Not much going on here, aside from finishing up my shopping.
Here’s some links!
Cruise ship passenger fell overboard off the coast of Mexico. The Coasties gave up.
I don’t know who this guy was.
Team Brandon sends foreign aid to Latin America, designed to addressed “root causes” of the constant migration:
Among the new initiatives announced Monday are a push by Nespresso to support coffee-growing in Honduras and El Salvador, a Microsoft initiative to connect millions of people to the Internet and a $100 million commitment to the region by Mastercard to promote digital payments and e-commerce.
Rechazar la modernidad. Abraza la tradición.
Right, the problem is they don’t have the internet. They just use magic internet money next door.
Free vaccines! Just stop talking to Taiwan.
I keep hearing Latin American culture is specifically conductive to communism, but Latin American culture keeps rejecting their rhetoric. Weird.
Nobody in Cuba heard you, they censored the award show.
For a guy they insist is a dictator, he really sucks at it.
Here’s a tune. Make today your own.
What’s with all the Furriner links? almost like it was writte.. NVM
It’s all just Head Games.
What is this!? Who set this on Head Games?
Almost like what? LIKE WHAT?
*throws a cat*
I love the tune. I love that album.
Thanks
Another CD I had as a teenager that I sold when I growed up.
Another CD I bought long after I growed up.
That’s because all CDs were made long after you growed up! (Me too.)
She was born in Campinas, the last city in Brazil to prohibit slavery in 1888
Can’t be the US was the last holdout on slavery.
Mauritania?
Umm, Libya would like a word…
Last holdout? No, we were the only country to have slavery in the history of the world.
Wage slavery, Dude.
We’ve never stopped.
Based
In response to:
I like this guy.
How the mixed-race mestizo myth warped science in Latin America
Does this have something to do with Apocalypto? I have been told that is a racist film.
That article made my brain hurt so I dropped out of it about halfway through.
Viva la Raza?
There were English subtitles!
racist film
Well, Mel Gibson directed it, so it has to be.
If you’ve ever watched History Buffs on YouTube, that guy has an irrational hate boner for Mel Gibson.
Most of his videos are great, but if it’s a Gibson historical movie(to be fair, they are not accurate) watch the spittle fly.
https://youtu.be/U5pBZKj1VnA
Team Brandon sends foreign aid to Latin America
Yeah, I put that up on FB baiting my leftie friends with “hmm, making Central America safe for capital interests again”? I think I’ve fished out that hole.
I did my rattling of Facebook, however unintentional, by refusing to use they/them for a singular person in a synthesizer group.
It’s pretty crazy how far people are willing to try and force others to conform to a their preferences. Someone even went so far as to note that the APA, an academic style guide for the soft sciences, recognizes they/them as a singular pronoun, and therefore I should too. These people are fucking crazy.
The Brazilian deep state neuters Bolsonaro even more effectively than the US deep state neutered Trump.
“We’re not communists.”
The vice president shifted the conversation to a more radical approach, pointing out fundamental racial flaws with the existing financial system.
“Some of these designs were just designed not to benefit the people that we’re talking about,” she said, before pausing. “Or the better way to say this, it was designed to benefit other people,” she added with a laugh. …
“It’s not only about a state of mind in terms of this new approach, it’s about restructuring a system,” she said. …
“Part of the challenge of ensuring equal access and the equitable distribution of resources is the people need to know their rights,” she said.
Harris said the coronavirus pandemic only added to concerns about whether “folks can trust the system, whether they can believe in the system, whether it is working for them, whether it sees them.”
Yes, you are. You’re not even hiding it any more.
“Brazil’s president has argued that those backing the use of vaccine passports want to restrict freedoms of the population.”
Worst dictator ever.
Worst “former Army captain” turned dictator, everr
Well, I think he was a Lt Col, but I can see Swissy dolled-up in some Idi Amin or Gaddafi outfit, running Glibertopia.
I could totally picture Swiss rocking a gold AK.
Warlord Swiss would certainly be among the best of timelines.
I claim the role of Minister of Shitlording.
MP5, but yeah.
SIG556.
That or a P210.
Imagine being this person.
A purple-haired Instacart driver destroyed an elderly couple’s “carefully budgeted” $50 of groceries because they have a yard sign that reads “thank you Blaine P.D.”
Tara looks like a dude in a purple wig.
And totes cray-cray
I can’t remember if this line was in the novel or just the film, but: “Scarlett, you’re throwing away happiness with both hands.”
Note chin and hair color.
“Instacart doesn’t pay employees sry [sic] find another slave f– the police racist pigs.”
And Im sure if she gets arrested she’ll feel vindicated by being oppressed.
I hope they beat the shit out of her.
/not a fan of cops, but….
I don’t think you have to be a fan of cops to think freaking out at and smashing the groceries of old people who were raised to trust the police is a really terrible way to act.
But the woke currently in charge raised these people to believe it’s ok to trash the property of anyone who triggers them. And that being triggered means laws don’t apply. So nyaah nyaah.
From a follow-up on the story:
Blaine police said the homeowners received a full refund from Instacart and a family-organized grocery fund has raised more than $3,000 from the community.
It’s nice to know that the community made an effort to help the old folks out. But, honestly, you’d think Instacart should be doing a little more than a refund. I mean, it was their employee who decided to throw the tantrum and they probably don’t want to be known as the company that will send lunatics to abuse old folks.
I mean, it just makes common sense. ///TrustTheScience
Guys if you’re under tornado warning, review the CDC guidelines before going to a shelter. There are different guidelines for the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
The first step is find a vaccine
I’m trying not to hate.
I’m trying not to hate.
I’m trying really hard not to hate.
Let the hate flow through you.
Use the hate, Luke.
Why, let the hate flow through you!
Keeps you focused. Makes you STRONG.
Let it go. They hate you.
To clarify, “go” = “flow”
Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength
the hate keeps you warm
How many idiots will die because they followed this bullshit
But at least they died from an act of god, and didn’t infect anyone else.
They seem to think tornados are like hurricanes that get spotted several days before landfall so that some level of preparation can be done before the storm hits.
The idea that if you hear the tornado warning sign, you should go get a covid shot is completely ridiculous.
In reality you’d be lucky to have time to put on a pair of shoes and grab a flashlight.
Exactly.
No enough.
They just shoot the unclean, don’t they?
Keep your hate-speech off our campus.
Saint Louis University (SLU) is threatening to expel or suspend a student for posting flyers advertising the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh’s off-campus speaking event, according to the Young America’s Foundation (YAF).
The student, James Dowling, was told in a Dec. 9 video conference with school administrators that he could face expulsion for his “inappropriate conduct” and “failure to comply,” according to YAF.
Dowling, a member of the SLU College Republicans group, was putting up flyers advertising Walsh’s off-campus event on Dec. 1 when nearby SLU administrators, uncomfortable with the presence of SLU’s name on the same flyer as the SLU College Republicans, told him to take them all down, according to YAF. Dowling reportedly offered to cross out the names on the flyers with a marker, but the administrators wouldn’t accept the compromise.
In a letter dated Dec. 9, the SLU Office of Student Responsibility and Community Standards sent Dowling a letter detailing his alleged breaches of SLU’s “Community Standards.” The letter also noted that Dowling would be required to attend a hearing for his “Suspendable Violations.”
Such tolerance. Much inclusion.
Hives of mentally ill and intellectually intolerant assholes.
I think it would be damn hard for me to trust the output of any university the last decade, maybe two, in any hiring decision. Oh, you have a BA from this psuedo-elite school? How nice, I think you’re over-qualified for what we’re looking for.
I praise Allah that my days of having to hire people are coming to an end, and I am unlikely to be looking for anyone that isn’t out of school at least 10 years. I have small department and we can only use experienced people.
I was amused recently when an intern rotating through my department sat in on one of my meetings. I referred to illegal immigrants as “illegals”. She could barely contain herself, but I suspect my regulars had warned her about me.
I just call them “Mexicans,” but I admit I can get away with that sort of thing.
The new phrase is Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. Please keep up.
Keep up yourself, you’re a letter behind.
DEIBJ
Shame on me. I failed to do the work. I promise to do better.
That’s quite the website.
How the fuck did I read all of that?
I’m laughing, not how, but WHY?
OFFS.
I’m two letters behind.
Look at LGBT here…
Yeah, I remember the days of GLB.
I remember just G&L
Diversity Equity Inclusion Believe Jussie
They know it’s a 1A violation, but they also know that he will have to sue them and that it will be a long and complicated process, ie that the process is the punishment. I hope the FIRE gets ahold of this; they have an impressive record winning 1A cases against government-owned universities.
Better yet, get expelled and find a school that believes in free speech. Hell, he’s probably getting offers already.
I heard he got offers from both universities.
It’s a private university, so I don’t know if that applies. But, even if it were public, unless there are punitive damages against the colleges, what’s the point? Three or four years later the college gets told they were in the wrong?
I’m wondering how the “SLU College Republicans” are supposed to put their name on a flyer without “SLU”.
They just need to put up two flyers. We don’t worry about saving trees anymore, right?
Meanwhile in Japan:
“Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided. Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent. Please do not force anyone in your workplace or those who around you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.”
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/covid-19/vaccine.html
When the Japanese are enforcing less conformity than you are, you might have an issue.
Or is it because Japan is such a conformist society that they don’t need to make it explicitly mandatory?
Winner!
But what do the Bozuzoku think about it?
Evidently Pfizer doesn’t own the Japanese politicos and media like it does here.
Japan just went right to the top of my “ex-pat locations” list.
“Japan just went right to the top of my “ex-pat locations” list.”
Here, this will help you make up your mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFSeq0lAfnk
Thanks to whomever dropped that link recently. I have been down a rabbit hole so to speak.
どういたしまして!
I already watched that one.
And I have a good number of visits to Japan already. I lived in Okinawa for a year and traveled to the mainland many times.
Love the Japanese people. One could do a LOT, LOT worse than living in Japan, even as a gaijin.
Yeah now would be an excellent time for the US to admit they are completely wrong, but we are so far gone in arrogance and Biden doesn’t want another L, so we stay the course at full speed.
The Dems see the finish line. They have much of the country dancing to their petty little commandments already.
I just broke the not-a-law and entered two business establishments without my feedbag. Nobody said anything.
Yeah, I did that today also. I don’t think the covidicy is as deep as the Dems think.
Of course, I did see a college girl walking outside with an N95 and ski goggles today also.
During my last year there the ranking officers around me could not fathom how the Japanese could have such low infection rates and only a 1% take rate for the vaccines. They could not compute that Japan’s healthy diet, low risk of cardiovascular issues, and very strict border control were their primary defense. No, the genius officers and advisors were continuously frustrated that we were encouraging their government to take the vaccines, yet their people refused to yield. This whole farce is breaking people I would have previously thought were geniuses and/or outstanding leaders.
It started with TDS and hasn’t gotten better.
It started before that, and will get much worse the next person outside of the establishment that gets in.
Not the wholesale mask slippage leading to not even pretending to care what the peasants think.
I agree the rot has been there awhile, but they no longer care if we can smell it.
Cross immunity they gained from being exposed to similar coronaviruses in the past is probably their best defense.
Conspiracy theory?
The Chinese engineered the virus so that it would have less effect on Asians?
It’s heartbreaking to witness. It’s made me very sad.
It’s made me very angry.
Also, what Sensei said. They’re “asking” but not really.
Repeat after me. Japan wields these things softly.
My friend isn’t vaxxed, but her husband is. Why? because he has to work.
https://www.japan-guide.com/forum/quereadisplay.html?0+171962
Yep. That’s what I’m hearing from others who work there. Not forced, but it’s expected that you get vaxxed.
I wonder where on the scale of things that the government says not to do that coercing vaxxes falls? Below or above excessive overtime and sexist workplace policies & practices?
Carnival said in a statement that it informed guests Saturday on the Carnival Miracle that a passenger went overboard from the balcony of her stateroom. The ship returned to Long Beach, Calif., as scheduled on Sunday after a three-day cruise to Ensenada, Mexico, the company said.
Another Covid death?
In poor health in recent months, Fernández died Sunday at 81, according to an announcement on his Instagram page. A cause of death was not specified.
Another Covid death?
Vice President Kamala Harris and Guatemala’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Pedro Brolo wave at her arrival ceremony in Guatemala City, on June 6, 2021.
Are those chromed M1 Garands in the hands of the soldiers? And why the fuck is everyone wearing face diapers in that picture? Fuck.
Nicaragua has received one million Covid vaccines from China, days after it cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of Beijing.
Probably not worth it.
“The threat of promoting anti-vaccine tourism, due to the imprecision of the regulations that require the voucher, represents an imminent risk,” Barroso said in the ruling.
Go fuck yourself.
Politics and Prose Bookstore Employees Move To Unionize
Owners are progs, but are resisting unionization. I hope they organize so both sides can lose.
The name alone would turn me away from that store.
#metoo
But is it better or worse than Portlandia’s bookstore, “Women and Women First”.
https://youtu.be/e9r2o5ZnSHo
Women and Women First would draw me in because I’d think it was a strip club, but I probably wouldn’t stay long once I realized my mistake.
I’ve been there. They often have author talks etc. But, yeah, it’s lefty.
Thanks to my boss’s boss announcing it on a team meeting, everyone I work with knows that I’m friends with the incoming political appointee.
I’m wondering if any of these people is slimy enough to pump me for insider info so they can advance themselves.
Phrasing clearly intended
Muh democracy.
Such legislation includes the Freedom to Vote Act, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and the For the People Act, all of which have passed the House but have either stalled or failed to pass the Senate.
Clyburn told “Axios on HBO” that getting those bills passed “may require some jiu-jitsu, but that’s not beyond the Senate to do that.”
“They’ll come up with some way to get around it,” Clyburn added. “We had better come up with some way to get around it, because this democracy is teetering on collapse.”
If Dems can’t cheat it is the end of democracy.
Calm your tits, Mary.
Political prisoners held in solitary confinement while being denied access to potentially exonerating evidence? Check.
Record absentee vote acceptance amid record low verification? Check.
Censorship of opinions contrary to the views of the regime? Check.
Large portions of the public having no confidence in the election system? Check.
Duly elected legislators denied participation on transparently political grounds? Check.
Our democracy is teetering on collapse? Well, I can’t say he’s exactly wrong….
Another case of “you’re right, just not in the way you think you are”.
Ulcer surgery ahoy, late February. Yay!
Ahoy! ?
Good to hear, they sound like a nightmare to live with.
They have been, yes. I have a decent medication, but I still can’t stomach beef, pork, and eggs.
Hopefully it goes well.
May your timbers be properly shivered.
This amused me, but I am easily amused.
I would say 16/32″ because it has the biggest numbers.
Checks out.
0.500 > 0.5 ?
Heh…new aged question of which is heavier a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers.
I got “well ackshually”d on that on the Zoomies.
I would expect nothing less
doesn’t matter, none of them are in stock.
This is the correct answer.
Pull out your dick and figure it out,
That is some quality trolling.
From a precision point of view, 1/2 has the possibility of being the thickest but also the thinnest.
/engineer off
From this morning- fuck you Evan.
I just poured my 2nd Cosby Colada (50/50 NyQuil and bottom shelf vodka) and I started watching “Sneakers”.
*squee* One of my faves.
The scene where they walk in on Mary McDowell giving a piano lesson is a classic.
Are things starting to turn?
From below the crazy destroyer of groceries:
https://mobile.twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1470455120513142792
Faulci admits vaccines might be hurting?
Doesn’t matter. People have their minds cemented.
He pretty much states every possible position on vaccines, masks, treatment, etc at one time or another so that later on, he can claim “See? I told you so.”
My dad used to have a t-shirt that said If you Can’t Dazzle Them With Brilliance, Baffle Them With Bull Shit!
My mom HATED when he wore it.
It’s from March 2020
⬆ It’s old science that no longer applies.
Thanks for killing what little optimism I had left.
Seriously though, I wouldn’t have posted it if I had noticed that.
Ah, so from the same world as “you don’t need a mask” and “we won’t mandate a vaccination”.
https://youtube.com/shorts/BMZg74y0gTo?feature=share
We all know it. She decided to prove it.
“The process of fusion, referred to as mestizaje, has been so intense that a lot of Mexicans say it no longer makes sense to talk about race or racism.”
Smart people.
Titty Tuesday is the only thing that matters.
https://archive.md/MyqIp
#1 Oh Canada!
#1 is Thera Overing.
#2 is Liron Zituni.
#5 is Wendy Fiore.
#6 is Lily Rose.
#7 is Demi Rose.
I’m done trying to find out who these women are. When I run the pictures through Google Image search, too many have this as the first hit.
Or is it because Japan is such a conformist society that they don’t need to make it explicitly mandatory?
That sounds plausible. But, part of me wonders, maybe politeness on the part of the authorities might actually encourage conformity in a way that bullying doesn’t. I recall hearing some time ago that the Japanese police have a much better record of catching criminals than our own because the public is willing to trust them. But, maybe the police treating the public as human beings rather than “civilians” to be ordered about maybe encourages the public to maybe trust the police more. Of course, that doesn’t create an internal “other” you can rally your people against.
Maybe someone more familiar with Japanese culture can tell me if I’m entirely off base.
I can’t speak for Japan but I’ve seen a similar phenomenon in Germany.
America is a “low-trust” society closer in that regard to, say, Mexico or South America than to countries like Germany and Japan.
FWIW.
Better record on paper perhaps. I wouldn’t want to be at the other end of a police investigation in Japan. Or the rest of their criminal justice system.
My wife says if they can’t solve a murder, it gets labelled as a suicide.
Take with a grain of salt of course, but she believes that’s why they solve such a high percentage of homicides.
I was thinking similar thoughts.
Yeah, aren’t beatings a routine part of police interrogation there?
The Telegraph: The omicron epidemic is being driven by young, vaccinated people, according to mounting data from countries as diverse as the UK, Denmark and South Africa
I don’t doubt it. At first (a couple of months ago) , the data looked to me like the vaccine was just ineffective, made no difference. Then I started to see data that seemed to indicate that the vaccine makes it more likely that a person will not only get the virus, but get sick with the virus.
The spin doctors are seeing it too and deliberately obscuring or just not reporting the data now.
Ridiculous. They are actively harming people, children in particular.
At the 1 hour mark of this podcast they talk about a study of 1200 high risk healthcare workers in Argentina. 788 took ivermectin once a week. The others did not. Zero cases in the ones who took it. 58% of the others caught the virus.
This shit is maddening. How is it that everyone in the world isnt popping this stuff?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/16X3VckZeuuoXD0lCNJoik?si=zV8byerDTNaJmEeaTym_4w&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A57R7dOcs60jUfOnuNG0J1R
Careful…. The thought police might get you…
Double-blind study? How was the study population selected? How were they monitored for infection?
I dont know that RC, the Dr just mentioned it quick on the podcast. Scruffy mentions below that the study might be fugazy though. Now Im not sure about any of what was said on there.
That particular study has come under some criticism but there are plenty of others.
c19ivermectin.com
A family friend whose husband is in the hospital with Covid/pneumonia sent us a link to where we could buy some from India.
We ordered it; no idea if it’s safe for human consumption or is even ivermec.
I got some from Canada. Expensive as hell though. I almost got it from India but the I googled the brand name of the stuff they were going to send and couldnt find it. I hope we both get real stuff. Mine still hasnt gotten here.
Would love to be able to take it as a preventative but too expensive. Save it for if me or wife gets sick.
I am sufficiently paranoid about health care options now that the government has proven they can and will step between you and your doctor that I bought an oxygen concentrator and an attachment that lets it be ported into a CPAP machine or just put under the nose (cannula style).
My husband and I both have CPAPs that we bought online after our overpriced original ones we got through our clinic eventually wore out. Now that it’s well publicized that CPAPs and supplemental oxygen were all that was needed in most cases (vs the invasive and risky intubation), I want to be able to self-treat future respiratory illnesses.
Zinc, vitamin C and D are also stocked up. The zinc is stupidly expensive now but if it drops, I’m buying more.
Quinine
Get some quinine.
Good idea.
I meant to mention above that if you shop around you will be able to find a place that will sell you a CPAP w/o a prescription. At least before the govt cracks down. I recommend doing so for any Glibs who have ever had a breathing issue.
The only thing I have to get a prescription for is albuterol for the nebulizer (nebulizer machines are cheap and don’t need a scrip). But so far docs are fine with prescribing that on request ostensibly to treat asthma, from which I no longer suffer (thank you, American Southwest!).
I bought me last CPAP without a prescription. They sent the instructions for how to set it up.
I should probably buy another one.
They used to sell CPAPs on Amazon but they pulled them sometime back. Ditto my favorite mask (Res-med). Just saw my Dr. the other day and he said that he’ll write a script but the insurance company may want me to do another sleep test.
Can either of you glibs point me to a source? Everywhere I have tried (and I haven’t tried too hard) wants a script.
They have cracked down but some sellers just need a fig leaf.
Here’s one that lets you fill out a questionnaire (in which you say you’ve been diagnosed with apnea and have had a CPAP machine in the past etc) and their doctors then write you a scrip.
https://www.easybreathe.com/CPAPRX-Overview-80/?msclkid=ff8287fc904911915e3be645a8ec5989&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Mobile%20-%20Manual%20Bing&utm_term=%2Bcpap%20%2Bprescription&utm_content=RX-CPAP%20Machine%20-%20M-M
Once you have that on file, you can buy whatever you need.
Replacement parts don’t need a prescription either, but “pre assembled” masks do, so always buy the mask “kit” instead.
Thanks, HE!
Mrs. Animal is being treated for pulmonary hypertension. Her cardiologist told her, “I can’t tell you to take quinine, technically, but if you drank some tonic water every day it couldn’t hurt.”
Is tanqueray optional?
Quercetin is what the FLCCC is recommending. It’s an analogue to quinine and readily available as a supplement. 250mg daily.
The purpose of both is to facilitate the migration of zinc into the cells and zinc is what interrupts the viral replication. So take it with zinc.
I’m open to all the non-official drugs (zinc, Vit. D, quercetin, Ivermectin etc.). However, if you’re going to use quinine straight (as opposed to tonic water), do your research. Apparently the line between therapeutic use and toxicity is a lot finer than for many such supplements. I don’t have time to track them all down now, but there are pre-covid studies warning about problems with quinine. Here’s one (pdf): https://www.fda.gov/files/about%20fda/published/Serious-risks-associated-with-using-Quinine-to-prevent-or-treat-nocturnal-leg-cramps.pdf. Not saying to not use it, just due your due diligence.
As for me, assuming things continue on their three-day trend, I should be over my dose of the ‘vid by Thursday. Mild hit I think and I’ve taken zinc, magnesium, vitamin d, vit c, quercitin. I was taking Vit d every day for the last couple of months and the others often (but not every day). I started taking two Ivermectin a day on Saturday (when the symptoms first came on).
Glad to hear you’re coming out of it quickly.
And you are quite correct on the quinine.
Hopefully it arrives.
Either here or on Reopen NH channels I saw reports of the FDA and either one or both of USPS/Customs teaming up to block Ivermectin shipments.
Evil. I wouldn’t have believed this crap was possible in the US if you showed me a flashforward 25 years ago.
Where I Live, No One Cares About COVID
Outside the world inhabited by the professional classes in a handful of major metropolitan areas, many Americans are leading their lives as if COVID is over.
Wow.
Yeah, I keep circling back to “When we retire, sell the Casa Dean and move to a small town where you don’t see so many people who are BUGFUCK NUTS.” Haven’t really settled on a towns that might be of interest, though.
I always thought for me it would be some college town. Plenty of amenities but in one of these smaller towns. That’s pretty much out unless it’s in Glib’s Gulch.
Lots of places for sale hereabouts. It’s damn nice if you can handle the winters.
I read that earlier today. Small-town Georgia here. Can’t say I’ve NEVER seen anyone wearing a mask outside, but the VAST majority of maskers in my area use it as essentially a badge that says “Democrat Party”. No kidding.
A few of the angsty folks like the teen he mentions. But mostly it’s “I’m a loyal D”.
I’m trying to figure out what the deal is with young parents going maskless but leading their 6 and 8 year olds along masked up outside.
(That was in California. Most of the kids I see here have sane parents.)
They are following the science of two months ago that if you’re vaccinated, you’re safe, and if not, wear a mask.
That is exactly correct
oh that makes me so mad seeing that. Also enraging are seeing elementary school kids walking home, outside, with their masks on.
I’m tempted to tell kids to take their masks off, but I’m afraid that will be worse than offering them candy.
The partisan divide on covid spawns a new reaction: Shrugs
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Because I’m not angry enough, I was browsing through the CDC’s COVID website to see what kind of nonsense I could find. The CDC’s own graphs pretty clearly indicate there’s no correlation between vaccination rates and infection rates. They also have a section where they declare that mRNA vaccines are safe for those men concerned it may affect their fertility. Their evidence? A single study performed at the University of Miami. They asked for volunteers and received 45. The study itself states that they had no control group, the volunteers were not representative of a larger population, and that their method of testing fertility in males is not the most reliable.
Why does anyone listen to these people?
It goes back to what was being discussed in Pie’s excellent article.
It’s an article of faith.
Do you know any COVID true believer you could show this to and rationally discuss it and have a chance to convince them?
Nope. All the true believers are too invested in it. I know a lot of people who are indifferent and just do what they’re told, and this would still have no effect.
I think it’s worse than that even, they would show the bullshit studies the Governor of New York used to justify her mandate.
Then they would say I even showed the science and they still don’t believe masks work.
I wish I saw a way to fix this.
There isn’t a solution to a purity spiral. It has to burn itself out.
Because they were raised and trained to do so.
Sneak-peek of a Bee headline before it’s out – “Biden: Vaccination now, vaccination tomorrow, vaccination forever!”
A big storm system swept in from the Pacific today and is now dumping rain (or snow, depending on altitude), in southern Nevada.
It’s windy too, so big drops are audibly hitting the windows.
I think this calls for a mug of hot tea and lighting a (propane) fire.
Putting the kettle on now!
Favorite time of the year.
I reckon all the Joshua trees (and other flora) agree!!
My tomato plants though……Temps dropped quick and they are toast
I wouldn’t have thought tomatoes could overwinter anyway. Most of my deciduous trees have gone dormant for winter, although the white roses were still blooming last week.
Looking forward to spring and seeing what some of the other plants are in my yard.
Just got a message from the department secretary. The entire North Las Vegas campus has lost power. Glad I worked from home today.
These euphemisms are getting pretty subtle.
Got my tea right now (actually all day, since the rain started early here in SoCal). It’s so nice. Might light the fireplace later for Extra Cozy.
Wife got me Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Viking Poetry for the English Spaeking World for me birfday.
Viking Poetry for the English Speaking World sounds intriguing…
I thumbed through it. I guess that is my what we are reading for January
Excellent.
I may have buy a Tesla just for this.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/liz-warren-fake-indian-elon-musk.png
LOL
I love how he gets the left all riled up.
They were ready to claim him as one of their own when his fame was growing and he talked about non-fossil fuels and being responsible about the environment etc.
But then he started making subtle remarks that departed from lefty thinking about the role of government. When the likes of Lizzie Warren reacted by bad-mouthing him, the gloves came off.
His Twitter trolling skills are excellent.
That and the fact that he employs some serious nerds. Naturally that means nerds (like me) also buy his car.
For example those of us outside the paradise that is CA have been screaming at him to put some kind of snow mode on his AWD cars. The bias, which worked great most of the time, was RWD. Problem was in the snow the car started to get traction from the front motor and shifted power too soon. It would appear they finally put together an interesting solution I would never have contemplated. If it measure wheel slip between front and rear it will bias 50/50 for two minutes. Thereafter it will revert to RWD bias. Rinse and repeat.
Model 3 Fact-Finding – AWD Split Power Bias (“Snow Mode”) Already Exists
Graph here:
I didn’t know that about snow mode! Cool. That could come in handy when I have to drive over the mountain pass.
You lived in SoCal and bought the AWD?
Look at Ms Racer over here…
I’m an early adopter when it comes to tech, sometimes to my detriment.
I do enjoy having an accelerator pedal that is more than the volume control device that I get with rental ICE cars.
And no, I didn’t actually buy the AWD. I’ve been contemplating getting a model Y though, and that would be AWD.
Snow moder above applies to the AWD only.
The plain AWD is significantly faster and torquier than the RWD. I treated myself to the $2k acceleration boost. My wife and son hate being in the car when I floor it. You will feel it in your stomach. The ridiculously priced “performance” model is even faster. I refused to buy it for two reasons. High performance rubber and easily destroyed 20 inch rims. I didn’t want to get winter tires and rims. I don’t regret not getting the package.
You’ll enjoy it.
There is still sufficient demand for a used Model 3 that the Model Y is very tempting if I sell the 3.
I dithered on the RWD vs AWD for a bit when I bought in 2018. It made sense at the time, but now the AWD model Y has a good range (330 miles) so it’s a new ball game. And now I have snow.
I have a deposit on the Cybertruck but they probably won’t be rolling out until 2023.
They generally are going to hate anyone who actually contributes. It helps them morally justify taking their stuff.
So from that dead-thread discussion about being concerned with who’s president. I’ll disagree. It really doesn’t matter who’s ass is in the WH or what party label is attached. This and the whole Assange thing – 2 or 3 different administrations, as different as the head-man could possibly be, and no fucking change in what the govt is doing.
Plus the entrenched bureaucracy just slow rolls any new policy from the executive branch that they don’t care for. They’re not going anywhere so they just quietly wait it out and keep doing what they want.
I’ll remember this when Bidenharris jacks your taxes the fuck up.
I introduced a couple folkx tonight. We’ll see if anything kindles.
Now it’s my goddamn turn. Godammit.
I’d rather go to BYU than put up with this.
BYU is kind of awesome.
I’m not going to either, of course, but if I were a wooly-headed kid who leans left but finds BU doing this, I’d rather go to the Mormon school.
Will Boston U cover their medical bills when someone punches them in the face?
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BU has seen several such violations. Last year, the university’s theater and playwriting programs adopted a policy of requiring “land acknowledgment[s]” before performances, with the theater program also requiring all instructors to “include a DEI statement in their syllabus.”
I can’t even. Those racists are missing 2 letters!
BELONGING JUSTICE! BELONGING JUSTICE! BELONGING JUSTICE! BELONGING JUSTICE!
That would be absolutely typical of any of the mandatory training required at any Fortune 1000 or the like company.
The original dialogue IS over the top. “Oooh, your husband is white… half Asian babies are the cutest.”
Yeah but intervening when someone makes a tasteless remark? That won’t end well.
For sure. In real life assuming you like the coworker that was stepping on this particular land mine, you’d change the subject and bail the person out.
The scenario is written so that there are three people here. That would meet the definition of what these inane programs consider an intervention. Of course so would reporting the co-worker to the Stasi, I mean HR…
Yup. I nod and smile and give them the answers they want, and then forget about it until six months later when I have to take the exact same test again.
“How to Lose Friends and Enrage People.”
I need to watch that movie. It a) features Simon Pegg, and b) is about Toby Young, who cohosts my third or fourth favorite podcast.
I didn’t know it was a movie…
Oops, it’s “Lose Friends and Alienate People.”
Speaking of South America, the woman who plays bass on that Perfect Circle tune is Paz Lenchantin, from Argentina.
And she dead kills it in that video.
Here is a good video of her playing, just her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg1PJap4PM&ab_channel=McDung
I look forward to more architecture along these lines.
ooh that’s kinda nifty. Though I will say it felt a bit awkward to be in the all-glass Wilshire Grand when the restroom for the restaurant at the top has an outer facing glass wall. The men’s room was apparently even more … visible.
I’ll give them credit, it’s not the most hideous piece of modern architecture I’ve ever seen. The plants help to camouflage the rest of the building.
Great example of misinformation: “The mystery of one California county’s vaccination rate” (https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-Mystery-of-Imperial-County-s-Vaccination-Rate-16697667.php)
“Still, the level of vaccine coverage in Imperial County — 74% of all residents are reported to be fully immunized, compared with 64% statewide — is apparently high enough to have kept major COVID-19 surges at bay this year.
Before the vaccines, Imperial County had been battered by the coronavirus. Even now, because of the severity of the outbreaks it suffered in 2020, Imperial County has lost a higher share of its population to COVID-19 than anywhere else in the state.
But while the San Joaquin Valley, which is demographically similar, has endured a seemingly endless onslaught of COVID-19 spikes in 2021, Imperial County has been largely spared. And for that, experts credit the shots.”
Since they have a high vaccination rate, you’d expect their cases/million to be lower than other counties with similar demographics, right? Hmm, I wonder why the article doesn’t give any numbers to support that. Maybe because their cases per million are about the same as all those other counties. In the last 3 months their cases/million are 442 vs 300 in Fresno County and 400 in Kern County (home of Bakersfield). For other counties I’ve checked the case rate in Imperial County is roughly in the middle of the pack if not above average.
I was raised to call that lying.
Even better, the statewide average is 174 cases/million vs 442 for Imperial County, yet the vaccination rate for Imperial County is 10 percentage points higher than the statewide rate. What a success.
Drunken, feverish, review of “Sneakers”
40 years later, its depressingly prescient, and holds up well.
Sorry you’re still febrile. Glad you’re well enough to write.
I wish now that I’d seen it.
Look at the hero we have here in NJ
Menendez slips, fractures shoulder in rush to get to U.S. Senate floor for vote
Were they voting on the legalization of child prostitution?
“Senator? Salomen Melgan is on the phone for you.”
Scruffy and your comments are why I come to this place.
“Yes your honor, I took his money and voted the way he wanted to, but I didn’t do it because of the money”
“Oh that’s all right then. Not guilty.”
I wonder what fresh horror he was in such a hurry to vote on.
I bet wishes he knew the CNN dude.
Guess who is taking the day off for babysitting duty with the granddaughter tomorrow?
Biden ?
You have that bassackward.
OOF. Poor Finnie.
Try again
Roman Polanski ?
It’s Fredo’s producer.
It’s Hitler,right?
I think it’s always Hitler.
John Griffin?
You’re all wrong. It’s the Gunslinger.