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DuckDuckGo reaches 100M daily search queries for the first time. https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?lang=en

Via @hntooter

Think of the Environment before you print this Toot.

Dutch news reporter reports about the lockdown and how we really have to work from home. Outside. On location. But in the dark, so it doesn't even work.

A quirky hobby of mine is to think What kind of service, app or site would be behind this typo I was about to type. And to then check if I was right.

Today: fithub.com - expected a gym, found some Saas diary- software.

Tomorrow: tithub, hithub or bithub.

2021 is the year of:

Bitcoin is global. No other currency is. When (not if) the US decides to weaken the USD, BTC goes up relatively. When (not if) ECB invents trillions, BTC rises relatively to the EUR. Any naional financial intervention has effect on the global BTC.

This near civil war in the US makes one thing very clear: the rest of the world, or at least Europe, is far too dependent on US internet platforms.
Civil unrest in any country always has some effect. But where civil unrest in, say, Haiti, is a byline, civil unrest in the US turns into hampering our (non-US) ability to interact and communicate.
Because it is so US-centric, surpressing or censoring of local US interaction and communication affects us too: the 'innocent', European, bystanders.

Darwin Award Nominee
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RT @TrumpHotelMatt1
He stormed the Capitol yesterday with a taser concealed in his pants. He was in the process of stealing a portrait of Tip O’Neill when he accidentally & repeatedly discharged the taser. He tased himself in the balls until he suffered a fatal heart attack. Really. #CapitolRiots
https://twitter.com/TrumpHotelMatt1/status/1347411866247548928