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this is a central component of our existing legal foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Big_M_Drug_Mart_Ltd

this has already been ruled unconstitutional repeatedly and i would stand in solidarity with businesses that defy this order and stay open. ...

alright, ontario. let's see a show of force against fascism, here. this is not constitutional, and it's not evidence-based. it's...

well, this is nice to see, anyways - taking advantage of a crisis in a good way. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2020/03/29/toronto-homeless-cor...

i'm not a park person myself, but i'd challenge you to present me any actual science that suggests this is in any way dangerous to ...

the next review is march 5th/6th. as mentioned, i don't think i need to go for groceries immediately on the 31st. if i can get the mas...

this is a review of the bummer/buildings show at ufo on feb 24, 2020. what do you do when you plan around going to two concerts within a...

this is a review of the man or astroman show at el club on feb 24, 2020. this is another show that i instantly realized i had to get to, w...

it's a good analogy. deal with it.

flattening the curve, indeed.

no, listen. if they're at 10%, it's unstoppable; you give into your arrogance, like you should have in the first place, you prote...

nono, let's be rigorous about this. i'm not claiming that it must be immunity. don't misrepresent me; i'm a clear writ...

again: if there's 11,000 dead and the fatality rate is 0.001 then there's 11 million infected people.  ok, you want a fatality rate ...

the teksavvy site claims i downloaded 13 gb yesterday.... this is wrong. clearly.

it's time to take a scalpel to windows 7 and slipstream as many fixes as is possible. soon. https://www.nliteos.com/download.html

my understanding is that the spike of cases in montreal is, again, due to people refusing to stop their religious rituals. these are the pro...

alright. my hair is absolutely terrible from sitting inside for weeks. it's just so dry in here, and that's pretty much the worst ...

what did i do today? i was done eating around 13:00 and got a response from my isp, explaining that the extra bandwidth must be due to a...

i've been online since the mid 90s, and i've never really experienced it without an adblocker. over the last few months, i've be...

this is absolutely hilarious. what year is it? 1920? fuck. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-bars-nightclubs-and-cannabis...

this is the grim reality that's playing out across the continent, as governments chase foolish strategies to collectivize the suffering,...

just let me eat & shower, first.

i will  be getting some more ram for the 90s laptop.  but, for now, it's just too slow to be functional, even as a split gateway. so, i...

so, i've found a work around to this that should increase my productivity dramatically. i did a last run through february, and found som...

the 90s laptop is locked down, but the restrictions on it are also apparent. so, am i giving up on this horribly busted 7 install? i wa...

so, that means i'm inside for another day. i think i have enough food to last another week, if it has to. i really don't want to lea...

so, i finally got the isp to escalate. and, that means i'm going to give them a few more hours to figure it out before i rip the lines a...

this could conceivably actually be a major breakthrough, if i can physically locate and dismantle a splitter in the line. i've been comp...

"you only get 700 kb/s download speed?" i don't download anything! i'm 39 years old, and i look like i'm 23, but i thi...

well, why else would the cops come in here when i'm gone and mess with my internet? they installed something . the data suggests that wh...

i have a 6 mbit/s maximum limit, which is about 750 kb/sec. in practice, i get something more like 700 on average. the data from 2:00-8:00 i...

do you know what the usage stats are on the teksavvy website for the 28th? 35 gb downloaded. who downloads 35 gb in 24 hours? i would need t...

so, i'm on the 90s laptop, running firefox 24 on windows xp with 256 mb of ram. i wonder if that's upgradeable... yes. i can take ...

to be clear: i am not uploading files anywhere right now. if i was uploading music or books anywhere, i would post the links. the only thing...

i had this on all day today, and you can see the dramatic difference in what is being sent to me v. what i'm requesting: wan: 3076719 / ...

so, i napped this evening. i guess i needed some rest. i'm going to try to get to work, now. for a bit, anyways. let's check my usag...

this is an example of mutual aid - you help somebody when they need it, and they help you in return. scheer is an idiot. https://www.cbc.ca/...

michigan has a population of roughly 10 million, and 110 deaths last i checked. canada has a population approaching 40 million, more co...

is social distancing working in bc? well, i don't see anything flattening. but, all the reports i've seen out of bc are about how ev...

what do i do? everything's closed. and, if i march down the street, they're just going to put me in jail. this  is the best i can do...

they could theoretically overrule section 2. but, i've been clear to point out that i oppose these policies because they aren't evid...

they can't even override this with the notwithstanding clause. it's a complete affront against the rule of law. https://en.wikipedia...

rights to assembly are under attack. so, what do we do? stand up, fight back. rights to free movement are under attack. so, what do we do? s...

i was hoping that i could get out around the side of the house to find the splitter or transformer this morning, but then i noticed it was r...

for those of you that cannot project images from data on your own, and i know it's most of you, and i'm not trying to be smug, this ...

"we need strict rules to keep us safe from the virus" yeah, that's what hitler and every other fascist, ever, said - just repl...

and, who enforces it? a team of brownshirts? do you get the conductor or driver to beat the passenger up if they argue? it's the worst k...

i sneeze a lot; i tell people i'm allergic to nitrogen, and nobody ever gets the joke. although, somebody once asked me before i took a ...

these 1000 year floods are becoming yearly events up the st lawerence, and the ottawa, as well. floods. diseases. authoritarian governments....

well, it's at least consistent.  the science has never upheld banning international travel, and i've demonstrated this point repeate...

i am shutting down though now...

yeah. i'm convinced of the nature of the problem, and i'm convinced that the isp isn't taking it seriously, so i'm going to ...

the isp has me logged at 14gb total usage yesterday, including 1.61 down/.19 up when i had the modem disconnected overnight. my exact total ...

you're going to see a lot of dying elderly people in michigan in the next few weeks, and they're going to blame it on everything and...

stop. were gretchen whitmer's policies effective in slowing the spread of the virus? no, they weren't, were they. did i tell you tha...

and, there's no such thing as "central europe".

are the czechs eastern or western? well, it's the sudetenland. obviously. sarcasm aside, hitler was actually making sort of a v...

i'm just closing down tabs. in all fairness, the united states is not the size of any country in europe. italy, the uk and france e...

the 90s laptop is  functioning. it's slow, and i might uninstall some plugins, but it works. there is no wireless in this device, s...

my off the cuff calculation suggests there's probably closer to 100,000 cases in michigan right now.

again: this is what you have to do, however slowly it's actually getting across. 1. suppression.  2. mitigation. 3. adaptation. https://...

the president should allow the declaration, send the money and point fingers afterwards - being incompetent in her response to the crisis is...

this is truly insane. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/clinical-trials-begin-week-york-coronavirus-treatments-health/story?id=69817703

some clear thinking. good. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/us-now-top-site-of-corona-infections-as-a-control-plan-emerges/

it's a time buying mechanism - it's not a vaccine and it's not a cure, and this blood is a finite resource that you can't ma...

so, you want some solidarity?  i've got plenty of it. and, i have a lot of it for those that are dealing with institutions that are tryi...

if you're old or have aids or something that's one thing. but if you're a healthy young person then cowering in fear inside...

mr. torvalds seems to be more concerned about presenting tips about how to work from home (something he understands) than presenting his vie...

i mean, talk about a surreal twist of irony. here we are in 2020 and are asking bill gates, of all people, his advice in how to stop the spr...

also: bill gates is an expert on virology now, apparently? judging from the efficacy of his flagship product in stopping the spread of virus...

the point i was trying to make is that i think that these covid-19 parties are a good idea and that i do support them under a few conditions...

nowadays, we have a chicken pox vaccine, and if you live in every developed country except for one of them, you should have relatively easy...

but, again - the longer it takes to ramp up the number of cases and get immunity into the general population, the longer this lockdown goes ...

# of deaths in the united states: ~1693 # of actual cases at estimated mortality of 0.1%:  1693000 and as a percentage of the population: 0....

population of south korea: 52 million (2017) population of united states: 326 million  (2017) factor: 6.3 # of known cases in south korea: ~...

"i'll get you next time, gadget" no, you won't. this is a good test case. really. what's an empirical analysis of dr. ...

again: you want as many people as possible to get this as quickly as possible in order to burn it out as fast as possible. you don't wa...

current mortality rate in the united states: 1.53% current mortality rate in south korea: 1.49% current mortality rate in germany: 0.69% the...

i agree that the two most important things to do right now are: (1) keep young people away from old people (2) cancel all religion, permanen...

if this mess with the virus goes on for a while, i'm going to find myself with some extra spending money, and i guess i'll have an ...

so, i ended up spending yesterday morning trying to figure out how to get a new ip address, which turned out to be rather difficult. in the...

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trump'd better be careful about putting troops on the border. we still have the corpse of john candy to fling, monty python style. ....a...

let me turn the log on and see if i get anything other than the usual stream of dropped packets.

i mean, it would be kind of stupid to ddos me. i don't have a server running. i'm not even torrenting. my router seems to be able to...

yeah. what if i'm under a denial of service attack? and, if i am, why?

so, i quickly found the cd-r i remembered getting with the modem, but it literally just has a ten page pdf on it. useless... i do  have...

it's times like this when having all these old machines around is useful, it really is. the best machine for me to use to try to hack in...

according to the isp, i downloaded over 13 gb of data yesterday, which is obviously wrong. my modem came with a cd-r. let's see if ...

i also just checked my electrical, and i got my new bill with the credit on it. the credit was $56.86. yeah. so, my balance went from $...

so, i ate very slowly, trying to avoid the issue, and have finally logged into the teksavvy account. it's not updated, yet. wha...

i mused a little about the potential of immunity to the new virus as a consequence of exposure to the previous one - they were getting part...

why were cases so low in east asia (excluding that spike in south korea) to start? because the people that live in these countries are so fe...

the reality is that people flouting the "east asian model" are really just spouting ignorance spread by social media, and have abs...

guys. listen. the transmission of disease is a well studied topic. this is not a new field. and, the reality is that the experiments have al...

it's your governor or premier that threw you out of work. is your governor or premier compensating you for it?

what do i think about the stimulus package in the united states? i don't tend to oppose things like emergency loans, or research & d...

cancelling church services is actually the kind of targeted action i'm calling for to protect the elderly and.....psychologically vulner...

no, the swedes are smart. good for them. let's hope they don't cave - and let's hope their population follows the logic. this is...

we will need to see on the order of 20 million cases in canada before this starts to slow down.  and, we will need to see on the order of 20...

why do i continue to cite these low statistics - 0.5% mortality rate of those infected - when the official numbers are higher than that? wo...