I wholly agree, along with my oft-stated Dumbass Doctrine.

Could only read the first couple of paragraphs due to non-subscription. But looks interesting.

I dont know a whole lot about the subject, but it is interesting that with heat/cold, everything tries to find the middle.

Thinking about the math a little bit ...

Suppose we deliver 200MM doses into people's arms by the 100th day of this new administration, that's roughly 100 million Americans fully vaccinated. Chances are there would be more because the single-dose vaccines are increasingly being used more.

The "100th day" brings us to April 30. The "100 million Americans" figure is roughly the number of all Americans 55 and older. Take out the anti-vaxxers and you can conceivably push that line down to "50 and older."

Once you get to that 50~55 line, it is quite conceivable that you can open eligibility to "all adults."

@taiwan_girl said in History of the Mac OS:

What is determining if the new system is a .XX upgrade or a new whole number upgrade?

Sometimes it’s because the engineers feel like the changes are significant or fundamental in some way. Sometimes it’s because the marketing folks think it’s a good idea. Sometimes it’s the lawyers trying to break some agreements tied to specific version numbers. Overall these things can be quite arbitrary when we looked at from the outside.

Ms. Harris' military abilities will be more than up to the challenge.

Yup, the Chinese economy has grown a super lot consistently over the past 20 years or so.

But it has moved to the point that it needs the "external" or export economy to keep that growth. So, it needs to be shown that any bad moves made by mainland china will have significant economic impact to it.

"If [the husband] is intellectually inclined, and from time to time seeks to explain little things to her . . . "

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Update:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/world/americas/virus-brazil-bolsonaro.html

More than a year into the pandemic, deaths in Brazil are at their peak and highly contagious variants of the coronavirus are sweeping the nation, enabled by political dysfunction, widespread complacency and conspiracy theories. The country, whose leader, President Jair Bolsonaro, has played down the threat of the virus, is now reporting more new cases and deaths per day than any other country in the world.
“We have never seen a failure of the health system of this magnitude,” said Ana de Lemos, the executive director of Doctors Without Borders in Brazil. “And we don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.”
On Wednesday, the country surpassed 300,000 Covid-19 deaths, with roughly 125 Brazilians succumbing to the disease every hour. Health officials in public and private hospitals were scrambling to expand critical care units, stock up on dwindling supplies of oxygen and procure scarce intubation sedatives that are being sold at an exponential markup.

Intensive care units in Brasília, the capital, and 16 of Brazil’s 26 states report dire shortages of available beds, with capacity below 10 percent, and many are experiencing rising contagion (when 90 percent of such beds are full the situation is considered dire.)
In Rio Grande do Sul, the state that includes Porto Alegre, the waiting list for intensive care unit beds doubled over the past two weeks, to 240 critically ill patients.

As it should be.

@horace said in Minnesota Supreme Court Overturned Rape Conviction:

@lufins-dad said in Minnesota Supreme Court Overturned Rape Conviction:

@jolly said in Minnesota Supreme Court Overturned Rape Conviction:

@lufins-dad said in Minnesota Supreme Court Overturned Rape Conviction:

Can an intoxicated woman actually give consent? I'm not talking unconscious. I'm not talking so drunk she can barely stand up. I'm talking about the level where she shouldn't drive home, but can still carry on a conversation....

If the answer is "No", it begs the question of the percentage of sex acts which qualify as rape?

I take this so seriously because a situation like I described ruined my best friend's life. I mean destroyed him.

Any specifics you’re able to share about this, LD?

All I'll say is that everybody was a little inebriated. We could drive but shouldn't have... My date and I left when his date started saying we should all go back to his place. At this point she was sitting in his lap...So we said thanks, but we really have to get going. The next day his college career was over. It never went to criminal charges, but it came damn close to it.

@jolly said in Four Stars:

Two of the stars are not credited.

I wasn't aware of that. I was only aware that my second guess was one of only a few movies that had a ton of stars from that era.

The third one was, I believe....

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Around the World in 80 Days

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But, I wasn't going to guess that one because I knew some of the stars you mentioned weren't in it.

Not at all like that.