Bitcoin hodlers have another instance to join here.
Boost / repost this to reach more potential users and keep the fediverse distributed.
This instance is Pleroma with Soapbox. The web UI is pleasant and has a great one on one messenger that you won’t find on Mastodon. You can also use apps compatible with Mastodon and Pleroma.
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https://www.futurity.org/viruses-leaky-vaccines-968692/
"‘LEAKY’ VACCINES CAN MAKE VIRUSES MORE DEADLY"
'A new study is the first to confirm a highly controversial theory: that some vaccines could allow more virulent version of a virus to survive, putting unvaccinated individuals at greater risk of severe illness.'
The mRNA vaccines probably fit this definition, because they cause your body to produce one very specific covid part: an imperfect version of the spike protein. And on top of that, lockdown has the same effect.
Great pod with @pete on Swan Signal, talking about the other side in the block size debate all scammers. No one non-scamming & technically inclined were on that side.
Direct link with timestamp: https://overcast.fm/+YwHS-ZYUc/56:48
https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8d7f-Drug-Alert30Jan2021.pdf
Overdose deaths are so high that Toronto Public Health is telling drug users to violate lockdown, for safety:
"Try not to use alone. Use with someone else and take turns spotting for each other.Wear a mask and stay 6 feet away from people you are using with to avoid passing the virus. A buddy system is safer than using alone"
Lockdowns kill.
I was looking at old old innernet posts, and I found the most terrifying one sentence story ever
"It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside.""
Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.
Great example of the theoretically infinite losses possible with short selling: in just one month, GameStop short sellers have lost $19.75 billion dollars, on a $1.23 billion market cap.
Of course, the market cap right now is exactly $21.2 billion...
@harding @pete I use the Scrambled EXIF app to do this on my phone on the fly. Super easy.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif
When sharing a photo, first share to the app, then share opens again and choose wherever you wanted to originally share it to and the exif data is gone. It's FOSS and available on F-Droid too.
@pete I liked your idea from a few years ago for sharing photos originally taken using a phone or digital camera: instead of uploading the photo directly, take a screenshot of it first to firewall the metadata. I started doing that, and it not only makes me feel more comfortable sharing random recent photos of geese from a park near where I live, but it also makes it easier for me to crop the image by only capturing part of it, or scale it by just zooming in/out using my favorite image viewer.
https://twitter.com/lijukic/status/1355164987212390402/
"Wow it's really true. The European Commission's "redacted" copy of the AstraZeneca-EU vaccine contract is not redacted at all because you can just see everything in the bookmarks bar on the left."
Note how in my defamation lawsuit, Daniel J. Bernstein went to the trouble of printing out his declaration, then scanning it back in, to ensure the PDF didn't leak anything.
...someone else screwed that up so badly that ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛. 😂
"2 Canada Post workers in Regina suspended after refusing to deliver Epoch Times"
Pre-internet communication monopolies were legally prohibited from censoring. Canada Post has no choice here.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/epoch-times-canada-post-suspensions-1.5892549
Prediction: the reason why Robinhood has been forcefully closing out client's GME positions will turn out to be because some or all of those GME positions didn't actually exist.
Unlike Bitcoin, there's no way for average investors to know if the numbers on their screen correspond to actual shares. You need crypto for that.
I'm not 100% confident this type of fraud and/or incompetence is happening. But I'll give it >50% probability.
"Only 31 out of 163,000 Israelis vaccinated by Maccabi Healthcare Services caught coronavirus in their first 10 days of full-strength protection"
vs 6,437 in a comparable unvaxxed sample. Naively, you might think that implies 95% protection.
But remember, *groups* of people were vaccinated, esp elderly, and Israel is under very strict lockdown. So you'd expect herd immunity to result in much better than 95%.
Hopefully that's just false positives.