Yep. I just made an appointment for next week, which was the first day there’s a blood drive close enough to be workable for me. I’ll mask up with an N95 and go get this done. It’s important. I just don’t think about it very often because I’m basically a covid hermit. 

He was Counting on you.

I can’t donate blood because I’m gay and I refuse to stop having sex with my spouse (the only person I’ve had any kind of sex with for 30+ years). Never mind that we’re both HIV negative, apparently it’s just too squicky for the blood folks.

Hematologist here. This is a big big deal and we have been discussing and planning for it in our department for the past month. We went through this earlier in the pandemic, and it sucked, and this seems to be worse. We have patients who need red blood cell transfusions every 3-4 week to survive, as well as all the…

There’s an xkcd for that ( https://m.xkcd.com/2347/ )

You would think that. A normal person would think that.

They call it the Vision-S, but we know it’s really the Sony Rideman.

But this is Florida we’re talking about. There will immediately be headlines about meth addicts getting caught under those while humping alligators or something.

Surveillance camera footage shows the vehicle driving around down railroad crossing gates and getting stuck on the tracks briefly before being struck by the train.

Florida.

They have level crossings for high speed rail all across Europe and don’t have near the problems we have in ‘Murica.

Any system that would classify moons of planets as “planets”, is dumb.

Cameron’s Aliens is by far the best of the series. I loved the gritty, military feel. I loved how Ripley was a total badass, far more so than the trained soldiers she was with. I’ve read about how Cameron selected the actors, picked a sergeant who had a military background, and how they trained like real soldiers for…

This particular article lends itself well enough to the slideshow format, I think.

umm, no.

“Some folks may wonder why anyone would own an Alexa product in the first place”

Jason, you may have to make room in your trophy case for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Jason, I have another idea.