@Aqua-Letifer you're right. I started doing audiobooks in the late 1990s. It's amazing how horrible some of them were. We are (heh) decades beyond that.

Which also makes India's score even funnier.

@jon-nyc said in US has a shitload of cases: @jon-nyc said in US has a shitload of cases: @jon-nyc said in US has a shitload of cases: 1,305,544 up 1.9%. Deaths 78,618 up 2.2% 1,345,307 up up 1.5%. Deaths 80,239 up 1% 1,366,350 up 1.6%. Deaths 82,105 up 2.3% 1,413,012 up 1.7%. Deaths 85,581 up 2.1% 1,439,434 up 1.9%. Deaths 87,204 up 1.9%. 1,464,057 up up 1.7%. Deaths 88,473 up 1.5% 1,486,375 up 22,318 or 1.5%. Deaths 89,549 up 1076 or 1.2%. 1,504,386 up 18,011 or 1.2%. Deaths 90,194 up 645 or 0.72 1,524,107 up 19,721 or 1.3%. Deaths 91,661 up 1467 or 1.6% 1,548,646 up 24,539 or 1.6%. Deaths 93,163 up 1502 or 1.6%. 1,573,742 up 25,096 or 1.6%. Deaths 94,566 up 1403 or 1.5%. 1,596,633 up 22,891 or 1.5%. Deaths 95,847 up 1281 or 1.4%. 1,618,471 up 21,838 or 1.4%. Deaths 96,875 up 1028 or 1.1%. One week later: 1,765,723. Daily average increase: 21,036 Compound Daily Growth Rate: 1.25% One week later: 1,925,356 Daily average increase: 22,804, 8% higher than last week. Compound Daily Growth Rate (total cases) 1.24% (To be clear, the daily average this week is 8% greater than the daily average of last week [22807/21036]. The compound daily growth rate is the growth rate of total cases, so growth off the ~1.9MM base)

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Yep. I put it in another thread as the Overton window being pushed past more and more reasonable things that most of us think but are afraid to say. The relentless encroachment onto our ability to say reasonable things out loud is a large part of why Trump won in 2016. People to whom it never occurs to say anything against the progressive party line are quite lucky in this regard. Their brains are fit for our current society. But one can't choose one's brain, and some of us have a slightly more difficult choice to make.

@89th said in Last woman receiving a Civil War pension dies: Imagine the person Civil War Division of 375 people, in the Dept of VA who’s like “finally, I can close the Civil War account”

Please let me know when the manicurist is available

That exhibit features interestingly in this book [image: 1591463693666-83c050d8-933d-48e2-9539-6ecc21222b86.jpeg] The diver used the exhibit in Chicago to memorize the setup of a u boat to insure his safety while diving the wreck.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Cuomo’s ‘Say their names’ reform agenda: @Catseye3 said in Cuomo’s ‘Say their names’ reform agenda: Having had some time to react, I'm really pissed off about that big-ass yellow lettering on the street in front of the White House. It is surreally awful. It needs to be disappeared -- which it will pretty soon, when enough traffic has rolled over it. Then it will be a big faded dirty yellow blotch. In front of the People's House. It's still a block or three away from the White House. And the guy occupying the building shares a big part of the blame for it being there. He's done nothing to fix this. Absolutely nothing. That is utter bull shit. Tell me exactly why it was his responsibility to fix it in the first place? Obama was there for 8 years, what the hell did HE do to fix it? Nothing. But he did a hell of a lot to drive a wedge in things. Trump put more blacks to work, created more business opportunities in black neighborhoods, than any president before him. By what right do these loud mouthed, spoiled little shit boxes out "protesting" go out and tear it all down and then bitch that it Trumps fault? Blacks utilizing the worst part of their culture, unable or unwilling to control themselves like civil humans, white kids trying to copy their thug culture, blacks who rage about racism when not a single one of them have the slightest fucking clue what racism even is, who have been taught by a crippled society that they are entitled and are owed something, a situation that took decades to create - you tell me how that is somehow Trump's fault!! I'm fucking sick to death with all of it. Not a damned one of them are principled protesters. Every fucking one of them is a self important, entitled dickwad just out taking advantage of another opportunity to go out and vent their pent up rage over being such a useless sack of meat.

@Jolly To me, that doesn't make sense. I don't think that the Democrat are in love with Vice President Pence. Anyway, I looked up the definition of coup "a sudden illegal, often violent, taking of government power"

@Loki said in Doubling Rate?: Worrying about Covid again? 2020 will be remembered for the biggest farce perpetuated on mankind. Shifting blame, shifting importance and the search for the right narrative. Now it’s the tear gas’s fault. Seriously that’s the news go to story. We are a vapid people. Yeah, people's thoughts and feels about the culture they are part of are based on whatever the programmers want them to think and feel. Anymore the fundamental self-interest being appealed to is the desire to be seen as virtuous. It used to be that our programming appealed to our desire to be safe, or god forbid successful. No more. It's all about being virtuous now. This quest for virtuousness is so lazy, it requires nothing of anybody except to vote the right way and say the right things. What a scam. But it does seem to be working.

After a massive “show of force”, Trump is confined in a cage.

Unless the big protest March occurs in Washington this weekend, as rumored.

It will be interesting what comes out during the trial. I maintain there is a backstory yet to come out. They knew each other. Either the cop was giving special punishment to Floyd to teach him a lesson, or, the cop was telegraphing a lesson to someone else via Floyd, but which included Floyd. The fact that the other cops did virtually nothing, seems to indicate that they knew better than to cross the cop, or do anything other than gently try to convince him to get off his neck. Think Serpico, and it all makes sense.

It is a step in the right direction.

I like my beer like I like my women. Bitter and kept in the cellar.

@George-K said in Meanwhile, in Hammond...: I've only been in Hammond via Amtrak. Looks like a nice enough town... Mostly known for strawberry farms...

Tomb of the Unknown Rioter?

@Horace said in The Treason of Epidemiologists: A good piece by JG. It's been a while since I've seen one of those. Well, it's not TDS for a change...

I think it unlikely the Russians will be coming through the Fulda Gap anytime soon.