But on the other hand, a false negative is really no worse than not testing at all. Really no downside to testing. It will catch some people who are positive, even if only a small amount. (Having said that, I am among large gatherings and do not test any more)

No doubt an 80 year old Indiana Jones will save the world again. It’s Hollywood propaganda to make you feel better about having an 80 year old President.

I spent a couple of days with our large animal vet in Wisconsin. He always told me that cows are smarter than horses. "If a horse gets tangled in some barbed wire fencing he'll struggle like crazy until he bleeds out or gets too exhausted to fight. A cow will just stand there, knowing that, eventually, someone will show up to set it free."

@jon-nyc said in Fired for being white: Right, but the explicit racial element here makes it different. That's true. They explicitly said that his race is an issue. I wonder what his lawyers think. [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FuHMWRDYFXkauA%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=e99c9ae1e2f9ea37e62be4196aac9366f716004a4b44ef35f7462856306133c5&ipo=images]

@Mik said in On the road again…: To Winston Salem for T-Day at The Princess’s place. I used to be a machine packing. Literally 3 minutes. That muscle has atrophied. As you get older, lots of things atrophy. Have a good trip!

@Aqua-Letifer The fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese in 1941 is, along with the Dieppe raid in 1943, painfully etched into the Canadian national consciousness.

That was fun. Got the first 16 (which I guess is easier since there are larger gaps early on). Some dates I'm surprised I still remembered so clearly, while other events I was WAY off on, such as the founding of the NSA or NATO.

@Horace said in Hollywood Legs Trivia: I'm not aware of ever having heard of her. That makes two of us.

Always eye roll worthy when people who identify with an "oppressed" group get self righteous about tragic stuff that happens to other people who identify with that same group, and they start yelling and screaming, confident and secure that nobody will tell them to shut up while they are having their victim-by-association tantrum. Meanwhile, Pete's life is a privilege-fest, and it always has been but for some sads as a teenager, as he came to terms with his attraction to men. As crosses to bear go, that's barely one of them anymore, except maybe for cowards who make it a much bigger deal than it ever needed to be.

Blasphemy, pure and simple. That'll get a ticket straight to Hell.

@jon-nyc said in Popcorn time - Tax edition: It’s not up to them. Treasury hands them over. Trump was trying to delay until Jan 3. Ah, I was not aware.

@jon-nyc said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...: @Jolly said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...: @taiwan_girl said in Funny, I haven't seen this before...: 700 police injured. At least 11 people killed. $1.2B damage Vs. 140 police injured (I think that's inflated, but let's go with it). 1 person killed (unarmed, violently breaking through a door towards where the congressmen were) $1.5M damage Yes, I can certainly see how those figures are equal.. NNTTM. But keep in mind the macro picture doesn't really matter for any one individual's criminal proceeding, it's about what they themselves did. And the fact that they did this at the Capitol threatening elected officials actually does matter to individual criminal proceedings. English Common Law vs. Napoleonic Code. If we were under NC, that argument would work. English Common Law, not so much.

Spoken like a true partisan hack...

THat's a hell of a dovetail!

Half of Canada's population lives south of the red line. [image: 1669139520619-image.png]