Only 202? It feels like there are some old friends on that list.

Mea Culpa: I totally fell for this.

Don't read this while you're enjoying a meal btw

https://archive.org/details/ASlowDeath83DaysOfRadiation

"Don't be evil", they said.

But The Markup has learned that not only does the Android version of the contact tracing tool contain a privacy flaw, but when researchers from the privacy analysis firm AppCensus alerted Google to the problem back in February of this year, Google failed to change it.

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/27/google-promised-its-contact-tracing-app-was-completely-private-but-it-wasnt

Nakagin Capsule Tower.

Video... There's no hot water any more, and it's essentially condemned.

It would still be nice to have one in some nearby big city.

Arizona governor signs ban on abortions based on genetic abnormalities.

French bickering: Probably as close as it can get to Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall. Also, governments totally lie.

Consider the parenthetical notation for the map of San Francisco near the center of this web page. (It's a good essay, too.)

It's a shame. Never lived there, but in several visits across the decades, it seemed like the most romantic city in the United States, with few contenders.

Between lefty insanity and quakes to threaten anything you've ever had or could ever have while living there, I can't imagine how things could improve.

Frank Bruni column on Dr. Fauci:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/opinion/sunday/anthony-fauci.html

Unfortunately, I can't read the comments.

Lenona... I'll chip in for you to get a good used laptop. Or to find someone who can configure your spam filters so you can read the things you want to read.

Here's a great tweet of news to consider along with the abortion article above.

Lenona, after reading that how can you say the NY Times is anything other than a tabloid rag?

"we maintain a zero-tolerance policy for intolerance "

VisuWell statement on why they fired CEO Sam Johnson for his, erm, attention to a cross-dressing teen.

> Bruni column on Dr. Fauci

I agree with most all the first three paragraphs… But they aim too low in their praise: Bruni completely elides the most remarkable thing about the guy, and squanders the column on team loyalty.

Nowhere else in his generation in American public service have we seen —and never again could we hope to see— a professional with such an intimate & working understanding of a profoundly intellectual field toiling, at substantial personal financial cost, in a supervisory & regulatory position in government. Fauci is a gift from God.

If you think you could have done better, or think you know the name of a scientist of his caliber who WOULD have done better in this millennium, name names or GTFOH. (Especially as regards administrators from the private sector... Finance, manufacturing, anybody.)

Name = ____.

In the thicket of social media manipulations clouding the Trump years, he got some political things, big things, wrong… Around his 80th birthday. I see those faults. But can't imagine anyone of his background, intentions and competence who'd would have done better. Let me know when you see the next Fauci on the scene. I want names… Not But that one time, Fauci zzzzzz....

Never lived there, but in several visits across the decades, it seemed like the most romantic city in the United States, with few contenders. ~ Crid at April 28, 2021 12:05 PM

It once was, without a doubt. However, as the map shows, The City has lost much of its charm. I feel lucky enough to have lived there when it still had some.

You don't like Randy Quaid? Well, whom would you rather have? Caitlyn Jenner? She's also running.

Not a huge fan. Ditches wife, abandons kids. This is not the sort of values I would want in a governor.

Say what you want about this commercial rendering of Biden as failed likeness; it conveys the quintessential weirdness of a facelift.

Patrick— Newsom cheated with his campaign manager's wife during the campaign, and Arnold made that one extramarital baby… Maybe the office no longer portends fidelity.

Ben, it would help if you'd explain what Bruni - or Crid - got wrong. I have no idea. Bruni DID admit, without specifics, that Fauci made mistakes. Why should we be condemning Fauci?

(I can't help but suspect that, a year ago, had Trump said something like "American lives are in terrible danger and I will even put my reelection at risk to save those lives" - plus, he could have tried to make all of Fauci's ideas look like HIS ideas - he could have been reelected.)

Btw, Crid, something's odd. I seem to remember being on a computer where I couldn't read any NY Times column without subscribing, which I haven't done, but at the same time, I COULD click to read the comments on any column!

Now, somehow, it's the other way around - on the iPad, that is, and I still haven't subscribed. Whereas on the public library's Chromebook, which is much better for most things, I can't read ANYTHING from the NYT.

Sorry, Lenona, not an Ipad guy. There's an ancient one upstairs just for facetime. People who type without keys seem like wizards.

Is anyone here old enough, so to speak, to remember Pelto?

So this tweet made me look at this study... And nowhere in the text does the word "novel" appear!

Probably because of Covid.

Anyway, it was great not to see it, because a few years ago something like ~40+% of science papers described their findings as 'novel.' And the world just ain't that interesting.

Speaking of which...pre-pandemic, when I was helping a short-term volunteer to sort donated books at the library, I had to explain to her, more than once, what a novel was.

Let that sink in...

It's possible she was still a teen, but even if she was...

That's intense. It's hard to imagine someone to whom you couldn't just say "fiction."

"Fauci isn’t perfect. But he has been perfectly sincere, perfectly patient, a professional standing resolutely outside so many of the worst currents of American life." -False.

He has been anything but professional. As for sincere he openly admitted to falsifying his 'professional' advice. That isn't sincere.

"Jordan noted angrily that “15 days of ‘slow the spread’ turned into one year of lost liberty.” He made that sound like Fauci’s fault, when the truth is that if more people, including Jordan and many of his constituents, had taken the “slow the spread” period more seriously, the year that followed it would probably have been much less brutal and significantly less deadly." -False. And provably so.

The worst areas were in New York. Ohio which Mr Jordan represents did better than the US average.

"We live in times that are viciously partisan and oratorically sloppy — but Fauci is neither." -False.

Fauci made the CDC into a partisan organization.

"Informed guidance like his is better than no guidance at all, and information isn’t static." -Debatable

"That’s more than public service. That’s magic." -Gee, god the feeling you are in a puff piece?

So that is roughly every other paragraph that have provably false statements in it. I get this is an opinion piece but it clearly wasn't published with the intent to mock it's author or show why he shouldn't be trusted.

How is the Times not a rag? Why do you think you are informed when you regularly read such an inaccurate thing?

He has been anything but professional.
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Details, please.
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Fauci made the CDC into a partisan organization.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "partisan."

The pandemic was a life-or-death situation, for potentially millions of people. The former leader of the country seldom, if ever, expressed sympathy for the grieving families of COVID victims and, for the most part, refused to set a good example by wearing masks, thus aggravating the problem. So it would be pretty hard to keep those with opposing medical opinions from APPEARING to be partisan, even when they weren't.

After all, even in the late fall, Trump was making frighteningly false statements that any smart teenager could see through - namely, that COVID talk would disappear from the media after January. But, somehow, those who contradicted that statement appeared to be "partisan" to many of his voters. Why?

Forgot to say - if anyone can find any critical comments from self-described liberals or non-Trump voters, I'll be happy to read them. (Please include their names/monikers.)

From the column, that is.

> Fauci made the CDC into a
> partisan organization

Fauci never worked at the CDC. So there's that.

Seriously Lenona?!?

You think falsifying official documents for the CDC is professional? You think admitting he lied repeatedly is sincere?

Well fuck honey. You want it all to be Trumps fault. Fine. It is and always will be all about Trump. Whatever. If you want to live an ignorant life there isn't anything I can do about that.

"If you want to live an ignorant life"

You think falsifying official documents for the CDC is professional? You think admitting he lied repeatedly is sincere?
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I didn't say any of that, and you know it.

YOU forgot to say "repeatedly" beforehand. I didn't know.

How many times are we talking about?

I'm guessing it wasn't exactly typical for him, over his ENTIRE career. Otherwise, maybe Fox News would have suggested replacing him, by now, with someone who wasn't afraid to stand up to Trump (unlike Dr. Deborah Birx) but who also had a better record than Fauci. Well? Names?

I apologize Lenona. The whole 'it is OK when government officials falsify documents' thing wasn't something I saw coming. Knowing you I should have. But I didn't.

As for Trump not taking Fauci's advice, according to Fauci he did. Of course according to Trump he didn't. Which liar you want to believe is up to you. Either way I am done with fantasy land.

Don't make this into a partisan organization, Ben.

Ben, you know very well that all too often, all we can hope for is to keep down the number of lies in any government official and be grateful when we find someone who lies less than others do. No one's saying that lies - other than white lies - are OK. (But then, of course, in politics, it's almost impossible to explain the difference. For example, we all WANT to hear that we're not going to get involved in overseas wars, so presidential candidates often lie about that.)

Interestingly, offhand, for the last few months, I haven't heard any of the conservative media defend Dr. Birx for HER actions - or claim that she's a better official than Fauci. If so, that would put those media pretty much in agreement with the liberal media.

Well/Fuck/Honey.

WellFuck Honey, in single-use, peel-top plastic tubs, like you sometimes see in Kentucky Fried Chicken stores for the biscuits, which is why those people got so fat.

Well FuckHoney, harvested from beehives affixed to the sides of groundwater pits in Texas and Arizona, where the low humidity lends a certain mossy piquancy to your pancake dressing.

Wellfuckhoney, because all rules about grammar and punctuation are just tools of oppression from people who hate Donald Trump.