Ramblings and Curated Info For "Interesting Times"
ted https://www.sciencealert.com/the-new-coronavirus-could-have-been-percolating-innocently-in-humans-for-years It may have come from a far less harmful virus that has been around in us for a while. Sort of like flu. Some who had it may have had a mild flu or just a cough, then that was it. But as it was transmitted between people it would have mutated. Viruses mutate … Read more
https://www.sciencealert.com/can-people-spread-the-coronavirus-if-they-don-t-have-symptoms Interesting and brief article on why wearing masks is better than lockdown, better than social distancing, better than anything else we have at the moment.
Xxxxxxxxx, you say that “We don’t try to reason with bears or babies or lunatics because they aren’t able to respond appropriately.” In saying this, you’re overlooking important corollaries to what you say; and confusing response and communication. By saying that “We don’t try to reason with . . . babies or lunatics . . … Read more
So why didn’t I just print it on paper, like a caveman? Well, I tried to, once. But the word processor kept deleting the files as soon as I saved them. Then the PC activated the printer and the cat disappeared inside, next thing a heap of LOLcat memes slid out the paper tray. And … Read more
It started pretty innocuously, the way so many things do. (And some don’t. Some, like the Coming Of The NeoLibTard RWNJs, started loudly and noxiously and conspicuously, of course. The world’s still suffering from them and may never fully recover…) But there was a program that was running a simulation of a program that was … Read more
Today I fly by the seat of my pants, no prep article available. Losing my inspiration with it actually. Only so much you can say about the state of the world before you find yourself repeating “it’s fecked, we’re fecked” in a hopeless mumble, over and over. I mean – look at it. LOOK AT … Read more
So yes, Ghostie was pretty much my familiar, my kitchen familiar. And I was devastated when he passed away a few years ago. But a year and a half later, we had the opportunity to take two kittens to replace our old bois. Wife’s old boi also had passed away, coincidentally almost a year to … Read more
Dear children, today’s sermon is about the animals of the Earth. For I’ve walked among them as one, and it’s been good. (To clarify, we ALL walk among them, you’re never more that a few metres from a rat or a spider or any of up to several hundred creatures, even in the metropolitan areas.) … Read more
The thing that causes animal -> human transmissions of pathogens such as bacteria and viruses is contact between animals and humans. To be perfectly honest, I don’t understand the statistics behind this, the official descriptions of the mechanisms that facilitate such transmissions, or why we as intelligent thinking beings can’t get the simple facts into … Read more
If I can go back now to the Brave New World After Coronavirus. It’s not just a great thought experiment in social engineering. It’s been done to us already to advance certain hoarding persons’ agendas, to prevent advancement of quality of life for all alive. We’ve been born to it, been exposed to ti in … Read more