charliespider

I had the number of years wrong as I was relying on my terrible memory instead of looking it up before posting, that said, not sure where you are getting your numbers from since you didn't post any links.

According to the World Bank global poverty was cut in half in 30 years, not 20 as I posted:

For 30 years, global extreme poverty had been steadily declining, and by 2015, the global extreme-poverty rate had been cut by more than half.

That's from this link: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty

While pre-pandemic global poverty rates had been cut by more than half since 2000,

That's the first sentence from this article by the UN (the people you claim say poverty is increasing)

Politifact says that the claim:

"Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half."

Is mostly true at this link: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/mar/23/gayle-smith/did-we-really-reduce-extreme-poverty-half-30-years/

If you look at the second graph on the wikipedia page on Extreme Poverty here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty it looks like the total number of people in poverty was around 1.6 billion around the year 2000, but by 2015 it appears to have dropped below 800 million.

So yeah, it's obvious that there's a lot of variations in the numbers but still looks like my initial claim was not completely without merit.

My understanding is that that's what's used to extract the targeted protein marker from the virus genome, so not only does it help, it's a key component in developing an mRNA vaccine.

Damn you for making me laugh, now I'm an asshole too!

It's an absolute game changer.

People tried to compare the COVID vaccine development time to previous vaccines without understanding the difference in how the mRNA vaccines are made. You essentially just need to sequence the virus's genome (which is miraculously easy to do these days because of other amazing people's incredible efforts), then target a protein from the virus's exterior and use that snippet in the mRNA vaccine. This radically reduces the time it takes to develop a vaccine as well as increase it's effectiveness because of the control you have over the vaccine's selected target.

Global poverty rates were cut in half over 20 years due to globalization, but yeah, just because westerners lost all of the low skill manufacturing jobs, it all sucks. You realize the US is still one of the biggest manufacturers on the planet but it's for higher end complex products? Not saying there aren't problems in the west, but globalization helped billions of people.

Cue the alien conspiracists

This doesn't make any sense

Sir, Cheney has successfully taken out the second tower.

You talking about Pedsacola Florida?

I've been using copilot and find it's suggestions are perfectly cromulent.

Php: magic quotes?

Haven't used PHP in a while eh?

Check out PHP 8, it's pretty nice.

Grey beards merge and increment (ie: senior devs unite and rise up)