You have to admit, though, that with their comprehensive catalog and fiendish exploitation of the rail system, Sears and Roebuck established a stranglehold on commerce in the USA that continues to this day. We, who have never sat around the general store cracker barrel eating crackers with the crackers, are poorer for…

According to an Amazon cybersecurity engineer who spoke anonymously. . .

Heh. P5esumably in the mi55o5 unive5se, T5ump is an omniincompetent p5og5essive.

No need to borrow trouble. This is about the 4000th strain we’ve identified, and the mutation isn’t to the spike protein—so there’s no reason to believe the vaccines built from the sequence identified back in 2020 January won’t work. (Since the spike protein is the bit that latches on to the cell to begin the entry…

You don’t have to go all the way to whole bean and home grinding. There are adequate canned coffees you can make with a cone filter; I use Melitta. Also scales well for parties.

Now I’m wondering what the fastest growing foodstuff on earth actually is. Maybe Arthrospira?  Or for things more readily recognizable as food, bamboo shoots?

The electronic stick ones are the modern equivalents.  Bonuses: far faster, and no failure modes that involve broken glass OR elemental mercury!

The electronic stick ones are the modern equivalents.  Bonuses: far faster, and no failure modes that involve broken…

The correlation between the temperature on the surface of someone’s face and their core temperature is lousy, and the amount of change we’re trying to measure is small. That doesn’t make the problem impossible to solve, but it does mean it requires finely calibrated equipment, the subject sitting quietly in a room of…

The correlation between the temperature on the surface of someone’s face and their core temperature is lousy, and…

I had no idea. (Mmm. Protein fire. I can smell that photograph from here.)

There is no easy binary SAFE versus NOT SAFE. There are only levels of risk in a particular context.

You didn’t make a bet of the form “If X happens, I’ll eat my hat,” did you?

Or has it NOT gone FAR ENOUGH?!!?!

It should. Wool is about 90% keratins.

. . . wait, which result am I supposed to be hoping for?

To save folks the click (PDF), the sentence was “The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied.”

. . . astronomical sums of money into defense spending (over a billion dollars over the course of eight years),

Positively Fifth Avenue

There’s nothing to be gained by doing it. Trump himself can line his own pockets by continuing to solicit donations for as long as the marks will sign checks—but neither Kemp nor the more reality-based wing of the Republican party benefit from playing along.

It makes me wonder if the chain of inference makes sense when explained to a bilingual, but nevertheless is enough of a reach that it probably wouldn’t occur to a bilingual out of the blue without any prompting. But I have no idea how to go about finding someone to ask the question of.

BRITISH PORK