Religion is a hell of a drug y'all.

All right, I'm not 100% on this, but I *think* we are losing a LITERAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGIST because of our employer's vaccine mandate.

Our shop ran some of the earliest Moderna trials y'all.

WTAF?

I have agreed to meet some friends for breakfast in the big city. Not sure whether to drive to protect myself from delta variant exposure or take bus/ferry like in the olden days.

Driving would be safer, but coming towards home on a Friday afternoon will be super-painful, involving hours of waiting.

Hah!
Conservative pranksters face $5 million proposed fine over robocalls - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/24/22640239/fcc-jacob-wohl-burkman-election-robocalls-fine

What is this "steely dan" of which you speak?

If anybody's curious, District 9 still holds up after gosh 12 years.

I just met my first CoSoNaut in real life!

Sunday morning

God bless Patagonia

Patagonia dumps Jackson Hole ski resort after far-right fundraiser | WyoFile
https://www.wyofile.com/patagonia-dumps-jackson-hole-ski-resort-after-far-right-fundraiser/

This guy's a real charmer.

QAnon Influencer GhostEzra Is Actually a Baptist Florida Dad
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yvmv/qanon-ghostezra-is-robert-randall-smart

On my trip to Lowes home repair store today I passed the local hospital--there was a demonstration against requiring the medical staff to get vaccinated. Probably 50 people or so. Nooobody masked of course.

One lady had a sign that said s/t like "RNs for Freedom".

I guess we're not supposed to look down on these people, but... Nah--they're a bunch of morons who have no business in healthcare.

Even worse: failing to repair window screens.

Damned cat!

I f*(*&#$ing hate repairing window screens.

I may have left myself open to a "title of your sex tape" zinger here...

Anybody following the OnlyFans thing? I'm curious as to what cultural force caused the payment processors to pressure them to stop what I'm assuming is a kind of cottage porn industry.

PornHub & them don't seem to have issues w/getting their payments processed, do they?

Was talking about this w/my family & my youngest speculated maybe it was "big porn" trying to squeeze out the little guys. That seems not-crazy to me...

Good stuff as usual from Rothkopf
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Why Facebook Shelved an Earlier Report on Popular Posts - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/technology/facebook-popular-posts.html

More: https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2021/08/20/poulsbo-churchs-invitation-speaker-critical-race-theory-draws-protest/8216043002/

The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Worse in Republican States
https://www.theroot.com/we-fact-checked-fox-news-racist-lie-it-turns-out-the-1847523366