Good evening all and sundry. Tonight we are getting our Hush Puppies on, firing up the blender and cooking up that American creation on which we feed. Yes indeed. Tonight’s highlight entertainer is the one and only…
So with the booze in the blender ready to render that frozen concoction that helps us hang on let us find that lost shaker of salt and get this party started.
FINS UP!
Well, it’s a relief to know someone is studying masks, if they’re going to regulate our whole lives based on them.
Face Mask Construction, Materials Matter for Containing Coughing, Sneezing Droplets
Florida Atlantic University via Phys.org / June 30, 2020
Currently, there are no specific guidelines on the most effective materials and designs for facemasks to minimize the spread of droplets from coughs or sneezes to mitigate the transmission of COVID-19. While there have been prior studies on how medical-grade masks perform, data on cloth-based coverings used by the vast majority of the general public are sparse.
With a folded cotton handkerchief, droplets traveled 1 foot, 3 inches. Credit for all photos: Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science
With the cone-style mask, droplets traveled about 8 inches.
With the stitched quilted cotton mask, droplets traveled 2.5 inches.
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When the mannequin was not fitted with a mask, they projected droplets much farther than the 6-foot distancing guidelines currently recommended by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The researchers observed droplets traveling up to 12 feet within approximately 50 seconds. Moreover, the tracer droplets remained suspended midair for up to three minutes in the quiescent environment. These observations, in combination with other recent studies, suggest that current social-distancing guidelines may need to be updated to account for aerosol-based transmission of pathogens.
Vermont has banned table scraps:
Vermont’s food scraps ban that starts July 1 is the last step in a multi-year process of reducing waste in landfills.
The Universal Recycling Law was unanimously passed by the state legislature in 2012 in response to the state’s stagnant recycling rates. According to a 2013 study, an estimated 50% of Vermonters’ trash included recyclable or compostable materials, like food scraps and leaf and yard debris.
First, you need to find something to store the food scraps in. Morris recommended a large container with a lid, which can be recycled from something already on hand or bought from a hardware store. She said to empty it at least once a week, getting into the habit of taking it out or driving it to a drop-off site just like you would with normal trash and recycled materials.
There are three basic options for what to do with food scraps, according to Morris: compost them for yourself, hire a company to come pick it up from your home or take them to a drop-off site, like CSWD or Green Mountain Compost.
OK, this answered my very, very first question:
As far as enforcement goes, haulers will not be going through individuals’ trash bags looking for food scraps. The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources said it is focusing more on compliance and education rather than punishment.
… as every socialist state has claimed.
‘Is’ does not equal ‘won’t.’
Can’t they even come up with something more original than “Re-education Camps”? Or at least try? We’ll see through them, but they could at least try.
The law does allow meat, bones, and grease to be in the trash, as they don’t break down quickly in small-scale compost systems.
Chip in Florida had a vision of a liberal album:
Most of the crap on side A is, well, crap. But that one song on the B side….. solid gold!
Straight Line of the Day: On a best-selling liberal double album, some of the tracks are…
… and you can’t use “I’ve Pandered and Can’t Get Up!” because Chip already used that one.
Because of Coronavirus, theaters can’t currently be full enough that it would be illegal for you to yell “Fire!” in them.
It’s possible the idiots randomly destroying things don’t have any grand political ideals and are just idiots who like destroying things.
“Hi, child Frank, I’ve come to bring you news of 2020!”
“Wow. Do you have a Mars base?”
“Nope.”
“Flying cars?”
“Nope.”
“What do you have?”
“We’ve discovered way more things are racist than your small mind could ever possibly conceive.”
“Oh, so are race relations better?”
“Nope.”
Got a 1-star review for Fathom. Had no idea what he was talking about in the review and I checked and he just gives 1-star reviews to like every book and complains about them having rich people in them.
So you have to pretty insane to not like my novel.
Can wearing a mask actually harm your health? Ninjas do have a lower life expectancy than the general population.
If you don’t like the current national anthem, you can play the unofficial one, the theme to Team America.
How have the South Park guys avoided being canceled? They only do problematic.
“It’s awful to see that man killed by the police.”
“We need to take on police unions and qualified immunity.”
“Exactly. Going to tear down statues.”
“What?”
“And remove episodes of old shows.”
“That’s not…”
“Make sure cartoon characters are voiced by the same race.”
frantically searches for pretext for having episodes of Friends removed
I see some conspiracy theories that old episodes being taken down from Netflix and Hulu is to make the movement look dumb and petty, but when you have ever changing and arbitrary rules with a disproportionate punishment if you ever break them, this is what happens.
I.e., dumb things are happening because you made things dumb.
BLM lost the messaging because there wasn’t enough separation of rioting from protesting. Blame the left who tried to justify stores being burnt down as legitimate protest. Now when people see a protest, they assume violence will follow and that’s the focus and not the message.
I assume more than 95% of the protest is peaceful, but the coverage is like 80% of destruction and no one really knows what’s going on.
Anyway, violence bad. And anyone who said otherwise helped hurt any postive momentum forward.
So with the black face moral panic, we’ve lost one of the best episodes of Community but the Governor of Virginia is still around? Everything seems so arbitrary.
It seems the relevant thing with the couple with guns is whether the protestors were on private property or not, and the fact that no one leads with that seems political.
And hey, if you’re all for abolishing the police, a lot more suburbanites standing around with AR-15s is what you’re going to get, so don’t be hypocritical here.
Stop telling journalists to “learn to code.” I don’t want to have to end up working with any of them.
Slave owning was a horrible sin. It’s hard to see how anyone thought that was okay.
So are we a better people now that we don’t have slavery?
No. We’re the same people still.
Everyone is like that Pharisee who prayed to God saying, “Thank you I’m not like that tax collector.”
The devil is fine with you hating sin — as long as it’s not your own sins.
People like Batman because he speaks to a truth we all have deep in our hearts: Crime can be solved by a billionaire punching poor people.
You’re going to defund the police and cancel Batman? This is like a Joker plot.
The left like to think they learned something from the civil rights era but many act as if they can just hate certain groups of people out of existence.
Can we blame the uptick on COVID-19 cases on all the people who unequivocally cheered on the protests?
I mean, I thought protests were good (looting, burning bad obviously — plus looting is often indoors where it’s higher risk), but it really was so bizarre for people one week to go “You’ll kill grandma!” about going to the zoo suddenly cheer on large crowds gathering.
Anyway, all the people who were cheering on the protests but are now yelling at other people for the increased COVID-19 cases should really just be banned from having an opinion for the rest of the pandemic.
I hate how partisan the stupid pandemic has become, but that’s what it is for all the loudest yelling voices.
I put on a mask and literally within seconds I was dead. But I took hydroxychloroquine and am better now.
A bunch of weird, hateful little trolls think they’re so right about politics they can decide which contrary views shouldn’t be allowed to be expressed, and it’s hard to believe they don’t see how insane that is.
I mean, you want to say to these people: “Just look at yourself. The idea that you’re right about even 50% of things is pushing it. You think the fact that you’re miserable and angry all the time is a good indication there’s a lot you don’t have figured out very well.”
We’re all wrong about things we’ve very sure we’re right about. That’s the point of the liberal tradition. It’s very bad if any of us go unchallenged. And it’s also bad to hold views — even if they’re right — that we can’t coherently defend.
The accumulated filth of all their politics and activism will foam up about their waists and all the boomers, millennials, and zoomers will look up and shout “Save us!”… and the Gen Xers will look down and whisper “Whatever.”
