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 As I suspected for a few years, the rona is forcing awareness of post viral syndromes generally. They've always been a thing to people who knew, but there was some extremely bizarre conspiracy where the NHS systematically denied it existed until long covid suddenly made that impossible

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 TeX is 45 years old, and we have a lot of problems with it now because in 1978 it just wasn't really designed for stuff we need it to do in 2023. Plenty of people are working on alternatives to TeX that are suitable for use in 2023, which is *exactly the problem*, because they're not designing something that will be suitable for use in 2068