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as we talk about the morality of vaccine patents

i think it is a nice time to also remember historical precident

jonas salk did not patent the polio vaccine. he went out of his way to make sure it was not patented.

he never got rich. he actively made sure he didn't get rich off of it.

but that history is full of stories about how for the rest of his life, jonas salk did not have to ever pay for a beer in any bar in this country. he would get on airplanes and once somebody recognized his name, the entire damn plane would stand up and clap for him. he constantly had hotel rooms comped, meals for free at restaurants, thus and so.

because he was surrounded by people who knew he had saved their children from having to ever consider the fear of an iron lung, and were overwhelmingly grateful for it.

he was always modest and demure when recognized thusly. but i think that when people start saying "well why else would someone make a vaccine, if not to get paid for it and hold the patent", i think it is good to remember these stories. the world did not punish jonas salk for not patenting the polio vaccine. the world loved him for it. maybe not in the structures that billionaires are most used to. but they did love him for it, in small ways, in humble ways, on the individual level.

smh what does a fox have to do to get some obnoxious reply-guys around here

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uni meh 

the IBM SPSS shit also involves the windows vm so that's an immediate -10 on the mh scale

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uni meh 

lots of uni frustration today though, having to deal with horrible software licensing for some IBM thing I need this course, and also literally everyone is having issues with the course schedules/deadlines because it's all a mess

I think I mostly got there? Just not sure if it'll replace cthu.lu's current design. Maybe when I also finish Shayu v2 and make better galleries

also I need to figure out a better nav menu style still

gradient.dev.cthu.lu/projects/

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all things considered i think im handling this big mess of uni and life pressure pretty well

sleep, mh 

just a mess of first alarm at 6:00, no energy to get up, snooze a couple times, set alarms for later, in the end just slept till 10:30 without any alarms, that's 12:30 hours of sleep, after lots of sleep sat > sun as well...

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Firefox is by far the best software on my computer, and it's amazing that so much diverse software can run inside

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