@ChristosArgyrop As an electrical engineer with years of signal processing experience, this has made sense to me from the very beginning when we first learned that an infection (or vaccination) doesn’t mean you’ve got lifetime immunity. I wish there had been more cross-discipline discussion about this #virus and the #pandemic it’s causing.

If damage is a decaying exponential with a horizontal asymptote that’s not zero, then each impulse into the system ratchets up the output, permanently.

@futurebird There's a reason Google Search sucks that most people don't know about. (Actually I think there's several, but one that is not remotely on the radar of people like the sort on Mastodon is...)

There is a profound class divide in internet users. Originally this was framed "digital haves and have nots". While that is still there, it has been eclipsed by another dichotomy it's morphed into: People of the Desktop and People of the Phone.

People of the Desktop are people who learned to use the internet on an "actual computer". This population winds up understanding the internet very differently than the other. The socioeconomic factors of who gets access to desktop/laptop computers mean that this is also a filter for other things like likelihood to have a college education and being comfortable with abstractions.

People of the Desktop tend to retain access to desktops, because they find phones wanting, and know what they're missing.

People of the Phone don't.