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basicplus2on ‘Stealth bailout’ shovels millions of dollars to oil companies

Yes! The trickle up effect..

MUCH more effective than the trickle down effect.

basicplus2on Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19

1. Time in Sun

2. Angle of Sun

3. Sufficient Cholesterol

Just 13 min and The time of day is critical.. the sun must be above 50' above horizon for UVB to penetrate the atmosphere to reach the skin. When your skin is exposed to sunlight, it makes vitamin D from cholesterol

https://theralightinc.com/best-time-to-get-vitamin-d-from-su...

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-from-sun#time...

basicplus2on Who Invented Radio: Guglielmo Marconi or Aleksandr Popov?

Marconi's Patents were denied as there was prior art by Nikola Tesla which predates Popov, so Nikola Tesla invented the radio.

basicplus2on Elon Musk is dangerously wrong about the novel coronavirus

It is simply in his financial interest to have everything back to normal as soon as possible...

It does not matter to him if he kills thousands of more people who would have otherwise lived due to over crowded hospitals, by spreading misinformation and convincing people to go back to their normal routines.

basicplus2on Collision Course: a type of road junction that is dangerous for cyclists (2018)

They could install at least two speed humps on approach, one, to disengage the blind spot and a second really large one to force cars to almost stop.

basicplus2on Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19

Just 13 min and The time of day is critical..

the sun must be above 50' above horizon for UVB to penetrate the atmosphere to reach the skin. When your skin is exposed to sunlight, it makes vitamin D from cholesterol

https://theralightinc.com/best-time-to-get-vitamin-d-from-su...

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-from-sun#time...

basicplus2on Instead of deleting account, NYT appends ‘1000’ to username and email address

"instead of actually deleting it, they simply appended '1000' to both the username and the email address. anyone could thus create an email address with that suffix and request a password request to access my info."

basicplus2on What Is Scuttlebutt?

-Patchwork-

(Windows, MacOS, Linux)

Standalone, beginner-friendly social view of Scuttlebutt.

Recommended for first-timers.

-Patchbay-

(Windows, MacOS, Linux)

Bleeding-edge, tab-based interface with experimental features.

-Manyverse-

(Android)

Off-grid mobile app, currently in beta.

-Patchfox-

(Firefox Add-on)

A new way to access Scuttlebutt packaged as a Web Extension for Firefox. Needs you to run sbot, or have Patchwork/Patchbay running.

https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/

basicplus2on Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too

How to tell if a drive is a shingled SMR drive...

it has TRIM support

https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/25185

basicplus2on A deep-sea creature spotted that is 150 feet long

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonophorae Siphonophores belong to the Cnidaria, a group of animals that includes the corals, hydroids, and true jellyfish. There are about 175 described species. Some siphonophores are the longest animals in the world, and specimens as long as 40 meters have been found. The majority of siphonophores are long and thin, consisting mostly of a clear gelatinous material.

http://www.siphonophores.org/index.php

Up-Close With a Siphonophore, a Colonial Organism | Nautilus Live

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeflgYWxyVI

basicplus2on The Cyclorotor

Cyclogyro images

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclogyro

http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/Rohrbach%20Cyclogyro.htm

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/299278337722455798/

basicplus2on World's longest animal discovered in Australian waters

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonophorae

Siphonophores belong to the Cnidaria, a group of animals that includes the corals, hydroids, and true jellyfish. There are about 175 described species. Some siphonophores are the longest animals in the world, and specimens as long as 40 meters have been found. The majority of siphonophores are long and thin, consisting mostly of a clear gelatinous material.

http://www.siphonophores.org/index.php

Up-Close With a Siphonophore, a Colonial Organism | Nautilus Live

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeflgYWxyVI

basicplus2on Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording

"The Synology forum poster said he called WD support to ask if the drive was an SMR or conventionally recorded drive..... the higher team contacted me back and informed me that the information I requested about whether or not the WD60EFAX was a SMR or PMR would not be provided to me. They said that information is not disclosed to consumers"

basicplus2on New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity

Plutonium IS toxic

Dominant mechanisms of toxicity are associated with alpha radiation

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp143.pdf

There is sufficient evidence in humans that inhalation of plutonium-239 aerosols causes lung cancer, liver cancer and bone sarcoma. Exposure to plutonium-239 also entails exposure to plutonium-240 and other isotopes. /Plutonium-239/

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/plutonium

basicplus2on We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

A Theory..

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-propose-a-mirror-uni...

basicplus2on Shortdot SA Registry Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP) Request for .ICU [pdf]

Nothing but spam from .icu domains

Ie what can be worse than a top level domain being owned/cobtrolled by a media company...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/a-...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1240290

https://domaingang.com/domain-crime/first-renewal-scam-spam-...

https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2019/08/icu-tld-i-see-you-s...

https://iphoneteile.com/153520/How-do-I-block-all-icu-domain...

https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/article/2019/2/22/receivi...

https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/article/2018/10/30/beware...

basicplus2on YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview

The answer is education.. we need free, comprehensive education for every person on the planet

basicplus2on What if I waste my time trying to learn programming?

Trades have apprentices perhaps computer programming should make use of apprenticeships as well

basicplus2on What it feels like to survive Covid-19’s dreaded “cytokine storm”

My understanding is, this cytokine storm is the big killer that defines who dies that would be expected not to die

"Increase of two serum cytokines may predict severity of COVID-19"...

http://www.ecns.cn/m/news/sci-tech/2020-02-18/detail-ifztrmv...

basicplus2on PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf]

A. Set I and D to zero

B. Adjust P for 1/4 wave damping , Adjust D to improve response , Adjust I to correct Offset

Repeat B. Repeat B. Repeat B. Repeat B. Repeat B. Repeat B. . . . .

basicplus2on Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account

if you don't have facebook you are still tracked by facebook from apps you use that track your activity for them.

The only way to interact with what they collect is to have a facebook account!

https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity

basicplus2on A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure from Covid-19

Sounds like a Cytokine Storm as the body's defense systems do all the damage

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294426/

basicplus2on Those with blood type A may be more vulnerable to Covid-19,according to a study

i was unable to find the paper but the article made no mention of the difference between the different A blood types.

ie Type A could be AA or AO

And should really mention differences between all blood types..

Type A (AA or AO) Type B (BB or BO) Type AB Type O (OO)

BB and BO

And OO

basicplus2on Corona Virus Tracker

too far out of date

basicplus2on The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing our privacy

Even worse, even if you don't have facebook you are still tracked by facebook from apps you use that track your activity for them.

The only way to interact with what they collect is to have a facebook account!

https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity

basicplus2on The Warby Parker clones are imploding

"Now, everyone is armed with the same millions of dollars in funding; they’re all targeting the same users, and they’re all driving each other’s marketing costs up. (Marketing software company AdStage analyzed its Facebook impressions data and found that the median cost-per-click for Facebook news feed ads has risen from $0.43 during the second quarter of 2018, to $0.64 during the second quarter of 2019.)"

Seems pretty expensive given very few clicks would result in any sale

basicplus2on The Octo-Bouncer

Yeh.. the scissors paper rock 100% winning rate.. robot is cheating.. every time its waiting till human has made a choice, easy to see in slow mo

Alternative is bunny carrot gun..

basicplus2on Covid-19 Fatalities Dashboard

and mobile version..

https://arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/85320e2ea54...

basicplus2on Melbourne professor quits after government pressure about reporting data breach

There needs to be Australian Standards developed that everyone must comply with to annonymise personal data

basicplus2on Stoosbahn Funicular, world's steepest, has a maximum gradient of 47.7 degrees

My old vw beetle was good for 48 degrees