COVID
Right now, the only active community case in the whole of Australia is in Queensland. I would guess that’s the doctor who escaped. Remind me again why we wearing mask on public transport and in supermarkets? Australia need to collect what race you are when you get the vaccine so that we can racially profile you. Speaking of which, the gov is now collecting more data about you than ever before, otherwise they would be driving blind. But maybe you shouldn’t be driving in the first place…
Face mask, sanitize wipes are now the new plastic bags, as they have been washing up on Lord Howe Island in large numbers and it is killing marine life.
First we had JobKeeper, now we have QantasKeeper, find how you can get onboard with QantasKeeper as the gov declares a sale on holidays. You basically book directly with the airlines. Obviously calculate what the expenses are going to be at your destination to avoid price gouging.
World active cases are now at 20,813,047, which is lower than last week once again. A number of European countries have suspended the roll out of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine because of reports of serious blood clots. Australian officials are not worried, however I definitely wouldn’t want family members to get this one, if they had DVT before. It is still too early to tell all the side effects.
Finance and Economics
Apparently bitcoin has no value because I can’t peel it like a banana to eat it. Bitcoin is also a ponzi scheme, has no value, is going to zero and if you are stupid enough you will pay the price for it one day. Unfortunately, today is not that day, we are at all time high levels of $60,000 USD or $77,800 AUD. Those people who think that bitcoin will go to zero after it has already hit $1T are probably also the same ones who sold Amazon stock in the dot com bubble or cancelled their internet accounts in the year 2000.
And if you think I can’t afford to buy one whole bitcoin, then you should listen to this explanation because that’s is like saying I don’t want to buy gold cause I can’t afford 1kg of gold. Chamath was explaining bitcoin was it was worth $142.
Obviously don’t take investment advice from me or anyone else including your qualified financial professional. Learn and do your own research, and don’t skip the tutorials that you find online.
Why are interest rates soaring? It is because the central banks doesn’t set interest rates anymore. Also this is worth a read, if you don’t know how the finances of the state and federal gov works in Australia. Sounds complicated? Maybe not as complicated as this shower.
Hertz – the car hire company, which is actually bankrupt and worthless was allowed to raise money through a stock issuance because the Reddit groups had bid it up, and the judge ruled that allowing it to raise money is good for the creditors, as once bankrupt proceedings are concluded the share holders are wiped out. That’s just WRONG and the internet is outraged.
State of the World
Police used force to break up a group of women at a peaceful vigil for Sarah Everard who was murdered by a police officer when walking home in the UK. – This is what a police state looks like.
The people of Montréal, Québec, Canada are marching and want liberté!!
Lebanon is literally collapsing, and you wonder why bitcoin is at all time high…
The Chair of the UN Human Rights Council when told of the crimes of the Venezuelan government is outraged, not at the crime, but at the person exposing the crime, and told her to deal with the human rights issue with dignity and respect.
We are overpaying for education in Australia. A law education cost a TOTAL of ~$500 AUD for the full 5 years in France, compared to the huge debt you accumulate here in Australia. I wouldn’t be surprised with the lack of international students in Australia results in the collapse or bailout of our higher education system.
This guy’s kids are fighting over who gets to clean the toilet. (Wait…what’s this doing in this section…obviously it is the state of the world we are in, in what period have you have fought with your siblings to get to clean the toilet?? Never? Exactly…)
Tech
Did you know that there is a map of every wifi in the world and as Naomi Brockwell explains the set of wifi that you normally connect to creates a unique finger print that can be used to track you?
This guy negative review of LastPass, is telling you what I’ve been saying all a long, that you should use be using a password manager, and it should be Bitwarden.
I bit the bullet and brought a Keychron K1 that I’m leaving in the office. I went the white backlight with the low profile brown switches. Absolute great keyboard at that price point, and would recommend. Here it is next to my G915. As with buying anything only – don’t forget to google for a discount code to save 10%.
Other stuff
I found this interesting on how this glass dragon cup was created, the whole blowing the glass, and shaping it.
This is the stuff nightmares are made off where a sea slug head is cut off, and it continues to live and regrows a body from the head. Ewww
I have no idea what this Korean snack is, but it looks delicious.
If anyone ever quotes Sun Tzu’s art of war, just tell them that Goujian defeated Sun Tzu. The rest of that channel is also great with a great sense of humor if you are interest in Asian history.
It is interesting reading the comments and experience from all those people who have quit their jobs to travel the world.
Reminder to Myself.
When finding it hard to make a choice of what to do, I should ask myself if something is not a “HELL YES!”, then it is a “F$#K NO”.
I’ll leave you with something I thought was really insightful, and worth a listen to, which is Naval’s take on happiness. Hopefully you all have a ‘peaceful’ week.