Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@lucash_dev If key industrial capacity was targeted I wouldn't be so sure about civilization surviving. Our supply chains to make critical things - like oil - are long and fragile.

@lucash_dev Hmm? That's just the market saying the risk of ruin is in the single digit percentage, basically. Which feels about right.

A sharp BTC price decline makes sense: there's a genuine risk the Russia/Ukraine war results in significant effort to shutdown Bitcoin under the guise it is supporting Russia.

Don't think Bitcoin's ability to resist government pressure is infinite. Both Russia and the US have the technical capability to destroy civilization itself... This is a question of how the politics evolves.

Business brisk at Kyiv gun shops as Ukrainians rush to buy arms | Ukraine | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/23/business-brisk-at-kyiv-gun-shops-as-ukrainians-rush-to-buy-arms

The Guardian reporting on how gun ownership protects freedoms. 😂

@sneak @k9mail I actually buy mp3's for all the music I listen too. Same thing there: payment with card is annoying.

@sneak @k9mail God damn I wish news sites would just put their articles behind Bitcoin Lightning paywalls charging $0.10... I bypass them with the archive.org trick all the time. But I'd rather just pay a fair rate.

@lucash_dev It'd be hilarious if Trudeau bribes them to drop it by dropping the federal level mandates in return.

@lucash_dev apparently not: https://twitter.com/jobearon/status/1496596427442696206

Canadian Constitutional Foundation wants to continue their lawsuit to make courts address these issues for next time.

@waxwing Huh, seems that the ending param Twitter ads causes it to 404.

Here's the full article, screenshotted.

@waxwing https://telecoms.com/513608/dt-chosen-to-help-create-global-heath-passport/

@waxwing Weird. It was definitely working just a few minutes ago.

Maybe they pulled the page after it started to get noticed?

https://telecoms.com/513608/dt-chosen-to-help-create-global-heath-passport/?s=09

Ugh.

I actually have a WHO standard Yellow Fever vaccine cert in my passport. It's just a yellow piece of paper, trivial to forge.

Having zero real security is a good compromise with this kind of thing. We do not need QR codes; there's no reason to force people who don't want it to get vaccinated.

Iceland to lift all COVID-19 restrictions on Friday | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/iceland-lift-all-covid-19-restrictions-friday-media-reports-2022-02-23/

‘"Widespread societal resistance to COVID-19 is the main route out of the epidemic," the ministry said in a statement, citing infectious disease authorities.

"To achieve this, as many people as possible need to be infected with the virus as the vaccines are not enough, even though they provide good protection against serious illness," it added.’

Hell of an admission there...

There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) | Eukaryote Writes Blog
https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/

"Of plants native to the Canary Islands, wood independently evolved at least 38 times!"

!!!

@nvk you're mistake was not calling it Covidkite. 😁

EXCLUSIVE: West Virginia Wants To Ban Tesla & Others From Sending OTA Updates To Customer Cars - CleanTechnica
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/21/exclusive-west-virginia-wants-to-ban-tesla-others-from-sending-ota-updates-to-customer-cars/

Good.

OTA updates are an obvious and very serious national security concern. They're a single point of failure that could be used to disable millions of vehicles at once. Or worse, kill.

The engineers at Tesla and others who have implemented them are criminally incompetent and should never be allowed to work in safety critical industries again.

OH: "Pass me a thesaurus. I need to find a synonym for cinnamon."