kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@emacsen @cjd

There's no problem with complying with court orders. The problem is lying about it for marketing purposes.

@zloygik

The whole point of marketing ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine etc *against* the medical advice is to create a new market for "independent" suppliers - and because it's marketed as "rebel", "banned" etc you can sell cheap substance at prices inflated by a factor of 10x.

In Poland we have a guy (Jerzy Zięba) who made a massive business ($4m per year) by selling very beetroot powder at $4/g while building a "anti-system" image around him, healthcare conspiracies etc.

@Hyolobrika @yogthos blocked me long ago, he didn't want historic facts to disturb his utopian vision of the past 😄

@lonelyowl Тут ещё https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zP4xP4hQA

> The people that are now spreading COVID misinformation have, for a decade, been spreading false cancer cures, then selling false cures for everything from psoriasis to HIV. Health misinformation is a super profitable business. We look at people who are at the top of the game, like Joseph Mercola, like Mike Adams, so-called “Health Ranger.” These people live in palaces and make millions of dollars

https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/ivermectin-covid-misinformation-social-media-grift.html

@vfrmedia

Most of them did settle down quickly as they certainly had entrepreneurial spirit and were used to hard work. In Poland though, the work was largely wasted, throttled and didn't pay enough to survive, so you can imagine the ego boost when the same work suddenly pays you 100x what you earned before and suddenly you can have decent living without much effort — because in Poland to survive you often had to have 2 or 3 jobs, so could be a professor during the day and a porter overnight.

@vfrmedia

I guess only those with relatives and resources were able to reach UK — employment in BBC Monitoring isn't for anyone 😉 The whole mass migration impact was absorbed mostly by Germany, Austria, Italy, and they could see the whole spectrum of people and behaviours there.

> Poles weren't easy guests in Italian towns. Drinking, fighting between themselves, prostitution, camping in parks, forced "windscreen washing services" on junctions.

Generally tons of very interesting memories, some of them I share to the extent as a ~13 years old can see what his parents are doing. Very humbling, and very teaching in the context of today's debates on immigration.

> Italy was another popular destination because Vatican, Pope etc. It wasn't easy to travel as you had to have contacts to buy a foreign trip and pay in dollars, whose possession was technically illegal. Then, people didn't keep their passports at home - they were kept at police stations and each time you had to present papers why you are allowed to receive it.

> In Vienna we met a Polish saleswoman trading towels on Mexicoplatz. She was a director of a store in Poland, who took all store's supply to Vienna to sell it for profit.

> Camps were overcrowded by Eastern European refugees. Austrian authorities were furious when US and other countries were sending them rice and flour, when the only thing they needed was to accept some refugees to off-load the camps.

Some memories from communist Poland 🇵🇱 in 80's, when over 500'000 Poles desperately used *any* means available to escape the country. Many of them escaped through Austria, where they requested asylum and waited for months:

> I was with my husband, our kid had to stay in Poland with my parents as a hostage. In #communism families were not allowed to spend holidays abroad together. When Security Service saw we're not returning, they took away food coupons from my parents

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/amnezja-narodu-emigrantow-polacy-nie-uwazaja-ze-sa-komus-cos-winni/2mv78fn

"60% renewable" Germany 🇩🇪 right now #Energiewende you're doing it wrong 🤦‍♂️

No, it's not a child abuse or some other violent crime or even drug trading - just protests in France:

> Protonmail responded to this request by providing the IP address and the fingerprint of the browser used by the collective

https://secoursrouge.org/france-suisse-securite-it-protonmail-a-communique-a-la-police-ladresse-ip-de-militant%c2%b7es-anti-gentrification/

I kind of predicted this already in 2014... by merely reading #ProtonMail privacy policy:

https://ipsec.pl/protonmail-security-promise.html

@alex

And if the string is 2³² characters long... 😏

About fossil gas a replacement fuel for #nuclear power:

You need 20 giant LNG tankers, to produce the 10 TWh of electricity that one German nuclear plant produces anually.

The nuclear power plant needs only 60 tons of fuel rods, which fits in 3-4 trucks.

Also, the gas will release ~40x more greenhouse gases per each kWh produced.

Note to all who read it - it has been allegedly debunked by the hospital