Just watched Away. It feels like we've spent a year getting to Mars. We liked it more than George- but I agree quite a bit of focus on each of the character's personal lives. What's interesting is that Netflix decided not to renew even though it had good ratings - perhaps a result of pandemic and a desire to control costs.

@mik said in The Stand:

It’s on Paramount Plus.

Well, not watching that service…

@bachophile said in Time ghost PSA:

Of the three years, 1918, 1970 and 2022, 1970 was certainly the coolest.

Nope. According to global temperature measurements, 1918 was objectively the coolest.

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Source: https://www.climate.gov/media/12885

@copper said in Government Covid Benefits For Seniors:

@axtremus said in Government Covid Benefits For Seniors:

What would you like to see as government benefits to seniors for COVID?

They were victims just like 9/11 or Katrina, let's start a victim fund and have the president fly over to see the devastation.

They are victims.

And the various skin colors of the victims should make a nice photo op.

You forgot Pearl Harbor and The Holocaust

@friday said in Never wash your bath mats in the washer:

Seriously, old towels on the floor are a safety hazard.

That's a good point, one that escaped me probably because (1) I don't have old people in my household (yet) and (2) my bathrooms are so small that there really isn't room for one to "fall" in them; there is always a wall or a vanity within an arm's reach to hold on to for support or to break a fall. 🤷‍♂️

Nursing homes cannot pay what hospitals can.

Another reason we need vaccine mandates.

Fake news.

It will be "President OCASIO-Cortez."

@copper said in deltacron:

quantum virus

One with many superpositioned variants, and you cannot k kw which one until you’ve already been infected.

@lufins-dad said in Why people are quitting their jobs:

The inflation of the 70’s was in a large way responsible for the explosion of women in the workplace as single income families couldn’t get by. What happens now that we are seeing 70’s type inflation again and there’s nobody left to send into the workplace?

Immigrants and robots.

@jolly said in 15 years ago today:

@copper said in 15 years ago today:

@jolly said in 15 years ago today:

Where will Apple be in 15 years?

They will be engaged in a shooting war with google and amazon. Apple will control most of the land between Portland, OR and Malibu.

Amazon controls everything east of the Mississippi.

Google is mostly guerillas living in the hills.

The area outside the US is a wasteland.

Aqua, there's a novel in there, somewhere...

Eh, William Gibson will beat me to it.

Stacy Abrams yells "the election was stolen". No problem.

Hildabeast yells "the election was stolen". No problem.

Trump says it and it's a fucking insurrection.

@jolly said in Peer-to-peer:

What I don't understand, is that in poll after poll, a vast majority of Americans are for voter ID.
Yet, doing away with it is a perpetual Dem issue.
If you don't have election integrity, you don't have a Republic.

I don't get it either.

The only reason I can think of is they felt it benefited them.

Remember the left having no problem deporting Cubans back to
Cuba? That's because polls showed they overwhelmingly supported conservative policies and would probably vote conservative, if they could vote. Dem's wanted nothing to do with that.

@copper said in In Wuhan, October 2019:

@george-k said in In Wuhan, October 2019:

and so many cases of a mysterious virus afflicted the Canadian team

Maybe they should get tested.

Only if they are BIPOC. Privileged people shouldn’t get tested.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/covid-test-shortage/621149/

I'm not convinced.

I'd be skeptical if somebody would show me photos that look too "car magazine" like.

It's easier to extrapolate what the car actually looks like from "normal" photos.

I'd rather spend time and money to make the car actually look nice, i.e., have it cleaned/detailed properly.

Good questions. The other question is there a way to achieve better outcomes?

Still, in this case I think the felony murder rule was to some degree misapplied. Do their actions meet the letter of the law? Yeah. But these three did not set out to kill someone, and in their minds, they did not intend to commit a crime. Were they stupid and unjustified? Certainly.