https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/13/politics/biden-reelection-campaign/index.html The conversations keep happening – quiet whispers on the sidelines of events, texts, emails, furtive phone calls – as top Democrats and donors reach out to those seen as possible replacement presidential candidates. Get ready, they urge, in conversations that aides to several of the people involved have described to CNN: Despite what he has said, despite the campaign that has been announced, President Joe Biden won’t actually be running for reelection. They feel like time is already running out and that the lack of the more robust campaign activity they want to see is a sign that his heart isn’t really in it. It’s a persistent sense that the inner circle of advisers to the president and several of the very few aides who have been hired for his reelection campaign dismiss as absurd. Of course, he is running, they say. Of course, they’re taking preparations very seriously. And, with the always present Biden chip on their shoulder, of course they’re being written off again by the purported wise elders of the party and pundits who still refuse to take him seriously. “They are so underestimated, and they keep getting it right,” said Jim Messina, former president Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign manager, who has been one of the people privately advising Biden’s team to ramp up gradually. Anxiety, complaints and apocalyptic thinking that have often defined Democrats in the Biden years are about to get their latest Rorschach test, with the disclosure of fundraising for the first few months of his campaign – which must be filed by Saturday. Seen on Twitter: "Biden 2024 depends on him being able to hold together that long; and a year, let alone 5 years is a long time for an old man."

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I should tell my friend in Helsinki the good news.

It’s a serious issue. I’ve experienced what I have to assume what was a relatively mild but very real case.

I do think a two-tier healthcare system is the most practical. University -based hospitals and clinics training physicians and healthcare personnel, treating the indigent/Medicaid. Then hospitals and clinics for insurance, Medicare and fee-for-service patients.

@Renauda said in Age-stratified infection fatality rate of COVID: @taiwan_girl Curious though the mortality rate of Covid if we had the same medical practices and infrastructure as 14th century Europe. Interesting thought. I dont know the answer. I am not sure that COVID is as deadly untreated at plague is untreated. But it would have been pretty bad I think. The scale of death during 1347-1349 in UK was crazy high.

I used an induction stove in Stockholm last week. The whole stovetop was an induction field, you could place the pan anywhere on it and it would detect where it was and only induce a field there. The stovetop was hot for a while after, since there’s a metal pan on it holding boiling water.

I’ve always figured carbon sequestration or geoengineering would rescue us from climate change eventually

Let's hops so...

Good.

I use Windows Defender, but I wonder if it is just as bad.

it’s clouded by the fact that, as a Black queer woman, Chapman, 59, would have almost zero chance of that achievement herself in country music. Is that right "Black queer woman"? Shouldn't it be "queer Black woman"? OK, so she has zero chance of being a male country star. That is a shame. However, Mr. Combs has zero chance of being a "queer Black woman". Someday we will overcome these limits and have equity. Maybe Mr. Biden can deliver this in his second term.

Why would you want cold whisky?

@Doctor-Phibes said in Heroin - OK, Cigarettes - Lock 'em up: Treating drug addicts as criminals has historically worked so well. I was talking about the bad drug addicts, not the good drug addicts. Of course we all embrace drug addicts who are productive members of society.

@Jolly said in Be careful with those thumbs up - they could be legal: See Horace, cowboy boots can look good with shorts. less is more, for this young lady.