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[Purplecat]

Bernie Sanders drops out

Come November, I’ll most likely vote for Biden… reluctantly, to be sure. I understand that getting the Orange Menace out of the White House must be our goal, for all our sakes, especially for the most vulnerable in our society. I know all the arguments-- don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, et cetera, et cetera… But I hope you’ll all forgive me if I take a day or two to mourn what could have been. Both Warren and Sanders spoke of hope, of change, of a chance for our country to be bet…

[DukeTrout]

Beat me to it.

[Nightflyer]

Boris Johnson stays in Intensive Care for night 2, UK PM hospitalized for coronavirus

Found on Facebook. This is what I would have posted if I had the talent… Another Angry Voice 23 hrs · Boris Johnson is gravely ill, and according to some reports “fighting for his life” on a ventilator. It would be grotesque to actively will ill on anyone in a condition like this. Expressing horrible sentiments under such circumstances is clearly not a healthy contribution to the social discourse, and neither is it healthy from an individual mental health perspective to be actively wishing d…

[Nightflyer]

Awww, thank you! (And @DukeTrout too!)

[LutherBlisset]

Ongoing coronavirus happenings

This need emphasis.

Fellow mutants, pull this out of the hat whenever someone talks about why the “numbers of death are so low in Germany”.

Add the fact that the median age was quite low in the beginning (48, last week) and is slowly rising. More severe cases are coming.

[DukeTrout]

Well-written, and a calm and reasoned case:

Bernie Sanders drops out

I know you aren’t happy with Biden. Most of us on the BBS aren’t, but shouting at each other over who they are going to vote for isn’t helping. Democratic socialism doesn’t get it’s power from the corridors of power. It gets it from the community, the streets in villages, towns and cities. It gets it’s power from people looking out for other people in their communities, the communities looking out for other neighboring communities. Democratic socialism should be about the people, not the politi…

[Mindysan33]

Damn it… you beat me here…

[gero]

Trump speaks to Vladimir Putin of Russia for second time in 2 days

I realize that right now, with COVID-19 playing havoc with our former daily routines, some of these suggestions are harder to do than others… but… well, I’ve done some of the stuff listed here. [image] source: Organize. Find someone in government or running for public office who you believe is making a positive difference in your area… city, county, province, state. Then lend her/him/them your support. Blockwalk. Phonebank. Register people to vote. I’ve done these–the people you work …

[LutherBlisset]

U.S. now has greatest number of confirmed coronavirus deaths in the world, surpassing Italy

Yep, if by that you mean “doesn’t get counted.”

Short, concise, true.

[LutherBlisset]

Holy shit.

Folks, get this person as many likes as possible. This is an expected answer, but they took quite some time to write it and I think anyone with some science background and basic technological knowledge can understand it.

Bluetooth for contact tracing COVID-19

So, I have worked some on problems with distance measurements using radio-frequency signals. There are three basic approaches for this problem: 1: Triangulation using the relative phase of reception on three antennas with a common reference clock. This will get you the direction of the transmitter, and if you have three such systems with known locations you can localise the transmitter perfectly. This requires specialised equipment with fixed installation points. It also suffers from multi-pat…

[davide405]

By request

Smugglers sawed through Trump's wall 18 times in a one-month period

“You can cut through anything, in all fairness“ Anything but the bullshit, it seems. That’s impenetrable.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Trump appoints himself leader of the Lockdown Rebellion by Tweeting LIBERATE VIRGINIA MICHIGAN MINNESOTA

You know, these are stressful times, and I would really appreciate ONE FUCKING DAY when I didn’t have to expend mental energy being gobsmacked by Trump somehow managing to find a way to out-stupid Yesterday Trump.

[LutherBlisset]

Ongoing coronavirus happenings

Here’s how it played out in that first pic

Post needs more likes. Video needs more views. Video needs more likes, too.

Also, nurses need better contracts and better social security.

[Ratel]

Michael Moore: Planet of the Humans available for free

I’s odd for this to be coming out at a time when the energy grid is greening all over the place. Coal is quietly vanishing as carbon pricing and the tumbling cost of renewables push it out of the energy mix: Here’s the situation in the UK: Even in the notoriously cloudy UK, solar now satisfies around a quarter of electricity demand during the middle of the day: With nuclear providing a steady chunk of the base load, and gas and wind ramping up and down to cover the bulk of the rest of the de…

This bears repeating. Once you start looking into them, it’s clear that Deep green blends very quickly into off the deep end , with an almost gleeful fetishisation of suffering and primitivism, a disdain for democracy (because people aren’t going to choose being cold and hungry, so we’re going to have to force them), before rapidly descending into making the human population fit their low-tech carrying capacity for the planet by “any means nessecary”

[Sally_Mahoney]

Texas mayor broke own lockdown rules to visit nail salon

Q: What is the collective noun for a group of Karens? A: a “privilege“.

[FGD135]

COVID-19 isolation activities

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[chgoliz]

@j9c posted a knowledgeable reply in the Bradford Pear thread, and I responded with a quibble about one specific detail. Her response was so informative and holistic in the best possible way. I’m glad I provoked a ‘rebuttal’!

Southern Living magazine hates Bradford Pear trees

100% agreed. I am very grateful you appreciate trees and I thank you for standing up for them. I wish all of humanity would recognize the value of healthy tree(s), healthy canopies, and leave healthy trees alone, to the fullest extent feasible–I did have to cut one down that had started falling on our house. (and now, with apologies for my treehugger soapboxing; and this is not directed at you because I think you get it already…) Over the years, I have gotten into so much conflict r…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Why did Jeffrey Epstein have his own office at Harvard and visit more than 40 times until 2018?

I’m sure if you submit an RFQ you will have a number of competitive quotes by the end of the day. Especially since the primary milestone (a dead Epstein) has already been passed…

[Sally_Mahoney]

YouTube bans David Icke

Everyone thought Donald Trump was a nutter too. We have to take these people seriously, because they are having an impact on the world, right now. People have continuously assumed none of these guys are a danger, but they actually are.

[Immutable_Mike]

Ongoing coronavirus happenings

“The reopening weekend was a disaster. We had two customers all weekend." You can reopen all you want, but if only the idiots want to risk their lives to go out, then what’s the point?