Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@Corydoras @verretor Climbing is unusual, because it tends to either be very safe, or deadly. It's fairly uncommon for people to even sprain ankles climbing, especially with top rope. OTOH I've seen someone fall 30ft due to a belaying mistake - had they not been in a padded gym, or had just fallen awkwardly or on someone, they'd have been killed instantly. Fortunately the thick padding the gym had installed left them with nothing more than a sprained back.

@nvk @MrHodl Having a node that you can quickly switch to if needed is useful though. Probably not that much less useful as actually using it on a day to day basis, as fraud tends to get noticed quickly. Main issue is you need to actually be able to switch. Which may not be possible on walled gardens like Android...

@verretor Of course, I did take almost entirely girl dominated pottery classes as a kid, and it being unusual for a boy to do didn't bother me one bit. Heck, I met a nice girl in one. 😂

@verretor Well, I wound up dating some of her friends! Her lesbian friends... Which might say something about me...

@verretor Weird. I really don't get the sense that anyone would really care here. Though, I haven't exactly taken any dance classes. 😂

@verretor @Corydoras I'm really hoping the climbing gyms here in Toronto make it through lockdown. :(

@Corydoras @verretor Parkour is a lot scarier than climbing. I used to do what was basically traditional parkour as a kid before I even knew about it (there was a large boulder breakwater near me). If I did it now I'd be taking pretty big risks, as falls are so much worse when your fat...

OTOH, even as a kid I made almost no mistakes.

@verretor @gumchum Certain types of climbing are probably about as good. But climbing also requires a lot of creativity and intelligence, and in some cases courage, which I think makes top level climbers a bit less fit than equivalently high achieving athletes in other sports. It's just a smaller pool of talent to choose from.

@verretor I ended up getting into climbing instead. But ironically my main climbing partner ended up being a lesbian...

@verretor Hell, had I said I wanted to do synchronized swimming they wouldn't have cared.

Besides, when you're a teenage boy, ballet and gymnastics classes have the advantage of being full of really hot girls. I dated a ballet dancer in highschool and she said most of the guys in her classes were straight... and not single. 😂

@gumchum @verretor What if... they both are? 😂

@verretor ha, that name totally doesn't surprise me.

Gymnasts are amazing. I nearly took gymnastics as a kid. But I was too shy back then. I really should have.

@jb55 But conversely, us fighting it is necessary to make sure it stays that way.

@verretor Lord of the Rings

@verretor @mydogisahusky2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

@verretor @mydogisahusky2 That graph is probably underestimating more recent growth, as I bet you it's discounting NAT. But even then, that's probably just another order of magnitude. Getting to 1 billion is nine orders of magnitude.

@verretor @mydogisahusky2 Most of the internet's growth in terms of orders of magnitude had already happened by 2000.

Opinion: Without Greyhound buses, small-town residents are losing a lifeline - The Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-without-greyhound-buses-small-town-residents-are-losing-a-lifeline/

"I helped women secure Greyhound tickets as a key part of their escape plan [from abusers]. Not only were bus tickets the cheapest option for a woman fleeing with little money to her name, they were often the only option for women living in rural, remote and northern areas and in First Nations communities."

Yet another way lockdown will kill people for years to come.

@mydogisahusky2 @verretor It's amazing how _late_ that headline is. You'd expect it to be mid 90's or so. But it's one month shy of 2001!

@verretor "Young adults refuse to sacrifice themselves for older generation that has sacrificed young adults their entire lives."