BS: New news *not* about the virus

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 08:51 PM

I guess I'm the only one here interested in having a pickup truck again in the future. They're untouchable, even used, and that's before COVID pushed up prices.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 05:45 PM

Syphilis is still treated by drug-of-choice good ol' penicillin. There are more choices than just that. I believe it's eaily treated, although people may ignore the possibility they might have it.
Lyme disease is dead simple to treat in the early staged. Again, people may want to believe they're "just fine". I knew someone who ended up with tertiary Lyme, because he just didn't seek treatment when the rashes appeared.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 05:37 PM

Cephalexin is one such antibiotic.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 05:31 PM

To correct what was said below, syphilis is easily treated, often by a single injection of antibiotic if caught early, and by a bit more antibiotic treatment than that if neglected even for a considerable time.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 02:59 PM

I learned today that Ford has created a new smaller and affordable pickup truck, the Maverick. This link will probably hit a paywall, but for those who subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, here is news of a slowdown in production. Ford Shuts Off Orders for New $20,000 Maverick Pickup

Ford Motor Co. is taking the unusual step of cutting off customer orders for the Maverick, a more-affordable pickup that it rolled out last fall, saying it has maxed out on what it can build.

The move is a sign that American shoppers are hungry for more-affordable options as prices for new cars and trucks hit new records and availability remains constrained on dealership lots.

Ford told dealers Monday that it is suspending customer orders for the Maverick pickup truck because it is already straining to fill a backlog. The company will resume taking orders for the 2023 Maverick in the summer, it said in a memo to dealers, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

“We didn’t want to take more orders than we could build,” said Dean Stoneley, general manager of Ford trucks, in an interview. “We’re getting customers who would have perhaps bought a used car and are now buying the Maverick because it is so affordable,” he said.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 10:37 PM

Spiderman, Iron Man, and... Spaceman Spiff?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 12:42 PM

Those medieval war horses? Ponies.

I wonder if a fall from the huge warhorses we imagined would be fatal, in armor.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Nov 21 - 03:49 PM

Syphilis is a spirochete thats hard to defeat like Lyme disease.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 21 - 02:26 PM

In health issues not related to COVID, we see the rise of syphilis.

Syphilis is resurging in the U.S., a sign of public health's funding crisis

Yang carries a stack of cards issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that show what happens when the Treponema pallidum bacteria invades a patient's body. There's a photo of an angry red sore on a penis. There's one of a tongue, marred by mucus-lined lesions. And there's one of a newborn baby, its belly, torso and thighs dotted in a rash, its mouth open, as if caught midcry.

It was because of the prospect of one such baby that Yang found herself walking through a homeless encampment on a blazing July day in Huron, Calif., an hour's drive southwest of her office at the Fresno County Department of Public Health.

She was looking for a pregnant woman named Angelica, whose visit to a community clinic had triggered a report to the health department's sexually transmitted disease program. Angelica had tested positive for syphilis. If she was not treated, her baby could end up like the one in the picture or worse — there was a 40% chance the baby would die.

Yang knew, though, that if she helped Angelica get treated with three weekly shots of penicillin at least 30 days before she gave birth, it was likely that the infection would be wiped out and her baby would be born without any symptoms at all. Every case of congenital syphilis, when a baby is born with the disease, is avoidable. Each is considered a "sentinel event," a warning that the public health system is failing.

The alarms are now clamoring. In the United States, more than 129,800 syphilis cases were recorded in 2019, double the case count of five years prior. In the same time period, cases of congenital syphilis quadrupled: 1,870 babies were born with the disease; 128 died. Case counts from 2020 are still being finalized, but the CDC has said that reported cases of congenital syphilis have already exceeded the prior year. Black, Hispanic and Native American babies are disproportionately at risk.

"Syphilis is not an outlier. The United States goes through what former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden calls "a deadly cycle of panic and neglect" in which emergencies propel officials to scramble and throw money at a problem — whether that's Ebola, Zika or COVID-19. Then, as fear ebbs, so does the attention and motivation to finish the task."

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Nov 21 - 05:33 PM

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/top-ten-scientific-discoveries-decade-180973873/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 09:18 PM

Walrus leaves Arctic comfort zone for snooze on Dutch Walrus-class submarine ... Freya, as the animal has been named, is the first of her species to visit the Netherlands in 23 years. She was spotted snoozing on a submarine in the naval port of Den Helder by Jeroen Hoekendijk, a Dutch scientist specialising in marine mammals ... Hoekendijk was instructed that he wasn’t allowed to board the vessel to photograph the animal, only to be told; ‘But you can walk on it.’ He also noted that the vessel happens to be a ‘Walrus-class submarine’ – and is named Zr. Ms. Dolfijn.
Social media users quipped that the Arctic mammal showed an “excellent example of animal-initiated civil resistance”, and that “considering military are huge contributors to carbon emissions, the walrus is probably protesting climate justice”. Others, however, thought it was very nice of the Dutch navy not to kick the walrus off their boat ...

yes, the Dutch word Dolfijn is the English word Dolfin

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Nov 21 - 08:14 AM

There is news and then there is what seems like news to me...
Little did Clem Kiddlehopper know he was linked to quantum mechanics and the many worlds theory of reality but now the randomness is clearly seen in our politics culture wars and humor of today.

Beyond Steven Hawking's explanation of the black hole information paradox, we are now at the end of the beggining of its solution

-this-
has helped me explain how black holes turn matter into space that expands space time in the form of dark energy that is accelerating by means of escape inside of WORMHOLES. I never knew how the space got out of the interior of a singularity before. Moreover the space contains information but we do not currently know how to decode space information as we do with particles.

So instead of Hawking's theory of escaping black hole radiation 'I' see it as escaping emergent space. Ergo space time is emergent and
gravity is emergent and probably every other god damn thing is emergent. Perhaps this is why we have so many 'emergencies'. :^}

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Oct 21 - 11:08 AM

This news is a long time coming. We need to get rid of for-profit prisons.

Detainees who earned just $1 a day are owed $17 million in back pay, a jury orders

A federal jury in Tacoma, Wash., says the GEO Group, which owns and runs a large detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, owes former detainees $17.3 million in back pay for tasks such as cleaning and cooking meals.

The Florida-based for-profit prison company paid detainees $1 a day for such work, a practice the jury determined earlier this week is a violation of the state's minimum wage law. On Friday, they announced how much back pay was owed.

"This was about fair wages for work," says Adam Berger, an attorney with Schroeter Goldmark & Bender, which brought a class action on behalf of former detainees. "These detained immigrants are just emblematic of other workers in this economy who are in exploitive labor situations."

One former detainee who joined the suit is Nigerian-born Goodluck Nwauzor. He says he was detained at the Tacoma facility for eight months, starting in 2016, as he waited for his asylum claim to be processed. During that time he cleaned showers for a dollar a day. He says the GEO Group didn't force people to do such work, but he saw little choice.

"You have to do it, to get the money to get the stuff you need, or also make a call to your friends and family members," Nwauzor told NPR on Friday. "It's unfair. Because the amount of the job, or the kind of job we do, is beyond what they were paying us."

The class action was consolidated with a separate lawsuit brought by the state of Washington, which accused the GEO Group of violating state labor law and enriching itself unjustly.

The rest of the story at the link.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Oct 21 - 11:05 AM

Yes, there are two incidences of it, both chicks were male.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Oct 21 - 01:12 AM

Condorlics worship their virgin birth savior.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Oct 21 - 11:52 PM

Okkaaaayyyy they got condors reproducing asexually. Parthenogenic condors. Baby condors with one, female, parent. Wow.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 31 Jul 21 - 10:44 PM

The driver accountable for the streetcar crash in the previous post, ....

From the article linked to:-

It wasn't immediately clear what caused the crash, and Poftak didn't want to speculate as the investigation began.

.... whether this was operator error or some kind of mechanical malfunction ...

The driver may turn out to be accountable. On the other hand, he may be just an innocent victim. Take care before assigning blame.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jul 21 - 08:54 PM

The driver accountable for the streetcar crash in the previous post,
had been seven years driving for the MBTA.
Now on administrative leave.
23 people taken to hospital.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jul 21 - 07:48 PM

Collision on the MBTA Green Line:
this is my old stomping grounds,
as an undergraduate at Boston University.

Friday Afternoon rush hour, and
two Green Line trains on the B route, both outbound,
collide with each other on the same track,
the one behind running into the one in front.
Ambulances and people being taken to hospital.
No fatalities at least, and they say, no life-threatening injuries.

Collision near Boston University

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jul 21 - 04:20 PM

"Woot!" is a cheer.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Jos
Date: 14 Jul 21 - 02:02 PM

What does 'woot' mean?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Jul 21 - 01:36 PM

Also the statues of Sacagewea crouching at the feet of Lewis and Clarke, and of the frontiersman threatening the natives.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 11:17 AM

Ransomware: This new ransom tracker reveals how much bitcoin gangs have been paid
The new Ransomwhere site crowdsources bitcoin payments to wallets associated with ransomware gangs.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Jul 21 - 09:33 AM

The Charlottesville statues of Lee and Jackson came down this morning, woot!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Jun 21 - 07:10 PM

Earliest known plague victim pushed back to 5k yo, in what is now Latvia [many, many sites reporting this as Oldest known but noooo]!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 May 21 - 09:16 AM

Ooh I want some 7-league boots!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 21 - 09:52 AM

The bionic boot will enable people to run between 30 to 40 mph by mimicing the achilles tendon of the kangaroo and ostrich. It is not yet available for purchase. Its made of aircraft aluminum, fiberglass and rubber.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 13 May 21 - 11:59 AM

Solar Winds had a vulnerability that led to the government.
Updates can be the enemy.

Here is a cute but miraculus story about medical discoveries from 1,000 year old English libraries. It makes me think what was lost in the Alexandria Library destruction.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/best-medicine

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 May 21 - 11:02 AM

The news needs to be that governments and businesses do a better job of protecting their data.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 13 May 21 - 10:48 AM

There is not a single gas station open here anymore. Another DC ransomware attack of the police have published the info on 26 policemen. Its hackorrific around here lately.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 11 May 21 - 06:34 PM

On npr I listened to the author of 'The Master and his Emmisary. In this radio lab show he pointed at how the obvious split/bicameral mind was hiding its secrets in plain sight. While the left has close focus the right has the big picture. To me it is the reason that hypnosis even works on the autosomatic nervous system. The elusive why questions are answered. He does generalize in the larger sociologic civilization and may turn some of his converts around but overall it is ahead of its time making Freud a nonsense experience.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 May 21 - 11:05 AM

The family wanted the dogs out but didn't mention the baby - yes, this is a case for CPS!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: leeneia
Date: 09 May 21 - 10:48 AM

Yesterday I saw a YOuTube video that exhibited the worst and the best of humanity:

fire

The worst: four adults got out of a burning house and did not inform firefighters that there was a child still inside.

The best: a firefighter went inside to search, saw movement, and rescued her. I don't think this was merely good luck, because the fire chief said he asked the adults over and over if anyone was inside. It sounds like the chief suspected they were lying.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 08 May 21 - 11:26 AM

A Chinese rocket missed a school but the US stands a chance of getting smaller debris this weekend. https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqqzn/a-huge-chinese-rocket-part-is-making-an-out-of-control-descent-to-earth
The chinese design intentionaly rains debris back to Earth.
Basicly all space debris will fall eventually given the vastness of time.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 May 21 - 10:53 PM

Nonuplets! That woman has had an actual litter.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Apr 21 - 10:42 AM

Another volcano is erupting. This is also not about the pandemic. From Bad To Worse: La Soufrière Volcano Continues To Erupt

Unless this is particularly troublesome to load, it's best to keep the BS topics to one thread per topic. Someone just started the recipe thread is too long, and they had to be grouped so the first one could be found.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Apr 21 - 02:17 PM

Hmmm. Maybe for the New News About The Virus thread?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Apr 21 - 10:19 AM

It sounds like the EU has been struck a horrible blow by the pandemic:

EU and COVID-19: When a vaccine only adds to the trouble

COVID-19 has wrought division in the European Union

BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders no longer meet around a common oval summit table to broker their famed compromises. Instead, each of the 27 watches the other heads of state or government with suspicion via a video screen that shows a mosaic of faraway capitals.

This is what COVID-19 has wrought.

Lofty hopes that the crisis would encourage a new and tighter bloc to face a common challenge have given way to the reality of division: The pandemic has set member nation against member nation, and many capitals against the EU itself, as symbolized by the disjointed, virtual meetings the leaders now hold.

Leaders fight over everything from virus passports to push tourism to the conditions for receiving pandemic aid. Perhaps worse, some attack the very structures the EU built to deal with the pandemic. Last month, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz decried how vaccine-buying in the bloc had become a “bazaar,” alleging poorer countries struck out while the rich thrived.

"Internal political cohesion and respect for European values continue to be challenged in different corners of the Union," the European Policy Center said in a study one year after the pandemic swept from China and engulfed Europe. . . .

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 09:11 AM

Virginia legalizes recreational weed!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 02:36 PM

Charlotteville will be allowed to remove the confederate statues! Yay!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 01:55 PM

The number of sexual assault court cases against Trump is increasing.
It could become further complicated should he test positv for syphillus. A particularily nasty spirocette which ann play hide and seek.
Trump will not make it public like Reagan did with his dementia. Two years prior to Reagan's announcment by letter, I had said on local Rochester TV on a panal of psychologists that "Reagan had obvious organic brain disease". No one else had the guts to agree with me.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 07:37 AM

An inside look at the response to unaccompanoed child immigrants is that most agencies in the government are being asked to volenteer to go to go and help on the border and elsewhere. Its all hands on deck.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 03:35 PM

Thanks, keb!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 07:20 AM

This is what the sun will look like after it burns out

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 09:24 PM

Holy Moly. I didn't know about Caproni Macaroni
I was at LaGuardia when it celebrated its Clipper flying boats & pier right off the airport restaurant and remember flying on the 'luxury' DC3's.

The Mars Perseverence has a piece of the Wright brother's biplane aboard.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: robomatic
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 08:34 PM

Move over Simple Flying. Caproni
had this beat by a factor of 3 90 years ago!

And did it fly?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 06:30 PM

move over Red Baron there is a new tri wing plane

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 05:01 PM

King Tut
Steve Martin, Steep Canyon Rangers


Ted Cruz (Big Bad Cruz)
Now when he was a young man,
He never thought he'd see
People stand in line to get the vaccine.
(King Cruz) How'd you get so funky?
(Funky Cruz) Do you think you're funny?
Born in MexAlberta,
Moved to Texas border (King Cruz).
(King Cruz) I should have known
That he'd run for the border
when Texas had an ice storm
and then blamed it on his daughter. (King Cruz)
He can read Dr. Seuss (Funky Cruz)
He's my favorite honky!
Born in Mex Alberta,
Moved to Texas border (King Cruz)
Dancin' in the Senate, (Disco Cruz)
The ladies love his belly, (Flabby Cruz)
Stonin all the immigrants (Rockin' Cruz)
Doesn't give a shit.
He gave his life for trumpism.
Whataguy!
Alberta didn't wantem.

Now, when I die
Don't think I'm bein rude, (King Cruz)
Don't want no fancy funeral
Jus'one like unshaven Cruz. (King Cruz)

He coulda been a hoser, (Ted Cruz)
Instead he is a joker
Born in Mex Alberta, moved to Lone Star border
born in Old Moose Ache, now gotta condo made of cake
Big bad Cruz!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 03:10 PM

That's a good laugh is that. You are the crown prince of misinformation on this forum.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 03:01 PM

I would share your outrage over deliberate misinformation. God knows PHD's make mistakes too but the spirit of truth and discovery are still respected. Pithy arguements over persona or historic points of view are a side dish and not the main course. Those kinds of food critics are of no help to those hungry for truth in this millenium of great lies.

We will differ from experience on matters of health, mental imaging and healing. While both atheists we will differ on aspects of religion.
Viva l'difference. It helps one think. It doesn't help when one has unfounded predjudice. Jealousy is a simmering hate I couldn't afford or want.

To keep perspective mudcat BS is a sub mud puddle beneath a forum of ancient to modern lyrics and music that is Smithsonian Collection worthy much like their collection of coprolytes.