The textbook/fart story had me laughing so hard that I teared up...

@jolly said in The Fall of the Gatekeepers?: @aqua-letifer said in The Fall of the Gatekeepers?: Gatekeepers are a problem for luddite boomers who still only watch CNN and Fox because they haven't yet learned about blogs and YouTube. And that's where you're wrong. You're making the mistake, that because you are plugged in, everybody is. Except for older people. Except for the very poor, everyone else can get plugged in too. Even then people are working on bridging the digital divide for the poor. Being "old" is not a good excuse for letting yourself be the prisoner of one or two media outlets.

I believe that he will go back and forth and what he will do. This will maximize the interest and press news about him.

@doctor-phibes said in Covid cases continue to plunge: @copper said in Covid cases continue to plunge: It was predicted by just about everyone who thought the whole thing was just a hoax concocted to trash Mr. Trump. Idiots, you mean. I, uh, hate to judge before all the facts are in

Excellent. It gives you a lot more choices.

It looks like a mosquito.

@jon-nyc said in Well Crap...: @copper said in Well Crap...: CNU is a good place. But, if he goes there, you will learn to hate I-95 even more. FIFY. He lives in NoVa. No way he doesn’t already hate it. Anyone who has ever driven that road hates it.

I just wonder what’s going to happen as McDonalds continues to replace people with robots, accelerated by the living wage movement. I mean will there be a diversity requirement that states robots can only be a certain percentage of the workforce?

@klaus said in Generators: Wouldn't it make sense to have a generator combined with a battery? That way one could have very high peak power but still get by with a small generator, no? Cost, I would imagine. Good deep-cycle batteries like you see with a solar set-up are expensive.

Incorrect sentencing. Treat her like a man who doped up a kid and assaulted a child.

@lufins-dad said in NYC dumps Trump: At an insanely stupid cost. Just read that the Trump organization's contracts with NYC are in excess of $40MM.

@jon-nyc said in Tax Relief from the Biden administration: But, on principle, don’t make me pay taxes on my taxes. Conservatives used to believe in this principle. Now they need the Democrats to bail them out.

@klaus said in But, I repeat myself....: Actually, I am looking for a lawyer. Got any suggestions? Better Call Saul.

About the same as George's, but the door swings out. Mostly dry goods, soup, peanut butter, cereal, chips, juice, pasta, nuts. There is a second one that is about the same size just around the corner in the master bedroom, that holds paper supplies.

If not for the agreement about fixed wing, I bet the Army would love it. It fits a lot of the mission profile of the old Bronco, but with a lot more ordinance.

Wrong focus. The best time to use these drugs are early in the disease process in the most at-risk patients. I'd like to see a study on that...

@jon-nyc said in On Cuomo and Nursing Homes: @loki Right but the policy predates the FEMA hospitals and the navy ship. Could very well be that the reversal of the policy came way too late but I’ll bet the damage was heavily front loaded. You are getting a sense of our allocation of resources now to nursing homes. Care at end stage. You know we could add it to the list, free college, free healthcare, UBI, massive upgrade of end stage care. We will see who has the appetite to look real close there.