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Quote from: K_Dubb on April 09, 2020, 08:10:33 PM
Haha I got them figured out, though; see above re: meat diet.

My theory is that heavy marbling is the better choice, although pork might be the best. Longer digestion times may cause bigger loads but farther between means less TP.

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on April 09, 2020, 06:33:45 PM
It's a crazy place..........   

Salt? Who needs 40 lbs bags of salt at the house with winter over?   I'll assume Harry is hucking here and it's rice.


https://twitter.com/PhdParody/status/1248253372534308864

You notice they didn’t show the line for monosodium glutamate.

One of my favorite players growing up.

https://twitter.com/nhlblackhawks/status/1248370682137694214

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on April 09, 2020, 04:15:11 PM
The State of Michigan just dropped the hammer:
https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90499_90705-525182--,00.html

They can't go to cabins up inna woods, stores can only sell food or medication, etc.  Some of my WAN relatives are not happy.

Looks like they can go as long as they go tonight and are willing to stay there for the duration.  Isn’t there a militia in Michigan?   This revocation of rights is going a bit too far. 

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on April 09, 2020, 08:28:46 AM
Lights in the Cleveland sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0v0ckt9jIY&feature=emb_logo

You can thank Elon Musk

https://twitter.com/tkon51/status/1248073716623237125

Quote from: albrecht on April 08, 2020, 04:08:27 PM
And the fact that, especially now, everything is recorded for posterity. I found his comments refreshing and hilarious. But it is important to know your audience. I had friend who 'broke the ice' in California with a 'n-word' joke. It was funny how shocked people were, and the joke was sort of funny, but didn't go over well with most of the group.  It was like the stylus ripped on an album. Totally silence. It was classic.

I also think old people should be allowed to speak their mind in the fashion as how they grew up. Let them have their say before this Corona-Chan unfortunately gets them. 


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/kushner-coronavirus-surveillance-174165

Jared Kushner’s task force has reached out to a range of health technology companies about creating a national coronavirus surveillance system to give the government a near real-time view

Yeah. Never tell a Nancy joke in California if you’re an outsider.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on April 08, 2020, 11:18:51 AM
To be fair, no self-respecting club would take him. Apart from NAMBLA.

Hey SV. Good to see you alive and kicking. Video later?

Quote from: expat on April 08, 2020, 10:45:46 AM
I'd make an exception if the "authority" was promoting a totally untried "remedy" for COVID-19 (hydroxychloroquine) in which he and his associates have a financial interest.

On a related topic, I have a couple of maps/diagrams that give the lie to the COVID/5G connection, here.

You would think if they were going to push a “totally untried” (this is a lie, you are usually better than this), they would have picked one that was still under patent. What’s the financial interest?

It might be unproven, but it is most certainly not untried.

Quote from: WOTR on April 08, 2020, 12:42:36 AM
where are you listening, Brig?

I'll be honest- it's kind of sad for her. The little bit that I did hear her yesterday had her sounding quite optimistic and a little happy. I'm sure this Tim a a great guy, but why have her host one show?

The new owner might just maybe have found out everyone cancelled their subscription

Quote from: WOTR on April 07, 2020, 11:58:41 PM
This is my main problem right now. Tell me how many otherwise relatively healthy adults with a life expectancy of more than three months are dying. When you attribute every death in the country to COVID, it is easy to skew the numbers.

I started questioning the models when I noticed that in the IMHE models there would not be a single death due to Covid after mid June.  And one of their assumptions was total shutdown of every state through the end of May. Well not every state is shut down and the current guidelines only extend the shelter in place until the end of April.

So Trump is in a no win situation. If he recommends any lifting of the guidelines before 5/31 and a single person dies after June 19th he will have “blood on his hands”. Ridiculous.

We can’t return to work.  There is too much risk of an accident during the daily commute. 

The local school district put out an email today to all parents. 

This semester is strictly going to be pass/fail and it will not count in computing GPA.

A score of 60 on any class gets a pass.

GPA is a big thing in high schools here because if you are in the top 10% you are granted automatic acceptance into your choice of a state university (for the most part). And it is complicated because AP classes are given bonus points for computing GPA. An A in a regular course would be 4 points. An A in an AP course would be 5 points. 

Interesting times.

Quote from: albrecht on April 07, 2020, 10:57:07 PM
Coded rang a bell. I wonder about billing, not just the dying. Billing medical codes are key, even in normal times. A keystroke wrong or a nurse-practioner or Doc calls for the wrong code and someone paying much more or on their own dime. (Or accepted as inflation for the rest of us n 'covered' by premiums or taxes.) Does COVID-19 have code for billing etc?

There is probably an incentive to code everything that Covid because the government has said all non-insured will be covered but I was trying to not get into motive. But these inflated numbers are scaring people and driving policies such as when people return to work.  My gut tells me that any rise of the overall death rate once we look back at it will be statistically insignificant.  I believe shutting down travel and doing the social distancing were effective mitigation strategies but without real data it is going to be hard to justify returning to some sense of normalcy.

Quote from: EarthAlien007 on April 07, 2020, 10:43:53 PM
Is it already over?



No show update and Heather has been erased!

http://midnightinthedesert.com/

Oh my

Quote from: K_Dubb on April 07, 2020, 10:19:43 PM
No one will be held accountable.  If the death toll is lower than expected, fearmongering will be justified as an effort to get the public to take the threat seriously and dampen resistance to the countermeasures, which will be credited with the lower-than-predicted death toll.

I hope (fingers crossed) that a much lower number will cause folks to look at government, and experts, with a jaundiced eye, wary of their power, and realize that the state will reach for the stick a hundred times before it ever thinks of offering a miserable carrot.  The problem is that conspiracy-peddling chuckleheads will be in the vanguard of any counter-reaction, blunting its effect like the unwitting agents provocateurs they are.

Wait until you get a chance to look at the total numbers of deaths during March and April of 2020 and you can’t find a single death which was contributed to a heart attack, stroke, pneumonia or the flu. I bet cancer deaths will be significantly lower as well.  And then look to see how many of those types of deaths occurred in March and April of any of the previous 5 years.  The number of daily deaths because of the Coronavirus is certainly inflated in each day’s reports.  Anyone that dies of a cardiopulmonary cause right now is being coded as a Coronavirus death. 

And then compare accidental death rates. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the overall death rate is lower this year.  Until the suicides start because we are still locked down and there are no more reruns to binge watch on Netflix.

Quote from: K_Dubb on April 07, 2020, 05:51:32 PM
Well of course but, since I run the chocolate-chip cookie stand every year at the Bohemian Grove, you can expect no help from me.

I kind of expected hot cross buns.

Quote from: WOTR on April 07, 2020, 05:11:37 PM
Thank-you. That was priceless. He seems just a tiny bit... Annoyed?

I wonder if he gets so easily riled up over a disease like AIDs (affects around 6% of the Ugandan population.)

Only if they get a shot in the butt.

Quote from: albrecht on April 07, 2020, 03:51:30 PM
"The criminal case against a Mexican megachurch leader on charges of child rape and human trafficking was dismissed Tuesday by a California appeals court on procedural grounds." 

https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/case-against-mexican-megachurch-leader-dismissed/

"appeals court ruling states that the Los Angeles County Superior Court must dismiss the 29 counts of felony charges that range from human trafficking and production of child pornography to forcible rape of a minor."

But they will uphold all convictions of pastors jailed for holding services during the self distancing guidelines.

I think your greatest work so far is checking yourself in for treatment. That took a lot of courage. I wish you the best for your recovery.

Quote from: whoozit on April 07, 2020, 11:40:18 AM
One down, thirteen to go!

https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1247578795588177920

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on April 07, 2020, 09:15:01 AM
Uh huh. Anyway,  he’s saying as long as there’s even one case out there we’re going to remain shutdown. They can extend this forever. Who’s going to say no? Certainly, not you.

When’s the last time you got a vaccine?  I know when mine was. I was in the military and couldn’t say no. Almost 40 years ago.  Why do you start shit with people?

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on April 07, 2020, 09:00:33 AM
You joke but try this on for size: mandatory vaccinations. That’s what he’s really talking about...but I shouldn’t have to tell you this being a former rocket scientist. :

Nothing I typed was a joke. 

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on April 07, 2020, 04:14:25 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvWiRdi4SF0

Fauci - We can’t go back to normal until we have a vaccine. :

The jig is up!

That fucker is an operative. On Sunday during the press conference he went on and one about social distancing.  And then, if you watch the end of the presser, everyone from the team is filing out of the room.  He is walking behind one of the military officers and starts massaging his shoulders and pats him on the back several times.  Probably a Mossad or KGB/GRU deep plant passing on the virus to the task force members. 

I sure wish they would separate Trump and Pence and not allow them in the same room. Don’t they realize who is next in line?

She started off strong. I tried to bop back in a few times over the last couple of hours and just couldn’t do it.  Sad really.

Quote from: Lilith on April 06, 2020, 11:46:17 PM
She has to go out to take care of her 2016 taxes  AGAIN?

My guess is that California nabbed her for not paying income tax that year. She moved to Pahrump in late February and probably didn’t file a California state return.

Quote from: SnapT on April 06, 2020, 11:34:08 PM
Love the classic ads.

I hope she plays an ad for COMMUNION starring Christopher Walken as Whitley Streiber.

If I remember correctly weren’t you the origin story of MITD?

Quote from: WhiteCrow on April 06, 2020, 10:48:54 PM
Trash... but if Senda and Wade would team up, I'd gladly make a donation to help George buy professional broadcasting equipment.

https://youtu.be/3gvnqAiA8Ks

Someone needs to call in a welfare check on the big guy. He kept putting off his monthly trip to the ER and he has been dark for a couple of days.

Quote from: WhiteCrow on April 06, 2020, 10:36:14 PM
I've always thought that Senda and Wade would be a  Cohosting dream team. I'd subscribe!

Rumors are you are the funding source for the hostile takeover.

Truth or trash?

Quote from: Lilith on April 06, 2020, 08:15:56 PM
Surprise, surprise, Spooky Tim is live tonight on Midnight.FM with his show Midnight Society.

https://midnight.fm/?fbclid=IwAR2AYO_MTDR-NNlvP4QtkCW4KA-cVMyktoB9uoPcHlLIhTb91bmlKd-Odck

Because it’s midnight in Ireland?

Quote from: WOTR on April 06, 2020, 05:02:31 PM
Rumour has it that Aldous found an eigth last week... 

To be fair, California contributes slightly more than an eighth of our GDP.