Just my two cents on your excellent article... viruses do not become tame after time, we become resistant to them. Of course some of them mutate till no longer are harmful to us but the truth is the human body is just as adaptable as the viruses and bacteria that afflict it.
This map is rather hopeful, no? Doesn’t it show how humans have been unbelievably successful in beating back or defeating the vast majority of deadly infections diseases? 100 years ago infectious diseases made up something like half of the top ten leading causes of death. Smallpox alone killed hundreds of millions in…
Idea: Call your old relatives and say, “Did you get the card I sent you in the mail?” They’ll say no, cause you didn’t actually send one. Then tell them, “Oh man, I guess since Trump defunded the post office I can’t send you those cards you like getting. Maybe you should, I don’t know, call your representatives and…
Right. Engineers are busy driving the train.
Japan reverse-engineered American cars to learn how they were made. Does that make them cheaters? America was VERY protectionist during the growth of our major industries.
But that’s just it.. its an accusation.. no PROOF.. And its an accusation that plays into American conspiracy theory.. So basically you are penalizing someone because someone else “they are doing it!”.
Just like I could claim “you raped jill”. If we took action and killed you over an accusation without a shred of…
Nice try. One of your kids recorded what class with you is actually like
Can I weigh in with what I hope will be a fairly nuanced response on the issue of mispronounced names and microaggressions?
Not at an awards ceremony. If the task is to announce people’s names to bestow honor, the host should learn or be told how to pronounce all of the names.
That might be part of it but lack of people going anywhere is probably part of it too. People not driving like is mentioned below. Also people not going out and getting drunk and injuring themselves. Or going out and catching pneumonia from the guy in the next cubicle. You might have the odd case where someone went up…
Exactly. The laypress is going to completely misinterpret the implications of the data. Our emergency departments had a huge drop in the walking well patients who usually come in because they “couldn’t get an appointment” with their PCP or because the “just thought it would be faster.” The study looked at admission…
There are two ways of defining maximizing shareholder value, value in the short term, and value in the long term. By firing employees to boost share price, they are fudging numbers and hurting the company’s long term Position. And we saw just a couple of months ago how this worked out for the airline industry.
Even back then people understood what bases and acids would do. People used to cook without heat by turning things acidic, like the Romans with garum oir the Finnish with hákarl. The logical conclusion is acid makes food safe to eat, and that means it must work on people too. The killing bad stuff part, not the eating…
“In the face of a crippling pandemic and job crisis, the company has decided to do what it does best: maximize shareholder value. A Reuters exclusive report on Thursday said the company is hellbent on paying out dividends to shareholders,”
I have an allergy that- without medication to control it- causes anosmia. My allergist believes it’s related to dust mites, though other aspects of it seem linked to other things. First, it is most serious in the winter (which may be linked to mite exposure). And second, it is triggered most consistently and harshly by…
Maybe banthas have ineffective digestive systems. On first pass, they don’t digest all the nutrients available in their food. Coprophagia and rumination are real things in real-world animals, and it’s possible banthas need to do it too, but never evolved the rumen and supporting systems.
“Disneyland, come get Covid you stupid fucks!”
It’s honeymoon money. He didn’t buy an $8,000 gaming computer.
Nice work! I just did my first mod on an older Altec Lansing iPod speaker dock. The 30 pin connector wasn’t much use to me and the amplifier had died in it, but it still looks relatively modern and I didn’t want to let it go to waste. Unlike most speakers of this nature, it actually has separate woofers and tweeters…
