I miss bag milk. :(

So jealous.

Aw. I was thinking this is perfect for under the placemats at truck stops.

You sabotaged my vision,

That 1 in 609 was about children under 12 months who contracted measles.

Yeah, and the larger number was in a largely vaccinated population.

The 1 in 609 number is in unvaccinated populations.

It’s kind of apples to oranges, where the oranges are very stupid and never get protection and the apples are protected.

It’s a bit hard to compare these populations in progressive populations where some are really dumb.

Many diseases are organisms that want to procreate. So it makes sense to let you get on with life for a while, so you can infect others (thus procreate themselves).

If they kill you too fast, they die, too.

Once you’ve spread them, it makes little difference how horribly they kill you.

I didn’t misquote. This disease doesn’t usually happen in infants – it happens in children and young adults who weren’t vaccinated as infants.

The wording may be confusing, but the point is you have a near exponential chance of getting this if you weren’t vaccinated as an infant, which is when we typically give this vaccination.

Yes, that’s the point.

Contrary to my sibling’s comment, the point here is that it’s 1 in 5,000 people who get measles despite being vaccinated, which is rather rare. This is why the number jumps so much in the unvaccinated (nothing to do with infants – it’s just that infants are when we normally give this vaccine; the disease usually happens in children and young adults who weren’t vaccinated as infants).

There are numbers missing: the vast amount of people who don’t contract measles because they were vaccinated isn’t identified here – just those who contract it despite being vaccinated (which is a much smaller amount of the population). Of those, 1 in 5,000 will get Dawson disease.
This is why it jumps so much in unvaccinated populations.

The 1 in 5,000 number is of people who do contract measles even though they were vaccinated, which is very small compared to unvaccinated numbers.

There are 2 sets of numbers here, and it’s only talking about that subset. Does that make sense?

But vinyl LPs… Is just different. It was never meant for on the road scenario

Says who? (Lol, wonder why this didn’t catch on…)

I came across a page that tried to document them by region and regularity. It was quite long.

Natural yarns are almost always best for wearables. It doesn’t need to be fancy (other than ooo pretty, which is my biggest criteria, too). I’d avoid 100% polyester, or high blends.

Personally, I love knitting with bamboo blends, and they’re quite affordable. They’re not suited for everything, but many feel like silk whilst wearing like cotton. And they’re often more sustainable.

It doesn’t wear as well as wool or cashmere in all contexts, but it’s affordable and very pleasant to knit with (eta: sometimes especially beginners have issues with lower end wools, which might be scratchy and which can cause friction issues in sensitive finger folds). I’d say bamboo is miles better for a beginner than polyester, and often comparably priced.

It’s not considering the value of my time; a decent (actually wearable) yarn is far more expensive than most people think.

I would consider it a waste of my time to spend a couple hundred hours on a garment that’s barely wearable because it’s uncomfortable and borderline not washable. That’s what you will get with any yarn that won’t cost you over $50 in materials for a simple pattern.

Cheap yarns are fine for beginner projects that aren’t made to be worn, but if you’re putting that much of your effort into a garment meant to be used, you should not be using bargain yarn. Your effort is worth too much to sabotage yourself that way.

eta: oh, if you’re wondering (like I did) why knitting something in polyester would be different from store-bought garments in what seems like the same material, it’s mostly in the weight of the yarn, and partly in how insanely uniform machine knitting is. That creates a radically different fabric than even the most skilled human could produce, and small deviations in either yarn weight or technique have radical differences in the fabric. There are knitting techniques that produce highly artistic texture by doing nothing but varying yarn tension.

Yeah, but you had to sit there for like a minute to do that, and you had to be on alert for that, not enjoying it but waiting for the ad break. Nowadays, the whole thing just plays uninterrupted.

That’s not an issue with the medium, though.

And I really appreciate being able to watch hours of content with no adverts now. Back in the day, nearly everything had unskippable ads. There was no adblock; you had to watch everything on someone else’s schedule, and the only way to not watch ads was to pee or make a sandwich.

I haven’t seen an ad in years and, my god, it’s awesome.

Another fun fact I learnt during research for my previous novel: the Polish have more ways to say ‘fuck’ than any other language.

Apparently variations of ‘fuck’ exploded there during and shortly after WWII.

Also, in Denmark, ‘fuck’ was adopted as a mild expletive after roughly 1960, when western movies containing the word were imported. It was especially interesting because there never were any strong expletives there (most ‘curses’ were actual curses, like ‘let the devil take you!’), so the word didn’t have the same impact as in other cultures. This resulted in young children just casually saying ‘fuck’ in public, to the bemusement and sometimes consternation of English-speaking tourists.

Language is funny.

Counterpoint: I’m old and don’t miss any of that. Fewer devices is very, very nice. And fewer physical pieces of media is even nicer for the environment.

I actually don’t miss having to be kind and rewind, or spending 15 minutes with a pencil spooling my music back into a listenable format after being a bit careless with my tapes, only to have Glenn Frey sound like he’s eating marbles next time.

Less waste and less hassle. Nostalgia is overrated.

Yep. Often when I wear a new jumper or whatever around people who know I knit, I get asked ‘oh, that’s pretty, did you make it?’

Lol no, that would have cost me like 5 times more. I couldn’t afford to make it myself.

I could literally live on plain potatoes for the rest of my life and I’d be fine with it. My ancestors must have been as culinarily boring as possible.

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The internet is for porn.
Why you think the net was born?
Porn, porn, porn.
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Ah. Peace at last.

Did you know your anus has taste receptors?

You’re welcome.