Huh?
1. Haven't they seen the latest numbers from London?
Omicron is cutting through the vaccinated like a hot knife through butter.

2. Omicron is not reported to be "milder".
...but it seems to lead to less hospitalization/intensive care rates.

3. Omicron is replicating primarily in different tissues than Delta.
This means the bodies LOCAL immune response (coughing, sneezing) will be more effective in combating of most of the viral load.

4. Boosters work, but not at the early stages of infection.
This means spreading the virus by vaccinated people is still a treat.

5. Boosters work NOW, (EDIT: In the Lab!). But what about 3, 6, 9 or 12 months later?
Decreasing immunity is a known issue.

6. Secondary effects (a.k.a. network effects) are not even looked at.
Imagine millions over millions of symptomatic infections in the population, more or less simultaneously. Regardless of how mild the symptoms are, the effect of too many people getting sick at the same time has the power to bring the system to its knees.

I can't fucking believe that so called EXPERTS are not looking at these aspects, clearly seen in other places of the world, with the UK as a current example.
Seems like the USA will be fucked over again by the incompetence of their leaders.
*Omicron silently chuckling in the background*

Over here in Europe, we are only a few weeks ahead. Watch what happens in January.
Can't stop to SMH, really.

1418 of which the vast majority suffered from medical preconditions or were smokers and/or obese.

Sure, there are more severe cases with Delta, also in younger populations, but there were also key factors identified.
So whats the problem?
Politics don't give a fuck about the reasons behind those numbers. They want simple and fast solutions, being overconfident in medical technology regards.

They should protect the vulnerable, get them to vaccinate, and leave the rest alone, so the virus can spread and mutate to "just a flu" level, which the Omicron variant seems to be. If science proves Omicron to be light enough, everybody should get infected by it, worldwide and case closed - which is what vaccines are claimed to accomplish, though, but look at the numbers... (like you already did).

I won't get vaxxed. I will get infected. As long as i feel endangered enough, i will wear the mask, i will limit my social life, i will distance myself - which is proven to work as well as vaccination, AT LEAST. But i will not play any role in this vaxxing mania the MSM and fuckdumb politics started.
Yes, it's true: If a majority of people in panic mode wants to enforce a minority to go along, you can expect full damage in the end. History is delivering a lot of examples.
And the majority clearly is in panic mode since that Covid19 shit started.

It might be instructive, indeed. They rose to power on the back of a frustrated population devastated by decades of economic turmoil by promising them to fight against traditional banking elites and an all-powerful Jewish conspiracy threatening to destroy their nation from within through Marxism and decadent gender ideology. While campaigning, they portrayed themselves as the sole defenders of free speech, under attack for speaking truth to power.  Sounds exactly like the people pushing vaccine passports, amirite?

In Nuremberg, Germany, there is a massive building called the "Congress Hall". This intimidating, colosseum-inspired Nazi building stands next to the former Party rally grounds, where the Nazis held their massive 100K+ people gatherings before WWII. It was to be used just once a year, for one speech delivered by Hitler standing in a precise spot where the sunlight would illuminate him in a way that would appear to be divine. Due to the outbreak of WWII it wasn't finished.



Today it houses a museum with a permanent exhibition called "fascination and terror" which documents the Nazis' rise to power from their humble beginnings in the early 20s to the brink of WWII. A visit to this museum is mandatory to all German school children and all German soldiers. Because the Germans understand full well that to fight ideologies such as Nazism, it is vital to combat historical illiteracy which is fucking rampant in this goddamn thread! A vocal minority in this thread would do well to go see the reality of how Nazis rose to power and what they did with that power instead of parroting talking points about how vaccine passports are literally stars of David. You can always change your vaccine status. To the Nazis, you could never stop being a Jew. I can't believe I have to explain this.

Just because you are criticising the government, doesn't mean you are a free thinker or correct. What a colossal waste of intellectual capacity on full display.

Good morning.
"Nebelwerfer" is rrrong.  
It's a rocket/grenade launcher named after its inventor's last name (Nebel).

What you are looking for is "Nebelmittelwurfanlage" or "Nebelwurfanlage".

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelmittelwurfanlage

How do you say "smoke grenade launcher" in German?
Don't ask.

Did she actually ever do something for Amazon or was she indeed just "an investor"?

It reminds me of the Eddie Murphy Raw skit of a wife making a dollar and then wanting half of $50 million in a divorce.

Fuck that shit.
The girlfriend I have now wants a prenup because she knows I will never go along with ridiculous 50% figures if we were to marry and then divorce.

Care to explain your reasoning why a system like POS can't work? (genuinely interested)

Such woud seem the fundamental dichotomy, yes.


Not today. Certainly, it is well within the purview of insubstantial computers with good internet connections to do so for BSV today. At some time in the future, yes. Hobbyists will end up dropping off.

But that is not A Bad Thing. I mean, it's a tradeoff. Sure, its... nice if everyone is trivially able to validate the chain. But at what price? Demonstrably, so-called second layer solutions were not ready in time to stave off Blockalypse I. Nearly four years later, they still are not ready to stave off a potential Blockalypse II. (Of course, with none of the second layer solutions of which I am aware transacting on chain, they are completely invisible to the so-called 'validators' anyhow, though that's a separate discussion.)

But perhaps more germane... Humanity muddled along for one or two dozen thousand years with no discernible increase in standard of living. It is only in the last few centuries when specialization of labor has allowed us to rise out of the muck of scarcity into a stratified realm of (relative) abundance. Do you insist on developing and building your own automobile?  How about a semiconductor chip? Do you think everyone should design their own computer? Build their own fab to crank out the chips? One only need refer to the seminal essay 'I, Pencil' to see the folly therein. Why would the maintenance of the financial system be the one thing that is the enforced domain of the lowest common denominator?

I say they should not. The system should grow to accommodate demand. Those that are good at validation will remain validators. That are not will fall by the wayside, and find other things to do. Things more matched to their unique set of gifts. There is nothing wrong -- and everything right -- with that.


B does not follow A. At least not without an explanation as to how A necessarily leads to B.

Coinbase is not bitcoin, and bitcoin is not crypto.... so you do seem to be muddying some of the concepts, Tuco Benedicto Pacifico, which may also thereby lead you into reading too much into one company in the space planning to go public... Bitmain was going to do something similar, and it ended up not going through.. This coinbase situation might have some better chances, who knows..? we will see.

Coinbase readies landmark stock market listing, sources say
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-cryptocurrency-exchange-coinbase-readies-133036956.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(slang)
cry room = safe room

huh linky no worky try and copy/paste this into the addy bar as the trailing parenthesis seems to mess it up.

Well, something happened. Some buy orders got filled.