kira :3

alright, following the soft launch earlier this week, I am now making a more elaborate post about youhavetoliveyour.life :3 Choose a covid minimizer quip from the drop-down and receive helpful articles and studies that disrupt it. Impress your friends by being correct, or fill your head with concerning knowledge.

It's pretty 0.1-y and I have a growing list of things that still need to be done to it (for example, taking this screenshot made me realize that a horizontal scroll bar shows up when the window is too narrow, and there is no mobile-friendly layout) and a -lot- more entries to add, but it's up and it works

Oct 8, 2023 at 1:50amWeb
Show threadkira :3Oct 8, 2023
oh yeah thanks to @dragonminded for helping with hosting stuff btw 
Show threadFanfalla Oct 8, 2023
@chrisisgr8 Amazing, this is sorely needed. Eventually I know I'mma end up using this to correct some of my relatives.
Show threadhow nowOct 8, 2023
@chrisisgr8 This is great and amazing and will save lives, thank you for it.
Show threadkira :3Oct 8, 2023
@brownpau thank you!!
Show threadI’m 481 PhonesOct 8, 2023
@chrisisgr8 oh I’ve got a quip for you: “if vaccines work like you say they do, you wouldn’t care about masking.”
Show threadkira :3Oct 8, 2023
@benetherington so two things there; yes, if I can find enough pieces about the overselling of vaccines as a one-step fix then there will be one like that (and I very well might have some; the document where I've been keeping my covid info resources is way bigger than what's on the site at the moment, I just didn't want to wait that long to get something up), or even barring that, a good sample that specifically hone in on how vaccination only prevents severe acute illness and not (substantially) chronic illness or transmission. but I also am being somewhat deliberate in not chasing cars by humoring predominantly right wing retorts, the list would be three times as long and that crowd is typically beyond help anyway
Show threadcwicseolfor (has moved!)Dec 9, 2023
@chrisisgr8 @benetherington I think not chasing cars is *absolutely* the right tactic to generate more light than heat. The main variant I run into is "but aren't you vaccinated?" or "but I'm vaccinated!"
Show threadKate Nyhan is changing serversOct 8, 2023
@chrisisgr8
I love this!
As a medical librarian and open access nerd, I have a question: how are you handling paywalled articles? In some cases there will be a completely legal no-paywall article in an institutional or funder repository, even if the version of record is paywalled on the journal site. Would you like help with tracking them down? Or contacting authors who are allowed to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, but haven't yet done it?
Show threadkira :3Oct 8, 2023
@kdnyhan Right now my de-facto method has just been to hope that web archive is capturing it without the paywall, which does happen often enough (so at least one of the two links goes to the piece). I'm not sure if I've come across an insurmountable paywall yet (which is probably because this project is the natural evolution of a personal google doc filled with links to articles I've mostly read at least once, so I suppose it's been somewhat self-selecting for ones I could actually read) but I'd definitely like to learn your methods
Show threadCassandraZeroCovidOct 8, 2023

@chrisisgr8

Great idea!

In order to widen your sources, there are studies on the many, many ways Covid can damage the body (+ responses to other Covid myths) at:

"Why our family is Covid cautious"

https://sites.google.com/view/why-we-are-covid-cautious/home

Home

We have discussed Covid at length with our doctor, and she is in 100% agreement that we are doing the right thing by trying to avoid covid infection. She is very happy our children are living an outdoor clean air lifestyle. Her words to us were "People just don't want to hear about how bad covid

Show threadSascha WenningerOct 25, 2023

@chrisisgr8 this sounds awesome! Sadly for me with Firefox/iOS, any selection I make results in this error: Forbidden (403)
CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
More information is available with DEBUG=True.

Safari is working fine though.

Show threadkira :3Oct 25, 2023
@sufw oh interesting, thanks for telling me. i've never had to debug a csrf issue before so this should be interesting to look into
Show threadSascha WenningerOct 25, 2023
@chrisisgr8 it seems to work now?
Show threadkira :3Oct 25, 2023
@sufw woo! I must be underselling myself as a web dev if I fixed that one just by thinking about it 
Show threadGiantNov 5, 2023
@chrisisgr8 love it. We need more of this energy
Show threadMonika ViktorovaNov 15, 2023
@chrisisgr8 I love this so much
Show threadbenwis 🦀Dec 9, 2023
@chrisisgr8 Love the site idea, wanted to ask if it's supposed to have no dropdowns right now
Show threadkira :3Dec 9, 2023
@benwis  it's not supposed to, could you send a screenshot?
Show threadbenwis 🦀Dec 9, 2023

@chrisisgr8 Sure here you go.

Turns out I'm partially to blame, I was clicking on the right 25% of the select, which does nothing, but the left 75% works as it should

Show threadkira :3Dec 9, 2023
@benwis ah, looks like the little voice lines graphic ended up in front of the dropdown at some point and it covers it up on that side, and I never noticed since I guess I always click it farther left than that. you never know how testing bias will manifest! Thanks for telling me