@kluurs

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https://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/They-protested-Putin-and-fled-their-country-Now-17010445.php

Talks about Ukrainian and Russian anti-Putin dissidents at the U.S.-Mexico border. The gist of it seems to be that Ukrainian and Russian asylum seekers have historically been let in more easily than others (e.g., Latin America asylum seekers), but as a reaction to the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are now making it even easier for the Ukrainians but not for the Russians.

Yeah, that is pretty cool…

@George-K said in Who dis?:

@Catseye3 said in Who dis?:

JFK's thinking, Yeah? . . . Nah!

@jon-nyc would have hit that, in the day.

That day being last Tuesday?

@Doctor-Phibes 😀

@Jolly said in Will nobody rid me of this priest?:

Why are not pushing the drug companies to reformulate current vaccines?

Because the drug companies are already working on this? I read somewhere not long ago that Moderna has started work on a bivalent vaccine that will have also additionally target the Omicron variant.

Why are we not taking a very hard look at natural immunity and how effective or ineffective it is?

Who says we are not? I just read recently a report on post-COVID vs. post-vaccination brain blood clot, that those who acquired immunity the natural way (i.e. infected by SARS-CoV-2) will have higher risk of brain blood clot compared to those who received mRNA vaccines. Certainly shows that people are indeed studying natural immunity.

Why do we not have a standard of care for COVID, with most doctors on the same page?

Two years, mutating virus variants ... is there enough time to settle on one standard of care agreed to by most doctors by this time? How long does it typically take to develop a "standard of care" for a new disease? Recalling some of the new, more recent pandemics, say, AIDS or H1N1 or avian flu or whatever ... how long did it take for the medical community to arrive at a "standard of care"?

@Klaus My mother mainly. lol

@Aqua-Letifer said in The pro-invasion rally:

@bachophile said in The pro-invasion rally:

@Horace I thought that was Donald’s personality

It's why so many Donald fans are also Putin fans.

I think there may be a pattern there.

As Louis CK would say, awesome and hilarious. 😄

@jon-nyc said in Ah-nold:

I also liked the way he used his dad as an example of a good person taken in by propaganda.

Oh and by the way? Do you all know where the bar is for shit like this? Read any and all freaking public remarks, speeches, or PR messages and then compare them to this.

We've a daily diet of gutter trash, but knocking a guy because his comfort food wasn't perfect.

You take a good guitar player with you, same as with somebody who doesn't play piano.

OTOH, if I were you, I'd hone in on what kind of music the lad wants to play. I'd take the wife with y'all. I'd ask to look at appropriate guitars with the salesperson playing a bit on each guitar...Same tunes and I'd play them soft and I'd make him dig into them a bit. Some guitars can sound pretty good at lower volumes, but the sound can mush at higher volumes.

And guitars can be good, but not have a tone you really like. When shopping for my daughter a few years ago, she really thought she wanted a Taylor, but after shopping with my nephew (who I think plays well enough to work as a sideman) she really started to lean towards Martin or Martin-type (Blueridge) guitars.

It's all in what you like and what you want to spend.

Child abuse.

We used to lock people up for shit like this...

@George-K said in On leadership:

Interesting comments from a retired Lieutenant-Colonel

I'll vote for him.

Canada gives you the Keystone Pipeline, Russia gives you the Keystone Cops.

@Mik said in "The Supply Chain Task Force":

It is time.

It must be such a relief after that four year period of incisiveness, direction and competence, to realise that the HONK-HONK guys are back in charge.

15%ers

I saw this story yesterday.

Speculation from the RWEC:

Did China decide it doesn’t want any photo ops right now? If so, one would think they would have communicated that to Lavrov before he left.

It seems more likely that Putin abruptly decided he needed Lavrov back in Moscow. And it must have been important business to justify canceling a trip to Russia’s one last meaningful ally mid-flight.

Or, a third possibility: There’s a power struggle suddenly unfolding in the capital and Lavrov’s presence was urgently needed.

Coincidentally, rumors are swirling that a top military official has been detained by the FSB:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fura.news%2Fnews%2F1052539299

@Horace said in Chrome is Malware?:

Without the invention of the wheel, we wouldn’t have pornhub. It really makes you think.

That's not historically accurate. Pornhub was invented way earlier than the wheel.

When I know I'm going to be doing battle on the phone with weaker minds, I channel Clint Eastwood from El Camino. I've had some fun conversations.