Folks, I have spent literally the entire day trying to get someone at AOL to unlock my email. For the last eight hours, I have been told that the issue has been escalated to supervisors who would contact me. I haven't heard a thing.
You would think that, since I'm one of the last human beings on the face of the Earth still using AOL, they would take care of this. You'd be wrong.
So, once this gets resolved, hopefully before the next presidential election, I'm dropping them. (I kept them this long out of convenience, but now I have no reason to keep them.)
I'll see you on the radio at 6 p.m., at which time I will address this further.
First day of school!
Rebecca, age 39
Favorite subject: ending foreign wars and making child care affordable.
When I grow up: I want to be an example to little girls everywhere.
Favorite color: Blue
This is partially accurate. Well done pour overs and high quality home brewed coffee is really good. However, if you can’t appreciate the pleasure of a diner coffee when you are exhausted, you have lived a comfortable life.
Drinking black coffee isn’t performative. We live in 2026, we know how to make black coffee taste good. We aren’t drinking stale burnt diner coffee or percolator slop anymore. You’re being a baby.
Drinking straight espresso, on the other hand, is usually performative.
@selentelechia In the US they just do the best they can with a trans-abdominal ultrasound. I can’t recall ever hearing about a trans-rectal ultrasound as an option.
@Yofosoh@AdkHomeroom I think we actually might agree. The initial release could be of a form that is engineered to be highly contagious. You might get some second order spread to close contacts. Spread beyond that would be limited as soon as the cause was recognized and also by natural evolution.
@Yofosoh@AdkHomeroom 100% in natural environments. However, weaponization aims to contravene natural evolution in the short term. That’s why fear reasonably exists of a weaponized Ebola or similar high lethality pathogens. However, the risk with those is malicious release, not lab leak.
In case you were wondering, there is no need to be concerned about pneumonic plague in Siberia reaching the US. It requires close contact with infected individuals and quarantine of those exposed is straightforward. Also, there is effective post-exposure prophylaxis.
In case you were wondering, there is no need to be concerned about pneumonic plague in Siberia reaching the US. It requires close contact with infected individuals and quarantine of those exposed is straightforward. Also, there is effective post-exposure prophylaxis.