Before the 1918 Flu pandemic there was no “Flu season”. If the pandemic virus does not kill everyone and some level of immunity happens, then it moves beyond the pandemic nomenclature into Endemic. Covid is now endemic.  Now, just like a flu shot that you get every fall for this years mutations, you will (if you like)…

No, let me look it up. 

??? I wore my mask whenever I was required to, and frequently when I wasn’t required to. I was first in line for the vaccine, and have an Omicron booster appointment.

This is absolutely correct; its endemic, not a pandemic. Different solutions. 

Shit headline. Its not the president himself that makes the call on taking the bus or not. There are many things in security that the president isn’t allowed to change. Remember when trump wanted to use his own plane? Also, the blood in the beast is the presidents himself, not just of type. 

A shuttle crammed with world leaders--with or without the U.S. President--seems like a pretty bad idea in terms of security in general.  Sure, maybe nobody has real beef with the PM of Belgium, but a terrorist attack on (what I presume) a vehicle with a whole gaggle of world leaders would be a big ugly deal.

Do you think the Queen took a fucking shuttle when she visited the US?

Well that’s a no brainer. No US president is going to be allowed to ride in an unarmored bus crammed with group of other world leaders. Don’t have to be Secret Service to figure that one out.

The family trust is in charge of the 2% voting shares for the for-profit Patagonia.

Reuters:

“We are letting people opt out of supporting all the expenses of government to do whatever they want with their money,” Ray Madoff, a professor at Boston College Law School, told Bloomberg. “This is highly problematic from the point of view of democracy, and it can mean a higher tax burden for the rest of Americans.”

It should be made a little more clearly that these hits are for people that will get a zero balance after forgiveness.

The gift led to the family’s potential net worth dropping $2.994 billion dollars and funds an environmental non-profit in perpetuity. Who cares about the freaking tax implication?

Congrats on regurgitating right wing bullshit.  He never intended to sell the company, so he was never going to pay a $700M tax bill upon the sale.

Unless they meet ASTM standards for impact and compression, workout shoes are going to do precisely jack all to protect against a dropped weight.

I wonder how they’re going to address the wonky controls. They’re not... great. Especially now that we’ve had 25 years of improved FPS controls.

I hate Chic-Fil-A too, but come on, this was stupid even for the bullshit that passes for “news” on twitter. I certainly don’t think it needed an article (unless that article was “a bunch of jokers and a few perpetually online folks got a corporation to apologize for absolutely nothing”)

way to many people are recreationally offended

you know the answer to that

I realize that cryptocurrency with an incredibly volatile and arbitrary value barely counts as renumeration. But correct me if I’m wrong: if you’re offering some kind of monetary compensation for work, it’s not volunteering...it’s just a poorly-paid job.