‘vid zombies will soon be roaming the Earth!
Not sure what there are more of out on the interwebz; Stories about how we have all died because of OMGicron or, MUH INSURRECTION ANNIVERSARY!!!! They have both bored me to tears. Therefore, I will do as I often do…look around for other stupidity in the world!
- We’ll get right on that, Your Presidentness. I suspect 4 out 5 “The View” hosts would nod in agreement.
- “Femicide” Add that to your Newspeak, Edition 11.
- Surely a Drumpf supporter done it! Or, it is Rijksdag Vuur?
- Bunch of Swiss Weirdos.
Enjoy. Or not. I am not your supervisor!
And why shouldn’t they? Trump is a nazi and Iran is a LGBT paradise with free Gender Confirmation Surgery!
“I am not your supervisor!”
but what if I need supervision?
“The participants were recruited by invitation and the data was then weighted so that the results are representative for the entire population.”
Not a statistician, but that sounds like bullshit.
But they’ll always have a separate, but equal place in NYC.
NYC Must Provide Separate Housing for Trans People in Homeless Shelters Under New Settlement
Except for prisons, there we toss a trans-male in with the females without blinking an eye.
Interesting, very good clinical results from using antiseptic mouthwash/nasal rinse twice daily as a preventative against COVID. The studies are using a dilute betadine solution, but gargles including cetylpyridinium chloride are also recommended.
https://c19pvpi.com/
Gilmoooooooooooooooore!
That was floated back in 2020 sometime too. I have been seeing a bunch of recycled articles, like the deer one, being tossed back into the media to scare the citizens.
As I was discussing with Warty in our demigods chat, betadine seems like overkill for an encapsulated virus. A hypertonic saline solution seems to do the trick just as well, but I get nasal irrigation with salt water doesn’t sound as sexy to the DIY health crowd.
Picking your boogers and eating em is healthier
Biz Markie knows – https://youtu.be/FjJvBarVRss
Having mistakenly irrigated with non-saline solutions on occasion, saline sounds much better.
I haven’t seen any numbers on that though.
There was series of British studies in the early days of the pandemic that looked into saline irrigation and had overwhelmingly positive results. Which is why you never heard about them. The study group was called, I shit you not, ELVIS. You can google it.
Thanks, I’ll look it up.
I swear I first read that as “You can gargle it”.
HM, you’re alive!
Kinda sorta.
Well, it’s always nice to see you here. You are missed in your absence. Happy belated New Year.
“Kinda sorta”?
You’ve been eating enough ass, right?
Thanks, l0b0t and RCD!
Kinda sorta.
He’s been here over an hour, and not one link to make us recoil in [redacted].
Imposter! Hello, Tulpa.
Nobody’s forcing yo to click on HM links.
I miss them. And the cummies. Gawd I could go for some cummies right now.
Always glad to see you drop by, HM.
^^ Seconded.
All in favour, say “aye!”
Aye!
Aye!
ay-yup.
Aye!
Oy!
+1
?
I saw a very annoying church member who is a very annoying health nut at Walgreen’s in the rx line. I was shocked to see her there and she was embarrassed to be there. This is a lady who annoyingly lectured people ad nauseam about health and wellness without medication. I was less tolerant of her annoyingness than everybody else.
I said, “Sooooo what’s up?”
“Well, my sinus infection won’t go away.”
I said, “I presume you have tried saline rinses.”
She flushed. “Oh, yes.”
“And now you’re here for antibiotics.”
“Well, yes.”
My work was done, but I gave her an out because I’m not a COMPLETE bitch. “My husband and another friend of mine try that and it never works completely. Don’t feel bad.”
I’m docking you one glib point for not being a complete bitch about it.
*hangs head in shame*
-1 extra point for feeling shame and not slapping Scruffy.
I do a daily nasal rinse and it really helps with my headaches, I still get them, but usually Goody’s will get rid of it.
Without the rinse, a few times a month the headache laughs at the Goody’s.
A neti pot should be as salty as tears. You could probably put some betadine in it, but straight betadine sounds like a very bad idea.
I believe it’s a 1% solution.
Snorting straight betadine would be a good way to get some color back into my nostrils though.
I’ve been putting a pinch of cetylpyridinium chloride mouthwash in my neti pot after I get back from the pharmacy. It makes a lot of foam though.
The Doctor/Internet guru promoting betadine suggest a .4 to .8 percent solution. There are a lot of instructables on how to dilute it down that idiots are going to fuck up.
It would be much easier to use Ponaris (https://www.ponaris.net/), which already is .5% iodine. Plus, astronauts used it!
So you are saying I should use Tang?
Poon-Tang, to be precise.
I buy the Neilmed rinse bottles and pre-measured packets of finely ground salt (for fast dissolving).
My ENT doc told me to fill with hot water just a bit shy of the fill line so that the solution would be a bit hypertonic, and use water as hot as I can stand.
Daily use was utterly required when I lived in Minnesota and in San Diego. The desert living has significantly improved my allergies and subsequently my sinus health. Ahhhh. Even my psoriasis has completely cleared up! Nevada, where have you been all my life?
OPP (Orleans Parrish Prison) has (since the 1980s, perhaps earlier) a wing they call the Nellie Jail. Alphabet people arrested in NOLA are put there to keep them from being abused by the other inmates. Who new sleepy old NOLA was so far ahead of the curve?
Down wit’ OPP? You know me!
Nah, this OPP. Not that OPP.
PA prisons had similar wings back in the 80s, which also might have been around earlier. Those wings also housed child molesters, HIV positive prisoners, mentally retarded prisoners, and geriatric prisoners.
In the same article.
Fun with numbers! ?
As suspected when CNN was allowing their resident COVID-monger say cloth masks don’t work (I wonder if Fauci will apologize to Paul…hahaha), LAUSD is going to require teachers to have ‘quality masks’, whatever that means.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/la-county-teachers-now-have-wear-high-quality-masks-health-department
Expensive. It means expensive.
Certified by a
rabbifederally recognized licensing group. With certification fees. Sweet sweet certification fees.^^^ OSHA Approved Only, Federal Distributed. I think they will get in on it even though they should use an industry standard
Probably something like this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/heavyrubber/comments/rtv6fk/beaufort_mk9_sub_escape_suit_fun/
Pic is safe for work, rest of it….probably not.
Apparently an app is required to view whatever it is.
https://preview.redd.it/bmh2spckr5981.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=a52492d5f35e69bba325a78ae9158d74b92495df
Fancy
It’s just a different kind of mask shaming now.
Repeated ad infinitum without evidence.
Never fear the, err, ACGIH, is on the case!
Why Cloth Masks Might Not Be Enough as Omicron Spreads
The chart at the bottom is well worth pondering and trying to even guess how it was created.
Not only that, we have boatloads of evidence that they don’t work.
Note:
“Reduce the spread of virus particles” =/= “Reduce the spread of infection”
Except, perhaps, at very high levels of reduction of the spread of virus particles, levels not achievable in the general population with any mask.
Now it’s getting fun. I did some light sanding and staining in my shed with an N95 on for maybe 30 minutes over the weekend and couldn’t wait to rip the thing off. Wearing one for 8 hours a day would be pure torture.
Good. Maybe we can finally put an end to this stupidity.
That is good insight. I think if the majority of people were to be forced into an N95 mask for long periods and be hounded to not touch it, not pulling it down, etc, they would say screw it. Then again, that is wishful thinking.
That’s why I was always in favor of anal testing for covid.
I’ve seen people wearing N95s with the bottom strap cut, so they just kinda hang off the nose.
Yeah, I had to do N95 training for the phone company (asbestos) and there is no way some teachers are gonna wear them for a day, let alone an hour.
But, fuck ’em. They bought this with their union dues.
“France remains one of the European countries with the highest number of femicides per capita. ”
One of?
It is definately in the top fifty.
Whoops
https://thenationalpulse.com/2021/12/31/vaccinated-21-times-more-likely-to-get-omicron/
I think I will add that as an attachment to my religious accommodation…
That calculation of risk is wholly wrong. It depends on the vaccination level of the population being studied.
I think the current numbers are something along the order of -12% efficacy at three months for vaccination. So an increased risk, but not 21x. That’s some Pfizer-level math.
Let me enjoy my bias Scruffy…geesh
TW: Wiki.
Sure looks to me like an increased risk. As the Scruffster noted, the mathematical illiterates at the National Pulse botched the math.
The interesting question is, why does the vaccine make you more susceptible to the OMGicron variant?
Did they do age and health adjustment? Young and healthy are less likely to be vaxxed, for good reason. And, even if they get it, less likely to notice or care enough to get tested.
“Femicide” = new word for annoying popups and invasive not-letting-you-read-the-article websites.
Not sure what’s special about that terminology – pretty sure it’s the same format for most crimes – homicide, patricide, fratricide, etc.
Patricide and fratricide denote the relationship of the killer to the victim, whereas “femicide” is just a Newspeak propaganda term to confer a special status to female (and M2F?) murder victims based on the idea that all the murders of these women are a result of “systemic” bias or some sort of institutional sexism regardless of individual circumstances because they are first “women” (marginalized group identity) before they are individuals? Am I doing it right?
I was going to point that out and glad you did. The way I read it, it is an increase in deadly femme fatales.
So, Black Widow killings?
Yes
Maybe you need to update the fembrowser on your femputer?
Now do “misogynoir.”
Could there be a pattern to the “femicides”? Wouldn’t want to ruffle any feathers, but I hear there is a certain culture in which this sort of thing is considered to be acceptable. Former French colonies IIRC. Nah, that couldn’t be, I’ll turn myself in for reeducation forthwith.
That is why I wanted to read the article and then it wouldn’t let me.
Nothing some web based training and role playing can’t fix!
Srsly.
From (https://www.facebook.com/pg/feminicide/posts/)
Why it’s just like reading the Algiers White Pages!
How very French…
Ha! I didn’t see that. The person posting makes a lot of errors in the English translation (or it’s just Google Translate). I had to correct a lot of his/her errors. The original French is “Yves (quinquagénaire) “
Cultural appropriation is everywhere!
If Looney-Tunes has taught me anything, it’s that rape has a long and storied tradition in French culture.
It’s not easy for a skunk to get some, I’ll give Pepe a pass.
Have the femicides reached either the number or rates as androcides?
Or are they talking about diverting resources in order to help a privileged minority?
…look around for other stupidity in the world!
Never to be disappointed either.
Noir from Nous Toutes believes a sea change needs to happen in the way that French society thinks about gender-based violence.
“It must happen across media, education, the judiciary – everywhere. We need to start thinking of it as a systemic issue rather than an individual issue. In the media, for example, femicides are often described as a fait divers (sensationalist news) rather than as a systemic, patriarchal issue. Education is clearly a key part of the change that need to happen.”
How about better self defense laws and more guns in people’s (especially women’s) hands?
Yes, of course. Where shall we send the grant money?
Right. I forgot. Grifters gotta grift. I should have thought of the grifters. Wouldn’t want them to be left out.
“The audio-only version of the episode is still on Spotify”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10364679/YouTube-Twitter-delete-Joe-Rogan-interview-scientist-helped-invent-MRNA-vaccines.html
So even Spotify took down the video?
Nothing says our science is right and we are speaking the truth than boxing out different opinions. Eventually people have to see this right?! RIGHT?
No, spotify still has the full podcasts (with video).
No, i watched it last night,
here,
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT
“I do a daily nasal rinse and it really helps with my headaches”
When I was in my 30’s I was having recurring headaches, always on the same side and extremely painful. I thought maybe it was a sinus problem so I got a neti pot and using a saline rinse but the headaches didn’t stop. Eventually I discovered I was losing hearing on one side and got scheduled for an MRI. The MRI revealed an acoustic neuroma the size of a big egg (5 cm in the largest direction).
Turns out, sometimes it is a tumor.
Yikes! Hope you are better.
They did an MRI of my head and didn’t find anything.
I recall getting a sonogram for a slight heart murmur. The tech was having a hard time getting everything lined up. I told him “Well, I did go to law school, so its probably very small and very hard at this point.”
No! The heart in my chest!!
Team of nine black climbers attempt to scale Mount Everest to tackle the peak’s ‘intentional lack of access for black people’ and mountaineering’s ‘colonial history’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10365049/Team-nine-black-climbers-attempt-scale-Mount-Everest-tackle-sports-colonial-history.html
“I have NOT seen the mountain top!”
“Intentional lack of access”?
Huh.
If the group was a bunch of quadriplegics protesting that Everest doesn’t have a mobility ramp, I could buy the “lack of access” argument.
I do pretty good. The tumor was removed in 2011. I have no hearing in my left ear and my balance is not 100%. At my doctor appointment after getting the results back from the MRI the doctor had me close my eyes and march in place. I must have looked quite wobbly because he told me that I’m lucky I have big feet. Actually he told me that after he looked at my MRI he first went to the front desk and asked the receptionists if I seemed to be having trouble walking.
Not meant to be a reply to this comment. Maybe I’m not doing all that good.
OFFS.
So Sherpa’s are colonialists? They seem to be climbing up and down that thing all the time. And getting paid handsomely to do so.
They’re Asian, so they’re really white.
So, you are saying everyone is snow blind?
Because of progress made in academia, black people are no longer terrified to be surrounded by so many white snowflakes. That is why this team will succeed where so many others have failed.
“Killed trying to save $2.75: Moment NYC subway fare dodger, 28, smashed his head and died while trying to jump barriers at Queens station”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10362995/NYC-man-28-killed-jumping-turnstile-Queens-station-cracking-head-floor.html
That actually sounds difficult even if he was deliberately trying to kill himself.
The NY Post actually has the video. Since it’s a picture of a death I’ll refrain from posting it.
He like tries at least a half dozen times to jump the barrier. His iPhone, naturally, makes it over, so he get more frantic trying to get over the barrier.
Finally catches as he goes over and the rest as they say is history.
Does ‘kill’ not imply agency in England?
Good catch. Obviously the MTA wanted him dead for fare evasion.
In England?
Similar things have happened before
The fare gate did him in. Remove them!
Rider #1: Life ain’t fare!
Rider #2: Fare ain’t got nothing to do with it.
I didn’t know it did here.
Eh, it’s kinda like saying someone was killed in a motorcycle accident.
Every man has his price
Not a flake here. Try again, winter.
We got some light flurries over here in the mid-morning, but it didn’t stick. Now it’s just brutally windy (I had to pull in a bunch of stuff from the back yard) and cold.
Yeah, it is that. Although I suspect our mid-west friends would laugh at us.
’tis correct.
Light dusting of snow here. Not even enough to cover the grass completely.
9+ inches here. Multiple trees down in the neighborhood with a couple across driveways. Fortunately we still have power unlike some nearby areas.
9+ inches here.
Nobody likes a braggart.
Placed an order for $700 of steel targets.
I kind of indulged myself. Currently we’ve been using knockdown 8″ circles and 10″ squares. I ordered hanging 8″ circles, but instead of squares I ordered 6″ x 11″ rectangles.
If questioned on it I’ll claim it’s to make things more challenging.
And now I’m rethinking my post heights.
Anybody who knows about anatomy got an idea of how short someone has to be before their eyeball is less that 5′ off the ground? When standing.
I would guess less than 5′ 6″.
*ponders comment about female anatomy, reconsiders*
https://www.firstinarchitecture.co.uk/metric-data-01-average-dimensions-of-person-standing/
Divide by 25.4, carry the 2, multiply by 12…
Just multiply by .79.
You’re making me feel better about reluctantly buying a $1k video card because I was actually able to purchase one at list price.
Also immediately thought of you with today’s WSJ
Chip Makers Contend for Talent as Industry Faces Labor Shortage
To be fair, I will be reimbursed by the club.
$500 left in 2022’s budget!
🙁
Now I’m imagining some of our less practiced shooters trying to hit the narrow targets…
They’re made in FL out of US-produced steel.
Good.
Honestly, I find more errors in height rather than windage. Usually.
That would likely be me. I’m not bad with long arms but need a lot more handgun practice. I once shot one of the arms of my uncle’s brand new chronograph.
They feed us poison, so they can sell us their cures while they suppress our medicine.
She didn’t say, “Get Vaccinated!”
Viagra will wake up a lot of things, apparently.
Evening, Glibs.
I made it to Maine, if not for the rapid onset of dusk, I’d have hours left to wander.
I did get to the post office before they closed, probably the only day on my visit I’d have the chance at that. I wonder if the NY State Police will notice that I mailed my background check forms from three states away while claiming to live in new york.
For your pistol license?
No, for the job I already have, and have had since 2008.
You need a background check to work for the state?!
How come it doesn’t weed out all the criminals that pretend to work in the state house?
They may not have to go through one.
If you can’t bribe your way past that, you’re unqualified to be in the NYS leg.
Doesn’t apply to elective office holders?
It should.
I kept arguing with myself whether I should get good boots for the smithing class. I ended up buying a pair of Red Wings made in the USA because the snow boots I owned were both unsuited to the task, and didn’t actually fit my toes. (I’ve had those for years because I only wear them out of desperation). I was mostly arguing over the price tag, but I concluded that if they lasted me, it would be worth it. So far they fit better than my sneakers. Except up the ankle, because I’m not used to having material above the joint.
Of all the god damn cables I remembered to bring, a USB-C cable was not one of them.
Guess what my phone charges with?
Fortunately, you can buy a USB-C cable at a gas station.
It’s still an additional expense and side trip.
So, poll: SP and I have been laid low. Coughing, sneezing, mild fever, weakness, so nasal drip. Is it severe colds? Seasonal flu? Omnicron?
No way we’re getting tested. We think Spud brought whatever-it-is as a gift.
Obviously its because you didn’t mask up.
Hope you all feel better.
A mask would have improved his looks.
I’m guessing mold spores, if you had the same kind of thaw we had here.
That’s the ‘vid.
Son had to be picked up early from school for vomiting. The nurse was able to find 1 ChiComPox test to give us. The schools are supposed to be giving out free tests on demand but my kids’ schools have too many white students for the NYC Office of Inclusion and Equity, so they haven’t been given any yet. The school the ex works at (in Jamaica, Queens) has boxes and boxes of them.