@Jolly I agree. Those are big benefits. And, as the article mentions (and seems somewhat opposite to the US), if you DONT wear a mask outside, there is a lot of pressure to do so. It is "cooler and hip" to wear a mask rather than the other way around. Re: Singapore - they have developed their own "homemade" contact trace app they are trying to get people to use. It seems that they did a lot of the right things. Possible part of it is that the population density is much higher. The whole country is basically a city.

@Jolly said in Now Canada too: I'm sure Trudeau has a lot of experience kneeling. Well, yeah, Justin Trudeau was raised a Roman Catholic and kneeling is common in various Catholic rites.

@89th Thank for explaining. If nothing else, it prompted me to look up lemming to see where the meme might come from.

Their conclusion that all of these deaths were because of racism, speaks volumes.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Resigned: And they had plenty of other officers behind them to take up the slack while one or two took care of him. It's my understanding that when there's an accident and the police are present, their first duty is to act as a first responder until someone more medically qualified arrives. Is this not the case? No. The mission is paramount. EMS personnel were in the immediate vicinity and they were called. Riot and crowd control work is not normal police work.

Sounds like it was the Covid angle not the dwindling numbers of survivors. Hopefully we have a few more years of veterans there. Remember Harry Patch was still going to commemorative events at ~110

The wokeness! It burns!

Even in Italy?

@taiwan_girl said in Cops are evil vs. gun control.: @Jolly UK Iceland Norway Ireland New Zealand Japan (though most do, so technically not correct) I know that some cops carry in the UK and in Ireland. Especially the response teams. New Zealand cops carry their guns in their cars. As does Norway. I don't have a clue about Iceland and Japan.

@Aqua-Letifer said in NOT a Babylon Bee Article: @Mik said in NOT a Babylon Bee Article: I would submit that our response to protests has been far more permissive than that of either China or Russia. And it's far more permissive than America in decades past. True on both fronts.

@George-K said in I have an email/domain question: @Klaus, do you use Thunderbird for mail? What are the advantages. (George, who hated giving up Eudora) Bump for Klaus.

@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.