shocking

For those who didn't immediately recognize REWC.

LOL. You gotta hand it to him for ingenuity.

This is just amazing. No backup? C'mon, man! Wait, maybe they have it backed up on cassette tapes!

@jon-nyc said in It ain't just Cuomo: @loki That’s ridiculous. It’s not like manufacturing wasn’t continuing during the extra three weeks it took to get approval. Hard to imagine there would have been many more shots in arms by December. That’s rich coming from someone with your quant background. Just look at the U.K. and the impact of one month head start. I know it will never be asked but I also would bet all computer simulations would prove my point even with manufacturing where it was.

That's quite a life.

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@axtremus said in Quick, enter these words in your browser!: Those words work across multiple states because those words fairly accurately describe the realities of those states. You can call it “shaping,” but it’s just the shape of reality.

SOmewhat related to above post, but I am guessing that 200 or more years ago, many many people did not have any ID with them. There probably wasnt such a big thing. And many many people did not know how to read and write. I would think that today, the safety of voting in many ways is probably safer than many years ago. I know in some third world countries, where there are large amount of people who cannot read or do not have ID's, they put a symbol of the party next to the candidate so people know which party they are voting for. And they also dip their thumb in permanent blue or purple ink to mark them so that they can only vote once.

@kluurs said in Papillon: Like you, I read the book when quite young and thought the McQueen version of the movie was a decent representation of it. My exact thoughts.

@copper said in A bill to make DST permanent.: DST makes a lot of sense. It should stay as-is. Somehow this has become either a democrat thing or a hate Trump thing. President Trump seemed to favor DST. I was hoping he would have pushed it forward.

@george-k said in Trump Senate defense: the American people already rejected me: https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-policy/covid-relief-bill-includes-16b-farm-aid-payments he loan forgiveness for Black farmers was debated intensively throughout the markup, with much of the discussion coming from Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., who says the funds would lead to reverse discrimination if USDA would forgive 120% of all outstanding USDA loans for farmers of color. “As this pushes forward, courts have ruled Congress cannot discriminate on race,” Austin Scott says, adding there are no distinction that farmers have to prove discrimination and payments would be based solely on a producers’ skin color. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, filed an amendment to reduce the amount of debt forgiveness from 120% of debt which was included by Chairman Scott to account for the tax consequences of debt relief to 100%. Forgiveness of a debt can be a tax event for the farmers leaving them to bear the burden of the tax liability which is why Scott says the 120% is warranted. Forgiving 120% of loans could also lead to a dangerous precedent, Austin Scott explains. USDA has already settled in the Pigford case which in 1997 and 2010 paid out over $2 billion in discriminatory claims to Black farmers. Because reparations racism. Also because of TDS. Scott and Feenstra are the sort who didn’t register any objection when Trump doled out more than $40B in farm subsidies to bail farmers out of the hole he dug by conducting his stupid “trade war” with China. Pandemic is a much more justifiable reason to dole out subsidies than self-inflicted trade war.

The UK might be a little ahead  

@lufins-dad said in Vaccine choice lol: Craft vaccine? Artisinal, to be sure.

Retired people have time.

Bad decision. Why did SCOTUS refuse the case?