Saturday, February 6, 2021
Valley News - Dartmouth halts $200 million project after excavation goes awry
The construction error happened on new *engineering* school.
I guess they can literally write the book on how not to engineer a project.
https://www.vnews.com/Dartmouth-halts-massive-project-after-hole-dug-in-wrong-place-26602507
Short. Sweet. To the point. That's the beauty Dave's iPhone.
Best comment I’ve seen on mask wearing
Nah, he has to wear a mask even if he doesn't want to. 🤷🏼♀️ Those are the rules everywhere. Grow up and wear your mask properly, or stay home. I work as a cashier in my local grocery store, I am literally putting myself and my family at risk to serve the public, and not wearing a mask properly or at all, is one of the most selfish things you can do (not that you people care, all that matters to you is your comfort and your feelings). A lot of my coworkers have had to stay home for two weeks, sometimes a whole month, because they're getting exposed to the virus thanks to selfish customers. Everyone would rather report us to corporate and accuse us of "discrimination" and "being mean"– essentially lying about the situation, just so they can get out of wearing a nask! But of course they won't stay home because it's "not fair to make them suffer by trapping them at home", but they will make up any excuse to not wear a mask. Heck, they would probably flip if they knew any grocery employees got sick, and accuse us of putting *them* at risk for it!
I am over all excuses for not wearing a nask. Tell someone who cares, because it ain't me. Wear a damn mask!
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
How rumors propagate.
Monday, February 1, 2021
An open letter to GOP senators on impeachment.
And you are constitutionally bound to act on it.
You can (incorrectly and absurdly) argue that he didn't mean anything by his words. But the fact that many of those arrested in connection with this assault on democracy have said unequivocally that they acted because trump told them to. There is no ambiguity there.
I have heard your colleagues argue that he can't be tried for the impeachment because he already left office. To this, I have two comments: first, he committed this crime while in office and was impeached in the house while in office. We need to hold any/every one to account for their actions on that day. And he himself reportedly will offer a defense of "the election was stolen so I felt some obligation..." which makes no sense whatsoever. It is simply an open admission of guilt.
And second, I would ask you if your answer to the question of whether you think it would be different if he were still in office. Think carefully, because it's very likely that you are supporting an attempted coup, which makes you complicit in the actions.
You see, senator, there is no reason to simply stand behind trump other than thinking of yourself or your party.
This is a constitutional crisis of sorts, and we need to ensure that everyone who was involved in this riot on our establishment is punished for their actions. Every. Single. Person.
Do your job to the oath you swore to protect and defend the constitution.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
oh those whacky republicans.
Monday, January 25, 2021
That’s an interesting perspective.
See the red box? Until then, she would have been enslaved."
See the blue box? Until then, she couldn't vote.
Yellow box? Until then, she had to attend a segregated school.
The green one? Until then she couldn't have her own bank account"
Returning to what passes for normal.
But people still don't get that the vaccine protects you from getting sick, but until it gets widely distributed, you can still be a carrier and get other people sick. So you need to still wear a damn mask.
There's also a subset of the population that seems to think that if you've had it, and recovered, you can't get it again or spread it. Both of which are false. And you need to wear a damn mask, too.
Setting aside that there are new mutations of this virus and the vaccine efficacy is unknown against those, we'll set those aside for a moment.
Looking at the data, about 5% of the total population (or about 16.5 million people) have had a single shot.
But only about 1% (3.3 million people) have had both shots and are considered vaccinated.
Most health organizations see the threshold for vaccine penetration to range between 50%-80% of the population, to reach a version of herd immunity. That is, both shots.
To be clear, that would mean to being well enough vaccinated; to stop the spread, be protected against getting it ourselves, and having enough people that way so that we no longer are transmitting it.
That's a wide range, so let's assume the midpoint. 65% of the population. Or about 214.5 million people.
If we remove the 3.3 million, we're left with 211.2 million people to vaccinate.
If we can get to 1 million people a day, that would mean it would take us about 200 days for enough people to get their first shot (211 million minus the 12 or so million that already had their first shot)
But there's the matter of second shot. Would it take another 200 days? Would we get faster and have more distribution?
Suddenly we're looking at end of 2021, or perhaps early 2022 to return to "normal"...
And of course that's assuming things go smoothly and there's no serious mutations. (🤞)
In other words, we've got anywhere from 8-14 more months of this to get there.
So hold tight. What passes for Normal is out there. But we still have way to go.