omicron @omicron@qoto.org

@foreverxml @stux
But I did not try to explain how vaccines work.
I just pointed to a small thing that all these media try to forget even exists.

Take this pic for example. Don't you see they forgot something?

I think I would support lockdowns, mandatory vaccination, business shutdowns, travel restrictions.

Yeah, right after they stop selling alcohol, cigarettes, unhealthy food and cars. Because we all need safety, right?
These half-assed measures are just not effective enough.

@stux
Many governments want their people to fear for their lives. This is a basic way to control them.
Some large organizations are like governments, you can't tell the difference.
Some companies made a lot of money during that pandemic.

Now, let's imagine this never happened. Don't you think at least some governments, organizations and companies would like that pandemic to happen?

I'm not saying what happens now is not real. It may be totally real, it may be exaggerated (because media loves attention, right? it's money for them.)
I'm saying some people would like to repeat that and earn more money \ power, whatever they are after.

What I think we should do is stay calm, take all the data with a grain of salt and check it several times and don't let the people in power keep the control they got over our lives during the past months. We should be free to walk, free to take whatever medicine we want (or refuse to take it), free to visit our relatives or leave our country for a while.

@stux
Scientist, doctors, virologists, etc all say take the vaccine unless you have contraindications.

Propaganda says just take the vaccine, trust the Science. Oh, and they also post funny videos that have nothing to do with real science but somehow promote vaccines.

> Btw, I think most of us are getting more toxic shit inside our bodies with the crap we consume every single day in comparison with one single vaccine..

Yeah, on that I agree with you.

@stux
It does not work like this and you probably know it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunologic_adjuvant#Medical_complications
and this is just a tip of the iceberg.

So why spread misinformation?

@resist1984
Exactly. During a heavy lockdown I had to complete google captcha to get outside. That's crazy.

@vixn
Now they have to smile not only in front of their boss, but in front of their smart device, too. Aren't they happy, so many reasons to smile. 😀

Employees at a Beijing office have to smile for an AI camera to get through the front doors, change the temperature, or print documents

https://www.businessinsider.com/workers-at-chinese-office-have-to-smile-at-ai-camera-2021-6?international=true&r=US

@atoponce
Insulting people never gets them to change their mind. And it's just a bad thing to do in general. I never really followed Linus, and now I'm definitely not going to.

@digdeeper@mastodon.honeypot.im
How come, as a guy, I've never seen that video or heard of that movie. Thanks for sharing, truly one of the best 15 minutes I ever had.

@aral @panais @armonyaltinier

"So, if your Mom had a secret vice, say playing the poker machines, you could start getting advertising that potentially breached her privacy and/or alerted you to her behaviour? Ugh"

"Yes, people started getting baby ads after visiting my gf and me. We hadn't told them about her pregnancy."

@Wetrix
Russian internet is a joke, it's almost useless without a good VPN. Soon everyone who's not brainwashed by state media will be using it, and they won't be able to block every single one.

@ilyess
PM supports PGP and automatically enables it, if the recipient uses PGP too and you have his public key, or if the recipient uses PM too.
support@quad9 does not use PGP, so email goes out not encrypted (otherwise they won't be able to read it), and PM uses that fact to automatically scan email for spam.
After the email is sent, they store the email encrypted in your Sent folder and at no point their employee can read the email (so they say, and I have no reason to doubt).

Btw, I tested my guess by sending this email to my own email address elsewhere (also blocked), by sending to PM address (encrypted, delivered), and finally sending to my own email elsewhere but changing the link by removing TLD (the last dot and the part after it) - delivered.

@david

@david
Well, I tried reporting a false positive to Quad9 DNS provider (new domain flagged as malware) and Protonmail did not let me send an email with that domain name, I had to contact Quad9 some other way. So I guess it's a common thing providers do.