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user-inactivated  ·  1460 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Strange Saga of the Steak-Umm Account

during this trip to the grocery store it’s vital to stay wary of charlatans peddling “affordable meat products” that are “made with real meat,” such as Steak-umm or Tyson. many people are uneducated and extra susceptible to marketing. please counter falsities if you see them with both data and proper seasoning.

user-inactivated  ·  1463 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Every State's Least Favorite State

lmao. I haven't heard that response before and i love it. Yall beating us on census response rate right now too. I've spent a ton of time and Michigan and love it up there, Ohio in me gotta make me talk trash though cheers.

user-inactivated  ·  1464 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Every State's Least Favorite State

O-H

I-O

user-inactivated  ·  1466 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bernie endorses Joe

This is the most coherent I've heard Biden so far.

user-inactivated  ·  1473 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Back of a napkin COVID-19 calculations

i'm not sure how India will fair. last I heard on the BBC, the upper/middle class is prepared well enough but that the government was locking down crowded slums, and confining residents to the small homes they typically share with large groups of people. Hopefully it does not hit them as bad as it has elsewhere, but I think like you said that hey are just behind.

What do you all see as an end solution to the current state we are in? Without an adequate treatment or vaccine, I'm not sure how we are supposed to end social distancing and economic shutdown caused by it. From what I've picked up it doesn't sound like a treatment or vaccine will be available soon.

user-inactivated  ·  1473 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Back of a napkin COVID-19 calculations

doublepost

user-inactivated  ·  1475 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post:

Cool read, kinda of curious why the article says

    Ultimately, the plague doctors’ outfits—and methods—didn’t make much of a difference. “Unfortunately,” writes historian Frank M. Snowden, “the therapeutic strategies of early modern plague doctors did little to prolong life, relieve suffering, or effect a cure.”

when the outfit is described above

    He described an outfit that included a coat covered in scented wax, breeches connected to boots, a tucked-in shirt, and a hat and gloves made of goat leather. Plague doctors also carried a rod that allowed them to poke (or fend off) victims.

    Their head gear was particularly unusual: Plague doctors wore spectacles, de Lorme continued, and a mask with a nose “half a foot long, shaped like a beak, filled with perfume with only two holes, one on each side near the nostrils, but that can suffice to breathe and carry along with the air one breathes the impression of the [herbs] enclosed further along in the beak.”

It's not modern P.P.E. but I don't see how it wasn't beneficial still

user-inactivated  ·  1481 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Painted My Feelings About The COVID-19 Situation

Wow, nice job.

user-inactivated  ·  1484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: US jobless claims soar past 3 million to record high

i heard an interview on NPR saying the virus was mutating at 1/5 the rate of influenza. The pathologist . The virologist being interviewed said it suggested, hopefully, that vaccines would be effective for 2-3 years.

I wish I could find the source, but it is close to bed time for me.

user-inactivated  ·  1505 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Craft Fair v3.25 - March 4, 2020

Im planning to turn and old dresser into a dehydrator cabinet this weekend. Will post pics after

user-inactivated  ·  1505 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elizabeth Warren drops out of presidential race.

Gonna be some great debate between trump and this guy, pretty sure it'll be a competition of who seems less senile at that point. Politics are in an awful state and I'm not sure how to get all these phony entrenched career politicians out.
user-inactivated  ·  1506 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On March 31, the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation.

I saw that Stanford runs a similar project as well https://foldingathome.org/

user-inactivated  ·  1509 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's the Affordability, Stupid

No need to apologize, i was just confused is all.

user-inactivated  ·  1512 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "COVID-19 Will Mark the End of Affluence Politics"

Did SARS change anything? This article reads like nonsense to me but maybe I'm to dumb to understand it.

user-inactivated  ·  1512 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's the Affordability, Stupid

I'm not sure I understand. I was referring to the last sentence of the quote above in the original post.

user-inactivated  ·  1515 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's the Affordability, Stupid

Is it really unavoidable?

user-inactivated  ·  1522 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 370th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

Two artists I enjoy recently have released some new stuff and I've enjoyed it

HIp Hop

Dark Jazz/Ambient Jazz/Jazz Noir/whatever you want to call slow brooding music where not much happens

I enjoy how many older artists I find through YouTube's recommendation algorithm

user-inactivated  ·  1551 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall

Disappointing to read. Seems to be a running trend with celebrities of old, and seems to be as popular for it to be well known and documented at the time.

user-inactivated  ·  1559 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I don't have anything to hide, but I don't have anything to show you either.

If the same companies are buying the data does the source matter?

user-inactivated  ·  1572 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Astronomers Have Something to Say About All Those Satellites...

Here is a map of approximately all satellites orbiting earth currently.

https://maps.esri.com/rc/sat2/index.html

user-inactivated  ·  1610 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tesla Wedge

It looks cool. Anyone using a truck for utility purposes will probably tear it up though. I feel like wear and tear will show up easier on a sleek design like that.

user-inactivated  ·  1624 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "If it's not Bitfinex, it's somebody they do business with very frequently."

Big news for anyone interested in crypto. Another nail in the coffin for public acceptance as a currency to. I know blockchain and the stuff it allows like Oracle contacts are catching on. I think, at least from my casual observation of crypto, that it wont be used as a currency beyond anonymous transactions and investment. I wonder if there will be data supporting manipulation before this instance the article talks about.

user-inactivated  ·  1632 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mindfulness: Deep or Dumb?

Do it and decide for yourself. It helps me when i'm scatterbrained and is good practice for being aware of your emotions and nixing the negative ones before they get to far along. Videos like this are idiotic considering it's a subjective experience.

user-inactivated  ·  1660 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Silicon Valley is approaching its anxiety the way it knows best: with more tech.

Pessimist sees the worse in everything, more at 11.

user-inactivated  ·  1697 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Judge In Opioid Trial Rules Johnson & Johnson Must Pay Oklahoma $572 Million

I agree that another company will by the assets and fill the gap in the market left. The human cost of the transition is hard to swallow though. It brings up the question, If we have let certain companies gain such control on the health of the nation, what amount of sacrifice is too much to re establish independence from them?

The first step at would be to change monopoly on production of a drug maybe, but that's a whole other rabbit whole with its own drawbacks.

My post was influenced by emotion. You're right, it's a complicated issue. I'm not sure there will be an easy solution.

user-inactivated  ·  1697 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Judge In Opioid Trial Rules Johnson & Johnson Must Pay Oklahoma $572 Million

https://www.jnj.com/johnson-johnson-reports-2018-fourth-quarter-results

    Worldwide sales for the full-year 2018 were $81.6 billion

Maybe if all 50 states can make a case it will be something of impact. I'm of the opinion J&J, and the other 2 corporations charged in Oklahoma, should be barred from doing business in America. Let a competitor come in who isn't going to create a drug epidemic that will be a burden on families, hospitals, and taxpayers for the next 20+ years if not longer. It could be argued they've created a problem that will never be solved completely if you consider the addiction rates of those raised in homes with a parent who is an addict. I'm not sure if it is possible to bar someone from operating in America but in a perfect world it would be.

user-inactivated  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The History of the Lock and Key

I enjoyed the history portion of the article.

I'd never went to put myself in a situation where something electronic malfunctioning prevents me getting to something I need to. If I need to see who is coming and going I'd use a camera. I cant say my opinion wouldn't change if it concerned a business and the people coming and going werent just friends and family.

user-inactivated  ·  1701 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: American Green

That app sounds enjoyable to use. What is the name of it?

user-inactivated  ·  1719 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "We’re All Tired of Being Called Racists" - Woman Who Hates Ilhan Omar For Being Muslim

What policies are you referencing?

user-inactivated  ·  1753 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: About Face: death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.

Pretty fair review. I enjoyed how much research he put into subcultures and fashion through the series. How much is real or embellished i dont know, but that few things I've looked up have held true to descriptions in the books.