Notices by Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)

@oligneisti I just tried to translate it online.

" Shit on the king?"

"Shit on the king at home?"

Something like that?

@evan If you did it as a full time job, 8 hours a day every day for a year, you could make a few million bucks, but you'd probably go insane from tapping the pencil over and over again endlessly. The pencil is essentially a cursed object that gives the user modest wealth, but would drive you nuts trying to use it.

https://lostroom.fandom.com/wiki/Objects

@evan There's a great version of this in the mini-series The Lost Room, where there are a series of "Objects" with odd powers. One of them is a pencil which if you tap the eraser against a hard surface, a penny appears. I did a calculation based on how fast I could tape a pencil at a rate I could reasonably sustain and then checked the weight and metal composition for that year's penny's (it always produces an identical penny). The I checked the melt value.

@MaryAustinBooks The reverse is also true, people might GET h5n1 from their cats. You let your cats roam around outdoors where they encounter infected birds, rodents, another cat, etc. and they bring the virus inside your home. Alternatively, they get it from eating raw pet food and then give it to you.

@ipsquiggle I like my Pocketbook Era Color. Easy to use for someone who mostly loads it via USB. It has large mechanical page turning buttons which I consider a major plus lacking in most ebook readers on the market these days and it support bluetooth page turning as well, which is nice if you want to set it down and control it via some BT presenter ring.

@oligneisti I pantsed the king?

@peter Just read up on the incident. Complete nightmare fuel. I've been in a few large cave systems and some very deep mines, but am not a caver and narrow passages freak me out.

@m I also worry about the US taking financial action to try and prevent US citizens looking to emigrate.

@gabrielesvelto @dangoodin CWTCH does support group messaging and it's basically the only way to have message persistence. Otherwise it's just person to person live messaging over an onion network to hide metadata. Requires a hub/server but the server doesn't know much about the messages.

https://docs.cwtch.im/docs/groups/introduction

@GMIK69 When we had lockdowns and everyone was masking (a lot with shitty cloth masks or just surgical), we basically wiped a flu strain almost completely off the map. N95's are far more efficient at preventing transmission. The one thing viruses can't defeat is physics.

@GMIK69 A lot of Americans are trapped in conspiratorial ignorance. Always cracked me up that there was a segment of the population which held back from the mRNA vaccines despite a huge safety track record and were like "I'm waiting for Novavax. It's natural."

Sure, it's natural. It's got proteins grown by moth cells and an adjuvant extracted from grinding up soapbark trees.

@GMIK69 The moderate scenario is doses for half the world, but 80% of that production capacity is based on eggs. That's also doses and not treatment courses and at least with the stockpiled H5 vaccines, I was hearing a lot about how a single dose didn't stimulate enough of an immune response, so we might be looking at a two or more doses scenario like with Covid (and a whole lot of other vaccines).

@gabrielesvelto @dangoodin What do folk think of CWTCH and where it fits? I know some people are concerned about metadata exposure, centralized architectures (particularly US centralized architectures).

The US has been like cheap digital fast food and now a lot of the world is suddenly reevaluating their eating habits.

@peter So much harkens back to Nixon and the failure to punish what were clearly egregious politically motivated crimes. The POTUS needs to at all times be bound by the law and be its faithful executioner.

Instead we got this:

"Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." -Richard Nixon

@Frederik_Borgesius Never, ever empower governments with technologies like these. They will always say it is for going after drug dealers, terrorists and pedophiles, but inevitably politicians see other politicians and journalists in the "enemies" category and stoop to this sort of thing.

@gregeganSF so you're saying the problem with Trisolaris is a lack of suitably lightweight and rigid Dyson spheres? Someone should have sent them an anonymous mathematical memo.

"Have you tried this?"

Then again they had three suns, not two+ enough planetary rubble to build a sphere for themselves.

@bassjobsen @whn @locuta The Spanish Flu reached its month of maximum mortality just seven months after it was first recognized as a major epidemic spreading in humans, and that was in an era of ships and trains. Today, it would spread globally far more quickly.

@bassjobsen @whn @locuta We made about 148 million total doses of flu vaccine for the USD this year. Really questionable whether existing non-mRNA tech would get us to the number of doses needed for the higher demand a high consequence H5N1 pandemic would create. In addition, most of the existing stockpiled vaccines have required two doses to get adequate immune response. We need mRNA, not just for volume, but also for timely manufacturing.

@HelenBranswell You look at all the weird cold war scenarios the US spent gadzooks amount of money on, but when it comes to a virus, they can't bring themselves to throw down some cash, even when it might save millions of lives?

@HelenBranswell
I'm still waiting on anyone to say "This has the clear possibility of being a high consequence H2H pandemic, and one which would likely spread widely throughout the world well before we could manufacture enough doses to inoculate meaningful percentages of the population. Given the present available data, we've decided to hedge against a potentially disastrous scenario and just start manufacturing vaccine at scale now."