@89th said in The Best Space Battle Ever: I give it two thumbs up, among other things. Shut up, Wesley.

Yeah, I guess he does deserve some credit for that, but Harris was so good! It’s amazing how many of the HP Cast have died. Some very early.

@Jolly said in Banning Zuck Bucks: You want true believers, join a convent. Or a cult. Obama, Trump, the choice is yours.

Predictions of the biggest crash since the Great Depression are a fairly regular occurrence. I'd be a little worried if people didn't start predicting them.

@Renauda said in What Got Done with McCarthy as Speaker: After witnessing Trump shit all over Mike Pence Loyalty is not his strongest virtue, is it? (Trump's that is, LOL)

The district argued that parents do not have a fundamental right to control how a school educates their child It’s called the 14th amendment. Look it up.

Education is extremely important.

@George-K said in Tiger Down: @jon-nyc said in Tiger Down: Patients diagnosed with a medulloblastoma or PNET are 50 times more likely to die than a matched member of the general population. I’m calling bullshit on that. Elaborate, please? Both groups shall experience 100% mortality. Perhaps they meant to specify a time period, but they didn’t.

Less Than Meets the Eye Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the administration was going to waive dozens of federal laws, such as the Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act, that prevent the government from building a wall at the Rio Grande, citing an “acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas.” This project inspired screaming headlines. But dig down a little deeper, and the joke becomes obvious. The Biden White House plans to build only 20 miles of wall. The White House remains an enemy of good order at the border. The real record of the Biden White House is one of facilitating millions of illegal entries into the United States; 3.8 million have entered the U.S. since he took office. About half that number are completely off the radar. The White House ended the suite of policies, including Remain in Mexico, that had stopped the flow of migrants to the border. The White House has released more than a million migrants into the country with nothing more than an order to appear at court to have their asylum status adjudicated in just the year that runs from last October 1 to this past September 30. This administration has extended temporary protected status to an unprecedented number of migrants and even now is giving completely novel five-year work permits to nearly three-quarters of a million Venezuelan migrants. There are over 1,454,000 known “gotaways” reported by the Border Patrol between the time Biden took office and April of this year. The number of known gotaways for 2023 is on pace to be over 1 million. There are 2.7 million backlog cases in our immigration courts, which are totally overwhelmed. With this short bit of wall-building, the White House is proving only that it can read the recent polls. A survey from Marquette University showed that voters thought Donald Trump would handle border security better by a margin of 24 points, 52–28. These 20 miles of border wall are being built as a veil to drape over voters’ eyes ahead of an election year. Twenty miles is less than 5 percent of the amount of wall that the Trump administration built during its time in office. And those 450 miles were not nearly enough of a deterrent on their own to stop the flow of migrants and drugs over the southern border. Nobody is going to be stopped or deterred from making an illegal journey into the United States by a small increment of additional wall, not when the Biden administration continues to abuse the law to facilitate millions of illegal entries, and not when he continues to give migrants more incentives — work permits, protection orders, or extended temporary status — that induce them to come and establish lives here in the legal gray zone the White House has created for them.

Not really related, but maybe a little. One of things I have noticed that is bad (but I am not sure how to fix) about public service budgets is that they are all usually "use it or lose it". There is no real incentive to save or do long term project planning. Because, if you do not use your budget, the next year you will probably get less. So, there is mentality that you had better spend all your money each and every year, even if you don't have much to buy or really need it. This is not unique to the US. Pretty much happens world wide.

A cheese grater without LEDs. Weird.

Its not a bad idea. Similar to countries offering incentives to have more babies. Italy villages selling houses for 1 euro. Have to be creative and think "outside the box".

Conflict of interest in politics/government? Who would have thought that ever occurred!! LOL

@Jolly said in Don't have a clue...: I'm glad I was able to get George's started with vim, vigor and vitality. LOL The problem is that, even today, no one really knows how general inhalation anesthesia works. There are lots of theories about various ion channels across cell membranes affecting depolarization thresholds, and all that crap. But, in final analysis, it's speculation. Intravenous drugs are better understood, however. "Better" ≠ "Completely" And this guy is just slinging Andrew Weil bullshit, while probably making good bank.

It's an age old truism. Whatever humans can do to screw up, automation/computers can do it faster.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2023/09/21/a-guide-to-unemployment-benefits-for-workers-impacted-by-the-strike/70894542007/

He was married in 1963. 60 years ago. His wife survives him.

The Lancet study shows that there is trace amount of the vaccine mRNA in breast milk, presumably the study takes no position on whether that is a "safety" issue (otherwise it would have been bigger news and Public would have cited that part). Given the above, the Lancet study does not support that claim that the CDC "lied about safety" even if the CDC "had repeatedly assured pregnant and breastfeeding women that it was safe to get vaccinated." But the fact that it IS there should not have been censored by Meta. Had Public's claim been limited to stating that trace amounts of mRNA is there in breast milk, that would have been an accurate restatement of the Lancet study's finding; but Public went outside of accurately restating the study's finding and went into the territory of accusing a public health agency of "lying" about "safety" -- this is not supported by the Lancet study. This went beyond citing a study and got into sensationalism and scare mongering. For that, I have to sympathy for Public's article being limited by Meta/Facebook. (Show me that the Lancet study says that the trace amount of mRNA in breast milk is unsafe and I am ready to change my mind on this.) Facebook/Meta is a private platform/enterprise. If you don't like Facebook/Meta, go post your stuff somewhere else (like, say, Substack). Facebook/Meta owes Public no duty to carry or promote any of Public's posts or articles.