@george-k said in Auntie Maxine: @xenon said in Auntie Maxine: To add more credibility to the story, he should have snapped the picture of her napping without her mask or with no drink in front of her. Good point. To quote a very famous newsman, this could be "fake but accurate." There are hundreds of photos of our betters unmasked when regulations require them in various places - like the White House. Witness Biden in Kentucky recently, hugging everybody in sight. Biden didn't have his mask on...

@mik said in Gordon Ramsey commits heresy in Chicago: $14 FOR A HOT DOG Maybe he's using artisanal British sausages - putting the anal into artisanal rather than the colon into colonial?

@89th said in 10 Christmas Songs That Must Be Cancelled: I did tell her she could be a hammer, though I think my first wife's daddy told her the same thing....


The President is directing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to activate additional staffing and capacity for the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) and FEMA regions, and to mobilize planning teams to work with every state and territory to assess hospital needs ahead of winter surges, and to start expanding hospital bed capacity now—with the federal government paying for all of it. So it's free

@george-k said in SpaceX launches twice in one day: Of the 31 launches, only two flew on brand new rockets That is a big deal

@george-k said in Concerns about Wuhan in 2009.: Hillary Clinton has never spoken publicly of these concerns, but has attacked people bringing them up as racist, and blamed them for attacks on Asian-Americans, without evidence. That's our girl

@aqua-letifer Excellent!! Glad to hear that things are on the upslope!!

Mark to respond to your heresy in 3.....2......1.......

Short Attention Span Theater... But I agree, Ax. Just tell me what they are in bullet points.

The show on CBS last night was fantastic. I highly recommend you find in On Demand, or maybe Youtube.

In fairness to US Foods, who my wife has sold to in a couple jobs over 35 years, their shipping and overhead costs require that they not sell in certain quantities. Otherwise they end up with bunches of broken cases and have to pay staff to do the counting and repackaging. She had to sell in or put together truckloads at a certain minimum and that was before there was a truck shortage. But yeah, it's tough for small business.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59734747 The millipede, known as Arthropleura, is thought to have been more than 2.5m (8ft) long. It would have weighed about 50kg (eight stone). The fossil segment was first spotted in 2018 when a large block of sandstone fell on to a beach at Howick Bay. It will be displayed in Cambridge's Sedgwick Museum next year. "It was a complete fluke of a discovery," said Dr Neil Davies, from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences, who has been analysing the 75cm-long fossil. "The way the boulder had fallen, it had cracked open and perfectly exposed the fossil, which one of our former PhD students happened to spot when walking by," Dr Davies said. Eight. Feet. Long.

That’s awesome.

@taiwan_girl said in Get your shots people!: Woke up this morning to a group text from friends that a friend from the US (actually more of an aquaintance since I did not know her that well) had passed from COVID. She got COVID and went into the hospital about 10 days ago. When I last got an update at the end of last week, she was still in the hospital but they were talking about her being almost well enough to release. Unfortunately, that was not the case. I am not sure of her age, but if I am guessing, i think she was between 55-60 and as far as a know, she did not have any underlay health conditions. And unfortunately yes, she was unvaccinated. I'm really sorry to hear that, TG. It's a terrible way to go.

Good reason to ditch carpet.

@89th said in If God Made a Sammich: I don't like mushrooms, though. I've always secretly suspected that mushrooms are actually elf shit. People say there's no such thing as elves. Well, how do you explain all that shit growing on my lawn, then?