Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

TIL the Amazon Rainforest is being deforested much slower than I thought.

TIL my microwave uses 100% of the 15A a North American plug can provide.

The voltage on that circuit doesn't sag appreciably from 120V under load, so it's using 200W more than the nameplate says it should, 1600W.

I'm a bit surprised that Black & Decker used such close margins; my kettle draws a more reasonable 13A.

It's no wonder they changed the building codes here to require 20A outlets in kitchens... 😂

Lol, BitPay is so hilariously useless.

For research purposes I actually went through that nonsense. They wanted a photo of my passport (NOT a scan!), a selfie which had to be taken on my phone (uploading a photo was NOT good enough), and of course my address and date of birth.

...and after all that nonsense, the invoice timed out, so I couldn't pay anyway. So I don't know if they still do the payment protocol nonsense - BitPay is such a joke that they probably do. 😂

How accurate is this translation?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210316045923/https://www.tv2.no/a/13886747/

Reminder: Sweden hasn't done any worse than the EU average.

Overall mortality figures confirm this: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

Lockdown achieve nothing.

You know, you could have just used some numbers...

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboards/server-boards

Danish study finding that Long-Term Care Facility residents temporarily had a 40% _higher_ rate of infection after the first dose, with the 95% CI ruling out any 1st dose benefit at all. Same as the UK and Israel have found.

A week after second dose, overall effectiveness in LTCF residents was just 64%

Sounds like the failure of the flu vaccine all over again...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.08.21252200v1.full.pdf

tl;dr: Statistics Canada believes that there has been a large increase in deaths among young people due to lockdown.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210310/dq210310c-eng.htm

https://twitter.com/rubiconcapital_/status/1369702671939174401/photo/1

The metal hang tab from some Arc'teryx underwear that I got recently. Obviously they're trying to avoid plastic packaging. But I find it hard to believe that this big, chrome plated, chunk of metal is better for the environment than a piece of plastic. Or better yet, a cardboard hang tab.

Just virtue signaling.

Funny thing is when Matthew Green's colleague Isis Lovecruft falsely accused me of sexual assault, having Google Maps location data really helped me defend myself.

But double-edged sword: if the government was after me, it would have let them come up with a better lie.

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1369464598324215808

Reposting on Mastodon, just in case @Frances_Coppola has a secret account. She needs this.

https://twitter.com/desperateSia/status/1369508679595212801

https://mises.org/wire/what-weve-learned-israels-covid-vaccine-program

"At a cost of $20 per jab and 2 jabs/vaccination, the cost of preventing a death would be over $1 million, and the cost of preventing a hospitalization would be about $160,000 without considering the costs of any side effects."

Too little, too late.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

...because launching government payloads into orbit at a fraction of the cost of the competition is a "subsidy".

Or did you mean the money for electric cars? Because that kinda sounds like fair payment for fixing an externality more effectively than any other American car company by far.

Bernie Sanders is a morally bankrupt parasite on society.

"Isn't he intentionally bleeding this out to distract from the nursing home deaths?"

Looks like the latter... her Twitter feed is full of bsv shilling.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210224135357/https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-alert-key-still-pressing-legal-issue/

lol

It's no wonder Israel is trying to effectively make getting vaccinated mandatory... Anyone with a clue looking at the actual top-level stats would be skeptical.

This is like saying you were "seconds away" your house being without electricity for months because a fuse blew.

Yes, if the fuses failed, permanent damage could be done. But literally every single piece of equipment on a competently designed distribution grid is protected by fuses.

The grid has got to deal with lightning storms and all kinds of shorts after all.

CC: @mir_btc