I've been using LastPass for a little while now and love it. Password managers seem like the simplest and most secure way to simultaneously (1) use a different password for every site and (2) deal with the fact that every site has its own annoyingly specific format requirements for allowable passwor...

Emperor Newsom's reinforcement of California's regime uncertainty is disproportionately hurting small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that have enough capital to deal with this unpredictable on-again-off-again lockdown nonsense are the big-box stores and chain restaurants. The little guy...

I think Fauci's biggest mistake has been in his failing to adapt his recommendations to new data as it has emerged. It became clear fairly early in the pandemic that Covid-19 is mostly a nursing home disease. Yet instead of course-correcting to focus on protecting the elderly and immunocompromised a...

Aside from the leftist power-grab aspect, I also think companies and other organizations are afraid of lawsuits and bad PR in a way that they weren’t in previous times. Maybe it has something to do with how quickly bad press and boycotts spread in the age of social media.

Good points, dualstow. In recent months, my brother and I have been texting each other much more, so one of the main reasons I don’t like him to text me links to long videos is because if I don’t watch the video immediately, it gets buried in an avalanche of subsequent texts and is a pain to look up...

Last time I saw him here, he was threatening to quit his job since some of his coworkers were refusing to wear masks. So maybe he’s been busy with that.

That’s some hard-hitting tabloid news!

It's not as black and white as you put it Sophie, is it? Of course I don't want crime to run rampant. Or defund police. Never said that. But as years and years of killings have shown in Chicago, with more and more cops, there is some other root cause to this issue. I still believe no child wants to...

Not bad! While we’re on the topic of official forum foods, movies, etc. — Long ago in this forum’s prehistory, I posted about how James Bond is a metaphor of the PP:

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Is this just me or have others been having issues? Some services like hangouts never worked properly. But lately.... I've been using Googe calendar for years as have a bunch of other people I know, but it started misbehaving a few months ago . [...] Gmail has been losing emails lately. [...] Today ...

Seen on the Bogleheads forum. Too good not to share. ;D "Are bonds worth it?" "yes of course you have to be diversified!" "Are negative yielding bonds worth it?" "yes, for the diversification value. Yield is not so important." "Is gold worth it?" &q...

As if 2020 couldn’t get any stranger, Kanye West has announced that he plans to join the presidential race.

Given that Kanye is likely to siphon more votes from Biden than from Trump, his presence in the race might give Trump an even better chance of winning.

In this morning's news, Washington's governor Inslee has declared that schools will reopen in stages, in a manner sensitive to social inequities. White children will be the last to go back. I'm kidding you not. Once again, how is this legal? Can someone provide a link? A quick Google search isn’t t...

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2020 12:38 pm I guess you'll have to use a traditional balance to test for phonies. No ring test for that, i.e. no ding from a dong.

Unless you’re this guy.

The splitting of messages is a phenomenon of different carriers having limits on characters and is extremely annoying. Almost as bad as the new Apple feature of 'liking' a text which quotes an entire message if you have Android. It's actually not the splitting of a long message into multiple SMS te...

Over the past few years, I've noticed that most of my friends and family have almost completely stopped using email and phone calls as forms of communication and have replaced them both with texting. I knew that younger people have basically grown up on texting and were never really big on email or ...

No school-age kids here, but my wife's cousin is a teacher at a private school, and apparently her school's enrollment for the coming academic year is much lower than it typically is at this time of the summer. The implication seems to be that a lot of the parents just aren't willing to pay the stee...

White Castle has to go. Also Burger King, Muffler King, and any other patriarchal institutions like that! If you really think about it, language itself is divisive . It serves mainly to draw distinctions between things, i.e., to conceptually divide them. For the sake of unification and equality, we...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 1:53 pm His latest one which is my favourite one by FAR: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Absolute classic.

Agreed, Smithers. Boys and men in recent times have been starved for empowering messages, especially ones that articulately draw from the deep intellectual well of history, myth, and archetype.

Jordan Peterson has been scratching that itch.

More evidence that “many people with mild or asymptomatic Covid-19 demonstrate so-called T-cell-mediated immunity to the new coronavirus, even if they have not tested positively for antibodies”:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06- ... shown.html

My wife Susan and I have come up with a plan to replace at least some of the missing sports events. How about having a league in which all the blue cities compete to see which one can have the highest total of carnage every weekend? Among other statistics, they could have total injuries (hits) and ...

On a related note, Scott Adams (one of the biggest Trump supporters) officially endorsed Biden yesterday. No joke.

The reason? He doesn’t want to be murdered by a leftist mob. Apparently he also officially endorsed Hillary in the 2016 election for exactly the same reason.

This one's for you, Pug! It's an article written by a dental researcher back in 2016 that argues that face masks are essentially worthless for the purpose of protecting dental personnel from airborne pathogens: Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review Conclusions The primary reason for mandatin...

Nice job trying to cherry pick data. But no. We have less than 200 ICU beds available now, and that's after they activated overflow plans over the last week. Screen Shot 2020-06-30 at 3.13.22 PM.png For proper context, do we know what that same graph looked like this time last year, and the year be...