here ya go…
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Can you play the triangle?
I just remembered another person to add to the list.
Scott Brown, the happy hardcore/bouncy techno/gabber DJ and producer was a physicist. Now we have a DJ too.
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It’s a good filter to turn a national celebration into a Trump rally. No one who thinks masks are a good idea would go near this:
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About that celebration…
Is it still on July 3rd?
Friday, the 3rd, yes.
That’s not as easy as most people think it is!
I can press “play” though… oh, and I stood in for a DJ for two nights in a very obscure club once.
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I bet my President golfs on the 4th of July.
Strange days indeed.
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Although this is useful to describe why masks are useful, I don’t think it would help with Republicans as much as you think.
They’re the pee-ers. “But I don’t want pee on MY leg. Therefore I won’t wear pants”
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I reject the notion that grammar is a science.
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I like to drive my Jewish spouse crazy and get anti-Jewish religious bigots crazy by asserting that Christianity is actually just another sect of Judaism. Jesus was a rabbi, therefore the entire Roman Catholic Church and all of the offshoots are simply Jewish sects. Jesus didn’t repudiate his faith; he simply attempted to redirect it back to its original tenets.
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The wonderful thing about our Church is that we can democratically decide what is worthy of inclusion. In this case, linguistics is at least marginally scientific in its examination of how languages have evolved from each other, and there is potential applicability to the future of exobiology and intelligent species beyond our solar system. But, I’m willing to entertain the song itself doesn’t really address those scientific challenges.
I just like it a lot.
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Well, here we are in July and SARS-CoV-2 has not just gone away.
Regarding those who politicize the emergency, ignore the warnings, refuse to socially distance or wear masks: They will eventually go away.
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You can do a warm up set before Scott Brown then.
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“And you shall know them by their PPE.”
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Outsource it!
With Republicans, the cruelty, and the pissing on things, is the point
And take a lot of others with them.
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I don’t know why I chose today, of all days, to post my first comment after years of lurking, because I know I am about to get reamed.
I believe masks slow transmission of the virus. I believe it is a moral obligation for everyone who can wear a face covering to wear one. I believe almost everyone can safely wear one. I myself wear a mask every time I leave my home, even outside, which is not required where I live in Canada and certainly not the norm. This is not an act of fear but an act of love for my neighbours.
Wearing a mask is right. But you can do the rational thing for reasons that aren’t purely rational.
This Republican strategist is saying a lot of people who wear masks wear them because it makes them feel superior to the people who don’t. Based on the responses to this article, I’d say it’s pretty clear he’s correct. It does make mask-wearers feel superior. Is it a big leap to think a lot of people wear masks, at least in small part, because it makes them feel superior?
I’m not even sure my own motivations are 100% pure. After all, the second paragraph of this post was awfully sanctimonious, right?
To overgeneralize: a lot of conservatives don’t wear masks because liberals do. Probably a lot of liberals wear masks because conservatives don’t. At least in part! Just because science is on “our side” doesn’t mean we’re immune to the cognitive biases and emotional needs that affect the “other side.”
This isn’t some pearl-clutching call for civility. We need people to wear masks. There’s only one right side to that argument — scientifically and morally. But as long as the pro-mask and anti-mask sides are political, the problem will persist. (And God help us when there’s a vaccine and 35% of the population refuses to get it.)
It doesn’t matter who started it. We have to meet people where they are. Nobody ever put on a mask because someone called them a “fucktard.”
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Weird Al went to Cal Tech…
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