Watching that video....including the guy who has to put on a hazmat suit and crawl through attics cleaning up old toxic dust... makes me very much appreciate my current job.

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Google translates it to 'fak'. In any event it's a great mental picture that I suspect doesn't mean what the South Koreans think.

@george-k said in The "infrastructure" bill: related social impacts Huh?

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It would sure as hell stop me.

More stuff in the report: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/a-compelling-case-for-covids-lab-leak-origin The Wuhan Institute of Virology came on the U.S. radar in January 2018 after State Department officials visited the lab and were alarmed by the lack of proper personnel and protocol to operate a high-containment laboratory safely. These cables also warned WIV was working on bat coronaviruses that could ignite a pandemic similar to the 2002 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak, which also originated from a Chinese lab leak. Fast forward to Sept. 12, 2019, when WIV’s online database of virus samples suddenly disappeared from WIV’s computers and has not been found since. In the weeks following the data disappearance, searches for “cough” spiked in the Wuhan area on Chinese search engines, and satellite data shows parking lot volume at five hospitals close to WIV also reached daily highs. Then on Oct. 18, 2019, athletes from around the world arrived in Wuhan for the Military World Games. A Luxembourg participant described Wuhan as a “ghost town” while there. He found it odd officials took his temperature when he arrived at the airport. A Canadian athlete reported the city “was in lockdown” — in October 2019. He recounted he and 60 of his colleagues became sick 12 days after they arrived. Athletes from Italy, Brazil, Sweden, and France also complained of COVID-like symptoms while in Wuhan. Each of these countries has since documented COVID-19 cases in their country before the outbreak became public in January 2020. In short, the Military World Games in Wuhan appears to have been the world’s first superspreader event.

Stalker.

@horace said in Puzzle time: Compression: I don't think so. It's tempting to say that if the compressed size was larger, you'd just switch to an identity compression algorithm, but you'd have to add info to the 'identity compressed' data to indicate that it's unaltered from the original. That information can't be carried at zero size. That’s why I added the condition that it cannot be even one bit larger. With one extra bit it would be trivial, as you describe.

@aqua-letifer said in Alternative Video Site: Odysee: Then practice what you preach and actually do it yourself then. The "do it yourself" part comes in only when you don't like the existing platforms. By and large, I like the existing platforms just fine. After all, I'm not the one whining about being treated "unfairly" by the existing platforms or, for that matter, asking the federal government to force the private enterprises that operate these platforms to carry specific types of speeches in the name of defending liberty.

Hilarious Aqua.

A few decades ago, a woman who worked for me took her sister and nephew down to Disneyworld. She bought her nephew a cap pistol and caps. Coming through security, the TSA person asked her why she had a gun in her luggage. "I don't have a gun," was her replay, not thinking about the toy cap pistol. Her sister then asked, "Joan, why do you have a gun in your luggage?" It ended up with the toy pistol being confiscated - but even better they brought a bicycle box to remove the "incendiaries" (i.e. caps). Made for a memorable trip.

Know any student in the same university that he can ask? Using only the information given, Microsoft Surface Pro with a Surface Pen (for hand-written note taking) might best fit the bill. Consider installing remote access software on the PC such that he can tap into his PC when needed.

@doctor-phibes said in Fox fires Judge Nap: Maybe he should have tried speaking French or Italian or something to the guy in the lift. That's who I was talking about, the guy in the lift. Though you're right about the Gomez thing.

@george-k said in Spiked: A top editor at the New York Times instructed Times staffers not to investigate the origins of COVID-19, two Times employees confirmed today. ‘In early 2020,’ a veteran Times employee tells me, ‘I suggested to a senior editor at the paper that we investigate the origins of COVID-19. I was told it was dangerous to run a piece about the origins of the coronavirus. There was resistance to running anything that could suggest that [COVID-19 was manmade or had leaked accidentally from a lab].’ The global pandemic was then in its early stages. Donald Trump was running for reelection and calling SARS-CoV-2 the ‘Chinese virus’. His secretary of state Mike Pompeo had told ABC’s This Week in May 2020 that he had seen ‘significant’ and ‘enormous evidence’ of the virus originating in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A few weeks later, Sir Richard Dearlove, the ex-head of Britain’s MI6 spy service agreed: ‘I subscribe to the theory…that it’s an engineered escapee from the Wuhan Institute [of Virology].’ Yet the Times, according to two well-placed sources, refused to investigate the biggest story of our time. Instead, senior editors are alleged to have suppressed efforts to probe the virus’s origins, and the Times led the charge to dismiss any questioning of the WHO’s now-discredited line as conspiracist or even ‘racist’. ‘It was considered a conspiracy theory,’ confirms a second Times insider who was in a senior position on a different section at the time, and also proposed an investigation. ‘It was untouchable everywhere. The fact that Trump embraced it, of course, also made it a no-go.’ ‘The idea was considered dangerous,’ my first source agreed. They suggest that the Times’s editors weren’t motivated by domestic politics in an election year, or even by a hatred of Donald Trump that ran so deep as to dispose them to trust the WHO and the Chinese government over the Trump administration. Sounds about right. But Fox does it too, dontchaknow.