Dave Fernig @DaveFernig@qoto.org

I have officially begun my transition to cyborg by having a functional body part replaced with an improved non-biological man-made version.

In other words, cataract surgery went well.

People have asked me a few times this month how I know so many "rich" people (after they learned I am sometimes talk to a billionaire whom I wont name).

Basically, I am well known in a lot of diverse fields so I have a reputation of doing due diligence for them on their investments. They basically call me up to technical review companies and verify their claims before they decide to invest in a company.

I actually offer this service for free as a friend, so it has caused me to make quite a few rich friends over the years through recommendations and i usually offer them the same free help.

You may wonder why I do it for free. Well the business connections pay for themselves. A lot of people would rather complain about how a rich person could afford to pay them (and they do offer to pay). But a good business man takes risks and doing it for free has always earned me much much more.

Lawl

#Twitter #X #Xitter

@pluralistic

Behind the Bastards Christmas hero is Aaron Swartz this year.

🥺 😥

Today’s poem is called ‘Anniversary’.

@britishtechguru

COVID has too many features of something you cant get rid of:

1) fast immunity attenuation, people can get reinfected within months of exposure

2) Large number of asymptomatic patiens, so easy avoids detection.

3) It is airborne, as in, can transmit on droplets.

4) It is fairly contagious

You cant have those features and expect to eliminate it.

@DaveFernig @auscandoc @auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy

@DaveFernig I dont have any more sympathy for a veteran than I do any other homeless person. Suffering is suffering to me and equally worth addressing.

But there is somthing to be said for the government abusing these people and throwing them aside. As a citizen we are somewhat responsible for our government and that makes us more individually liable in a sense for voting people in that would treat people that way.

@britishtechguru @auscovid19 @freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy So far there’s nothing to indicate that SARSCOV2 is going to go away. Unfortunately. Its propensity to mutate to avoid immunity suggests the opposite.

Yersinia Pestis never went away. It was the conditions that helped it propagate that improved. Even then the multiple waves of the plague went well beyond a few years.

I always find it idiotic when people argue "Democrats are right wing by european standards"... lol there is no relative standard for center, it is an absolute... what they should say is "democrats are farther right compared to the average in europe". But to suggests they are right of center has little basis in reality. Their policies may not be as extreme left as politicians in europe, but they very clearly are left of neutral/center

As of 12 minutes ago it is now officially my birthday!

The UK government intends to crush our ability to find out what personal data organisations hold about us, which is critical for us to use rights effectively.

The #DataGrabBill makes it easier for organisations to refuse to respond to a subject access request, including if it’s ‘too onerous for them’, and allows them to introduce fees.

Rights must be robust and enforceable. Otherwise we’re exposed to State and commercial whims.

#HandsOffOurData #GDPR #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

OTD in 2004 Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said of Prez “I thoroughly convinced that Russian president wants to transform Russia into a democracy & that he is doing so out of deeply held conviction".

A statement that has stood the test of both time & “special military operation”.

Japan plans to provide €160 million to support Ukraine's economic recovery projects. A large Japanese delegation is in Kyiv. This is reported by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.

On space and billionaire fantasies:

"The nagging problem is this: Space sucks."

https://atmos.earth/sorry-billionaires-space-wont-be-our-climate-haven/

(h/t to @pluralistic)

The reform of the use of ISA funds could result in the saving of at least £3.7 billion of tax subsidies a year https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/11/20/the-reform-of-the-use-of-isa-funds-could-result-in-the-saving-of-at-least-3-7-billion-of-tax-subsidies-a-year/. At present, UK ISA savings are either dead money within the economy or are money given to the City of London to speculate with. This is a disastrous use of £700 billion of savings. Changing SA rules could make these savings the foundation of the reinvestment in our future that our economy so desperately needs.

@RodneyPetersonTalent @DaveFernig @mike805

I highly doubt he was suggesting their perspective is a good one.

I'm almost annoyed by how clever this is

"With more data at hand than theoretical projection, the evidence is overwhelming: Universal #BasicIncome is working nearly universally."

"In city after city and cohort after cohort — old, young, single parents, ex-convicts — universal basic income has improved health outcomes, raised employment, and bolstered childcare opportunities (and recipients have had consistently better outcomes than control groups)."

UBI works. We know that. It will reduce other costs.

https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-works-red-state-blue-state-2023-10

"My mom was sleeping here. The slab fell on her." - Natalia from Kherson shared about the nighttime shelling of a residential building.

"I don't know how I would have gotten out [of the apartment] if the door hadn't blown out. I would have burned to death there, too. I called my mom, I couldn't even go in, and the wall fell on her right away... my mother was 91 years old," the woman said. They lived on the 9th floor.

Russia shells Kherson every day.
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Russia