I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
And so the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through

Monday, August 17, 2020

Linkee-poo Monday

"A cursory examination of the standing tombstones and stone memorials (at Trinity Church, NYC) might lead one to guess the two and a half acre yard holds the remains of perhaps one hundred individuals. Little evidence survives that by 1822, an estimated 120,000 bodies lay underneath." (Grokked from Kameron Hurley)

"On Sunday, the thermometer at Death Valley's Furnace Creek, located in the deserts of Southern California, soared to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NOAA's Weather Prediction Center. If verified, it would be the hottest temperature recorded in the U.S. since 1913, and perhaps the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded in the world." Man this global climate change conspiracy has now included even the temperature gauges.

"A rare summer thunderstorm brought lightning that sparked several small blazes in Northern California on Sunday and stoked a huge wildfire that has forced hundreds of people from their homes north of Los Angeles."

"Behind him stand two of the Spanish capital's well-known blue municipal recycling bins, which until February of this year had been raided daily by one of the city's numerous recycled cardboard trafficking gangs." There's a sentence I never expected to see.

"A post on Facebook claims the flu vaccine has been ineffective in eradicating the virus, despite existing for nearly eight decades." The flu changes every year.

"Colleges that are reopening campuses this fall know they’re bringing a higher risk of coronavirus to their community… The questions aren’t really about if or when, but about how bad outbreaks could be — and whether having an in-person experience for students is worth the cost. With so much at stake, some students, parents and faculty are asking: Why take the risk at all?… In many cases, it comes back to money." Man, this Moloch character has a hellofalotata altars around.

"A group of sorority sisters are quarantined together after their chapter reported 23 positive coronavirus tests at Oklahoma State University… The outbreak, at an off-campus sorority house near the university's Stillwater location, was detected by rapid-antigen testing done at an off-campus clinic, the university said in a statement Saturday. The university and the Payne County Health Department are monitoring the chapter and performing contact tracing." Who could have known this would happen?

"The multi-billion-dollar effort to get a coronavirus vaccine on the market could see delays because researchers haven't recruited sufficient numbers of minorities to join the clinical trials… Of the 350,000 people who've registered online for a coronavirus clinical trial, 10% are Black or Latino, according to Dr. Jim Kublin, executive director of operations for the Covid-19 Prevention Network." Note, most medical studies lack minority participation.

"A man appeared to have been punched and kicked unconscious by demonstrators just blocks away from a peaceful protest in Portland, as unrest continued in Oregon’s biggest city… (and) The group (not connected to the attack) marched through downtown and ended up outside the US courthouse, where people left flowers and candles beside a photo of Kimmons." It's almost like there are multiple groups with different agendas.

"The back-and-forth between police and protesters continued late into the night. Protesters threw rocks, frozen eggs and glass bottles, the PPB statement said, citing officers on the ground. Protesters also shone lasers at officers and trespassed onto the property, police said. In one case a security camera was spray painted."

Meanwhile, on Bullshit Mountain… "More than 60 emergency calls to police went unheeded overnight in Portland as officers were preoccupied with hundreds of demonstrators downtown and were pelted by rocks… On the 80th consecutive night of protests, the Portland Police Bureau declared a riot around midnight Sunday after a crowd of hundreds had blocked traffic for three hours by the Penumbra Kelly Building in the 4700 block of East Burnside Street, trespassed on the closed property and engaged in 'violent, tumultuous conduct.'"

How go the Trade Wars? "Potential buyers flooded into model homes across the nation, and that has builders feeling better about their business than at any time over the past 20 years… But rising lumber prices could sap the market’s momentum this fall."

Been following this for a while. "The British government was urged Sunday to 'get a grip' over how grades are being awarded to school students in England, who were unable to take exams earlier this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic." Sure you got an A on the exams, but you're from a poor school district so that's actually a "C". (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)

"Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus, said on Monday he would be ready to hold new elections and hand over power after a constitutional referendum, an attempt to pacify mass protests and strikes that pose the biggest challenge yet to his rule." Of course he'll only do that if these protests stop.

"In the weeks that followed, higher-ups at the station instructed carriers to abandon hundreds of pieces of mail in order to depart a mere 10 or 20 minutes earlier. As the days went on, the excess mail started to pile up, and now Mark estimates there are thousands of undelivered letters and packages sitting in his station."

"A correspondent for InfoWars, the far-right website that peddles debunked conspiracy theories and fringe political commentary, was arrested on Friday at a house in Portage County after a grand jury handed up a secret indictment charging her with robbery and domestic violence, according to officials." But of course the arrest was just to suppress the truth.

"Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee told the Justice Department last July they believed several people close to President Donald Trump, including his son Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and former adviser Steve Bannon, may have misled them during testimony in the committee's Russia investigation, the Washington Post reported." Shocked, shocked to find out the swarmy assholes lied.

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