The Bob Cesca Podcast: What You Doing?

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

What You Doing? — Happy Halloween! Trump short circuited numerous times over the weekend. Trump didn’t know what city he was in. Tiny Trump vowed to not protect NATO allies. And Trump still doesn’t understand how time works. Mike Pence dropped out of the Republican primaries. Dean Phillips and Steve Schmidt are trying to weaken Biden before the general election. NeverTrumpers aren’t all Steve Schmidt. Republicans can only win by cheating. Good news and bad news on gerrymandering. Glenn Youngkin caught purging too many voters. Judge Chutkan reinstated Trump’s gag order. Why the gag orders are too little, too late. Upcoming testimony by the Trump family. With Buzz Burbank, music by Lynda Kay and Lemmy, Freekbass, and more!

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wrenchwench  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:17:01pm

Mastodon

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Thanos  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:17:51pm

Dishwasher is repaired and undergoing a test run, the Chili is fixed and simmering, I need to get the rest of the decorations done, then I might, just might, have some BG3 time.

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darthstar  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:20:18pm

Mastodon

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:20:26pm

re: #78 Dangerman

i am being serious and not all pie in the sky.
no, i’m well past ‘govern’.
i know there are some who want to grind up the works so the house comes to a halt.
in reality it has got to minimally function.
israel, ukraine, the budget, etc.
and that’s being awfully lenient and limited on what ‘function’ means.
no lofty aspirations here. just three immediate, pressing issues.
there are enough D’s and Rs in support of israel that they wont let ‘nothing at all’ happen. same for the other two.

johnson is this:

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if his ineptitude or intransigence, or ‘god is guiding me’ becomes so obvious, i could see someone saying ‘we can’t go on like this’.
and no, i dont think he’d be re-elected any more than kevin.

Good Zod, that there’s still this level of optimism after the shitshow that happened over the last month is astounding. The “moderates” already voiced as loudly as they possibly could that they would rather have a member of the Christian Taliban running the House than they would ever considering working with the Dems, they spent the better part of two weeks covering for their asses by blaming the entire dysfunction of the House on the Dems. Why would they now come together to boot Johnson in the vain hope that it will move forward funding for Israel?

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:21:38pm

re: #3 darthstar

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Brought to you by the same leadership that has been getting all sorts of shit for the nation’s population shrinkage.

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darthstar  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:22:45pm

re: #5 Targetpractice

Brought to you by the same leadership that has been getting all sorts of shit for the nation’s population shrinkage.

Putin’s window awaits him. Soon.

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Thanos  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:25:10pm

Bellingcat confirms strikes
bellingcat.com

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gocart mozart  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:31:46pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:32:42pm

Hee Hawley makes an asshole of himself again.

DHS Sec. Mayorkas fires back at Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) after tense exchange about a pro-Palestine employee.

Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, interrupted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, furious that a DHS employee had posted “Free PALESTINE” online, demanding to know why she had not been fired. As Mayorkas tried to respond, Hawley kept asking “Has she been fired?” and “Why has she not been fired?” for a total of thirteen times.

Hawley finally called Mayorkas “despicable” and his behavior “atrocious,” implying that antisemitism and a permissive relationship with terrorism were rife in Mayorkas’ department.

Mayorkas, equally mad, was given a minute to respond and said wryly “I’m not sure I’ll limit it to 60 seconds.” He went on: “Senator Hawley takes a adversarial approach to me in this question and perhaps he doesn’t know my own background. Perhaps he does not know that I am the child of a Holocaust survivor. Perhaps he does not know that my mother lost almost all her family at the hands of the Nazis. And so I find his adversarial tone to be entirely misplaced. I find it to be disrespectful of me and my heritage and I do not expect an apology, but I did want to say what I just articulated.”

Hawley asked to respond and was denied.

news.yahoo.com

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:37:43pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon ✅

Hee Hawley makes an asshole of himself again.

DHS Sec. Mayorkas fires back at Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) after tense exchange about a pro-Palestine employee.

Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, interrupted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, furious that a DHS employee had posted “Free PALESTINE” online, demanding to know why she had not been fired. As Mayorkas tried to respond, Hawley kept asking “Has she been fired?” and “Why has she not been fired?” for a total of thirteen times.

Hawley finally called Mayorkas “despicable” and his behavior “atrocious,” implying that antisemitism and a permissive relationship with terrorism were rife in Mayorkas’ department.

Mayorkas, equally mad, was given a minute to respond and said wryly “I’m not sure I’ll limit it to 60 seconds.” He went on: “Senator Hawley takes a adversarial approach to me in this question and perhaps he doesn’t know my own background. Perhaps he does not know that I am the child of a Holocaust survivor. Perhaps he does not know that my mother lost almost all her family at the hands of the Nazis. And so I find his adversarial tone to be entirely misplaced. I find it to be disrespectful of me and my heritage and I do not expect an apology, but I did want to say what I just articulated.”

Hawley asked to respond and was denied.

news.yahoo.com

Another day, another example of the crowd that whines constantly about “CANCEL CULTURE!!!” demanding the punishment of someone voicing an opinion they don’t approve of.

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Thanos  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:46:42pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon ✅

Hee Hawley makes an asshole of himself again.

DHS Sec. Mayorkas fires back at Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) after tense exchange about a pro-Palestine employee.

Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, interrupted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, furious that a DHS employee had posted “Free PALESTINE” online, demanding to know why she had not been fired. As Mayorkas tried to respond, Hawley kept asking “Has she been fired?” and “Why has she not been fired?” for a total of thirteen times.

Hawley finally called Mayorkas “despicable” and his behavior “atrocious,” implying that antisemitism and a permissive relationship with terrorism were rife in Mayorkas’ department.

Mayorkas, equally mad, was given a minute to respond and said wryly “I’m not sure I’ll limit it to 60 seconds.” He went on: “Senator Hawley takes a adversarial approach to me in this question and perhaps he doesn’t know my own background. Perhaps he does not know that I am the child of a Holocaust survivor. Perhaps he does not know that my mother lost almost all her family at the hands of the Nazis. And so I find his adversarial tone to be entirely misplaced. I find it to be disrespectful of me and my heritage and I do not expect an apology, but I did want to say what I just articulated.”

Hawley asked to respond and was denied.

news.yahoo.com

Hawley isn’t just a douche, he’s the whole douche kit.

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wrenchwench  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:52:25pm

Mastodon

[….]The discovery of high lead levels in the pouches came out of an investigation by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services into elevated lead levels in four children living in the state.

Investigators identified the WanaBana puree pouches as a “potential shared source of exposure.” The state then tested multiple lots of the product and found that they contained “extremely high concentrations of lead.”

[…]

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 31, 2023 • 1:58:50pm

Consumer Reports has issued an alert about high lead and cadmium levels in dark chocolates they sampled.

Consumer Reports found dangerous heavy metals in chocolate from Hershey’s, Theo, Trader Joe’s, and other popular brands. Here are the ones that had the most, and some that are safer.

Research has found that some dark chocolate bars contain cadmium and lead—two heavy metals linked to a host of health problems in children and adults.

The chocolate industry has been grappling with ways to lower those levels. To see how much of a risk these favorite treats pose, Consumer Reports scientists recently measured the amount of heavy metals in 28 dark chocolate bars. They detected cadmium and lead in all of them.

CR tested a mix of brands, including smaller ones, such as Alter Eco and Mast, and more familiar ones, like Dove and Ghirardelli.

For 23 of the bars, eating just an ounce a day would put an adult over a level that public health authorities and CR’s experts say may be harmful for at least one of those heavy metals. Five of the bars were above those levels for both cadmium and lead

consumerreports.org

CR’s tests found five chocolates—one each from Mast, Taza, and Valrhona, and two from Ghirardelli—with relatively low levels of both lead and cadmium. Eight more are lower in only lead, and 10 others in just cadmium. Only five bars—one each from Green & Black’s, Lily’s (owned by the Hershey company), and Trader Joe’s, and two from Theo—were higher for both heavy metals.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:05:19pm

re: #13 Joe Bacon ✅

Thanks. :)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:05:56pm

re: #12 wrenchwench

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Someone’s trying to make more angry stupid people, or more likely, someone is stupid and doesn’t know how to produce food safely.

re: #13 Joe Bacon ✅

New ad slogan:
Ghirardelli - less lead and cadmium than other leading brands.

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nines09  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:06:36pm

Yankee Stadium Opening Day - Saturday Night Live

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:06:55pm

Global electric vehicle meltdown: What you need to know

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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:13:02pm

re: #15 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Someone’s trying to make more angry stupid people, or more likely, someone is stupid and doesn’t know how to produce food safely.

New ad slogan:
Ghirardelli - less lead and cadmium than other leading brands.

wait’ll easter: cadmium eggs

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Thanos  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:13:40pm

For halloween viewing: NSFW due to language

SCP: OVERLORD

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gocart mozart  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:14:21pm
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wrenchwench  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:18:35pm

re: #15 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Someone’s trying to make more angry stupid people, or more likely, someone is stupid and doesn’t know how to produce food safely.

New ad slogan:
Ghirardelli - less lead and cadmium than other leading brands.

They need to care upfront, not just care about getting caught.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:19:41pm

re: #21 wrenchwench

They need to care upfront, not just care about getting caught.

But that’s not The Capitalist Way (tm).

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gocart mozart  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:21:21pm
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TedStriker  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:26:19pm

re: #23 gocart mozart

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The fire department’s going to get sooo many calls on that one and they’re gonna get sooo pissed.

Damn cool effects, but maybe not the best use of them…

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:27:58pm

re: #22 Nerdy Fish

But that’s not The Capitalist Way (tm).

It is and isn’t. Plenty of companies have not only wiped the slate clean but actually benefited from calling attention to a major issue within their own industry just to say “Hey, look, we’re the least disgusting of your options! Pay a little more to not choke on heavy metals!”

I mean shit, management at my hotel learned early last year that the only reason we were still enforcing masks, hand sanitizer, and only offering 1 free cleaning a week instead of every three days was because assholes up in corporate thought that advertising as the only cut-rate brand still taking precautions would bring in more customers.

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wrenchwench  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:31:35pm

Multiple loser.

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:31:51pm

re: #8 gocart mozart

Interestingly, Rogue One reveals the Death Star design flaw was deliberately added by an engineer sympathetic to the rebellion.

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gocart mozart  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:31:54pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:33:27pm

re: #28 gocart mozart

John is really good at this. I wish more Dems were as unflinching as he is.

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TedStriker  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:34:38pm

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

John is really good at this. I wish more Dems were as unflinching as he is.

I like that’s he’s just taking the piss out of the MAGA/Q conspiranuts, with a big ol’ union label at the bottom.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:35:01pm

re: #28 gocart mozart

lol. That is John.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:38:02pm

re: #19 Thanos

One of my favourite SCP films. It never fails to creep me out. I like that there is no real resolution which should be expected of weird shit like that.

Here’s another favourite.

096 | SCP Short Film [4K]

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:40:29pm

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

After a brush with death propriety becomes a tertiary consideration.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:41:17pm

re: #17 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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I tried to do the math on how much it costs to charge an EV vs gas car and figured the savings came to around 50% give or take. Last time I charged our Tesla S I took it from 20% to 100% capacity to balance out the cells, because I hadn’t done that in several years. Normally I stop at 70% charge. It came out at 80 kWh and California peak Supercharging rates are reportedly currently averaging 50 cents per kWh. I can’t see the actual rates from our car because it was one of the last cars that came with free Supercharging for life so my best guess is that I would have paid $40 for electrons giving a range that might have corresponded to about $80 worth of gas in the average car here.

But, that’s before you factor in the time it takes to charge, and it takes a lot longer to go to 100% capacity. It’s also before you consider that batteries slowly discharge over time, which is kind of like having a gas tank with a pinhole leak in it that you can’t fix.

So I can see why people are reluctant. I really like the S but Tesla quality has gone massively downhill since we got ours and I’d never buy any of their current cars even if Musk wasn’t involved in the company. Unfortunately none of the other manufacturers have anything close to the same charging infrastructure needed to make longer trips viable, and the Electrify America network really can’t compete yet. It’s a promising technology but the state of play still sucks.

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ericblair  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:45:11pm

re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg

Interestingly, Rogue One reveals the Death Star design flaw was deliberately added by an engineer sympathetic to the rebellion.

This points out the importance of the Critical Design Review in the systems engineering lifecycle. Cut corners, get sloppy, get blowed up.

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EstebanTornado1963  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:48:55pm

re: #34 goddamnedfrank

I tried to do the math on how much it costs to charge an EV vs gas car and figured the savings came to around 50% give or take. Last time I charged our Tesla S I took it from 20% to 100% capacity to balance out the cells, because I hadn’t done that in several years. Normally I stop at 70% charge. It came out at 80 kWh and California peak Supercharging rates are reportedly currently averaging 50 cents per kWh. I can’t see the actual rates from our car because it was one of the last cars that came with free Supercharging for life so my best guess is that I would have paid $40 for electrons giving a range that might have corresponded to about $80 worth of gas in the average car here.

But, that’s before you factor in the time it takes to charge, and it takes a lot longer to go to 100% capacity. It’s also before you consider that batteries slowly discharge over time, which is kind of like having a gas tank with a pinhole leak in it that you can’t fix.

So I can see why people are reluctant. I really like the S but Tesla quality has gone massively downhill since we got the S and I’d never buy any of their current cars even if Musk wasn’t involved in the company. Unfortunately none of the other manufacturers have anything close to the same charging infrastructure needed to make longer trips viable, and the Electrify America network really can’t compete yet. It’s a promising technology but the state of play still sucks.

I just bought a Model Y and the charging network is the only reason I bought another Tesla. I probably will never buy another gas powered car unless the EV thing totally crashes. And definitely not another Tesla.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:50:01pm

re: #35 ericblair

This points out the importance of the Critical Design Review in the systems engineering lifecycle. Cut corners, get sloppy, get blowed up.

Yeah. I don’t think the Empire was big on QA. They didn’t give a shit about OSHA either. 😉

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ericblair  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:50:38pm

Wow, another crooked gooper governor. Shocking, I know. It’s almost like they were all a bunch of lying racist shitbags who found where the easy marks were to line their own pockets, but I don’t really want to jump to conclusions, really.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:51:25pm

re: #38 ericblair

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Wow, another crooked gooper governor. Shocking, I know. It’s almost like they were all a bunch of lying racist shitbags who found where the easy marks were to line their own pockets, but I don’t really want to jump to conclusions, really.

I cannot wait to vote against this asshole in about a week.

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Dangerman  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:51:51pm

re: #4 Targetpractice

Good Zod, that there’s still this level of optimism after the shitshow that happened over the last month is astounding. The “moderates” already voiced as loudly as they possibly could that they would rather have a member of the Christian Taliban running the House than they would ever considering working with the Dems, they spent the better part of two weeks covering for their asses by blaming the entire dysfunction of the House on the Dems. Why would they now come together to boot Johnson in the vain hope that it will move forward funding for Israel?

this is not me being all pollyanna or rose colored glasses.

a good chunk of the R’s literally had no idea who Johnson was or what he stood for.

to his crafty and weaselly credit, when he saw his path to coronation, he let em believe what they wanted until after he won the gavel.

there was a very big driver of ‘enough!’ already just pick anyone (except jordan or kevin) and be done with this! (yes they blamed the dems but it was half-assed, idiotic and everybody knew the truth).

yes, they should have been more careful and responsible. they werent.

and at the moment, it still only takes one member. not that one rogue member would do it. just that it’s an awfully low number. maybe 10 need to be corralled and agree, but not a majority of either party, like it was.

and now cuban black beans await cuban rice and a vegetable pie

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Thanos  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:52:40pm

New advice video from Innuendo Studios: The Alt-Right Playbook: Negging and Love-Bombing

The Alt-Right Playbook: Negging and Love-Bombing

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ericblair  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:53:06pm

re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah. I don’t think the Empire was big on QA. They didn’t give a shit about OSHA either. 😉

You green light these megaprojects, you’re gonna need some engineering discipline. You’d think the Empire would be big on soul killing bureaucracy, after all.

Andor was good for these sorts of things. They actually had the Monday morning staff meetings!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:55:48pm

re: #42 ericblair

You green light these megaprojects, you’re gonna need some engineering discipline. You’d think the Empire would be big on soul killing bureaucracy, after all.

Andor was good for these sorts of things. They actually had the Monday morning staff meetings!

I can’t help but wonder if some of the other engineers found the design flaw but shut the fuck up about it, lest they be force choked by Vader or yeeted out a window by Palpatine.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:58:49pm

re: #35 ericblair

This points out the importance of the Critical Design Review in the systems engineering lifecycle. Cut corners, get sloppy, get blowed up.

It ties in well with idea of the Empire being Nazis though, and Hannah Arendt’s whole Banality of Evil concept. Because just like the Nazis the Empire relied on scientists held in prison camps to solve problems that mediocre minds more aligned with their goals couldn’t even properly analyze.

It was then that Dr. Ludwik Fleck was transferred to Buchenwald, and Ding-Schuler placed him in charge of the vaccine project. Right away, Dr. Fleck realized that Dr. Ding-Schuler had no idea what he was doing. Privately, Dr. Fleck called him a dummkopf, Yiddish for idiot. Dr. Fleck later recalled that the Nazi scientists at Buchenwald “looked into their microscopes and continuously misunderstood what they saw… There was no individual author of the error. The error grew out of the collective atmosphere.”

Dr. Fleck adjusted the method that typhus was being bred and managed to create a life-saving typhus vaccine, working with Jewish slaves as his colleagues in the unimaginable hell that was Buchenwald.

Duping the Nazis

Once Dr. Fleck adjusted the vaccine production method, he and his fellow Jewish scientists decided to keep their discovery secret. Dr. Eugen Kogon, a Jewish scientist imprisoned in Buchenwald who led the Jewish team producing the vaccine, later described what happened. “Since Ding-Schuler demanded large quantities of vaccine, we produced two types: one that had no value and was perfectly harmless, and went to the front; and a second type, in very small quantities, that was very efficacious and used in special cases like for comrades who worked in difficult places in the camp.” (Quoted in The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis by Arthur Allen.)

Whenever the Nazis became suspicious and demanded vaccines to test, Dr. Fleck and the other Jewish scientists would send a vial of the precious real vaccine, and independent tests would confirm that the vaccine worked. Dr. Fleck later recalled that Dr. Ding-Schuler’s “lack of knowledge of science was very useful in the sabotage activities that were soon undertaken by a group of doctors and scientists from the Concentration Camp Buchenwald… We were consciously producing a non-active vaccine… Ding, the idiot, never wised it up…”

While Dr. Fleck and others produced small quantities of vaccine using rabbits, guinea pigs and other animals, Dr. Rudolf Weigl continued to manufacture vaccines derived from lice in his laboratory in Lvov. Dr. Weigl was also determined to trick the Nazis and help Jews.

Dr. Weigl was compelled to turn almost all of his vaccine over to the Nazis, but author Arthur Allen has documented that Dr. Weigl was allowed to keep 8,200 doses each month in order to conduct further experiments and inoculate family members and friends. Instead of honoring this arrangement, Dr. Weigl acted heroically. He sabotaged the vaccine doses he gave to the Nazis, and donated the doses he was allowed to keep to resistant groups, orphans, Jewish fighters and priests. He even managed to smuggle 30,000 precious doses of vaccine to the Warsaw Ghetto, where typhus was rife, to inoculate 30,000 Jews there.

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:59:07pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

I can’t help but wonder if some of the other engineers found the design flaw but shut the fuck up about it, lest they be force choked by Vader or yeeted out a window by Palpatine.

Probably, after learning of the fate of the first guy who brought it up and then told them how many million Imperial credits it would cost to fix (and how far it would put them behind schedule).

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ericblair  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:59:22pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

I can’t help but wonder if some of the other engineers found the design flaw but shut the fuck up about it, lest they be force choked by Vader or yeeted out a window by Palpatine.

It certainly was a toxic work environment. When your senior management are genuine Sith, you probably want to start shopping your resume around. Ditch the dead-end government job and maybe look into some commercial mining and shipping operations or something.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 31, 2023 • 2:59:45pm

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:00:29pm

Maybe not a good idea to wait for “After Christmas Sales” to Purchase your Apple watch:

Apple Inc. sells a lot of smart watches during the holidays, but this year its sales of most Apple Watch models may well drop 100 percent — to literally zero — the day after Christmas.

That’s because of a ruling Thursday by the International Trade Commission that most Apple Watches contain parts that infringe on patents held by Masimo Corp., a producer of medical technology, and its sister company, Cercacor Laboratories Inc., both of Irvine, Calif.

An import ban and a cease-and-desist order on sales both take effect on Dec. 26 — unless President Biden reverses the decision by Dec. 25, which appears unlikely. (Presidents rarely overrule the independent, nonpartisan agency, which was founded in 1916 as the U.S. Tariff Commission.).  .  .

(no paywall)

nytimes.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:02:06pm

re: #48 BeenHereAwhile

Shit. That’s gonna piss a lot of people off.

I wonder if Apple can throw some bags of money Masimos way and get a licensing deal or something?

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:02:34pm

re: #44 goddamnedfrank

Incredible read. Those heroic scientists need to have a documentary or film made about what they did with vaccines. Amazing story.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:02:57pm

re: #25 Targetpractice

It is and isn’t. Plenty of companies have not only wiped the slate clean but actually benefited from calling attention to a major issue within their own industry just to say “Hey, look, we’re the least disgusting of your options! Pay a little more to not choke on heavy metals!”

I mean shit, management at my hotel learned early last year that the only reason we were still enforcing masks, hand sanitizer, and only offering 1 free cleaning a week instead of every three days was because assholes up in corporate thought that advertising as the only cut-rate brand still taking precautions would bring in more customers.

My wife and I were laughing today at the Enterprise car rental ads insisting that it is very important that they wipe every surface with sanitizer - implying others don’t. ugh.

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KGxvi  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:05:28pm

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

John is really good at this. I wish more Dems were as unflinching as he is.

It’s a generational thing. Older Democrats, those who entered politics in the ’70s and ’80s were faced with the rise (and subsequent victories) of the conservative movement. Those who entered in the 90s and early aughts were mostly too scared to be anything more than slightly to the left of center (remember, “the era of big government is over”). It really wasn’t until the latter part of the Obama years where Democrats who had the courage of their convictions started to appear.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:05:55pm

Mastodon

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:06:00pm

re: #40 Dangerman

this is not me being all pollyanna or rose colored glasses.

a good chunk of the R’s literally had no idea who Johnson was or what he stood for.

to his crafty and weaselly credit, when he saw his path to coronation, he let em believe what they wanted until after he won the gavel.

there was a very big driver of ‘enough!’ already just pick anyone (except jordan or kevin) and be done with this! (yes they blamed the dems but it was half-assed, idiotic and everybody knew the truth).

yes, they should have been more careful and responsible. they werent.

and at the moment, it still only takes one member. not that one rogue member would do it. just that it’s an awfully low number. maybe 10 need to be corralled and agree, but not a majority of either party, like it was.

and now cuban black beans await cuban rice and a vegetable pie

It’s just not going to happen, not even if they find out that Johnson’s a Visitor who regularly eats mice whole. The “moderates” were losing their collective fucking minds in public as well as privately about the possibility their only option in the end would be to work with Dems on picking a Speaker. Even though it would have been faster and way less painful, they spent 2+ weeks dicking around with one candidate after another before settling on Johnson because he was the least toxic (or so they thought) of the options the MAGAt caucus would accept. If that’s the sort of grief that they had to go through just to kick the can on a federal shutdown, there’s no way they’re going to go through all of it again just to send money to Israel. And considering how politically radioactive the subject is becoming on the liberal side of the aisle, any Dem who brought a motion to vacate over funding to Israel should have their resignation speech typed up in advance.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:11:17pm

How SCP Infected the Internet

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Semper Fi  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:12:31pm

re: #40 Dangerman

this is not me being all pollyanna or rose colored glasses.

a good chunk of the R’s literally had no idea who Johnson was or what he stood for.

to his crafty and weaselly credit, when he saw his path to coronation, he let em believe what they wanted until after he won the gavel.

there was a very big driver of ‘enough!’ already just pick anyone (except jordan or kevin) and be done with this! (yes they blamed the dems but it was half-assed, idiotic and everybody knew the truth).

yes, they should have been more careful and responsible. they werent.

and at the moment, it still only takes one member. not that one rogue member would do it. just that it’s an awfully low number. maybe 10 need to be corralled and agree, but not a majority of either party, like it was.

and now cuban black beans await cuban rice and a vegetable pie

Wish I could eat black beans but the body gets rebellious.
Enjoy.

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IngisKahn  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:16:24pm

re: #34 goddamnedfrank

I tried to do the math on how much it costs to charge an EV vs gas car and figured the savings came to around 50% give or take. Last time I charged our Tesla S I took it from 20% to 100% capacity to balance out the cells, because I hadn’t done that in several years. Normally I stop at 70% charge. It came out at 80 kWh and California peak Supercharging rates are reportedly currently averaging 50 cents per kWh. I can’t see the actual rates from our car because it was one of the last cars that came with free Supercharging for life so my best guess is that I would have paid $40 for electrons giving a range that might have corresponded to about $80 worth of gas in the average car here.

But, that’s before you factor in the time it takes to charge, and it takes a lot longer to go to 100% capacity. It’s also before you consider that batteries slowly discharge over time, which is kind of like having a gas tank with a pinhole leak in it that you can’t fix.

So I can see why people are reluctant. I really like the S but Tesla quality has gone massively downhill since we got the S and I’d never buy any of their current cars even if Musk wasn’t involved in the company. Unfortunately none of the other manufacturers have anything close to the same charging infrastructure needed to make longer trips viable, and the Electrify America network really can’t compete yet. It’s a promising technology but the state of play still sucks.

It’s also *much* cheaper to charge at home. I got a model 3 in 2018 and I have nothing but good things to say about it. We have a few friends and family that just got Ys and they love them. I’ve tried other EVs and I don’t think they really compare, especially since we take a lot of road trips. It’s a real tragedy that Elon is such a nightmare. We want to get a second EV so I’m hoping Elon will implode soon and remove his taint from Tesla (and maybe even SpaceX).

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:18:25pm

I feel the need…the need for Halloween!

And behind the label is a pic of me with Ms. Cyborg in her Handmaids Tale costume (ofmaverick?) from our Halloween party last weekend:

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:19:36pm

re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg

Great costume, and the couple pic is absolutely adorable.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:23:52pm

re: #24 TedStriker

The fire department’s going to get sooo many calls on that one and they’re gonna get sooo pissed.

Damn cool effects, but maybe not the best use of them…

I hope they had enough sense to forewarn the FD and 911

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Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:24:22pm

re: #44 goddamnedfrank

It ties in well with idea of the Empire being Nazis though, and Hannah Arendt’s whole Banality of Evil concept. Because just like the Nazis the Empire relied on scientists held in prison camps to solve problems that mediocre minds more aligned with their goals couldn’t even properly analyze.

The Nazi approach to science had four major flaws that so many ignore when talking about “Nazi super science” or the idea that they had various “wunderwaffe” that would have won the war had they put them in production earlier/larger numbers:

1) Running numerous top-level scientists out of the country for racial/political reasons and then officially denouncing their work such that other scientists could not even pursue such lines for danger of being imprisoned for delving in “Jewish science.”

2) Putting great emphasis on political loyalty over ability to produce viable results, leading to sadists like Mengele being given way more resources and leeway to conduct his “research” while scientists who actually had workable ideas were forced to either submit to conscription or join the workforce due to not being members in good standing with the Nazi Party.

3) Duplication of efforts, such as Heisenberg/Diebner for atomic research or Von Braun/Sanger for rocket research, instead of consolidating such efforts in order to get the sort of “critical mass” that similar projects in Allied countries produced by putting all their efforts into a single program. Most of this was (again) political, as various factions vied for resources in the hopes of gaining Hitler’s approval.

4) An emphasis in the early years of the war on only funding and promoting projects that would achieve short-term results, as the leadership was absolutely convinced of a short war that would either lead to a negotiated peace or a complete collapse of the opposition. So many programs that needed vital funding in 1938/39 instead either collapsed or wallowed in obscurity until “shit got real” in 1942/43 when the US bombing raids and the meat grinder that was Stalingrad made clear that current weapons tech was only barely holding off the Allies and they needed something new if they wanted to retake the initiative.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:26:35pm

re: #38 ericblair

Quelle surprise!

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:30:00pm

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:30:43pm

re: #61 Targetpractice

The Nazi approach to science had four major flaws that so many ignore when talking about “Nazi super science” or the idea that they had various “wunderwaffe” that would have won the war had they put them in production earlier/larger numbers:

5) Infighting over scarce resources; Germany had delveloped and successfully tested the first truly guided air-to-ground/ship missiles but the Air Ministry played them down for fear that Hitler would prioritize them over aircraft development.

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BeachDem  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:38:20pm

A Halloween message from Ohio Dems-

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 31, 2023 • 3:58:05pm

re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I remember seeing a photo of the Nazi SAM.

I thought, “Now I know which scientists the Soviets grabbed.” It bore a remarkable resemblance to the Guideline.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 31, 2023 • 4:01:41pm

re: #67 Romantic Heretic

I am convinced that in order to keep Operation Paperclip (importing former Nazi scientists and technology to America post WW2) silent, the armed forces were just fine with people thinking it was aliens and little green men, it made a terrific red herring to throw people off the scent of all the odd things they saw flying around in New Mexico


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