Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

Good sign: Google is still letting the NRA run ads, specifically to get people to join the NRA to defeat Biden and preserve the 2nd.

...and a highly relevant ad too: was watching Forgotten Weapons, with a VPN that terminates in New York. 😂

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrfKGpvbEQXcbe68dzXgJuA

@dsmatthews@mastodon.online Yup. Out of Sweden's ~10 million population, you'd expect ~100,000 to die every year. So no surprise that 9,433 deaths doesn't make much difference to the graphs. They probably don't have many excess deaths from lockdown, because of course, they hardly had one. And of course, some % of those claimed covid19 deaths will be false positives, and/or people who were going to die of something this year anyway.

@bitcoinunity Indeed it would. I don't have Swedish data handy. But at least in Canada a full 71% of all reported covid deaths were in nursing homes: https://ltc-covid19-tracker.ca/

Typical life expectancy in nursing homes is a few months, to at most a few years.

Now that Sweden's 2020 mortality statistics have been finalized, we can see the horrifying COVID-19 death toll with a good magnifying glass.

"Amazon partner GoDaddy boots gun site from its servers"

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/amazon-godaddy-boots-gun-site

No reason given:

"Neither GoDaddy nor Arfcom immediately responded to a Washington Examiner request for comment."

Straight from the site itself:

https://twitter.com/AR15COM/status/1348718045049610241
https://twitter.com/AR15COM/status/1348727818981617676

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/pfizer-could-withdraw-vaccine-supply-from-quebec-if-two-dose-schedule-not-followed-legault-1.5262256

Doesn't quite fit the narrative of "drug companies evil"! Good reasons for Pfizer to threaten to withdraw Quebec's supply over tampering with the dosage schedule: it is _not_ clearly safe to do that, and Pfizer has massive reputational and maybe even legal risks if they do.

"President Trump can’t tweet,

but he is still President

so he can pardon Assange and Snowden, and commute Ulbricht’s ridiculous sentence." - Rep Thomas Massie

(Can 'pardon snowden!' posts get traction on the fed too?)

Handshake is "Spearheaded by co-creator of bitcoin’s lightning network, Joseph Poon, Purse CEO Andrew Lee, Private Internet Access founder Andrew Lee and CTO Christopher “J.J.” Jeffrey"

The usual gang of shitcoin pumpers: https://www.coindesk.com/handshake-revealed-vcs-back-plan-to-give-away-100-million-in-crypto

"A fork of a bitcoin software developed by Purse, Handshake offers “no fancy contracts,” just a simple digital, minable ledger to record engagements between users."

lol, Purse's node isn't used by anyone.

https://handshake.org/faq/

Another go at doing namecoin.... They've recently started using Sci Hub censorship to advertise themselves.

What's interesting is how much they're obscuring the fact that there is a coin attached to this, and people stand to make money from shiling it. Looks like the scihub gimmick lead to a small bump. But volume is ridiculously low: https://messari.io/asset/handshake

There's no way Handshake is secure with so little PoW.

@kekcoin it's very rare for diseases to do that. Same reason why vaccine resistance is almost unheard of.

@kekcoin They crushed it. Hospitals were pretty empty in most places. That's just a fact.

@kekcoin The variant was most likely caused by antibody therapy. Quite likely more than once. The obvious, sane, strategy of protecting vulnerable and allowing youth to get infected wouldn't have caused that problem. It's also not clear that it's actually any different, as it isn't consistently spreading faster. Post-hoc analysis will find outliers by random chance.

Again, were getting to herd immunity whether you like it or not.

@kekcoin Again, that just doesn't make sense. Countries did in fact mostly crush it, fairly early. But they could not eliminate it. So by crushing it, they squandered a summer that could have been used to build up immunity.

Of course, all this assumes this currt covid wave is in fact real and we haven't fucked up testing with false positives... Unfortunately that is still a possibility. Certainly some meaningful minority are false positives.