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Yeah, bitcoin is inherently flawed in that respect, but there are a number of other cryptocurrencies (eg. Monero) that are looking to fill that gap. Many of those can then be easily converted to bitcoin. It's a work in progress, but thing have come a long way even in the last few years. The...

Pleroma seems like the best Twitter replacement out there, since it's a federated system of interlinked servers and therefore a lot more resilient to Google / Apple or AWS fuckery. Gab and Parler don't seem to have learned the lesson that a centralized service is an easy target for...

Basically in previous legislation, they said that the government could amend the list of restricted / prohibited firearms through the Canadian equivalent of an executive order. It was in the works for a while, as it was part of Trudeau's last election platform, but the Nova Scotia mass shooting...

My understanding is that after use, you can seal a mask in an airtight bag and leave it for a week or so, after which it should be safe to reuse (less time at a higher temperature). So really, you should be able to get by with a handful of masks, assuming only occasional errands.

I mostly agree with this, but I think it's a bit unrealistic to expect people to wear masks even when with members of their household. For people with a spouse and/or kids, that means wearing a mask most of the time, even when at home. That's a much bigger ask than encouraging people to wear a...

Even assuming that's the case, from a community health perspective, that's pretty useful. The majority of cases seem to have minimal or zero symptoms, and those are the people more likely to continue going about their business rather than self-isolating. The more people wearing masks in public...

Kiwifarms? They don't give a shit about politics. They just got a laugh out of him obsessively rambling on their forum while making no attempt to follow the forum rules, resulting in them finding all of the various crazy shit Train Dodger has posted over the years. The forum was founded to...

He made an account on Kiwifarms under the pseudonym "Drain Todger" and continued his obsessive NCOV theorizing, so they doxed him in about 30 seconds. This post sums it up well: Here's a link to the thread.

Yeah, we certainly don't have the mask-wearing culture of some Asian countries, but some people wearing masks ought to be better than none. And a surprising number of people are, at least in the DC area. I went to a grocery store the other day, and eyeballing it, roughly a third of the people I...

The question: In what contexts are masks effective for preventing and containing the Wuhan Flu? We've all seen the various public statements made by the surgeon general, WHO, and CDC stating that Americans generally should not be wearing masks in day to day life. However, a number of experts...

The Kennedy Center, which successfully lobbied the Dems to get $25 million in pork put into the stimulus bill to protect jobs, has decided to lay off hundreds of employees anyways.

"We chugged aquarium cleaner to prevent the Wu Flu, it's Trump's fault!" These people deserve their Darwin Award. I'm honestly not surprised though, the media is hitting new lows with recent coronavirus stories. Maddow is still repeating the (repeatedly debunked) claim that Trump called...

The narrative shifts in real-time as the Dems block the coronavirus stimulus bill in the Senate:

The memes coming out of this are great:

Isn't the NDP struggling to stay ahead of the Green party? Realistically, their best shot is to end up as kingmaker in a minority situation where they can influence policy. I think Trudeau's shot at a majority definitely took a hit today though.