Link. Not true of gay marriage though.
Monthly Archives: February 2022
“People are frustrated and angry, and those feelings are fueling increases in viole crime, customer abuse of workers, student misbehavior in school and vehicle crashes.”
Link. “In 2020, overall U.S. traffic deaths rose 7.2 percent. Among Black Americans, the increase was 23 percent.”
Chrome OS Flex Will Rescue Your Old PC or Mac
Link. I might try it.
HIV resistance: “mutation has been identified in only about 20,000 donors, most of whom are of Northern European descent”
Link. Marrow donors are almost all white. That’s a problem for non-white patients who need bone marrow donations.
Canadian whackos meet: “a room that echoed with the constant coughing of dozens of maskless supporters.”
Link. Ideal conditions.
“Christiansen skied alone out in front coolly around the closing turns as Norwegians often do, and then he skied across the line well in first as Norwegians often do.”
Link. “country of 5.5 million”
Crypto Wealth: “… a very big iceberg”
Link. Humanity needs a legal guardian. Also, we have too much money in the wrong places.
On rebutting the antivaxx: “… having to sit down and watch rows of batshit YouTube stuff and listen to hours of Joe Rogan. Life’s too short.”
Link. Indeed. Time to let them be.
Surprising things in my upgrade from an iPhone 8 to an iPhone 13 Pro.
Link. Apple included a free bug.
Russian flu, prior coronavirae, and predicting pandemics.
Link. Several interesting bits in this article.
Supposed Dem spam blacklist registration.
Link. I have not gotten confirmation email however. So not working for me.
Bike Inn, Bentonville.
Link. Need more like this.
“Because certificates could be so easily forged, they’d insist on seeing the vaccine scar,” says Willrich. “Vaccine scars readily served as a physical form of certification.”
Link. This comics history post is marvelous. (Ok, DeliCious)
Life with COVID (and optional masks): “if you are a normal, healthy 30-year-old person with no underlying conditions, you might need a booster only every four or five years.”
Link. Fauci based on latest CDC findings. For 60+ I’m guessing at least yearly.
SSD wear and IORegistry: gaps in Mac diagnostics
Link. The complexity is staggering.
COVID death 18-49: “0.9 per 100,000 people among the unvaccinated, and plummeted to 0.03 among people who were vaccinated. With the addition of a booster, deaths were too low to measure.”
Link. Hospitalization typically 10 times higher than death. Boosters give real benefit at 50+, and benefit increases with age.
Dems fail on free community college.
Link. NYT fails to say why.
“within three years of receiving a diagnosis of diabetes, people were six to eight times more likely than the general population to have pancreatic cancer.”
Link. Late onset DM in non-obese non-familial might justify CT.
new old bugs: “manufacturing defects are tied to these so-called silent errors that cannot be easily caught”
Link. New issues at limits of computing.
How do Facebook Message Link scams work?
Link. It deserves a better answer than what I’ve gotten so far — but this might be the best there is.
Rogan’s Malone interview really was nonstop bullshit.
Link. We quit Spotify family plan.
“Our bodies are starting to go. Our bladders have been put to the test. And no exercise. We end up with all types of heart and other health ailments.”
Link. “The average trucking company has a turnover rate of roughly 95 percent”
Sleep problems too. Truck driving is very unhealthy.
“historically, stimulant epidemics follow opioid crises”
Link. Boredom?
How does the Facebook Messenger click link scam work?
Link. It’s a sign of the decay of the web that I could not find a good answer to a question millions ask every single day.
Late Middle Ages: “many people went to sleep around sundown and woke three to four hours later. They socialized, read books, had small meals and tried to conceive children”
Link. Curious.
“people who exercised for 90 minutes right after their shot subsequently produced more antibodies than people who did not”
Link. I did CrossFit the same day …
“Ottawa is a small city, with about one million residents, and has a police force to match, with fewer than 1,500 officers”
Link. Canada does not have equivalent of “national guard”
“by midday, the police were facing only about a dozen remaining pickup trucks there.”
Link. It’s ending.
“IBM sought to eliminate older workers by requiring them to move to a different part of the country to keep their jobs.”
Link. All of tech does age discrimination. IBM was impatient.
Progress in adulting (special needs)
Link. Progress is not dramatic, but it continues.
Sturmfist 4 Winter Cycling Gloves With Aerogel Insulation
Link. Trusted sources love this glove. On my wish list. For now my Dogwood Poagies make my lobster gloves good.
Music app features in iOS 14.5
Link. Since leaving Spotify this is suddenly relevant.
“Uber is (still) a bezzle (“the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it”)”
Link.
“This class of bug—an update opting users back into something they had opted out of—seems to be really common for Apple.”
Link. Olympian.
Skeleton: “The sliding is physically brutal: Athletes endure four to five G-forces of pressure around turns and must withstand the rattling vibrations of the track.”
Link. “by the end of the season, for one or two months you just can’t think clearly”
Winter Olympic sports are extreme.
“the crowd had thinned somewhat, with empty spaces where trucks had been.”
Link. Winding down. Premier senses this is politically bad for him; protesters are his base.
“I can’t think of any single zoonotic virus with an equivalently broad host range,”
Link. No way COVID goes away. And there will be others.
“New York Times in six days published as many cover stories about Clinton’s emails as they did about “all the policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election.”
Link. NYT journalists really disliked HRC. They thought she’d win and looked forward to years of revenge. Humans are like this.
Does China think long-term while America thinks short-term?
Link. Smashes that myth. Kissinger was a doofus though.
“You can create up to 3 different Apple IDs on 1 device.”
Link. Huh? That’s weird. There are so many FairPlay rules.
Series I Savings Bonds – inflation adjusted, max 10K per year.
Link. These are really weird but seem a reasonable alternative to cash.
How to add an Apple Store order to your Apple ID after purchasing as guest.
Link. “From your account page, choose Your Orders. Since your order doesn’t show, choose “Find it Now”. This displays the Order Lookup Screen. Enter the order information and you will be given the option to add it to your Apple ID account.”
Buying an iPhone from online Apple store: “AT&T activation fee if choose “connect to a carrier now?”
Link. It’s a bloody mystery. Not getting an answer I chose the old SIM swap option.
“A tumor growing on her right ovary had stimulated her immune system to produce millions of antibodies, which mistakenly attacked crucial receptors in her brain.”
Link. Psychosis gets a new look.
“Black Death might have been caused by two strains of the bacteria Yersinia pestis, which could have caused different levels of devastation.”
Link. Some areas relatively spared, others devastated. It went on and on.
F.D.A. Rejects Lilly’s Cancer Drug: “An analysis by the F.D.A.’s staff of the trial results in China was scathing on methodological grounds.”
Link. Nobody trusts Chinese clinical trials.
Debunking false claims about the Canadian convoy protests.
Link. Musk tweet: “image was from a 2018 convoy demonstration in the Canadian province of Alberta — a demonstration in support of Canada’s oil and gas industry. Tesla makes electric vehicles.”
CalDigit 18-port TS4 for Mac.
Link. I could accept that.
“Nowhere has anyone, on any media outlet, latched on to and covered the story about the Webb telescope.”
Link. Or the massive job growth.
Minneapolis’ policy on ‘no-knock’ search warrants.
Link. Decent explanation but doesn’t say whether police think no-knock is safer for them.