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dlemex's avatar

It is kind of ironic that Ada was supposed to replace COBOL and business programming languages.

And yeah, a real long time ago. Even longer when each day seems like a year at this point.

Dianna Deem's avatar

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is providing MeditOcean (guided meditations) on its website (IIRC). Swaying kelp, drifting jellies...peaceful and calming.

sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

You left out that Trump wanted to make an exclusive deal for any coronavirus vaccine that lab in Germany produced because fuck the rest of the world also too.

ctguyinhamden's avatar

Ah - the Common Business-Oriented Language I cut my programming teeth on lo those many years ago. Kinda stunning to think about just how far we have come since those days.

sarafina's avatar

Minnesota will. There's a lot of German heritage up there.

mailman27's avatar

"and we're going to be helping them strongly." Come on, now. Why aren't we allowed to point out how stupid this is? Oh, right. It's "elitist". We're doomed.

mailman27's avatar

Dead Billy Graham sez, "Who is this fuckwit??"

dlemex's avatar

Yeah, me too... even had to learn it in school. I iz old. Also did FORTRAN and Algol.

TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Ha. Hahahaha. OMG. HAHAHAHA! THIS WOULD BE SO AWESOME!

TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

The mass murdering traitor can FOAD.

Keith Taylor's avatar

"And maybe if I send you ALL the ventilators Americans desperately need, Vladimir ol' pal, so that more Americans will die and you can profiteer off the ventilators I send you while Russians die, maybe pretty please you will do a REALLY effective job of putting your thumb on the scales in the November election for me so that the Republicans won't even have to voter suppress in my favour, which might be a good idea because they're getting caught at it, okay?"

@anathema_device@bne.social's avatar

Yeah, about that vaccine....https://www.abc.net.au/news...We've never made a successful vaccine for a coronavirus before. This is why it's so difficult

Professor Frazer was involved in the successful development of the vaccine for the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer — a vaccine which took years of work to develop.He said the challenge is that coronaviruses have historically been hard to make safe vaccines for, partly because the virus infects the upper respiratory tract, which our immune system isn't great at protecting.