BS: New news *not* about the virus

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 22 - 04:29 PM

I saw at the store a 12-pack of cans featuring liquid fruitcake soda.
It was printed to look like fruitcake and was a limited edition by Mountain Dew.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 22 - 03:12 PM

Tasmanian devil found under couch in Hobart home, after being mistaken for dog's plush toy

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Dec 22 - 12:21 PM

Any Lancashire lad (such as meself) will tell you that a Yorkshireman who'll give you summat for nowt is as rare as rocking-horse poo. I can only conclude that this kind gentleman must be an immigrant from Lancashire...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Dec 22 - 12:15 PM

Here's a warm and fuzzy story - emphasis on warm!

A baker in North Yorkshire, England is letting patrons use his oven for free

It can take between four and six hours to bake a traditional British fruit cake. Given the high price of energy, a baker in North Yorkshire, England is letting patrons use his oven for free.

With the price of fuel rising so high in Europe and the United Kingdom this year, a British baker is trying to help. Ed Hamilton-Trewhitt owns Brickyard Bakery in Guisborough in North Yorkshire, England. He's decided to open a warming room on the floor above his bakery's large oven. He knew elders and pensioners in the area were on tight budgets and thought the extra heat given off by his oven might help, so he fitted out a sitting room upstairs with tea and coffee, cozy chairs, newspapers and magazines for anybody who wants to come by and get warm. No radio?

This month he's also making his oven available for anyone who'd like to make a holiday cake but is wary about the cost of fuel. A traditional Christmas fruitcake can take between four and six hours to bake, so Mr. Hamilton-Trewhitt is bringing back a custom from the Middle Ages, the community oven. Anybody who wants a cake baked can bring their batter in a baking pan. He'll cook it in his oven for free. And if people can't get to the bakery, he's offered to drop by and pick up any unbaked cake on a Friday and deliver it back nicely cooked on Monday. It's a great recipe for holiday cheer.

This was published on December 17.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Dec 22 - 04:29 PM

Waiting for security video

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Dec 22 - 11:57 AM

With 1,500 tropical fish inside. That has to be a colossal mess. I haven't seen many photos so far.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Dec 22 - 08:05 AM

Giant aquarium bursts in Berlin hotel lobby

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Apr 22 - 01:36 PM

While the COVID-19 shutdown was impacting people's jobs and businesses and transportation and supply chain and all, banks were busy hoovering up federal funds to support the infrastructure.

While JPMorgan Chase Was Getting Trillions of Dollars in Loans at Almost Zero Percent Interest from the Fed, It Was Charging Americans Hit by the Pandemic 17 Percent on their Credit Cards

That doesn't mean they were doing what they were supposed to be doing with the cash. Instead of making the credit available to people who needed it, they continued making life difficult and expensive.

A trading unit of JPMorgan Chase also borrowed $400 billion in cumulative, term-adjusted loans from the Fed’s Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) during 2020. All of those loans were made at a fixed rate of 0.25 percent even though the Fed accepted lower-grade collateral, such as asset-backed securities, for some of the loans.

JPMorgan Chase’s money market funds also needed to borrow a cumulative $24.8 billion from the Fed’s Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF) to bail themselves out during March and April of 2020. Some of those loans didn’t mature until 2021. JPMorgan borrowed from the Fed’s MMLF at rates between 0.50 and 1.25 percent.

While JPMorgan Chase, which has admitted to five criminal felony counts since 2014, was getting these sweetheart deals from the Fed, it was charging Americans who were struggling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as much as 17 percent on their credit cards. You can read one of its credit card customer’s complaints about that 17 percent interest at this link at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) complaint database.

Further down the article:

We asked the CFPB database to show us just complaints against JPMorgan Chase since it started receiving those cozy low-interest repo loans from the Fed on September 17, 2019 – months before any COVID-19 cases had been reported anywhere in the world. The database turned up 28,974 complaints. You can browse through them here.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Apr 22 - 08:53 AM

In local Wash DC news a pro life woman was arrested for having 5 aborted embryos in her apartment.

The Capitol Bld. was evauated yesterday when an Army prachute team surprised everyone by dropping down just accross the expressway onto a baseball field.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Apr 22 - 10:08 PM

How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.

Ronan Farrow

Campo collected records of Solé’s phone’s activity, including crashes it had experienced, then ran specialized software to search for spyware designed to operate invisibly. As they waited, Campo looked through the phone for evidence of attacks that take varied forms: some arrive through WhatsApp or as S.M.S. messages that seem to come from known contacts; some require a click on a link, and others operate with no action from the user. Campo identified an apparent notification from the Spanish government’s social-security agency which used the same format as links to malware that the Citizen Lab had found on other phones. “With this message, we have the proof that at some point you were attacked,” Campo explained. Soon, Solé’s phone vibrated. “This phone tested positive,” the screen read. Campo told Solé, “There’s two confirmed infections,” from June, 2020. “In those days, your device was infected—they took control of it and were on it probably for some hours. Downloading, listening, recording.”

You get a few free articles a month so if this won't let you read it, try a different browser or clear out your cookies (or look for the New Yorker ones and remove them).

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Feb 22 - 04:27 AM

Australia - baby born at an unlikely 2.22pm and 22 seconds on February 22, 2022

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Feb 22 - 05:04 PM

listening to a report on the news at the moment

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Feb 22 - 02:10 PM

Ahmaud Arbery's murderers convicted of being racist af.

Yay.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Feb 22 - 05:23 PM

News to me is how easy it is to shoot a 360^o photo for Google street view. You can use a good digital camera or use your smart phone and an app. I wonder if they can also go on Google Earth? Anyway, you don't need to wait for the Google car with it's protruding camera to roll past, you can shoot a video and add it yourself.

How To Take 360 Photos For Google Maps in 5 easy steps.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Feb 22 - 09:50 PM

The elephants in the room are the coming Russsin cyber attacks and many websites going offline.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Feb 22 - 07:26 PM

Republican made federal immunity laws for gun manufacturers persist but local and state laws regarding marketing exposed Remington to have to speak the language and bear the costs of their deeds which is money.

As if the costs are not already high enough

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Feb 22 - 04:55 PM

an actual LOL.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Feb 22 - 03:01 PM

I just looked him up - Andrew's rank in the military was Vice Admiral.

Seems about right. :)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Feb 22 - 02:40 PM

btw Prince Andrew settles sex suit
in the back of his closet.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Feb 22 - 02:31 PM

Remington settles for 73 million regarding Sandy Hook Murders

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Feb 22 - 01:32 PM

A gun manufacturer has to pay 9 mass shooting victims' families $73 million.

About time.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Feb 22 - 03:00 PM

My stretching video host (Essentrics) said that in the DVD routine I was working yesterday. She wants people to exercise barefoot for that reason.

Here's a scary story that was tucked away in a corner as I was researching something else: Kush: Sierra Leone's new illegal drug. What is this? I only watched the first minute or so of the video, it looks pretty harsh.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 02:45 PM

Wearing shoes weakens your ankle. Old news because I read it in a copy of the New Scientist dated a year ago. OK before someone points it out, maybe they don't allow the ankle to beef up like we evolved to do.

Tribes who wear no shoes or soft moccasins have stronger ankles, it was found.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Feb 22 - 11:28 PM

It is so cold it parts of Texas that trees are exploding.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Feb 22 - 02:55 PM

They seem to have found Captain Cook's wrecked Endeavour... Fascinating arguments ongoing because the wrong people said so, or something.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 06:41 PM

https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/2021/06-01/

if you want a digital copy

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 06:34 PM

Football teams that have more than 2 syllables always get pared down syllable wise like the San Francisco 49ers always gets contracted to the '49ers'. The Commanders will be abbreviated to the 'Commies'.

Putin has made a war movie meant to be taken seriously as a documantary of Ukraine attacking the Russians. The fake special effects are a not dead giveaway.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Feb 22 - 10:58 AM

Washington has named its [American] football team the Commanders.

Wish it was the DC Commanders rather than the Washington Commanders. Everybody is going to say the Washington Re-Um-Commanders for years. If they had changed Washington to DC, it would have avoided that neatly.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Jan 22 - 06:41 PM

wonderful news, I've shared it with librarian friends & grandparent friends.

Long live creative children!

Long live books!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Jan 22 - 06:17 PM

An eight-year-old boy wrote a book that he decided to share, so he tucked it into the books in the children's section at his local library. It now has a barcode and is in circulation. :)

An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf. It now has a years-long waitlist.

He later confessed to his mother, Susan Helbig, that he slid his book into the stacks and left it there, undetected. But when they returned about two days later, to the spot where he left the notebook, it was missing. Helbig called the library to ask whether anyone had found Dillon’s notebook and to request that they please not throw it away.

Branch manager Alex Hartman said he was surprised at Dillon’s bold move.

“It was a sneaky act,” said Hartman, laughing. But Dillon’s book “was far too obviously special an item for us to consider getting rid of it.”

Hartman and a few co-workers had discovered and read Dillon’s book — which describes his adventures putting an exploding star on his Christmas tree and being catapulted back to the first Thanksgiving and the North Pole. They found it very entertaining.

Hartman read the book to his 6-year-old son, Cruzen, who giggled and said it was one of the funniest books he’d ever known. . . . The staff librarians who read Dillon’s book agreed that as informal and unconventional as it was, the book met the selection criteria for the collection in that it was a high-quality story that was fun to read. So, Hartman asked Helbig for permission to tack a bar code onto the book and formally add it to the library’s collection.

Dillon’s parents enthusiastically said yes, and the book is now part of the graphic-novels section for kids, teens and adults. The library even gave Dillon its first Whoodini Award for Best Young Novelist, a category the library created for him, named after the library’s owl mascot.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jan 22 - 10:24 PM

Virginia, yeah. Down the drain. Sigh. And we had been doing so well.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 22 - 06:33 PM

We are in the beggining of the snitches and rat society. Florida has made it illegal for teachers to say anything that parents will feel is DIVISIVE. The guilty teacher will pay the court costs. Virginia's new GOP govenor is doing the same with banning anything to do with CRT. Hello Farenheit 500.

Am I provocative? Hell yes but anyone should state their stand or lack of one imo.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 22 - 09:35 AM

Up to 100 blankets are being delivered to students at McGruder High School for the poor dears who are being counseled regarding an incident where a fellow student was shot in the rest room but concealed it from any adult or teacher when the child was found later after having bled to death. Only a few of the kids did not know of the shooting but only feel bad about the incident. The future belongs to the children.
A home assembled ghost gun was used. A modern miracle of 3D printers.
I am not surprised at the mob mentality.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 22 - 06:53 AM

Miss the early stages of lyme and its antibiotics for up to 3 years to be gone. Some doctors underestimate the duration. Pick up trucks can last almost forever without penacillain.

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.