Luke’s girlfriend was over last night. Me: Luke, is your sense of taste getting better? Luke: A little. Me: Hannah, how about your taste? Hannah: Oh, I never had COVID... Why do you ask? Me: Well, I figured you must have lost your taste if you started dating Luke... ... ... Luke: You do realize that one day you are going to be connected to life support, and the decision will be in my hands, right?

When our place opened a new building, with new ORs, the heart surgeons were insistent on having a good sound system installed. Being insistent ≠ being smart. The speakers were positioned on the walls, toward the foot of the OR table. So, anyone standing at the table would hear everything from one ear, depending on whether they were standing to the right or left of the patient. However, the gas-passer would face the foot of the table, so he would be facing both speakers. A much more satisfactory audio experience as far as heart surgery goes. Just sayin'. This guy also liked Mason Williams, I might add.

@copper said in Masks & Food: Your wife Don't forget your wife Separation of church and state...

@klaus said in Twitter suspends another. Why?: Twitter as somehow protecting child sex crimes. I posted a story about a week ago about Twitter not suspending someone who posted, er, suggestive videos of a teenager. When the parents contacted Twitter, they were told that this was "not a violation of their policies." They're suing. You're right, this might be it.

@horace Fair enough.

@george-k Yeah. Even Trump knows there aren’t any good people in the Confederate states.

WSJ: A surveillance judge clarifies that the FBI can falsify evidence without much fear of punishment. The government employees of the “resistance” who never accepted Donald Trump as our president have finally performed a useful public service. Together with the judges of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, they have demonstrated for all Americans how easy it is to turn the spying tools of the federal government against domestic political opponents. Even after the Obama-appointed inspector general of the Department of Justice found “at least 17 significant errors or omissions” in a series of approved surveillance warrant applications to spy on Trump associate Carter Page—and even after a criminal conviction of an FBI attorney for doctoring an email to make it appear that the patriotic Mr. Page had never assisted U.S. intelligence—the FISA judges are still refusing to apply any significant punishment to the government officials who misled them.

Has to do with the X-Waiver... https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/14/trump-admin-nearly-all-doctors-buprenorphine/ Bach and George can weigh in if they wish...

@doctor-phibes said in Best small town in every state: @jolly said in Best small town in every state: they have a helluva golf course I guess there's a down-side to every area. Well, they also have a haunted antebellum mansion.

Chagrined could be one word. Stupidly reactionary might be another.

Innovation occurs at the lower levels. Where someone actually wants or has to do something.

OK, I cooked it down substantially today and added chipotle pepper and more cumin. Now tastes more like chili and less like beef stew.

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@george-k said in Six Dead: @moonbat said in Six Dead: If it's 99% of the air you breathe you die pretty quickly. That's more than obvious. I want to understand how such a high FiN2 occurred in the first place. If a liquid nitrogen container suddenly depressurises then liquid nitrogen gets turned into nitrogen gas. A litre of liquid nitrogen at 90 Kelvin (roughly 50 moles) turns into 1200 litres of nitrogen gas at 298 Kelvin. If this happens in an enclosed space people are in big trouble. It's why being in a lift with a cannister of liquid nitrogen is forbidden.

That's what they said about gunpowder.

Update As early as Monday, February 1, the SpaceX team will attempt a high-altitude flight test of Starship serial number 9 (SN9) – the second high-altitude suborbital flight test of a Starship prototype from our site in Cameron County, Texas.

@doctor-phibes said in This means war...: @copper said in This means war...: How long before China names an aircraft carrier after Mr. Biden? I doubt they'll make that mistake. The Russians named one The Donald J. Trump, but it inexplicable fired a high explosive shell at itself and is currently resting at the bottom of the harbour after exploding spectacularly. Unverified reports suggest that Russian intelligence continues to detect, from time to time, faint radio signals from the bottom of that harbor that decodes to Internet packet trying to reach Twitter.

@brenda that is really neat what you do there!!

That article isn't correct. Rochester's population is well over 100,000 now.