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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Open Thread: UPDATED: Now More Biden Live on Vaccinations

Open Thread: UPDATED: Now More Biden Live on Vaccinations

by TaMara|  April 6, 20212:21 pm| 143 Comments

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Updated for Biden remarks:

 

 

 

I did not have this on my 2021 bingo card:

I did not have "Confederate memorial turned into a toilet" on my 2021 Bingo card. You? https://t.co/q3gEu12emK

— Miss T Has A New Book (Underway available now) (@TaMarasKitchen) April 6, 2021

This maybe the wackiest Civil War memory story in a while. 20 years from now this will make a great vignette in a book on Civil War memory. https://t.co/sc8T1PwbhU

— Dr. Adam H. Domby (@AdamHDomby) April 5, 2021

 

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  1. 1.

    TaMara (HFG)

    April 6, 2021 at 2:27 pm

    Wow, just listening to him talking to folks is so comforting.

  2. 2.

    mali muso

    April 6, 2021 at 2:28 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Like a warm hug.  And we’ve all been missing those in these socially distanced days.

  3. 3.

    sdhays

    April 6, 2021 at 2:29 pm

    I don’t typically condone theft or vandalism, but when it comes to Confederate monuments, it’s all good. Shit all over that shit.

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    April 6, 2021 at 2:31 pm

    Well, bugger. I just wrote a whole longish post on the theft of the Confederate toilet, which I shall now flush. GMTA!

  5. 5.

    TaMara (HFG)

    April 6, 2021 at 2:33 pm

    @Betty Cracker: No!!! I’ll delete my tweets!!! I’m so sorry I stepped on you! Blame Biden, he just randomly goes live….

  6. 6.

    Betty Cracker

    April 6, 2021 at 2:34 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): It’s all good — I trashed it already. No worries, as long as people get the story, which is awesome! :)

  7. 7.

    RandomMonster

    April 6, 2021 at 2:34 pm

    He does such a great job chatting with people.

  8. 8.

    mali muso

    April 6, 2021 at 2:35 pm

    I am in favor of multiple posts highlighting the proper use of Confederate monuments! Bring it on!

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 6, 2021 at 2:39 pm

    among other things: How in the god almighty hell is a stone chair made in 1893 as post-confederate kitsch worth half a million dollars? to whom?

  10. 10.

    Martin

    April 6, 2021 at 2:45 pm

    CA announcing conditional lifting of all restrictions on June 15. Now, we should hit 20M vaccinations by tomorrow. At our current pace, we should be able to vaccinate everyone 16+ in the state by that date. Conditions are based on testing and hospitalizations, so it’s not shots in arms, but are we seeing the results of shots in arms by then. We are currently lowest test positivity rate in the US at 1.5%.

  11. 11.

    Jeffro

    April 6, 2021 at 2:46 pm

    I think we’d better get Congress re-focused on that 1/6 investigation and call it out for what it was (and what it was, wasn’t ‘economic anxiety‘)

    The charges have, so far, been generally in proportion to state and county populations as a whole. Only Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and Montana appear to have sent more protesters to D.C. suspected of crimes than their populations would suggest.

    Nor were these insurrectionists typically from deep-red counties. Some 52 percent are from blue counties that Biden comfortably won. But by far the most interesting characteristic common to the insurrectionists’ backgrounds has to do with changes in their local demographics: Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic White population are the most likely to produce insurrectionists who now face charges.

    When compared with almost 2,900 other counties in the United States, our analysis of the 250 counties where those charged or arrested live reveals that the counties that had the greatest decline in White population had an 18 percent chance of sending an insurrectionist to D.C., while the counties that saw the least decline in the White population had only a 3 percent chance. This finding holds even when controlling for population size, distance to D.C., unemployment rate and urban/rural location. It also would occur by chance less than once in 1,000 times.

    Put another way, the people alleged by authorities to have taken the law into their hands on Jan. 6 typically hail from places where non-White populations are growing fastest.

    Of course, that would explain why they so quickly go to this lame, completely unsupported “reasoning”: that it was really Antifa or the libs something something something

    …the idea that antifa was a catalyst for unrest took hold among Trump supporters. So when unrest erupted at the Capitol that day, antifa predictably got the blame. Those storming the Capitol may have been wearing Trump gear, sure — but it was somehow antifa that was leading the charge.

  12. 12.

    Ken

    April 6, 2021 at 2:46 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Maybe there’s a “giant stone memorial chair” market that we’re unaware of?  One of the more obscure trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade.

  13. 13.

    zhena gogolia

    April 6, 2021 at 2:52 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Man, I’d like to read that.

  14. 14.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2021 at 2:54 pm

    @Betty Cracker:   Please resurrect the toilet post, BC.  You know you can do it!

  15. 15.

    Benw

    April 6, 2021 at 2:54 pm

    BINGO!

  16. 16.

    kindness

    April 6, 2021 at 2:54 pm

    Awful expensive toilet.  Let me guess, no bidet option either, right?

  17. 17.

    NetheadJay

    April 6, 2021 at 2:55 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I suspect whoever managed to haul off with the “monument” picked a nice big number like that as an attention-getter and aren’t really expecting to get their demands met.

  18. 18.

    Ohio Mom

    April 6, 2021 at 2:59 pm

    Not quite on topic, several years ago, signs commemorating the John Hunt Morgan Trail appeared throughout my neighborhood and beyond. Apparently, he was a Confederate who rode through here with his troops.

    I’ve long been tempted to get stickers printed with “Was a traitor to our great nation” to slap under his name. I’m stopped by being cheap and the fact that the signs are out of my reach.

    I’m all for a historical marker for the spot the Union troops caught up with him, and maybe there is one, hundreds of miles away where his raid ended.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 2:59 pm

    @Elizabelle

    Ditto. More especially for those of us who don’t (or won’t) Twitter and only see stripped down tweets.

  20. 20.

    zhena gogolia

    April 6, 2021 at 3:00 pm

    Biden is so fucking nice. What a 180 from TFG.

  21. 21.

    Betty Cracker

    April 6, 2021 at 3:02 pm

    Okay, okay, I’ll post the stone throne thing later today or tomorrow. It really is pretty awesome! (Not the post — the people who stole the chair and the story around it.)

  22. 22.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2021 at 3:02 pm

    @Betty Cracker:   Yippee!!

  23. 23.

    James E Powell

    April 6, 2021 at 3:05 pm

    “To be a good president, you gotta be smart enough to hire people smarter than you.

    Something TFG was afraid of doing.

  24. 24.

    Immanentize

    April 6, 2021 at 3:05 pm

    “White Lies Matter” is just genius. Absolute genius.

  25. 25.

    dmsilev

    April 6, 2021 at 3:08 pm

    @Martin: According to the state dashboard, we hit the 20 million mark today, along with the “4 million doses in the hardest-hit quartile” threshold for adjusting the tier boundaries. 10 weeks should be enough to get at least a first dose into all adults in the state, and I imagine that Pfizer and Moderna will have their “safe for teenager” approvals by then so we should be working our way through that population as well.

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2021 at 3:08 pm

    @Immanentize:   I know.  I cracked up.

    We need some comic relief.  That makes a serious point.

    And now, out to enjoy this beautiful spring day.  Later, gators.

  27. 27.

    Benw

    April 6, 2021 at 3:09 pm

    @James E Powell: It’s worse than that – something he didn’t think was possible, since he’s the stablest genius!

    @Immanentize: WLM are my new anti-fa heroes

  28. 28.

    JoyceH

    April 6, 2021 at 3:09 pm

    Yesterday I drove past the house in my area that has all the Trump signs and flags on the front fence – and they’ve added a Trump 2024 flag.

  29. 29.

    Immanentize

    April 6, 2021 at 3:13 pm

    White Lies Matter just makes me Grin.

    If y’know what I mean….

  30. 30.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 3:14 pm

    @JoyceH

    “Area grocers at a loss to explain shortages of eggs and toilet paper.”

    //

  31. 31.

    Jeffro

    April 6, 2021 at 3:14 pm

    @JoyceH: yes!  that’s great – keep going with that trumpov magic, GQP!!  What could go wrong NEXT time around?

  32. 32.

    Old School

    April 6, 2021 at 3:15 pm

    @JoyceH: So they’ve just given up on the idea that Trump will be inaugurated at some point for winning the 2020 election?!!?

  33. 33.

    sdhays

    April 6, 2021 at 3:15 pm

    @JoyceH: That’s progress. At least they’ve admitted that he’s not the secret President who actually won by eleventy-million votes in November and will reveal his authority on April 51st in the Chick-Fil-A men’s room stall #2 or whatever.

  34. 34.

    Jeffro

    April 6, 2021 at 3:16 pm

    Btw Virginia peeps (especially central VA ones): tonight’s an excellent night to catch the ISS going overhead!

    Time: Tue Apr 06 8:12 PM, Visible: 7 min, Max Height: 59°, Appears: 10° above WNW, Disappears: 10° above SE

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 3:18 pm

    @JoyceH

    More seriously, don’t know about there but here there are specific date windows before and after any election during which political signs, banners, etc. may be displayed on fences, lawns and the like.

  36. 36.

    piratedan

    April 6, 2021 at 3:19 pm

    @JoyceH: in our semi-rural upscale AZ boonies neighborhood, we had a gentleman erect a Trump shrine on a semi-flatbed that included the Trump as Rambo banner et al… finally came down after the March 20 date came across without another coup taking place.  So perhaps it’s cognitively seeping in slowly that 45 is a LOSER.

  37. 37.

    Roger Moore

    April 6, 2021 at 3:32 pm

    @Martin:

    That’s huge.  I like that they’re making the full* reopening a statewide thing rather than county-by-county.  I’ve always been leery of the county-by-county thing, since having neighboring counties in different tiers would encourage people from the sicker county to visit the healthier one.

    *It isn’t quite full reopening.  They’re not going to remove the mask requirement, and things like indoor conventions will require proof of vaccination or a negative test.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 3:36 pm

    @Jeffro

    But- but- what about the whackaloon criminal pharmacist? Or is that Qarmacist?
    …For example, he would tell her the earth was flat and that the sky was not real. Instead, what we see up there is “a shield put up by the Government to prevent individuals from seeing God.” Source

    “If they can pinpoint the timing, location and duration so exactly it must be a projection, right?”

    :)

  39. 39.

    Almost Retired

    April 6, 2021 at 3:38 pm

    @Martin:  Hurray for us!  A full reopening by June 15th is going to throw yet another wrench in the Newsom recall effort!

  40. 40.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 3:38 pm

    Blockquote fix.

    @Jeffro

    But- but- what about the whackaloon criminal pharmacist? Or is that Qarmacist?

    But- but- what about the whackaloon criminal pharmacist? Or is that Qarmacist?
    …For example, he would tell her the earth was flat and that the sky was not real. Instead, what we see up there is “a shield put up by the Government to prevent individuals from seeing God.” Source

    “If they can pinpoint the timing, location and duration so exactly it must be a projection, right?”

    :)

  41. 41.

    dmsilev

    April 6, 2021 at 3:40 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    things like indoor conventions will require proof of vaccination or a negative test.

    Government overreach! My FREEDOM! Mark of the Beast! Embedded Bill Gates 5G Microchips!

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 3:40 pm

    Whoops. Double pasted one sentence. Confident y’all can figure it out.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2021 at 3:42 pm

    @Martin:

    Kiddo just got her jab in Contra Costa County at the tender age of 19. Also her Brit friend got one, despite being a suspicious furriner, complete with posh accent. Both got J&J. Evidently the county has thrown open the door and anybody can get one.

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2021 at 3:44 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I knew Bill Gates had me the day “5G” magically appeared atop my phone display. Before that it was just a sales promise.

    {shakes fist in general direction of Bill Gates}

  45. 45.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 6, 2021 at 3:46 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    They’re not going to remove the mask requirement, and things like indoor conventions will require proof of vaccination or a negative test.

    So unbridled tyranny. Par for the course in California.

  46. 46.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 6, 2021 at 3:47 pm

    @Martin: LA County is at 1.4%, we were at 21% in January.

  47. 47.

    BruceFromOhio

    April 6, 2021 at 3:48 pm

    “We took their toy, and we don’t feel guilty about it. They never play with it anyway. They just want it there to remind us what they’ve done, what they are still willing to do. But the south won’t rise again. Not as the Confederacy. Because that coalition left out a large portion of its population. All that’s left of that nightmare is an obscenely heavy chair that’s a throne for a ghost whose greatest accomplishment was treason.”

  48. 48.

    Just One More Canuck

    April 6, 2021 at 3:48 pm

    @Ohio Mom: according to wiki, he led a pointless, unauthorised raid into Ohio. He was captured,  escaped, and later got himself killed in Tennessee in 1864

    A futile and stupid gesture – but one that the deadenders never forget

  49. 49.

    Ken

    April 6, 2021 at 3:52 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Next they’ll be demanding you have a special state-issued card before you can drive a car, then adding more restrictions like limits on your blood alcohol level.

  50. 50.

    dmsilev

    April 6, 2021 at 3:52 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: No, no, the mask mandate means that it’s a bridled tyranny.

  51. 51.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2021 at 3:53 pm

    I would get out the tiny violin but sadly, have misplaced my magnifying glass. All together: “Awwww”

    Several former Trump officials told the Washington Post that “the job climate was even more difficult than they believed it would be, and both former vice president Mike Pence and Trump have kept a coterie of staffers still on their payrolls, some because they have not been able to find other work. Some seem to have disappeared.”

    “Kirstjen Nielsen, the former head of Homeland Security who is linked to the family separation scandal at the border, sold her house in Washington, and moved in hopes that fewer people would recognize her in public. Mark Meadows, the president’s former chief of staff, changed his longtime cellphone number. A number of other Cabinet secretaries have struggled to find jobs.”

    https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/06/life-as-an-ex-trump-official/

    Argentina worked well the last time, maybe they can move there.

  52. 52.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 3:54 pm

    @trollhattan

    5G is half-baked technology. Marketing gimmick to entice people to sign up for “premium” plans. In practice, still in swaddling clothes.

  53. 53.

    BruceFromOhio

    April 6, 2021 at 3:55 pm

    @trollhattan:

    All together: “Awwww” BRONX CHEER!”

    I’d throw things at them, but my aim is terrible.

    Argentina? Aeroflot to Moscow, baby, hit the road already.

  54. 54.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 6, 2021 at 3:55 pm

    @Jeffro: I’ve seen it here in the light polluted urban hellhold.  At first I thought it might be a plane, and then it started fading from view as it got higher in the sky.  One of the astronomy apps on my phone alerts me to ISS and HST crossings.

     

  55. 55.

    Tazj

    April 6, 2021 at 3:57 pm

    @piratedan: The Trumpers in my neighborhood have gone back to the Gadsden flag, the 1776 flag or the Tree flag( that’s one associated with Continental army-I had to look that one up). You still know where they stand, but it seems they have moved on from Trump for the moment.
    The people across the street from the house with the Gadsden flag, that had the Trump 2020 flag up until last month, keep their Biden/Harris sign on their door. Good for them. I took my Biden/Harris bumper sticker off my car a month after the election. I didn’t want any shenanigans from disgruntled Trump supporters.

  56. 56.

    dmsilev

    April 6, 2021 at 3:57 pm

    @trollhattan:

    “I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Armstrong Williams, a D.C. Trump supporter and confidant of Carson’s. “I helped a very high-ranking Trump official secure a position, but after January 6, it was rescinded. I’ve seen it happen to many, many people.”

    Gee, I wonder why?

  57. 57.

    Martin

    April 6, 2021 at 4:01 pm

    @Roger Moore: Yeah, I mean, if they are being successful on equitable distribution of vaccine then you should see this pretty severe collapse in infections as the virus struggles to find a purchase.

    Now, the risk here is that with an unvaccinated young population, you run a serious risk of a variant that targets kids as they’d be the only ones that can spread. This is why masking and distancing really need to last longer. You don’t really get mutations pre-vaccination (the dominant strain chokes them out), or post-herd immunity (unless it can pierce immunity), but during that transition, you get loads of them as the vaccine stunts their spread but more infectious variants can overcome that statistical effect, or mutate into strains that are more aggressive toward the unvaccinated population like kids.

  58. 58.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 4:02 pm

    @dmsilev

    My tear ducts steadfastly remain on standby.

    ;)

  59. 59.

    Ken

    April 6, 2021 at 4:03 pm

    @trollhattan:  Some seem to have disappeared.

    Trying to avoid the summonses, subpoenas and warrants, I expect.

  60. 60.

    Chief Oshkosh

    April 6, 2021 at 4:05 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: C’mon, man! The answer’s obvious. Now that all those rubes were fleeced by the Trump “Donate Weakly” button have been told about the scam, what ELSE are they going to spend their spare nickels on? (Assuming they’re smart enough to stop donating to the scammer…)

  61. 61.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 6, 2021 at 4:06 pm

    Interesting addition to a post about President Biden speaking. ?

    For the record, I would piss all over that Confederate chair.

  62. 62.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 4:07 pm

    Open thread?

    WT actual F? Noticed just now that Prime is listing The Prisoner under the heading “Comedy TV.”

  63. 63.

    Martin

    April 6, 2021 at 4:09 pm

    @trollhattan: Yeah, apparently the meta policy (the secret internal policy that informs administrators when to change the public facing policy) is that once you get a certain amount of unfilled appointments over a given period of time, you can jump ahead to the next population group.

  64. 64.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 6, 2021 at 4:09 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    @Betty Cracker: We would welcome many posts about loser monuments we can poop and pee on!

  65. 65.

    TaMara (HFG)

    April 6, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    UPDATED:  up top, new video link for Biden remarks…

  66. 66.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 6, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    @trollhattan:

    He just celebrated his 49th birthday, enjoying a nice Mediterranean meal with his wife at Cava Mezze, after a day of Zoom appearances through the Speakers Bureau — speaking gigs that have, at times, earned him six figures. He talks about what he knows best: how Trump comes to his decisions, what could happen with legislation and the future of the Republican Party, which still sees Trump as its North Star.

    Who the hell is paying Reince Freaking Priebus six fucking figures for a flipping Zoom talk?

  67. 67.

    WaterGirl

    April 6, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    Did Biden just say that he will be announcing in a couple of weeks that people can just start showing up for the shots, no appointment needed???

    It was really good to hear the President say that once he is sure we have enough for the US, he/we will be giving the vaccine to poorer countries.

  68. 68.

    West of the Rockies

    April 6, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    OT, but you folks are the perfect audience to ask.  What is the best way to acclimate a spayed adult cat (she’s about 10) to a new home.  My daughter (she’s 19) moved out of state for college and we now have her cat.

    It’s a nice neighborhood and the cat, Snowbell, does have street smarts (an awareness of cars).  She will be mostly an outdoor girl.

    Thank you all for any suggestions.

  69. 69.

    West of the Rockies

    April 6, 2021 at 4:12 pm

    @West of the Rockies: 
    I’m hoping she doesn’t just take off. She knows me and has fondness for me.

  70. 70.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 6, 2021 at 4:13 pm

    @Ken:

    Next they’ll be demanding you have a special state-issued card before you can drive a car, then adding more restrictions like limits on your blood alcohol level.

    You’ve reminded me of this brilliant moment from the last libertarian primary.

    Tonight's debate going well pic.twitter.com/HwmgWbOhgG

    — Human Mel (@melhuman) August 1, 2019

  71. 71.

    Martin

    April 6, 2021 at 4:13 pm

    @NotMax: Amazon adapting to the growing legalization of pot.

  72. 72.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 6, 2021 at 4:14 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Government overreach! My FREEDOM! Mark of the Beast! Embedded Bill Gates 5G Microchips! 

    So I’m my own hotspot now?  Bye bye monthly ISP cost!

  73. 73.

    Martin

    April 6, 2021 at 4:17 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Yeah, but only Bill Gates has the password.

  74. 74.

    Baud

    April 6, 2021 at 4:17 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    The human network is the fastest network of all.

  75. 75.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 6, 2021 at 4:18 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: And restricting your ‘Murrican right to fly through the windshield by making you wear some sort of belt when seated!

    TIERANNIE!

  76. 76.

    Betty Cracker

    April 6, 2021 at 4:18 pm

    @West of the Rockies: We have many cat experts who comment here, and I am NOT one of them! However, my understanding from reading and personal experience is that cats tend to form strong attachments to places, so if the cat moves in with you and is outside most of the time, she might take off to find her old home, even though she likes you personally!

    So, maybe it would be a good idea to keep her indoors for a while? (I wish everyone would keep their cats indoors all the time, but that’s another post…)

  77. 77.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 6, 2021 at 4:18 pm

    @Martin: Is it “swordfish?”

  78. 78.

    Timill

    April 6, 2021 at 4:20 pm

    @West of the Rockies: Keep her inside for 2-3 weeks initially.

    Also, putting butter on their front paws is said to help, as cats can relax in a place where they’ve washed themselves.

  79. 79.

    Baud

    April 6, 2021 at 4:20 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Did Biden just say that he will be announcing in a couple of weeks that people can just start showing up for the shots, no appointment needed???

    Completely eliminates the social cachet of being vaccinated if you ask me?

  80. 80.

    Ken

    April 6, 2021 at 4:20 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Sure, in Libertopia you won’t need a government-issued license to driver your car; but you will need a separate license for each of the privately-owned road systems, if the owners decide to make that a condition for use of their property.

  81. 81.

    Nelle

    April 6, 2021 at 4:21 pm

    The big farmhouse with all the Trump flags just up and moved this morning.  Well, with a lot of help and I wish the nearby school kids could have seen all the maneuvering to get it around the nearby big intersection.  Biggest house I’ve ever seen going down the road.  I’m not sure what will go in there…maybe more cornfields.  At least we shouldn’t have to see the Trump flags whenever we drive east.

  82. 82.

    TaMara (HFG)

    April 6, 2021 at 4:21 pm

    @West of the Rockies: This is a new home to her? She really shouldn’t go outside for about 3 months or she will try and find her way back to her old home. We didn’t let ours outside for a bit over 3 months when we moved, then winter hit, so another 3-ish months until they were outside regular.  When Gabe arrived, I didn’t let him go out for the winter, once spring arrived, I supervised him outside, always before breakfast, and then enticed him in for breakfast. We did that for several weeks.

  83. 83.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 6, 2021 at 4:21 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’d forgotten about Pubic Rerinse.

  84. 84.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2021 at 4:23 pm

    @NotMax:

    Verizon chose our metroplex as an early rollout target and I have to say, per Ookla speed test anyway my phone up and downloads faster through them then my home wireless. I can’t switch 5G on and off so can’t compare to 4G except when traveling, and life’s too short for that nonsense.

    IDK what happens once they oversell and the cell network bogs down from traffic.

  85. 85.

    Ken

    April 6, 2021 at 4:24 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: No, “swordfish” doesn’t qualify.  Your vaccine chip password, which must be changed every 30 days, must be a minimum of 16 characters long; use at least one capital letter, one small letter, one digit, and one special character; may not contain any repeated characters or part of your user ID or email address; or be similar to any of your previous 72 passwords.

    I got tired of trying to come up with a new one and remember it, so I got a shingles vaccine. That installs a password vault app in your spleen which seamlessly interfaces with all the other vaccine chips in your body.

  86. 86.

    MoCaAce

    April 6, 2021 at 4:26 pm

    You women folk might want to get there first.  I’m definitely gonna piss all over the seat :)

  87. 87.

    West of the Rockies

    April 6, 2021 at 4:26 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    Thank you (and everyone else).

    Yes, she’s been indoors with is for about 7-8 weeks.

  88. 88.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 6, 2021 at 4:27 pm

    @MoCaAce: LMAO!

  89. 89.

    TaMara (HFG)

    April 6, 2021 at 4:29 pm

    @West of the Rockies: We may need photos. ;-)

  90. 90.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 4:31 pm

    @trollhattan

    It ain’t the speeds, it’s the distance. When a single node is insufficient to provide stable, steady coverage to an area the size of a average college stadium, well, ’nuff said.

  91. 91.

    Beautifulplumage

    April 6, 2021 at 4:32 pm

    Speaking of vaccinations…I GOT JAB #2 TODAY! WOOHOO!

  92. 92.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 6, 2021 at 4:33 pm

    @Ken: to say nothing of the huge amount of liability insurance you’ll need to do anything at all in the comically litigious society that would inevitably form.

  93. 93.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 6, 2021 at 4:35 pm

    @NotMax: nothing more nodes can’t solve. Don’t get me wrong, 5G is obviously best for dense areas, but that is where most people live.

  94. 94.

    TaMara (HFG)

    April 6, 2021 at 4:37 pm

    Just love the Second Family:

    While visiting Yakama Nation, @SecondGentleman made a surprise stop to thank health care workers who are vaccinating the community. pic.twitter.com/Tj8ePrgBMl

    — Katie Peters (@KatiePeters46) April 6, 2021

  95. 95.

    Dan B

    April 6, 2021 at 4:37 pm

    @NotMax: I second your take on 5G.  I got the Samsung S20 FE and the thing is incredibly slow.  Certain times of day it reports that websites’ connections “time out”.  Money suck.

  96. 96.

    mrmoshpotato

    April 6, 2021 at 4:38 pm

    @Beautifulplumage: Two weeks until you can party recklessly and irresponsibly!

  97. 97.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 4:40 pm

    @Major Major Major Major

    Things may have improved somewhat since but I definitely remember reading of a test taking a minimum of four nodes to provide coverage to all of Yankee Stadium.

    (If that’s your idea of a good time.)

  98. 98.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 6, 2021 at 4:42 pm

    @NotMax: 5G is sort of definitionally short-distance, but again, it’s not like there’s going to be a shortage of nodes long-term, unless this semiconductor issue gets bad (in which case we have bigger problems!)

  99. 99.

    Ken

    April 6, 2021 at 4:45 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Two weeks until you can party recklessly and irresponsibly!

    Maybe even two saltines per person!

  100. 100.

    sab

    April 6, 2021 at 4:46 pm

    @West of the Rockies: Keep it inside for at least a couple of weeks. Hell of a lot of cats are lost forever when they go off trying to find old home. I have been seeing signs in my neighborhood for twenty years posting about lost new cats. Street smarts have nothing to do with it. The cat wants to go home. After a few weeks it will realize it has a new home.

  101. 101.

    Matt McIrvin

    April 6, 2021 at 4:47 pm

    My wife is getting her J&J shot–mother-in-law had leftover from the vaccination clinic.

    I can’t get it now because I just got my shingles vaccination, reasoning that it’d be more than the indicated 2 week interval before I became eligible for the COVID vaccine (and if I *didn’t* get shingles shot #2, it’d probably be more than 6 months since shingles shot #1 before I could, and I’d have to start that clock all over again).

    I figured there was an outside chance something like this would happen, but I can wait another week and a half.

  102. 102.

    Mike in NC

    April 6, 2021 at 4:49 pm

    @trollhattan: Picturing Stephen Miller cleaning toilets at Mar-A-Lago.   After a year he gets to use a brush.

  103. 103.

    Benw

    April 6, 2021 at 4:49 pm

    @Beautifulplumage: Huzzah!

  104. 104.

    Dan B

    April 6, 2021 at 4:50 pm

    @West of the Rockies: The usual for moved cars is to keep them in the house for two weeks.  The new residence smells wrong and will smell like their territory after two weeks.  Also they will likely want to be in a small space until they feel it’s safe to explore a bit at a time.

    Take it easy with the new experiences and challenges.

    It’s good your new tenant is fond of you.  She (?) may miss the familiarity, and “safety” of your daughter.

  105. 105.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 4:51 pm

    @Mike in NC

    After a year he gets to use a brush.

    After a year he gets to use buy a brush.

    :)

  106. 106.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2021 at 4:52 pm

    @Dan B:

    Mine’s the S20 5G UW (a Husky evidently) and it’s fast as hell.

  107. 107.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2021 at 4:54 pm

    @Dan B:

    The usual for moved cars is to keep them in the house for two weeks.

    Mine barely fit through the front door.

  108. 108.

    Central Planning

    April 6, 2021 at 4:54 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: In theory, @Beautifulplumage can be reckless and irresponsible now, but in a different way.

    4/5 of my kids should have their first shot by Friday. The youngest isn’t 16 yet, so hopefully they’ll lower the age to “teenagers” soon.

  109. 109.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 6, 2021 at 4:56 pm

    @Central Planning: By the time of the second shot you’re about as protected as after the J&J vaccine, but obviously it’s better to wait two weeks and be even more protecteder.​

    (obviously this is not medical advice)

  110. 110.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 6, 2021 at 4:57 pm

    @trollhattan: Being a Husky makes it work better.

  111. 111.

    Mike in NC

    April 6, 2021 at 4:57 pm

    @Tazj: We have an unhinged racist down the street who took to flying his flag upside down after Obama was reelected. Neighbors complained it was disrespectful of the armed forces. He’s also reverted to the Tea Party stolen Gadsden flag.

  112. 112.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 6, 2021 at 4:58 pm

    @trollhattan: I can’t get mine though the houses out front.

  113. 113.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 4:59 pm

    @Dan B

    MEGO when reading it, but FYI anyway.

    Cellphone plan fine print, explained

    While on the subject, different quadrant of the cellscape:

    New study reveals iPhones aren’t as private as you think

  114. 114.

    Matt McIrvin

    April 6, 2021 at 5:02 pm

    @WaterGirl: I think he just means that he’s calling for all states to make the vaccine universally available to adults by April 19th. I doubt they’ll have enough supply that they can all make it a simple walk-up. But opening it to everyone over 16 should simplify the process.

  115. 115.

    WaterGirl

    April 6, 2021 at 5:03 pm

    @Baud: Fuck social cachet.  I want herd immunity!

  116. 116.

    Central Planning

    April 6, 2021 at 5:06 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I was trying to make a joke about going out now without the vaccine is also reckless and irresponsible. It was funny in my head. The execution wasn’t quite there. :)

  117. 117.

    satby

    April 6, 2021 at 5:13 pm

    @West of the Rockies: If you leave her outside a lot she probably will go looking for her person. I cleaned up the remains of a lot of “street smart” cats. Some drivers aim for loose running pets.

  118. 118.

    ReadWrite

    April 6, 2021 at 5:15 pm

    @Nelle: The house was repossessed after Trump’s “donate weekly” scam drained all their money.

  119. 119.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2021 at 5:15 pm

    @Matt McIrvin:

    J&J seems to be having a big impact–in our county it’s nearly 50% of the supply and one shot is so much easier to administer and track.

  120. 120.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2021 at 5:17 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I shall call it Dante Pettis.

  121. 121.

    Dan B

    April 6, 2021 at 5:17 pm

    @Beautifulplumage: Is a Seattle Meetup in the works?  Right now it may be just Olds and High Risk (not just the stoners….).  But soon there should be more categories and more outdoor potential.

  122. 122.

    Dan B

    April 6, 2021 at 5:26 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: We are in Seattle city limits and 3 short blocks from major cell towers.  Coverage has sucked for months.  My 4G was twice as fast, at least.  I frequently have to hold the phone up to the window to get anything.  After the two week post Pfizer 2 I’ll be in to T Mobile to see if that can be fixed, and one other issue – getting my current, not years-ago-abandoned, Faceborg.

  123. 123.

    Roger Moore

    April 6, 2021 at 5:26 pm

    @Martin:

    You don’t really get mutations pre-vaccination (the dominant strain chokes them out)

    This isn’t quite true.  There’s no selective pressure in favor of evading immunity from the vaccination, but there is still selective pressure in favor of increased transmission rate, and we have seen variants that appear to spread more readily become dominant in the region where they’re first detected.  And there’s always the chance that a variant that can evade the vaccine will develop with either neutral or increased ability to spread.

  124. 124.

    Dan B

    April 6, 2021 at 5:28 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Wow, great to see Gentleman 2 in WA.  Not far from Yutsano and some other Jackals!

  125. 125.

    Matt McIrvin

    April 6, 2021 at 5:29 pm

    @trollhattan: Even if the thing isn’t as protective as the Pfizer or Moderna (and that’s not 100% clear), the ability to roll it out fast has to be knocking that R value down.

  126. 126.

    Matt McIrvin

    April 6, 2021 at 5:31 pm

    @Roger Moore: There’s also selective pressure in favor of evading any resistance resulting from a previous infection with an older variant.

  127. 127.

    The Lodger

    April 6, 2021 at 5:32 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Hunter S. Thompson is in orbit?

  128. 128.

    Dan B

    April 6, 2021 at 5:36 pm

    @trollhattan: My partner has been convinced the horrible 5G was my fault, until he tried to use my phone.  Maybe the T Mobile store can do something but I’m not holding my breath.  There are huge differences in download speeds on our property.  A 5000 square foot lot.  But the best location, the plastic roofed toolshed, is slower than the old 4G.  Perhaps it’s the 85% brown, black, immigrant population mix.

  129. 129.

    Beautifulplumage

    April 6, 2021 at 5:38 pm

    Dead thread, but rest assured I’m waiting the 2 weeks and then will still mask up in public. And a Seattle meetup sounds lovely, especially as the weather gets better. Or maybe we can do a “bring your own takeout” and meet at a park on a weekend?

    I am looking forward to eating in a restaurant again.

  130. 130.

    Dan B

    April 6, 2021 at 5:42 pm

    @trollhattan: Our Leaf hasn’t made it to the front door for weeks.  The dealer can’t figure out why the lead acid battery keeps discharging and my partner is too nice to raise the riot act.  Then again the Leaf never could manage the two flights of steps to the front door, but our friends with the drive in front door (code workaround) can.

    Care and feeding of your new car tip – You’re Welcome!

  131. 131.

    Roger Moore

    April 6, 2021 at 5:42 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    I’d forgotten about Pubic Rerinse.

    I believe the acceptable joke nicknames are Rinse Repeatus and RNC PR BS.

  132. 132.

    Dan B

    April 6, 2021 at 5:56 pm

    @NotMax: My 5G T Mobile Samsung has been much worse than my partner’s older Samsung T Mobile 4G from the first day I got the fancy S20 FE.  We’re paying a lot more for my phone.  Browsing websites frequently crashes.  We use my phone and my partner’s for streaming YouTube and Netflix on our Roku / TV and both work fine unless we’re over 50 Gigs data.

    I’m not sure why the phone won’t go to 4G when the 5G is crap but it shows 4G and stops.

  133. 133.

    trollhattan

    April 6, 2021 at 5:57 pm

    @Dan B: 
    It’s very localized and–you’re in Seattle?–hills have an effect, too. We’re flat as a pancake here, which helps. I have not had the phone in my downtown office, where 4G at my desk got a whopping single bar on a good day (steel-frame highrise).

    We had 5G before the East Bay, but now when I go to see the kid I get it in a lot of places there, too.

  134. 134.

    Reboot

    April 6, 2021 at 6:07 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Well, drat. I was saving your post to read for later.

  135. 135.

    NotMax

    April 6, 2021 at 6:12 pm

    @Dan B

    Signing up for a Roku account is free* (not sure, but an account may already come with their TVs, although may have to be activated at their web site), and you can then stream Netflix on the TV directly over your internet wi-fi..

    *They will ask for a credit card number, only to be used if you purchase other equipment from them, or choose to access additional pay to stream channels. Scads of free to access other channels (usually, but not universally, including some ads) available through Roku.

  136. 136.

    Miss Bianca

    April 6, 2021 at 6:21 pm

    @trollhattan: 

    It’s Politico *spit*, and I have a bunch of other shit to do, but I am GONNA READ IT ANYWAY, just for the sweet, sweet, lulz with the heaping helping of Schadenfreude on the side.

  137. 137.

    cain

    April 6, 2021 at 6:22 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Muuurrrrrrrroooowwwww!! ::cow noise::

  138. 138.

    Miss Bianca

    April 6, 2021 at 6:24 pm

    @NotMax: Well, The Prisoner has got some pretty funny stuff in it…

    But Dr. Strangelove, now, *there’s* a knee-slapper for ya!

  139. 139.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2021 at 8:02 pm

    @Jeffro:   Thanks for the head’s up about the ISS!  It’s only partly cloudy here, so should be able to watch it.  Have set my alarm for 8:09.

    Jackals:  you can track the ISS with a free app, ISS Detector.  See when it flies over your state.  Perhaps like everybody else.  (I kid, I kid.)

  140. 140.

    Jeffro

    April 6, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    @trollhattan: why…it’s almost like everything trumpov touches…turns to shit.

    Who could have foreseen this?  LOL

  141. 141.

    Jeffro

    April 6, 2021 at 8:36 pm

    @Elizabelle: a 7-minute flyover!  How cool is that, I asked my kids for perhaps the hundredth time…  =)

  142. 142.

    Jeffro

    April 6, 2021 at 8:37 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: equally important: Reince is 49?  meaning he’s in my same exact early-GenX Reagan baby Randian nihilist cohort?  Who could have guessed?

    Ugh these people, MY people, they are the WORST…

  143. 143.

    Elizabelle

    April 6, 2021 at 9:56 pm

    @Jeffro:   Saw it!  So grateful to you for reminding me!

    The ISS sightings are habit-forming.  Also saw some juvenile owls in a nest today.  A good day.

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