I did say 'relatively'.

😂

Of course it is. The industry has completely imploded.

@Improviso said in What happened and why...:

As Jolly posted in another thread.

So...If there is no FISA warrant, there is only ONE person in government who can do this surveillance legally.

Unless, as McCarthy wrote a few days ago, there was a "friendly nation" which did the surveillance, with a "wink and a nod" from the US.

@George-K
Yes, it is correct.

This will get used in somebody's classroom. 😁

@Axtremus said in The unconscious bias in virtual meetings and how to avoid it.:

@George-K said in The unconscious bias in virtual meetings and how to avoid it.:

“For example, when the virtual background of a Zoom meeting attendee has pictures of his or her wedding, it unintentionally reinforces the idea that marriage is most fitting between opposite sexes.”

In the background of a Zoom meeting, had he just use a picture of a massive orgy with many sexes, including transgenders, many skin colors and skin tones, a few amputees, small people, obese people, broad based representation from the barely legal to the nonagenarian, from the atheist to the Catholic priest ... that would be very inclusive and not at all biased or triggering, thus totally appropriate.

You've just given me a fantastic quitting idea.

@Axtremus said in I voted yesterday:

I went to a bank with a black face mask on. I looked like the classic movie portrayal of a bank robber. The bank employee checked my government issued picture ID, but never asked to see my face, and let me did all the banking business I went there to do anyway.

Ax, didn't they notice the gun??
"...and let me did..."
Ax, are you drunk? It's so unlike you to both forget your gun AND ruin the language.

@taiwan_girl said in The Wiki:

What is bias?

” not using wiki for”President Trump or President Obama.

Exactly. And anyone plagiarizing a paper on one of the President’s is guaranteed an A by the prof.

Interesting article. Makes me realize how fragile the "eyewitness" accounts of history are.

Good interview. Always a treat to hear from a normal person.

@George-K said in Remember all the insults and scorn cast on Liberty University?:

Behind the WSJ paywall, so I'm copying from a blog: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-education-of-jerry-falwell-jr-11589824107

How it must hurt to have to admit: Jerry Falwell Jr. was right.

OK, he was right.

For the moment

Not forever

Because COVID!

McCarthy was saying this yesterday.

@George-K said in "You're damn right we're buying the hydroxycholorquine":

Disclaimer, I am completely agnostic as to the effectiveness of this drug.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/19/uk-to-test-hydroxychloroqine-as-coronavirus-treatment?utm_source=POLITICO.EU&utm_campaign=3b36160ced-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_20_06_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10959edeb5-3b36160ced-190121793

Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug being taken by Donald Trump as an unproven protection against coronavirus, is being bought in bulk by the UK in case it does turn out to be an effective Covid-19 treatment.

Ministers are seeking 16m tablets in packets of up to 100 as part of a £35m contract put out to tender on Friday.

The drug is being tested by government scientists, health officials said. They are securing additional supplies so it can be distributed among the population if required.

The contract, which was uploaded to a government website on 15 May, is an “open opportunity” for pharmaceutical suppliers to supply more than 33m tablets of various drugs between June and next January.

There is no evidence hydroxychloroquine can prevent coronavirus, and regulators have warned the drug could cause heart problems.

If anything works, it will be the cocktail with zinc and a z-pack.

You're just showing off that you listened to the whole thing.

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Unsalvageables:

@taiwan_girl said in The Unsalvageables:

The writer seemed like someone who was trying to hard to be "cool" and make his point in a style that was too much for me at least..

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A picture paints a thousand words 😆

Kill the messenger.

First time, every time.

Got any thoughts on what the messenger had to say?

@George-K said in Cannabis may prevent covid-19 infection according to new study:

@Axtremus I was referring to ethanol taken internally.

Would that be much different from Grant's?

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I think it is interesting with franchise companies.

On one side, they say that each store is not owned by them, so they have no control over (certain) things in the store.

On the other side, stores have to follow pretty strict requirements and rules that are put out by the main company, are they cannot be a franchise.