Centurion, South Africa
Joined October 2008
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Gert van den Berg retweeted
> hmm, this email’s gonna take longer than 10 seconds to type out, best leave it 2 weeks before replying
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Travel bans have never yet kept a variant out - yet are extremely damaging & may discourage countries from sharing data & cases. In the past, they've also lingered long past their usefulness.
We must be strategic about what works (test, trace, restrictions, vax), not reactionary.
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Busy day analyzing data, trying to get reagents, writing reports, presenting at Africa CDC, etc. Got info that >75% of cargo to South Africa is on the 'belly' of commercial/passengers airplanes. This means if commercial airplanes not flying 75% of our cargo is lost 1/2
Gert van den Berg retweeted
US travel bans on southern African countries because of the omicron variant of COVID, are becoming increasingly ridiculous.
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Speakers of languages with little or no grammatical distinction between the present and the future smoke less and save more money for retirement.
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"my laundry machine uses gigabytes of traffic every day" is another one of those fun things we can say now that we live in The Future™
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I’M TRYING TO GO TO SPACE & you can help me get there!
If you retweet this video, I’ll print your name on a shirt and wear it in space in your honor ☄️
#inspiration4contest #sendsimonetospace
sendsimoneto.space/
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I work in IT, which is the reason our house has:
- mechanical locks
- mechanical windows
- routers using OpenWRT
- no smart home crap
- no Alexa/Google Assistant/...
- no internet connected thermostats
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In more news, government is “letting go” some 1200 community service doctors, these are doctors who have done their internship and have had experience dealing with Covid during their community service year. They will be replaced by 1200 doctors fresh out of their internship.
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it’s not just you: the internet has gotten significantly worse in virtually every respect.
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The #GreatConjunction of #Jupiter and #Saturn thru my telescope just after 6pm. 4 of Jupiter's moons; Europa, Ganymede, Io & Callisto, and Saturn's Titan moon visible. Stacked many images for more clarity and color. Nexstar Celestron 6SE with Nikon D750 attached. #scwx #ncwx
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I can't believe Zoom gives away their best feature, limiting meetings to 40 minutes, for free.
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IGBTs encapsulated in clear jelly - when the magic moke comes out, it leaves trails!
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The only thing worse than not knowing why something's broken is not knowing why it's working...
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I'd only ever seen Randi on TV when he called me up and said he liked my (completely obscure at the time) videos. He was supernaturally charismatic, hilarious and had a way of smacking delusions right out of your head with just a few eloquent words.
I'll miss him.
Gert van den Berg retweeted
THIS!
#nuclear #climateChange
History will remember our anti-nuclear stance as the greatest environmental policy error humanity has ever made.
