Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

Fascinating explanation of why Bill Gates might be buying up farmland: tax changes from Biden may force family farms to sell: https://www.lonesomelands.com/new-blog/2021/1/24/americas-family-owned-farms-now-face-the-greatest-threat-to-their-existance

Danish study finding that Long-Term Care Facility residents temporarily had a 40% _higher_ rate of infection after the first dose, with the 95% CI ruling out any 1st dose benefit at all. Same as the UK and Israel have found.

A week after second dose, overall effectiveness in LTCF residents was just 64%

Sounds like the failure of the flu vaccine all over again...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.08.21252200v1.full.pdf

tl;dr: Statistics Canada believes that there has been a large increase in deaths among young people due to lockdown.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210310/dq210310c-eng.htm

https://twitter.com/rubiconcapital_/status/1369702671939174401/photo/1

The metal hang tab from some Arc'teryx underwear that I got recently. Obviously they're trying to avoid plastic packaging. But I find it hard to believe that this big, chrome plated, chunk of metal is better for the environment than a piece of plastic. Or better yet, a cardboard hang tab.

Just virtue signaling.

Funny thing is when Matthew Green's colleague Isis Lovecruft falsely accused me of sexual assault, having Google Maps location data really helped me defend myself.

But double-edged sword: if the government was after me, it would have let them come up with a better lie.

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1369464598324215808

Reposting on Mastodon, just in case @Frances_Coppola has a secret account. She needs this.

https://twitter.com/desperateSia/status/1369508679595212801

From a *strategic* point of view, suspended sentences are probably correct for the daughter and even father. Depends on how exactly she wound up admitted to lying about it. You want to ensure people are willing to come forward and admit the truth.

https://thepostmillennial.com/french-schoolgirl-says-she-made-up-story-that-got-teacher-beheaded-by-muslim-radical

"The 13-year-old student who claimed that her teacher showed Muslim students a naked depiction of the prophet Muhammad has admitted that she was lying. This lie led to the beheading of that teacher."

"Her father has now been arrested for "complicity in a terrorist killing." Prosecutors say that the father's actions had a direct "casual link" to the teacher's death.

The 13-year-old faces slander charges."

Charges are probably justified here, for both of them.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07966

TIL there exists a French tax code to C compiler. It's a serious project.

I think that settles the code as documentation argument. But I'm not sure in what direction...

https://mises.org/wire/what-weve-learned-israels-covid-vaccine-program

"At a cost of $20 per jab and 2 jabs/vaccination, the cost of preventing a death would be over $1 million, and the cost of preventing a hospitalization would be about $160,000 without considering the costs of any side effects."

Too little, too late.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Are there any examples of genuinely self-sufficient off-the-grid/homested _vegan_ YouTubers out there?

It's easy to be self-sufficient with animals. But actually getting enough protein and other nutrients without modern tech is impossible without animals in many ecosystems.

Like solar and generators, this feels like a schism between reality and the modern left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A7MMN7Gzw4

There's a _lot_ of conservative-ish Texas YouTuber's doing vids about their self-sufficient solar and generator setups... I don't think the left-wing environmentalists really thought this through. They're accidentally promoting self-sufficiency, which is both unobtainable if you're lower income, and quickly teaches you about the pragmatic realities of power production.

So if I buy Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet, can I delete it?