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https://twitter.com/SEBUTHEWORLD/status/1434872665836335108Cryptocurrency aka Bitcoin/Dogecoin/etc : what am I not understanding ?
I think I have the basic concepts correct. You can use it, instead of USD or euros etc to pay bills, buy legal stuff, buy illegal stuff or "simply preserve your privacy". El Salvador is now the first country to recognize it as legal tender.
Call me hopelessly out of date, but... I don't feel any motivation to use it. I am not that worried about my privacy and I don't buy anything illegal. I know if you "buy low, sell high" you can make a fortune off bitcoin, as some have.
What am I missing ? I have read the stories that the Fed and the Euro Central Bank have contemplated also making it a fiat currency, if I am using the correct term.
Thanks in advance. Trying to get educated. Usually people here know the scoop.
Steve
New Studies Find Evidence Of 'Superhuman' Immunity To COVID-19 In Some Individuals
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/07/1033677208/new-studies-find-evidence-of-superhuman-immunity-to-covid-19-in-some-individuals"Overall, hybrid immunity to SARS-CoV-2 appears to be impressively potent," Crotty wrote in commentary in Science back in June.
No matter what you call it, this type of immunity offers much needed good news in what seems like an endless array of bad news regarding COVID-19.
Over the past several months, a series of studies has found that some people mount an extraordinarily powerful immune response against SARS-CoV-2. Their bodies produce very high levels of antibodies, but they also make antibodies with great flexibility — likely capable of fighting off the variants of coronavirus circulating in the world but also likely effective against variants that may emerge in the future.
Lincoln Project: "Join the herd. Talk to your doctor today if you think Ivermectin is right for you"
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1435211251131506688Authorities race to contain deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kerala-nipah-virus-india-outbreak-deaths/The boy was admitted to a hospital a week ago with high fever. As his condition worsened and doctors suspected inflammation of his brain (encephalitis), his blood samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology, where tests confirmed a Nipah infection. He died early on Sunday.
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There is no cure or vaccine for Nipah yet, and patients are only given supportive medical care.
According to the World Health Organization, up to 75% of Nipah infections prove fatal. The mortality rate for the coronavirus, by comparison, is believed to be about 2%. About 20% of survivors experience neurological symptoms that can persist, including seizures and personality changes.
Compare to Ebola virus, whose most current fatality rate is 55%, per Johns Hopkins https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ebola/myth_versus_reality.html
Let's hope the Indian government hustles and gets this under control quickly.
Kitty helpfully gets the mail !
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1434606458100912134"A lot of people may be confused about Texas and why the women don't just use birth control..."
https://twitter.com/RancidGinger/status/1434557502272724995A lot of people may be confused about Texas and why the women don’t just use birth control, so I’d like to talk about my personal experience in this state to give some insight; first of all, Texas teaches abstinence only sex education. Purity culture reigns supreme.
long thread, continued here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1434557502272724995.html
Rest of thread:
The idea is that if you have sex as a female you are unclean and lose your worth in the eyes of male suitors, and god. Your dad may even take you to purity balls where you promise him, in a room full of other dads, not to have sex with any man until you’re married.
You may be thinking that this sounds like a period piece, some movie set in the 1500’s depicting how women should behave, until they are sold into marriage by their father. Honestly, this is very much a holdover from that era. Our religious indoctrination will also enforce this.
The high school/ middle school Bible study classes will be divided by sex, this is the first time our classes aren’t coed. The female classes are heavily reliant on the ideals of being sexually chaste. How birth control is basically for dirty women. Good girls don’t have sex.
Our middle school will have actors come on stage during assembly meetings to rap (yes literally rap) about not having sex and waiting for marriage because of god. The girls who have sex are depicted as worthless.
From almost every angle, our sexuality is demonized, our education, our religion, and our parents… the only people not demonizing our sexuality is boys, and older male creeps. They pressure us relentlessly. They aren’t educated on birth control, and they aren’t ashamed.
The coercion, begging, pressure, and eventual sexual assault are part of a purity culture female’s right of passage. TW: rape. My first boyfriend begged to just be able to touch it, and after days of begging and fighting him off of me I finally allowed him to.
He escalated the situation, soon he inside me with me crying, begging him to stop, until he completed inside of me, and apologized. I ran to the bathroom, and punched myself in the stomach, scared I was pregnant, and everyone would know I was unclean. I was 13.
I knew it was all my fault, I tempted him, I allowed him to touch me, I should have left, I should have fought harder, I should have dressed more conservatively. Based on my education, I internalized my own sexual assault. I clung to him after that. You’d think I’d leave, but no.
See I was taught that because I had sex, no other man would want me. David had to be my husband, David had to stay with me no matter what. Even after he raped me, repeatedly. Even after he cheated on me. Even after he got addicted to drugs.
Even after I found stories about grooming and raping minors on his computer. I thought I could fix him, I thought I could save him. I told his parents expecting them to help me save him, but they denied he had ever done anything wrong, and accused me of corrupting him.
Eventually, I ended up attempting suicide. In the hospital one of my friends visited me and showed me David’s online journal, where he chronicled everything he had done to me, and more importantly how funny it was to him.
The last line was “I don’t know why I can’t just let her go, it’s not because I love her, I guess it’s just because she’s so stupid she always comes back.”
I finally left him after that. I decided I’d rather be alone forever than stay with him.
I was released from the hospital and the next day sold his game systems to game stop, where I met a nice guy, who was interested in me. I finally realized I had been lied to, and that men will find you attractive, even if you have had sex.
It wasn’t until I was in my 20’s that I realized how much trauma purity culture had put me through. I put all of the blame on David, and myself, for years. The truth is that the system was never designed to stop girls from having sex…
It was to shame them and punish them when they did. The goal wasn’t to stop teenage pregnancy, the goal was to control, subjugate, and demonize us. The goal was to make us internalize misogyny and loathe ourselves.
How many school classes teach boys not to rape, not to beg, not to cause damage? None. How many classes taught us how to use birth control, and gave it away for free? None. How many parents helped us to accept safe sex and an alternative? None.
All of the pressure is on young, impressionable female children. They are brainwashed. They are submerged in a culture that breaks them down. And now, they will be forced to carry shame pregnancies to term. They will be forced to raise babies when they are babies themselves.
Innocence lost forever…
eta: for what it's worth, I invited Jessica to join us in the discussion.
Oscar de la Hoya withdraws from comeback bout as he fights COVID-19 infection
https://abc7.com/oscar-de-la-hoya-covid-vitor-belfort-evander-holyfield/10996793/LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Oscar de la Hoya has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not fight Vitor Belfort next weekend.
De la Hoya had planned a comeback to the ring with a fight on Sept. 11 at Staples Center after more than a decade away.
But the boxer posted a video to Instagram from his hospital bed, saying even though he's been vaccinated he is struggling with a COVID-19 infection.
"What are the chances of me getting COVID?" he says in the video. "I've been taking care of myself. This really, really kicked my ass."
Dog owner who found vacuum destroyed left in stitches after checking camera footage
(do not worry, the dog is OK. "Left in stitches" refers to the laughing owner. Video at link)
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/dog-owner-who-found-vacuum-24900430
A dog owner who found her vacuum cleaner destroyed was left stunned after checking footage from the security cameras in her home.
TikTok user Gabrielldennis came home to find her Roomba robot vacuum out for the count just inside the front door, having left her two dogs home alone with the device.
In a bid to discover what had happened, she checked the footage from the dog cameras she has set up in her home and shared the hilarious video online, racking up an incredible 33.6 million views so far.
It shows one of the dogs keenly watching out of a window, while another relaxes on the floor with the smart vacuum cleaner going about its job close by.
Curious whale pushes paddleboard, plays with human on it: video
(video at link, refresh the page if you need to)
https://abc7chicago.com/paddle-boarder-and-whale-southern-right-whales-pushes-paddleboard-argentina/10994578/
PUERTO MADYRN. Argentina -- As the migration season of the Southern Right Whales gets underway in the Argentine Patagonia locals and visitors are thrilled by the curious animals coming ever closer to shore.
On Tuesday, a rare encounter was caught on video when a Southern Right Whale seemingly plays with a woman on a paddleboard and pushes the board gently forward observing its movement as it swims directly beneath it.
"They are rare moments, it is something that is prohibited," said Oscar Comes, a local watersports tourism operator. "It isn't like you can go in a kayak, standup board, a boat, or whatever, to look for the animal."
According to Marcos Grosso, Puerto Madryn's Tourism Secretary, more than 1,600 specimens have come near the city's shores so far.
eta: link with Spanish text and language but same subject
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