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If you’re not a cynical misanthrope by now, you’re not paying attention.

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The correct answer to the poll…

The most effective way to prevent the infection and spread of COVID-19 is by properly wearing a NIOSH-approved respirator when you are near other people or breathe air that may possibly be contaminated.

- N95 respirator > 95% efficient at stopping virus particles
- P100 respirator > 99.97% efficient at stopping virus particles
- FDA-approved vaccines ~ 50% two weeks after injection; 40% or less after 4 months, at preventing infection
- best cloth masks or surgical masks ~50-60% efficient at stopping virus particles
- typical cloth mask < 30% efficient
- hand-washing - not effective

N95 and P100 are NIOSH ratings for respirators
NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)

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Which is the most effective way to prevent the infection and spread of COVID-19?
(besides complete isolation, of course)

4 people · May 15, 2022, 02:38
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Lexa Doig played the titular role in the TV series Andromeda (2000-2005).

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(given current evernts, I'll run this poll again)

Is it more important to follow the law, or to follow what the Supreme Court says?

3 people · May 09, 2022, 22:59
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I think it's time to overturn Marbury v. Madison.

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Well, some of them got it, but since there is generally no requirement for reporters and family to report positive tests, we'll never know for sure how many people caught COVID-19 at the event or how sick they got.

(Note: The CEO of CBS is probably required to disclose a positive because his health directly effects the value of that publicly traded company.)

nytimes.com/2022/05/06/world/g

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We'll never know because no one will report it.

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The truth is…

In the US in March 2022, there were 2450 people who had died from COVID-19 and came back to life again.
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Cumulative deaths from COVID-19:
2022/3/12 11:15 p.m. - 967,552
2022/3/14 11:35 p.m. - 965,102
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Source: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center; coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
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= A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

(Image CC-by-nc-nd-3.0; by Sylvenne, www.deviantart.com)

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Retro SciFi of the Week…

The Time Machine (1960)

This is the first film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel. Although the story isn’t the first time-travel story ever written, it’s the first one to include a device that allows one to travel forward or backward to arbitrarily selected points in time.

After six decades, the film has held up well and is still entertaining in it’s own right. The special effects are pretty good even by today’s standards. They won an Academy Award when the film debuted.

Other film adaptations were made in 1978 and 2002, but they deviated more substantially from the book.

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Is it more important to follow the law, or to follow what the Supreme Court says?

1 person · Feb 11, 2022, 23:57
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We began using fire about 1.7 million years ago…
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Some people still use fire to power their putt-putt cars.
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Everybody else drives an electric car.
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(Actually, Fred Flintstone’s car used the flywheel effect to run his car. The energy came from brontosaurus burgers. Primitive.)
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How many people at the White House Correspondents' Dinner superspreader event will become infected with COVID-19?

5 people · Apr 30, 2022, 22:11
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Everyone remember to wear your respirator…

Clip from Andromeda: Dance of the Mayflies (2001)
(Content Warning: strobe effects)

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What percentage of toots do you have no idea what the hell the poster is talking about?

16 people · May 06, 2022, 08:25
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Retro SciFi of the Month…

12 to the Moon (1960)

This film is one of the very few 20th century science fiction films to include a black character. And it’s one of the few of any genre to include a black character before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It also includes an Asian character. As the title suggests, it’s an ensemble cast of twelve who fly to the moon.

The film was produced shortly after the founders of Columbia Pictures had died and a bean-counter had taken over the studio. The company was in flux, as was its produciton quality. So although it was from a major studio, it suffered from a reduced budget. It’s only slightly better in quality than the typical giant-insect scifi films of the era, but it’s kind of quirky and much different in feel from the usual 50’s science fiction films.

It looks like the filmmakers were trying to make a serious and technically accurate film, but of course there were many blunders. It’s a stupid film but fun to watch nonetheless.

Here's a clip from the film showing the astronuats first entering the rocket ship before liftoff.

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provocative comment on mass graves, war 

Why do they bury war victims in mass graves?

So that in a million years from now when another species has taken over for humans, who by then are long extinct, all those people who were buried a million years ago during the war will have turned into oil and then the new species can pump out that oil and they’ll have something to fight about and start wars over.

The cycle of life.

(Image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil, by Sanjay Acharya, CC-BY-SA-3.0)

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Also, electricity can come from just about any source. H2 would come from the same multi-national industry that forces countries to invade other countries like Iraq, Syria, Ukraine... just to protect their interests and keep their commodity scarce and expensive.

If we were on H2 right now, we'd be facing the same high fuel prices because it's tied to oil market.

You can buy an electic car today that has a 1000 mile range.

It costs me $2.63 to fill up my car. (not $2.63 per gallon, that's $2.63 total cost in electricity to fill it up.)

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Kamala Harris has tested positive for COVID-19.

Who could have seen that coming?

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