Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@alex Considering that school janitors are often unionized I'm gonna have to ask for actual numbers on that. 😂

Me: <posts article on astra zeneca blood clots>

Her: <rants about how media is sexist and giving far more coverage to that than blood clots following hormonal birth control because the misogynistic media etc etc oh and btw I feel personally attacked because you said I need to go outside my filter bubble>

Me: <points out the media is reporting that the astra zeneca blood clots are happening almost entirely in women, and some scientists suspect hormonal birth control may be involved>

Her: 👍

My career goals are complete.

https://twitter.com/TeletubbiesHQ/status/1377259542640218113

"In other words, 20% of people are responsible for 80% of the viral load. This could mean that obese people are over sixteen times more likely to spread the virus than metabolically healthy individuals."

s/vaccine passports/gym passports/

https://dossier.substack.com/p/krispy-kreme-and-covid-19-studies

@alexbuzzbee You start growing a third eye. It blinks.

No wait, that was just a dream. You're actually barely lucid and blood is coming out of all your orifices.

@Seccour @jimmysong It's hilarious how many canadians I've heard railing about voter suppression in the US, when id is required to vote here.

"Over time, as expected, the likelihood of a healthcare worker being an index case had been falling as immunity developed. However, after vaccination this figure started to rise.

The Pfizer vaccination causes a transient fall in lymphocytes for the first three days after vaccination., The phase 2 trials of AstraZeneca similarly showed a fall in neutrophils."

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n783/rapid-responses

@sneak Speaking of, if you are flying on a 2nd and 3rd world airline, you're better off flying Airbus. They design for much less competent pilots than Boeing does. That lets them sell airplanes to much worse airlines with the same overall safety. OTOH they've had a number of crashes caused by safety features failing that wouldn't have happened with Boeing's design philosophy of expecting competent pilots.

@sneak I know a flight instructor with lots of experience on big jets, and a good safety engineering focus. Their opinion of all that is any competent pilot should have been able to deal with the 737 Max's failure modes just fine. It's was a serious design fuckup. But it also took a serious lack of competence and training to lead to crashes. US airlines aren't the best in the world re: training. But they're pretty high up on that list. Ethiopian Air is not...

...and an unusually good video walking you through some of the details of a coal fired plant: https://youtu.be/rGtUtnqB94g

A few dumb things in this. But mostly very technical. Not "pop-sci"

@verretor Stephen Curran can go fuck himself.

https://youtu.be/KnxksKmJa6U

Great vids on nuclear power.

@htimsxela No it doesn't. Those "bounties" could be collected automatically by anyone. They are so trivial to spend even automated software run by miners could direct them to fees.

"The Wuhan lab director published studies about manipulating bat coronaviruses in a way that could make them more infectious to humans, and there were reports of lax safety standards at the lab.

Matt Pottinger: They were doing research specifically on coronaviruses that attach to the ACE2 receptors in human lungs just like the COVID-19 virus."

What happened in Wuhan? Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus - 60 Minutes - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-wuhan-origins-60-minutes-2021-03-28/

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56556806

Heh, BBC is catching on to how COVID testing labs are cutting corners, leading to false positives.

Remember COVID-19 testing has become a hundreds of billions of dollar industry overnight. One where poor quality - false positives - leads to even more business.