This is a fake story that fooled my friends and me:
"WARNING! People are going door-to-door handing out masks, saying it's a new initiative from local government. They ask you to put it on to see if it fits, but it has been doused with chemicals that knock you out. Then they rob you. Don't accept masks from strangers! "
Deleted tweet from my local source:
https://twitter.com/SFSAFE/status/1483887252384239622
For US residents: COVIDtests.gov - Free at-home COVID-19 tests
https://www.covidtests.gov/
Humanity has mostly been comprised of philistines for much of its history.
Primal interests.
Primal needs.
Survival-focused coupled with a rational mind.
Now that we are less concerned, day to day, about survival, some of humanity is less primal and driven by survival instincts.
This group tends to look forward. It projects the potential of humanity and desires to get there quickly.
But the philistines hold everyone back.
This situation has been improving all along, but slowly.
Whenever we use a word to label something, we define a scope / limit to what it is.
We don't always agree to what that scope or limit is.
This is a source of many frustrating arguments.
For instance, when does something deserve the label "Life"? What threshold is crossed? When does it pass back over that threshold, and is that always called "Death"?
We all think we know the answer, but this is at the root of much disgust and animosity in many cultures.
I just spent a chunk of my afternoon swearing at my car.
The bluetooth fails to connect so that I can play music.
What is at the root of my anger?
Helplessness?
Powerlessness?
Friction in my ability to drive safely?
Feeling like a sucker because I spent so much to have a nice vehicle that shouldn't have issues like this?
Why not just let it go?
This explains a lot : https://twitter.com/WhiteHouseCEA/status/1481272709040513024
The James Webb Space Telescope is travelling at 820 mph and is now over 77% of the way to its future home almost a million miles away.
Since its launch on Christmas it has just past 1/2 of the time it will take to complete insertion into the L2 orbit.
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
The James Webb Space Telescope has cleared some significant hurdles! Now it's moving its primary mirror into place. That's the big, gold mirror that is folded back for the launch.
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplorer.html
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