"There is no publicly available government data supporting the claim that the COVID vaccines reduced the risk of COVID infections or the case fatality rate."

The shortest ever argument that the COVID vaccines didn't work

I was able to get my argument down to one sentence. See if your bluepilled friends can refute it.

GitHub is starting to get weaponised. I'm mirroring every github repo I use or have on my radar for potential use to my own gitea server. Works like a charm. View quoted note →

Europe is imprisoning inconvenient people to shut them up, just like the US did to Assange. View quoted note →

For a long time, I was annoyed that nostrudel does not correctly pick up and show likes. Then I discovered it is just a matter of me clicking a button. Then I realised it is better not to 😄

The biggest strategic gain for the US from instigating the Ukraine war is it drove a wedge between Europe and Russia. It is also the biggest loss for Europe. Now Europe is increasingly irrelevant.

Who would have expected that Russia's currency will become a top performer in spite of the war and sanctions?

Bloomberg.com

Ruble Is Top Performing Currency as US Trade War Hits Dollar

Russia’s ruble has surged to become the best performing global currency, posting this year’s strongest gains against the dollar to outpace even...

Trump tells the UK they need to repeal hate speech laws to get a tariff deal. That must be humiliating lol - you'd expect that kind of conditions when dealing with some third world dictatorship. But that is where free speech is in the UK - in the drain.

The Independent

Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal

‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but a source close to the administration says his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘a...

Caitlin Johnstone: "Saying It’s Antisemitic To Oppose Genocide Is Like Saying It’s Anti-Catholic To Oppose Pedophilia" Spot on.

Saying It’s Antisemitic To Oppose Genocide Is Like Saying It’s Anti-Catholic To Oppose Pedophilia – Caitlin Johnstone

A couple of months ago I set up DNS filtering for our home network using

GitHub

GitHub - hagezi/dns-blocklists: DNS-Blocklists: For a better internet - keep the internet clean!

DNS-Blocklists: For a better internet - keep the internet clean! - hagezi/dns-blocklists

and the pro.txt list specifically. Did it with the full expectation that it will cause issues and I will have to dedicate some time to fixing those for the family as everyone is online a lot. In fact it has not caused a single thing we use to stop working, except regularly causing various things to log failures to track. Some site tries to redirect me to ads, they fail to load. VSCode tries to send stats (?) to Microsoft and logs error in reaching it (but keeps working). All sorts of Windows and Apple tracking gets nuked too, about 1 in 5 dns requests gets killed in a sample of about 8 million requests. Loving it!