@ColinTheMathmo it does seem plausible though.
Confusing infinite sequence with equal distribution with irrational number where distribution is unknowable and may not contain certain digits at all. Type 1 thinking shortcut.
I think we’re in Monty Hall territory.
@cabel I feel that way about Cleese. He’s just fallen into the idiot tropes without doing any thinking.
People in the UK may be left in the wilderness without secure messaging services, if the #OnlineSafetyBill retains its encryption busting clause.
Forcing platforms to comply with client-side scanning is state-mandated private surveillance of the kind that we see in authoritarian regimes. Platforms will leave rather than compromise #security and #privacy.
It'll particularly harm journalists, campaigners and activists who rely on #e2ee to communicate safely. #ukpolitics
https://techmonitor.ai/policy/privacy-and-data-protection/what-if-whatsapp-really-does-leave-the-uk
I don’t know whether Ivermectin would have helped. You don’t know whether it would have helped. But what’s important – what is scandalous – is that the FDA doesn’t know either, and still doesn’t care to know whether lives would have been saved through the use of treatments in place of, or in addition to, the vaccines. https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/once-again-the-fda-admits-it-lied?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
If you were wondering why the 1% economists seem so sanguine https://open.substack.com/pub/annpettifor/p/blame-economists-for-decades-of-false?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Everyone who supported this horrifying proxy war should have that paragraph tattooed on their fucking forehead. https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/big-brave-western-proxy-warriors?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Patients not Passports
Learning from the International Struggle for Universal Healthcare
https://neweconomics.org/uploads/files/NEF_Patients-not-passports.pdf
@esther yeah, “what’s your justification for continuing the mass starvation and environmental collapse?”
If they so clever they can justify their position.
@ryanhoulihan What about making us forget Jeff Bezos. He must still be supervilla-ing while we’re looking away.
"acute COVID infection is likely the least of our worries." Thanks for sharing https://www.salon.com/2023/08/13/long-is-devastating-and-far-from-rare-as-infections-rise-again-why-are-we-still-ignoring-it/. Great quotes: "We need to depoliticize COVID...stop with these political attacks. We need to come together and realize that long COVID is robbing people of their lives. They might be alive, may be existing, but they're not living...We need better public health messaging too..."
#COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver
@ChrisMayLA6 reinvent? It still hasn’t gone away.
@cstross If I recall you can buy spoons and they're supposed to be for particular fruit (grapefruit?) - so serendipitous works scratches some alien's itch in a new and better way? Or some other fruit?
I see a lot of depressed people say “oh I feel so bad, I’m such a burden on the people in my life.”
And, yeah, you are. You’re absolutely a burden on someone. I am a burden. We are all of us a burden. And that’s ok.
My kids are young and for a lot of my time with them they were helpless blobs. They have been so much work! They have made me tired, they have made me sick, they have made me worried, they have spent my money, they have punched me in the junk. Don’t let anyone sugarcoat how hard it is to be a parent.
And I would do anything for them. I would die for them. I love them more than anything and would do it all over again, gladly, a thousand times.
It’s ok to be a burden. Literally every human being is, at some point, a burden on someone else. All of us need help almost all of the time.
Because we take care of each other.
David Graeber once noted that we’re fragile biological beings who die without each other. It’s ok to be a burden. Be a burden. And take care of someone else when they’re a burdens. It’s the only thing we can do, really: take care of each other.
It’s ok.
As this weekend's #doctors #strike enters is 2nd day, you will be unsurprised that the issue is essentially what counts as a 'credible offer' on pay & conditions; #RishiSunak & #SteveBarclay think what they have offered is 'credible', the #BMA (and doctors) don't agree.
If I'm asked to choose between the #Tories & #healthcare professionals' view of what is 'credible' in the #NHS, you'll forgive me if I dismiss the Tory position, based on their engineering of the #NHS crisis in the first place!
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.