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...

Pugchief, I wonder how exactly the Democrats will manage to do away with debates? I can understand the motivation but that would hardly go unnoticed. My guess is some kind of COVID excuse, like Biden can't leave his basement. It won't look good tho; Biden will look weak. TV shows and podcasts have ...

I find it amusing that people keep lamenting that mask-wearing has "become so politicized". How can it be otherwise? There is no hard science with which to prove or disprove that mask-wearing makes a difference in slowing down the spread of Cooties-19. It's basically all guesswork, hunches...

Yes, and in what I'm doing, although it is at the other end of the scale in terms of the amount of hardware resources, efficiency is still tremendously important. No one wants to spend a ton of money on persistent memory devices if they can't get the astounding performance that those devices are ca...

Good stuff, Smithers! Made me laugh.

Is C++ still used? It’s the primary language I use in my current job. :) In embedded applications (e.g., firmware and software that runs on smartphone modems and other low-power chips) and in video games, the hardware resources are relatively limited and you need to milk every last drop of performa...

I was referring mainly to the reporters who write about the “mystery”. Seems like they could do a little journalistic legwork on street level to see who’s setting off the fireworks. Maybe they feel it’s unsafe, so they just report on it without doing any basic investigation.

I’ve heard about that fireworks “mystery”. It seems like it shouldn’t be that hard to solve. Just observe who’s roaming around the relevant neighborhoods at that time of night. Maybe review some security camera footage.

But it's pretty obvious to me that he is going to come down on the terrorists like a ton of bricks when the time is right. I'm guessing right around the Democrat convention, but it will definitely be before the general election. Not doing anything to stop the lawlessness is about the only way he co...

The most amazing thing about this whole situation is that there are people who think it is going to keep Trump from being re-elected. CHAZ/CHOP specifically, or the BLM protests/riots in general? If you mean CHAZ/CHOP specifically, would the criticism (from conservatives, presumably) be that Trump ...

Get docs who agree that masks are worthless and show the proof. This statement particularly caught my eye. Isn't the burden of scientific proof on people who propose the new recommendation or mandate (e.g., mask-wearing) for everyone? Prior to March, not wearing masks in the U.S. was the norm, and ...

flyingpylon wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:25 am And this from Texas:
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https://justthenews.com/politics-policy ... pital-case

Financial incentive from the CARES Act. See my recent comment in this other thread: viewtopic.php?p=199605#p199605

My sense is many of these states with rising cases lean right, so why on earth would they be in the camp of wanting to potentially over count cases? Perhaps because the CARES Act adds a 20% premium for Covid-19 Medicare patients. I.e., hospitals everywhere have a financial incentive to overcount Co...