Sweet! And for everyone looking forward to cremation, this is a real grab-n-go solution.

Given this is a cardboard bed, what happens if a patient 'leaks'? I can see the lawsuits as the first elderly patient with a catheter gets dumped out of a melting bed.

Nursing homes and rehabilitation centers have tallied more than 5,000 coronavirus deaths, yet the governor accepts zero responsibility despite his March 25th order forcing them to take infected patients from hospitals.

...

Indeed, the initial order denied nursing homes the right even to ask if patients being sent by hospitals had tested positive for the coronavirus.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/10/cuomos-nursing-home-reversal-is-too-little-too-late-goodwin/

This chart is fantastic.

Solar concentrators are the most expensive renewable, both to build and maintain
Nothing delivers more emission-free power in one place than nuclear
Burning biomass doesn’t look all that different than burning coal.

https://twitter.com/crentsch/status/126165437150445

Dammit, Bee.

To prepare for the upcoming November election, Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered ballots to be sent to every cemetery in the state.

The governor of California said that ballot boxes would be sent to cemeteries across the state to ensure everyone had the right to vote, dead or alive.

https://babylonbee.com/news/governor-newsom-orders-ballots-sent-to-every-cemetery-in-state

You know what they say: Second place is first loser.

https://twitter.com/_Vs_The_World/status/1261605534056185856

When you think Obama blocked you on twitter, but it's something else.

I deadass thought I was blocked by Obama for a second

https://twitter.com/JustinWhang/status/1261443552913100802

Reasonable skepticism about predictive models is not unscientific—and blind trust in an untested, shoddily written model is not scientific. As Socrates might have put it, an unexamined model is not worth trusting.

https://www.city-journal.org/coronavirus-model-driven-decision-making

Does anyone remember this joke?:

"I'd rather have a Shamrock Shake with my real friends than rock a real shake with my sham friends."

> This chart is fantastic.

It's gone.

But I've heard that solar panels are an ("Ecological!") nightmare for disposal.

Even the merely reflective technologies... Ivanpah looks great when flying overhead, but they say the best thing about it is that when the birds flying by land on the ground, the cooked lunchmeat is sandwich-ready.

Needs are always met and niches always filled. Because capitalism.

PSA to the sex workers who visit this site, beware of the guy in the pics:

https://twitter.com/SophNar0747/status/1261092779549220864

Feel-good story of the day:

Community Rallies to Help Paralympic Triathlete Find a Treadmill for Quarantine Training