https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/09/ronald-reagan-dad-taught-me-about-holocaust/
The Republican Party has come so far. “So far.”
Ok, my late-night king of cocktails. The Bitter Tears. 1:5 (or so) Fernet Branca:Gin, with about 7 drops of concentrated saline solution. Stir with ice 60 times, strain. “Enjoy.” Slowly.
https://www.wral.com/north-carolina-supreme-court-strikes-down-new-voting-maps/20116940/
Why judicial elections matter. Republicans swept the top judicial elections in NC last time.
«Only one of the three registered Republicans on the high court, Newby, spoke during oral arguments. He noted a “fair” election isn’t explicitly afforded to voters.»
TechRadar: This ancient programming language is way more common than we all thought. https://www.techradar.com/news/this-ancient-programming-language-is-way-more-common-than-we-all-thought
This sort of thing is just ho…gwash. Any fool could pick up any 3GL in a heartbeat. The question “do you know X language?” is really “do you know the ecosystem of X language?” but no one seems to know that. Yes, I know COBOL, how hard could it be? COMPUTE TAKE-HOME-PAY = GROSS-PAY * (1 – FED-TAX-RATE – STATE-TAX-RATE – FICA-RATE). CLOSE FILES. GOBACK.
But the whole VSAM, VTAM, CICS2 ecosystem? They don’t ask about that.
Or is it only idiots (me) who think this is about a programming language?
Well, here’s a hit:
«The meteoric rise of White nationalism within national discourse over the course of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and freshman administration—through Trump’s barely coded speech at fascist-style rallies, his support from the internet-based “Alt Right,” and his placement of White nationalist popularizers in top positions—has produced a shock of revelation for people across a wide swath of the political spectrum. This shock, in turn, has been a source of frustration within communities of color and leftist circles, where White liberals are often accused of having kept their heads in the sand while more vulnerable populations sounded the alarm about the toll of economic crisis, mass incarceration, police violence, deportation, environmental devastation, and—despite and in reaction to the election of Barack Obama—the unending blare of everyday hate.»
The whole piece is interesting.
https://www.readthepresentage.com/p/jack-posobiec-newsweek-nancy-cooper
Well, then.
«Newsweek purged staffers who were reporting on and investigating the company’s wrongdoings and left the editorial operation in the hands of Nancy Cooper, a toady who wouldn’t rock the boat like the previous editor-in-chief Bob Roe did.
Since then, it’s been a right-wing nightmare.»
Good-bye, Newsweek, I guess.
The United States is LEADING the world in Covid deaths and unvaccinated people! AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM, WOOO!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/31/chad-carswell-kidney-coronavirus-vaccine/
Ya know… I feel like this story could’ve been a little more in-depth.
How does the hospital administration (especially the medical staff) feel about the recent paper showing that naturally-acquired resistance is better than having been vaccinated? Not that I recommend people go out and “get” natural resistance, but now that he’s been infected twice, do they still believe he should really get the vaccine? Do they believe the vaccine offers resistance to a wider spectrum of variants?
Also, is it possible that he just doesn’t really want to go on as a double amputee with diabetes?
He says he has doubts about how the vaccine was developed. Does he really believe that getting the vaccine is more dangerous than not getting a new kidney?
Chad Carswell, whom a hospital has denied a kidney transplant over his vaccination status, said he would rather “die free” than receive a coronavirus vaccine.
Of course, there’s always another paper saying the opposite: https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1487814184104517632?s=20&t=0Nb23dTkMXCVFKA4pJPUIA
So, five days later, I’m still thinking about Chad. Maybe this is the only control he has over things. He’s not in (easy) control of his diabetes, nor is he in control of the healthcare system that decides whether he gets a new kidney, nor is he in control of his bank that decides whether to loan him money for this, nor is he in control of the government that decides whether he has to wear a mask at the grocery store (well, he sort of is, because he votes, presumably, but he’s not in control of medical experts that recommend mask-wearing to his local government), nor is he in control of whatever company he works for (if any) that decides his working hours and conditions and assignments.
But, so far, one of the things he’s in control of is whether or not to get a vaccine. I’ve heard it said that people with little power (managers, in the contexts I’ve heard it in) always have the power to say “No.” So here we are. Maybe Chad has decided “No,” he will not get vaccinated, because that’s the only thing he can decide, and to say “Yes” would simply feel like going along with what everybody else is telling him to do (so, no decision, really).
Or is that too patronizing?
https://twitter.com/doriecp/status/1483992711816531968?s=20&t=xKt-j9KVPB3ct_kYqvAXOQ
SUPER-DUPER interesting. If this is accurate, $25 to promote three products under your viral tweet.
Dorie (@doriecp) Tweeted: I’ve always been curious how much people get paid to promote shit under their viral tweets… and now I know. https://t.co/IjCKzUMxI0
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