@lufins-dad This is one of the best explanations of efficacy I've read. Also talks about how the numbers among various manufacturers are a bit apples and oranges. https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-vaccine-efficacy-explained.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

@jolly said in Bee Mine: This time, though, the more likely cause is the Covid-driven 2020 economy With the above quote (and being completely ignorant about bees), if the honey is not cleaned out of their nest, does the colony kind of dye off? I’m just wondering why the economy would affect the number of the colonies? Second, I thought that maybe it was a fungus that was causing the deaths?

@horace

Why does she need a small SUV? Why not a medium sized sedan? I get better storage/trunk space in a Camry than I do a RAV4, more leg space in the interior, and it’s a lot more comfortable drive...

@bachophile said in Countless deaths from the vaccine: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-vaccines-skeptic/ In normal times a guy liked that was shunned and became voiceless. Now a significant number of idiots will believe him.

The good thing is they came together and found common ground, which benefitted everyone.

@george-k said in Someone pulled the shades (or turned off the lights): https://twitter.com/NickReisman/status/1380681832224657413?s=20 Oh G....

Do you believe there is a scenario where the GOP is still largely in love with Trump and a Trump does not run? That is the only scenario a non-Trump who is/was closely associated with Trump can win the GOP nomination. Once the GOP falls out of love with Trump, everyone who was closely associated with Trump would be tainted by Trump and would not win the nomination because of the Trump stain anyway. Pence, Hawley, Cruz, Carson, Graham, Rubio, Pompeo, Paul, Greene, etc., ... none of them have a path around those two scenarios.

@aqua-letifer said in Defectors: @lufins-dad said in Defectors: Yeah... So much more offensive than the outright lies about the Georgia election law... So much more more offensive than the way that DeSantis is being slandered... Everything's okay as long as you can point to something worse from the other side, is that how this works? When are we going to stop keeping score and get back to critical thinking? After the bullets fly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-fundraising-trump/2021/04/10/6bd53032-993f-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has raised $3.2 milliom in her first quarter as a first-year House Representative, a historical record (yes, exceeded even AOC’s first year, first quarter record). Greene’s staff further highlighted that 98% of donations are less than $200 a piece.

@mik forwarded to D2.

@jolly said in Cause of death: It's still a homicide. Put the shoe on the other foot...Would your comment be the same if BLM had committed B&E at the Capitol in 2015 and a black woman had been shot and killed? Really? You're asking me that, are you serious?

If you want to take selfies in the Capitol, you have to pay the price.

@doctor-phibes said in It's the little things.: @jolly said in It's the little things.: You know some musicians who are doing well in this environment? I know a few who are breaking even for the first time in their lives Because they're making money in other ways or they just aren't going in the hole playing music?

I haven't got a PC up to the task of playing the good flight sims - I'm busy saving for an upgrade. I have been playing a space game - to give you an idea of the immersion, I got into a battle, and after damage you get a lot of smoke simulated in the cockpit. I honestly thought I could smell the smoke, to the point that I took the goggles off to check it wasn't my PC.

@lufins-dad said in 20 Mass Shootings in Two Weeks Since Atlanta Spa Attack: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9448293/2-children-5-killed-South-Carolina-shooting.html?ito=push-notification&ci=121922&si=7675544&ai=9448293 I've had two concussions...

@george-k said in Anti-Black Hate Crimes: From the soon-to-be-deplatformed Kevin Drum. https://jabberwocking.com/anti-black-hate-crimes-have-plummeted-in-the-us/ Deplatformed? Probably. It's certainly an inconvenient truth that does not fit the narrative...

@lufins-dad I don't argue. If that's what happened, then that's what happened. But systemically, in a criminal trial, you can't justify a decision until both sides have presented -- be it this or any other trial. It's only just, only fair.