BS: New news *not* about the virus

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 02:00 PM

I was watching a cooking show where the host wished we in the audience had smell-o-vision. I want it, but only for the cooking shows.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 04:17 PM

We have 3 kinds of neutrinos that change as they travel, maybe just maybe dark neutrinos don't travel. Speculation ain't news by a long shot but the Cosmos is a stage for entertainment. My human bias
is believing one thing leads to another. Its probably 2 things create a third....

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 02:45 PM

From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Nov 20 - 04:57 PM
Scotland makes all period products free. I am stifling obvious puns.

You may ignore the obvious puns. Some of us don't have the same self-control.
Scotland is not a rich country. For this new announcement I wonder what the 'monthly' expenditure is.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 09:55 PM

These days? Bwahaha.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 08:40 AM

Any idea what is sickening hundreds of people that is not covid? Southern India, convulsions and nausea, possibly no deaths though. Likely water-borne.

One blicky.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 01:08 PM

And another mono-not-lith, in Britain!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 05:09 PM

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christmas-star-will-be-closest-visible-conjunction-jupiter-saturn-800-n1250418

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Dec 20 - 05:08 PM

Going back to language pet peeves, conflating a planetary phenom with xianity just chaps my cheeks.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 09:05 AM

Happy Ckkhunukah.
Don't miss out on online dreidel gambling
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dreidel-invented-dreidel-games-generation/story?id=9315727

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Dec 20 - 07:30 AM

The few new movies that are being made are Sci. Fi.
People are in spacesuits or walking a lonely post apocolyptic desert.
An example is the new Cloony movie Midnight Sun.

The sequel is still alive; 'Return of the prequel', 'Back to the Jedi', 'Rocky Home Alone XI', 'Harry Potter and the Michilein Man', Germinator on Mars II, 'The Thing Whatever III', 'Man in the Cotton Mask 6'.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 04:36 PM

And again, go scotus! They have refused to damage marriage equality.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 08:32 AM

And Cleveland is dropping the name and I do so hope the cartoon mascot of their sportsball team. Go Cleveland.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 10:48 AM

They lay eggs, they have fur, they make venom, they are amphibious live on land have a duck bill. And now it has finally been discovered that the Platypus glows under black light. https://www.livescience.com/platypuses-glow-uv-light.html

Maybe in antiquity the Platypus was the winner of genetic manipulation contest by an advanced civilization.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 11:22 AM

What the *fuck* was evolution thinking.

But the platypus is no longer the only venomous mammal, slow lorises have venom too.

This is a straaaange planet.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 01:06 PM

They look like lemurs.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Dec 20 - 05:40 AM

I have an updated theory of evolution.
Survival of the most joyous and good feelings.

On a quantum level of cillia on a paramecium to a human being's comprable micro tubuels in our pryamidial cells the good feelings of being alive and reproducing are factors in the continuation and groth of life.
The power of orgasm derives all life in the universe.
If it feels good, its alive. This an eastern concept that life is derived from the innate joyous universe and not just organization and computation by accident or pan spermia.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Dec 20 - 08:03 PM

Adelaide firefighter's unique gold ring recovered after 13 years offshore, found by a metal detectorist

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 20 - 02:41 PM

Poison Underwear

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 20 - 02:44 PM

Solstice tonight

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 04:50 PM

Nanoplastic is showing up in human placentas, both sides, fetal and maternal.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Dec 20 - 12:45 PM

An observation and not news;
All the worst winter flavors are here like Spiced pumpkin wintergreened cranberry paw-paw. Mmmm plastic pumpkin, Krayzee Krapberry and Extreme Ginger ill. Novochuck swirl is not bad.
Satan will hate to see 2020 end.










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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 03:40 PM

What do we think about the Nashville bombing of that AT&T building?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 10:36 PM

Never mind. Tinfoil hat brigade.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 06:23 PM

Wild swimming and the search for Australia’s best waterholes

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 08:02 PM

That was fun in the sun

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Jan 21 - 03:21 PM

They overrode the veto...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Jan 21 - 03:46 AM

New Zealand: hiker who spent lockdown in a hobbit hole

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jan 21 - 12:09 PM

Huge news not about the virus - but that isn't helped by the virus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/us/politics/russian-hacking-government.html

Here's a piece of that article:

Interviews with current and former employees of SolarWinds suggest it was slow to make security a priority, even as its software was adopted by America’s premier cybersecurity company and federal agencies.

Employees say that under Mr. Thompson, an accountant by training and a former chief financial officer, every part of the business was examined for cost savings and common security practices were eschewed because of their expense. His approach helped almost triple SolarWinds’ annual profit margins to more than $453 million in 2019 from $152 million in 2010.

But some of those measures may have put the company and its customers at greater risk for attack. SolarWinds moved much of its engineering to satellite offices in the Czech Republic, Poland and Belarus, where engineers had broad access to the Orion network management software that Russia’s agents compromised.

The company has said only that the manipulation of its software was the work of human hackers rather than of a computer program. It has not publicly addressed the possibility of an insider being involved in the breach.

None of the SolarWinds customers contacted by The New York Times in recent weeks were aware they were reliant on software that was maintained in Eastern Europe. Many said they did not even know they were using SolarWinds software until recently.

Even with its software installed throughout federal networks, employees said SolarWinds tacked on security only in 2017, under threat of penalty from a new European privacy law. Only then, employees say, did SolarWinds hire its first chief information officer and install a vice president of “security architecture.”

Ian Thornton-Trump, a former cybersecurity adviser at SolarWinds, said he warned management that year that unless it took a more proactive approach to its internal security, a cybersecurity episode would be “catastrophic.” After his basic recommendations were ignored, Mr. Thornton-Trump left the company.

SolarWinds declined to address questions about the adequacy of its security. In a statement, it said it was a “victim of a highly-sophisticated, complex and targeted cyberattack” and was collaborating closely with law enforcement, intelligence agencies and security experts to investigate.

But security experts note that it took days after the Russian attack was discovered before SolarWinds’ websites stopped offering clients compromised code.

It's difficult to believe that there is a reputable individual in the world with the last name "Trump." In this case, Ian Thornton-Trump. It looks like he's a Canadian.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jan 21 - 01:23 PM

I would change my name.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 08:17 PM

very important article, answering a lot of vital questions ...
Why can’t the stormtroopers in Star Wars shoot straight?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 21 - 12:23 PM

I can't see out those damn trooper helmets either

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 03:05 PM

Signs like Jesus saves and 'Don't read on me' are among trump signs outside the capitol building
Inside they are carrying flags

Its been 2 hours before any police other than the capitol police are responding. hmmm

I don't see any melee or fights

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 04:44 PM

They have been thrown out says cnn...

I like yoyr typo!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 04:47 PM

I can talk, eh.

WashPo reports someone was shot.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 04:52 PM

No typo
Don'tread on me

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 05:55 PM

Some re too young to know how and when the brown shirts stormed th streets link

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Jan 21 - 11:04 AM

Ok this is different: Japanese scientists report cases where babies being born vaginally to women with cervical cancer caught their mom's cancer during said vaginal delivery. It showed up as lung cancer in the newborns.

I read that in Le monde this morning.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 21 - 10:10 AM

damn virus/altered cells. Maybe the new RNA vaccine method will provide a good direction for cancer vaccines.

I don't think these guys
will help

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Jan 21 - 10:13 AM

Wrong thread don.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 21 - 07:59 AM

No, I was respondimg to YOUR post regarding cancer.
interesting graphic

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Jan 21 - 09:34 AM

Ah. Never mind!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 10:19 AM

Cute inclusion of random beauty, there!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 10:36 AM

2017 photo from space of solar storm hitting earth
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2101/aurora_iss052e007857.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 10:42 PM

True, I could post this in the virus thread,
since Plácido Domingo was stricken with COVID-19 last year.
However:
Domingo just observed Birthday number 80 (birthyear 1941).

His career is one with many lives,
even if he himself has but one.

His career as a tenor has been over for quite some time.
His career in the United States, it is fair to say,
ended with the #MeToo revelations and lawsuits.
Some of us will never see him the same way again.

Mixed feelings and emotions.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 11:14 PM

Virginia joins the civilized world and abolishes the death penalty.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Feb 21 - 02:57 AM

very good news, Mrrzy

on a lighter note - Mammoth woolly: Baarack the overgrown sheep shorn of his 35kg fleece Escaped merino ram found on the lam in regional Australia is said to be recovering well.
A rogue overgrown sheep found roaming through regional Australia has been shorn of his 35kg fleece – a weight even greater than that of the famous New Zealand sheep Shrek, who was captured in 2005 after six years on the loose.
The merino ram, dubbed Baarack by rescuers, was discovered wandering alone with an extraordinarily overgrown wool coat, and was promptly shorn to save his life. (read on!)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Feb 21 - 12:40 PM

Well, Ted Cruz is not new news, so
probably mention of him should be on a different thread,
but I couldn't work out which one.
But honestly,
how foolish can some elected officials be?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 03:14 PM

possibly new fundamental forces from a tri color boson (among others) are lurking out there. Who knows what is next - understanding gravity?
https://theconversation.com/evidence-of-brand-new-physics-at-cern-why-were-cautiously-optimistic-about-our-new-findings-157464

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 07:16 PM

It is apparently normal for people with 2 X chromosomes to be tetrachromats and see more colors than [what we were taught were typical] trichromatic people.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 06:56 AM

It would be nice to have some kind of a link for that. Incidentally, I honestly don't see the harm in referring to male/female/men/women/boy/girl. I recognise the sensitivity around these issues but you should acknowledge that most people would far more quickly know what you were talking about if you used the conventional terms, flawed in your view though they may be. "People with 2 X chromosomes" doesn't cut it. And, let's face it, that isn't the only obscurantist reference in your post.