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I don’t think it’s that they were lightly armed at all. Once Capitol Police and DC Metro had more officers in place, their first priority was to clear the building enough to get the sheltered-in-place Members of Congress to safety, then start clearing the grounds. If they had corralled or “kettled” the rioters (like

This is the logical end result of what Bill Moyers calls “resurrection medicine.” A healthcare “system” where people are too broke or too afraid to get preventative care or properly manage pre-existing conditions, so they eventually roll up to the emergency room, at death’s door, and expect the magic bullet cure-all

See, I think it’s a branding problem. Adding mRNA to the vaccine description was a terrible idea, since most people have no idea that DNA and RNA are different (thanks education system!) so you have nutters talking about sterility and whatnot. If chloroquine, ivermectin and azithromycin were called out as “toxic

Coronaviruses will never go away, but I’m very encouraged that this mRNA tech can be developed to keep all but the freakest of freak variants at bay. If only the world could apply enough pressure to get China to separate domestic animals from wild game, we might get a handle on other pathogens before they become

Yes. Not only are so-called “libertarians” muddying the waters politically, but the extension of their “philosophy” into public health is a big contributing factor for all this vaccine hesitancy/denial and conspiracy nonsense being spread around. The real libertarian thing to do would be to either hunker down in a

The US is a republic...we elect representation to make those decisions on our behalf. Hopefully they’re adults, exercising some objectivity and using all available data, but we have three branches, and checks and balances that are supposed to keep it all from going off the rails. The rank and file public health

In my experience, plenty of phones will handle drops from around 6ft just fine, but at the right/wrong angle and/or on the wrong surface, a drop of like a foot can be plenty fatal.

In an urban environment like Chicago with its various and sundry building styles and construction materials, I have real trouble believing ShotSpotter could be more accurate than a city block or two...and after they set up sensors, it’s not like they drive around firing shots in the air to calibrate them.

My beef with diner coffee is, once I get the color just right with cream, I only get a couple sips before SHE swoops by and tops me off.  At least IHOP plops a carafe down at your table and you get to dose yourself.

Sex talk aside, screw Pepsi or Toyota and the other corporate sponsors wholly unrelated product plugs, why hasn’t some mattress company stepped up for some product placements by now? They could auction off the used ones for charity, donate them to shelters or disaster relief, or showoff how recyclable the materials

Enforceability of NDAs aside, isn’t forcing a customer to sign one prior to unlocking their data basically coercion?  Not a good PR look, regardless of whether the tactic actually holds up in court or not.

I think that’s the issue. If you’re in Tucker’s loafers, and look at the rest of America, it all seems pretty far to the left, because he has zero perspective on how far right-of-center his statements are.  Almost like the higher profile the person, the more insulated their echo chamber is.

I’ll differ from you - I think the closet makes this kind of thing easier. I think the criminalization of sex work or the marginalization/exoticization of black men within gay communities (or the compartmentalization) enables crimes like this. I also think the lack of real training or understanding of the police is a

Is it weird that despite Cannick covering this guy for 4 years, I had to go to Wikipedia to figure out what Buck’s occupation was? Her use of the appellation “democratic donor” appears to be some sort of political statement, though it seems like he was pretty heavily invested in republican causes and campaigns until

The good folks at Twin Engine Coffee Co. have been marketing cascara as Caturra Tea for a few years now. Tasty stuff, in gorgeous packaging, from a really lovely growing community....it’s organic too, for those who care about that sorta thing, and they have some very nice coffees too, fwiw.

It’s pretty light, on the border of fruity-herbaceous, but not too astringent. You may want to sweeten it up (sugar, honey, a hit of fruit juice?) and while milk isn’t necessarily a no-no, you may want to experiment a bit to get the right texture.

Yes...the only caveat is, if we collectively step aside as a society and let private individuals and private industry forge ahead and bear the burden of development and exploration, then we have to accept their exploitation of said resources down the road. If we abdicate the role of governments, NGOs, NASA or ESA,

Anything we need to use in space, would make sense to refine, process, manufacture and assemble in space...so we don’t have to tear up the Earth to extract it, and then fry the atmosphere to launch it. Like the transition from steam to electricity, of course the infrastructure will have to get built first, but a

If we can lasso or de-orbit a couple metallic asteroids, we can get tons of metals at purities we wouldn’t have to refine (or process as much), or as alloys or isotopes that don’t exist on Earth in significant quantities.

At some point, we’re (the U.N.?) going to have to require future satellite launches include de-orbit thrusters, or pay into a trust fund to secure safe disposal in the future. Governments were one thing, but private space ventures can go belly-up with little warning leaving a huge mess with the potential for global