Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org
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Peter Todd
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Fucking BASED
I find it so odd that the strong zeal for revenge and punishment if someone says anything that is perceived to be sexist or racist or discriminatory comes from liberals and progressives. There are so many violations [in cases like Stallman’s] of such fundamental principles to which progressives and liberals cling in general as to what is justice, what is fairness, what is due process.
One is proportionality: that the punishment should be proportional to the offense. Another one is restorative justice: that rather than retribution and punishment, we should seek to have the person constructively come to understand, repent, and make amends for an infraction. Liberals generally believe society to be too punitive, too harsh, not forgiving enough. They are certainly against the death penalty and other harsh punishments even for the most violent, the mass murderers. Progressives are right now advocating for the release of criminals, even murderers. To then have exactly the opposite attitude towards something that certainly is not committing physical violence against somebody, I don’t understand the double standard!
https://www.preining.info/blog/2021/03/rms-debian-and-the-world
Be inclusive as in Star Trek, not inclusive as in Woke.
....and the ship's free again, unsurprisingly. Took just six days. Maybe one more day for some inspections and cleanup.
Bet you next time it'll barely hit the press.
Peter Todd
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Great video on how NYC is dying.
Went for an early morning walk in the woods and saw a young women, by herself, meditating on the opposite side of a river in an out-of-the-way spot about 50ft from the nearest trail, without another person in sight.
She was wearing a mask.
Mental illness is a tragic thing.
Peter Todd
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TIL people are working on vaccines for cannabis: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacsau.0c00057
Yes really: they want to induce your body to generate antibodies that will destroy the active ingredients in fairly harmless recreational drugs. I'm sure that's driven by a genuine desire to balance harms and benefits, and not a cynical attempt at extracting money from the war on drugs. 😂
They've even developed a way to administer them by vaping(!!). That could work well to give them secretly, against peoples' will...
Peter Todd
boosted
LGBTQ rights: A China Southern flight attendant lost his job for kissing a co-worker but now he's fighting back
Peter Todd
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My friend who is an auxiliary nurse is really pissed that her daughter had to wear those “potentially toxic” masks. They're the ones that they gave to children at her school.
She's not allowed to say what she thinks on social media so I'm relaying messages.
Peter Todd
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Potentially toxic masks distributed in schools and daycares in Quebec
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/masks-early-pulmonary-toxicity-quebec-schools-daycares-1.5966387
Peter Todd
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1/ This is not a meme yet, but I’m sure that there will be loads of memes. What happened? Twitter CEO @Jack Dorsey had to testify in front of the United States Congress on Thursday. He did this with a Bitcoin Blockclock in the background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiN5AzMPX80
...why is this so good...
https://docs.rs/arrayvec/0.6.0/arrayvec/struct.ArrayVec.html#method.into_inner
Nice! ArrayVec's API now integrates perfectly with Rust const generics.
This is surprisingly useful for initializing arrays generically. Eg:
fn foo<T, U, const N: usize>(src: [T; N]) -> [U; N])
where T: Foo<U>
{
let mut r: ArrayVec<N> = ArrayVec::new();
for item in src {
r.push(item.foo());
}
r.into_inner().ok().unwrap()
}
On that basis alone I think ArrayVec should be added to the standard library. The alternative is MaybeUninit yuck.
Peter Todd
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An open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman.
Let's defend free software from totalitarian, violent and retarded US-centric identity politics.
https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
https://runrepeat.com/gyms-post-covid-vaccine
"27.52% of gym members globally and 34.94% in the US don’t intend on returning, even after being vaccinated"
Public health is a disaster.
It's not hard to use that vaccine safely either: just give it to people who have already been infected. Then it does a perfectly good job of reducing the risk from further infections. That's exactly how the US now uses it.
I'm amazed that the WHO wouldn't recommend the obvious in favor of getting more vaccines in more arms, even though they knew a selective approach would save more lives. Smells like corruption frankly.
On a botched Dengue Fever vaccine, that actually _increased_ your risk of hospitalization/death by about 45% if you hadn't contracted Dengue Fever before.
The craziest thing is this _was_ known, but the WHO recommended all children be given the vaccine anyway, regardless of infection status.
"'No, you can't give a vaccine to a perfectly normal, healthy person and then put them at an increased risk for the rest of their lives' Halstead says. "You can't do that.""
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