vbhide @vbhide@librem.one

Hello Mr. Stallman, I have a question.
Should people be taking mRNA vaccines to end the COVID-19 pandemic? I understand the vaccines are based on mRNA "code" which is in fact proprietary.

Is it ethical to take a vaccine if it is going to end the pandemic and save millions of lives, yet the vaccine itself is based on proprietary code?

I think this is a very important question.

Preserve Wildlife! Throw a party today!

Miss Poland contestants

The journal “Lancet” published the chart on left with unequal Y-Axis to downplay fact that cold causes 10X more deaths than heat in Europe. Björn Lomborg corrected this with chart on right.

Spot the difference!!

When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live
as they live elsewhere.
-- St. Ambrose

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
-- Clare Booth Luce, quoted in "The Wit of Women"

You know you're in a small town when...
You don't use turn signals because everybody knows where you're going.
You're born on June 13 and your family receives gifts from the local
merchants because you're the first baby of the year.
Everyone knows whose credit is good, and whose wife isn't.
You speak to each dog you pass, by name... and he wags his tail.
You dial the wrong number, and talk for 15 minutes anyway.
You write a check on the wrong bank and it covers you anyway.

ITM Slaves! Memory hole bingo

BREAKING: "Red alert" as approximately 100 red balloons spotted in sky over Berlin.

Something I learnt about only recently (it may have been on here): for many arxiv preprints, if you replace the "x" in the url with a "5", you will get a nice accessible html version!

example:
https://ar5iv.org/abs/2203.08489

Works quite well for reading on your phone in the train for example 👍

Dear BitcoinHackers.org members, I plan on winding this instance down in the coming months as Nostr matures.

There will be plenty of warnings and time. But please look into Nostr and/or alternative instances.

<3

"The banker turned fraud who issues the first uncovered money title is in fact a “political entrepreneur.” He “tests the market” to discover how far he can go in violating property rights without encountering resistance." - Guido Hülsmann https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_07_3_hulsmann.pdf

15 🤡🌎 events of 2022 that make us want to buy crypto 🧵

Link: https://nitter.at/matthew_sigel/status/1605256007743320064
Comments: https://stacker.news/items/109811/r/snf

#StackerNews is like Hacker News but it pays you #bitcoin

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

putting tape over my webcam, thinking about how some FBI agent watched me cry every day for a year and didn't check up on me once — cut toxic people out of your life in 2023