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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.

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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.

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somehow i don’t see this new github feature being adopted by bitcoin core

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.

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TIL people are working on vaccines for cannabis: pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/j

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...

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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.

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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.

docs.rs/arrayvec/0.6.0/arrayve

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.

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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.
rms-support-letter.github.io/

runrepeat.com/gyms-post-covid-

"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.

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