I just cannot take Cage seriously…
“Artists and Writers have formed Comic Book Workers United”
“Meanwhile, the PS5 was the second-best selling console in Japan, followed by the PS4”
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“Artists and Writers have formed Comic Book Workers United”
Because they are just like unskilled factory workers?
I guess the AFL-CIO needed a bigger propaganda wing.
Zac’s done a few vids on this. Absolutely hilarious.
Seven people. This is news.
“While some workers will see their wages go up as a result of these increases, many others will lose their jobs entirely or have their hours reduced and see a net reduction in earnings. Why? Well, because the real minimum wage is always zero: unemployment.”
Gonna need to start investing in those kiosk companies.
“Some places are raising the minimum wage even more sharply at the local level. West Hollywood, California is leading the way in 2022, with a $17.64 minimum wage specifically for hotel employees. Emeryville, California is also enacting an estimated $17.64 minimum wage this year, while in Washington, SeaTac is implementing $17.54 and Seattle is requiring $17.27 among large employers.
Next up are more California localities, with Berkeley and San Francisco implementing a $17.16 minimum wage, while Mountain View and Sunnyvale go for $17.10 and Palo Alto and Milpitas enact minimum wages of $16.45 and $16.43, respectively. ”
No idea how they get it down to a penny.
Probably something like a percentage increase over the previous minimum.
Supernova, you say?
Super Nova?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvKIL0Jtw5k
Aldo Nova?
https://youtu.be/vPQgfaB3S1c
Just what I was hoping for
champagne supernova
There goes a super nova What a pushover
Original (awesome) video.d
I gave the whole album a listen-through last year – a lot of decisions scream “we were doing lots of cocaine”.
– open with two minutes of ambient sounds and then some vocalizing? check
– segue into a 14 minute combo track? check
– track featuring a Ronald Regan impersonator? check
– right into a straight cover of “Born To Run”? check
(it really falls off after that)
“.@womensmarch just took the Capitol. Women, survivors, and allies walked straight past the police, climbed over barricades, and sat down on the Capitol steps.
It was hard not do feel depleted this morning. But I don’t anymore. This was inspiring. We’re ready for this.
2:03 PM · Oct 6, 2018·Twitter for iPhone”
https://twitter.com/EgSophie/status/1048634940169048064
ISHURWRECKSHUNISTS!!!
Yeah — that isn’t the best phrasing given the harping yesterday.
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!*
Joe Biden’s unofficial campaign slogan
I find it impressive that governments believe they have the power to single out specific industries or employers to target for arbitrarily imposed wages.
They believe it because they do. They’ve got the power to do anything until someone stops them.
That Cage article was weird, it reminded me of Community, when Abed almost lost his mind trying to figure out if Cage was a great actor or a really bad one.
He’s a method actor. He methodically plays the same character in every role.
Comic book workers want to organize — more power to them. I think the contract situation has been pretty stupid for a while now (publishers tend to get all rights to the characters, give pittances to the actual staff, etc.). Not that they needed a union to push for better contracts, but sure – it might work.
What I *expect* will happen though given the total dumpster fire the comics industry has been in for some years is a push for “codes of conduct” in said union (i.e. toe the proggie line if you weren’t already) and for the publishers to go out of business faster (because no one has been actually *buying* the newer crap for some time now — sales of a “major” title are pitiful compared to a few years back. So unionize all you want folks, I think you’re just organizing who’s going to be digging the graveyard for your jobs faster.
“These 84 places are pushing their inflation spirals even *faster* than the rest of the country”. Or “pushing automation to replace entry level jobs”. Take your pick.
Just can’t get into the Expanse. Picked up the first season — didn’t get far. Picked up some of the books thinking it must be better — got bored around book 3 or so. Just not my cup of tea, I expect. For Sci-Fi music (albeit I don’t think they wrote it for it) — give me Faunts and the Mass Effect ending any day.
Let’s hope the Nazgul find at least 5 heads not stuck up their robes and have a good weekend, folks.
BTW, Zac went into their demands a while back – one of them was allowing office workers to vote on whether or not to publish a particular story or writer. Allowing the drones to have publishing power over the owners/editors….yeah that’ll go over well.
Are there any good games for adults on the Switch?
I can get you a ROM of Leisure Suit Larry
https://store.steampowered.com/app/765870/Leisure_Suit_Larry__Wet_Dreams_Dont_Dry/
They put a remastered Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic on it, iirc. I only took not because folks are wishing they’d port the patches to the PC branch. 😉
Monopoly and Clue are there depending on how “adult” you want your games. There’s nothing *Q worthy* adult, I expect…
It is pretty capable hardware, so I think there’s a decent mix. I just don’t go looking, myself.
Not “adult” adult, but most of them always look kid oriented.
https://www.gamesradar.com/best-switch-games/
TES – Skyrim is the only one there that looks like a maybe.
Yell at the kids to put that thing away and get ready for bed. That’s always a fun game.
I suppose they are not “adult’ but Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey are games anyone can enjoy.
Can also recommend Breath of the Wild. Big fan of the Zelda series already, but it was nice to get an open world style Zelda. Swapping outfits in the menus got a little tedious at times, but that’s very minor for me.
The weapons breaking irritated me, but again, minor.
I played around 20 hours looking for a dungeon and gave up. Not really my style of gameplay.
I’m quite enjoying Hollow Knight on the PS5, but it’s also available on the Switch.
Be prepared to die. A lot.
If you like Metrovanias and/or super-creepy intricate storylines, definitely give Hollow Knight a try.
Thirded. I played it on computer, so can’t vouch for the experience on a console.
Agreed. I love Metroidvanias. But TW: It’s hard as fuck. My fingers are too fat and old to get as far as I would like.
Depends on what you’re looking for. Open World, Breath of the Wild was fun, there’s quite a few JRPG games that exist on there. Fire Emblem Three Houses is solid. There’s always Mario Kart and the rest of the Mario games.
If you’re looking for darker games, there’s Diablo 3 (haven’t played it nor purchased it), Mortal Kombat 11, and other fighter games as well.
Oh… and since I forgot, there’s also Wild Hunt 3 and Divinity Original Sin 2 that are on Switch (already have both on PC).
Uuuuggghhh… I loved Three Houses. It’s definitely not for everyone, though. Managing social links and the turn based combat were a feature for me. I can see them being a bug for others.
Yep. The relationships I didn’t care about so much, but I really enjoyed the turn based combat.
/impatiently waits for Midnight Suns or XCOM 3
I can highly recommend any of the Metroid Prime games, if they were ported.
NERDS! ;^)
I gave up on Cage a long time ago. A vampire movie, as I recall.
We enjoyed “Pig.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10379449/Sidney-Poitier-honored-celebrities-paying-tribute-Twitter-death-94.html
R.I.P.
Guess who’s not coming to dinner.
That music link!
Da link xiya gut!
Finished book 9 last night – a satisfying ending.
I am thisclose to finishing it. Thisclose!
They did a good job wrapping it up, IMO.
“Meanwhile, the PS5 was the second-best selling console in Japan, followed by the PS4”
The amazing part to me is that almost 30k people still wanted a new 3DS.
“Moment cops run away and leave half-naked man, 29, to BURN after he covered himself in hand sanitizer and they ignited it by tasering him: He died six weeks later
Disturbing security videos have shown for the first time how a 29-year-old man in police custody doused himself in hand sanitizer before bursting into flames when he was tasered by cops – before the officers run away as he burns, leaving him clawing at his back and head as he tries to extinguish the fire.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10379847/Moment-man-bursts-flames-cops-tasered-doused-hand-sanitizer.html
Damn.
That is a Learning and Growing moment. Hand Sanitizer is super flammable! And being a gel, it greatly resembles napalm. You don’t see when he catches on fire but you see the bright purple glow of his combustion reflecting on the officer’s uniforms for a few moments before he reappears on video, topside flaming. Awful. Burns much hotter and brighter than I would have thought.
*makes a mental note for future use
James Brown knows how
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=tighten+up+james+brown&atb=v198-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCUkUBh546mM
“Cops release video of missing woman, 31, wading through alligator-infested Florida river before she vanished: Officers bring in underwater cameras to search for her”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10378943/Video-shows-woman-31-missing-three-weeks-swimming-Florida-river.html
This is a real head-scratcher.
$17.27 minimum in Seattle? What’s a BigMac Meal Combo cost there I wonder?
$20, same as downtown?
I was floored by the price of booze in Seattle the last time I was there. The tax on it is crazy.
“Mum drinks sperm smoothies to fight off coronavirus
Tracy Kiss’s home remedy does not feature on WHO, NHS or government guidance
A mother-of-two believes that drinking smoothies with a shot of sperm have helped to boost her immune system and is helping prevent coronavirus.
Tracy Kiss, 32, says she’s not had a cold or flu for three years because of her concoction which is made using donations from her boyfriend and she takes three shots a week.
Tracy, a personal trainer from Aylesbury, said: ‘I found a free and vegan-friendly alternative method to boost the body’s immune system. You don’t always know what is in pharmaceutical medicine – it is much better for the body to drink something that doesn’t contain chemicals.”
https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/01/mum-drinks-sperm-smoothies-fight-off-coronavirus-12639469/
She’s dating a plant?
A) Semen is vegan?
B) Water is a chemical.
I know! Semen is not vegan, it is an animal product. By reasoning that people are not animals, you could eat long pork and stay vegan.
Sure sounds like she’s abusing him.
If only there was another way for her to get a shot of sperm to ingest, besides having her boyfriend jerk it into her smoothie.
But then how could she tell the whole world about it and actually make the news?
I used salmon sperm DNA in the lab all the time….
“COVID-positive nurses say they’re being pressured to work while sick, and they’re petrified of infecting patients
What was once an ill-advised practice is now becoming a common request across US hospitals: Healthcare workers are being asked to treat patients while sick with COVID-19.
In a TikTok video now viewed more than 7.2 million times, April Lynn, an ICU nurse, claimed her hospital cleared her to return to work five days after testing positive for COVID-19, despite still having a cough and severe fatigue. (Lynn did not respond to Insider’s request for comment.)
Four other nurses told Insider that, in the last week or so, they’ve been instructed to come into work with symptomatic COVID-19, or risk losing pay or receiving a formal warning. The nurses said hospital administrators are pointing to new federal emergency guidance that allows healthcare workers to shorten isolation periods as a way to mitigate widespread staffing shortages.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/nurses-with-covid-say-they-are-being-told-to-work-2022-1
“Nurses are being pressured to work while COVID positive (I know a few personally who have been sent to work +) because of a shortage, but unvaccinated nurses who do full PCR tests, have no symptoms and are COVID negative cannot.
This all makes sense.”
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1479332954279088128
Fire intelligent healthy nurses wise enough not to poison themselves with a gene therapy, many of whom already have natural immunity. Employ the ones hoodwinked to get jabbed with the “vaccine” that didn’t protect them from infection and are now ready to spread the virus to their patients.
You people are completely retarded. I should probably embrace my alternative species identity.
Compliance mindset. Follow the rules, keep your job. Break the rules, lose your job. Not much else matters anymore to any medium-large employer.
I’m not surprised. From the very start it has had nothing to do with health or safety.
meanwhile, one of the major health systems here has decided that all employees involved in patient care have to double-mask or wear and N95.
It’s a Friday, so new traditions must be upheld. I’ll kick off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Discussion of Supreme Court oral arguments at 20:00 Eastern.
Is this another Nicolas Cage link?
Thanks for the Hawaii link in the dead thread. My blood pressure was getting too low.
Happy to oblige
Hawaii-he-he-he?
The funny thing is…. A few years ago “brickbat ” style outrages could really get me hot. The state grinding down a single man for arbitrary reasons is probably what drew me in to libertarian publications.
But today? With all of existence being such a farcical outrage, it is really hard to find something that gets the blood boiling.
Back in the 80s there was the story of a US Naval officer who had CPS called on his kids over a dispute with neighbors. Even though there was no evidence of any wrongdoing, the family court machine just rolled on.. So after 2 years he divorced his wife and moved out so the kids could move in with her.
That story on 20/20 had me livid for years.
Today we have entire swaths of society getting steamrolled before breakfast, and our Network News betters smilingly tell us that this is wonderful. It really is hard to get a good blood boil going when “normal” is so very far from being acceptable.
So…only an inch or two of snow in VA today – enough to make me spend a few minutes cleaning the car, but thankfully nothing new stuck to the road.
Also, heard from matt at Gourmeltz – apparently that “other” librarian group (as he calls them) is meeting at Gourmeltz tomorrow at 10. Apparently this MLW will be speaking.
Still don’t know the group name – the organizer never got back to me after we texted in Nov.
Pictured: the two groups meeting
We gotta wear suits?
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=are+you+ready+to+rumble&atb=v198-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DI6eQ78HCGEA
Carla Howell?
I remember her attempt to get the Massachusetts income tax repealed via referendum. It failed, but did far better than expected. It had no effect on MA income tax rates, but Howell and Cloud did well from it.
200k over 6 years isn’t that much, at least to me. :/
You know, I think I’m going to buy stock in some cardiac equipment manufacturers. I sense a burgeoning market.
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/diana-west-its-a-great-day-for-defibrillators
Just mitigating the effects of post pandemic stress disorder.
meanwhile, one of the major health systems here has decided that all employees involved in patient care have to double-mask or wear and N95.
Full biohazard protocol or GTFO.
If workers in virus labs just wore masks, that might show some efficacy.
Dead South is coming to Richmond in May, right now the venue says neg test or proof of vax.
Odds it’ll be changed by then?
Or do you think it’ll be worse?
The wife and I really want to go, they put on an awesome show, but don’t want to prove we aren’t sick to go somewhere.
I’m vaxxed, but refuse to use it outside of work, she is not and never will be.
Perfect place for a fake.
May? You’ll need like 6 booster shots.
I took a chance and bought the tickets.
Hope I didn’t just burn $70.
Good luck
?
I have had to go through our contact tracing exercise. Good god what a damn nightmare. A positive person rode in a car with two others. The two others, because they are vaccinated still come to work and just monitor for symptoms but our regional flight surgeon said “you might want to start planning their tracing also, they will be positive”. They fucking know the vaccines do shit.
On another note, an unvaccinated person is immediately presumed positive even if they never show symptoms and are put on 14 day quarentine.
CNN is worried the Supreme Court will kill us all
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Friday appeared ready to reject one of President Joe Biden’s most aggressive attempts so far to combat the spread of Covid-19 — a vaccine or testing requirement aimed at large businesses.
But in a separate challenge, some justices seemed more open to a vaccine mandate aimed at certain health care workers.
The court heard arguments for almost four hours as the number of infections is soaring, and 40 million adults in the US are still declining to get vaccinated.
The three liberal justices on the court expressed clear approval for the administration’s rules in both areas.
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During both arguments, the liberal justices expressed repeated support for the Biden administration’s authority to issue the requirements aimed at a virus that has already killed more than 800,000 Americans, closed businesses and kept children out of classrooms. They were deeply skeptical of arguments that the mandates could lead to massive staff shortages and billions of dollars in compliance costs.
“This is a pandemic in which nearly a 10 million people have died,” an animated Justice Elena Kagan said at one point. “It is by far the greatest public health danger that this country has faced in the last century,” where “more and more people are dying every day.”
“It’s an extraordinary use of emergency power occurring in an extraordinary circumstance, a circumstance that this country has never faced before,” she added.
Justice Stephen Breyer spoke about new Covid-19 cases, arguing that the hospitals are “full.”
“I would find it unbelievable that it could be in the public interest to suddenly stop these vaccinations,” he said.
WTF? What a giant steaming pile of nonsensical hysterics.
10 million people?
My response to CNN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z11pQzzEYUU
I’m feeling somewhat positive about SCOTUS on this one primarily because Biden needs a way out of the mandates.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was quietly communicated to put on a good show and then knock it down so the WH could then rage against the evil SCOTUS while quietly celebrating their escape from what will certainly become a nightmare.
Of course, I could be wrong and the WH could be truly insane, but I’ll give them a little credit.
WH is still on the vaccine train. They are not changing course. I feel there are below surface moves they want to do and if this swings in their direction we will make Australia look like amateur hour.
Good luck with that, because mark my words, I will put a bullet in anyone that tries to jab my kids.
“It’s not my fault they succumbed to lead poisoning.”
I’ve come to the conclusion the WH is not being run by Biden, whoever is in charge is young and very progressive and has no idea how anything works.
Finnegan? Makes sense. We know that SF has a direct line somehow into the Oval Office.
Agreed.
I think you’re wrong and they are as bat-shit crazy as they appear.
They are all nuts. Should this actually be overturned, I shall find a way to Venmo you a drink. Otherwise I shall continue my plan to build a mighty island in the middle of the Pacific from all the discarded masks. I shall live there, free from all this madness.
Otherwise I shall continue my plan to build a mighty island in the middle of the Pacific from all the discarded masks. I shall live there, free from all this madness.
Hmm…. this sounds like a good idea.
But there’s covid in the masks!
That’s what keeps the sharks away!
And Progressives.
I feel like the whole vaccine mandate thing was a ruse to get the news cycle out of the Afghanistan disaster. And it worked. Either way the SC rules is a win for the administration.
It absolutely was intended as a distraction from Afghanistan.
Then it grew a life of its own.
““I would find it unbelievable that it could be in the public interest to suddenly stop these vaccinations,” [Breyer] said.”
Who said anything about stopping the vaccinations? You’re tasked with considering the legality of a requirement to get a vaccine to hold a job, shit for brains. You know, personal risk assessment and stuff.
They all seem to be dumb as shit. Maybe they got brain clots from the boosters.
Apropos:
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
I’m beginning to agree that they’re not very bright.
I was going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume it was 10 million worldwide, but I checked and it’s only 5.5 million. Of course CNN didn’t bother to add a “falsely claimed” disclaimer.
Not even a ‘claimed without evidence’. Fuck em all. They will lie to usher in their new world.
I guess it’s possible that she actually said nearly a million and CNN transcribed the quote incorrectly. The US total is about 850K. That would be kind of right, but it’s the kind of thing that would be counted as a lie in the Trump Lie Tracker from the WaPo.
“It’s an extraordinary use of emergency power occurring in an extraordinary circumstance, a circumstance that this country has never faced before,” she added.
If the constitution is not in force during a crisis* then the constitution is never in force.
*even and especially a manufactured one.
…never faced before is the bullshit that people believe.
This too.
Like diseases never existed before.
Sorry, but has Congress not had 2 years to make a legislative change of they wanted to? Go die in a ditch.
A year and a half ago I bought my first 4k TV and thought about buying an Xbox to have some 4k content. Xbox Series X is still not available, more than a year after its release. It will probably become available only when they announce a new generation of the console.
I see some Netflix movies are 4k now – not that I have it.
Oh for fuck’s sake.
Cool response, bro!
Works for just about anything. It’s kind of the best brooksing ever.
Already the justices have struck down a separate attempt by the President to mitigate the impact of the virus. Last August, a 6-3 court blocked the government’s eviction moratorium, holding that the agency at issue in that case, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, exceeded its authority.
What the fuck does that have to do with “mitigating” the virus?
Quiet, you.
For that matter, has there been a huge spike in evictions? My guess is no, because we would have heard a bunch of sob stories by now.
Pretty much no effect.
NYC *still* has an “eviction moratorium”.
That is why you haven’t heard all the sob stories yet.
NoDak had one that ended a while back, to much wailing and gnashing of teeth. And then…nothing happened. The predicted eviction spike never materialized and it all got rabbit-holed.
Must be nice to be a prince
https://nypost.com/2022/01/07/new-mexico-authorities-work-to-get-alec-baldwins-cellphone/
How long do you think you and I could go without turning over evidence with a search warrant backing it?
Biden was attempting to mitigate the impact.
Those evil republican judges want the impact to spread and more people to die.
Does anybody have any sense of where Thomas is on this?
Sodor.
Who said anything about stopping the vaccinations?
ANYTHING NOT MANDATORY IS PROHIBITED.
In a sane world, at least half of what the judges are saying would get them impeached for being unfit to hold the office.
I took a chance and bought the tickets.
Hope I didn’t just burn $70.
You might make a little money on them.
Wise Latina
Forget it, she’s rolling…
In a normal world, yes that should be the answer. She will be parrotted and held up as a purveyor of truth though in the world we live in. Every damn news agency, reporter and internet blogger should be tearing into her and demanding she be impeached for lying on the bench.
At a bare minimum, she should have to correct herself on the record. She should want to correct herself on the record.
*sigh*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI
??
So. Brave.
Silly cunte.
silly bunt
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x36cxnp
But we get call uneducated and anti-science.
Nicholas Kristoff is going to fight like hell to get on the Oregon governor ballot.
I assume he thinks Governor Brown(?) has been too lenient with the antivaxxers.
Who the fuck knows why Kristof is trying so hard to run for gov (without actually expending much effort). There’s a lot of money bankrolling a washed up NYT hack.
Now, they’re in for another ugly welcome this New Year—at least, in the 84 places that are raising their mandatory minimum wages in 2022.
The ugly welcome is intentional.
Cool response, bro!
It’s universally applicable. Apply topically as needed.
Are there any parts of the body these shots dont fuck with?
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/der-bees-eyeball-problems-abound?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMTYyNjE4MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDY3Njg0OTIsIl8iOiJqRFkzTCIsImlhdCI6MTY0MTU5MzU2NSwiZXhwIjoxNjQxNTk3MTY1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTE2ODk2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.Aztg1byDnuFUzKpp0EX_ALWbtklYZyCX9EJE2gYxwek
Where does blood not ever reach? Find that, and you have your answer.
I still haven’t been bothered about not sending my proof of vaccination to my company. I show it when I go on a ship if they ask, but usually they take my word on it.
The company was using the Biden requirement for fed contractors as a reason, I told them you don’t ask about the flu shot and hasn’t the requirement been shot down every time. I also asked if we had a president or a dictator.
HR said she would get back to me on Jan 4th, but so far nothing.
My company put me under the federal contractor umbrella for the mandate, but announced they were putting it on hold back in December. After several weeks of submitting my additional documentation for a religious accommodation, HR got back to me… with the form for a medical accommodation. I’d have a little more sympathy if they hadn’t closed my original request while I was on PTO (the week of Thanksgiving) for not responding in 3 business days and the subject of the request didn’t have religious accommodation in it.
I was going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume it was 10 million worldwide, but I checked and it’s only 5.5 million. Of course CNN didn’t bother to add a “falsely claimed” disclaimer.
That’s “claimed, bizarrely” territory.
New trend in vax mandates.
Shouldn’t that have been NotTheBee?
Poor Sonia Sotomayor, her clerks are making her look bad.
It’s ok. Nobody will tell her.
Now that is a contagious laugh.
Grrrr. https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/dads-rule/
Dogs know when a language is from a foreign tongue, study shows
Credibility? What credibility?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky was confronted Friday with memes mocking the credibility of her agency after a series of confusing messages has baffled Americans amid a record surge in COVID-19 cases, but she chalked backlash up to “fast-moving science.”
The CDC has been lampooned by everyone from liberal pundits and late-night comics to average Americans on social media over guidance around the spread of the omicron variant.
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The agency halved its recommended isolation and quarantine time last week, saying that a person infected with COVID-19 can leave isolation after five days if they’re asymptomatic, followed by five days of wearing a mask. Medical experts pushed back on that recommendation, saying that it may result in people leaving isolation while they’re still infectious. The confusion resulted in an onslaught of memes on social media with people joking that the CDC recommended various things that are both unrealistic and dangerous.
Walensky joined NBC’s “Today” and was confronted with a few examples, including tweets claiming the CDC recommended eating straight off the floor at Waffle House, ingesting Tide Pods, and even getting bangs.
“It’s amusing, people letting off steam, of course, but is there a larger credibility problem with your agency right now?” Savannah Guthrie asked Walensky directly. “And how significant is that in the midst of a pandemic?”
Walensky declared the CDC is simply responding to the science and vowed to keep updating recommendations as needed.
“We at the CDC are 12,000 people who are working 24/7 following the science with its ever-evolving nature in the midst of a really fast-moving pandemic, and we are doing so, putting our head down to keep America safe,” Walensky responded.
“We will continue to update, we will continue to improve how we communicate to the American public,” she continued. “This is fast-moving science.”
They’re a little slow, down at the CDC.
Fast moving, like explosive diarrhea?
My mom believes her.
We were talking about Fauci (she doesn’t know how to talk about anything else) and she defended him with”the science has changed”.
I asked repeatedly which science, of course she had no answer, but she knew it changed.
12,000 people at that worthless agency? Nothing left to cut indeed.
We at the CDC are 12,000 people who are working 24/7 following the science
New science is the best science. It’s as if sheep became scientists.
12K people working around the clock? That seems a little excessive.
Well, the last day of Basic Blacksmithing is over.
I successfully joined three links to form a chain. I also made yet another bottle opener, a flathead screwdriver with a flattened loop handle and twisted haft, an abstract snake that is more of a doodle in steel, and a spoon.
Forge welding was easier than other processes because it required more technical aspects and temperature management than brute strength. I can tweak the temperature of a coal forge much better than I can hammer in the preforge needed for a clean weld.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iGSAFjzBd8
Congrats. You didn’t say if you enjoyed it though.
Well, how would I get people to read the article without a little mystery.
Fair.
Is that the only class you’re taking now?
right now it is, the next class is at the end of january, and it’s on knifemaking.
Which MMO are you a Blacksmith in? I will join your guild.
” a flathead screwdriver”
Did you stab him in they eyeball with it before you snuffed out his life?
I don’t get it.
So you are going to be a blacksmith and you have never experience using a flathead screw driver?
The important question is, did you get your glove back?
I did. It is now in my car.
Sweet. I’ll let you repair the target stands when they get shot up.
I’m assuming you do a Phillips in intermediate blacksmithing, and a Torx in advanced?
I could do a phillips head with the skills I’ve developed. Might be a bit wonky the first few times.
“Artists and Writers have formed Comic Book Workers United”
How woke is it? How many non-binary rainbow colored checkboxes can it check if it could chuck wood or is that racist?
Another Republican voice cries out for sanity
Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence, said the Republican Party needs to acknowledge “we are morally in disrepair.”
“Getting a lot of hate on the right for think 1/6 was a big deal,” Griffin wrote on Twitter.
She also recalled how “a violent mob” hunted for Pence and called for him “to be hanged on the steps of the US Capitol.”
“If we can’t acknowledge we are morally in disrepair as a Party, it will be the GOP’s undoing, not how bad Biden is doing or how ineffective democrats’ policies are,” Griffin added.
The Republican Party sucks, but not for the reasons you say.
Fifteen minutes of fame is worth a lot, to some people.
This is why 1/6 is so terrible. Right or wrong, these largely untouched nancy boys are for the first time, personally threatened by the results of their own actions and it scares them. Contrast that with Ben Franklin and his hanging quote. Unlike the current crop, that wasn’t hyperbole.
Plus… No. There was no real threat.
I mean.. I would not have hung out with the crowd to find out… But please… That collection of grandmothers and weirdos?
If that had truly been a crowd bent on murder, there would have been lots and lots of murder. You had tens of thousands available for reinforcements. And they walked quietly between velvet ropes on the tour.
Not murdery.
COVID PITCH MEETING
Way too good
Actually, that dude does an awesome job of demonstrating just how tough the comedic acting and timing of the original pitch meeting is to pull of.
I feel the same way watching that as I do when the wife watches JP.
It’s kind of funny, but more rage inducing.
Actually, super easy! Barely an inconvenience!
No but imagine what that would do for your ratings.
“There’s a lot of people, who throw around the term civil war, and some on podcasts seem to kind of relish the idea of the destruction of society,” said Cooper. “The very people who are, kind, of promoting that here, on podcasts, right now — and other networks — who probably have not done service, and have not seen it for themselves.”
Cooper made the remarks during Thursday night’s two-and-a-half-hour special, “January 6: One Year Later,” amid a panel of Democratic elected officials, especially Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ). “You two … have seen what civil wars look like up close,” Cooper said to Rep. Crow, a former Army Ranger who served three terms in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Rep. Gallego, who served as an infantryman with the U.S. Marines in Iraq. “You both have seen up close, through the window of a Humvee, and out on the streets, what happens when a society collapses.”
None of this would be a problem if we could trust elections and the government wasn’t full of tyrannical cuntes.
But enough about the antifa accounts on social media..
2.5 hour special? Jesus.
He better pray it doesn’t come to that, because I imagine the CNN headquarters in Atlanta would be a prime target.
Whip Inflation Now
Schools are not only wrestling with how to educate children amid the surge in coronavirus cases. They are also contending with feeding kids as inflation and supply chain problems disrupt their ability to serve meals.
That’s why the US Department of Agriculture is pumping an estimated $750 million more into school meals programs nationwide as part of a midyear adjustment to the reimbursement rate.
That’ll fix it.
Yeah, printing money has always been the key to fixing inflation. /the government
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Let them eat bugs.
NH House happenings for Jan. 5th, 2022
Highlights:
Governor’s veto of the bill ending state level background checks on handguns sustained.
NH House will continue to meet in person
Redistricting bills pass and go to Senate
NH House happenings for Jan. 6th, 2022
Highlights:
Ban on employer vaccine mandates tabled
Local education freedom accounts tabled
Bill legalizing home cultivation of marijuana passed, it goes to the Senate
Bill further reforming governor’s state of emergency powers passes (good thing) and goes to the Senate
So, the girls in my house are now asking me to make soup. This white slavery is getting old.
The matriarchy strikes again!
LOL, that’s what I said!
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
I guess we’ll see.
Virginia will join other Republican-led states and business groups in challenging Biden administration mandates intended to increase the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate once GOP Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares take office, the two said in a statement Friday.
“While we believe that the vaccine is a critical tool in the fight against COVID-19, we strongly believe that the Federal government cannot impose its will and restrict the freedoms of Americans and that Virginia is at its best when her people are allowed to make the best decisions for their families or businesses,” they said in the joint statement.
They said that after their Jan. 15th inauguration the commonwealth will “quickly move to protect Virginians’ freedoms” and join challenges to components of President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate.
Unpossible, the swamp overlfow controls VA via the NOVA, 100%.
I was just shit-talking Youngkin this evening as a do-nothing Chamber of Commerce Republican.
Glad to see he’s proving me wrong on this issue at least.
Keep shittalking him! It’s working!
Yeah, nothing has happened yet.
Youngkin is Fatty Hogan West.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-shatters-single-day-covid-19-infection-record-with-37215-new-cases/
And then I noticed this buried, without fanfare “In fact, more than half of the COVID-positive patients were in the hospital for treatment of other illnesses”
Supposedly, the average adult American gets 2 to 3 colds per year and children even more. This means perhaps 2 million new cases of cold per day!
Colds can be deadly, but life goes on normally for the vast majority of those who get a cold.
Single day numbers are garbage, especially after long holidays. We’re two years into this. Reporters should know this by now.
ah yes thank goodness for our vax passport and mask mandate! Flawless system to prevent covid from spreading!
Just think how bad it would have been without those important safety measures. ?
Deep Thoughts By Jackoff Handy: The old phrase “I’d bet dollars to doughnuts” no longer holds any intrinsic value.
I’ve never understood that phrase.
Donuts used to be very inexpensive.
Now inflation is ruining our idioms! Let’s go Brandon!!!11!!!
I’ve always understood it to mean that the bet was so solid you could give someone 10:1 odds and still make a profit. Meaning, 10 doughnuts to a dollar. Nowadays if you can find a doughnut worth a shit for less than a buck you done good.
I always understood as meaning the person saying the phrase didn’t really care about profit, but being correct. I.e. “I’m so sure of this that if you’re right I’ll give you $X. And if I’m right, all you have to do is give me X doughnuts!” (again, inflation has wrecked this). That’s how I’ve always used it.
I can see that ad well.
Ad, as…
I swear I tried to correct that before posting…. alcohol.
When I was a kid, a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts were $2. You could get them for a buck on a fundraiser deal and sell them for up to $6 to raise money.
In grad school we used to make runs when the hot now light was on … We would grab a dozen each. Super cheap, and when hot a 22 year old young man can wolf down a half dozen before having to pause for a breath.
Fast forward several years without a nearby store… I pop in to grab a few dozen for a meeting.
Wow. Talk about sticker shock!
And now? Plain glazed are twelve bucks for a dozen….. So literally dollars to donuts as an even trade.
When that phrase was coined, probably in the 1920s? Maybe a dime a dozen?
And exchange form tonight’s episode of The Expanse:
Bobbie: You have lipstick and scratches on your neck.
Amos: …yup.
B: And is that… glitter?
A: …yup.
B: So you’re just drinking and fucking?
A: Until they run out of one or the other.
Amos is my favorite character.
He’s everybody’s favorite character. Including the authors, I suspect.
The Churn novela is good. Back in Baltimore.
I’m a basic bitch.
He’s damaged beyond repair. He knows it and accepts it.
Which makes him one of us….
“So you’re just drinking and fucking?”
My man.
I miss these commercials.
How to make a car commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjGSzSyHqMU
Great commercial.
Terrible car.
Tundra, I found your three-way:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10379479/The-sister-Elizabeth-Hurley-Kate-57-looks-stunning-Hinge-profile.html
Not if I get there first!
Remarkably undemanding. This means… I have a chance!
The fact that she thinks she’s an atheist is something of a turn-off. All you need to do is look at most 57 year olds to realize there is a God and he’s on the side of the Hurley girls.
Thanks, Count!
Our pal DEG alerted me to that earlier today and I must say that the Bank is re-stocked.
Seriously, what the hell did their parents look like!?!
100,000 chillins almost dead on ventilators /Wise Latina.
Was just about to post that.
Fun that the “fact check” industry exploded into action, setting her straight…..
It is all in how you frame it:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kamala-harris-jan-6-attack-9-11-pearl-harbor/
Snopes: Did Kamala Harris Say Jan. 6 Attack Was ‘Worse Than’ 9/11, Pearl Harbor?
Mostly False!