Râu Cao @raucao@kosmos.social

Good point: when we will be able to thaw frozen bodies, we likely don't need to freeze bodies anymore, as we'll have the technology/medicine to renew all cells while the person is still alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_u9Za00uBY

TFW you get drunk and wake up at someone else's place next to...

If anyone finds actual data (which I seem to be unable to find as of yet), please let me know!

Sorry to report: I created an account to check the source data, and the reason the number is bang on the estimate is because it literally is the estimate, so the description on that site is wrong.

Slightly related, new peer-reviewed paper out of Stanford, comparing numbers between 10 major countries and finding that less-restrictive measures definitely have a big impact where it matters (severe cases and deaths), while more-restrictive ones (a.k.a. lockdowns) do not:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13484

If the numbers here are correct (and they're rather similar to other countries with many old people in the population), then Italy actually had *less* increased overall mortality in 2020 than expected. And it would be bang on the U.N. 2020 pre-COVID estimate:

https://knoema.com/atlas/Italy/topics/Demographics/Mortality/Number-of-deaths

Ugh, red zone for the whole island of Sicily again from next week on: https://www.barrons.com/news/three-italian-regions-put-back-under-near-lockdown-01610720704

So much for being able to go back anytime soon. All based on nothing but positive PCR tests, instead of people sick with COVID, or an actual emergency. They're also still counting every dying person with a positive result as "COVID death", which is why their overall number of deaths is completely decoupled from reality, and utterly hilariously by now.

So many people who should know better touted Signal as being the next-best thing, because they keep forgetting about the many drawbacks of centralization.

Aside from the obvious security and privacy issues, central servers going down can indeed happen by accident, and does so all the time (*cough... GitHub*), but it can just as well be done intentionally.

https://www.praxisfilms.org/open-letter-from-laura-poitras/

Pretty cool: Influenza simply doesn't exist anymore since spring 2020.

It's fine if you don't understand Web technologies and -software very well, but then you probably shouldn't shit all over them confidently, without asking questions first.

Benefit of hanging out close to my new home base: The convenience store around the corner on Gozo island stocks the best Sicilian pasta brand, in addition to decent local wine and sausage.