@89th said in Texas Public Schools and Mask Mandates: @axtremus said in Texas Public Schools and Mask Mandates: A central Texas school system shutdown after two staff members died of COVID-19. "It was not immediately known if either teacher was vaccinated." Umm, I can make a pretty good guess on that answer. I wouldn't. While the deaths are overwhelmingly unvaccinated, there are some who are. I know of a few, personally. They're burying a 55 year-old down the road from me today...Saw the hearse about 30 minutes ago...

Toilet water infused connections by any name smell as sweet.

Really good. Otherwise what normal person would run for office?

Indeed I hadn't heard of that. What a nightmare!

Poodles are very smart.

It was misinformation, so an account deletion was mandatory.

Or a vaccine that doesn't work against it!

Geraldo said on The Five yesterday that FOX News had made sure they got their interpreter and his family out of Afghanistan. It was a private effort, not necessarily coordinated with the government. He also said most of the other networks had done the same.

@lufins-dad said in Let’s talk cookware: I could see paying 2-3 times more for the All-Clad but 5-6 times the cost of a Cuisanart set? From what I can see, both seem to cook about as well, but the All-Clad lasts forever and the Cuisinart will be replaced every 6-7 years. Does that seem accurate to those of you that own the respective pieces? Wait for a good sale on the All-Clad. Use the W-S card for an additional discount on top of the sale price. Layer the discounts, and do this while you're still young enough to get many years of use from it. (Don't wait until you're an old fart like ... ahem.)

Defense of the study. https://www.livescience.com/randomized-trial-shows-surgical-masks-work-curbing-covid.html US researchers involved. Currently being peer reviewed. Looks like we may get an answer.

“ Bowlds said that inserting F-35 aggressors into Red Flag made things "more challenging because there is a little bit of an unknown in terms of what they are going to be able to do." That’s fair… Even the F-35 pilots don’t know what the planes are going to be capable of this day… “ "It is challenging, even flying the Raptor, to have good [situational awareness] on where the F-35s are," he said.” It can be extremely challenging since you don’t know if the Pilot has passed out or not, so who knows where the damn thing is…

@george-k said in Who dis?: [image: 1630535077029-screen-shot-2021-09-01-at-5.24.15-pm.png] George.

Liz. Nice.

@george-k So why didn’t they do XYZ axial X-rays to find the bullet rather than jabbing around in his cranium?

You can find a list of her many -- very many -- proposed reforms here: https://www.gothamgazette.com/city/8641-25-things-tiffany-caban-has-promised-to-do-as-queens-district-attorney Many what she's calling decline-to-prosecute crimes, including resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and possession of gravity knives. Don't you especially love that resisting arrest one?

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@renauda said in The Pivot -- Afghanistan and the Three Global Powers: Read this: Thanks, Renauda. For me very informative. And very interesting! What a mare's nest for Russia. They'll have their hands full. You have to wonder if a more honest reaction to the US withdrawal is mixed rather than joyous; at least the Taliban were too busy to give the Russians much grief when we were there. But that may be naive on my part.

Heavy winds just started in NY. We’re supposed to get them here in Cape Cod tomorrow.

@george-k said in Burn in hell, Joe!: @doctor-phibes said in Burn in hell, Joe!: I'm thinking more of the families of the dead soldiers seeing people making up funny gotcha's two days later. I get your point. Have you read the comments by the families of the dead soldiers? How self-absorbed Biden's comments were, how he kept looking at his watch (not once, but several times)? He deserves all the scorn they expressed. I listened to the interview with the father this morning. He was somewhat less negative about Biden. It doesn't sound as though he knew what to do. This really shouldn't be happening at all, of course.