Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

lineGrip rubber plates - specs, features, types • LineGrip Corp.
https://www.linegrip.com/knowledge-base/linegrip-rubber-plates-specs-features-types/

Nice writeup of the huge amount of engineering work that goes into a seemingly simple product: the rubber pads on a slackline tensioning grip.

This Cop Conducted 3 Warrantless Searches in Under 3 Years. He Gets To Keep His Job. – Reason.com
https://reason.com/2021/06/24/this-cop-conducted-3-warrantless-searches-in-under-3-years-he-gets-to-keep-his-job/

"During that traffic stop, he and four other cops strip-searched a minor on a public street."

He should be in jail.

"Prosecutors couldn't charge Blalock with taking illegal drugs, because she had a prescription. They couldn't charge her with abusing the drugs, either. (Not for lack of trying, though: DHR had actually counted how many pills she had taken.) Nor could the authorities charge her with getting the legal drugs by illegal means... What they could and did charge her with was not informing her doctor that she was pregnant. They labeled this prescription fraud: a felony."

https://reason.com/2021/06/23/pregnant-mom-prescription-drug-charge-alabama/

After Bitcoin Miami, I did a bit of a road trip to Austin, Texas, driving a total of 1700 miles (I took the scenic route).

At 1.2 deaths / 100 million miles, I had a 20 in 1 million chance of dying in a car crash during that road trip.

For my 18 to 49 age group, the CDC estimates 500 deaths / 1 million covid infections.

For my risk of dying from covid caught at the conference to equal that of my road trip, you'd have to assume 4% of the conference got infected. 😂

...and yes, I actually ran the numbers on that 1 in 100,000 chance of dying due to the driving: about 1.2 deaths / 100 million miles, with a total of 1000km driven round trip between both of us.

I'm not going to go into details for the sake of their privacy. But suffice to say the project in question isn't work related, and probably has about a 1 in 100,000 chance of one of us getting killed doing it just due to the driving involved. What we're actually doing for the project is probably 1 in 10,000 or worse.

Assume unvaxxed secondary transmission probability is 50%. Assume the partner had zero benefit from the vaccine, while the person had a 95% effectiveness.

(300*10*3/15000000)*0.5*0.05*0.5 = 7.5x10^-6 ~= 1 in 100,000 chance of the partner getting infected due to the person meeting me in person for the project.

...which is an absurdly conservative estimate, as when I would have met them, I would have just done three rounds of PCR testing. 😂

Someone asked me to help them with a project, in person, just after I would have completed my 14 day quarantine after returning from the US. They changed their mind when I told them I wasn't vaccinated, as they were concerned about their immunosuppressed partner. Both are fully vaxed.

Let's run the numbers on this:

Ontario is reporting 300 covid cases a day, out of a population of 15 million. Assume true cases is 10x that. Ontario govt says asymptomatic transmission is up to 3 days.

"Her decision so far to avoid putting Sydney under a lockdown comes as sections of the business community ramp up demands on the nation’s federal and state leaders to abandon a strategy of eliminating Covid-19 cases within the community"

"The so-called “zero-case” strategy is under pressure because of virus leaks from hotels used to quarantine Australians returning from overseas that have triggered localized lockdowns."

No surprise there...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-23/sydney-faces-tougher-curbs-as-australia-s-delta-outbreak-grows

https://archive.is/SCc0A

Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised? - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-covid-vaccines-riskier-than-advertised-11624381749

"The agency concluded that the vaccine “likely” contributed to the deaths of 10 of these [100] residents through side effects such as fever and diarrhea, and “possibly” contributed to the deaths of an additional 26. But this type of honesty is rare."

Tone is shifting in mainstream media. Probably because they can 1) get away with it, 2) make money on vaccine stories yet again by showing the opposite side.

Article from 20 years ago - when The Guardian actually did real journalism - talking about a fake pandemic of toxic cooking oil, used to cover up a different, very real, health problem killing huge numbers of people.

Lots of lessons here in how science can easily be corrupted by politics.

https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2001/aug/25/research.highereducation?__twitter_impression=true&s=09

https://scitechdaily.com/new-discovery-shows-human-cells-can-write-rna-sequences-into-dna-challenges-central-principle-in-biology/

Woops.... There goes one of the central safety claims about RNA vaccines...

Not surprising. But yet another example of why health authorities should tell the truth. Not convenient lies.