Isn't it fun fixing stuff around the house?
There always seems to be something to repair or append...
It's also one of the main reasons for me going down in posting frequency here.

Enjoy your warm home!
Tip: Since i take the daily plunge in cold water or at least a 2-3 mins max cold shower, i need to have freezing temperatures to experience something like "cold".
Try it. There's no excuse but a heart condition or raynauds syndrome, but you can use neopren socks and gloves, works for up to five minutes in freezing cold water.

Hey, look!
We're barting reverse, it seems...


EDIT: And the sellwalls pop up out of nowhere... Wait! They're gone now! ...and there they are again!
Fuck trading bots! 

When you look at the age distribution of fatal outcomes and hospitalization, it would make some sense to vaccinate people aged 50+
On the other hand, for the younger population you would actually want to spread SARS-CoV-2, because avoiding to do so would just generate greater chance for escape variants.
The spreading happens 99% through viruses replicating at high rates in mucous membranes of the nose, mouth and throat. Once you got infected, the immune system is producing antibodies in these locations, which subsequently will reduce spreading of viruses after future infections (including variants) as well as symptoms and letting the virus get into organic tissues, where the immune system does more harm than good to your precious organs.
The "perfect" balance would be getting everybody infected naturally, but vaccinate the elderly and preconditioned to reduce fatal outcomes and bust whole healthcare systems.
As new variants emerge, which tend to be less harmful to the host for evolutionary success of the virus, vaccination agendas can be loosened up until the world's population can accept SARS-CoV-2 like "just another flu".
FINALLY

Everything else is unnaturally dumb, imo.

Uhm... yes, and panic is too.

You might be aware, as a hodler of a "high risk asset", you would not fall into panic mode as easily as the ordinary civilian 
Beause we have a separate thread for coughvid, i'll limit this to one line:
High virus replication levels in the upper respiratory tract mucous membranes actually link to high spreading rate but less danger for the host organism, so a new variant of this likes is actually good news.

Kazakhstan: Bitcoin miners overload the power grid

Source

(google translated from german for your convenience)

Lagarde has just been dealt a high pair, if this were hold'em poker.  

Imho, anti-vaxxers, pro-vaxxers, conspiracy-believers, deniers... All are just trying to make some sense about this pandemic.
Also, we tend to defend our believes in face of different believes. We define ourselves.

Vaccines are a valid approach to cope with the pandemic, but it has its limitations, like any other approach.
We're individuals, we're also groups of individuals.
What this pandemic clearly shows, is that society is quite an illusion.
Respect between individuals is crucial to not get stuck in regards of a social life.

Paashaas is a vaxxer, and he's satisfied with that way of handling the pandemic.
Others take care of themselves (and their contacts) by following distancing rules and sometimes also testing, are not ranked high in any of the risk profiles.
I'm an anti-vaxxer, but only for myself. I might change my opinion as well in the future. At least, i don't know if i won't.  
Everybody else should do as he/her wants, just don't expext everybody else should do the same.

I don't even get WHY markets dump because of the news.
What do you do with all the fiat after selling your assets?
Or is it more about "sell before everybody else is selling, to get in again after everybody has sold"?

Is there evidence for race? I mean, i heard about Delta self-destructing in Japam because of some genetic/enzymatic factors, but got no details yet.

You forgot the rusty pipes and all...

Other than that, the only thing you can do is accept what you can't change.

I don't celebrate TG, but try "die in a gunfight", which is one of the best movies i came across lately.

EDIT: also bought a little dip at $54.849 Wohooo!

Seems like a jackpot.

This virus is not just to be beaten by conventional vaccines. That's also why i am against vaxxing exclusively in regard to SARS-CoV-2.
Imho, even getting vaccinated against HPV makes much more sense to me than that.
First of all, there is this extreme bandwidth of outcomes, which must be dependent on certain parameters. Obesity, Diabetes, immune dysfunctions... to name a few.
I'd better research and combat those. Every human that wants the vaccination, feel free to do so, but be aware that your motivation is fear. Fear of never getting back your old life, fear of dying, fear of sickness, fear of the non-vaxxed because they may be right, fear of getting blamed by the pro-vaxxers.

Simple solutions to solve complex problems almost always fail. And yet, another sign of failing is not to change your decisions, although the expected results are not achieved.

Lately, i'm honestly asking myself if i should just sell most of my stash if Proudhon gets bullish someday.


From my point of view, i just see this giant falling wedge  

And see where in the world it's happening (again)...

I learned it the simple way in engineering school: You don't want to use linear motion dynamics (combustion cylinder) to create a circular movement to generate alternating current. This is the reason it's so inefficient.

LOL 

I dug quite into that topic of infrasound and it seems to be amplified by some independent factors. In the end it's sound, so wavelength (modes) and distance, as well as mounting seems to worsen the issue. There were studies about configurations like 4 houses, arranged in a square manner, and one was fitted with the air pump, while the house in front of it had the most suffering residents. They monitored the frequency, calculated the distances and it seemed that the wall surfaces of the houses in between, 45° to the sound source, projected at a multiple of the wavelength onto the outer wall of the house in front. So the dominant vibration frequency of the compressor produced a wave at an even multiple of the length (or at wavelength) between the two houses and the pump, and they reflected and added up. Of course, the two reflecting houses didn't show as severe infrasound problems, because their walls directed to the center of the square the houses were arranged at were at a certain point of the wave cycle, while the "victim" house's wall was hit with the mirror image of the wave amplitude as originating at the pump.

Better arrange houses following Helmholtz' Law of frequency modes then...

Good idea, all in all. I use a water-heatpump myself for the home, but this is a different story, because i always have about 8-9°C water temperature down in 128 meters below the ground.
In contrast, these air-water pumps perform pretty well in environmental temperatures above -5° Celsius, but if you get below that, their efficiency is degrading.
Another problem: Infrasonic noise. Some people suffer from hum that is produced and resonating in walls and/or ceilings in the right distance (single or multiple wavelength of the hum frequency), i'd recommend some sort of anti-vibration mount, or placing the thing further away from the house, with a solid structure in between, down a hill for example.

My three cents.

Ah, we are arguing using nice, colorful pictures. Where have i seen that before?

On topic:
Yes, it helps (a bit), it's (a bit) better than without it.
But please, focus on the following pairs:

LV - RO

HR - SK

AT - SK

Note the differencies, especially the first two pairs, which are very similar in social/cultural aspects.
The vaccines are not the "end of the pandemic", as (my) government is pushing the narrative.

The death rate is not the only thing to look at.
Additionally, (imperfect) protection against spreading and infection is going to bongo figures  after three/six months and the vaccinated are considered "immune" (lol) for 9 or 12 months. The cream top is that "naturally immunized" are considered "immune" for six months, and these are protected stronger, longer and also have antibodies in the tissues of the upper respiration tract. Vaccines don't do this, and these are the tissues where SARS-CoV-2  is replicating fast (especially Delta) before it triggers tha later stages of immune reaction, which the vaccines are protecting against. Still, death and ICU rates among vaccinated are rising.
My government is trying to tell me: If everybody from age 5 to 99 gets forced to be jabbed, we're all free again. Until then, unvaxxed folks get locked down (allowed to go to work, of course). Tell me this is NOT stupid at all...

Interesting interview in the local news yesterday, where the "head of hospitals" of one province was asked how many vaccinated/unvaccinated patients are on hospitalization and on intensive care departments.
Answer (translated):


Government via MSM:

WTF is wrong with this pack of liars?

Bounce, bounce, bounce...
Tis the new sideways?

Let the MSM declare Bitcoin as dead again and enjoy the pump shortly after.
Well, futures about to expire on friday, we might go down moar, or maybe whale manipulations are directed in the other direction, this time (Up, up, up before expiry).
I threw out my last lump-sum-money for a fresh dip of corn, i'll sit back and watch the show.
Hodling isn't easy, but it's easy, you know?  

China did it first  
This will get really sick. In a country with a similar name, they are currently discussing the wildest ideas to realize "vaccination duty" laws.
You get checked by any authority, you're not vaxxed? Get fined! From $4000 once to monthly payments of roughly $120 until you're vaxxed.
However, it will be hard to accomplish this in the face of constitutional rights, and if they do, i have my signed notes ready for the trials.
They thought it would be so easy to win against a mutating, hulled virus that went pandemic, with a jab.
This is the fucking Real Muppet Show!