Without early diagnosis can we ever really develop an effective early treatment?

George, my compliments. Your Who-Disses always are of faces that are ALMOST familiar; you kinda know, but not quite. Age often changes people til they're unrecognizable.

I assume women pay more into the system in order to take more out.

Of course the weirdo hasn't done that.

@copper said in Black woman promise backfires.:

Nobody is fooling anyone, but the presentation matters. Both presidents did and will pander as needed.

Both Reagan and Trump promised a female in advance of their picks. Reagan, like Joe, when campaigning.

@lufins-dad said in $5,000,000,000,000:

How do you get 10,000,000 deaths from a disease that has an IFR under 1% in a nation of 330 million? At most you could argue 3 million to 3.5 million.

3.5 million from COVID and 6.5 million from arguing their side to death.

And we haven’t learned Jack shit about how to handle this type of pandemic scenario in the future. Everybody is 100% sure that there way is the correct way.

I think we've learned a lot. Remember late March 2020 when no one would even go outside? Then April when we wiped down our groceries?

I heard the NY Times bought out the original site for like $2 million. Which is a shame, since I'm sure eventually it'll get monetized somehow.

Anyway... my wife told me about the Wordle site about 3 weeks ago and I enjoy doing it each morning at 7am. Pretty good stats so far... Just 2 days ago I guessed 4 letters perfectly on the first try and somehow didn't get it until the 4th try. That was disappointing.

WRONG
WRING
WRANG
WRUNG <- Correct

Oh wow, Taylor Kitsch… I had forgotten about the poor guy…

Here he was, a very popular actor that had starred in an extraordinarily well received TV Series, Friday Night Lights. He transitions over to movies and holy hell, he is going to be everywhere.

He is cast to portray one of the most popular Marvel characters in a franchise that looks like it’s going to go on forever and he is starring in the movie with Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, It’s a can’t miss!

At the same time, he get’s the lead role in Disney’s next blockbuster series, John Carter on Mars… This is one of the most popular sci-fi fantasy stories out there, and it’s being backed by frigging Disney! They invested over $360 million! That’s over twice as much as they put into Pirates of the Caribbean! And has the potential for far more sequels.

AND he got the lead in another mega-blockbuster starring with Liam frigging Neeson and is following up on the success of the Transformers franchise! I mean, if those movies could make Shia LePuff a star, imagine Taylor’s future!

For one golden year, this kid was on top of the world and was looking at being the next Harrison Ford or even bigger… Today? Wow…

Has any other lead actor ever bombed as badly?

@jon-nyc said in "You shall not pass!":

Grandma for President!

Is she a US Citizen (natural born, of course)?

I remember it well.

I understand both sides. Lots of farmers are used to using pre-computerized tractors they could work on themselves out in a field. Now they find themselves using computer reliant machines that are beyond their ability to fix, and they forget all the amazing benefits this brings with it when they are broke down in a field and need 50,000$ worth of equipment just to find the problem. From Deere's point of view, they design machines that do amazing things but to do those things the equipment uses technology that requires specialized and very expensive equipment to work on them, in the hands of trained repairman.

Want to have a tractor that uses GPS to drive the tractor and plant a field perfectly? Want to fix it yourself when it breaks? Then take the required training and make the massive investment in test equipment and specialized tools needed to do it. Or, buy a simpler tractor that can be fixed with a hammer and a wrench and do without the sheer wizardry of a modern tractor. Or, if you want the benefits of a modern tractor but don't want to spend the time and money it takes to diagnose and repair it? Then pay someone qualified and equipped to come out and repair it.

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Antifa was propped up with Soros money.

@brenda said in Speaking of Cats...:

@mik said in Speaking of Cats...:

"Oooma ooma ooma let me be your ooma"

Pithy.

Our Cats would be sooooo much better at this whole thing. Not only could she do it, she would do it with class. As the crowds ooohed and aaaahed, clapping wildly, you and Jolly would be nodding and saying, "Oh yeah, she's one of my online buddies. We talk alllll the time."

To badly paraphrase George, I would pay money - not good money, mind you- but money to see that.

Among the biggest underdogs to ever make the Super Bowl…

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-odds-bengals-biggest-underdogs-super-bowl

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But maybe a better comment on the Bengal's offense...

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@jon-nyc said in 7 Myths:

The cabin hit the surface 2 minutes and 45 seconds after breakup, and all investigations indicate the crew was still alive until then.

That’s good to know.

Yes, they were breathing when they hit the water.

I remember there being some discussion of exactly how much oxygen was consumed. And based on that they made guesses about the condition of the crew on impact.

Some astronauts said they believed that Dick Scobee was still attempting to fly the Shuttle on impact. They acknowledged that was wishful thinking but said they thought it was possible and if it was possible, he was doing it. Of course at that point there wasn't much left to fly.

I watched the replays, just after the accident, at Dulles Airport on my way to my grandmother's funeral. Throw in the Patriots Super Bowl loss the day before and that was a really lousy week.