Bert Hubert

> years of work prior to COVID

It's worth highlghting the importance of years of basic science-research and testing, all little pieces which were mostly there when we finally needed them, work that was always under-threat from people saying "what use is this, why would we ever need that?"

One example [0] (of many contributions):

> But the thing is, our vaccine is only generating the spikes itself, and we’re not mounting them on any kind of virus body. It turns out that, unmodified, freestanding Spike proteins collapse into a different structure. If injected as a vaccine, this would indeed cause our bodies to develop immunity.. but only against the collapsed spike protein. And the real SARS-CoV-2 shows up with the spiky Spike. The vaccine would not work very well in that case.

> In 2017 it was described how putting a double Proline substitution in just the right place would make the SARS-CoV-1 and MERS S proteins take up their ‘pre-fusion’ configuration, even without being part of the whole virus. This works because Proline is a very rigid amino acid. It acts as a kind of splint, stabilising the protein in the state we need to show to the immune system. The people that discovered this should be walking around high-fiving themselves incessantly. Unbearable amounts of smugness should be emanating from them. And it would all be well deserved.

[0] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

Germany: the country with World’s Dumbest Energy Policy

https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11548807424

Yep, the Gas that was needed due to ... the World's Dumbest Energy Policy.

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/nord-stream-2-gerhard-schroeder-sagt-als-zeuge-im-u-ausschuss-aus,schroeder-326.html

Schon während seiner Kanzlerschaft sei die damalige Bundesregierung der Auffassung gewesen, die deutsche Energiepolitik aus der Abhängigkeit der Kernenergie zu befreien. "Wir fanden deshalb, dass es Sinn macht, auf Gas zu setzen."

Uranium is cheap, widely available (largest known reserves in Australia, 3rd in Canada, also Sweden recently had a large find), compact, solid, storable.

Security:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/

In Ukraine, nuclear is what's keeping the lights on.

If you haven't seen Bert Hubert's breakdown of the Covid vaccine source code, worth a look: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

Think he describes a reality where we know a lot today and yet still have ways to go in order to do something that intentional to an apple. His presentation on DNA computing in general (linked at bottom) goes into some depth there.

What caught my eye is that a common apple has a DNA size roughly as large and complex as the human genome itself, with a disclaimer that the DNA size doesn't translate to complexity. But meanwhile, we don't even know how many genes a human being has (estimate changed in 20 years from 100k down to ~20k), but a level beneath that complexity we don't even know "how our own cells know where a gene begins" (quoted from his presentation).

I mean, same story in Belgium, The Netherlands, and (I'm gonna assume) every other EU government.

Specifically for The Netherlands, https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/demystifying-european-digital-sovereignty/ is a good read, from someone that really understands how this works in government.

Sadly, I understand why: they have a tonne of systems, that all, at least somewhat, work, that people know how to use, with established contacts and support contracts. IT departments trained and certified on how to run and deploy MS software. And that's before we start talking about lobbying.

edit: added a link to a good resource about the topic.

We should have started moving over yesterday, but it's a long and difficult process, I just hope we start moving forward on this.

There's a lot of daft DNS code out there that makes strange assumptions. My favorite example isn't quite relevant here but I'll mention it anyway because I think it paints the picture well: PowerDNS purportedly added compression support in its responses because a common stub resolver required answer owner names to be a compression pointer to the question.

EDIT: Found a reference:

"Turns out some customers were using a CPE router that thought ‘C0 0C’ was some kind of ‘answer starts here’ marker. And if it did not find that marker, its DNS component would crash. And at that time, PowerDNS did not compress that first response record, so there was no ‘C0 0C’."

-- https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/history-of-powerdns-2003-2013/

One amazing thing about this vaccine is that it is basically open-source. We can look at the genetic code so you know exactly what is going into your body if you choose to take it. This guy does an amazing job of breaking it down in detail: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

I agree the CDC has done a terrible job of representing science and establishing trust, but the virus is less politicized in other countries. Look at what those health institutions with better track-records are recommending.