@Doctor-Phibes said in Funny response contest: @Horace said in Funny response contest: @LuFins-Dad said in Funny response contest: As an aside, the email server couldn’t filter out all the Karens and just email them? There was one reply- all from a woman with a Chinese name. Said it wasn’t for her, and signed the email Karen. I am wondering if the shipment was a prank. We weren’t told the contents. I'd report the Chinese woman to management, and cc all. Ah, that's perfect.

Not to worry. It’s at the top of the hill. Pyramid Hill, y’know?

@Horace said in Enunciating your Ts: This "T" pronunciation is called a glottal T. Common in words like button or cotton. But there are degrees, and it hits me in my ears lately when I listen to some people talk. Subculture thing.

Kind of unrelated, but one of the things I really hate in life is when then the murders began.

@Jolly said in "Fuck Clarence Thomas!": Idiot. Please use Gender-neutral insults.

@jon-nyc said in The Mouse goes public: Sweet. I too want to live in a country where companies that show fealty to the party in power get rewarded, and punished if they don’t. Sweet, a few months ago you were lamenting that so many companies and businesses were engaging in partisan politics, further dividing the country. And I'm still surprised that you don't see the fundamental difference between punishing a company and choosing not to reward with special considerations. They aren't removing copyright protections they are choosing to not renew protections...

@Klaus yeah, I got that. I've seen many ruptured AAAs. THe mortality is, of course, high. None of these people looked "peaceful" or "painless." And death is not in a matter of seconds. Usually many minutes, if not an hour. The aorta is (this gets geeky here) a retroperitoneal structure. Free rupture into the abdominal cavity is not the most common presentation. Usually it's a rupture into the retroperitoneal space, with blood tracking cephalad and caudad along the muscle planes. This is why it frequently presents with back pain. If I had to choose? I would have a massive stroke - while asleep - for the way to go.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Monday afternoon snarky caption contest: Tuck in your shirt edition.: Elons, that is, not the Pope's. I'm glad you resolved the ambiguity.

@Klaus said in A podcast on Obesity.: Has anyone actually listened to the podcast or are we going to discuss this based on the title only? Not the whole thing, but parts of it. The real tl;dr version is "We don't know what the hell is going on," They say that losing weight is (relatively) easy, and keeping it off is (really) hard, but we knew that. There are so many theories, so many models. You can't blame it all, they say, on genetics, because, as a species, we have pretty much the same genes we had 100 years ago. Others, like Jason Fung (Insulin resistance theory proponent) attribute it to diet, almost exclusively, pointing to the rise of obesity in China where a rice-heavy diet for centuries didn't lead to obesity. Now, it's endemic in China. “Asians tend to eat rice, whereas Western societies tend to take their carbohydrate as refined wheat and corn products. It is also possible that changes in Western obesity rates are related to changes in the variety of wheat we are eating.”

@Renauda That is funny! I will try that!!

@George-K said in Data Sez...: @Doctor-Phibes said in Data Sez...: It seemed to me that the countries that accepted masking more readily, also had a tendency to follow guidelines and rules more rigorously across the board. It's not just masks, it's culture. And the willingness to wear a mask tends to indicate a willingness to put up with other stuff, too. The mask is more of a symptom than a root cause. Well put. The point in my response to @Jolly is that two geographically-close, culturally-identical societies had very similar results, regardless of mandates. One can compare South Dakota and Oregon and draw whatever conclusions one wants. They are as dissimilar as the great plains and the Pacific coast, geographically, philosophically, and from and ideological standpoint. @jolly's article seems to discount those differences. Thailand until recently (I think 01 June) had a mask mandate both indoor and outdoor. (75+ dewpoint 24 hours a day :eek ) I would say probably 95% of the people followed it. Even after the stopping of the outdoor mask mandate (indoor still in place), that number has not changed much.

This is one of his older videos back from the days that I found pretty funny. Link to video

@Catseye3 said in The second fire-bombing in a week: @LuFins-Dad said in The second fire-bombing in a week: Maybe he can try those things? Sure. If he puts his mind to it he can probably get it all done by the weekend. Amazing, isn't it, that no leader has ever thought to do those things before now? Please note that it’s been 3 weeks since the first two attacks that George posted? So in three weeks show me one instance where Biden has even intimated that these criminals at the least will be held accountable? Just one instance? How about Garland? Anything from him about finding and trying these idiots? Nope. He’s too busy trying to intimidate parents from speaking out at school board meetings. So yes, there is a lot the asshats can do and you know as well as I do that the failure to do so is willful. They aren’t trying to stop it because they don’t want to. It serves their purpose.

@George-K Oh please oh please let him do it before he kills anybody else.

@Ivorythumper I read an interesting article this morning about what the purpose of the Supreme Court is. Is it the role of SCOTUS to determine the law, or is it the role of SCOTUS to determine public policy? Lemme see if I can find it...

@Axtremus said in A painful need for better leaders: Better leaders exist, but won’t make much of a difference if voters do not elect them or the system keeps them away from positions of power. Kasich, Romney, Jeb Bush … any of them is a better leader than Trump, but the Republican primary voters chose Trump instead, giving Trump a very big victory margin over Kasich, Romney, and Bush. This is the case of the voters not electing a better leader. Hillary Clinton is a better leader than Trump, and she actually won 2.87 million more popular votes than Trump nationwide. Yet the Electoral College put Trump in the White House instead. This is direct consequence of having an Electoral College that works the way it does. More voters actually voted for the better leader, but the electoral college went against the popular vote anyway. “Good leaders” do not matter if the voters or the system do not actually put them in leadership positions. Think there are no better leaders than Putin in Russia or Xi in China? It’s a statistical certainty that such leaders come into existence from time to time, but then Putin and Xi just make them ineligible in some way and the world remain stuck with Putin and Xi. Don't you just love it....... a moron who wouldn't know leadership if it walked up to him and slapped him down, opining on who is and who is not a leader..... and getting every single thing wrong.....

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