Back to school 2021 Open Thread

by Bernard Thu Sep 2nd, 2021 at 06:44:44 PM EST

A COVID Autumn, season 2.

Back to school 2021 Open Thread | 34 comments (34 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Netflix announces final, final, truly final season of "Lucifer". This is the only Bruckheimer production I've ever enjoyed. The script and ensemble had a good run and delivered plenty of yucks. After this weekend's binge, I will promptly cancel my subscription.

by Cat on Wed Sep 8th, 2021 at 08:29:26 PM EST

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Children and COVID-19: State-Level Data Report

"Since the pandemic began, children represented 15.5% of total cumulated cases. For the week ending September 9, children were 28.9% of reported weekly COVID-19 cases.

Moral: enough virus overwhelms more re-active immune system

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Sep 16th, 2021 at 05:20:22 PM EST

Re: Back to school [INCONTINENCE ALERT] (none / 0)

Following yet another "social media" scandal, "journalists" have discovered that their "platforms" principal business is publishing.

by Cat on Fri Sep 17th, 2021 at 09:16:29 AM EST

Re: Back to school [INCONTINENCE ALERT] (none / 0)

or not. Facebook is down. Anyone else?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Oct 4th, 2021 at 04:30:44 PM EST
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A disturbance in the farce (none / 0)

The whole Facebook ~~colonies~~ "properties": Whatsapp, Instagram...

by Bernard on Mon Oct 4th, 2021 at 06:31:59 PM EST
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Always look at the bright side (none / 0)

Social media users rejoice about break from `toxic' platforms during major outage#FacebookDown #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #FacebookBlackout https://t.co/rJPX28CKVn
— The Independent (@Independent) October 4, 2021

by Bernard on Mon Oct 4th, 2021 at 06:58:05 PM EST
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Subway (4.00 / 3)

Is there a French version?

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Sat Sep 18th, 2021 at 08:33:28 PM EST

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The brands are at it again.

by generic on Sat Sep 18th, 2021 at 08:53:39 PM EST
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The French version was non-nuclear powered (at Australia's request).

Also that was 90 billion Australian dollars (about € 50 billion), not USD.

by Bernard on Tue Sep 21st, 2021 at 09:34:59 PM EST
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So can you get 40 billion $ in change then?

by fjallstrom on Thu Sep 23rd, 2021 at 06:25:23 PM EST
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by Cat on Thu Sep 23rd, 2021 at 07:13:30 PM EST
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"Women and minorities" crisis w/e 18 Sep (none / 0)

In related news
COVID racial disparities also affect kids, report says
and
MISSING WHITE WOMAN returns,
stop the presses

by Cat on Sat Sep 18th, 2021 at 09:25:48 PM EST

"Women and minorities" crisis w/e 18 Sep (none / 0)

USAToday editorial management PIVOTS w/e 25 Sep
Gabby Petito case draws renewed attention to missing Arizona geologist Daniel Robinson

by Cat on Tue Sep 21st, 2021 at 05:36:15 PM EST
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"driving while black" (none / 0)

by Cat on Tue Sep 21st, 2021 at 10:21:33 PM EST
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"Women and minorities" crisis w/e 18 Sep (none / 0)

Jury convicts R. Kelly on sex-trafficking charges

The conviction on all counts could mean life in prison for Kelly, who is scheduled to be sentenced next May.
In the top count -- Kelly was charged with 14 acts violating federal anti-racketeering law -- jurors found that the government proved all except for two kidnapping and Mann Act allegations pertaining to a woman who testified as Sonja that Kelly had sexually assaulted her in 2003 while she was drugged and unconscious. Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was also charged and convicted of all eight counts against him under the Mann Act.

R. Kelly fate now in jury's hands at sex trafficking trial
"Chicago-based criminal enterprise that recruited his accusers for unwanted sex and mental torment."

archived sex work, NXIVM "cult", Mann Act revival, SOSTA/FESTA, Avenatti

by Cat on Tue Sep 28th, 2021 at 01:34:41 AM EST
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Quarantine (4.00 / 3)

You all probably know that the concept comes from Venice. But what I just learnt today, at the exhibition on Venice's 1600 year anniversary at the Palazzo Ducale, was that the traders objected to the restrictions and quarantine was lifted on two separate occasions.

Both times, capitalism won. And about a quarter of the population died.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Sat Sep 25th, 2021 at 11:05:49 AM EST

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My comment was based on the captions on the wall. I've just read the catalogue: The traders turned to compliant physicians at the University of Padua, who ruled that the cases of plague were not plague (just a bad flu?). When it turned out that they were wrong, the authorities did respond with a proper lockdown.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Sat Sep 25th, 2021 at 02:48:22 PM EST
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Good old times (none / 1)

🤡 pic.twitter.com/OFeZK7ZpLg
— Seth J. Prins (@s_j_prins) September 25, 2021

by generic on Sat Sep 25th, 2021 at 08:29:20 PM EST

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NY Governor Kathy Hochul goes on unhinged religious rant, says "The vaccine is from God" and "I need you to be my Apostles": pic.twitter.com/mdc1sPMfB2
— Dr. Benjamin Braddock (@GraduatedBen) September 27, 2021

by Cat on Tue Sep 28th, 2021 at 02:52:45 PM EST

Move fast (none / 0)

Mission Accomplished pic.twitter.com/tbXr3kMpSu
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 6, 2021

by Bernard on Wed Oct 6th, 2021 at 08:40:16 PM EST

Wikipedia (none / 0)

Full item

The Sackler School of Medicine was named for Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, owner of Purdue Pharma, the developer of oxycodone (OxyContin®). All three were medical professionals who made substantial donations to the school. Each year the school presents the Sackler Prize for a significant contribution to the fields of physics or chemistry.

Spot what is missing.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Thu Oct 7th, 2021 at 07:42:22 PM EST

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Pregnancy and birth

by Oui on Thu Oct 7th, 2021 at 10:17:23 PM EST
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And "crack babies"! (none / 0)

differential "women and minorites diagnoses

by Cat on Fri Oct 8th, 2021 at 03:10:40 PM EST
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Top Diaries (none / 1)

The Top Diaries list was stuck for a couple of weeks. Colman fixed it (percussive maintenance? We don't want to know...) All good now.

by Bernard on Wed Oct 13th, 2021 at 08:02:56 PM EST

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I Don't Understand
hosted by Captain Kirk

by Cat on Thu Oct 14th, 2021 at 11:58:22 AM EST

Who would Jesus shoot? (none / 0)

Badge worn by a police officer in Saxony.

Irritierend, wenn Beamter @PolizeiSachsen dieses private Abzeichen an Dienstkleidung in #Dresden bei Demo-Einsatz trug.

Bild von Jesus, mit Waffe in der Hand, gehobenem Daumen und der Unterschrift "W.W.J.S.?" - das wohl für "What/Who would Jesus shoot?" stehen soll. #DD2310 pic.twitter.com/ycnkijS21l
— Annalena Schmidt (@Schmanle) October 23, 2021

by Bernard on Sun Oct 24th, 2021 at 09:03:36 AM EST

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Army tactical morale booster - Made in USA: Shootin' Jesus, Traif Crusaders

by Oui on Sun Oct 24th, 2021 at 02:36:22 PM EST
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I once saw a German border control guard with a Che Guevara tag on his jacket. Nobody seemed to be bothered by his lack of patriotism by not having a German on it (Ulrike Meinhof, for example).

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Sun Oct 24th, 2021 at 02:49:49 PM EST
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East-German border guard?

From the Red Woodstock Festival of 1973 in East-Berlin (GDR) with Special guests representing the US delegation Angela Davis and Yasser Arafat for the Palestinian envoy.
Creating his own makeshift stage on Alexanderpaltz, Wolf Biermann played a rendition of "Comandante Che Guevara," in which he paid homage to Che, with a red star on the breast of his jacket and a cigar resting on his lips, as an icon of revolutionary socialism.
...
Biermann used the political song to launch a leftist critique of the East German state in the very language of international solidarity that the state was espousing.

Ulrike Meinhoff was a German domestic terrorist leading the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), likely funded by the Stasi of GDR and Libya's Gaddafi. The Mossad infiltrated the group and used its underground network to assassinate the Palestinians responsible for the Munich 1972 massacre. Israel's Operation Wrath of God.

Meinhoff was never considered a revolutionary.

Counterterrorism and Experiences in the Evolution of Low-Intensity Operations

by Oui on Sun Oct 24th, 2021 at 06:39:29 PM EST
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China's social credit system.

Lin Jinyue, lead designer of China's social credit system, extolls its value and his hope for worldwide adoption:

"If you had the social credit system, there would never have been the Yellow Vests, we would have detected that before they acted."pic.twitter.com/6JKC8tDVzP
— Michael P Senger (@MichaelPSenger) October 22, 2021

by Bernard on Sun Oct 24th, 2021 at 08:42:00 PM EST

Re: Back to school 2021 Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Wading through the hysteria in Western media brought me to:

What is China's social credit system and why is it controversial?

Frankly I don't see any difference from bog standard business and government practices in the West. And the fears of AI upfuckedness are just as bad in the West plus with added racism.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Oct 29th, 2021 at 04:34:04 AM EST
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More often than not it's just projection.

by generic on Fri Oct 29th, 2021 at 07:04:15 AM EST
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It's more than just projection in the US. There's a group conducting a propaganda campaign in an attempt to start a Cold War with China, or Russia, or both. With the historically embedded racism in US culture the anti-China campaign seems, to me, to be getting more traction.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Oct 29th, 2021 at 05:22:41 PM EST
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Succinct statement of the situation.

As China rises, can the US arrest its own destruction?

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Wed Oct 27th, 2021 at 05:23:52 PM EST

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