Some of it isn't. You've got some of the DNA-altering stuff, infertility crap and how all the mice died during testing. But some of it is from people who were very reluctant to get the vaccine and have eventually -for various factors - decided to go ahead and get the jab.

Especially that last group of people is why the threads like that need to stay up.

I'm not big on omens but that one would make me a little nervous.

Good enough for baby almonds, good enough for me. A trillion baby almonds can't be wrong. Unless you think there's a huge conspiracy amongst all those baby almonds, all saying it tastes great and helps them grow, because they want to lie to the masses. Lol conspiracy theorists are so dumb. Baby almonds do NOT lie. EVER.

@jolly said in Evacuated Afghan Interpreters Arrived in the USA:

They go into the Witness Protection Program. The first family has already been settled in Louisiana. The man and his wife are going by the names of Arnaud and Clotilde Duplechain. Their kids are T-Bob and Colinda.

They tell people they're from France.

🤣

I read this thread title as "unplanned dumpster fire" and thought you were talking about the Biden presidency. But that's silly, I know the Democrats planned for the destruction of America all along. Sad.

Our current Resident was an 18-wheeler driver, you know...

@george-k said in Capitol Hill Cop Testifies:

@mik said in Capitol Hill Cop Testifies:

It was totally scripted to appeal to emotion rather than fact.

Again, I'm NOT defending these asshats. The emotional aspects of the riot seem to cloud judgment when it comes to actual law.

What are the charges against the 500 or so who have been arrested (and, 7 months later, still incarcerated)?

https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1

The first two (of 74) pages of charges seem to mostly refer to entering restricted grounds, disorderly conduct, violent entry, obstruction of official proceedings, and interfering with police.

You know what words don't appear?

Riot. Sedition. Overthrow. Traitor.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/jan-rioters-traitors-criminal-charges-78811134

The guy who pled guilty (Hodgkins) to a felony got 8 months. I wonder if he got credit for time served.

Meanwhile, a BLM guy who punched a police officer in the face, requiring surgical repair - released on his own recognizance.

At least they get to sing God Bless America from their solitary confinement prison cells every night before lights out. When looking at the charges against them, it becomes very evident that the Biden Administration has turned them into political prisoners. We just haven't gotten to the show trials.

Yet.

If I was the GOP, I would start running campaign ads in select districts, pointing out that equal justice under the law no longer exists. And I would take that hammer and swing it again and again, painting the Dens as freedom-hating, fear mongerers, who no longer believe in the Constitution.

@xenon said in Smoky!:

Last time here, the fires were so bad that staying indoors was recommended.

That’s actually the guidance right now too.

She signed the contract.

The time to ask for more was before she signed.

But if she has been oppressed, she is entitled.

@jolly It could be. But wigs can accommodate the natural hairline nowadays. For film and glitz and glam appearances and so on.

Bastards.

@george-k said in Asking the important questions...:

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It's clearly the right-side option. He's a horse from the waist down.

@george-k said in Covid vaccines and covid rates:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that each variant is less virulent than the one preceding it.

That's the way the biological "incentives" work... (virus's "want" to infect more hosts, but they die if their host dies).

You get maximum virus replications with high virulence and lower lethality.

But mutations are random.

I've been thinking about something part time for some extra investment fun cash. But it sure as hell won't be surveys after that.

Funny you mention that. A good friend is driving up from Texas next month in his Tesla, solo. I mentioned that he should not try to make it in one day and he said it's OK he has auto pilot.

Yikes.

Prince Andrew

@horace said in Stupid people on the interwebz:

The moderation has entirely to do with human direction of the algorithms. This case about "blowing up phones" happens to be a bug, but the political bias in moderation, to the extent any of us wants to admit it exists, is a feature.

It is indeed, but it's still very clunky implementation and it's code that's analyzing the text, not any one person. It's an important distinction.

Viruses gotta virus.

@axtremus said in Australia: using the military to enforce COVID-19 lockdowns:

Australia's Sydney posts record daily rise in COVID-19 cases, seeks military help

people just need to get vaccinated.

But we flattened the curve.

Mission accomplished, forget it, move on.