to the correct location. It’s huge progress, even if it isn’t actually a cure.

This kills the human.