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Yeah, the “economic insecurity” of the MAGA bunch is on full display in this hashtag:
Looked at the #RecallGavinNewsom tag and… yikes. Lots of our neighbors would rather die of covid than see any aid $$$ go to people who’ve immigrated here
— Kyle #RentZero 🦚 (@kylpeacock) April 15, 2020
Goddamn Russian troll bot farms and the MAGA racists. I’m proud of my California Governor Gavin Newsome. #RecallGavinNewsom
— Pablo Kutter (@Mossimo77) April 15, 2020
To those who started this trend: #RecallGavinNewsom
Go fuck yourselves.
Then, go pick me about 10 heads of romaine lettuce, 10 heads of leaf lettuce, and some tomatoes. If you let migrant farmers get sick, somebody’s gotta do it, and that means YOU #MAGA xenophobe bastards.— Sheepdogging been berry berry good to me 🚩🌻 (@AFCC_Esq) April 15, 2020
A while back, The Economist magazine managed to describe the pathology of the entire right-wing in America thusly:
“Some how they seem convinced that the greatest possible threat to America is that somewhere, a black person is getting government benefits over and above what they are entitled to. They are willing to destroy the entire country rather than allow that to continue.
“Whether this entails them denying themselves or their families these same benefits seems not to occur to them, or if it does, they trust in their white privilege to see them through.”
I’m getting better, but it’s getting harder to keep sane. The death rate is still going up and assholes are talking about getting back to work. Our world is run by idiots who pride themselves are ignorance. Must of us our going to get through this, but at what cost?
I think I’m going to have to wait for the debates for anyone to call trump a liar to his face. Not sure if it’s what the country needs, but it’s what I want. One person to call trump a liar to his face.
Until then, I’m doing my best to get healthier and keep sane.
We have historically let traitors off easy in this country, to the great cost of innocent people in the case of the Confederates, a cost that we are still paying to this day.
During World War II, the fanatically anti-FDR Chicago Tribune actually gave away the secret of the broken Japanese naval code, and largely got away with it. This was because the government thought the enemy might have missed the story while a noisy prosecution would surely alert them. Turned out they were right, the story had appeared on a back page shortly after the Battle of Midway. There have been very few prosecutions for treason over the nation’s history though.
re: #3 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m getting better, but it’s getting harder to keep sane. The death rate is still going up and assholes are talking about getting back to work. Our world is run by idiots who pride themselves are ignorance. Must of us our going to get through this, but at what cost?
Yeah, that’s what I’m trying to wrap my head around. What is the world after this going to look like? Are we going to just throw this down the Memory Hole and pretend? Or is there going to be some repercussions that we can’t possibly know yet?
If the Black Death caused the elites to have to share their wealth a bit, and changed the balance of power between them and the commoners they exploited, what could that mean for us.
re: #5 Dread Pirate
Biden - Newsom 2020
I’ll admit it: I’m a fan.
I met Gavin at a Los Angeles Book Expo about 4 years ago, and was utterly charmed. He told a story about how an employee had caused a catastrophic mess at his family’s hotel, and despite loud calls to fire the guy, instead gave him an award. Because the guy had tried to solve a problem.
The solution didn’t work, but at least the employee didn’t sit on his ass. He actually tried to do something.
Risk tolerance. Compassion. A sense of humor.
You can do a lot with that as raw materials.
re: #8 Rightwingconspirator
Hey now we need that guy around here. :-)
That’s how I feel about Kamala.
Because it was a lie. Your petty foot dragging cost us thousands of lives. https://t.co/NeSo3LQD50
— Karoli (@Karoli) April 16, 2020
re: #2 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
It makes sense if you imagine that money is some kind of objective measure of worth.
(As opposed to, you know, something completely made up to act as an medium of exchange.)
If you believe the latter, then it’s wrong to demand more pay for yourself, because if you get it’s not really about merit; it’s not a measure of your worth. And it’s wrong if the government makes your employer pay you more for the same reason.
And the greatest sin is stating aloud that money is less important than human life or human dignity…or implying this by suggesting that there should be systems in place to help people afford life and dignity. It’s offensive, an upending of the world.
Now if you want to understand this exact cultural moment…take what I just said and merge that idea with the concept of an omnipotent Christian God that rewards and punishes relative to his own mysterious metrics.
The Prosperity Gospel isn’t a suprising development; it’s the natural merger of the two strongest cults in the USA.
re: #10 Patricia Kayden
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Jesus H. Fucking Christ, that’s some SERIOUS revisionist history.
I don’t recall the SOTU either. I must have drank.
re: #15 I Would Prefer Not To
He said he is going to pick a woman.
It’s California, we can change his sex.
The quilters of Gee’s Bend are legendary folk artists. (One famously turned all of her dead husband’s clothing into a single quilt.) They have found a new task:
The Famed Quilters of Gee’s Bend Are Using Their Sewing Skills to Make a Face Mask for Every Citizen in Their Small Alabama Town
news.artnet.com
So it’s all on Nancy, because she ripped up some paper and not on the guy who called it a hoax and didn’t bother to learn any of the science. Got it.
re: #10 Patricia Kayden
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I found the following single paragraph in the SOTU transcript on coronavirus:
“Protecting Americans’ health also means fighting infectious diseases. We are coordinating with the Chinese government and working closely together on the coronavirus outbreak in China. My administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat.”
Seems like a very detailed plan ///
re: #21 Hecuba’s daughter
I found the following single paragraph in the SOTU transcript on coronavirus:
Seems like a very detailed plan ///
Okay, so the quote is “accurate, but misleading”. Interesting.
re: #23 Patricia Kayden
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The fact that this was the first March in 18 years without a school shooting was what did it for me.
re: #24 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The fact that this was the first March in 18 years without a school shooting was what did it for me.
Your comment needs national attention by the media.
re: #25 Semper Fi
If that is true, your comment needs national attention by the media.
It needs attribution - I saw it on Facebook, veracity may vary. I’ll do what I can.
Blood donation done. Why is the finger prick always the worst part in terms of pain? That sucker hurts.
re: #27 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Blood donation done. Why is the finger prick always the worst part in terms of pain? That sucker hurts.
No good deed goes unpunished.
re: #27 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Blood donation done. Why is the finger prick always the worst part in terms of pain? That sucker hurts.
Fingertips are the most sensitive patch of skin on the body. It makes logical sense, when you think about it; we use our fingers to feel literally all the things.
re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea
Then again, most of these folks also believe they’re underpaid…and unappreciated…precisely because there is a vast conspiracy of Unworthy People siphoning the cash away: Poorer people who deserve to suffer because they want more than they’re worth, not wealthy people who factually siphon up wealth. The latter are Better People; it is known.
When we look at this latest round of “open the economy” it’s necessary to read these background assumptions, the language that describes their worldview.
Covid deaths are just being integrated into an existing framework. It’s heroic to risk death for a paycheck because that paycheck is your confirmation that you have worth, materially and spiritually. People that suggest a paycheck isn’t worth death are offensive, upending the natural order. Derivative risk—everybody else getting sick—is necessary, because money is the basis of the natural order, and without jobs noone’s earning and thus we can’t confirm the natural order. It’s better that people die…and most people that die will in some way deserve it, because they can’t work or don’t believe in Work as sacrament…than to upend the hierarchy.
And when members of the Cult of Work die, it will be because someone they view as an inferior was part of a conspiracy to make life harder. Wealthy people that make the most money and take the least risk from reopening businesses can’t be to blame, because their success means they must be a better person.
re: #21 Hecuba’s daughter
So in his SOTU, Trump talks about working with China but yesterday he sanctioned the W.H.O. for supposedly taking China’s Coronavirus claims at face value. He’s so consistent. /s
Wasn’t he bragging today about people getting big beautiful checks with his name on them?
President Trump says he doesn’t know anything about his name appearing on stimulus checks.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 15, 2020
re: #18 I Would Prefer Not To
So it’s all on Nancy, because she ripped up some paper and not on the guy who called it a hoax and didn’t bother to learn any of the science. Got it.
And held rallies and golfed throughout February.
Fuck him.
re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Fingertips are the most sensitive patch of skin on the body. It makes logical sense, when you think about it; we use our fingers to feel literally all the things.
They do the prick on the side these days, right close to the edge where the finger nail comes in and it STILL HURTS if I touch it the wrong way.
I got purple flex tape and three cookies as my reward. I don’t qualify for double red blood cell donations but I might look into platelets when they next start recruiting.
Also went by Home Depot beforehand. They’re limiting customers in the store, but I was able to get in before they closed and grabbed the things I need to repair the hole in the sprinkler system.
re: #35 klys (maker of Silmarils)
My best friend works in construction. He’s semi-voluntarily had the last 4 weeks off - “semi-voluntarily” because he hasn’t bothered to call his boss to ask for work, but there obviously hasn’t been work enough for his boss to call him in. I told him, “Well, to be honest, these days, most home improvement projects people are doing themselves. Construction work is probably mostly left to emergencies or fixing amateur fuckups.”
re: #32 The Ghost of a Flea
This is apparently why I can walk around for hours bleeding from the shins without knowing until my wife get grossed out.
re: #36 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
My best friend works in construction. He’s semi-voluntarily had the last 4 weeks off - “semi-voluntarily” because he hasn’t bothered to call his boss to ask for work, but there obviously hasn’t been work enough for his boss to call him in. I told him, “Well, to be honest, these days, most home improvement projects people are doing themselves. Construction work is probably mostly left to emergencies or fixing amateur fuckups.”
Around here construction is allowed to continue under very limited conditions. (Some of the bigger home builders threw a fit because one of the allowed conditions is “affordable housing is being built on the site” and most of them prefer to fund that elsewhere. I admit to a bit of karmic glee over that one.)
re: #38 klys (maker of Silmarils)
My ‘son’ is working in construction privately. He just finished a front porch for his inlaws, and is starting a remodel of his sister’s house. When the weather firms up, he has to do my roof. His youngest son is out of school, so he is learning at the side of his father. And growing. Son of a gun, he grew six inches in a couple of weeks, I swear!
I type and post fast and thus accept a certain level of typos, but it drives me bugfuck when I reverse “former” and “latter.”
As someone who is at an elevated risk, let me put it out there that I am not okay with sacrificing my life for a better economy. I am selfish like that.
re: #36 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I need to call a local landscape supply company to see if they can do some work at my place. Last fall, my sewer line to the street was replaced. They dug a large trench to place the new pipe, and when they backfilled it, they mixed the topsoil in with all of the rock that’s just below the surface in this neighborhood so the new surface is 99% stone. I need someone to remove the top 3-4 inches of rock and replace it with topsoil. Should only take a couple guys a day, and I think it’s possible to socially distance while doing it. I don’t know if they’re allowed to do it under the MN stay-at-home rules.
Move over, pizza rat. 🍕 A Philadelphia woman found a groundhog outside of her home munching on a piece of pizza for over an hour, completely unfazed by her two dogs. https://t.co/gEmBJydTQ4 pic.twitter.com/T0730yXPbt
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) April 15, 2020
The group that organized today’s anti-Whitmer protest in Michigan is funded by the DeVos family https://t.co/aVMlOjE1CE
— Jennifer Berkshire (@BisforBerkshire) April 15, 2020
re: #44 gocart mozart
I think it is enjoying knowing the dogs are watching, and can’t get to it. Obviously, critters are smart!
Drinking alcohol can make your drummer worse, WHO says. pic.twitter.com/KoQ2AjQiOq
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 16, 2020
re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Fingertips are the most sensitive patch of skin on
the bodythe parts of the body that aren’t covered by clothes. It makes logical sense, when you think about it; we use our fingers to feel literally all the things.
re: #47 gocart mozart
I predict that will be an underrated tweet.
re: #47 gocart mozart
Drinking alcohol can make coronavirus worse, WHO says, recommending restricted access
Drinking is what keeps me out of the public areas. That, several trespass notices.
re: #364 NetworkKed
Yeah, I’m still using the “snipping tool” which is the older version still in Windows 10… unless a recent patch removed it. Haven’t looked at “snip and sketch” yet.
The other trick in Windows is simply the print screen key on you keyboard - it sends the entire display output to the clipboard. …this is less helpful because it’s the ENTIRE display output, even if you have multiple monitors, and you’ll inevitably need to edit it down.
If you only want to capture the current window that you are in, press ALT-Prnt Scrn and ctrl-v that into Paint (or whatnot).
re: #51 Odie Hugh Manatee
If you only want to capture the current window that you are in, press ALT-Prnt Scrn and ctrl-v that into Paint (or whatnot).
I never knew much of this because the old snipping tool was so easy to use. It would show the snip in its window and ask you where you wanted to save it. Nothing to it. It was apparently removed by an “update” some time in 2018. Now we have these idiocrat procedures.
re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Fingertips are the most sensitive patch of skin on the body. It makes logical sense, when you think about it; we use our fingers to feel literally all the things.
That’s why diabetics are told to use the lancet on the sides of the fingers rather than on the tip when checking blood sugar. Repeated lancing over time tends to dull the nerves, especially since lancing is usually followed by squeezing to get enough blood for testing. (Except on the rare occasion where you hit a spot that spurts immediately, just spreading blood everywhere, which is just useless.) Also, using the sides of the fingers gives you more places to use for lancing and sample collection.You’re supposed to rotate your collection points too.
re: #51 Odie Hugh Manatee
If you only want to capture the current window that you are in, press ALT-Prnt Scrn and ctrl-v that into Paint (or whatnot).
I like the Lightshot app for Windows and Mac OS. Hit print screen to choose where on the desktop to capture. It does copy/save and copy/upload to url link.
The AP just posted a “bombshell” story claiming China waited to inform the public of the coronavirus from January 14 to 20.
Meanwhile, on January 9: https://t.co/2senf4yjWQ— Ian Goodrum (@isgoodrum) April 16, 2020
This reboot of Shaun of the Dead is pretty scary tbh. pic.twitter.com/JAIFQqIPNR
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 15, 2020
re: #54 Dread Pirate
I like the Lightshot app for Windows and Mac OS. Hit print screen to choose where on the desktop to capture. It does copy/save and copy/upload to url link.
One of the things I like about old school is that an app isn’t needed for that.
Now get off my lawn! ;)
OMG, This article.
“We got a note about a conference call, like you’d get an invite to a Zoom thing, a few lines in an email, and that was it. Then our CEO heard his name in the Rose Garden? What the [expletive]?” said one prominent Washington lobbyist… https://t.co/UfSc3Zyxjj
— Robert Costa (@costareports) April 16, 2020
re: #55 DodgerFan1988
Somebody posting links to Asian articles sourced from Chinese state TV in late December:
Finally found it. This is national Chinese CCTV13 news on 31 December 2019, reporting on the rise of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. https://t.co/fGbFrmSOSQ
— MonkeyKing (@abovetheclouds) April 1, 2020
re: #59 BigPapa
Somebody posting links to Asian articles sourced from Chinese state TV in late December:
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Flash? People still put that on their computers?
I just saw a notification that the NSC is looking into COVID19 being manufactured in a lab.
Because sure, why not. Never waste a good conspiracy theory.
re: #62 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I just saw a notification that the NSC is looking into COVID19 being manufactured in a lab.
Because sure, why not. Never waste a good conspiracy theory.
And If you say you have “top men” working on it that’ll keep them happy ☺
“A tribute to the prime minister of New Zealand has gone horribly wrong, after a television presenter attempted to render Jacinda Ardern in cake form, and failed spectacularly.”https://t.co/5DFuQEv3lV
— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) April 16, 2020
re: #44 gocart mozart
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The burning question!
Did Mr. Groundhog first eat the pineapple chunks on the pizza?
re: #53 mmmirele
That’s why diabetics are told to use the lancet on the sides of the fingers rather than on the tip when checking blood sugar. Repeated lancing over time tends to dull the nerves, especially since lancing is usually followed by squeezing to get enough blood for testing. (Except on the rare occasion where you hit a spot that spurts immediately, just spreading blood everywhere, which is just useless.) Also, using the sides of the fingers gives you more places to use for lancing and sample collection.You’re supposed to rotate your collection points too.
If you continually prick the same place a callous forms on the spot.
I loved my video call with @FullFrontalSamB! We talked about what’s gone wrong with this administration’s coronavirus response (pretty much all of it) and what we can do to make it better (keep voters safe—to start). pic.twitter.com/taJ2DdCaZp
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 16, 2020
re: #66 Joe Bacon 🌹
If you continually prick the same place a callous forms on the spot.
I remember blood lab in physiology in 1972. I had multiple punctures in all fingers by the end. I’m very good at pricking my own finger. In the beginning it’s hard not to flinch a bit doing it to yourself. I typed my blood A+, not encouraging in the face of Covid-19.
re: #62 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I just saw a notification that the NSC is looking into COVID19 being manufactured in a lab.
Because sure, why not. Never waste a good conspiracy theory.
A Republican friend who’s not crazy (not a Trump fan, but money uber alles) posted an opinion piece from the Washington Post that alleges that a Wuhan lab was studying existing bat viruses but with insufficient security; we were considering helping them out but that never progressed (article does not say why). So in this scenario, nothing manufactured, but insufficient safety protocol allowed the disease to escape into the community. Maybe like the Outbreak scenario where Kevin Spacey is infected by accident? But who knows?
Uncovering Operation NEPTUN, the Cold War’s Most Daring Disinformation Campaign
Rumored Nazi treasure, a dark Bohemian lake, an unsuspecting TV crew—and a brilliant spy to put it all together.
The author, Thomas Rio, is an expert on Eastern bloc disinformation, both current and historical. In 2017, he testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian election interference. Anyone who knows this history can have no doubt at all that Trump is a Russian stooge, as are thousands of Republicans and Libertarians, and a few legacy leftists, and that his handling of the Coronavirus is sabotage with genocidal intent. I hope President Biden will have the guts to follow through on this. Given the unprecedented gravity of the situation, I really think he should step aside in favor of Andrew Cuomo.
re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter
A Republican friend who’s not crazy (not a Trump fan, but money uber alles) posted an opinion piece from the Washington Post that alleges that a Wuhan lab was studying existing bat viruses but with insufficient security; we were considering helping them out but that never progressed (article does not say why).
The “why” is that Trump closed the office and recalled the American researchers who were there to help.
Dennis Miller delivering a joke reminds me of Garo Yepremian throwing a pass. Miller’s material is as fresh as the BLT Soupy Sales left in the Merv Griffin Show dressing room in ‘73 when Cloris Leachman took some bad acid and Soupy had to step in for her. https://t.co/ic5h6RCk8A
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) April 16, 2020
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 16, 2020
re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter
The coronavirus did not escape from a lab. Here’s how we know.
re: #72 gocart mozart
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So this is why Dennis Miller is trending on Twitter. Asshole is still hoping to get that gig in Branson…at the Yakov Smirnoff Theater…
re: #73 gocart mozart
The new drummer for The Inflatable Boy Clams!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 16, 2020
re: #74 Belafon
The coronavirus did not escape from a lab. Here’s how we know.
So that article is all about how it is not an engineered virus. I don’t think the wapo article makes that claim. Just that it was a natural virus being studied and there was a failure of safety protocols.
Thread. What happened in Michigan today is organized disinformation towards the goal of “passive eugenics” (or negligent genocide, if you will).
Look, my howling about passive eugenics isn’t just for fun or to make myself sound batshit. I know how it sounds. I’ve also read the primary sources and heard what people like this have to say. It’s a strategy, and it’s been supported and normalized with open signaling. https://t.co/G4g8I7wIIk
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) March 23, 2020
More on eugenics:
I keep going back to this 2013 story from the extremely sober ADL pointing it out. Three relevant paragraphs also screencapped here: https://t.co/RQjMpOYX13 pic.twitter.com/ZVovWRoLB8
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) March 23, 2020
The Federalist:
https://t.co/Du5NwKLXON the title of this story alone supports the premise of your very informative thread
— Gabrielle- H◾️gh ◾️◾️i◾️st◾️◾️◾️ of Redaction (@Minervasbard) March 23, 2020
re: #47 gocart mozart
Ok I changed my mind, defund them
— what a time to be a bedbug (@UFMechEngy) April 16, 2020
re: #73 gocart mozart
KGB women’s labor camp director.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) April 16, 2020
Just looked at the cash back from my last grocery run and … pic.twitter.com/z7puNSIxOr
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 16, 2020
We are building the movement that will beat Donald Trump.Join us: https://t.co/gnaFCACYrW pic.twitter.com/pHIXCHZ0cm
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 15, 2020
I know Trump is a major reason this is happening, but getting all the lse people together still wouldn’t be possible if Biden wasn’t good at building coalitions.
Winning contestant on The Biggest Loser.
— yntbe (@yntbe) April 16, 2020
re: #85 Belafon
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I know Trump is a major reason this is happening, but getting all the lse people together still wouldn’t be possible if Biden wasn’t good at building coalitions.
Well, he did learn from one of the best.
re: #73 gocart mozart
((Tonight mystery guess: Pugsley Adams))
Watching @FoxNews can get you killed. https://t.co/v8aa4l6lun
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) April 16, 2020
Faux News bad for your health.
Rosa Klebb’s daughter.
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 16, 2020
So, this is a thing.
Naw he bodied the hook! 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Ps0zAVzCo2
— Jason, Jah, Leezy (@HipHopObama) April 15, 2020
Shamelessly borrowed from a repost on Facebook, so alas, I do not know the author personally. I salute them, however, with seam ripper in hand.
Riqui Gardner
April 13 at 1:33 PM
Hey, y’all -
I don’t know who needs to hear this but if you DO NOT SEW and you have hit up a Stitch Bitch for a mask …
1. 1/4” elastic has now become Unobtainium. You’re going to have to settle for ties or hair elastic or some other “make do”
2. Bias tape takes forever and a fuck to do by hand AND you get to give yourself at least 10 2nd degree burns - 1 for every finger and 2 left over because we’re so tired we actually FORGET THE IRON IS HOT.
3. FABRIC STORES ARE CLOSED! You get the colors/patterns we have in stock. Now, since by nature, we hoard fabric like dragons hoard gold, there is generally a decent selection BUT if you are wanting Lisa Frank Unicorn print or aubergine houndstooth, well, suck it up. This is what we have and NO ONE is going to weave you a custom fabric right now.
4. Most of the solid fabrics are gone. Sorry. SOME are ordering flat sheets from a big box store and cutting THAT down to make yardage but your choices are pretty much white, cream, brown, 2 shades of blue, or grey. Black sold out long ago. Also, since it is not deemed essential, delivery is like 2-3 weeks.
5. DO NOT BITCH ABOUT COST. Fabric is NOT cheap. Seriously, like low end $8 a yard, high end $24 a yard. It takes a GOOD sewciopath 25 minutes to make one mask. $7-$10 is not even MINIMUM WAGE for a mask and materials.
6. DO NOT BITCH ABOUT DELIVERY TIME. You have NO idea how long it takes to make 50 masks, 100 masks, 400 masks, and that is what the requests are looking like because for every one person you know who sews, 500 do not sew and want not just 1 mask but 2-4 masks for everyone in their household. STFU and get in line - we are NOT industrial machines; we’re human beings doing all the same life stuff YOU ARE and trying to mass produce freaking face masks.
7. All y’all thought is was so funny to snicker at the hobby sewists - the ones who learned from previous generations of women and kept the skill ALIVE. “Oh how quaint,” “You know you can buy it cheaper,” “Aren’t you a feminist? Isn’t this like ‘woman’s work’ to keep you tied to the home or something?” I think some of you need to step up with an apology or two.
Remember that meme last year about how if you don’t have crafters and seamstresses on your Zombie Apocalypse team, you’re running around fighting monsters naked?
You thought we were joking, didn’t ya?”
re: #91 DodgerFan1988
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Faux News bad for your health.
Many were also willing to bite into Tide Pods. That’s not proof of anything other than some are born without the common sense that God gave the lemming.
The only hospital in Grand Island, Neb., is full. The mayor has asked for a statewide stay-at-home order that the GOP governor insists isn’t needed. More than one-third of those tested for coronavirus in the surrounding county are positive — and there aren’t enough tests to go around.Grand Island is the fourth-biggest city in a state President Donald Trump and his top health officials repeatedly name check for keeping the virus at bay without the strict lockdowns 42 other states have imposed.
Except that new cases there and in Iowa, South Dakota and other parts of the heartland are starting to spike, raising concern about new hot spots that could quash Trump’s push to reopen the economy and extend the public health crisis well into the summer.
Trump and red state governors for weeks have fairly bragged about how large parts of the farm belt have escaped the ravages of the virus without the enforced shelter-in-place policies common on both coasts. It’s still unclear whether the states actually “flattened the curve,” or if the virus just reached there later. But now, cases are erupting, threatening a local population that doesn’t always have easy access to the same health care as more urban areas. And the outbreaks are striking the heart of the nation’s farming and meatpacking industry, potentially disrupting the national distribution of food as meat processing plants close down and truckers who move food across the country are sidelined by illness.
I can’t recall which Lizard here pointed out that COVID-19 will spread through rural America like wildfire - one truck stop at a time. But looks like they were right.
re: #88 EPR-radar
Soviet women’s fashion designer.
Which of course prompts me to resurrect this old chestnut from US TV during the waning years of the Soviet Union.
More COVID-19 fallout:
Smithfield Foods Inc. said it would close two more pork-processing plants because of the coronavirus pandemic, reducing meat supplies for grocery stores and deepening challenges for farmers.
The top U.S. pork processor said it would close plants in Wisconsin and Missouri later this week, after announcing Sunday the shutdown of its Sioux Falls, S.D., plant, one of the industry’s biggest. Smithfield said that employees at all three plants have tested positive for the coronavirus and that the Missouri plant needed pork supplies from the South Dakota facility to operate.
re: #100 Dr Lizardo
More COVID-19 fallout:
Well, obviously the answer is to force those companies to reopen, because eventually herd immunity will set in and then life will go back to normal.
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re: #101 Targetpractice
Well, obviously the answer is to force those companies to reopen, because eventually herd immunity will set in and then life will go back to normal.
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…of course we won’t reach herd immunity until there are 100,000,000 dead. That’s just the math, many will choose to ignore it.
Potentially major news out of Texas - and if true, we can certainly expect the Texas GOP (and possibly the national GOP) to fight this one to the bitter end.
Texas must let any registered voter afraid of catching the coronavirus vote by mail in upcoming elections, a state court in Austin ordered Tuesday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The bench ruling by Travis County District Judge Tim Sulak came hours after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, stated that voters without physical conditions or illnesses that prevent their voting at the polls will be denied mail-in ballots.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, attacked the ruling as an unlawful expansion of mail-in voting privileges that will “only serve to undermine the security and integrity of our elections and facilitate fraud.” He reiterated that mail-in ballots are not available to “perfectly healthy” voters who fear catching the coronavirus at the polls.
Sulak’s ruling, which is not yet publicly available, sets up yet another showdown between Texas’s Republican political leadership and civil-rights groups. The fight will undoubtedly draw the attention of President Donald Trump, who has expressed displeasure with mail-in ballots, believing them to be a source of voter fraud.
If the GOP loses Texas, they’re pretty much finished at the national level; they’ll become a regional party of the Deep South and the intermountain/rural West and some parts of the Rust Belt.
That opening line. Man, I’m jealous, @donwinslow. pic.twitter.com/xATnruIh0p
— DrewMcWeeny (@DrewMcWeeny) April 16, 2020
re: #1 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Yeah, the “economic insecurity” of the MAGA bunch is on full display in this hashtag:
I grew up in the Industrial Midwest in the golden age, back when any high school-educated white guy could get a factory job, work at it long enough and afford a house, a car and put his kids through (state) college on his wages while his wife stayed at home.
And they were racist pricks back then, too.
re: #24 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The fact that this was the first March in 18 years without a school shooting was what did it for me.
For that, there was nearly one mass shooting per day in March, just none of them in a school.
re: #41 The Ghost of a Flea
I type and post fast and thus accept a certain level of typos, but it drives me bugfuck when I reverse “former” and “latter.”
It’s bad luck to walk under a latter…
The Death of Stalin just turned up on Netflix, and I’m assigning you all the task of watching it.
It’s so damn good.
re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I grew up in the Industrial Midwest in the golden age, back when any high school-educated white guy could get a factory job, work at it long enough and afford a house, a car and put his kids through (state) college on his wages while his wife stayed at home.
And they were racist pricks back then, too.
Well I wasn’t much of a racist prick, but I was just a high school graduate. I took a city job in the late 80s where you could still do well until the Bush crash. As a result city workers lost a good amount of salary and benefits gains but can still raise a family on a single income. It just takes a tighter belt. I’ve been disabled retired since 2012 so I don’t know how they have fared since then, but it’s still a secure job with fairly decent benefits. Somehow I still put two girls through community college, then paying for their junior year at U.C. Berkeley and Mills College respectively. They got their senior year paid for by the State of California because of their now considered “independent age” and not having the income to afford tuition. California has been very good to me, the US has been just ‘meh’. I still intend to die a loyal subject of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s bad luck to walk under a latter…
We really need a ‘friendly down-ding’ for bad puns like that.
Normally I didn’t bother dunking on Cillizza but seriously @CNN this is just bloody irresponsible pic.twitter.com/D9B16nR4Cn
— Fiddler (@cFidd) April 15, 2020
Can we call a Code Red on him?
re: #112 Dread Pirate
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Trump-connected family astroturfs a “protest” over people not being able to buy seeds or take their buddies out on their power boat, and the BSAB asswipe ignores the ridiculousness of it all and how the asshole “protestors” deliberately blocked ambulances from bringing patients into a hospital…to suggest that the female Dem governor who’s on the short list of possible VP picks “went too far.”
There’s no bad take like a Chris Cillizza bad take.
hi.
My muscles still ache and I feel like crap, how are you?
Winter weather advisory has been upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning. I guess we’ll stay home, unlike a common wingnut in Lansing, Michigan:
…WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING
TO 6 PM MDT THURSDAY…* WHAT…Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 5 to 10
inches. Northeast winds up to 35 mph will create areas of
drifting snow and some blowing snow.* WHERE…Southern Nebraska Panhandle to include Scottsbluff,
Kimball, Sidney. Southeast Wyoming plains to include Cheyenne,
Torrington and Wheatland. Lower elevations west of the Laramie
Range to include Muddy Gap, Rawlins, and Elk Mountain.* WHEN…From 6 PM this evening to 6 PM MDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult to impossible this
evening through Friday morning. Plan on travel delays and snow
covered roads. Strong winds creating drifting snow and poor
visibility at times.
The roofer stopped by yesterday afternoon to pick up his payment for the roofing job on Good Friday. All that’s left is to turn over the final bill to the insurance company and find out if they want to send an adjuster out to prove we have a new roof.
re: #114 Ace-o-aces
Who is the actor who plays the Technomage? He’s extremely familiar, especially his voice.
Panhandle Public Health District officials announced five new cases of the coronavirus Tuesday, including two that are tied to long-term care facilities.Officials confirmed the first positive for COVID-19 in Morrill County, a woman in her 70s.
One new case has been announced in Cheyenne County, bringing the total cases there to three. The new case involves a man in his 60s. On Wednesday, Sidney Regional Medical Center confirmed that the case involved a resident at its facility. The resident had been screened after having suffered a sore throat. The resident’s roommate tested negative and family members have been notified. Both the resident and roommate were transferred to the hospital’s COVID unit, according to a press release.
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Additionally, a staff member at the Western Nebraska Veterans Home also tested positive.
Two coronavirus cases tied to long-term care facilities in Panhandle (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
There are only two long-term health facilities in Morrill County, one in Bayard and one in Bridgeport, so it won’t be long until the entire county knows who it is through gossip.
On a totally unrelated note, it seems unusual that all three incorporated cities in my county begin with the letter “B.”
Yesterday the grass-roots group called TRUE Nebraska suspended its signature drive to get a referendum on the November ballot for a 35% reduction in property taxes, citing the coronavirus outbreak and unwillingness to spread disease amongst themselves or potential signers of their petition.
It was noted they would be unlikely to succeed even before Covid-19 started circulating, since they hired no professional petition drive personnel who organise such things.
Referenda are very hard to get approved in this state. For a statutory referendum such as this, it can only be single subject, cannot be anything the Unicameral can’t pass on its own, and must contain 7% of all the registered voters’ signatures from 2/3 of Nebraska’s counties. (The final requirement was upheld in a challenge by the federal appeals court.)
The last referendum approved here was reinstatement of the death penalty.
Oddly, the ferret felcher Chuck Johnson is involved.
My latest investigation is about Clearview AI, a secretive facial recognition company. Lots of privacy concerns. Even scarier: Clearview has ties to the alt-right and even had far-right extremists working for it until I reached out to them two weeks ago.https://t.co/4Z0GUzYaQ3
— Luke O’Brien (@lukeobrien) April 7, 2020
There’s a lot more to get into on this story. And some bonus material I’ll post here after I socially distance from Twitter for a few hours.
— Luke O’Brien (@lukeobrien) April 7, 2020
Oddly, Chuck Johnson, the Holocaust denier who paid Malik Obama, disparaged Malik in 2013, when Johnson was writing for The Daily Caller. Johnson wrote about Malik’s ties to Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. He also mentioned Malik’s shady looking charity.https://t.co/7reyPtP7xU
— Luke O’Brien (@lukeobrien) April 9, 2020
re: #94 Joe Bacon 🌹
Can you evacuate us liberals first?
When 800,000 New Yorkers are dead by the time this horrific virus runs its course, we need to build a wall around our city to keep out Karen von Magabrain and her Suburban Midwest sisters, lets they start a secondary corona wave while taking selfies molesting the Wall Street Bull
— Molly Crabapple🇵🇷 (@mollycrabapple) April 16, 2020
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡
This photo from the anti-lockdown Ohio statehouse protest looks like it was painted by Francis Bacon
MAGAwn of the Dead
I was down to one last bucket-list event, a night time supernova. I decided that was just too short of a list so I added an ELE asteroid strike, but I will accept a M.A.D. nuclear war as an inferior substitute as long as I can see a few strikes in the distance before the direct hit. There better be a direct hit at the end if I have to put up with a substitute.
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡
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When there’s no more room in Hell, the MAGAts will walk the Earth.
re: #125 Dread Pirate
I was down to one last bucket-list event, a night time supernova. I decided that was just too short of a list so I added an ELE asteroid strike, but I will accept a M.A.D. nuclear war as an inferior substitute as long as I can see a few strikes in the distance before the direct hit. There better be a direct hit at the end if I have to put up with a substitute.
Well, if there’s a MAD nuclear war, I get to see a bunch of missiles go up around my home, so there’s that.
If we launch, I’ll get on and warn y’all.
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡
The Day After should be done as a remake. It would be interesting to write an updated scenario, and the CGI would be so much better. HDR could make the flash pretty intense on modern TVs.
Hmmmm, I need to email Netflix, Inc.
I’m just shaking my head at years of white folks telling me about how BLM or Antifa were bound to lead to violence or rioting and that’s why we needed to classify them as terrorists, only to watch them lose their fucking minds when a white governor tells them they can’t go buy garden soil.
In Michigan.
In April.
Competency, something we will never witness from Emperor Orange
This is how Angela Merkel explained the effect of a higher #covid19 infection rate on the country’s health system.
This part of today’s press conf was great, so I just added English subtitels for all non-German speakers. #flattenthecurve pic.twitter.com/VzBLdh16kR— Benjamin Alvarez (@BenjAlvarez1) April 15, 2020
“We need monitoring”
Which means testing and reporting.
Even if they make certain people look bad…
Racist Extremist Arrested For Attempted Arson at Jewish Nursing Home (Vice, yesterday afternoon)
An FBI counterterrorism unit in Massachusetts arrested a racist extremist who allegedly planted an explosive at a Jewish assisted living facility with the intent to kill some of its residents. The person had potential links to an online white supremacist organization.
The news is yet another example of racist extremists attempting a terrorist attack during the coronavirus pandemic. Experts have noted that some of these terrorists, who adhere to the doctrine of accelerationism, see the pandemic as an opportunity to hasten the collapse of society.
On April 2, police in East Longmeadow discovered what was described as a bloodstained Molotov cocktail, which appeared to have failed to completely ignite, in front of Ruth’s House—a Jewish care facility servicing seniors of multiple religious denominations. Investigators linked the blood to the DNA of area resident John Michael Rathbun, 36, who was then arrested on two charges of attempted arson.
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East Longmeadow is only a few miles southeast of Springfield, on the state line with Connecticut.
Pompeo is at it again, using his government position to promote his religious views.
Mike Pompeo Says Unalienable Rights Commission Will Return Human Rights Policy to ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition on Which this Country Was Founded’ (Right Wing Watch)
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined a conference call with conservative pastors hosted by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins last Thursday. Pompeo told the pastors that he has two big projects: the high-level international conferences he has hosted to promote religious liberty around the world, and the Commission on Unalienable Rights.
The Commission on Unalienable Rights has generated alarm among human rights advocates and excitement among anti-LGBTQ religious-right groups that opposed the Obama administration’s promotion of LGBTQ human rights globally. In the past, the commission’s chair, conservative Harvard University law professor Mary Ann Glendon, has dismissed those concerns without allaying them.
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Credit card companies have now cut off convicted fraudster Pastor Jim Bakker for promoting his silver solution as a cure for coronavirus.
Did he condemn credit card companies? He did not. He condemned atheists; the stochastic terrorist claimed we want to kill Christians for their faith in the Bible on his television program yesterday.
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Pompeo is at it again, using his government position to promote his religious views.
Mike Pompeo Says Unalienable Rights Commission Will Return Human Rights Policy to ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition on Which this Country Was Founded’ (Right Wing Watch)
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Dominionism. The notion that our national legislation must be based on (their interpretation of) God’s Divine Laws
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Dominionism. The notion that our national legislation must be based on (their interpretation of) God’s Divine Laws
Yesterday the Greenville County, South Carolina school district finally lost a six-year court fight over their forced inclusion of Christian prayer in district graduations. The district is forced to cough up nearly half a million dollars in legal fees to the American Humanist Association’s and local lawyers fighting the district.
The district spun it as a victory, claiming the court didn’t award them everything they asked for.
The federal court gave them explicit instructions in its ruling on what the district could or could not do in the future.
That’s half a million dollars which won’t go to educating students (which is the point of conservatism; education leads to liberals).
Prophetic Dream Reveals Spiritual Warfare Strategy to Defeat Demonic Spirit of Coronavirus (Charisma, by Dr. [see below] Candice Smithyman)
All I can say is I’m glad we don’t have these crazy people around here, just Nazis.
You’ll be entirely unsurprised to know this PhD theologian earned her degree from the entirely unaccredited Jacksonville Theological Seminary. You’ll also be unsurprised to know she is now in hospital with, you guessed it, Covid-19.
On Saturday, April 4, at 4 a.m., I was abruptly awoken by God after an encounter with a strong demonic force that came into my bedroom and tried to put a sickness upon me on my chest. I cried out in my sleep three times as I rebuked this demon. I knew it had something to do with the coronavirus. The strange thing was that I went to bed with a communion cracker in my hand, which I never do, and I had been up praying for about three hours before I fell asleep and had this demonic encounter. I took the cracker before the attack.
The next morning my husband told me I had been rebuking demons because he heard me cry out in the night against them while I was in my sleep. This dream was not because I was receiving the coronavirus; it was a warning dream, to tell the people that this virus is a demonic force and there is a way to deal with it spiritually, as well as biologically.
(more at Charism’s link above)
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡
“The next morning my husband told me I had been rebuking demons because he heard me cry out in the night against them while I was in my sleep.”
what else could it possibly have been?
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
what else could it possibly have been?
LOL
At Frontier School of the Bible over in La Grange, Wyo. (about seventy-five miles west of here), the school has finally put up a coronavirus action plan on their Website.
Fortunately for us heathens and people who live in La Grange, it is password-protected so only faculty and students can see it.
They are still going ahead with their town clean-up, which I assume means they are still in session.
re: #70 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Uncovering Operation NEPTUN, the Cold War’s Most Daring Disinformation Campaign
The author, Thomas Rio, is an expert on Eastern bloc disinformation, both current and historical. In 2017, he testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian election interference. Anyone who knows this history can have no doubt at all that Trump is a Russian stooge, as are thousands of Republicans and Libertarians, and a few legacy leftists, and that his handling of the Coronavirus is sabotage with genocidal intent. I hope President Biden will have the guts to follow through on this. Given the unprecedented gravity of the situation, I really think he should step aside in favor of Andrew Cuomo.
He doesn’t want the job.
Will Andrew Cuomo run for president, his brother asks? ‘No. No’
Jump to the 7:25 mark
It’s that time of year when natural gas companies all over the country ring every Nebraskan’s telephone off the hook trying to get you to sign up with them for the next year.
A few years ago the state socialised the natural gas lines, making them a common carrier, and opening up gas sales to any company which wants to compete for customers. (Nebraska would never call that socialism though.)
There is an “open enrollment period” of sorts in April when you can switch from one gas company to another, so they all make a pitch to you over the telephone or in the US Mail why they are the company you should sign up with.
We just stick with the company which ran the gas lines here when we bought our house, Black Hills Energy (formerly ChoiceGas). There’s more to natural gas service than price (such as they respond right away for things like repairs and inspections).
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡
It’s that time of year when natural gas companies all over the country ring every Nebraskan’s telephone off the hook trying to get you to sign up with them for the next year.
That is how energy companies work in Europe. I also just stick with the company I have.
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
what else could it possibly have been?
And this bit from the Charisma article:
The strange thing was that I went to bed with a communion cracker in my hand, which I never do, …
“Communion cracker?” Does it get Dead Sea salt? I can hear the howl from the Holy See about that here.
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡
It’s that time of year when natural gas companies all over the country ring every Nebraskan’s telephone off the hook trying to get you to sign up with them for the next year.
We have a Panasonic cordless with talking caller ID. if it isn’t somebody I know I don’t answer. As we said in the traffic signal shop when the phone rang, “If it’s impotent, they’ll call back.”
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is how energy companies work in Europe. I also just stick with the company I have.
Our electric company is also owned by the state, and we can vote for board members in the general election in November.
They were just through my town yesterday marking electric poles which need replacement (including one in the corner of my yard). They will be replacing electric poles as soon as winter is finished here (about a two-week period in August).
re: #145 Dread Pirate
We have a Panasonic cordless with talking caller ID. if it isn’t somebody I know I don’t answer. As we said in the traffic signal shop when the phone rang, “If it’s impotent, they’ll call back.”
I just have an old-fashioned answering machine. I don’t have caller ID on my telephone. I have thought about buying an external caller ID box.
re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡
We have PG&E, if anything goes wrong with power or gas, anywhere in the northern 3/4 of the state we pay for it with a cost increase instead of the investors.
Take note of some of the degrees offered by JTS, many of which are, shall we say, unique. Degrees that people will recognize are the MDiv, MA, ThM, and PhD, but the school also offers the “Doctor of Evangelism,” “Doctor of Biblical Studies,” “Doctor of Christian Education,” and “Doctor of Religious Education,” just to name a few. The school also offers the Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Christian Psychology, a degree not worth the paper it is printed on since no state will recognize the degree as valid and providing the competence to practice.
More on Jacksonville Theological Seminary:
Seminary Advisor is a Website which writes about theological seminaries and what they offer. For JTS, they advise it is a diploma mill and any serious theological student should “run away.”
re: #96 CleverToad
Copied and pasted to my faceplant page. :-)
re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I just have an old-fashioned answering machine. I don’t have caller ID on my telephone. I have thought about buying an external caller ID box.
..consider a Panasonic cordless phone instead.? We bought a set with 5 receivers so now 5 phones ring and we still don’t pick it up, LOL. Can you even buy caller ID boxes these days. I haven’t seen one in 20 years.
re: #148 Dread Pirate
We have PG&E, if anything goes wrong with power or gas, anywhere in the northern 3/4 of the state we pay for it with a cost increase instead of the investors.
PG&E is so notoriously bad that anytime someone suggests privatising our electric service, they get mentioned here on the benefits of private electric service.
I don’t recall a rate increase here in the last few years, though I could be mistaken. We currently have a large credit on our bill.
The electric company also gives credits when production costs are lower than predicted; with the collapse of the coal and oil markets we’ve gotten credits over the past several months.
re: #151 Dread Pirate
..consider a Panasonic cordless phone instead.? We bought a set with 5 receivers so now 5 phones ring and we still don’t pick it up, LOL. Can you even buy caller ID boxes these days. I haven’t seen one in 20 years.
Yes you can buy them. For example from Amazon (they have many different ones to choose from such as combination caller ID/call blockers, &c):
Professor Ryan P. Burge of Eastern Illinois University crunched the numbers, and in a new post, he says atheists are a lot more politically active than any survey has shown. If he’s right, that means Democratic candidates up and down the ballot would be wise to pay a lot more attention to our desires.
Burge looked at the Cooperative Congressional Election Survey, which asked people about their political activity over the past year — Did you vote? Did you donate to a campaign? Did you knock on doors for a candidate? Did you contact a public official? Things like that.
In every instance, atheists — not “Nones,” but atheists — were at or near the top of every category. They were more likely to answer “yes” to the examples listed above.
Atheists are the Most Politically Active Group in the United States (Goes to Religion in Public, with the results from the 2018 election, includes questions asked and sorting by religious group)
re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡
And there are religious people who do not see the need to use the state to impose their faith on others.
But they tend not to be as loud as the Theocrats.
‘God Friended Me’ Canceled After Two Seasons at CBS (Variety)
The final show, a two-hour episode, will air April 26. It did not survive two seasons.
Media: @Acosta to @wolfblitzer pre-briefing: “Some of the industry and labor leaders who were named by the @WhiteHouse as advisers on reopening the country were not notified first. Sources tell @CNN, in some cases the White House didn’t even tell people they were on the list.” pic.twitter.com/lTnSbDhUs1
— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) April 15, 2020
“We got a note about a conference call, like you’d get an invite to a Zoom thing, a few lines in an email, and that was it. Then our CEO heard his name in the Rose Garden? What the [expletive]?” said one prominent Washington lobbyist… https://t.co/UfSc3Zyxjj
— Robert Costa (@costareports) April 16, 2020
The emerging GOP position? https://t.co/wTBP0mIwJi
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) April 16, 2020
re: #158 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Media: Acosta to Wolf Blitzer pre-briefing: “Some of the industry and labor leaders who were named by the White House as advisers on reopening the country were not notified first. Sources tell CNN, in some cases the White House didn’t even tell people they were on the list.”
Trump could not conceive how anybody would not immediately honor his offer.
Just like Stormy Daniels; he was honor and offer within seconds…
(KQRE-TV, Albuquerque)
Legacy Church files lawsuit against state of New Mexico
Legacy Church says its First Amendment rights were violated on Easter because they need at least thirty people to livestream a service, which violates the governor’s social distancing and stay-at-home order.
Strangely, most churches livestreaming services do not need thirty people to do it, nevertheless, this church persists in claiming persecution against Christianity.
Sadly, New Mexico will have to spend the tax money of people from every religion and none to fend off the lawsuit as this church puts their state’s tax dollars to work.
re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump could not conceive how anybody would not immediately honor his offer.
Just like Stormy Daniels; he was honor and offer within seconds…
Awww, honey…because porn (sex) doesn’t need a cure. And I fired that attorney who was accused (charges dropped) and yet you still support an impeached pussy-grabbing, serial sex assaulting/rapist who is a pathological liar and racist. I see you have your priorities straight. https://t.co/87YcfHv0xk
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) April 13, 2020
re: #52 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I never knew much of this because the old snipping tool was so easy to use. It would show the snip in its window and ask you where you wanted to save it. Nothing to it. It was apparently removed by an “update” some time in 2018. Now we have these idiocrat procedures.
I still have the old version available on my laptop. And I have been ignoring totally the “try out our new equivalent tool!” message it displays.
Does anyone have a good link to a website tracking Covid-19 cases by state? I see the big hitters tracked, like MI, CA, and NY.
I am curious about the low count states. Some states with stricter measures are nearing flattening the curve.
DAVIE (CBSMiami) - Davie Police Chief Dale Engle has been placed on Administrative leave following controversial comments he allegedly made regarding the death of a Broward Sheriff Deputy who died of COVID-19.
According to a complaint sent to Davie administrator Richard Lemack from the Florida State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council Committee, Chief Engle berated several Davie officers who expressed concerns about the level of protection from COVID-19 while on duty.
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Engle also reportedly belittled the death of BSO Deputy Shannon Bennett claiming his death was caused by his ‘homosexual’ lifestyle, the officers allege.
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re: #166 Ming5000
Does anyone have a good link to a website tracking Covid-19 cases by state? I see the big hitters tracked, like MI, CA, and NY.
I am curious about the low count states. Some states with stricter measures are nearing flattening the curve.
Yes, both by country and by US state and territory.
91-divoc.com
The charts compare the jurisdictions against each other. You can use drop down menus to highlight the specific jurisdiction to make it easier to see on the chart.
Nebraska for example was running lowest per capita of all the states and territories, but has leapfrogged over several in the last few days.
re: #159 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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“Poverty kills more people than the virus!”
“So then we should do something to address poverty in this country, right?”
“Hahaha, back to work, peasant. I want those shoes so shiny I can see myself in them.”
re: #166 Ming5000
Does anyone have a good link to a website tracking Covid-19 cases by state? I see the big hitters tracked, like MI, CA, and NY.
I am curious about the low count states. Some states with stricter measures are nearing flattening the curve.
This is an international one that shows USA by state:
re: #169 Targetpractice
“Poverty kills more people than the virus!”
“So then we should do something to address poverty in this country, right?”
“Hahaha, back to work, peasant. I want those shoes so shiny I can see myself in them.”
Poverty is caused by laziness, so we gotta put people back to work to save lives!!!
re: #73 gocart mozart
If they ever make a movie about Trumps administration the only person that could play Sarah Sanders would be Mickey Rourke. https://t.co/yjtKge88Ls
— DETROIT 4 BIDEN (@DetroitSteel_) April 15, 2020
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Poverty is caused by laziness, so we gotta put people back to work to save lives!!!
I’d laugh, except that’s exactly what they’re arguing. Leningrad Lindsey was telling F&F on Tuesday that he wants to see UI cut by up to $7/hr because people aren’t willing to go back to work for the wages the “free market” will offer.
re: #166 Ming5000
bing covid site
Very local news update:
We reached the first episode in “Dark Shadows” last night which was in colour. (The next episodes are in black-and-white; it was some time before they permanently went to colour.)
The show started when ABC was a new network and had not yet transitioned to colour. Additionally, the special effects cameras used by the show were used to tape ABC Evening News right afterward, because ABC only had two of them. The news division and the soap opera were in constant battle over winding up taping of “Dark Shadows” each day so the news could get the cameras. (Trivia from one of the documentary clips with the show.)
Looks like things will getting back to (more or less) normal over the next six weeks here in Czech Republic. The last things to re-open will be shopping centers, scheduled to open on June 8th - though if the numbers remain stable, the government has indicated a willingness to push that forward a bit.
Ostrava’s public transportation will fully resume its normal operating schedule by mid-May, though masks will still be required (that’s scheduled to be phased out by the end of June).
re: #137 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Yesterday the Greenville County, South Carolina school district finally lost a six-year court fight over their forced inclusion of Christian prayer in district graduations. The district is forced to cough up nearly half a million dollars in legal fees to the American Humanist Association’s and local lawyers fighting the district.
The district spun it as a victory, claiming the court didn’t award them everything they asked for.
The federal court gave them explicit instructions in its ruling on what the district could or could not do in the future.
That’s half a million dollars which won’t go to educating students (which is the point of conservatism; education leads to liberals).
I followed a link here (LGF) to a Rightwingwatch essay about stuff at the Federalist. And then (mistake?) dipped my toes into the Federalist itself. Pretty much what I suspected to see, cherry-picked stuff and essays on the various world topics.
Noticed one that stated that they hoped that COVID-19 would hurt colleges badly enough that they’d cut back - and expressedly on the more liberal subjects (will not grace this comment with their strawman examples) that it promoted as something students would “waste” their $20,000 of tuition on.
re: #178 Dr Lizardo
Governor Pete Ricketts here sent out a business survey asking small businesses and not-for-profits what support they needed from the State of Nebraska to avoid bankruptcy while staying closed; as of yet he has no intent of lifting any restrictions.
He also authorised subsidies for parents who must work for children to be cared for by individuals, for relief on parents who lost daycare due to closures.
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Same here. And some use some pretty shady techniques to hide that they are a supplier and not the service company themselves. Some of them use door-to-door people who try to pass themselves off as service company employees and explicitly ask to see your utility bill.
re: #112 Dread Pirate
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Can we call a Code Red on him?
Saw a clip (I didn’t watch) on youtube from Chuck Todd’s show with title, “Whitmer Faces Backlash”.
I was a small group of MAGAs, but Todd gave them credence.
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Take note of some of the degrees offered by JTS, many of which are, shall we say, unique. Degrees that people will recognize are the MDiv, MA, ThM, and PhD, but the school also offers the “Doctor of Evangelism,” “Doctor of Biblical Studies,” “Doctor of Christian Education,” and “Doctor of Religious Education,” just to name a few. The school also offers the Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Christian Psychology, a degree not worth the paper it is printed on since no state will recognize the degree as valid and providing the competence to practice.
More on Jacksonville Theological Seminary:
Seminary Advisor is a Website which writes about theological seminaries and what they offer. For JTS, they advise it is a diploma mill and any serious theological student should “run away.”
The dissertation in HelltotheNawNawtology.
re: #181 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Same here. And some use some pretty shady techniques to hide that they are a supplier and not the service company themselves. Some of them use door-to-door people who try to pass themselves off as service company employees and explicitly ask to see your utility bill.
Huh. I haven’t heard of that here, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens. Here we only get telephone calls where they explicitly say in the beginning they represent Company X for the signup period, or letters.
re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡
‘God Friended Me’ Canceled After Two Seasons at CBS (Variety)
The final show, a two-hour episode, will air April 26. It did not survive two seasons.
Was it killed by an “atheist” main character, or no one believing that God would friend a black man?
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re: #159 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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Is it me, or does Kennedy look like a zombie ready to lunge after someone’s brains?
re: #183 steve_davis
The dissertation in HelltotheNawNawtology.
Well, I imagine they are better than Kent Hovind’s school, Patriot Bible University (Wikipedia, photograph of the double wide included in the article).
Critics have described Hovind’s dissertation as incomplete, of low academic quality, poorly written, poor in spelling, and of ungrammatical style.[40] The lack of quality was ascribed, in part, to the fact that “the pages are not numbered; there is no title; of sixteen or so chapters in the index only the first four are finished; misspellings are rampant (immerged for emerged, epic for epoch, and tentable for testable are three examples); and the single illustration was apparently cut out of a science book with scissors and fastened to the thesis with glue or tape.”
His 1991 dissertation about Christian Education includes gems like this:
Satan, in the form of the serpent, brought the doctrine of evolution to the Garden of Eden
re: #187 PhillyPretzel
I just got back from my local Acme and guess I found:
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Yes. A can of Lysol. I have been looking for this for close to a month.
I’m going to have to come over there and take it from you. We’re in a Mad Max world for toilet paper and cleaning products now. /s
re: #188 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Satan, in the form of the serpent, brought the doctrine of evolution to the Garden of Eden:
I am assuming that archaeologists unearthed a six-thousand-year-old clay tablet edition of The Origin of Species somewhere in the Middle East…
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I’m going to have to come over there and take it from you. We’re in a Mad Max world for toilet paper and cleaning products now. /s
Give me the Lysol and I’ll spare your lives. Just walk away and we’ll give you safe passageway.
re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Very local news update:
We reached the first episode in “Dark Shadows” last night which was in colour. (The next episodes are in black-and-white; it was some time before they permanently went to colour.)
The show started when ABC was a new network and had not yet transitioned to colour. Additionally, the special effects cameras used by the show were used to tape ABC Evening News right afterward, because ABC only had two of them. The news division and the soap opera were in constant battle over winding up taping of “Dark Shadows” each day so the news could get the cameras. (Trivia from one of the documentary clips with the show.)
the thing that I’ve noticed now that I’ve gotten back to watching ((I’m just past the seance where the ghost (barnabas’ sister?) appears)) is the number of minor line flubs that get passed off. This always gets laughed about during commentaries of shows like the Avengers or Doctor Who. I hadn’t realized how much of that occurred in American television as well. Now it kind of makes sense. If the news department wanted those cameras, there’d be a lot of pressure to just work through line flubs. sometimes you can actually tell characters forget lines and other characters will come to the rescue.
re: #192 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Tay Bridge?
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am assuming that archaeologists unearthed a six-thousand-year-old clay tablet edition of The Origin of Species somewhere in the Middle East…
Well, the (only) guy who approved convicted felon Dr. Kent Hovind’s dissertation, the guy who ran Patriot Bible School, later fled Colorado after pleading guilty to child molestation at an unrelated religious school.
re: #89 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Prepare for war.
Those fucking warbloggers after 9/11 were right, weren’t they? It’s telling that they refer to “the economy” rather than “normal life” (by some definition of “normal”).
re: #193 steve_davis
I’m a bit ahead of you in the DVD set, so I won’t spoil the plot for you.
“Dark Shadows” had a different problem all soap operas have to deal with: Daily taping means there isn’t a whole lot of time to retape flubbed scenes. They only do it in a soap opera if it is some sort of catastrophic failure.
The DVD version shows the slate board at the beginning of each episode; nearly all of them are “Take One.”
Additionally, the show has the nickname of “Boom Shadows” for the frequent shadows of mike booms and equipment which appear in scenes, along with stage hands walking through sets, noise off the side of the stage, &c.
Whole apartment smells like cumin* from the beans in the slow cooker. I turned them off overnight and started it back up this morning to try to time them being done around dinner time.
Making these pointed out a few shortcomings in my supply situation. No chicken stock on hand and am out of garlic in either whole or minced form.
* - Not that this is a bad thing.
re: #96 CleverToad
One NEVER makes fun of manual skills. ANY manual skills. (I don’t sew, and I know it!)
re: #203 Sherlock Hound
One NEVER makes fun of manual skills. ANY manual skills. (I don’t sew, and I know it!)
I only sew to repair things, never to make things
Just like I only run when someone is chasing me, only swim to keep from drowning and only walk when I have somewhere to get to.
re: #151 Dread Pirate
..consider a Panasonic cordless phone instead.? We bought a set with 5 receivers so now 5 phones ring and we still don’t pick it up, LOL. Can you even buy caller ID boxes these days. I haven’t seen one in 20 years.
A lot of Caller ID boxes are part of corded answering machines. Even the lowest-end Panasonic answering machine consists of two cordless handsets. I have this. You can think of the extra handset as a remote for the answering machine, so it works out in my small apartment.
re: #125 Dread Pirate
I was down to one last bucket-list event, a night time supernova. I decided that was just too short of a list so I added an ELE asteroid strike, but I will accept a M.A.D. nuclear war as an inferior substitute as long as I can see a few strikes in the distance before the direct hit. There better be a direct hit at the end if I have to put up with a substitute.
Be sure to play the 1812 Overture as loud as you can, timed for the missile strikes!
It’s snowing now, so my Internet service should go out soon.
Since we’re going to be snowed in for a couple days, I suppose it’s a good thing I bought the last bottle of rum at the grocery store. (For some reason, there was a run on rum, but not other varieties of liquor.)
re: #208 Anymouse 🌹🏡
It’s snowing now, so my Internet service should go out soon.
Since we’re going to be snowed in for a couple days, I suppose it’s a good thing I bought the last bottle of rum at the grocery store. (For some reason, there was a run on rum, but not other varieties of liquor.)
Because Hot Buttered Vodka sucks?
re: #208 Anymouse 🌹🏡
It’s snowing now, so my Internet service should go out soon.
Since we’re going to be snowed in for a couple days, I suppose it’s a good thing I bought the last bottle of rum at the grocery store. (For some reason, there was a run on rum, but not other varieties of liquor.)
Perhaps because it is preferred for canning and preserving?
Something I didn’t know: YouTube counter-apologist Mr. Deity used to be very good friends with Dennis Prager; Prager even gave him office space at one time.
Mr. Deity talks about his relationship with Dennis Prager in a new video, and why it fell apart (and why he became an atheist at the same time, 6:36)
re: #206 Sherlock Hound
A lot of Caller ID boxes are part of corded answering machines. Even the lowest-end Panasonic answering machine consists of two cordless handsets. I have this. You can think of the extra handset as a remote for the answering machine, so it works out in my small apartment.
My answering machine went the way of the dodo back in 2007 when I moved to Philadelphia from near Pittsburgh. Have not had a landline since. Though if I went back to one I’d want Caller ID in some form since I essentially don’t pick up calls on my mobile unless it’s a recognized contact or I am expecting a call. (If it’s important they’ll leave a message.)
A sort of interesting study to look at my “recents” on my cell and see how many of the calls are obvious spoofed marketing calls. From my area code and such - which is on the other end of the state, or from little middle of nowhere towns in the Midwest. Plus one day when my own number called me twice.
(It would be interesting to see some telecommunications law revisions that address some of this. Or has some enforcement behind the existing laws with some teeth.)
re: #208 Anymouse 🌹🏡
It’s snowing now, so my Internet service should go out soon.
Since we’re going to be snowed in for a couple days, I suppose it’s a good thing I bought the last bottle of rum at the grocery store. (For some reason, there was a run on rum, but not other varieties of liquor.)
From the last thread,
re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg
With almost no going out (so almost no gas used), no getting food from restaurants/supporting local businesses and eating only the bare minimum of food three times a day, you MIGHT be able to make $1200 last that many weeks.
But who the fuck wants to be that miserable when things already suck?
Nope. Because most everyone has to pay rent/mortgage auto loans, student loans, utilities, cable, etc. on top of food, and other expenses.
$1,200 doesn’t even make 1 month’s rent or mortgage payments in many parts of the country.
Average student loan payment for a graduate? $393 a month (source).
The average monthly mortgage payment is $1,084 a month (source)
The average monthly rent? About $1,000 (source)
Put simply, the Trumpists don’t give a shit about how little the $1,200 covers and that people are boned within hours of getting the payment since they’re already dipping into whatever meager emergency savings they have (and the average for that is about $450, when most financial folks suggest 3-6 months of average monthly expenditures).
Trump fucking sucks, Mnuchin doesn’t give a shit, and they’re already looking for their next score. GOPers don’t give a shit in Congress, even though their base is among the hardest hit by the shutdown. The GOP base are also among the folks clamoring loudest for the shutdown to end, despite the fact that it’s not even started in places dominated by the GOP. They’re too busy bitching about Democrats taking actions to save their lives. They’re questioning the accommodations on the lifeboats Democrats have conjured up out of the flotsam left by the Trumptanic after Trump has repeatedly rammed the iceberg.
Oh yeah, Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area (and we’ve got freeze warnings tonight/tomorrow so watch out for those newly planted garden plants!) and Fuck Trump and Fuck the GOP.
re: #172 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Let the bacon hoarding begin!
I’ll start worrying about it when our local meat packer Falls Brand shuts down.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s mother dies from COVID-19 complications https://t.co/52BvJeg9yW
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 16, 2020
AMC’s new TWD series, The Walking Dead Make America Great Again https://t.co/ozQIVjlX0r
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 16, 2020
Quite frustrated now regarding the emergency funding. Learned that even though the IRS has my banking information from last year’s tax payment, I still need to provide the same account in order to have the money direct deposited. Have been on the IRS site, as instructed, to update this information and receive the information on your account is unavailable notice. Guess we’ll just wait until sometime around Christmas to get one of FFVCS’s endorsed checks. Just don’t understand it. The IRS HAS my banking information. What is the freakin’ problem? And, yes, not filing for 2019 until July because we owe again. Not much but it’s not like it will make any difference in terms of the emergency funding. Sigh..
re: #214 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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Photo from dinner with friends and family back in 2016 at a restaurant in Alsace. Uniformly declared as the “winning” dessert order.
a tradition around here as well to serve food on a slate tablet
re: #219 TarHellion
Quite frustrated now regarding the emergency funding. Learned that even though the IRS has my banking information from last year’s tax payment, I still need to provide the same account in order to have the money direct deposited. Have been on the IRS site, as instructed, to update this information and receive the information on your account is unavailable notice. Guess we’ll just wait until sometime around Christmas to get one of FFVCS’s endorsed checks. Just don’t understand it. The IRS HAS my banking information. What is the freakin’ problem? And, yes, not filing for 2019 until July because we owe again. Not much but it’s not like it will make any difference in terms of the emergency funding. Sigh..
Sorry to hear that. I haven’t filed yet this year, but got my direct deposit this week.
re: #213 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
“Drink Up Me Hearties, Yo Ho” (5:03, Prague Film Orchestra, from “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”)
re: #206 Sherlock Hound
A lot of Caller ID boxes are part of corded answering machines.
What’s the point of having an answering machine any more? Doesn’t your phone company give you a voicemail?
Horrifying. MSNBC just reported that after getting a tip, NJ found 17 bodies in a NJ nursing home. And I had to put my mother in a Nursing Home just before the pandemic struck.
re: #219 TarHellion
I’m screwed. Since the IRS doesn’t have any tax information from me since 1996 and I had to file IRS Form 1040 this year, and they say they are not processing the forms due to the epidemic, I might see this payment sometime in the next decade or so.
re: #223 John Hughes
What’s the point of having an answering machine any more? Doesn’t your phone company give you a voicemail?
For a monthly fee mine does. I’d rather not pay the monthly fee.
re: #212 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
My answering machine went the way of the dodo back in 2007 when I moved to Philadelphia from near Pittsburgh. Have not had a landline since. Though if I went back to one I’d want Caller ID in some form since I essentially don’t pick up calls on my mobile unless it’s a recognized contact or I am expecting a call. (If it’s important they’ll leave a message.)
A sort of interesting study to look at my “recents” on my cell and see how many of the calls are obvious spoofed marketing calls. From my area code and such - which is on the other end of the state, or from little middle of nowhere towns in the Midwest. Plus one day when my own number called me twice.
(It would be interesting to see some telecommunications law revisions that address some of this. Or has some enforcement behind the existing laws with some teeth.)
Verizon handles my landline and my internet service (DSL). They still charge for Caller ID, so I don’t have it. It is a sunk cost for VZ, but they are famously greedy. I have to carry the landline as long as I have DSL, because VZ will not separate the two (“dry” DSL).
re: #224 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Horrifying. MSNBC just reported that after getting a tip, NJ found 17 bodies in a NJ nursing home. And I had to put my mother in a Nursing Home just before the pandemic struck.
The Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center I and II facility is out in Sussex County, which is the NW corner of the state (and leans GOP as if covid19 cares about that). The facility itself has two buildings - and two different CMMS ratings, which would indicate that it’s got two different kinds of nursing facilities.
One has one star. The other 3. That suggests that the facility has serious issues with infection control. At least 17 covid19 deaths, and growing by the day. They’re overwhelmed, and didn’t think to get a refrigerated truck until the request for body bags raised questions about where they were storing the bodies.
Again, Trump owns this fucking nightmare. Trump’s loosened infection control regs that Obama instituted. Trump’s slow rolled testing, which can help contain the spread. Nursing facilities are going to be hard hit because of the vulnerable populations and their already overtaxed staff because most facilities don’t have enough people working even in normal times because the work is hard, long, and for low pay. I’ve seen this at any number of facilities I’ve had to deal with over the past decade. Some are better than others, and there are caring staff at all, but if you have 1 nurse for 40-50 people, that’s a recipe for disaster when an outbreak sweeps through like the Angel of Death.
re: #227 jeffreyw
Cardinals: Looks like the woodpeckers stole the feeder again.
re: #229 Sherlock Hound
Verizon handles my landline and my internet service (DSL). They still charge for Caller ID, so I don’t have it. It is a sunk cost for VZ, but they are famously greedy. I have to carry the landline as long as I have DSL, because VZ will not separate the two (“dry” DSL).
CenturyLink will separate ADSL and landline service, but since the cell tower won’t reach my house five blocks away because of it’s signal orientation, landline service is required if you want telephone service around here.
I also don’t have to worry about things like junk texts on a rotary dial telephone.
Hilarious thread; had me in tears laughing.
Release the full hour of footage. https://t.co/SG6Vm0Y6Mi
— Louis Peitzman (@LouisPeitzman) April 16, 2020
re: #229 Sherlock Hound
Verizon handles my landline and my internet service (DSL). They still charge for Caller ID, so I don’t have it. It is a sunk cost for VZ, but they are famously greedy. I have to carry the landline as long as I have DSL, because VZ will not separate the two (“dry” DSL).
Yea, my cable TV/internet (Comcast) service also includes VOIP as part of the package. So I do have a number for that, but I’ve never used it, don’t have a device plugged into it on the modem, and would have to dig in order to find the number itself.
re: #224 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Horrifying. MSNBC just reported that after getting a tip, NJ found 17 bodies in a NJ nursing home. And I had to put my mother in a Nursing Home just before the pandemic struck.
If my mother ever requires personal care, I don’t care how much it puts me in the hole she’s either moving in with me or in the house for sale across the street. There’s no fookin’ way I’d bunk her in a capitalist-run nursing home.
re: #226 Anymouse 🌹🏡
For a monthly fee mine does. I’d rather not pay the monthly fee.
Landline phone companies are greedy as fuck. For many years, they would charge for touchtone (DTMF) service! This, even though the equipment has supported DTMF dial tones for at least 60 years! Caller ID has been around for 30 years and the cost is long since sunk. Nope. Still a charge. When I had us buy a new phone system at my employer, Verizon charged us for Caller ID. Our phone system required Caller ID. We switched to Comcast shortly after that; like the cell companies, cable phone service had CID “out of the box”.
re: #236 Sherlock Hound
Landline phone companies are greedy as fuck. For many years, they would charge for touchtone (DTMF) service! This, even though the equipment has supported DTMF dial tones for at least 60 years! Caller ID has been around for 30 years and the cost is long since sunk. Nope. Still a charge. When I had us buy a new phone system at my employer, Verizon charged us for Caller ID. Our phone system required Caller ID. We switched to Comcast shortly after that; like the cell companies, cable phone service had CID “out of the box”.
The big companies learn from each other. As the normal revenue streams dry up or expenses change they learn other methods. Banks, airlines, utility companies (phone, internet, gas, electric, etc.) have all learned how easy it is to nickle and dime lots of various fees on top of the usual service charges since good substitutes* are not available.
* - A key thing in microeconomics and supply vs demand and that at some point a substitute is available to keep prices in check. However, a lot of services are necessary, have few substitutes or competitors due to capitalization expenses, or are at this point simply part of monopolies or cartels that fix prices since they can.
re: #228 lawhawk
“We’ll have to destroy the economy to save it.”
— Traditional GOP response to any problem
re: #231 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Cardinals: Looks like the woodpeckers stole the feeder again.
Two cardinals short of a quorum
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡
And this bit from the Charisma article:
“Communion cracker?” Does it get Dead Sea salt? I can hear the howl from the Holy See about that here.
Go to sleep with cracker, wake up with ants.
re: #236 Sherlock Hound
Landline phone companies are greedy as fuck. For many years, they would charge for touchtone (DTMF) service! This, even though the equipment has supported DTMF dial tones for at least 60 years! Caller ID has been around for 30 years and the cost is long since sunk. Nope. Still a charge. When I had us buy a new phone system at my employer, Verizon charged us for Caller ID. Our phone system required Caller ID. We switched to Comcast shortly after that; like the cell companies, cable phone service had CID “out of the box”.
Unfortunately for many of us in rural areas, landline companies still hold a natural monopoly on telephone service. As such, they can charge whatever they want if the state public utility commission or FCC do not choose to clamp down on them.
With the exception of Caller ID here (they offer that as part of regular telephone service), every other service (call forward, &c) is an extra charge.
Since my telephone company is also the monopoly Internet provider, that means a huge telephone bill (my telephone service costs more than my gas, electric, and water combined—or the equivalent of my property tax every three months).
re: #238 jaunte
“We’ll have to destroy the economy to save it.”
— Traditional GOP response to any problem
The point is that we workers exist to serve the economy and those who own and run it.
Let us not fall for the idealistic delusion that the economy was somehow created by all people to benefit the us as a whole…that is the S-word!
re: #240 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Go to sleep with cracker, wake up with ants.
no point falling asleep with a communion cracker unless you also take a bottle of consecrated wine with you…
Wildlife is returning to the streets of San Diego. Nature is healing. pic.twitter.com/yatwEUdo5g
— Drew Savicki (@SenhorRaposa) April 16, 2020
re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡
‘God Friended Me’ Canceled After Two Seasons at CBS (Variety)
The final show, a two-hour episode, will air April 26. It did not survive two seasons.
Aww. I like that show. I like Zooey’s Playlist too. Both have nice people. An oddity these days.
Factfile on an online concert planned for April 18 by @ladygaga and a host of international stars to support health workers on the frontline against COVID-19 pic.twitter.com/OxLc1q5mGa
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 15, 2020
The image of a newborn in a shield should be the symbol of this epidemic:
Global #coronavirus cases surpass the 2 million mark https://t.co/eUzJ40Jcvb
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) April 15, 2020
Mike Pence says 24 percent of the counties in the US have no coronavirus cases. Which means that three-fourths do. That’s not necessarily good news. pic.twitter.com/u45FrscBbm
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) April 15, 2020
In recent weeks:
* Boston-area at-home deaths up 20%
* Detroit dead-body calls up 275%
* NYC daily home deaths up 471%
Our @ProPublica review points to a big undercount in U.S. deaths related to the coronavirus:https://t.co/Da5AY3nl7r— Jack Gillum (@jackgillum) April 15, 2020
re: #249 Belafon
Pence and the GOP seem to love stating everything in terms of land area and not people or population. A good way to use statistics to lie, but also seems to indicate their lack of concern for people at large.
Telephone rings …
“Hi, my name is Zoë from Home Security Solutions”—click.
France is still using TGV trains as ambulances.
Photos incroyables, presque impensables, de rames de TGV transformées en services de réanimation mobiles (par @laurencegeai). https://t.co/Tdo4zhqmLe
— William Audureau (@Willvs) April 16, 2020
WINNING!
5.2 million more seek unemployment aid — bringing four-week total to 22 million (AP via the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
While most are safe/warm at home, these people are organized (well) armed, angry & extremely enabled by GOP. The movement in Michigan is just the beginning. Read the libertarian-the “rise up” posts. Dont write them off as crazy-dont underestimate them. They are the other enemy.
— JM (@lefthandedtwit) April 16, 2020
A new facebook post from one of our infectious disease docs.
re: #254 Sherlock Hound
And wingnuts still believe that liberals are afraid of firearms. If they really tried to do something, they’d be in for a real surprise.
re: #249 Belafon
Mike Pence says 24 percent of the counties in the US have no coronavirus cases. Which means that three-fourths do. That’s not necessarily good news.
Wonder how many of these counties are among the 24%
re: #254 Sherlock Hound
While most are safe/warm at home, these people are organized (well) armed, angry & extremely enabled by GOP. The movement in Michigan is just the beginning. Read the libertarian-the “rise up” posts. Dont write them off as crazy-dont underestimate them. They are the other enemy.
again, Trump called COVID-19 a “Democratic Hoax”
These people are more loyal to his words than he is himself…
re: #257 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Wonder how many of these counties are among the 24%
Yep. And 10 of the townships or boroughs in my county have no reported cases.
Doesn’t make me want to raise the stay-at-home restrictions or other protective efforts.
re: #257 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Wonder how many of these counties are among the 24%
Two of those ten are in my state.
re: #117 Dr Lizardo
Who is the actor who plays the Technomage? He’s extremely familiar, especially his voice.
Michael Ansara.
At long last, on May 12, #SCOTUS will hear arguments on whether the president can defy subpoenas. The answer is most certainly no, and as soon as the court says so, Congress and prosecutors can see what Trump wants to hide. Progress on the slow walk. https://t.co/k6dzOxnvHe
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) April 16, 2020
I’m not so confident in the answer being no.
re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
again, Trump called COVID-19 a “Democratic Hoax”
These people are more loyal to his words than he is himself…
This says it better than I could.
re: #262 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Michael Ansara.
Cochise, in a long ago era.
re: #102 Jason Munro
Did a “music share” with my eldest recently (basically, “have you heard of this” ping-pong), and she turned me onto Sigrid. Not-exactly-new Norwegian pop music but what a singer. I can’t quite get enough of High Five.
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Neat. Somewhat differerent yet very pop-py is my favorite Scandinavian singer: Ida Marie
Lyrics are a bit NSFW if that’s a problem these days :D
re: #263 jaunte
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I’m not so confident in the answer being no.
8 weeks ago I’d have agreed with you; but now it’s starting to look like a Democrat is about to be elected. Surely that will affect their thinking.
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The first bridge over the Mississippi River at Itasca State Park
re: #235 Anymouse 🌹🏡
If my mother ever requires personal care, I don’t care how much it puts me in the hole she’s either moving in with me or in the house for sale across the street. There’s no fookin’ way I’d bunk her in a capitalist-run nursing home.
My wife would have a nervous breakdown if I moved mom in with us.
When the day starts, you look at what relatives post and see “Prayer works! New unemployment claims fell to 5 million thanks to the President…”
…you want to shut off the computer, call in sick and go back to bed…
Good news; will SCOTUS reverse?
BREAKING: Federal appeals court upholds Michigan’s independent redistricting commission—passed overwhelmingly by MI voters in 2018—against a constitutional attack. #fairmaps
— Wendy Weiser (@WendyRWeiser) April 15, 2020
re: #260 lizardofid
Looks like it could have been from here.
Oh, good morning!
We were in southern Alsace, closest city was Basel over in Switzerland. Will have to see if I can find an on-line listing for the place assuming I remember the name.
(Probably won’t find it. It was a fairly small family-run place somewhere in the rough vicinity between Mulhouse and Basel. Photo has name “red cow” on it, which implies the place might have been “La Voche Rogue” - but that is not an uncommon restaurant name I expect.)
re: #273 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Good news; will SCOTUS reverse?
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Uh, yes they will 5-4.
Which is why Biden needs to pack the court. Expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 15.
Why is it always 15 that people want to expand the SC to?
What’s wrong with 11, or 13? Why go for double overkill?
re: #277 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Western good morning!
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Emergency rations on the trot, so to speak.
re: #279 NetworkKed
Why is it always 15 that people want to expand the SC to?
What’s wrong with 11, or 13? Why go for double overkill?
agreed.
re: #263 jaunte
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I’m not so confident in the answer being no.
Not even close to being a given. Not with this court.
re: #279 NetworkKed
Why is it always 15 that people want to expand the SC to?
What’s wrong with 11, or 13? Why go for double overkill?
Especially since the only way that will get through Congress will be to allow the GOP to do some of the nominations.
re: #283 Belafon
Especially since the only way that will get through Congress will be to allow the GOP to do some of the nominations.
Moscow Mitch changed the previous conventions when he pushed Gorsucks through. (No, that’s not a spelling error.) So all we would need is 51 senators.
“Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” https://t.co/jkE41hBEB2
— CarolineOB (@Caroline_OF_B) April 16, 2020
“She is our oldest patient to beat the virus — and may well be the oldest in the country to do so.”
A 106-year-old woman in the UK has been discharged from hospital after recovering from Covid-19. https://t.co/6Re0Gar1Dp— CNN International (@cnni) April 16, 2020
re: #285 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fox News doing what Fox News does with the counterpoint on this:
EXCLUSIVE: There is increasing confidence that the COVID-19 outbreak likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon but as part of China’s attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China’s government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.
This may be the “costliest government cover-up of all time,” one of the sources said.
The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus - a naturally occurring strain that was being studied there - was bat-to-human and that “patient zero” worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.
The “increasing confidence” comes from classified and open-source documents and evidence, the sources said. Fox News has requested to see the evidence directly. Sources emphasized — as is often the case with intelligence — that it’s not definitive and should not be characterized as such. Some inside the administration and the intelligence and epidemiological communities are more skeptical, and the investigation is continuing.
What all of the sources agree about is the extensive cover-up of data and information about COVID-19 orchestrated by the Chinese government.
Google News has featured this story high up today. ARGHHHHH.
Cases in North Dakota jumped 30% in the past five days. Arkansas’ numbers are up 22%, Oklahoma’s 26%, and in South Dakota, cases have jumped 260% over the same period. Yet governors say they’re not planning to order people to stay home. https://t.co/R5XyeuWd4e @politico
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) April 16, 2020
re: #286 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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“She is our oldest patient to beat the virus — and may well be the oldest in the country to do so.”
A 106-year-old woman in the UK has been discharged from hospital after recovering from Covid-19. https://t.co/6Re0Gar1Dp— CNN International (@cnni) April 16, 2020
re: #199 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I’m a bit ahead of you in the DVD set, so I won’t spoil the plot for you.
“Dark Shadows” had a different problem all soap operas have to deal with: Daily taping means there isn’t a whole lot of time to retape flubbed scenes. They only do it in a soap opera if it is some sort of catastrophic failure.
The DVD version shows the slate board at the beginning of each episode; nearly all of them are “Take One.”
Additionally, the show has the nickname of “Boom Shadows” for the frequent shadows of mike booms and equipment which appear in scenes, along with stage hands walking through sets, noise off the side of the stage, &c.
i remember somebody mentioning in a doctor who commentary how sometimes the actors would shout out “fuck!” after a flub to ensure that the scene had to be reshot.
HUGE.
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which authorizes loans to small businesses to pay employees during the COVID-19 crisis, has run out of money and is now frozen.
Small Business Administration says it is “currently unable to accept new applications” or enroll new lenders.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 16, 2020
Maybe we’re going to have to start taxing the billionaires? https://t.co/aCQKvXQiQ9
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 16, 2020
re: #292 jaunte
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Massively underfunded compared to the big company bailout slush fund.
re: #290 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Not fair because she’s obviously immortal
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God: You know what? Fuck it. You did that, I’m letting you live forever.
re: #279 NetworkKed
Why is it always 15 that people want to expand the SC to?
What’s wrong with 11, or 13? Why go for double overkill?
It’s payback time!
re: #292 jaunte
HUGE.
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which authorizes loans to small businesses to pay employees during the COVID-19 crisis, has run out of money and is now frozen.
Small Business Administration says it is “currently unable to accept new applications” or enroll new lenders.
priorities
Dr. Oz just made the argument that we should reopen schools because *only* 2-3% of kids will die.
pic.twitter.com/yKaHEybZqj— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) April 16, 2020
We MUST remove this admin in November. https://t.co/dVxqGd1KC2
— michele collins (@michele5411) April 16, 2020
Thieves and wreckers.
We would lose about 20-25 students according to Dr. Fraud. That is like having a school shooting. Maybe worse.
re: #299 jaunte
If my math is right that’s 20 000 to 30 000 kids out of every million. There are approximately 74 million kids under the age of 18 in the U.S. Let’s assume at least 80 percent regularly attend school, that would be 59.2 Million.
Two percent of that number would be 1,184 000.
That’s a lot of dead kids.
FUCK Dr. Oz. FUCK him.
re: #304 Eclectic Cyborg
Plus whatever percentage of their families they go home to spread the virus to.
When did the “pro-life” party become a suicide cult?
OT: Wife and I went shopping at the local Wal-Mart market at around 7 PM last night. No cleaning wipes or sanitizer to be had but the paper products aisle was very well stocked. For the first time in about a month and a half, I actually got to CHOOSE what kind of TP I wanted!
re: #307 jaunte
When did the “pro-life” party become a suicide cult?
Republicans will do ANYTHING to spite liberals. And they will gladly die for the white race.
re: #310 Joe Bacon 🌹
Republicans will do ANYTHING to spite liberals. And they will gladly die for the white race.
Getting THEMSELVES killed to own the Libs? That’s basically where we’re at now?
Great long term plan, guys.
re: #299 jaunte
I think we just found our death panel.
re: #307 jaunte
When did the “pro-life” party become a suicide cult?
because it was never pro life to begin with
re: #299 jaunte
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Dr. Oz is a schmuck, but that isn’t what he fucking said. The lancet article he refers to says closing schools only reduces total mortality by 2-4%. That means if there were going to be 10000 deaths, opening schools would increase that to something like 10200-10400.
The GOP is pro Christian white male and nothing else.
re: #307 jaunte
When did the “pro-life” party become a suicide cult?
They will suicide if commanded, like any cult. But at this stage, they don’t really expect any bad consequences for themselves. Bad consequences happen to other people, and they are excited for it to happen to them because they hate so many other people. That’s how powerful white privilege is - they’ve never had any bad consequences ever, so they don’t think it can happen to them.
re: #307 jaunte
When did the “pro-life” party become a suicide cult?
Day one. Most of them didn’t know it at the time. Majority of them still don’t realize it.
re: #302 jaunte
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Thieves and wreckers.
At must remove ALL Republicans.
All Republicans want this.
All Republicans have tried to or done this for the last 40 years.
REPUBLICANS are the problem.
Republicans are doing everything they can to kill us.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) April 16, 2020
re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Since my telephone company is also the monopoly Internet provider, that means a huge telephone bill (my telephone service costs more than my gas, electric, and water combined—or the equivalent of my property tax every three months).
In France that’s illegal — the “historical operator”, the old France Telecom, is obliged to let other internet/phone providers rent its lines at near cost rates.
re: #318 wrenchwench
Day one. Most of them didn’t know it at the time. Majority of them still don’t realize it.
Some do know and will gladly die unceremoniously for Dear Leader.
re: #321 John Hughes
In France that’s illegal — the “historical operator”, the old France Telecom, is obliged to let other internet/phone providers rent its lines at near cost rates.
And it should be fucking illegal here too, but no, this is America, where rich people can screw poor people more effectively than other country in the world.
Regulations on things affecting the greater good such as pollution oppress rich people wanting to get richer. Removing them makes it easier on the rich folk.
Who else benefits from environmental deregulation?
re: #322 SteelPH
Some do know and will gladly die unceremoniously for Dear Leader.
Possibly the gladness will be proportional to the ceremoniousness. One red cap, at minimum.
re: #252 Sherlock Hound
France is still using TGV trains as ambulances.
Yeah, people are moved from zones where are the ICU beds are taken (originally the Grande Est, later the Ile de France) to places that are not (yet) being overwhelmed. Military transports, helicopters, long distance coaches and ambulance convoys have also been used. The idea being that the flow will change direction later on and we want to avoid a full-on Italy style collapse in any one region.
re: #304 Eclectic Cyborg
If my math is right that’s 20 000 to 30 000 kids out of every million. There are approximately 74 million kids under the age of 18 in the U.S. Let’s assume at least 80 percent regularly attend school, that would be 59.2 Million.
Two percent of that number would be 1,184 000.
That’s a lot of dead kids.
FUCK Dr. Oz. FUCK him.
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed.
re: #301 jaunte
“Schools are a very appetizing opportunity.”
Education is just another expense to be minimized in order to optimize the bottom line.
This fucker isn’t dead yet?
NEW: Robert Mercer is back in the big money fundraising game for Trump and the RNC after retreating from the spotlight. He gave his first 2020 six figure check to Trump Victory in February. It was a $355,200 contribution, a new filing shows.https://t.co/qw8PvlPOAl
— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) April 16, 2020
re: #323 Eclectic Cyborg
And it should be fucking illegal here too, but no, this is America, where rich people can screw poor people more effectively than other country in the world.
Telecoms are required in the US to lease the local loops to independant ISPs at regulated prices. The telecoms have lots of games they play between litigation and just on an operational front foot dragging to provision things and troubleshoot issues for those ISPs.
It just isn’t worth it for those independants to fight for those rural customers.
Day 2 of Weasel coffee: smells like a flavored coffee but not in an over the top bad way. Vanilla, milk chocolate, and toasty nuances, and a luxurious earthiness. Drinks super smooth.
Despite it being amazing coffee and me loving to call it Cat Shit coffee, I found out that they treat the civets horribly to get them to produce product so I won’t be buying any. If you really want ass coffee, get the elephant produced kind. The elephants have a much better living on a luxury estate, eating and pooping at their leisure with a bunch of servants fussing over them.
re: #299 jaunte
“My kids aren’t in iron lungs. I don’t care.”
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Ten nurses suspended for refusing care to COVID-19 patients without being given N95 masks https://t.co/c723unAC8N
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 16, 2020
I was under the impression that they were M 95 masks. I’m not very good at this alphabet thing.
re: #326 John Hughes
Yeah, people are moved from zones where are the ICU beds are taken (originally the Grande Est, later the Ile de France) to places that are not (yet) being overwhelmed. Military transports, helicopters, long distance coaches and ambulance convoys have also been used. The idea being that the flow will change direction later on and we want to avoid a full-on Italy style collapse in any one region.
That would not work on Amtrak! ///
I follow a lot of French cheminots (train workers) on Twitter. Besides posting
awesome train photos, they are justifiably proud of their work! So am I.
re: #338 wrenchwench
I was under the impression that they were M 95 masks. I’m not very good at this alphabet thing.
And I agree with them. The patients are already sick. There’s no reason to add ten more people to take care of.
Heads up Lizardim:
A dietary supplement named “Anoroc” [“corona” backwards] is making the rounds. It is a fraud. expressen.se [Swedish]
re: #342 Teukka
Thanks for the heads up. :)
re: #125 Dread Pirate
I was down to one last bucket-list event, a night time supernova. I decided that was just too short of a list so I added an ELE asteroid strike, but I will accept a M.A.D. nuclear war as an inferior substitute as long as I can see a few strikes in the distance before the direct hit. There better be a direct hit at the end if I have to put up with a substitute.
Yeah, my one bucket list item I have almost no control over is a naked-eye supernova. SN1987a only got up to mag 3, plus it was in 1987, I was in law school, and didn’t have the money or the time to get somewhere I could see it. But it’s not like my boyfriend and I didn’t talk about running down to Central America to see it, because we did.
re: #315 danarchy
Dr. Oz is a schmuck, but that isn’t what he fucking said. The lancet article he refers to says closing schools only reduces total mortality by 2-4%. That means if there were going to be 10000 deaths, opening schools would increase that to something like 10200-10400.
Except reopening the schools means everyone would get exposed, and the death toll wouldn’t be 10,000, but more like in the millions - putting the 2-4% in the tens of thousands in excess mortality (not counting the parents/grandparents/caregivers who die too).
Oz is a fucknut who is trying to provide justifications to Trump to reopen for business.
— Daniel Salinas (@dsalinas83) April 16, 2020
re: #344 mmmirele
I really want to see Antares go. With all of the nebula and dust clouds in the immediate region, it would be spectacular for years as the expanding light pulse sequentially lit everything.
re: #345 lawhawk
Except reopening the schools means everyone would get exposed, and the death toll wouldn’t be 10,000, but more like in the millions - putting the 2-4% in the tens of thousands in excess mortality (not counting the parents/grandparents/caregivers who die too).
Oz is a fucknut who is trying to provide justifications to Trump to reopen for business.
Yep. It would put the faculty and staff at risk. Oz really should shut the fuck up. It sucks we’re closed down but maybe if Trump didn’t want that, he should have cared more about what the IC was telling him than having yet another rally where he whined the same crap speech.
re: #344 mmmirele
Yeah, my one bucket list item I have almost no control over is a naked-eye supernova. SN1987a only got up to mag 3, plus it was in 1987, I was in law school, and didn’t have the money or the time to get somewhere I could see it. But it’s not like my boyfriend and I didn’t talk about running down to Central America to see it, because we did.
re: #347 HypnoToad
I really want to see Antares go. With all of the nebula and dust clouds in the immediate region, it would be spectacular for years as the expanding light pulse sequentially lit everything.
When you wish for said naked-eye supernova, please remember to be specific and wish it to be far enough away for the associated GRB not to fry us.
re: #347 HypnoToad
I really want to see Antares go. With all of the nebula and dust clouds in the immediate region, it would be spectacular for years as the expanding light pulse sequentially lit everything.
I’ll settle for Betelgeuse.
re: #349 Teukka
GRB’s are narrowly focused along the rotational axis and IIRC neither Antares or Betelgeuse are axis-on to us. At roughly 300 LY away for each, we should be safe.
re: #351 HypnoToad
GRB’s are narrowly focused along the rotational axis and IIRC neither Antares or Betelgeuse are axis-on to us. At roughly 300 LY away for each, we should be safe.
550 and 700.
Hell I just want to see the Republican Party Elephant supernova and wind up in the Political Graveyard along with the Federalist Eagle, Whig Raccoon, Prohibition Camel and Progressive Bull Moose!
The Lancet study states “Recent modelling studies of COVID-19 predict that school closures alone would prevent only 2–4% of deaths, much less than other social distancing interventions.”https://t.co/teyGVvz3hO https://t.co/aTCC6FyYEN
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 16, 2020
JFC, WTF and all that:
“They were just overwhelmed by the amount of people who were expiring,” said the police chief in Andover, a small township in Sussex County, New Jersey’s northernmost county https://t.co/fVBSHIzp3J
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 16, 2020
re: #345 lawhawk
Except reopening the schools means everyone would get exposed, and the death toll wouldn’t be 10,000, but more like in the millions - putting the 2-4% in the tens of thousands in excess mortality (not counting the parents/grandparents/caregivers who die too).
Oz is a fucknut who is trying to provide justifications to Trump to reopen for business.
I am not saying whether the lancet article is correct or not, but it specifically says that closing schools does not significantly slow the spread of the virus.
re: #350 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I’ll settle for Betelgeuse.
Say it three times and we’ll see what happens.
/
I got my TRUMP check. Now I know what it feels like to be a lazy dumbocrat. #Trump2020 pic.twitter.com/7qWzhSwKxf
— Brent Terhune (@BrentTerhune) April 16, 2020
re: #350 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I’ll settle for Betelgeuse.
2 more times…. and then:
re: #361 SteelPH
Can’t tell if real or Poe.
It’s a parody. Watch the entire video…he “bought” a 70 inch flat screen to watch FNC all day, meanwhile his “baby” is crying the background but he claims he can’t afford formula. Pretty funny stuffy.
re: #141 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
He doesn’t want the job.
Will Andrew Cuomo run for president, his brother asks? ‘No. No’
Jump to the 7:25 mark
That doesn’t mean he won’t step up if asked, and if the situation has become dire enough (as it shows every sign of becoming). At this point, he is not running and of course he will not undermine Biden or create a distraction by expressing hypothetical interest.
re: #163 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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Is this a real quote? I’m not on Twitter — but couldn’t find a Trump tweet from that date.
re: #364 SteelPH
Thanks for the clarifications!
Interesting, informative nugget:
The 29-year-old University of Indianapolis graduate and part-time writer for “The Bob & Tom Show” is far more mellow than his redneck alter-ego. He speaks softly, and could even be described as bit timid.
‘Nuff said ;-P
“My Wife Hates it When I Work From Home” — Banksy Shares Rats Run Amok in his Bathroom from Quarantine, this is colossal
Gee, I wonder why!
re: #368 retired cynic
“My Wife Hates it When I Work From Home” — Banksy Shares Rats Run Amok in his Bathroom from Quarantine, this is colossal
Gee, I wonder why!
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Reminds me of this record Ernie Kovacs used in his comedy routines!
re: #368 retired cynic
“My Wife Hates it When I Work From Home” — Banksy Shares Rats Run Amok in his Bathroom from Quarantine, this is colossal
Gee, I wonder why!
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The Apocalypse - now with interpretive dance!
NY PAUSE extended to May 15. Not like I was planning on going anywhere, anyway…
re: #371 makeitstop
NY PAUSE extended to May 15. Not like I was planning on going anywhere, anyway…
Oh, wait. Gotta go to the bank and the foods library. Back later.
“There are no friends or relatives. There are no flowers. There are just people fighting for their lives and health care workers trying to save them.”
We’ll never be able to thank these incredible professionals enough.https://t.co/cWVSEYUqB6— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 16, 2020
The complex web of national and global institutions established to deal with global pandemics has failed, argues Kevin Rudd https://t.co/H81BCVAF41
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) April 16, 2020
I’M NOT BORED pic.twitter.com/lZJZKTJH0b
— Gritty (@GrittyNHL) April 16, 2020
re: #374 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I was hoping it went in the direction it did: Trump removed the key piece of the entire global response, US, from the decision tree. And everything needed us to do what we used to do.
re: #362 Dr. Matt
It’s a parody. Watch the entire video…he “bought” a 70 inch flat screen to watch FNC all day, meanwhile his “baby” is crying the background but he claims he can’t afford formula. Pretty funny stuffy.
It’s the best one yet, I think. “Gaslighting conferences” is brilliant.
I wonder if that 2-3% mortality includes the kids who will die in mass shootings? March 2020 was the first March since 2002 without a mass school shooting. https://t.co/qmo1HoIWTl
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 16, 2020
re: #378 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Here’s The Lancet: https://t.co/dZGmO96R2X
Here’s the WHO / Imperial College model they link to: https://t.co/ZgOMwH95CO
A “2-4%” reduction was modeled for the UK doing nothing but closing schools for 3 months. It’s not a model of what would happened if we re-opened schools. /2 pic.twitter.com/uR1Gj1CSVU— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) April 16, 2020
update on the Lysol: I read the package carefully and I see why my mom never bought the stuff. It is a major eye irritant. I just finished wiping down the kitchen sink and bagging up the paper towels. It may kill germs and it gets to my eyes. dang.
re: #235 Anymouse 🌹🏡
If my mother ever requires personal care, I don’t care how much it puts me in the hole she’s either moving in with me or in the house for sale across the street. There’s no fookin’ way I’d bunk her in a capitalist-run nursing home.
You can say that, but situations can overwhelm you. I had to put my husband in a nursing home, and I hated it, but I was physically not strong enough to lift and care for him as his disease progressed. And I could not afford to have someone on hand around the clock. We did that with his mother, and it bankrupted us, and that is why I have no money now, and will soon lose my home. So don’t say never.
re: #381 retired cynic
You can say that, but situations can overwhelm you. I had to put my husband in a nursing home, and I hated it, but I was physically not strong enough to lift and care for him as his disease progressed. And I could not afford to have someone on hand around the clock. We did that with his mother, and it bankrupted us, and that is why I have no money now, and will soon lose my home. So don’t say never.
Mom was in real bad shape for years, and dad tried to do the best he could, but as she became less mobile, the harder it was for him. It got to the point where it just wasn’t safe for her to be at home - either for mom or dad. She was a fall risk, and dad had no way of getting her back into a seat or bed. It was the most heartbreaking thing watching her body fail her.
Fuck cancer and fuck the ghouls running far too many of the nursing home facilities (they’re now chains), who skimp on care/coverage and can’t manage a reasonable patient-nurse ratio, or staff-patient ratio. It has deadly consequences. We’re seeing all of that on display as covid19 rages across the nation.
re: #218 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Moron Tabernacle Choir?
re: #380 PhillyPretzel
update on the Lysol: I read the package carefully and I see why my mom never bought the stuff. It is a major eye irritant. I just finished wiping down the kitchen sink and bagging up the paper towels. It may kill germs and it gets to my eyes. dang.
When my sister had hepatitis, Mom had to wash everything down with Lysol and she always had to use a face shield and gloves per our doctor.
re: #380 PhillyPretzel
update on the Lysol: I read the package carefully and I see why my mom never bought the stuff. It is a major eye irritant. I just finished wiping down the kitchen sink and bagging up the paper towels. It may kill germs and it gets to my eyes. dang.
And bad for kitties btw.
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