ANTARKTIS STUTZPUNKT 211

 www.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/

Today’s draconian lockdown and unprecedented violations of civil liberties have been justified on the grounds of a flawed computer model from the Imperial College London that predicted deaths totaling in the tens of millions. To boost such claims, these scientists, as well as journalists hungry for sensation, asserted that “50 to 100 million” had died in the 1918 Spanish Flu, which supposedly endured 18 months and longer.

As someone who studied the 1918 influenza during the course of my senior thesis (on U.S. foreign policy) at Cornell University in 1989/90, I quickly realized that the 50 to 100 million death figure was dubious; but I was curious as to where it came from. So, I went back to review the historical material — old newspapers, private letters, scholarly articles and monographs, as well as online archives [...]

https://jdvaroli.medium.com/rethinking-4-popular-notions-about-the-1918-spanish-flu-374a45a9030f

вот здесь https://basis211.dreamwidth.org/697703.html

Возьмет еще и от этой "вакцины" и кони двинет. Вот это будет поворот...

[ ничего не понимаю в языках но все равно забавно]

Clive Thompson:

There are an estimated 240 billion lines of COBOL out there, and they're the backbone of your financial life — 95% of the time when you swipe your bank card, there's COBOL involved, and every night when the work-day is over, the massive mainframe farms of big banks leap into action, using COBOL to balance the day's books.

Why is COBOL — which debuted in 1969 — still so crucial to everyday life? The online finance magazine Wealthsimple asked me to write about that, so I talked to tons of COBOL folks, including some programmers who wrote bank routines in the 1980s that are still being used today — they're long retired, in their 70s, and their banks still call them up to ask them to maintain the stuff.

There are lots of reasons COBOL's still around, but one that's intriguing is that three-decade-old code is stable as hell. You have code in production that long, it's been debugged within an inch of its life; and they've had decades to tweak the compilers — which turn the COBOL into instructions for the machine — for massive efficiency.

This turns the new-new-thing hype of Silicon Valley on its head, of course. It's a sector obsessed with the hottest, latest thing — but as any programmer can tell you, the hottest, latest thing that just got shipped at 2 am is gonna be a rickety kluge of buggy code. That old COBOL, though? In service since the days of early MTV? It's tough as old boots.

Remember the hype cycle this spring about how unemployment systems in various US states — pounded with new demand by COVID unemployment — couldn't keep up with demand? The culprit, state officials said, was COBOL: Those antique systems just couldn't keep up!

That was nonsense. The stuff that was breaking was all the newer code:

В мкхкхросхофтхе в каком-то ихнем отделе собрались ихние мощные умы выстроить в очередной раз сложную американскую систему KPI и всяких там мотиваций и тому подобное. Обсуждают и вдруг девушка - француженка говорит:
- а почему не сделать как во Франции?
(все) как?
(девушка) - у всех одинаковая зарплата!

(если я бы присутствовал я вспомнил бы про гильотины, конечно, не удержался бы)) но вот поэтому меня наверно в микросхофтх и не возьмут, ха ха ха)

"Darkness hovers above us. You can feel it, but you cannot see it. A God has been summoned. The Cancel God. The Cancel God wants to cancel you. It wants to cancel everyone you know,. It wants to cancel humanity itself."

1189: The Massacre of the Jews at the coronation of Richard I
1196: William with the long beard causes riots when he preaches for the poor against the rich
1221: Riots occur after London defeats Westminster in an annual wrestling contest; ring leaders hanged or mutilated in punishment.[1][2]
1268: Rioting between goldsmiths and tailors[2][3]
1340: Fishmongers riot with Skinners after a Skinner murders a Fishmonger's servant, Ralph Turk.[4]
1391: Riots break out in Salisbury Place over a baker's loaf[2]
1517: Evil May Day riot against foreigners takes place
1668: Bawdy House Riots took place following repression of a series of attacks against brothels[5]
1710: Sacheverell riots, following the trial of the preacher, Henry Sacheverell
1719: Spitalfields weavers rioted, attacking women wearing Indian clothing and then attempting to rescue their arrested comrades[6]
1743: Riots against Gin Taxes and other legislation to control the Gin Craze, principally the Gin Act 1736; rioting was fuelled by consumption of the drink itself[7]
1768: The Massacre of St George's Fields after the imprisonment of John Wilkes for criticizing the King
1769: The Spitalfield riots when silk weavers attempted to maintain their rate of pay
1780: Gordon riots against Catholics
1788: The notorious Westminster by-election held in the summer of 1788 resulting in 2 deaths and more than 40 injured.[8]
1809: Old Price Riots, 1809 following a rise in the price of theatre tickets
1816: Spa Fields riots, Spenceans met in support of the common ownership of land
1830: Attacks against the Duke of Wellington in his carriage and on his home, for his opposition to electoral reform (which had been seen partly as a solution to rioting by rural workers).
1866: a riot took place in Hyde Park after a meeting of the Reform League was declared illegal
1886: The West End Riots followed a counter-demonstration by the Social Democratic Federation against a meeting of the Fair Trade League.[9]
1887: Bloody Sunday, a demonstration against coercion in Ireland and to demand the release from prison the MP William O'Brien
1907: The Brown Dog riots, medical students attempt to tear down an anti-vivisection statue.
1919: The Battle of Bow Street, Australian, American and Canadian servicemen rioted against the Metropolitan Police
1932: The National Hunger March ended in rioting after the police confiscated the petition of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement
1936: The Battle of Cable Street saw rioting against the Metropolitan Police as they attempted to facilitate a march by the British Union of Fascists
1958: Notting Hill race riots between White British and West Indian immigrants.
1968: Rioting outside the United States Embassy in Grosvenor Square in opposition to the Vietnam War.
1974: Red Lion Square disorders happened following a march by counter-fascists against the National Front.
1976: Riots during the Notting Hill Carnival.
1977: The Battle of Lewisham occurred when the Metropolitan Police attempted to facilitate a march by the National Front[10]
1979: Southall riots during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration in opposition to the National Front.
1981: Brixton riot against the Metropolitan Police. Especially on 10 July, rioting extended to other parts of London and numerous other cities around the UK[11]
1985: Brixton riot against the Metropolitan Police after they shot the mother of suspect Michael Groce
1985: Broadwater Farm riot, residents of Tottenham riot against the Metropolitan Police following a death during a police search
1990: Poll Tax riots followed the introduction of a poll tax
1993: Welling riots, October 1993.[12] A march organised by the ANL,[13][14] the SWP and Militant resulted in riots against the Metropolitan police.[12][note 1]
1994: Riot during the second march against the Criminal Justice Bill
1995: 1995 Brixton riot against the Metropolitan Police occurred after a death in police custody
1996: Rioting in Trafalgar Square and surrounding streets following England losing against Germany in the semi-final of UEFA Euro 1996
1999: Carnival Against Capitalism riot
2000: Anti-capitalist May Day riot[18]
2001: May Day riot in central London by anti-capitalist protestors.[19]
2002: Rioting around The New Den stadium following Millwall F.C. losing against Birmingham City F.C. in the 2002 Football League Division One play-off.
2009: G-20 London summit protests occurred in the days around the G-20 summit.
2009: Upton Park riot before, during and after a 2009–10 Football League Cup second round match between West Ham United F.C. and Millwall F.C..
2010: UK student protests against increases in student fees and public sector cuts.
2011: anti-cuts protest in London against government public spending cuts.
2011: England riots, initially in London, following the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham
2017: rioting outside Forest Gate police station following the Death of Edson Da Costa.

либо этак, либо уж совсем вот так, сommon sense отменен, бох умер, и сами понимаете, пора сломать все стулья

Reddit Co-Founder Resigns, Says Company Must Replace Him With a Black Candidate

может лучше просто перестать принимать в ментовку слабоумных??

подумал о том, что золотой стандарт в 1971 году уничтожили таки республиканцы. То есть это давным давно знал но как-то никогда не задумывался. Сам вопрос сложный, плохо ли это было или хорошо, в общем-то какая разница, во-первых, назад уже не вернешь, а во-вторых у решения как обычно были и светлые и темные стороны.

А все же по ощущением это как-то не "по-республикански" и уж тем более не консервативно народно православно и не "право". Месседж, в общем-то, такой: "те из вас, кто думал что все всерьез, те ошибались, ребята, к добру или ко злу но теперь наши деньги - мутная бумага, обеспеченная какими-то сложными политиками, учетными ставками, производствами и импортом-экспортом а если проще - то алхимией, которой вам, тупым колхозникам, не понять".

Объективно это, конечно, был один из шагов к окончательному превращению всяких современных "государств", "партий" и там блять "консерваторов" и "прогрессистов", правых и левых, в фикцию и симулякр. Чем они, собственно, и являлись отчасти с самого начала, но чем дальше, тем.

Заодно в симуляцию медленно, но верно, просто более извилистыми путями будут превращены и деньги, например, и культура с наукой и образованием.

Деньги, я уверен, многие это чвствуют, уже не покупают того же, что еще лет 20-30 назад, и я говорю вовсе не об инфляции. Впрочем, черт его знает, может быть если очень много то покупают. С культурой дела еще хуже, образование и наука - может быть, тоже не мне судить, но похоже что все печально.