As you read this, I will be posting up for a 50/50 chance of seeing the SpaceX launch. I think that stuff is cool, and it will be great for my sons to be able to tell their friends they were there 20 years from now. So please excuse if some links are posted elsewhere, I’m writing this from the past.
EU to members: Sure, we weren’t there when you needed us during the COVID lockdowns, but you should definitely give us the power to arbitrarily abrogate inconvenient budget limits. If I was a citizen of one of the PIIGS, I’d be piissed.
Something in the water here?
I’m really enjoying the judiciary versus executive tension COVID has created.
SwissServitor, what is going on here?
“The 23-year-old Uconn student who police say brutally killed two people before fleeing Connecticut grew up on the same street as the Sandy Hook Elementary School gunman Adam Lanza, a report said.”
And?
White guys are killers. Everyone knows this.
Coincidences mean that there’s an epidemic of violence.
Is there anything Lil Rona can’t do?
It’s Connecticut that made them this way.
I’m not ruling that out.
Lead in the water supply
Must’ve been an unfortunate boating accident.
Call Sgt Preston of the UConn.
Looks like it might be a scrub on the launch but hopefully the weather opens…
3 min update on weather. Come on Gaia!
Ah fuck…what a build up. Saturday launch it will be and I will be right back glued to it.
A journotwit from the CNN article
I’m pretty sure there weren’t any “lightning and thunder strikes” at the launchpad, Ms. Science Reporter.
Lol, they cleared the lighting violation about 45 minutes ago. This had nothing to do with pad conditions but I wouldn’t expect CNN to know that. It was downrange that was the issue.
You’ve never been… Thunderstruck?
That’s my fave AC/DC song, and here’s an interesting cover of it.
Struck dumb at birth by a thunderclap?
The next launch window is Saturday at 3:22 pm ET
Saw the space shuttle launch out of Canaveral while we were on spring break in Daytona in the early 80s. Just spectacular. I watched from our hotel balcony, yelling for my fraternity brothers to come out and see it, but they refused, saying it had to be “too far away to see” and they weren’t going to fall for that old trick. Their loss.
stimulus package to help the European Union recover from a recession brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Because THAT’s what caused it.
Florida man shoots, kills home intruder who was attacking his wife
Good job Florida Man.
He was just defending his meth lab.
Righteous.
Even if he could stop it physically it’s a dumb idea. You have no idea how strong or what kind of fighting experience the guy has. He lost his right to a fair fight when he broke in and attacked the renter’s wife.
He lost his right to a fair fight when he broke in
and attacked the renter’s wife.Kick down my door, and I will honestly state that I felt threatened with violence and shoot you.* Several times. The fact that there are no end of knives in the house that could accidentally be dropped by your corpse if need be is merely a happy coincidence.
*I think. You never know until the moment is on you.
And the husband got a lesser version of the passive voice generally reserved for whe cops shoot people.
Manfredonia is a fugitive in the machete killing of 62-year-old Ted DeMers, of Willington, Conn.
I didn’t know there was a gun called a machete. That has to be a gun right because murders are never committed with anything else right? Right?!?!
Meanwhile, the citizens of Illinois are becoming increasingly impatient with their Governor. In fact, rumor has it there’s a recall petition in the works.
Yep (trigger warning: auto-play video). Unfortunately, the petition to recall Gauleiterin Whitmer got rejected.
It was an assault knife!
Machete gun. Duh.
Both ‘doggy style’ and ‘reverse cowgirl’ allow for the woman to face away from her sexual partner, avoiding face-to-face contact.
Sometimes beneficial anyway.
It also recommends sex workers to wear a mouth and nose covering at all times.
Hawt. And I guess oral is not corona-friendly?
Oral is always friendly.
There’s even a Pritzker recall petition on moveon.org.
Sign me up.
Do we have a Illinois Glib Judge?
Sounds like no go.
Looking like a go for launch here…
So close…
Damn! Spoke too soon, it’s not happening today.
No go on the launch.
I blame Trump.
Damn your nimble fingers!
Howdy!
His flyby in AF1 caused an increase in greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere that was conducive of thunder strike particles. /CC
I blamed IM already.
Bummer. See you Saturday!
Absolutely. I want to see that fly, but there is a reason for those rules.
“Did
@JoeBiden just pull an Eric Swalwell?”
Senility and incontinence?
He looks so tall, sitting there next to Gov Wolf.
I doubt Joe’s ass has sounded that tight in 25 years.
Things I’ve never wondered about…
I blame Matthew McConaughey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_to_Launch
You spelled his name wrong.
It’s Matthew McConaugheeeeeeyyyyyyyyy
That’s got to be a Damon Wayans heeeeeeeyyyyyyyy[*], amirite?
* disappointed I could not find a video link.
Pritzker, of course, dismissed the ruling as borne of a political agenda.
Yes, yes. The court makes a constitutional argument and it is just an overreaching politically biased judge.
Freedom is a political agenda.
Can’t tell if sarcasm…
It is.
It’s just another word for nothing left to lose…
To get sheep to load into a trailer you have to. crawl into the Shute yourself and they will follow you. They wont go in by themselves. In other words….they will only follow.
This explains much about the EU….well, here too for that matter.
Yes, there is something in the water there. It’s called progressivism. My understanding is that that area is overrun with progs. You know…the people that raise their children to buy into their insane narratives. When it gets to the point where they are letting young children become trannies it is no surprise that a few of them go nuts and start shooting random strangers.
It is about time someone stood up and told these assholes “Hey you don’t actually have the power to do that so, no. ”
Only doggie style and reverse cowgirl? Oh, the burdens we must bear in this time of crisis.
Nuh huh. Our victory is inevitable. Urban cosmopolitans right now, always have and always will agree with us on everything. Our victory is inevitable like trade with China destroying the Chicoms and the fall of the Shah turning Iran into libertopia. Bad Things Can Not Happen because History and Progress are on our side and Technology solves everything.
Did your mom smack you upside the head, again?
Not hard enough.
I’m debating a proglet right now on solar energy. He thinks it’s ready to replace fossil fuels now but the capitalists are too greedy to do it.
Totally. They have no reason to provide clean energy that people will pay for.
“Man they got a carburetor that gets 60 MPG but the oil companies bought up the patent and are sitting on it!!!”
I have a pamphlet for one of those. I’ll see if I can find it and post it. Fucking hilarious!
Like the precursor to an ALL CAPS blog was a pamphlet?
Pharmaceutical companies have the cure for cancer but are just so greedy they won’t sell it to the millions of people that have cancer.
That’s why they don’t want you to know about this inexpensive miracle herbal cure.
You just have to train the judas goat to walk them into the
woodchippersoylent proccessor.“Blame Trump, not me: Lockdown-loving De Blasio passes the buck over NYC’s $9b economic crisis- but STILL refuses to reopen despite just 55 people being hospitalized yesterday and says he’ll ‘aggressively’ shut down any small business that defies him”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8361969/De-Blasio-blames-Trump-NYCs-economic-crisis-refuses-reopen.html
CWAA
For an Ivy League urban cosmopolitan he sure seems to hate city folk.
It’s almost like this is just an exercise in control.
They are doing it for your own good, Yokel.
It’s actually one of the main issues with Northam. Northam is pretty fucking yokel. Hes Old Virginnny. Hes VMI and Klan hoods VA. He voted for fucking W twice, and then switched parties because he understood early on that VA was gonna be a blue state going forward. Hes a craven piece of shit just looking to grab power. I think he has fucking delusions of running for President, which is genuinely hilarious.
His embrace of cosmopolitanism should make him a libertarian…oh wait…
Look, I get it’s your schtick and all, but Northam is not actually a cosmopolitan urbanite. He’s from VA. He went to VMI which is a very very conservative military academy. Like, the oldest woman to attend VMI isn’t 50 yet. Hes not a city mouse in any way, shape or form. He’s a hack with zero principles other than power.
The reason I did that is because there are people who do actually believe this. Strikes me as rather shallow and superficial.
And my point is more that Northam is a yokel rejecting his yokel ways to gain the support of the urban cosmopolitans and he is (still?) a statist fuck.
Jesus.
Being that out of touch with reality should qualify as a medical condition.
And a disability check. Too bad NY is so upside down fiscally.
The Coonman Cometh
Being forced to wear Depends would be purposely degrading – the sort of thing a bully does to humiliate his victim. And that is precisely what the Coonman – who at one time seems to have taken delight in humiliating black people – intends by this. His way of saying I am in Charge of Your Life, boy. Do as I say.
Or else.
It is also political bullying.
The Coonman knows that his opponents – lots of them – aren’t wearing Fear Masks and thus are annoying his supporters, who are. The non-masked have visibly separated themselves from his cringing Karen (and Kevin) political supporters .
They must be brought o heel – or at least, made indistinguishable. If everyone is masked, it appears that everyone agrees – and this manufactured crisis can be maintained. It can also be upped.
I, for one, aim to misbehave.
I like Eric Peters Autos.
I engage in an act of civil disobedience every time I step outside of my home without a face mask. About 90-95% pedestrians on sidewalks here wear masks.
Really? I’d guesstimate in my area of Tucson its more like 30%. I’m sure in the downtown/university area its higher, because there’s a higher percentage of beta pussies (of both sexes) there.
As far as stores, etc. goes, it varies wildly. Nearly everyone at Total Wine had one on last week. Grocery store is probably 50/50. At the quick stop where I get gas and the Sunday paper, its been zero masks for weeks.
My area in Texas has increased substantially over the past week on this. Social media shaming is winning. I just went to a fancy Whole Foods where I was literally the only one without a mask.
..
I don’t quite follow the logic of it. I was told that it would eventually spread throughout the population and we were only trying to control hospitalizations. If that’s the case, then whom are we saving?
I don’t quite follow the logic of it.
Because there isn’t any. Its become a shibboleth for which side you are on.
We’re saving Joe Biden’s election chances, chances for bail-outs for poorly run states, and the sensitive fears/emotions of disaster LARPers.
Social media shaming was only supposed to be in a libertarian direction!
Whole Foods where I was literally the only one without a mask.
Okay, this is like going into the sewer and saying that you’re the only one there who isn’t a rat. Whole Foods is where Karens are born.
On the radio yesterday they were talking about some study that showed that Texas was the least obedient state when it came to people following the recommended virus rules, so there must be a lot of other areas in the state that are trending in the other direction (or the study was just some BS, also likely).
I went to Wal-Mart today. A higher percentage of people were wearing masks compared to the last time I was at Wal-Mart. I’d say 80% today.
Yup. As the virus declines, they are actually winning with this bullshit.
I think some people have rationalized it as “Mask on means you can go back outside”. It’s a talisman. It’s a tiger repelling rock.
It lets the I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE crowd save face, because they have NEW BETTER SCIENCE that shows that “well ackshually you can go back to normal if you wear a mask!!!”
I actually kind of hope that’s the case.
I’m torn. Sun Tzu says leave the enemy a golden bridge. The Romans salted the fields so nothing would ever grow again.
The suffering of millions of Americans needs to be addressed, IMO, politically and culturally and economically. They should not be allowed to shrug, say “We did our best, sorry about your businesses, don’t forget to pay your fucking taxes peons”.
A reckoning needs to happen.
A reckoning needs to happen.
A reckoning requires more than just angry words, and I don’t know about you, but I’m no violent revolutionary.
A reckoning needs to happen.
100%
No way this can be shrugged off.
Trashy, how about firing some motherfuckers? Every state has a recall procedure of some kind. Time to get busy.
I’ve gone the other way. A few weeks ago I would wear one if a decent percentage of the people around were wearing one, because I figured people were experiencing a lot of anxiety and I didn’t want to contribute to it.
Now, I only wear one if the property owner makes a specific request (signs count).
Absolutely ditto for me.
I only wear one if the property owner asks or the times I’ve been at the Reopen NH rallies (the latter I won’t get into the reason why).
Now with Nashua’s mask mandate, I’ll wear one when I go into a restaurant in Nashua to pick up some food since I don’t want the restaurants I like getting fucked. I have ceased other business in Nashua and won’t pick up that business while the mask mandate exists.
We have a lockdown ‘order’ here but as far as I know there is no enforcement. People are doing it voluntarily out of fear or as defying would be bad PR. That is in central Louisiana, I can’t say about other parts of the state.
Here in Grant parish this has amounted to a long holiday. Traffic seems back to normal. I see Iatt lake is full of fishing parties. Grocery stores seem normal.
For a short period two weeks ago I did see some people who were obviously panicky but that went away in a few days.
Reconstruction ended a long time ago. I’m a tad surprised that the locals haven’t renamed the parish yet.
Pretty sure the trend these days is to rename everything Southern after Grant. Until they realize he killed a bunch of Indians then rename them again.
Is Kevin the male version of Karen? Fuck that. Maybe I should start calling myself The Other Kind of Kevin.
I thought we’d decided on “The Other Gretchen”?
We need more judges like that one in Illinois. Nicely done!
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8360697/Demi-Rose-struggles-contain-curves-eye-popping-blue-string-bikini.html
I haz confuse. I thought AMBER Rose was your jam.
I thought it was Desert Rose
That song is in one of my books’ playlist.
Silicon is clearly his jam.
If she’s struggling, maybe she should put something less revealing on.
OMG, star vfx are like so seventies.
Shouldn’t President Trump be leaving Twitter just about now?
Surely there are alternatives.
What are the alternatives?
https://gab.com/home
He could literally just start a blog and about a million people would follow him./
Infotainment personalities that purport to be “journalists” would still have to follow him. He’s good for ratings.
Gab is the only one I have heard of with any real potential.
Well, if he signed on they would take off like a rocket.
*looks at Space X launch*
Or maybe like a jet.
I think the only thing keeping him at Twitter is the sky-high exposure he gets there. As soon as he realizes that a lot of his followers will, err, follow him to Gab, I bet he’s gone. I hope so.
Meh, he likes playing the victim, and having a foils to rail at.
He learned it from the Dems well then.
He was a Dem until he ran wasn’t he?
He was and still is a Trumpian. He leaned Dem when it helped his interests and leaned Rep when it in turn helped his interests. I am almost certain he is one of the few non-ideologues in the DC swamp.
Fair enough.
How dare you!
I am almost certain he is one of the few non-ideologues in the DC swamp.
Interesting. Non-partisans, I would agree with. Non-ideologues, I’m not so sure. I think a lot of swampers are in it for personal/institutional advancement, not to advance an ideology. But I don’t know any swampers personally.
This.
Of course you don’t know any swampers, RC.
This. He loves him some drama
https://twitter.com/Deana921/status/1265324662369718272
I know, then the drugs feel out his ass.
I hate it when the drugs feel my ass.
Depends on the drugs.
Nobody needs more than one position – Bernie Sanders
If you can have only one, the one where you don’t have to see Bernie would be preferred.
I had to renew my license today, and fantastically it only took 20 min.
My license expired in April and the offices here still haven’t opened. I’ve been told I’ll be getting a card soon that gives me until November, but haven’t seen it as yet.
I really fucking wish that mask wearing hadn’t become a political thing. Because one side now thinks you’re murdering grandma if you don’t wear one and the other isn’t wearing them because lul own teh libz.
I’m wearing one because the evidence says it’s a good idea to. Period.
Can you link the evidence? Some published scientific studies, perhaps.
I saw a sick meme with two petri dishes and a caption, does that count?
You mean the CDC meta study that concluded masks don’t work?
wait…. So i’m not killing grandma by not wearing one?
Last week I flew from Allentown PA to Myrtle Beach. Of course the Allentown airport was all masked up and the airline was handing out extra masks. As soon as we de-planed, people were taking them off and tossing them in the trash. By the time we got outside there wasn’t a mask in sight. It was pretty funny.
While you were down here did you take in a shooting or an overdose?
Nope – I took in some beer and food, then drove home. Are those features I missed out on? (I was really in Conway)
The first two weekends of being “open” were pretty wild. But yeah, every month or so a bad batch shows up and there are a lot of ODs. It just happened to coincide with some gang violence this time.
I’m wearing one because the evidence says it’s a good idea to. Period.
My understanding: there are a number of studies that show wearing a surgical/cloth mask reduces droplet spread by the wearer. I am not aware of studies showing a reduction in inhalation of droplets by the wearer, but “it stands to reason”. Of course, science is about seeing whether “it stands to reason” actually pans out.
There are zero studies that I am aware of showing that wearing a surgical/cloth mask and/or social distancing actually reduces the spread of droplet-transmitted disease. Zero. There is no science (again, that I am aware of) that supports that proposition. Its all “stands to reason”, and it is a plausible hypothesis, but it is not proven, and (again, as far as I know) there isn’t even any evidence to support the hypothesis.
Why wouldn’t masking/social distancing reduce spread of disease? Well, a lot of people don’t wear them right, they might not reduce droplets enough to matter, you can get infected by getting droplets on your hands and touching your face if you don’t wear a mask, the virus might persist on surfaces enough for them to be a vector, etc.
And it all begs the question of whether we should even be trying to reduce the spread of the disease in a non-at-risk population. That’s how you get to herd immunity, which is safer for everyone, at-risk and not at-risk.
So, reasonable minds can differ on this. Which is an excellent reason not to mandate it or throw a shitfit either way.
I find both sides of the political debate around masks tedious, TBH.
I wear one because everywhere I want to go requires it and I don’t want to stir up shit. If there’s a slight chance it helps (and it’s hard to believe there are no studies about it), even better.
^
it’s hard to believe there are no studies about it
It would be very difficult to study, because viral transmission is jammed with confounding variables. In all the furor over “science this, science that”, I haven’t seen a single one that even attempted to study whether masking/social distancing actually reduces the transmission of droplet-borne diseases.
Remember, the current masking/social distancing program was adopted as a contingency years ago, basically as a “we must do something, etc.” thing.
I’m willing to go with “it stands to reason”. I don’t expect them to be perfect, but I expect them to be pretty good at reducing the risk. Pretty good multiplied over millions of interactions daily probably makes a difference.
I’ll wear one in a store, but it’s silly outdoors.
“WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE OF AMERICANS IS WRONG!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265706645134274561
Don’t read the comments.
I’d vote for him if he actually believed that. If he, for example, were to have vetoed the FISA bill or any of the PATRIOT Act extensions.
But he doesn’t believe that. He only believes that people he likes shouldn’t be investigated.
Or post a bounty for any whistle-blower in the “Intelligence Community” that can provide proof of it to the Attorney General.
So he is a normal politician after all…
Pretty much. Which is why I can’t understand people who think he’s any different. He just says the quiet parts out loud.
Too vulgar. Not his turn. Also there is something about how the harshest conflicts are sometimes the internecine ones. You know the closer the actual politicians get in ideology the small differences are amplified and the conflicts become much more personal than ideological.
Also the Deplorables support. That is another key problem.
He hates the right people. It’s as simple as that. Many (mostly conservative) people have long been sick of the Bob Doles of the world vying for the leadership of the controlled opposition party. They wanted Reagan 2.0, personalitywise. Somebody to unapologetically take their dick and probe the bowels of the institutional left with it. Trump fills that role perfectly. He’s mediocre to abject shit as a president, but he’s making fools of exactly the right people.
Maybe, but what if the pendulum swings back twice as far in the proggie direction just because of his antics?
If?
Personally:
*shrugs*
not my clowns, not my circus
Standing in for conservatives:
Progs have won the culture war and have dismantled the America of the past. Establishment Republicans have, at best, been ineffective. Often, they’ve been little better than progs. If we’re doomed to go down the path to socialism, I’d rather go down swinging.
I think it’s also a product of the narrative of the intelligentsia.
For example, if a socon politician argues publicly that God created the universe in 6 days and the earth is only 6000 years old, said politician would be mocked mercilessly.
If a prog politician argues that we should have a national government-run healthcare system in order to provide more high quality healthcare for all Americans, the debate centers around how exactly such a system would work and be funded.
Both ideas are equally foolish and both have the same likelihood of being true (i.e. 0), but the latter is fervently believed “smart” people.
(And you and substitute a litany of ideas from either side of the spectrum, e.g. if we bomb the Middle East more aggressively, peace will break out).
How about this:
If a Socon politician claims that all men are rapist pigs who need to keep their dicks in their pants and the upper class are filled with sexual degenerates then he would be universally dismissed as an old fuddy duddy prude who has nothing to contribute whatsoever.
However if a feminist makes the same claims then she does merit even if it is totally exaggerated.
I wonder if Twitter will fact check this tweet.
I don’t get the ones telling DJT to stop doing it then. I mean, he or his admin is probably doing it…but it has never been a major story for him.
If he issued an executive order categorically banning it, I missed it. And every agency that does it is an executive agency.
It’s reactionaries all the way down.
“The Trump meltdown continues”
LOL
True, but not in the way they think.
ESPN Chooses Megan Rapinoe to Host ESPYs
That sounds completely unwatchable.
It has always been unwatchable. This just makes it more so.
I’m still waiting for the pro soccer to replace her with a cross-dresser.
That’s redundant.
Funny. But, I’m halfway serious. Rapinoe plays the wokeness card to try to shake these people down. Okay. She wants woke? Give her woke. I’m sure you can find a trans woman who will do her job just as well or better and be thankful for the money. What’s she going to do? Risk the social justice mobs to to insist that she shouldn’t be replaced? Let her go down in flames by her own rules.
That would be funny – some guy who couldn’t make his college soccer team decides he’s a chick and takes her job,
Is ESPN aware that she will sue them as soon as she finds out that someone elses compensation package would have netted her more money than the one she agreed to?
[opera applause]
When are her 15 minutes going to be over?
And is it just me, or is that a picture of the lesbian model of Karen?
Throw in Tim Tebow and it might be worth watching.
And there you have it. Schools will begin to cost for flu season.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/05/27/michigan-state-students-to-return-to-campus-in-the-fall/5269281002/
Cost=close
What the fuck is a “values-driven return”?
A Hail Mary to stop declining enrollment.
One that protects the value of his bloated compensation?
Well, of course. You can’t have a bunch of people with a nearly 0% chance of dying from the virus going about their normal business!
Cue the class action suit for reduction/refund of tuition.
The school isn’t delivering what it promised, namely, in-person classes and a high degree of socializing/networking with other students and faculty.
What, you don’t think kids go to college for the lectures only?
At this time in my life I
“high degree of socializing/networking with other students and faculty.”
I missed that part, being an introvert and libertarian has some drawbacks (or not).
being an introvert and libertarian has some drawbacks (or not).
Have you been paying attention to what people are actually like?
In my mind, that is a high proportion of the value of the classic on-campus university education. One I did not optimize.
There is something I really want to say, but I shouldn’t say, so I won’t.
My serious question is in the crop of cases like this that have and will come, how will the act of God principle come into play? For example, if someone sues over the March to May semester, in what ways can the school be held in breach of contract if the reason the instruction was delivered remotely was unforeseen and uncontrollable by the institution?
The same way tobacco companies were held responsible for lung cancer?
how will the act of God principle come into play
Oh, my goodness, are the law firms ever making coin on that, as we speak.
Much depends on the contract language itself – what does your force majeure clause actually say? I expect bitter arguments and lengthy judicial opinions over whether there is even such a thing as an “act of God” that can be proven as such in court. Our force majeure clause specifically refers to “acts of civil authority”, so we at least have a start on an argument that the lockdown orders triggered it.
There’s a related contract doctrine – “impossibility”. To the degree that you are legally ordered not to do something, for example, then you can’t be held in breach of contract for not doing it. If the campus burns to the ground, you’re off the hook. But impossibility is pretty narrow – “I couldn’t afford it” doesn’t cut it. “I refused to do it because I thought it was too risky” doesn’t cut it.
the reason the instruction was delivered remotely was unforeseen and uncontrollable
Viewed in isolation, “unforeseen” and “uncontrollable” don’t really matter. At a very high level, the question is “who took the risk”. If your promise to do X doesn’t exclude the unforeseen and uncontrollable circumstance that actually came to pass, then you took the risk and you are on the hook. At some point, unforeseen and uncontrollable circumstances may cross over into force majeure and impossibility.
Thank you for the explanation. I wonder what sort of clauses are in the admissions paperwork, etc..
The cases have already started. It will be really interesting to see what comes of it.
It’s also going to be interesting to see how big the hit to traditional course enrollments will be in the fall. Right now, our enrollment numbers are about where they should be (for my department). But, we’re also being told that classes above a certain size can’t meet in campus. Most of those are going to be taught as “Remote Instruction” classes = synchronous instruction via Zoom.
I suspect students are going to bail from those classes once they discover how they’re being taught. How many will bail is the question.
My brother said applications are down about 25% at his university (fairly large state school). The faculty was told students are waiting to find out if it will be online or in person.
Our school still has classes listed as in person so students are enrolling. The format should be changed this week or next in the online listings, so that will be interesting.
I am not a lawyer, but doesn’t time and advancing data come into play too?
To me, the schools have a pretty good case against damages for spring semester and graduation. But the data is pretty clear at this point that the virus is much less deadly than was thought to be in March, and particularly to students.
Can you close the campus and do classes online if there’s a bad flu season in 2023?
One thing I am afraid of is that this is what is going to happen anytime there is such a thing.
doesn’t time and advancing data come into play too
So much depends on facts and circumstances, and contract language. Generally speaking though, breaching a contract because you thought it was reasonable to do so, based on what you thought you knew at the time, doesn’t get you off the hook. See above, re: who takes the risk? The fact that what you thought you knew, turned out to be wrong, is going to be a big, big help to the other side.
The schools in the best position to defend a breach of contract claim are the ones ordered to close by the governor.
The ones who did so voluntarily might have a defense (based on what their contracts actually say), but “based on what we thought we knew at the time, we thought it was best” isn’t going to get them very far, especially since the plaintiffs will be able to put up quite a bit of contemporaneous data that shows that the idea that this was dangerous to students, or even most faculty and staff ,was highly questionable very early on. Those cases will not be easy for either side to win. One challenge for the plaintiffs is likely to be establishing the actual promises that were broken. This is where the defendant’s lawyers will come to hate the university marketing department with a white-hot passion.
People ask me why my contracts with physicians and physician groups run around 40 pages or more (including the boilerplate). Its because they are in large part accumulated/institutional memory of all the remote possibilities (and utter bullshit that people have tried) that could affect the deal.
“Its because they are in large part accumulated/institutional memory of all the remote possibilities (and utter bullshit that people have tried) that could affect the deal.”
This is why my syllabi are about 25% longer than what they were when I started teaching.
The campus will include physical distancing, mask-wearing and restrictions on large gatherings, Stanley said.
Sure they will – until Dean Karen goes home for the night.
Looks like Evan’s GFM reached goal. Libertarians ate selfish assholes! Now I gotta get back to monitoring my orphan pit…
HM is rubbing off on you…
HM probably shouldn’t be rubbing anybody.
It’s completely consensual. I swear.
Crack that whip!
That was to Kristen, so she will not spare the rod.
I thought you were listening to music or something
You made me do it.
Carry on, citizen.
That’s a nice cover, thanks.
That song is on my pirate book’s playlist.
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I love Kansas.
One of the comments on that vid was “when the metal version is almost indistinguishable from the original, the original was metal” or something like that.
Of course, it devolved to an argument about musical genres and the purists came out, but it was an overall fun discussion.
A new generation is still carrying on in their own way. (Totally metal-free. Not even any wood.)
Superior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UexqiHKFwKg
*shakes head*
Nope.
https://www.aier.org/article/will-the-politicians-admit-their-lockdown-mistake/
Yes?
?
What are those exact moves? All I have heard is supplying logistics, equipment and money. Oh, and hospital ships and shutting down intl. travel.
Well, it was a doozie.
supposed to be a reply to Drake below
Admit mistakes? Politicians?
Neville Chamberlain was the last one I can think of who admitted to making a big mistake.
Well, you have to admit, certain mistakes are just impossible to explain away . . .
He actually owned it and became a Churchill supporter.
Ass Wednesday splits the difference.
http://archive.li/MCSiU
Remember to practice social distancing during Ass Wednesday.
How long have you been holding onto that one?
Found it earlier today. Twitter isn’t all rage-monkey shit flinging, sometimes.
On a lighter note, I have been picking lettuce from my garden for the last few days. I realized today that the garden my family had while I was growing up was larger than my entire property. We grew everything – corn, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, asparagus, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, peas, onions, carrots, potatoes, peppers, egg plants,lettuce, raspberries, strawberries, melons and a bunch of stuff I’m sure I’m forgetting. I don’t especially enjoy gardening, but I do enjoy the results. I expanded my garden this year, but it’s still tiny. Even so, I expect to need to freeze a lot of produce and maybe can some tomatoes.
That is funny. We had the same garden and being a kid I hated it. Soooo much work. I swore I would never have one when I got away from there.
Now I enjoy the hell out of it.
I still don’t like gardening and weeding, but I love having flowers from February through November.
First vase of roses appeared today.
I’ve had vases full of daffodils, then hyacinth, then tulips, and most recently peonies. The roses are too small for vases. And that’s why I weed the flower beds.
I had to work in the garden as a kid but usually whined my way out after a while. Now I’m out several times a day, looking, looking. Soon, like another 10 days, the choi and kale and mustard greens will be size wise ready to pick/eat. Always some weeds, watering or fertilizing to do and I love it. Hot summer day, 86, today. Today I got some lawn mower time, the trees have provided so much canopy that the area to be mowed is getting smaller and smaller.
I’m getting into raised bed gardening this year. If you have any tips or stories please post an article here.
G’damnit the fuck! I finished work and was tending to me gardening stuff… and WTF? Can’t launch? Can’t launch?! Can’t never did shit! Back when there were still real men, they launched into the sea, even if there was a storm! Even if they knew there be monsters thar in the great salty depths! Even if they knew they might sail off the edge! Can’t!? Fuck this can’t shit!
Here there be dragons.
It looks like half the stories on Breitbart are about this broad:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/27/exclusive-canceled-contact-tracing-contract-reveals-michigan-authorized-democrat-firm-for-400-activists-to-collect-medical-information/
“A copy of the since-canceled contact tracing contract Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration executed with a Democrat operative’s consulting firm, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, shows the firm would have been paid to recruit 400 volunteers to collect medical information from state residents.
The contract was signed April 20, 2020, between the Michigan Public Health Institute and Great Lakes Community Engagement, a nonprofit organization under the control of Mike Kolehouse, a Democrat campaign consultant.”
I’m shocked. And just think, she’ll be your VP soon.
“Foot fetishist arrested after stealing, having sex with 100 pairs of flip-flops ”
https://nypost.com/2020/05/26/foot-fetishist-arrested-after-stealing-having-sex-with-100-pairs-of-flip-flops/
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1265573729515589639
How does one have sex with a flip flop?
Tenderly and with plenty of lingering eye contact.
And I think you would want to use and old, worn out one, like Winston’s mom, as opposed to something new and still stiff.
There’s all types, baby.
I just had a rare double Karen experience. I was taking the boys on the post homeschool ride through GG Park and we passed two middle aged women who were wearing masks and armed with pool noodles. As we got nearer they scurried off to the side of the path and held out the noodles like a cross to a pack of vampires and shouted at us to wear our masks.
“Dear Glibertarians, I never thought this would happen to me…”
WTF?
Did you take their picture with your phone, snicker and walk away?
I would have had trouble not blowing them a raspberry, but I bet I’d get charged with terrorism for exhaling so hard in their direction.
But were they assault pool noodles?
Hehheh, this is California, assault pool noodles are a felony.
That’s about as dumb as the “safe passing” bike I saw somewhere. The idiot had attached 3 foot pool noodles out from the handlebars and back frame of the bike.
Until now he used those as curb feelers.
You should have pointed, laughed, and mocked them mercilessly
I hope you grabbed their noodles.
Any idea to co-plant with a tomato in a container? Picked up a new one and it’s a bit larger than previous ones I’ve had so can put some stuff around the edges.
Tomatoes usually need a lot. I use earth boxes and the recommendation is just two plants. My mom does three with good results, though. If you want something else, maybe a pepper. I’ve done two peppers and one tomato in an earth box
Thank you both! Might consider a single pepper or just go without.
I wouldn’t, usually you want to prune the lower branches for more airflow (to keep them from getting sick) and higher soil temperature (for more fruit).
Here we have the problem, especially with pots, of soil temps being too high and killing non-natives.
It does depend on the cultivar, although not letting the soil get too dry will keep it from getting too warm. Tomatoes can tolerate very wet soil. It’s wet leaves that causes problems.
I’ve talked the spousal unit into doing just a single tomato or tomatillo per pot; it required that we take a trip down memory lane to all those years when she would plant them too close together in gardens or crowd ’em in pots, and then we’d have all kinds of problems with sun, water, diseases, failures to thrive, etc. Seemed to work.
Plants are like people, most often they thrive better when they have space to grow.
Got a nice bike ride in today, passed one sign that pissed me off. It was by a beach, saying “Crowded beaches are Closed beaches.” On the bright side, the closed signs have all been pulled down through the Metroparks.
“Crowded beaches are Closed beaches.”
What does that mean?
Sorry, I didn’t remember the wording correctly. It said Crowded beaches lead to Closed beaches (emphasis mine).
But yeah. Stay apart, or we’ll take back what we’ve given you.
I don’t speak Jive either.
It means nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
Arbeit Mach Frei Comrade……
“My statement on the officer-involved death in Minneapolis”
https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1265286358551191558
officer-involved death?
https://twitter.com/SleepyDjango/status/1265349978857205760
This is my shocked face.
The officer held his hand for his last moments, and then slipped his drop piece into the corpse’s pocket while pretending to pray.
The instant I figure out a way to stop the puddling on the floor, the humidity drops and the AC stops sweating all over the place.
Funny how that works.
Try a condensate pump in the future
Is it something I can fit to a portable AC that just beads up dew on every cool surface in the mechanism?
yes, they are designed for Portables, totally worth it
I should say, they make designs to use in Portables, but C Pumps are used everywhere
Where should I look for them?
start with Amazon I suppose, lemme look…
Here, hope the url isn’t too big
https://www.amazon.com/condensaci%C3%B3n-eliminaci%C3%B3n-autom%C3%A1tica-acondicionado-deshumidificador/dp/B07RVDTYN4/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=1ZSEAOZN6E6FB&dchild=1&keywords=mini+condensate+pump&qid=1590621144&sprefix=mini+condensate+pump%2Caps%2C545&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFQWVQxUUs3RlZMS0QmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA1MDMzMzhFQjFFTzE1Sk9DS0omZW5jcnlwdGVkQWRJZD1BMDQ1ODAyOTJJTlFYV0Y3RzBVMU4md2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl
Shit!
The URL still worked.
But there is a trick with amazon links. You can leave out everything starting from ‘ref=’ and it will still usually work.
Cool, noted, thanks
We got one for our last UHE furnace from Home Depot:
https://www.homedepot.ca/product/little-giant-littlegiant-vcma-15uls-115-volt-condensate-removal-pump-with-safety-switch/1001415534
I’m sure furnace/HVAC suppliers sell ones like this as well.
I note that these seem to work with the condensate in the cycle that would otherwise go down the drain hose.
Does it help with condensate on the system that just runs down the mechanism and puddles under it?
What kind of portable? Mine is on wheels with a hose that I put in a bucket, and a piece that goes in the window to draw air? Big accordion hose from window to unit, small hose to bucket.
Isn’t every portable built to that spec?
Most, not all
A pump would hook up to the drain hose, and goes out the same place as the Condenser exhaust, simple and no mess
Yusef drinks too much
You and me both, buddy. The AA meetings next year are gonna need stadiums rather than church basements.
Have i got a story or two to tell……
I just moved my portable a.c. into my bedroom. This is unusually late for me. Usually I need it in April
We turned on the AC unusually late too. The fruit trees look like they will bear a small crop this go “round. Cherries were good though.
Check your filter!
If my HVAC filter affects my fruit trees, I’m doing it wrong…
Check your filter because it’s a good idea.
Regards your last question, you have either a clogged drain or a cracked pan, that shouldn’t happen
The drain still drains quiet well, and the thing hasn’t moved since last year, other than impact, what might crack the pan?
*quite
And that’s judging by how much ends up in the bucket.
Nothing should crack it, that’s why it’s odd to me, PTACs are pretty reliable, I still drag one around for emergencies, customers love that shit when your waiting on a part….
Well, as I said, it’s still cooling just fine. The only problem was the water.
From my POV, water is cause for concern, I get paid to fix your issue
Are there any diagnostic steps short of cracking it open and looking for damage that can be taken?
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1265754061737021441
OFFS!
When I first heard otherwise mentally competent Americans clamoring for a NHS for us, I assumed they were naive.
Now I think they have to know that nationalized healthcare is bad, but it’s worth it to them for us all to have equal healthcare. Except the elite public servants. They will go to Switzerland and pay a private doc.
Egalitarianism is always about bringing everyone else down to your level.
“He CAN breathe. Anyone who does jiu jitsu knows that someone can’t choke you with a knee of the back of your neck. He’s playing it up for the person recording.”
https://twitter.com/MattBohl25/status/1265372401606569985
cool story, bro
well obviously the Cop didn’t know Ju jitsu…….
Funny how cutting off the blood flow to your brain has a deleterious effect.
I’m talking about the guy who posted that tweet.
I bet he died to just play it up for the person recording too.
*looks at his profile picture*
There’s no way in fuck that guy does jiu jitsu.
Seriously. Dude can’t even flex his lats…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZC6QAnX0AUYtwj.jpg:large
Angela Merkel, worst Chancellor ever.
I never will understand her longevity in that position. Last decent night one they had was Helmut Kohl.
East German native educated in one of the communist brainwashing institutions. Full blown commie to the bone.
I would say also worst German voters ever.
“…worst Chancellor ever”
How can that be?
I guess German society is like their military. There is no history before 1949. I think I heard of some worse anti-Semitism in the years 1933-1945.
This is not to say everything is good the some (((folks))) in Germany and Europe now. Life has grown steadily worse for (((some))) over the last 20 years and the pace of scheisse has gone up remarkably in the last 6-7 years. No idea why. I guess it is unknowable.
I personally know (((people))) who had to move from their home of over 30 years because of the ramp up in anti-Semitic acts. The abuse was sporadic and grew and grew. The last straw was attempted arson with a neighbor who was a witness refusing to cooperate with the police.
ELO makes me happy. That is all.
I saw the tour for that Album, great live show! 15 years old I was,
ELO is a great band. I have always liked this one.
How is the stock market so high when the economy is in reality quite crippled right now?
Gamblers betting on a boom when the lockdown lifts?
Pyramid scheme. I keep asking your question, Hayek, when there is a limited production of goods what makes the stock value increase? We’ve seen these things before and then a real day of reckoning sets in. One of the affects of the stimulus, the money has to go somewhere. Stock prices inflate.
I’m confused…
Yeah…. I’m thinking wall street is betting that those dollars are worth a lot less now that they’ve printed an extra 8 trillion of them in the last 2 months.
I believe that all the smaller players are about to go bust. The big guys inch closer to monopoly for a period. I predict less competition for those more able to weather this storm. If’n I had to gamble, of course.
Still can’t sit at the actual bar but on the high tops “close” to the bar. Apparently by Friday we can but @ 50% capacity…so 8 people. What a fucking joke.
Come down! Coveu was wide open, lunch and pitchers at the bar…
So, from the “I control the universe, but only in tiny and perverse ways” department….
Today I controlled the weather in Cape Canaveral. We vacillated about whether to go…. it certainly didn’t look good. So at the last moment, the sister in law and I jumped in the car with my middle child and headed out.
We were on the road, about to cross the bridge onto the causeway ….. .3 and a half hours of driving…. A mere 2 miles from our destination. 15 minutes until launch…. “Abort due to weather”….
Yup. No question about it. That was me.
The good bit? We were right at the exit. Another 30 seconds and we would have been forced to cross the causeway before turning around and coming back, stuck in traffic the whole time. 30 seconds that saved me an hour or two sitting in traffic. So thanks for that, anyway.
I was at the last Shuttle mission, so I figured I needed to be at the first US mission after the shuttle. Saturday we’ll probably hit Playlinda Beach instead.
I say hit the launch. But thats me and I may or not have been drinking
Don’t they shut that down with launches from 39A? Also, I believe the national seashore is still shut down…
Wife and I are thinking about driving over for it on Saturday…
That’s a definite “sometimes”. It was open for Demo Falcon Heavy. Apparently, the best place to “feel the heat” without paying for “feel the heat” tickets.
From what I hear it has more to do with the beach closing at sundown than for launch purposes.
I’ve been up there several times… only seen a couple of launches. Never tried Playlinda though. It is less than 4 miles from 39A, so much closer than Titusville at 7.5 miles and the causeway at 13.
If the weather is a little better than it has been all week, I’ll probably hit the beach there early so I can get a good spot for viewing and let the kids play in the ocean for a few hours.
Ok, after doing some looking… the parks seem to still be closed due to covid. At least the websites think they are.
And they seem to have changed something about playalinda over the last couple of years. It says the beach is closed for falcon 9 launches – there used to be a line you couldn’t go past. I wonder if that’s still the case.
I really want to have the up close experience without paying $300 for the privilege.
It really is an impressive experience, especially when you aren’t expecting it. I was on the Cape about 15 years ago for work, and I was driving through the Air Force station on my way back to my hotel with the top down on the rental convertible. Noise like I’ve never heard before, and I see the rocket going up in front of me. Find out I was outside of the exclusion zone, but just barely.
I still have some friends who work for NASA at the Cape. I really need to get in touch with them to see if they can get me close for a launch sometime…
Angry Eyes
That was on the radio every hour when I was a pup! Thanks.
Preferred Ebony Eyes.