I spoke to someone once who was enthusiastic about their "blockchain firewall" which would somehow sign packets on the network and totally eliminate spoofing 🙄
— 💉💉🎉 One Matt among many (@0xMatt) May 19, 2021
A…blockchain firewall? That might be one of the most harebrained ideas I’ve ever heard, and I grew up in rural North Florida.
How absurdly slow that would is hard to even think about.
The chance an asymptomatic kid infects another kid that results in them being hospitalized from COVID is 1 in 42 million.
This is *thousands of times* lower than their risk from bicycles, school buses and swimming pools.
Parents take far greater risks with their kids every day.
— Eric (@IAmTheActualET) May 19, 2021
Doubt it’s quite that low, but it’s pretty low (think this is an example of a common statistical mistake of attempting to multiply probabilities, and it doesn’t really work that way). Anywway, anti-vaxxers driving like mad but refusing to get the jab, etc. Makes no sense.
Don’t want a life of hiding inside crying due to minor and easily-ameliorated risks, but a lot of people sure seem to want that very much.
I’m guessing what we’re likely to end up with out of Covid in many places (mostly Europe, but others too) is that only the rich have an easy time traveling anywhere outside their home country. For the rest, it becomes very difficult to travel internationally.
It’s been quite a whipsaw experience watching (mostly) liberals clamoring for open borders to ever-tighter restrictions. And sad.
I would love to be told I had beautiful eyes by a stranger on the street. Or by anyone really. https://t.co/1rYGw7plX5
— Iona Italia, PhD (@IonaItalia) May 17, 2021
I told a woman in a grocery store a few days ago that she was wearing a cute dress. She obviously enjoyed the compliment and I’d do it again, despite all the liberal tears falling.
Reject asceticism and disconnection; reject hiding inside crying. Engage with the world and be more than a vampire, draining energy from everyone else. Better is possible.
Covid still a threat to Europe – travel should be avoided, says WHO.
WHO cares? Covid will always be a threat now. Zero Covid and other failed ideologies just means perpetual lockdowns and never traveling.
I know many libs would love that, but that’s no way to live.
Just a casual tour of the capitol, typical day, a light tourist stroll through the seat of our nation’s power…with tactical batons and some brass knuckles.
As you do, you know, as a typical everyday tourist.