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Quite the opposite, this was carefully planned. "Never let a good crisis go to waste."


If you like clever-sounding quotes in place of information, the obvious counter is: "Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence." -- Aurthur C. Clark


Intelligence agencies love that quote, since it helps them mask their malevolent actions under disguise of incompetence :)


Just follow the money and find your real enemy:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianpalmer/2022/11/04/oil-and-ga...


You can do that with an NFC-equipped Android phone and this app: https://github.com/johnzweng/bankomatinfos

It's also available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.zweng.bankomatinfos2/


Current phone: Samsung S10e (5.8" AMOLED, 142mm/5.6" long) and previous: Motorola Moto X 1st gen from 2013 (4.7" AMOLED, 129mm/5.09" long). Very happy with them. Both being flagship models (powerful CPU), the only drawback is shorter battery life than other phones.


I loved the original Moto X! It was one of the first true smart phones my wife and I purchased, and almost the best. It's a great balance of features and practicality that I wish a premium (or near-premium) phone would return. If there are any comparable current models, please let me know.

Hardware - Not premium, but a great combination of rugged, good looking, and practical. It was a pleasure to hold (and still was last time I pulled it out), with the soft, grippy, rubber back and "just right" size. Removeable battery was a plus.

Software - Lots of nice little touches by Motorola. I wish Google integrated more of them when they bought Motorola, like the "double flick" to turn on the flashlight. One of the first with lock screen notifications in white.


Some red flags for me:

* needs email to download

* needs email to start

* spammy email subject with unicode fire in front (lost in HN): " You've been invited to Fig!"

* using trackers in email and app

* macOS only


You associate it with spam because spam uses effective subjects. There are a handful of effective subject forms that are used in essentially every email campaign and transactional email, and a sharp drop off to a long tail of subjects that people ignore.


Whoa! That's enough showstoppers for me. Where did you switch to?

When Ubuntu dropped 32-bit support, I relatively easily switched my old 32-bit netbook from Ubuntu to Debian (by changing the sources and some manual fiddling with packages). OTOH, I'm using Fedora on my work computer, just for the fun of it, and I'm really satisfied with it.


I generally use arch now because I like tinkering. If I didn't I'd probably use either debian or fedora.


Not sure official Mozilla PPA is going to ship debs.


Makes it easy then, simply ignore Mozilla. It's not like there are no alternatives.


> Canonical and Mozilla are working together to make the firefox snap the only supported package in Ubuntu, thus deprecating the deb package in the archive.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/19620...


Also in that thread:

> This was ultimately Mozilla's decision as part of the redistribution agreement. Mozilla could have just pulled it from being redistributed at all. This was the only way they were willing to allow Firefox to be redistributed as part of Ubuntu.

which seems at least odd (if not contradictory), given that Mozilla and Linux Mint have partnered to distribute Firefox as deb package, compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30777066 .


I can add https://blokada.org/ to the "Mobile" section.


Scientists are not sure whether those side-effects come from the dying parasites or the ivermectin itself:

"Ivermectin is well tolerated compared to other microfilaricidal agents (i.e., thiabendazole, diethylcarbamazine). Adverse reactions (i.e., pruritus, fever, rash, myalgia, headache) occur commonly during the first 3 days after treatment and appear to be related to the extent of parasitic infection and systemic mobilization and killing of microfilariae. The majority of reactions can usually be treated with aspirin, acetaminophen and/or antihistamines. Adverse effects tend to occur with lesser frequency during periods of retreatment." Source: https://www.drugs.com/sfx/ivermectin-side-effects.html

If you read this list of side-effects, Aspirin also looks as scary as ivermectin: https://www.drugs.com/sfx/acetylsalicylic-acid-side-effects....

BTW: "BNF is only available in the UK

The NICE British National Formulary (BNF) site is only available to users in the UK, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories."


I am not sure how people do not have even slightest intuition about overdosing something. There are quite strict limits to everyday over the counter medicine. For example you should not take more than 1000 mg of paracetamol at time and not more than 4000 mg a day. Would the same people who think that it is normal to take 5 times in a row the dosage that is mostly prescribed for several months also take 20000 mg of paracetamol when somebody claims that it will cure covid?


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