Soo...were there shower facilities at this “venue” or did everybody head back to reality all limber and sweaty?

Morning tai chi in the park is the quintessentially most cliche ‘Frisco thing I’ve read about, seen depicted, but have never actually managed to witness in all my trips to the City by the Bay.  Thank you for yet another reference to this elusive scene.

My grandfather, who has lived almost double the average life expectancy of a male born in the 1920's, asked me recently why he should pay for somebody else’s healthcare. I didn’t have the heart to tell him, dear stubborn wonderful man, that he’s been “collecting welfare” as the pundits say, for nearly as long as I’ve…

I’m only passable at math, but a scaled down pentagon budget (“a peace economy”), curtailed corporate welfare and some wrinkles ironed out of our byzantine tax code would cover the vast majority of these things. The healthcare issue alone could be self-funding once costs adjust to a single payer model and productivity…

The View klatch poses such thoughtful questions to each other and then destroys it all just in time for commercial break via shouting and talking over each other and other petty non-communication forms. I know the melt-downs and zingers are easy to share and make for good viral clicks and whatnot, but man, if these…

I’m going to go out on a limb and say the insinuation is that the Google Titan hardware is made and/or assembled in China, and therefore a backdoor or some other vulnerability can’t be completely ruled out. It could also be an insecure supply chain, as I recall reading maybe a year ago about espionage agencies…

Kind of a straw-car argument - if you looked up lawsuits filed against “yellow cab” in ever jurisdiction that has one, I’m willing to bet there are a whole lot out there, maybe even more per year than Uber.  Not to be an Uber apologist, and there are definitely issues with the way the company runs, but they suffer…

I can’t begin to imagine the guts it takes to strap yourself into one of these contraptions and let them launch you into orbit, BUT, we had a space program delivering humans into orbit and beyond in the 60's. If NASA ever had a budget number they could count on from one year to the next (thanks Congress!) it wouldn’t…

Apparently, Typhoid Mary never got sick either.

Yeah, bad wording.  I’m assuming the “air dry” they recommend actually refers to the use of a blower.  Our local health code actually requires single-use towels for all kitchen prep hand washing stations, as they don’t quite trust those newfangled hand dryer contraptions, apparently.

A well-organized kitchen with well-assigned roles/duties/stations won’t have that problem. If your grill guy never touches raw meat by hand, and your prep cook seasoning the ground beef and forming the patties never plates the food, you’re already ahead of the game in cutting down the number of opportunities for…

You’re thinking of some of the compounds that have been put into soap and body wash to make it “antibacterial” (triclosan, triclocarban, etc.). Some of those only work at specific concentrations for a minimum period of time, and since normal use doesn’t usually achieve that, there was some fear of resistant bacteria…

In the kitchen, take a dirty pan and dunk it in the sanitizer basin (third sink compartment) - the outer layer is theoretically sanitized, but there’s still food stuck to the pan!

Hand sanitizer solutions don’t do very well with biofilms, dirt or debris, there’s also some debate as to how well they handle bacteria in spore form and parasite eggs. They definitely won’t help with toxins or allergens.

I’d try getting everybody to spam the “made a mistake” link since Miller is a public figure in the administration and the cellphone number in question is routinely used for White House and Trump Campaign business. I’ll bet a FOIA request reveals that We, The People, even pay his phone bill.

I’ve known about the ongoing good works of the ACLU since I was a kid, but it actually took the election and swearing in of #45 to get me to become a paying member.

I think the commenters are barking up the wrong tree. It’s not the mental state of the people who claim to need an emotional support animal that’s the problem, it’s that they’re able to literally just pick a critter out of a zoo and call it an ESA. There needs to be a training and certifying protocol in place like for…

I don’t know if it’s tinfoil hat territory or what, but I was told by a colleague who has a family member in the scooter biz that the scooter companies are selling user data, and that revenue, at least in part, is subsidizing the business model. What kind of data and what value it could possibly have is another…

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Clip and save this article for the next time (probably a week or two from now) Comcast/NBC/Universal is going before the FTC or FCC or Congress to get approval for acquiring yet another phone company or ISP, or anything telco-adjacent. At least if a baby bell went down it kept the area limited to a metro area or a…