O.O
The Expanse season 6 drops December 10th
https://youtu.be/4PJpkGPtAHE
Leviathan Falls (book 9) is November 16th
Say goodbye to Mars. It's slipping behind the Sun tomorrow for a couple of weeks!
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/world/mars-solar-conjunction-2021-scn/index.html
Hiding behind her "religion" to not seek vaccination (no cogent argument provided), and now fired from her teaching job: https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/10/01/new-york-city-teachers-vaccine-mandate-unvaccinated-nr-vpx.cnn
The Long-COVID data is starting to come in:
"The accompanying data showed that as many as 46% of children and young adults between the ages of 10 and 22 had experienced at least one symptom in the six months after recovering." https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/world/coronavirus-newsletter-intl-29-09-21/index.html
@Museek
Have you received any flu or shingles vaccinations recently?
I've got my first headache in years just after getting those.
HR: "I'm sorry Mr Carlson. This is the CDC recommended procedure for the COVID test on assholes."
Tucker: "But this a violation of my rights!"
HR: "Well, it is a violation of sorts. You will get used to it after a few times."
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1437844301103390726
Interesting perspective on why military interventions do not work. https://nonzero.substack.com/p/afghanistan-3-unlearned-lessons
The term "Christian Taliban" is trending on the bird site.
While I believe many in the US deserve that moniker, I also believe that the risk of the US taking the same trajectory as Afghanistan is highly unlikely.
This is not because the US-based Christian Taliban are weak.
It's because at least a plurality of US citizens are dedicated to the ideals of America.
Many will take up arms to support America.
Many will choose to die to uphold them.
That didn't happen in Afghanistan.
After trying for 20 years to adjust a country's culture and power structure, we have failed.
IMHO, the pending fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban is not a testament to the US's lack of effort but a consequence of a dominantly homogeneous culture. This is a multi-millennial-old culture, yet it has made such little progress WRT human rights, technology and governance. I believe this inertia is driven by "tradition", which becomes entrenched when the culture is homogeneous.
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