The tweet chain was from a week before Halloween. It is possible to that there have been improvements since then. However, two weeks ago there were still a high number of ships waiting off the shoreline of San Diego and weren’t getting counted in their numbers. Claiming success at this point is like pointing at the weekend drop in Covid numbers and claiming we’re winning!

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Hilary, Booker, Deval Patrick come to mind.

Norton got 24 months. Hitting a federal officer with a baseball bat. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1290448414266793988?s=20

@jon-nyc said in Hey Jon!: I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been tempted. When they get the 200 VC might be my time. My guess is that they'll just discontinue the 200. IIRC, they used to have a 180, then 200, and then 225cm. Now they have 185, 215, and 235, which roughly corresponds to the A,B,C sizes of Steinway. The jump from 185 to 215 is bigger than between Steinway A and B, but I wouldn't be surprised if they just drop the 200 size.

@axtremus said in Detroit area city inaugurates all Muslim council: [Mayor elect] Ghalib said … "We are proud of our beliefs and values. But we are not going to try and impose them on others." Except when they do At last week’s city council meeting, several residents of the Hamtramck Senior Plaza apartments on Holbrook complained about the volume level of the call to prayer coming from the Ideal Islamic Center, located across from the apartment complex. Jeanette Powell said she’s not complaining as a way to “bash anyone’s religion.” She said the call or prayer was broadcast at 6 a.m. and found the volume “overbearing.” “Just turn it down a little bit.” Carol Marsh said not only was the call to prayer too loud, she insisted that the organizers of the center never said it would serve as a mosque. “We were lied to,” she said. “We were told it would never be turned into a mosque.” But Sakrul Islam of the center said no one ever said it would not be a mosque, saying an Islamic center “covers everything.”

I didn’t laugh as much as with most of his previous specials but it was good to see him.

@bachophile said in How Southern Are You?: I’ve had chicken liver. At the southern end of NY state. That’s about it. Pig liver soup is one of my favorites. Alot of the foods listed I did not know what they were, so am not sure if I ever had some form of them but we called it something else.

@mik said in Imagination: I like the hammer and the taping tool, although I never though drywall taping was difficult. I suppose if you were doing a lot it would be a timesaver. It looks like one of those "white out" things that covers mistakes on paper! LOL

Yup, people will use their race when it is to their advantage. People say: "We want to be treated equal and everyone should be colorblind" But also say: "Wait, when making the new election districts, this one does not have enough (whites/blacks/spanish/asians, etc). You must remake it to get more/less of that color into the district!!!!"

@copper said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em: There are reasonable people who disagree. Yeah, there are a ton of reasonable people out there who think that health and safety in the workplace is a bad idea, as is wearing a safety belt. They're everywhere.

that is why it is so important that the US look outward rather than inward. Very very important to engage with other countries at times like this. Isolationism would be the wrong response at a time like this.

@copper said in Windows 11: The file explorer default font looks slightly different, but maybe not. I think it's a slightly different flavor of the Segoe UI font they've used for a while. Also looks 1 pt smaller, too.

"the 6 means 30" really made me LOL for real......... haha that was great

Well, y’know, Bay Area and all that….

@bachophile said in "Greyhound": US Navy tweeted this Sorry @USArmy, @tomhanks is finally one of ours now. Jim Lovell was Navy (Apollo 13)

@friday said in Once upon a time in med school...: So.....how are you supposed to present the case? "Mr. Barnhardt is a 56 year old person who identifies as 'male'." " Mr. Barnhardt is a 56 year old Non-POC male." "Mr. Barnhardt is a male who declines to state his age" "Mr. Barnhardt is a person who declines to state their age" "Edward Barnhardt is a person who declines to state their age" So. Many. Possibilities.

The only major tv streaming alternative is Hulu - owned by Disney. Many streaming services are planning on raising prices this year (including Hulu I think). Google could have taken the cost increase and passed it onto customers - but this is an interestingly hard stance by them. I’m sure they’re going to lose many subscribers over this. I don’t subscribe to YouTube Tv, but I sort of admire the move.

Kinda chubby but I'd hit it. Not with anything short though...

That was funny, but sad that people do that.