Its late, I’m in no position to get a lot done at the m9ment…
Controlled i im9lies they have control. They don’t.
Welp. Suddenly I agree with the communists. Clearly we need to abolish the Senate.
Ha! Harvard can stoke one and rub another at the same time!
Poor guy. He’s gonna get cancelled.
I told you clowns to buy gold.
Among other things, she asserted that homeschoolers are “socially awkward” and “in danger of maltreatment.”
But can they read and do sums? If so, they’re likely better off than a good portion of government school survivors.
in danger of maltreatment
As opposed to public schools and certainty of maltreatment.
They also need to know how to cipher. It’s a challenge.
“naught minus naught… leaves naught.”
“You gotta have something if you wanna be with me…”
But will it go round in circles?
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?
I’m guessing that Janet Yellen is a good example of public school. She must have gone to the same School of Economics as AOC and the Big Boss Man of Evergrande.
Bartholet is nothing more than a totalitarian.
Everything she says about homeschooling is in service of that goal.
She bases her criticisms of homeschooling around edge cases of abuse, yet never seems to acknowledge the abuse that goes on in the public system.
I’ll add she is a partisan. Her analysis isn’t comprehensive. It’s deliberately tilted.
‘Bartholet portrays homeschooling parents as tyrants who deliberately remove their children from society in order to do with them as they please. She argues that government needs to regulate or even outright ban homeschooling so it can keep regular tabs on children’s family life.’
All ur children are now belong to us.
It takes a
villagebureaucrat.I’ve not seen this in my lifetime. I don’t know how to react.
It takes a village of bureaucrats.
and they are all village idiots
“All ur children are now belong to us.”
They aren’t even trying to hide their intentions anymore. I can’t wait for the first report of a teachers asking children whether their parents watch CNN or Fox News at home; just as they did in former East Germany to determine whether people were watching forbidden West German stations, or approved East German stations.
Spinsters and confirmed bachelors (many on anti-depressants) are now experts in raising children. These people are asking to be mocked.
Cats are sorta, kinda like children…
They announced Space Marine 2.
On one hand I’m happy because the original was great.
On the other hand the company making it is different, and I can’t tell if any of the original dev team is involved.
So we’ll see.
They also announced it would be against Tyrannids instead of Orks. Seems like that should take it from a massive slugfest to a more horror feel.
They’d better keep the thunder hammer as fun as it was in the original.
I’m not normally a melee guy in video games, but I loved the thunder hammer.
Depends on the game. If we’re talking a
space stationLooking Glass451Immersive Sim (?) game, I’ll generally go the stealth takedown route as much as I can (with a little light silenced weapon as a backup). Brawlers like the Arkham games are a melee combat I really enjoy. Other then that, in games like Fallout New Vegas, I’ll go stealth sniping as much as I can.I default to stealth sniping.
Except if there’s a ranged weapon with infinite ammo, then I’m trying to snipe with that.
*remembers tunnel level in Space Marine and sniping orks with the pistol*
And the Arkham games didn’t give viable ranged options, and I preferred to avoid the mass brawls when I could.
The first two Arkham games I enjoyed the early mass brawls, it turned the fighting into a kind of rhythm game.
In game related, but not link related, news, I completed Cyberpunk 2077 this week (picked it up on sale a couple weeks back). I’m shocked that the game is still as buggy as it is so long after the release. There’s a lot of interesting pieces in the game, but they needed to cut a couple of the systems out and polish the others. They have a swimming engine (and perks/gear related to increasing your oxygen levels) that I used in one side mission, where I had an oxygen tank and didn’t need to worry about oxygen levels. Vehicles had no mass/weight to them (watching a Porsche go under a truck and flip the truck over was entertaining though). The hacking minigame was entertaining enough, but the enemy AI’s were… challenged. They also really thought I would care a lot more about Johnny then I did.
I tried to play Cyberpunk, but it became too repetitive and simple. Didn’t even bother to finish it.
I am apparently the only person in the world who never ran into a bug in Cyberpunk.
Though yes, the vehicles are… off.
UCS: Most of the bugs that I encountered were things like randomly being put in combat mode (while walking or driving with no enemies visible on the mini map), a subtitle background never going away after control was switched to Johnny (until a close and relaunch of the game), conversations where they talked about me killing someone who I had only knocked out, buff/debuff icons sitting next to my health bar with 0 seconds on them, vehicles being stuck in the ground and being unable to move, and the like. None of them gamebreaking, just a big pile of annoyances (especially for a game that’s been out for a year).
Taking a closer look at the trailer I note two things – One, they’re wearing primaris helmets and the bolter bros have bolt rifles implying intercessors. Two, Titus’ helmet has the white and red stripe of a Primaris lieutenant, meaning he got a demotion.
Is that a new Cabinet position and military branch? I would have enjoyed being a space marine in my younger years. Spiffy uniforms and all.
I’d like to see Space Marnie, but Tippi Hedren is too old.
Bettie Page is my dream girl! Can I have her circa 1950 as a special present for my Name-day? It is special and all…
She’s one of very few who could rock the “bangs” (fringe, for you limeys”.
She’s awesome. No tattoos!!
She’s a woman who inspired a million tattoos.
A Halfscore remembers this Betty
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=betty+bop%2C+wiki&atb=v198-1&ia=web
Boop boop be doop BOOP! I love those.
#metoo
Interestingly, throughout both the interview with the Harvard Gazette and the article in the Arizona Law Review, Bartholet offers no relevant statistical evidence to support her conclusions. Vague adjectives such as “many” and “most” dominate the places in her arguments that should include numerical values and percentages. For instance, she states that “many homeschooling graduates…maintain blogs giving voice to their own and other homeschooler’s concerns” and “many homeschooling parents are extreme ideologues.” Surely someone as highly educated as an Ivy League university professor understands the importance of citing scholarly studies to reinforce their claims. In my opinion, Bartholet’s lack thereof is suggestive of her failure to find any supporting evidence.
This methodology seems oddly familiar to me….
Are you questioning a priest?
Look around this world we made
Equality our stock in trade
Come and join the brotherhood of man
What a nice contented world
Let the banners be unfurled
Hold the red star proudly high in hand
Yup. Never seen this route taken before! Just a coincidence atop a conundrum.
many homeschooling parents are extreme ideologues
There is, of course, nothing ideologic about thinking that the state owns all the children, however.
I wondered about the morning wood, I should’ve guessed that W’s M had the links duty.
It’s nice to be reminded that it still works once in a while.
Controlled i im9lies they have control. They don’t.
But- but- The knobs. The levers. The switches. The blinking lights!
Are you trying to tell me they’re not really connected to anything?
Well, we have a power line so the lights will light up, but nothing else does anything.
Having done some IT work at a utility (with a nuclear power plant), my coworker and I walked out and he commented: “given their level of competence, it is pure magic that electricity comes out of the sockets in your home”.
For true economic collapse, I favor lead over gold.
This is one of those Frost things?
This. The alchemists had it backwards.
OT, but I really enjoyed City of gold and Lead as a child. The whole Tripods trilogy held up surprisingly well.
Assange loses appeal against extradition to US. You will be welcoming him to your shores soon?
What’s the point? They’ve already destroyed that poor fuck.
Now he gets an indefinite stay in the Manning suite?
What was the point of leaving the dead bodies hanging in chains outside the castle walls?
Not quite our shores – Guantanamo?
Unethical? When did that impede government action?
You butt-holes didn’t get the hint. I’m 57 today and look not a year over 58!
Happy Birthday little brother.
Happy Birthday!
You mean you share your birthday with
ChristmasDecember 10th?Happy birthday Festus!
Strangely fitting!
Happy birthday. As Winston’s Mom will tell you, I very much try to avoid my butt hole getting the point.
Thanks Boys and sorta boy, Limey! I never thought that I’d live this long but here we are, Glibbing. It’s been pretty unpleasant from the start and doesn’t seem to be letting up anytime soon but I enjoy what I can where I can and the rest of the world can just go fuck itself! This site is the desert island with Mary-Anne and Ginger. We drowned the rest of the cast in the lagoon and left them for the crab-feast…
Festus, you fall in between my own kiddos, you are the son I didn’t have but now wish I’d had. You have reached another milestone in your young life. Congrats, eat a piece of cake or moose jerky for me.
Thanks Dad I never had! I don’t actually celebrate anything but I’ll wolf down an order of McDonalds fries in your honor tonight!
Damn. I dream about my root family all of the time lately. It’s like they are calling me home but I don’t want to visit them. It’s always awkward and embarrassing. If that’s the afterlife , I’ll take the null and void, thank you very much.
It’s not, Brother Festus. That’s The Good News.
And happy Birth-Day, friend. Enjoy those fries, but make sure to eat ’em while they’re still warm.
I can drive left-handed. I’m not a total retard.
To Ozy – that was sweet, thanks for that! As I get older maybe I’ll start hoping harder.
YES! I like to think of “Hope” as the seedling of “Faith.”
It’s when you conquer your fear of the “what if I’m wrong…?” nagging that you can finally take The Leap of Faith, Big Brother.
That first step is a doozy! But what’s on the other side is… well, heavenly.
I hope fate contrives to give us a chance to do some hallucinogenics together, Festus. I really would love to share that experience with you.
🙂
You probably don’t want to see me nekkid, running amok.
Damn. You’ve sussed me out, Festus.
(But it’s kinda fun.)
Yummmm, French Freedom Fries, thanks, son.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, young feller.
Thanks, Sexy, sexy Tonio!
Well since you seem to want our approval of the day you rubbed your face in your mom’s vagina, sure, happy birthday.
This! This what was expected and delivered! Awesome! Thanks Pope!
*blushes*
You have a great day Festus.
You’re a good egg, Jimbo
Hmmm….
Hard, white covering beautiful yellow center with goo. Yeah, that is me.
Happy birthday sir, and many happy returns.
I figured you for an old fart, turns out you are merely a year ahead of me and I am definitely not an old fart.
Happy Birthday! Go eat a big steak and fall asleep cuddling with Judi.
It’s Marinara and too much cheese but I will abide. I love you, Friend!
HBD!
Happy Birthday, fellow 57er!
Happy birthday, young man! Illegitimi non carborundum!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, you young whippersnapper.
Happy birthday, iron man!
Happy birthday!
Their results showed not only are homeschooled students on a higher level than other students academically, on average
My completely uninformed guess, this has less to do with homeschooling specifically, and more to do with parents that give a shit about their kids education.
Also, since Winston’s Mom didn’t provide a music link, I offer an homage to the lady herself. I’ve been semi-following these ladies since Old Man linked their cover of What Is Hip some ways back.
ding ding ding
See also: “failing public schools”. The latest fad is to blame the “building”. Close it down and shuffle those kids off to another building that has better “airs” or something. Anything to avoid blaming the parent(s) for not giving a shit.
Feng shui – coming to board of education meetings in 2025!
Yeah, just look at the fully modern school house that, say, Abe Lincoln got to attend. No wonder he was so smart.
How can you expect students of color to learn in a building designed by systemically racist architects along white geometric principles?
Very nice bass work, but the synth horns put me off.
They may not have fine control but they have demonstrated the ability to destroy.
Fucking gif didn’t work
Well, I thought we were gently requested not to include NSFW gifs.
Oh? I’ll see myself out.
I thought we weren’t supposed to post gifs of fucking during the day.
As opposed to gif didn’t fucking work? Which of course would be no surprise to Rufus.
Its late, I’m in no position to get a lot done at the m9ment
Late. Early. I’ll ignore the typo.
Based on a similar later typo, looks like Winston’s Mom is using a membrane keyboard that had… fluids spilled on it.
It was a Gimlet.
The Economy Is Under Controlled Collapse
AJ has been saying this for at least a year.
Deliberate is not the same as controlled.
The Senate passed a provision on Thursday that would allow the Senate to more easily raise the debt ceiling by breaking the Senate filibuster.
Something something norms.
Clearly we need to abolish the Senate.
Not abolish, but return to constitutional form. I.e. make it the house of the states again.
Repeal the 17th!
Here here!
Hey Ozy, thanks for that article from the ethical skeptic yesterday. I’m still processing it, but his theory definitely has legs.
Dude has a strong element of “sniffing-own-fartdom,” but he’s also intellectually honest, smart as a whip, and willing to follow the evidence where it leads.
The self-referential glossary and overuse of highly technical terms is off-putting, but again – not an ideologue or dummy.
His hypothesis on how Covid spread seems very, very likely and his use of multiple sources from completely unrelated disciplines is something I really like.
His idea about “consilience” are something I wish more people would take on – rather than slavishly following one “authority”, TES goes out of his way to look for other, completely unrelated evidence that might either disprove or prove his working hypothesis. TL/DR – he’s a real fucking scientist in the old school (modern science) sense of the word.
The fecal aerosol theory definitely makes sense.
There’s a lot to process concerning the circumstantial evidence for a leak in 2018 leading to prior immunity in the Asia-Pacific region. I’m going to have to read it a couple of times to get a grip on it.
He marries hard science (like the genetic drift and mutation of the SARS virus, which he seems to have some background in) alongside a whole bunch of other pieces of the puzzle to arrive at a 2018 leak.
It also matches up very, very nicely with the various waves of the virus and he notes that China’s politicians have used that wonderfully to claim that their lockdown policies work when in fact it’s just that their population has had a headstart on getting to herd imunity (and, of course, that they’ve fucking lied about their deaths and no one in the west – or anywhere – is in a position to counter the CCP narrative because who the fuck really knows China’s population at a granular enough level to make claims of death numbers? “Oh, you say the Lee family lost a bunch of grandmas and folks with high blood sugar? Huh. The Wangs too, eh? Okay…”)
The fact that the Omicron variant is far too divergent from Delta or Alpha in order to be a recent mutation of either is a huge piece of evidence.
He keeps hammering “the narrative” on Omicron and I’m surprised that Twitter hasn’t just muzzled him.
I default to the fact that (a) Twitter bots are too stupid to have any idea what he is saying, and (b) those at Twitter that are smart enough, probably figure that most people can’t understand him and so his impact is likely to be minimal… so don’t make him a martyr. But he’s been crushing the “OMICRON IS NOW HERE AND DOOMPANIC!!!” narrative with the analysis of the “age” of Omicron. To me, what he’s doing with this is like what carbon-dating does to the “recent Earth” knuckleheads.
I recall a couple of things from early on.
Millions of Chinese cell phone accounts went away. This was explained as “oh, people had multiple accounts and cancelled one.” Which is possible, but I wonder.
The 4channers accessed air quality data from Wuhan, which showed an increase in, I think, sulfur dioxide. They calculated that the increase could be attributed to thousands, maybe more, deaths and bodies being burned.
What doesn’t make sense about his theory is that he says that the 2018 leak wasn’t of the (now-named) Alpha variant, but of a earlier proto-COVID, which ran for a whole cycle before the Alpha variant “naturally” emerged from it. And that the Chinese government then built a story in Wuhan around the Alpha variant to distract from their lab leak in Wuhan. But if the damn thing was already widespread, and the Alpha variant was a spontaneous variant, why would they need a cover story at all? Hadn’t they already gotten away with the lab leak?
RC – Have you read the article that Scruffy and I talked about? He has an entire theory for all of that. It’s about 80 printed pages, but I’ve been following him all along and so following this as he developed and refined it. But basically, it’s his view that as it made its way around certain latitudes, it came back into China and there was no hiding what would have been their “second wave” (IIRC). So now the CCP had to concoct an explanation for it as it became known. Out came the bat-fucked-pangolin explanation.
Also, remember that the original “ZOMIGOD” in November 2019 was treated as, “well, let’s keep an eye on it” and Democrats said it was racist for Trump to react the way he did. Remember Pelosi and “go hug a Chinaman?” But THEN the Dems figured out that it could be used to justify insane policies that might very well help in election fortification for a party that looked like it was going to get its ass kicked in 2020. So you’ve got multiple things happening. The virus itself is one thing – a physical phenomenon – but how it was used is something else entirely – a political phenomenon. But once it became a polictical phenomenon, then the Party had to control the Narrative around it and you get Lysenkoism at its finest. Complete and utter bullshit and politicized “science” – oh, which also provided an incredible opportunity for a serial pharma offender like Pfizer, which by then had completed its capture of the FDA.
I read it, fairly quickly. As near as I can tell, he has assembled a pretty solid case that the first lab leak was back in 2018, and what we are seeing now are spontaneous variants, some of which (Delta) the vaccine is pretty ineffective against, at least as far as transmission goes. The data on effectiveness in reducing severity appears to me to be suppressed, so draw your own conclusions. I completely lack the expertise to evaluate his fecal aerosol transmission theory, other than to note that it has been floated (heh) by others and then disappeared. Perhaps because fecal aerosol transmission would put an end to lockdowns and masking, but who knows?
OK, there was no hiding their second wave (although they managed to hide their first one, but I’ll go with it because the second wave was more severe).
If you were going to concoct a cover story, would you really have the cover story center on Wuhan, where the lab leak actually occurred over a year before? If the second wave emerged spontaneously, it wouldn’t have first popped up in Wuhan (in all probability). So why make a fictional cover story that points the finger directly at the actual source?
R C – I think you’re conflating our politicos’ Narrative with the Chinese. They’re not one and the same.
Also, facts are stubborn things and if you’re Chinand you know that people are going to eventually be able to trace the origin back to Wuhan, you can’t say, “Oh, this started in Japan!!” That Narrative simply won’t hold up. It’s like most good lies, you try to couch it as close to the Truth as you can, but deviate in one respect that only you know (what TES calls “Nelsonian knowledge.”)
China can’t get away from the viruses origins, or the likelihood that eventually scientists are going to pinpoint, so they admit to Wuhan…but point to the “wet market” nearby.
BTW, I’ve been to Wuhan – stayed and ate there in 2018, in fact. No one who has been there would be fooled by the “wet market” claim, but western intellectuals? Oh yeah. There’s no amount of CCP Narrative they won’t cock-gobble.
Maybe so, Ozy. I am less confident than you (and, apparently, the Chinese) that the Alpha variant would be traced back to proto-COVID originally released in Wuhan (the city) by the Wuhan labs. But I can see them saying “The best lie is one that has some truth in it, somewhere.”
If the Chinese had said something like “we can’t really say exactly where this virus popped up first” (as you would expect of a spontaneous variant that is widely distributed when discovered, see, e.g., Omicron) “but we’ve got it here in China. Looks like it could be a SARS-1 variant (they are related), etc.” I think their odds of getting away with it cold would be good.
Regardless, I think there’s a plausible explanation for the Chinese taking the misinformation course they did.
Bartholet outlandishly claimed that homeschooling is a threat to our children’s well-being and should be banned.
There is a way to deal with such tyrannical cuntes…
Among other things, she asserted that homeschoolers are “socially awkward” and “in danger of maltreatment.”
Awkward? Maybe. But not more than public school kids. Maltreatment? Basically assured in public school.
I’m pretty certain that Bartholet actual opposition to homeschooling is the typically traditional arrangement of marital and family duties. She’s a hardcore feminist of the Hillary type who wants to completely upend traditional marriage because of the slights she received during her ascension of the ranks in an admittedly misogynistic era. She wants to make it impossible for that era to ever return thru public and governmental schooling to her preferred social norms.
In reality, she’s no better than the misogynists she replaced. She wants to enforce her view of the world on everyone even if it means taking children away from their families and forcibly reeducating them.
For Festus
Thank You!
Festus, it’s your birthday / Happy birthday, Festus ? ?
(I ‘membered too. I know you have a hard time of things, but you seem unanimously adored, at least around here.)
Aww shucks! *digs toe into the ground* Thank You, Miss O’Grady!
Aw, warm fuzzies ( > cold pricklies).
That’s awesome.
The UK health secretary has stated that he has ‘no interest’ in legislating for mandatory COVID vaccinations, describing such a policy as ‘unethical’.
You’ll be dealt with by the “conservative” Boris Johnson.
For those who enjoy skiing, it looks like you may want to avoid Vail Resorts properties:
FTFY
Ah, but does not apply at the ultra-chic Colorado property. Well, of course not, the rich and beautiful would never be affected by such trifles.
“…consistent across the board…”
So they are also requiring proof of immunization against measles , mumps, rubella, HPV, HIV, hepatitis, and all the other communicable diseases right?
RIGHT?!?!
Don’t give them any ideas, nick.
Hey, Biden! The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
It’s here!!!
You better watch out … Omicron is coming to town.
DOOM!
As someone pointed out yesterday, it’s been here for months.
I’m on the back end of whatever variant I came down with. It certainly sucked and I was sick for two weeks.
I can see how it can lead to bad outcomes in really fragile people, but this needs to end.
The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been identified in Virginia. It is the first case reported in the commonwealth.
Lock it down. (Traffic on my commute sucks again. You scaredycats can stay home…)
A very belated comment on the snarky tweet about a week ago from the prog who acidly noted that if conservatives get their way on Roe v. Wade, that it would hasten the “Great Replacement” of white profs with more melanin-rich neighbors.
As if they can’t understand why conservatives might be sanguine with fewer white progs espousing murdering millions of unborn babies, with darker skinned neighbors who think perhaps would think that murdering babies is … well … wrong.
Best case considering this is none of our business.
President Joe Biden’s administration reportedly plans to push the Ukrainian government to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin by ceding territory, The Associated Press reported Thursday. …
U.S. officials reportedly plan to urge Ukraine to grant autonomy to eastern regions that are still controlled by separatists who participated in the 2014 Russia-backed revolt against the Ukrainian government. The eastern Donbas region has held a vague “special status” since the 2014 uprising, a status Ukrainian parliament voted to extend for another year on Dec. 3.
But warmongers gotta warmonger:
Biden has previously confirmed that deploying U.S. troops to help Ukraine fend off an invasion is not on the table, focusing instead on economic sanctions.
“We have a moral obligation and a legal obligation to our NATO allies if they were to attack under Article 5, it’s a sacred obligation,” Biden said. “That obligation does not extend to NATO – I mean to Ukraine. But it would depend upon what rest of the NATO countries were willing to do as well. But the idea that the United States is going to unilaterally use force to confront Russia invading Ukraine is not on, in the cards right now. What will happen is there will be severe consequences.”
“WWII is because we pacified Hitler!!!”
WWIII will be because we didn’t mind our damned business. Putin is asshoe but he ain’t Hitler.
Horseshit. Donbas democratically voted to secede from the greater Ukraine, then Ukraine responded by sending in troops.
Sounds a bit like 1861 America.
Something something “consent of the governed”. And how shall we apply “muh-slavery” so we can whitewash (tee hee) the whole thing here?
Donbas democratically voted to secede from the greater Ukraine
I wonder how fortified that vote was.
“Numbers were ready day before. Never opened boxes.”
It seemed to be in accordance with the popular sentiment. And even Putin had advised against holding the referendum just yet.
The short story is that the region hates Kiev.
Fucking gif didn’t work
Something something family friendly.
Putting a note on my calendar to check a year from now on how well this super smart plan is going.
JBC? Just Bring Cash.
It ain’t gentrification that’s pricing people out of the market.
Tear down what exists and build something less-nice in it’s place?
Par for the course.
Have a look at a similar cash grab that’s going on in NYC, and then weep for our future.
Guess what the answer is.
Move?
the City of Minneapolis has given exclusive development rights for a north Minneapolis property to a new organization specializing in redevelopment efforts aimed at thwarting gentrification and displacement.
People formerly referred to as “slumlords”.
I am in the hospital after surgery on Monday led to swelling on Wednesday.
Haven’t seen my wife since she was in the waiting room of the ER Wednesday morning.
It’s nothing serious, waiting to see how an ultrasound tomorrow looks to see if I need surgery again.
At least I have a private room, it definitely could be worse.
Catching up on Glibs helped keep me saner and the Joemala episode almost hurt me laughing when I got to the actual tweet.
Ouch.
Hope the swelling goes down and there’s no need to cut again.
Get well soon, hospitals are always serious
Yeah, It’s a good place to catch something deadly.
This is true. We are a collection point for exotic bugs.
Isn’t some swelling expected – nay, desired – after penis enlargement surgery?
Swelling is actually a couple inches south of that.
I did send my wife a few pros of this place:
Free food!
Comfortable bed!
People checking my blood pressure every 4 hours!
Young woman shows up and gives me drugs!
Oh, no. Sorry to hear that, Ron.
Hope you have a speedy recovery.
Why do they need to take an ultrasound for a hemorrhoidectomy?
Get better soon.
I hope you are better soon.
Hope you get well soon, so you can escape.
waiting to see how an ultrasound tomorrow looks – maybe you are pregnant?
If I am, I guess I’m a marsupial.
Hang in there, hope the swelling disappears sans additional surgery.
Good luck brother. Get the fuck out of there, huh?
My local VA hospital just did the ol’ “cotton swab prostate exam” on my basal ganglia.
I should know this afternoon if Ive been carelessly spreading the Kung-Flu around.
Seems like the severity depends on the strain. The one I and the girlfriend got knocked me out for a day, caused me to lose smell and taste 3-4 days after that (all back now thankfully), and just left me with a mild cough and sinus blockage. The girlfriend wouldn’t notice the loss of smell/taste (she’s already lost most of those), but she spent the past couple of weeks just coughing and blowing her nose.
She tested positive, I tested negative… so take that for what it’s worth.
TPTB – I saw Tonio mention we might be a little light on content, so I’m beginning a mass migration of a big swath of old blog articles. Just dusted off a series of 4. One’s in the hopper and the other three should be close behind.
I don’t know how much the Glibs can take of my brain droppings, but it’s a least some (pre)-text for comments.
I’ll try to get them up to Glibs standards, though some of the topics will be dated. (Its funny reading stuff I wrote that was “topical” 10 years ago).
Thank you.
Anything that you or anyone else can do is appreciated. We are in a lean season for content. We like to have content scheduled five days out, but recently we’ve only had enough material to schedule two days ahead. Issway ets-gay itchy-tway.
I have several stories in flight planned for the site, but I prefer to have the end written before submitting so that I don’t have a long dangling cliffhanger.
We appreciate that.
I just submitted Parts 1-3.
They’re short, but that’s me making up for the prior walls of text I’ve punished you all with previously.
Thanks.
I put together an article on all the work I have done keeping my 2001 Dodge Ram with 350,000 miles on the road.
I will send it in once I get back home, might be boring, but you get what you pay for.
My Ram is newer, but my objective is to keep it running for that many miles. I’m interested.
If it’s not good, people can dodge it.
For your penance you must write an article.
Penance not punishment?
It’ll be a stream of consciousness article that readers are invited to Ford.
Let’s Mopark this pun thread before it gets started.
Thanks, Ron. May all your nurses be comely.
Heh-heh, Juris’ first hospitalization, around 10 years of age was first met with crying and howls of “why?”, after which composing himself he remarked “I hope I at least have a blonde nurse”.
I had a smokin’ hot male nurse with a Russian accent during part of my stay last summer.
Dreams can come true!
Speaking of comely nurses…
First time I had a kidney stone (age 39), urologist performed a cystoscope to have a look around. After sitting around in the waiting room for a while, reading the pamphlets which assured me that I would experience nothing more than slight discomfort (note: it is a bit more than that), I was escorted into the room where the procedure was to be done. And there they were, the good doctor’s lovely assistants. Identical twins they were, and would not have been out of place in one of Q’s galleries. They had one job, and one job only: to apply local anaesthesia to the area to be probed. Sadly, I did not rise to the occasion.
Same test as last year but the answers have been changed
Speaking of sweeping assertions
Nurse Katie Sefton never thought Covid-19 could get this bad — and certainly not this late in the pandemic.
“I was really hoping that we’d (all) get vaccinated and things would be back to normal,” said Sefton, an assistant manager at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan.
But this week Michigan had more patients hospitalized for Covid-19 than ever before. Covid-19 hospitalizations jumped 88% in the past month, according to the Michigan Health & Hospital Association.
“We have more patients than we’ve ever had at any point, and we’re seeing more people die at a rate we’ve never seen die before,” said Jim Dover, president and CEO of Sparrow Health System.
“Since January, we’ve had about 289 deaths; 75% are unvaccinated people,” Dover said. “And the very few (vaccinated people) who passed away all were more than 6 months out from their shot. So we’ve not had a single person who has had a booster shot die from Covid.”
It’s bad, people. Really bad.
And yet, I am compelled to wonder how many of those unvaxxed people did not die, or get sick at all.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics
The inclusion of the months prior to broad deployment of the vaccines is an intentional distortion of the numbers.
Beat me to it. And the biggest spike was before vaccines were deployed outside of health care workers and the elderly.
That pattern, I am compelled to point out, is also consistent with the vaccine being effective to some degree in limiting severity.
Oh, and let’s not overlook that Michigan has been one of the strictest states for masking mandates and lockdowns.
How’s that working, toots?
Looking at the Johns Hopkins numbers, deaths in Michigan right now are near their peak of last January. (Of course there’s the whole “with” versus “because of” thing, but that effect would likely be the same ten and now.) In the USA, the current death numbers are much lower than a year ago, so whatever they are doing in Michigan is not working.
I was really hoping that we’d (all) get vaccinated
Fuck off.
and things would be back to normal
The intent is to remain in the new abnormal.
We have more patients than we’ve ever had at any point
I wonder what changed in the past 6-12 months. (What is “critical thinking”?)
Uffda. First ring suburbs of Minneapolis are now seeing a rash of car jackings and robberies. St. Louis Park is where the Coen brothers, Al Franken and Tom Friedman all grew up in St. Louis Park.
If you own a car you are asking for it. Life in the Big City, as Seth Rogan said
This bitches question doesn’t make any sense.
You don’t have antibodies all the time. You produce them when faced with an infection. The Fakeybodies you get from the vax apparently don’t work. So what, pray tell, is the point of the vax? ///Rhetorical ///JabsUntilYouDie ///ImmuneSystemSubscriotionService
I couldn’t get through 20 seconds of that. The gushing to get jabbed gags me.
“Brought to you by
Carl’s JrPfizer.”That was a great video.
“Look, I may have removed the locks on the henhouse doors, but I certainly did not let the fox in!”
Friday Funbags is ON TOPIC!
https://archive.md/1F91I
Grim news
South African scientists see no sign that the Omicron coronavirus variant is causing more severe illness, they said on Friday, as officials announced plans to roll out vaccine boosters with daily infections approaching an all-time high.
South Africa alerted the world to Omicron late last month, prompting alarm that the highly mutated variant could trigger a new surge in global infections.
Hospital data show that COVID-19 admissions are now rising sharply in more than half of the country’s nine provinces, but deaths are not rising as dramatically and indicators such as the median length of hospital stay are reassuring.
Although scientists say more time is needed to arrive at a definitive conclusion, Health Minister Joe Phaahla said the signs on severity were positive.
Don’t tell Foochy. He’ll be sad.
As if that guy takes facts into consideration. “I am science! I AM GAWD!”
Heh.
I asked 10 top government officials where government money comes from.
Do you think they had an answer?
I always wondered where the Fed got the money to “buy” government bonds?
From the Social Security lockbox… duh!
It is Money only if comes from the Money region of France, otherwise is sparkling currency
LOL
Very nice, Pie.
I vote for an applause gif for that one.
Damn that was epic, that one guy looked and sounded like he was going to cry.
You legally aren’t allowed to put red tape on your weapon as a civilian.
Including the following tapes.
-Red (Capitol Police, DEA, ICE, NARC)
-Orange (CIA, DIA, ISA, FBI, SS)
-Blue (Low tier Police Departments)
-Green (US Military)
Everything else is allowed though.
https://twitter.com/Judgementfully/status/1469059803586732032
Question for gun glibs: would you identify this tweet immediately as trolling or would it give you pause for a while?
Also
“I own a Automag 3 and flexed on those Glock boys on the range all the time because it takes a real man to fire those .30 Carbine rounds from a pistol.”
https://twitter.com/Judgementfully/status/1469283628073074690
False. No one has ever run a full magazine out of a Automag III.
I’ve seen it happen. The XLIV on the other hand…
The Automag (original) I shot couldn’t get off two or three without a misfeed.
I had a II and a IV. I don’t recall failures to feed in the IV. The II was a jam-o-matic.
Lousy triggers on both. “Like a long hike through a cold swamp.”
There you are, Evil. Gun question for you.
I am pondering the purchase a 5.56 rifle, which is available with either a 16 or 18 inch barrel. Does the extra two inches matter?
And yes, I’ll leave that hanging curve ball out there for the degenerates among us.
At 16, you run the risk of a cop mismeasuring and slapping you with a short barreled rifle accusation.
Get the safety margin
Well, hell, now it won’t be any fun.
Huh? 30 Carbine is a bit on the light side Mr. Realman.
It’s trolling.
The claim is absurd on its face, and not part of any law on the books.
Plus aside from the fact that the vast majority of those agencies are civillian, none of them tape their guns.
No one does as a rule, unless you’ve cracked something and are trying to hold a broken piece together.
I sometimes use colored tape (or paint markers) to identify what ammo is loaded in which magazines.
Legal? Who gives a fuck?
It’s perfectly legal.
In EvilSheldon’s Libertarian Autocracy (ESLA), marking magazines with tape or paint will be illegal. Laser engraving only.
That’s no good. If I wanted to change the ratio of loadout carried I’d then have to buy even more magazines with expensive laser engraving.
whycome you hate poor people?
…whycome you hate poor people?
Mostly because they don’t have any money.
apparently it caught a few
I don’t know about “trolling” so much as “full of more shit than a Christmas goose.”
You do know you’re supposed to clean the goose before serving it.
“fuddlore”
FOX news had Biden and Harris’ remarks regarding Smollett case up on the tv screen a few minutes ago. How do those two assholes claim to be “uniting the country” with remarks like they made? Obviously, they don’t care that anyone with a brain does not support Smollett’s claim.
What’d they say?
I am really starting to panic that the fucking vax certificate will only last 9 months in the EU. I don’t want a booster.
Does the EU recognize natural immunity?
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
US liberals want Assange to rot in prison for one reason only: his reporting in 2016 – based on true and accurate documents – reflected poorly on Hillary Clinton and the DNC. They believe opposing Democrats is a crime and want their adversaries imprisoned. They are a true menace.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1469303825811058688
the leftists were right Greenwald is a fascist
Everyone who doesn’t vote Democrat hates democracy. It is known.
I wanted to thank all the glibbies that answered my question about dealing with asbestos in my attic a few days ago. Truly the best community on the internet.
Now that I’ve buttered you up, I have another somewhat related question to do with radiators. I have a 2 story home heated with radiators from a gas boiler. A couple of the upstairs radiators don’t get hot enough to heat the room before the boiler shuts off (the thermostat is downstairs). My guess is that the downstairs radiators get the most of the steam because they are closer to the boiler, so the room with the radiator reaches the target temp, and the system shuts off before enough steam gets to the upstairs rooms (longer pipe distance). Can this issue be remedied by restricting steam to the downstairs radiators via the twisty knob valve thingies? The valves are all the way open upstairs. I’m hoping that would slow down how fast the downstairs radiators heat relative to the upstairs ones.
are the radiators/pipes properly… I don;t know the word … something getting air bubbles out
We would call it bleeding the radiator. Surely you can understand that terminology.
Hmm, if the bloodstream had air bubbles would that give a vampire hiccups?
Short answer is yes. Reduce the flow to the downstairs radiators while keeping the upstairs open.
This assumes that the radiators are connected in parallel and not in series, but that would be an odd situation.
The pipes split into two main lines about 3 feet from the boiler and then into their own individual pipes per radiator a couple feet after that initial split so I assume that is parallel.
Yes
IIRC from my time as a Helpful Hardware Man, each floor’s unit has a specific size of valve for that floor, to remediate that very issue. Installation of the wrong size for the floor was a common enough problem in Brooklyn that we kept 4 different sizes of valve up by the counter.
I don’t take anything being installed correctly in this house for granted. It was built in the 1850s and we’ve found many “fixes” that wouldn’t have been code when they were put in. When you say valve, you are referring to the knob at the base of the radiator where the pipe leads in? And the part at the other end is the vent?
Try this first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IP54Kbgnv0
Lawmakers lining up behind bill to bring 4-day work week to America
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1469120448650788871
What a terrible idea.
Is there a law that mandates 5-day work week?
Not explicitly. The way the overtime law is written implies that structure, but isn’t enforcing it as such.
Chip Franklin.com
@chipfranklin
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BOOM! New York orders Trump to TESTIFY under oath in their fraud investigation into whether Trump manipulated property values for financial advantages.
How do you feel?
That’s great! When are they getting around to Bill Gates manipulating the price of farmland in this country?
Do they mention how many hours will be in this new work week?
Minimum of eighty.
The Revolution will set you free!
Will we be paid 20% less?
-Everyone
Eventually, as inflation takes hold.
Google has told employees the company will not hike pay across the board to match to inflation: CNBC
I was told we’ll get a cost of living adjustment…next summer. They already set the percentage, so whatever inflation happens until then…
Also, other departments already got an adjustment this year, but they’ll also get it in the summer. So they’ll have gotten 2 when we get 1. And they wonder why our department is short staffed.
I got my 6 month delayed 3% raise.
At this point I’d be happy to take 20% pay cut to work 4 days per week. Even better would be 3 ten-hour days.
I’m akshually starting a temporary 4 day week schedule for a project beginning on Christmas Day.
Eek
New York Attorney General Tish James presented Gov. Kathy Hochul with an early holiday gift on Thursday, bowing out of the coming Democratic gubernatorial primary and making the incumbent a clear favorite to win the party’s nomination next year.
It’s not as though the field is totally clear for Hochul: New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Rep. Tom Suozzi and, probably, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will all be trying to get on June’s primary ballot.
Still, James’ departure is a significant moment in Hochul’s quest to become the first woman to be elected governor of New York. It removes a candidate who was thought to be her toughest potential obstacle and means Democratic state leadership and top donors will no longer be split between the two frontrunners, potentially narrowing the path for everyone else.
New York is fucked.
This was the incident back in October when a couple from Indonesia had their $100,000 Richard Mille taken at gunpoint.
I’m told by law enforcement sources they’ve seen a bunch of watch robberies similar to this.
https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1469168146216935426
1. it is funny being an expensive item the comments go directly to victim blaming
2. To Be Faaair, walking around on holiday with a 100k watch is kinda well… stupid
It was a present from me mother.
happy anniversary to the stylish but illegal monkey found roaming Toronto Ikea
https://twitter.com/vivianwmlee/status/1468989774824448007
Looks like half the people in Podunkville
“Super Bowl champion and five-time Pro Bowler Demaryius Thomas dies of an undisclosed ‘medical issue’ at his Georgia home aged just 33 – six months after retiring from NFL”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10295429/Super-Bowl-champion-five-time-Pro-Bowler-Demaryius-Thomas-33-dead-Georgia-home.html
Yikes!
That’s crazy
Oh, I’m sure it had nothing to do with any shots he got recently.
meh lets not jump to conclusions
The Mike Judge would be even richer if the Jump to Conclusions Mat was real.
Plus, we all know it Covid what killd DT.
“Deafening silence from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the cream of woke America who all swallowed Jussie Smollett’s lies
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and a host of other liberal stars are lashed for supporting Jussie Smollett in wake of 2019 ‘racist and homophobic attack’ he has now been convicted of faking”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10289921/How-Jussie-Smolletts-lies-impacted-America.html
What they said right after the “attack”:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1469100931346173954
Quite a collection of turds there.
8-12 inches expected right when I’m, supposed to go to work. Driving in the dark in a snow storm, fun.
8-12 inches expected right when I’m, supposed to go to work. – phrasing?
There is a link there that should show my thrust.
You know who else expected 8-12 inches?
A woman in bed with two men?
8-12 inches expected
That’s what I told Winston’s mom.
Go home and take a snow day, Mrs. Braintree!
Heh.
Poor Jussie. Hope he doesn’t beat himself up over this.
Bazinga!
Good morning, WM!
Thanks for the lynx. (Although as usual they tempt me to rinse my mouth with a revolver!)
Musical selection.
Have a great day, y’all!
“‘So the rantings of a white woman get you here and scare my children?’: Newly resurfaced video shows Biden’s new black Massachusetts attorney threatening reporters quizzing her about ‘unhinged’ confrontation with shopper where she ‘impersonated a police officer’
Video that has resurfaced after the new Massachusetts US attorney was narrowly confirmed by the US Senate, with Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote, shows President Joe Biden’s latest appointee angrily confronting journalists in January 2021 over a road rage incident, in which she cut off a white motorist and then appeared to impersonate a police office in a Boston parking lot.
Biden tapped Suffolk Country District Attorney Rachael Rollins to lead the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts in July.
On Wednesday she made history as the first black woman to be confirmed in the role by the Senate, when Vice President Harris broke a 50-50 tie along party”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10294747/Video-shows-Bidens-new-Mass-attorney-threatening-reporters-expletive-ridden-tirade.html
Half-black.
I don’t know if that’s “making history” or not. Or why the fuck we are supposed to care.
Because they have no one with merit
Biden tapped…
Oh no he didn’t.
She’s sure quick to draw the race card.
One must imagine Sisyphus hungry.
https://twitter.com/Thinkwert/status/1469123938810802184
Muh SCIENCE!-tistic consensus!
The invocation of a well-known vaccine skeptic is just one example of how federal judges have played down the seriousness of the pandemic while playing up supposed uncertainties about the effectiveness of vaccines.
——-
The cases themselves generally raise legal issues distinct from the federal government’s scientific conclusions. But in many of the cases, doubts about the seriousness of the coronavirus and whether vaccines are effective in limiting its spread have seeped into the opinions, as the judges have taken it upon themselves to explain why their scientific assessments should trump those of government scientists.
The trend cuts against centuries of American law that instruct judges to “be deferential to elected officials and the scientific experts who advise them on matters of public health emergency response,” said Lindsay Wiley, a public health law professor at the American University Washington College of Law.
“[A]s the state of emergency has dragged on and the response has become extremely politicized, some judges have become more confident in their own ability to weigh the scientific evidence,” Wiley told CNN in an email, “even to the point of rejecting widespread scientific consensus and cherry-picking testimony from doctors whose expertise is of questionable relevance and whose views are clearly on the fringe.”
The administration’s requirement — via the Occupational Safety and Health Administration — that large companies subject their employees to vaccine requirements or regular testing was the first to be blocked by a court, with a scathing opinion from the extremely conservative 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
Let me help you with that: as the charade has dragged on, the glaring disconnect between claims and evidence has grown too obvious to be ignored, leading some people to seek other explanations and opinions.
The cases themselves generally raise legal issues distinct from the federal government’s scientific conclusions.
WHAT? Legal reasoning in a court of law? What madness is this?
and the response has become extremely politicized
The response was politicized from day one. Ozy explains it more fully, below.
8-12 inches expected right when I’m, supposed to go to work. – phrasing?
Sounds like something Winston’s mom would say.
“even to the point of rejecting widespread scientific consensus and cherry-picking testimony from doctors whose expertise is of questionable relevance and whose views are clearly on the fringe.”
We should never have listened to Copernicus. He was nothing but trouble.
doctors whose expertise is of questionable relevance
As I keep telling people:
Fauci trained as a primary care physician. He is not an immunologist, and he hasn’t seen a patient in over 50 years.
He’s a legitimate expert in bureaucracy.
The cream of the crop.
His top paycheck proves it!
#CatholicsAreRight #JoeBidenFaithfulCatholic #NancyPelosiCatholicDemiGod
Gah. Last time I went to mass, it was for my sister’s wedding. I should have got my food and drink like those two. Instead I crossed my arms.
Just one more comment before I bounce off the pin ball bumpers on my way to chow and bed. You Glibs are the best! I was lost in a universe of beige before I stumbled onto this site. I was caught in a web of leftoids and Reason wouldn’t let me in. I enjoy every article and finally have a reason to look forward to Wednesday. Thanks so much, Founders!
Luv ya 2 bra.
#1 BEST BBQ in Texas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ8Ot42enNA
I like Mike Chen’s videos.
That looks good, but I’m on 3 days of the most tasteless food I’ve ever eaten, so anything looks good.
Even Burger King commercials look good at this point.
It’s kind of impressive, I don’t know how they remove ALL the flavor.
They don’t add salt.
It makes a big difference.
Chinese food delivery man reacts to Joe Biden flags
Relevant.
Reiss said it was especially an issue that the courts weren’t giving deference to the agencies at the early stage that these cases are in, before they have been fully litigated.
“Basically, the court is saying, ‘The agency is an expert. The agency has experts. But we believe these experts instead,’ even though they haven’t been interrogated in court,” Reiss said.
The Justice Department, for instance, did not have a chance to interrogate the doctor whose assertions about vaccines were cited by Doughty as he blocked the health care worker mandate nationwide.
Doughty summed up that in the viewpoint of the doctor, Peter McCollough, “COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent transmission of the disease among the vaccinated or mixed vaccinated/unvaccinated populations, and that mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for hospitals do not increase safety for employees or hospital patients.”
Doughty — a federal judge in Louisiana who was appointed by Trump — cited those false assertions as a reason that it made “no sense” for the agency’s policy to mandate vaccines without other alternatives.
No need to back those “false assertions” claims up. Because safe and effective.
Err, neither have the agencies “experts”.
Implied – he has no data to back that up. Now, is he on the right track based on the data? I have no idea. Is this report propaganda? You bet it is.
The notorious MTG.
I don’t serve the military industrial complex.
I don’t serve small arms dealers looking for paychecks.
I don’t support forever never-ending wars.
I’m sure as hell not interested in a nuclear war with Russia.
The Washington D.C. Uniparty is insane!
Like Drew Barrymore she can be attractive at the right angle and lighting.
I like her. Bigger balls than any of the rest.
Assume the Repubs will do to her what the Dems did to Tulsi.
Tulsi is blowing up, so I’m not sure that’s true. Controlling the narrative is getting more and more difficult.
She’s right, though. Wicker (R-MS) actually suggested we shouldn’t rule out nuclear war. Carlson interviewed Tulsi Gabbard on the topic. This shouldn’t be a left-right issue. More of a batshit crazy versus not batshit crazy issue. And if you’re taking the other side on an issue where Marjorie Taylor Greene stands for the not batshit crazy camp, you should know you’ve probably gone off the rails.
you’ve probably gone off the rails
New version of the trolley dilemma?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/violent-threats-prompt-illinois-lawmaker-to-shelve-plan-to-make-unvaccinated-pay-health-care-costs
Huh. I mean you shouldn’t… But worth noting…
This is too far gone to fix. There are many options outside of the Medical Industrial Complex. I am trying to extricate me and my wife completely from that fucked up system. We are exploring an old school medi-share program. You make contributions, pay cash for routine stuff, but there is a backstop if the shit hits the fan. It requires you to stay as healthy as you can, but we do that anyway.
Rationing is coming. Be ready.
*spits coffee*
“We are going to create two classifications of people, one with benefits and privileges, and the other marginalized as much as we can. But this division of society is in no way divisive.”
won’t pursue a proposal requiring unvaccinated Illinoisans to pay their health care expenses — including hospital bills — out of pocket if they contract COVID-19.
That this was even proposed is insane.
State Rep. Jonathan Carroll, D-Northbrook, said in a statement Thursday that he decided not to pursue the legislation he filed earlier in the week because of the “unintended divisive nature” of the proposal. He has since filed a motion with the clerk of the Illinois House to table the measure.
Go fuck yourself.
Violent threats got a politician to stop doing something shitty? Noted.
Attending [REDACTED]’s rants at the employees is bad for my mental health and blood pressure. [REDACTED] needs to be pushed out the door. If there’s something [REDACTED] can be prosecuted for, all the better.
(CNN reached out to McCollough and his lawyers in the Baylor case for comment for this story. His lawyers told CNN that they “vehemently” objected to the characterization of McCollough as anti-vaccine. In the declaration McCollough filed in the Louisiana case, he said falsely that the Covid-19 vaccines “are not safe generally,” that their “risks outweigh the benefits for the majority of the population” and that they do not prevent transmission of the disease among vaccinated people.)
“This is just one clear example of deeply flawed legal reasoning,” Gostin told CNN. “It’s absurd to [give] weight to a given doctor’s opinion, especially when that opinion is so at odds with both agency scientists as well as the clear consensus of scientific opinion, including CDC recommendations.”
So tedious. That entire article is nothing but an appeal-to-authority infomercial.
“YOU’RE LISTENING TO THE WRONG PEOPLE!”
The effing FDA said the vaccine was more dangerous for men under 40 than the disease. Was that “false”? And, of course, this statement looks at both risks and benefits. For the (vast?) majority of the population, the benefits are minimal, as the absolute risk reduction is decimal dust. And the risks? Well, it doesn’t take much risk to outweigh a minimal benefit.
I thought that was pretty much established. The vax may or may not reduce transmission (I’m not aware of any studies on this, which would have to be based on regular testing of vaxxed and unvaxxed people, on, and by the way, isn’t it interesting that we aren’t hearing anything about actual studies of this). Looking purely at test results won’t tell you, because, unless their employer requires it, people only get tested if they have symptoms, so asymptomatic people who are infected are going to be invisible in that dataset.
Now they just have to square that with the demand that even the vaccinated must mask up.
Fucking lying idiot hypocrites.
I took my pups to the vet yesterday. No mask. My vet is the coolest chick ever, so I asked if I had to wear a mask. She asked if I was vaxxed. I asked if it even matters anymore. She laughed and said “good point!”.
Normal people are done.
Local grocery store is no longer forcing employees to wear masks. The girl at the deli counter should have kept the mask on a few days. Those were some nasty cold sores.
For the (vast?) majority of the population, the benefits are minimal, as the absolute risk reduction is decimal dust. And the risks? Well, it doesn’t take much risk to outweigh a minimal benefit.
This is true of most vaccines. Under that reasoning, you’re a fool to get any of the common ones. Maybe tentanus if you play in the dirt or garden.
The other problem is the vaxed were never tested to see if they had already been infected. So the vax is undoubtedly redundant in some unknown percentage of people. Which means the vax is being credited in some instances when prior infection should be given the credit.
The data tracking on this was sloppy from the get-go. On purpose.
Crop circles are getting strange.
President Trump sent out a message today praising Missouri.
A Missouri farmer recently plowed a message into his field, “Let’s Go Brandon! Trump 2024”
“The tractor got drunk. It’s this damn ethananol in the fuel these days.”
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1469161387649736707
That shit doesn’t even make sense.
“Jussie Smollett’s guilty verdict just made it even harder for victims of hate crimes, @ZachStafford writes.”
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1469095019583836163
victims of hate crimes
That may well be a null set.
*race-baiting nonsense* “and then the Jan. 6 insurrection happened.”
1) There was no “insurrection”. I’d like to stop trivializing words for political purposes.
2) J6 is the climate change of political events. There is nothing it cannot be tied to.
Can we tie it to climate change?
Only if Jan6 made climate change worse.
Article in the works! I put it in the leads/submissions but I want to help the editors and do the formatting myself. I remember doing that before but I can’t find a way to do that now. I also have memory problems and may be being an idiot.
About living in another country and not knowing the language and what that’s like. I got art ready for it as well. And oh dear, the cover theoretically be a young(er) version of me. I look so happy because I am!
Heh.
Speaking to this month in particular.
“This is just one clear example of deeply flawed legal reasoning,” Gostin told CNN. “It’s absurd to [give] weight to a given doctor’s opinion, especially when that opinion is so at odds with both agency scientists as well as the clear consensus of scientific opinion, including CDC recommendations.”
Could/Might/Maybe- that’s what makes SCIENCE! special.
I guess getting a “second opinion” is no long ok in the medical sense. Science by bureaucrat consensus is the name of the game.
+1 NHS
Look… my opinion is based in a rational review of the facts. Your opinion is just hogwash based on your prior beliefs!
TMITE: Jussie Smollett being found guilty of hoax will hurt LGBTQ folks reporting hate crimes
Jussie Smollett guilty verdict will be used by Trump supporters to prove Democrats wrongly label them villains.
You expect us to call a spade a spade?
The Jussie Smollett saga may now be technically over after a Chicago jury found the actor guilty Thursday of five of the six counts he faced, but its impact will be — and has already been — felt for years to come. It doesn’t matter if the actor, who starred on “Empire,” really was beaten up by people yelling “This is MAGA country!” and is wrongly being punished or if he did stage an elaborate hoax, as the jury decided he did by finding him guilty of five counts of disorderly conduct.
I’m pretty sure false criminal allegations do matter, hence the guilty verdicts.
Instead, the seemingly never-ending questions over the almost three years regarding the truthfulness of his account means the indisputable victims of hate crimes will now carry an even heavier burden of suspicion.
If you accuse someone of a crime you have to supply the evidence…
The only winners found as the dust settles are the members of the right who have declared themselves America’s real victims of hate and discrimination — people who have strategically made the Smollett case their go-to example for how the left operates and how it wrongly makes villains out of Donald Trump supporters.
How dare someone use an example of something to support an argument that the left is asshoe.
Remember, the (nebulous and ill-defined) ends are all that matters. How they get there is of no importance, except it is preferential if it humiliates those opposed to their goals or even their benevolent rule.
“He reminded journalists that the police probe into the fake attack involved 26 cops, who spent 3,000 hours and $100,000 trying to help Smollett”
Cops really get pissy when you make them look stupid.
Explains why the cops are always pissed off.
I just got back from getting my basal ganglia swabbed, and doing my best to spread the Commie Croup all over SW Ohio, so Im just catching up.
Happy Birthday Festus, you metric bastard.
I don’t know if this shows the efficacy of the Jab or the uselessness of it.
My (deceased) dad’s best friend was hospitalized for COVID!!11 this week. He had two doses and a booster. He is, in Sconnie fashion, obese. He is in his 60s, has recurring issues with respiratory illness and blood infections that hospitalize him 3-4 times a year. He was in the hospital for 2 days, back at home. Make of that what you will.
Sounds like leukemia.
So you’ve used WebMD too ?
Unanticipated
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned that Afghanistan’s economic collapse “is happening before our eyes” and urged the international community to take action to stop “the freefall” before it leads to more deaths.
Martin Griffiths said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that donor nations need to agree that in addition to emergency humanitarian aid they need to support basic services for the Afghan people including education, hospitals, electricity and paying civil servants — and they must inject liquidity into the economy which has seen the banking system “”pretty well shut down.”
“We’re seeing the economic collapse being exponential,” he said. “It’s getting more and more dire by the week.”
Who could have seen this coming?
Two weeks and we’ll all be dead.
You mean to tell me that the Tolly-bahn are not good economic stewards?
Nothing to do with the pipeline of money (much of it tax dollars) flooding the country & propping up institutions, that was shut off when the last regime collapsed and Taliban took over. Or the final looting carried out by those fleeing the country not clinging to aircraft wheels.
It’s a terrible thing when the gravy train shuts down
“How can I get my cut if you guys won’t send money?”
/every UN agency head
Oh well.
Meanwhile, in St. Paul.
Hard to believe they already broke their homicide record this year.
#girlpower
Interesting that one of the Minneapolis homicides mentioned was an unborn child.
St. Paul. I beleive there were three so far in Minneapolis.
Fucking crazy.
I will not comply.
I guess I’m shopping out of state again.
Huh, I am surprised they are allowing masks in lieu of vaccination. Why give the unclean a way out?
Masks work at least, which is why everyone needs to be vaxxed and boosted.
I can see maybe the chain stores hassling me but there are bodegas and minimarts I know won’t give a shit.
If I’m in Rite Aid next week and they give me shit I’ll just drop my basket and walk out. I don’t need them.
The only winners found as the dust settles are the members of the right who have declared themselves America’s real victims of hate and discrimination — people who have strategically made the Smollett case their go-to example for how the left operates and how it wrongly makes villains out of Donald Trump supporters.
When leftists scrounge up a single “conservative” outlier, and use that example to smear a broad swath of the general population, that’s just good journalisming. When right wing trolls use a single anecdote to question the existence of a vast swarm of violent bigoted lynch mobs overrunning the nation, that’s cheating.
declared themselves America’s real victims of hate and discrimination
There is something about constantly and without evidence calling your political opponents racists/bigots/white-supremacist’s/etc.
https://m.startribune.com/albert-lea-restaurant-owner-found-guilty-of-violating-state-covid-mandate/600125580/?refresh=true&clmob=y&c=n
90 days in jail for not letting the government take her business (temporarily) without compensation.
*rage*
Minne is cutting violent felons loose every fucking day and they go after this chick in a very small town. Fucking animals.
*more rage*
“The owner of a wine and beer bar who openly flouted…”
Well, she flouted. Openly. How dare she?
45 days on each charge. And off with her head!
It’s fucking Keith Elison. He is the most venal, evil, stupid fuckwit ever to slime the office.
It’s the process of demoralization. They’re doing the same thing in Chicago.
Only if Jan6 made climate change worse.
It caused a massive spike in hot air emissions.
Sulfurous rhetoric? At least in the wake of Jan6.
I know I’m a sexist asshole for saying this but at times it gets tiring to work for women. I work in the corporate accounting (mainly external reporting and consolidations) and I’m the only male in that area of accounting at my job. Most of my bosses in accounting with the exception of a few have been women and I’ve noticed that women in positions of corporate power just loves to lecture their subordinates and nick pick at every goddamn thing they do.
Most of the time I can ignore it but there are other times when I want to be like….you’re really going to waste both of our time lecturing me for 20 minutes about some dumb shit. When I’ve worked for men and when I’ve managed people, I’ve never lectured or got lectured at because I know I’m dealing with grown ups. If someone fucks up I always ask:
1. What did you fuck up on?
2. Why?
3. Is there anything you need from me to help or explain the process better?
4. And how can we prevent this from happening again.
I’ve only worked indirectly for women a couple of times, but my limited experience suggested they were more interested in managing the social aspects of the working environment and how that impacted their careers than the product.
To be fair, I’ve also worked for men that were the same way.
Often female managers take a lack of emotional response as meaning you don’t care. I’m not saying to get defensive, because that will probably get them even more worked up and extend the “lecture.” But you need to nod, visibly acknowledge and react to what she’s saying, and make her feel like you get what she’s saying and are on the same page.
My wife gave me that advice. I’m more of an okay let fix the issue, see where the gaps of knowledge were, and move on whereas a lot of women in those positions want to talk about it in detail.
Yep. There will be rehashing over the same things. But if you use “good listener” techniques, you’ll find that she does most of the heavy lifting in the conversation. As a bonus, she’ll end up telling you stuff you aren’t supposed to know. Women really do appreciate a traditional man’s calm demeanor, they just don’t want to feel like they’re talking to a brick wall.
a lot of women in those positions want to talk about it in detail.
Womensplaining?
Chicksplaining. Generalizing grossly, men tend to focus on task and outcomes, and women on, well, other stuff.
Okay, you people aren’t helping me quit Twatter.
Just cut the cord. One and done.
/Sup Tres?
HEY YUFUS!
Im waiting for my ‘vid results. I read that I should take in plenty of fluids, so I got an extra 30-pack.
TALL CANS!
I have an interview at 3, so TC will have to wait, If you die can I have your stuff?
/maybe jugsy?
Jugsy was flagged-off for the weekend due to my 3 positive at-home tests yesterday. Despite being “waxxed & vaxxed” she didnt want to get something here and spread it back to SC next week. If you can make your way to Greenville, SC, I hear she’s free until the 23rd.
As for my “stuff”, you’ll have to deal with the nearly 11 year old boxer doge, The Dozer.
Or for our French-Canadian friends, Le Dozeur.
Well if she works for you I should be in good shape, until she gets done with me……
You have to be willing to die for it….
put down the phone and go for a walk, those things rot your mind.
I love twitter. You just need to be an informed consumer.
Micheal Malice and Jesse Kelly make me lol every single day.
I just wait for someone here to post the best outtakes; I don’t have to dirty myself there.
We think similarly.
sadly, yes we do.
I usually wait for someone else to comment to decide if any twatter link is worth looking at. Or if there is enough context to justify.
I don’t understand why people hate it so much. It’s easy to avoid the poison and it gives me information I otherwise would never see.
Like this.
The CEO of El Salvador is a badass.
Any traffic to Twitter supports Twitter. Twitter, overall, is a Bad Thing, so supporting it shold be avoided.
I couldn’t give two fucks about that.
The few accounts I follow will be transitioning away as the other platforms come online.
Do whatever you like. I think it’s still a quick way to find interesting things.
Slow down, hoss. Are you saying I’m not the boss of you?
that tweet made no sense at all