rastinza @rastinza@qoto.org

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If you wish to talk about it, I actually went through part of the report (rather than just stop at the summary)

https://qoto.org/@rastinza/113674830383053109

The information contained in the report is indeed true: it is mostly emails and messages between people involved and interviews to the same.
However, the conclusions of the report, what is available in the summary, is not really supported by any of that.

Regarding whistleblowers, I only read the first 100 pages but there is no mention of any whistleblower in there.

We can discuss it further if you wish.
Any way, since I am here I'll have to point out that Elias is correct: he is presenting official data from a government who conducted a 2 years investigation. Accusing a report of such importance to be distorted without taking a look at it really is preconceived. Moreover, he did not talk about countries or parties and I do not really see why you'd accuse him of political radicalism or preconceived ideas. Scientific consensus can change and an investigation is a very valid and effective way to find out what happened in a certain occasion, it is in fact a much better tool for that than scientific research. However, the investigation should be conducted in a good way to serve as such tool; in this case it does not appear to me that the investigation was well done, nor that they really used it to reach some conclusions. It really like they wrote down some conclusions and then wrote a 500 pages document to justify those conclusions hoping nobody would actually read it.

@Nonya_Bidniss Hello,
I took a look at the report and wrote some first impressions here on mastodon.

https://qoto.org/@rastinza/113674830383053109

Join in for a chat if you wish

@anarchademic
Hello, I took a look at the report and wrote some first impressions in a post here on Mastodon.

https://qoto.org/@rastinza/113674830383053109

Join there for a chat if you wish.

@Raccoon
Hello,
I took a look at the report and wrote a short post here on Mastodon.

https://qoto.org/@rastinza/113674830383053109

Join for a chat if you wish.

@wravoc @jerry @nils_ballmann @epixoip @JesseSkinner @vurpo @me @Deixis9 @CliffsEsport @kallemp @artemesia

Dear Elias,
I took a look at the report and I wrote some few remarks in a post that you can read here on Mastodon.

https://qoto.org/@rastinza/113674830383053109

Join for a chat if you wish.

I took a closer look at the second part, the conclusions of the report are the following.

PROXIMAL ORIGIN PUBLICATION: “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature.

Yes, closing quotation marks are missing in the original too, you would imagine they'd format their documents better, but then again the whole report is terribly formatted. They didn't even bother to copy emails as text and just pasted around the images.

It is really funny how all evidence they provide to support this claim actually appears to disprove it completely.
Because from the available evidence what we can clearly see is the following:

1. Fauci did not prompt the authors to write the article
2. Fauci did not take part in the writing of the article
3. Fauci asked the authors to analyze the Lab Leak theory if they deemed it viable and publish any results which supported it

Here, have a page of the document to evaluate how well it was drafted. No, on this page none of the text is selectable. To be fair, they did pretty good: on some other pages there is some selectable text...

#Covid #CovidReport

@GustavinoBevilacqua La befana vien di notte con le scarpe tutte rotte, sul vagon di terza classe per pagare meno tasse.

@chillinpanda Ho avuto sia Kindle che Kobo, la differenza in funzionalità è minima. Il Kindle se non sbaglio è un po' più economico.
Entrambi permettono leggere vari formati, anche se i PDF su ereader si leggono generalmente abbastanza male.
Ti permettono di caricare libri esterni a quelli venduti da loro in ePub e mobi per Kindle e kepub per Kobo.

@valhalla @phab si, effettivamente può non essere la cosa più intuitiva del mondo. Meglio se prima dai un'occhiata alle guide di base: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide

@GustavinoBevilacqua Almeno qui i nomi delle variabili hanno dei significati chiari ed esaustivi. Dubito che nessuno capisca male ciò a cui ci si riferisce con StoCazzoDiEtichetta, mentre invece Pippo è molto sibillino; potrebbe riferirsi infatti al personaggio del fumetto, che però con l'INPS non centra molto; oppure potrebbe riferirsi alla forma di consumare sostanze psicoattive del programmatore, che già forse ha più senso se parliamo dell'INPS.

@GustavinoBevilacqua Scusami, non ho resistito! 😂

@brucknerite no creo que puedas recuperar mucha energía de ese forma. En primer lugar por electrólisis no creo se produzcan cuantitativos de gas tan grandes por generar un flujo tan fuerte, en el cui caso la turbina por inercia ni se activaría.
Aunque el flujo pudiera mover una turbina, de cuánta eficiencia más estamos hablando? Si se trata de un kW por cada MW que pones en producción, merece verdaderamente la pena comparado con los gastos a mayores para el mantenimiento?

Para aumentar la eficiencia a esos niveles me parecería mucho más prometedor intentar con la dispersión térmica, más que el flujo de gas.

Pero claro, yo tampoco soy experto. Mira si ellos te pueden enviar sus cálculos para que lo puedas comprobar. Eso es lo mínimo, no voy a comprarte una patente si ni siquiera me puedes proporcionar unos cálculos que comprueben su utilidad.

@oha I don't know how much more evil you can be than by using JSON. Maybe that's what they refer to: we give you an extremely evil tool, don't use it to do something more evil as it's likely impossible.

The government of the United States has conducted an investigation on COVID-19, its origins and on the effectiveness of responses taken to the pandemic.
You can read it here: https://oversight.house.gov/release/final-report-covid-select-concludes-2-year-investigation-issues-500-page-final-report-on-lessons-learned-and-the-path-forward/

They have a nice short summary to take a look at. I did read it and a few things came up as strange to me. The wording is a bit propagandistic and they indicate that the most likely hypothesis is that the virus was developed in a laboratory in Wuhan and then accidentally infected some researchers.
I found these findings extremely interesting as they are different from other articles I had read before.

I skimmed through the first 100 pages, which is where the origin of COVID is discussed. Out of these, only 4 pages discuss the fact that the virus was made in a lab, while the remaining ones discuss the fact that the article proposing that the virus likely originated in an animal and was later transferred to humans.

The evidence they use to sustain that the virus was made in a laboratory is the following:
- some researchers in Wuhan got sick with a respiratory disease before COVID
- the FBI is confident that the virus was made in a laboratory
- Boris Johnson said he believes the virus was made in a laboratory
- no animal carrying a similar disease was found

Now, these look like good leads to me; but the only real thing that may actually prove anything is that the FBI is certain of it. However they don't say why the FBI believes the virus was made in a laboratory. I'm not sure whether this is classified information or how they justify this belief as it's not explained anywhere.

The following part goes into the analysis of how a certain article was published. They conducted extensive investigations interviewing people involved and reading through their emails and messages. There appears to be some small academic misconduct in the process which took there, but really nothing to justify their thesis.

I don't know, I'm a bit startled: it took them two years to conduct extensive investigations and this is all the evidence they can come up with? Moreover, the conclusions of their report are nowhere justified in any way which could support their high confidence.

#covid

Last week I had to travel to the USA, to be sure I brought with me 5 packets of tobacco. For curiosity I went to a tobacco shop to check the tobacco prices over there... 20$
I'm very happy I brougth the tobacco along with me. Whenever I'll go back to the USA I'll remember to bring a very large amount of tobacco with me, can't really burn through my salary smoking at such prices.

@GustavinoBevilacqua Oh... I'm not sure for database storage. For in-memory management maybe you can try the composite pattern: https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/composite