{"id":4651,"date":"2022-01-26T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2022-01-26T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:16:48","slug":"odd-lots-332","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4651","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.lazarus.freepascal.org\/index.php\/topic,57752.0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lazarus 2.2.0 is now available for download<\/a>. It&#8217;s based on FreePascal 3.2.2. I&#8217;ve been playing with it now for a couple of weeks on both Win7 and Win10 and it&#8217;s terrific.<\/li>\n<li>I find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/jason-aten\/google-just-gave-you-best-reason-yet-to-finally-quit-using-chrome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this new Chrome technology<\/a> pretty disturbing. It wasn&#8217;t exactly news to me. Now I only use Chrome when nothing else will work. Firefox and Brave have performed very well for me almost all of the time.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m also using <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duckduckgo<\/a> as my main search engine. Heh. Google is on my&#8230;well, you know damned well which one of my lists Google is on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/early-outpatient-treatment-for-covid-19-the-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brownstone has one of the best summaries of known-effective COVID treatments I&#8217;ve seen<\/a>. It&#8217;s a long read with a lot of fine print, but it provides summaries of and links to a large number of papers and studies supporting the summaries. If you don&#8217;t have a bookmarks folder for COVID yet, create one&#8211;and this should be the first link in it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/doctors-organization-has-treated-over-150000-covid-19-patients-with-99-99-percent-survival_4236896.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There is another telehealth provider willing to provide early treatment for COVID-19<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/speakwithanmd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yet another one<\/a> that&#8217;s been around for awhile and has a good rep. I suspect there are others, and I&#8217;m watching for them.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve posted this before, but it&#8217;s been a few months. <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19criticalcare.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The FLCCC Alliance<\/a> is the best site for information both on early treatments and how to find a physician willing to prescribe known-effective drugs for at-home COVID treatment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2304340-strongest-evidence-yet-that-ms-is-caused-by-epstein-barr-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We now have new evidence that multiple sclerosis is caused by the common Epstein-Barr virus<\/a>. The problem is that only one in 10,000 infected persons eventually develops MS. Something else is at work here, and we don&#8217;t know what it is yet.<\/li>\n<li><span class= \"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mom-of-3-transforms-home-into-1970s-time-capsule-and-manages-to-get-everything-for-less-than-25_4180683.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class= \"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">A Chicago woman redecorated her house to look &#8217;70s<\/span><\/a>. She did a reasonable job, considering she did it on the cheap. Most of what&#8217;s missing are deep shag carpeting (ideally green, like we had where I grew up) and harvest gold appliances. Oh, those colors&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>SSTO was a popular tech topic during the &#8217;90s (remember <a href=\"https:\/\/infogalactic.com\/info\/Rotary_Rocket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Hudson Roton<\/a>?) but now we may be getting closer to the SSTO Holy Grail: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/01\/radian-announces-plans-to-build-one-of-the-holy-grails-of-spaceflight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A winged spaceplane<\/a> that takes off from a runway, makes orbit, and then returns, landing on a runway. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radianaerospace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radian Aerospace<\/a> is still in early design stages, but they&#8217;re raising capital and who knows? I hope to live long enough to see that (or something like it) become real, and (better still) routine.<\/li>\n<li>Quit jumping those sharks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2022\/01\/25\/shark-attack-report-florida-australia\/2531643115651\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The sharks don&#8217;t like it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>People told them that the relationship wouldn&#8217;t last&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-59979000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and now they&#8217;ve been married <em>for 81 years<\/em><\/a>. The longest-married couple in the UK got a personally signed anniversary card from Her Majesty the Queen. Ron and Joyce, you won and won <em>big<\/em>, and I salute you from the other side of the world!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazarus 2.2.0 is now available for download. It&#8217;s based on FreePascal 3.2.2. I&#8217;ve been playing with it now for a couple of weeks on both Win7 and Win10 and it&#8217;s terrific. I find this new Chrome technology pretty disturbing. It wasn&#8217;t exactly news to me. Now I only use Chrome when nothing else will work. 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