@Cerberus Even better, they're fake internet points! That's a bingo!
@Cerberus If I'd meant the latter I'd have used communications.
@tchrist: I don't understand what you mean when you say "Besides indict and its compounds, the only other word I know of with 〈ict〉 pronounced /aɪt/ is deictic, which is pronounced /ˈdaɪktɪk/." Clearly those pronunciations are not the same. The latter has a /k/ in it instead of a silent c. Am I msising something?
Why is "2 Deaths and Multiple Injuries as Snowstorm Slams the East Coast" bigger front page news than the record new cases of covid today, the record new deaths from covid today, and the record hospitalization levels from covid today?
Seriously, the East Coast is so full of themselves I want to puke.
Did Pearl Harbor hit the East Coast today? No.
Did 9/11 hit the East Coast today? No.
Did the entire country NOT THE EAST COAST lose more people than those disasters today? YES!
Fuck your snow storm you pussies.
Yes, I'm angry. Yes, part of that is just having lost someone to this. But my God the humanity!!
Look at California! They have more new cases today than almost any other country.
@Xanne Sure hope you're keeping your head down out there.
It's winter. Snow happens. Get over it. Bunch of babies.
People are dying. Thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people are dying Every. Single. Day.
These summer children need to live in Alaska or the Rockies for a few winters. Then they can shut up about their snow.
I had 13 FEET of snow last winter. Did I complain? No.
But when thousands and thousands of people are dying every single day, I more than complain. So should you.
Europe isn't doing so well either. Germany hit the #4 spot on Thanatos's Leaderboard today.
But California slipped just barely under the second-place winner of new cases today, who was Turkey.
So California has #3 on the new cases leaderboard by country.
@tchrist @CowperKettle We are, apparently, locked down, but the traffic on El Camino (through Menlo Park and Palo Alto in Silicon Valley) is as heavy as it's been since the original lockdown in March 2020. About 90% of full normal. I went to my gym today, got pizza, walked with a friend.
Note that everyone in India knows that migrants live in big cities and are dependent on day-to-day income.
> Many experts have criticized Mr. Modi’s government for overlooking the plight of migrant laborers, who suddenly had no work, no income and no support network in the cities.
This wording is specious, to put it mildly. The truth is that the Fascist Idiot-in-Chief doesn't care who he hurts.
He probably thinks, like Churchill, if a few million poor Indians die, there's lots more where they came from.
As I recall, Churchill described Indians as (among other things) "breeding like rabbits".
Well, to be precise the FIC does care about his rich friends, and I suppose about the organizations he represents, but otherwise, no.
> 1. I'm wearing the same coat that/as I wore yesterday. 2. He is the same man that/who/*as talked to you on the phone. 3. He is the same man that/who/?as you talked to on the phone.
As doesn't feel right in 2 and 3. I don't know why. Am I mistaken?
Well, in 2 maybe because man is the subject of the following clause.
@CowperKettle This is a small gym and there's only one client and one trainer at a time. They do a lot of disinfecting of equipment and both client and trainer wear masks and gloves. So to me the risk is worth taking.
A friend asked me to come and spend New Year with him and his family, but I declined, because there are risks in going to Moscow and back. I'm afraid of infecting my Mom and Dad
In Moscow people can get vaccinated, but one must first register in a Moscow clinic, it's too complex, I think
And there is an insufficient number of vaccines available.
> The work, only reported in a preprint, suggests COVID-19 takes a page from HIV and other retroviruses and integrates its genetic code—but, importantly, just parts of it—into people’s chromosomes.
> "We love Russia sincerely. There is a very big war going on against you personally. It can be seen - they are afraid of you. But the fact that everyone in the West hates Russia or treats Russia badly is all untrue.
Keep it up, Vladimir, and be healthy at all times"
A question from an Icelandic journalist during today's annual press-conference of Putin
RE:" people are incompetent": “I feel sometimes like there is someone in FB HQ whose job is trying to come up with new ways of completely destroying any semblance of intelligence in America,” tweeted WNYC editor-in-chief Audrey Cooper. Buzzfeed.com
Facebook is working on an AI which will supposedly generate a TL;DR bullet list of news articles. The metatheria at least do not make such problematic inventions.
One doesn't ordinarily say
*I'm being there tomorrow.
to indicate one's future location. True.
On the other hand, one doesn't ordinarily say
*I'm being home today.
to indicate one's present location, either.
The problem is not with the future, nor with the rule about using progressive for fut...
> Fujifilm and IBM say research into a new material, strontium ferrite, led to the creation of a tape cartridge capable of storing 580 terabytes of data.
> That's enough to store roughly 580 million books, according to an IBM blog post published Wednesday.
Considering there are about only 130 million books in existence today, that'll leave plenty of room for extras.
That's 66 years of nonstop video on a single cartridge.
Some French art movie maker will surely produce a movie that will fit it.
@CowperKettle Doesn't the chart look even more anomalous now?
From such a chart, I'd need to know which countries are the most industrious (at least the dirty kind), which ones are not that industrious but pollute a lot (like mine, this could be compared with GDP data or something like that for means of classification), and which countries are the least shameful (the ones that you'd expect would be able to join a climate treaty and reduce emissions but they don't)
This doesn't seem to help with any of that, but the absolute numbers would
@Xanne The virus is spreading unabated in California despite strict stay-at-home orders. If folks are still barrelling down el Camino at 90%, it doesn't much sound like a real lockdown to me. :( Do you have to restrict people to their homes for real, shut down all businesses and highways and such, and check hall passes? I dunno. Just know this isn't working.
One doesn't ordinarily say
*I'm being there tomorrow.
to indicate one's future location. True.
On the other hand, one doesn't ordinarily say
*I'm being home today.
to indicate one's present location, either.
The problem is not with the future, nor with the rule about using progressive for fut...
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