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Things To Remember About Vaccines -- from Moderna's Chief Medical Officer
"Moderna Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks warns on #AxiosOnHBO to not "over-interpret" vaccine results: "They do not show that they prevent you from potentially carrying this virus...and infecting others." Adding, we shouldn't "change behaviors solely on the basis of vaccination." pic.twitter.com/qrwQkjLf3Y
I think the period while the vaccine is still being distributed is likely to be very dangerous. People are already acting stupidly, and I would expect them to remarkably more so during that time.
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Afternoon, all. What did I miss?
A dress not made of pierogis.
I think the period leading up to and while the vaccine is still being distributed is likely to be very dangerous. People are already acting stupidly, and I would expect them to remarkably more so during that time.Things To Remember About Vaccines -- from Moderna's Chief Medical Officer
"Moderna Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks warns on #AxiosOnHBO to not "over-interpret" vaccine results: "They do not show that they prevent you from potentially carrying this virus...and infecting others." Adding, we shouldn't "change behaviors solely on the basis of vaccination." pic.twitter.com/qrwQkjLf3Y
FIFY. I've seen far too many examples of people already saying, "Woo hoo! There's a vaccine! We can go back to normal now!" before the vaccine's even been FDA approved, much less even started distribution.
Never understood the appeal of edible clothes. Its a kink for some, I get that, but meat or pierogis or fruit roll-up clothes just seem like an unnecessary step. Now body paint I get.I'm amused how everyone assumes this is edible. Do you have any idea how heavy that would be, how badly the dough would tear, and how it would start to smell?
This is made of fabric.
pierogi tease! Its almost lunchtime!
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Never understood the appeal of edible clothes. Its a kink for some, I get that, but meat or pierogis or fruit roll-up clothes just seem like an unnecessary step. Now body paint I get.I'm amused how everyone assumes this is edible. Do you have any idea how heavy that would be, how badly the dough would tear, and how it would start to smell?
This is made of fabric.
I just want to point out that this is a world containing Lady Gaga. If she can wear a meat dress, we have to assume those were real pierogis. Your logic doesn't matter.
Hello, everyone.
Hiya, John! Hope the week is treating you well.
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The quotes thread has an almost-apropos quote attributed to Caesar: "All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures."
I vastly prefer, "(Almost) Every law and regulation exists for a reason."
Typical lawmaking proceeds thusly:
(1) Corporation/group/individual harms/cheats/otherwise commits abuses, either intentionally or through negligence.
(2) Knee-jerk reactionaries force through an ill-thought-out law that's usually a far worse solution than the problem warrants. Laws should take months or years to finally pass, not days nor weeks.
(3) The general populace hates the law and those who passed it without thought about the original incident that caused the law to be enacted.
(4) Lawmakers never go back and re-examine existing law; instead, it's always, "Let's make a new law!" instead of revising/revoking the old.
Anyhoo, this comes up because all my docs are signed and the loan is closed out, but there's a 3-day "cool off period" in case, somehow, for some bizarre reason, on my sixth loan I suddenly decide I don't want to play any more and I pull out.
I'm sure that the law was enacted due to overly-aggressive lenders taking ruthless advantage of mathematically-challenged individuals. And I'm certain that there are no exceptions precisely because said individuals would be the very first in line to waive their rights to a cooling-off period.
But...
(1) I'm not sure waiting for 3 days would help such individuals. Or anyone, really.
(2) Making me wait for 3 days for no particular reason is mildly irritating.
And thus we have a pointless law on the books that makes everyone sit around for 3 days, while I have trouble imagining it actually helping those it's intended to protect because I don't see such individuals suddenly thinking, "Hey, it's our cooling-off period! We'd better do all the legwork we didn't do before applying for the loan in the first place!"
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I have experience with self publishing.Wow. I read that wrong. Too early in the work day.I assume you read "self-punishing".
The estranged Catholic in me desperately wants to make Opus Dei jokes, but they quickly get dark and depressing, so I won't.
As an estranged Catholic with a dark sense of humor I would love those jokes!
Never understood the appeal of edible clothes. Its a kink for some, I get that, but meat or pierogis or fruit roll-up clothes just seem like an unnecessary step. Now body paint I get.I'm amused how everyone assumes this is edible. Do you have any idea how heavy that would be, how badly the dough would tear, and how it would start to smell?
Clearly, if one could make a garment from actual pierogis, there's a definite demand for such a thing...
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Manager: Why isn't this report done yet? Security Team is all over me about it.
Me: Tell the Security Team that report isn't due for another 5 weeks and they can back off. Kindly. Please. Shoo.
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Things NobodysHome Hates #1,983,422: Excessive Information-Gathering
The car repair place I use has online scheduling. Except... you can't sign in unless you allow the web site to know your location.
Er... so I'm already a customer, and I'm trying to make a service appointment on your service page, and you won't let me sign in unless you know where I am at this very moment?
No. Just, no.
There's "gathering information for a valid business purpose".
There's "data mining because we're providing you a free service and it's the price you have to pay to use our stuff for free".
And then there's, "We're gathering every iota of data we can about you because that's how our web server came preconfigured and we're too clueless to turn any of it off."
I'm 99.9% sure my garage is in Category 3.
Been sick for a whole week. Wonder how work will go tomorrow.
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I didn't have to go out for the salt run this morning. Instead I had to go pick up our mini bobcat from our job and bring it back to the shop for winter maintenance, and then I had to deliver and stack down 108 cinder block, which is exactly as heavy as it sounds, especially when it's snowing. I then had to go to our next job site for a pow wow on the project, which will include a patio with a compass rose inlaid and a seat wall under a pogoda.
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which will include a patio with a compass rose inlaid
Does it actually have to be laid correctly or is it just a decorative element that will fool people into thinking the sun rises in the North?
I don't know, though I suspect this might be why the boss is going to have me learn how to engrave in stone.
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which will include a patio with a compass rose inlaidDoes it actually have to be laid correctly or is it just a decorative element that will fool people into thinking the sun rises in the North?
Reminds me of all the stories teenagers embarrassedly reveal to their friends: "When I was growing up, I always thought the sun set due north because my parents had a compass rose inlaid in the patio and didn't specify that it had to point in the correct direction. When I read books about the sun setting in the west I figured it was different depending on what part of the country you were in. Since we were in the north part of the country, it set to the north. Since Westerns are set in the west, it set to the west..."
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I pride myself on accuracy, if it's a true compass I'll make sure it's labelled correctly.
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Since we were in the north part of the country, it set to the north.
In northern lower Michigan there are a lot of pine forests with Northwest Territory grid roads accurately surveyed and laid out on east-west geographic parallels running through them.
I was riding late one summer evening with some people from a conference as we tried to find a semi-secret top-tier restaurant hidden way out in the woods.
The driver was not good with directions. We were driving straight west, into a blinding evening sun, and he asked "Are we headed north?"
Fortunately I was in the back seat, and eye-rolls don't make any noise.
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I...may have been driving you. I have an awful sense of direction. At least one destination was arrived at by doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I suggested.
Dammit. I knew I should have brought Amby along on this one. Grr...
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There's a Mackie on the field.
Glad I wore the brown pants today. Lisamarlene and Scintillae are going to have to team up on this one.
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Lisamarlene cooked a man to death today.
Ironic, as I wish to enjoy her cooking as well.
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Lisamarlene cooked a man to death today.
Ironic, as I wish to enjoy her cooking as well.
Wow, and usually I just roast them alive with my words.
I have experience with self publishing.
I may have to put some more work on it. I have a person who can do some illustrations what I really need is a editor but I figure I can teach myself to do it maybe.
Yeah I might have to give it another go.
I have experience with self publishing.I may have to put some more work on it. I have a person who can do some illustrations what I really need is a editor but I figure I can teach myself to do it maybe.
Yeah I might have to give it another go.
Are you sure you can edit a "booke"?
To be clear, I'm teasing you. Not trying to be an a@&+~@!.
And I won't be breaking your legs I'll be "Creatively incentivizing you through fiboral Fracturing".
I don't know if he^^^ is my most intense alias but he is up there.
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And I won't be breaking your legs I'll be "Creatively incentivizing you through fiboral Fracturing".I have experience with self publishing.I may have to put some more work on it. I have a person who can do some illustrations what I really need is a editor but I figure I can teach myself to do it maybe.
Yeah I might have to give it another go.
Are you sure you can edit a "booke"?
To be clear, I'm teasing you. Not trying to be an a@&+~@!.
Whoa! Is you'se tryin' ta mussel in on my territory, pal? You'se better hope not, or else I'se gonna have to get very cross.
You called, Boss?
Stick around, buddy. I may be havin' a job fer ya soon.
You better watch it mac I got pun bears and pun puns I can call in.
But it's gonna have to wait as I got the new sandrson book and some reading to do tonight! and awaaaay I gooo...
I guess I am lucky since I work from home. Don't have to really interact with the outside world except to quickly go to the store or on a walk.
Well, that guy is a prick. First, he taps on the glass of the door with his car keys to be let in. Of course, he isn't wearing a mask, and doesn't want to go back to the car to get one. I tell him he can't come in unless he is wearing a mask, so he storms back out to the car and gets one. Then he flips me off as he goes up to his room.
You should of deactivated his key as he left your line of sight. make him have to walk back.
But then I would have had to deal with him more.Well, that guy is a prick. First, he taps on the glass of the door with his car keys to be let in. Of course, he isn't wearing a mask, and doesn't want to go back to the car to get one. I tell him he can't come in unless he is wearing a mask, so he storms back out to the car and gets one. Then he flips me off as he goes up to his room.You should of deactivated his key as he left your line of sight. make him have to walk back.
I'm real spiteful though.
Whelp. Woran will be goner soon. I have seen the face of her demise and it was horrrriiiffic!
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I have experience with self publishing.I may have to put some more work on it. I have a person who can do some illustrations what I really need is a editor but I figure I can teach myself to do it maybe.
Yeah I might have to give it another go.
While I am absolutely no editor and have no artistic talent unless you want paint stick figures, I can help you with the rest :)
While I am absolutely no editor and have no artistic talent unless you want paint stick figures, I can help you with the rest :)I have experience with self publishing.I may have to put some more work on it. I have a person who can do some illustrations what I really need is a editor but I figure I can teach myself to do it maybe.
Yeah I might have to give it another go.
Are you pretty familiar with the formatting software? Getting it into book shape?
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Oh Cap'n has been sending me pictures of his work and all the snow he be getting. They be lit.
The snow makes me miss living in OH. Just the snow part though.
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Yeah. There are times I *really* miss the Wisconsin my brain thinks it remembers from my childhood. Mostly those memories are about snow, lakes, canoeing, trees, and food.
Usually if I cook something at this point, like beer-battered fish or the cornflake Christmas cookies the old lady who ran the post office used to make, I'm okay again.
Eve, meanwhile, has been looking for some other part of the country where she can give my niece the same kind of growing-up experience. She and Mom were looking at New Hampshire, but now they're looking for a small farm near the coast of Maine. They need just enough land and a barn to keep their horses on their own property instead of boarding them with someone else. The accent and regional dishes will be different, but the autumns and winters will be similar.
The weather reports have been rather conflicted here of late. We had snow a few days ago, but it melted away.
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Wisconsin nostalgia is a real condition.
It is truly that weird combination of both heaven and hell on earth.