Sinfest became a slow-motion tranwreck over the years, it was amazing to watch someone change so drastically. For example, compare 2005 Sinfest to 2015 Sinfest.
Boris Johnson is about as tall as 25 Big Macs.
They're lying that it's the same for both sexes. In reality, an increasing percentage of women are sexually active, but at the same time, the percentage of men is decreasing. Adult virginity might be increasing overall, but it's heavily skewed when you compare rates between men and women.
Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative
They're a non-profit, and not law enforcement or a government agency.
That's an interesting story actually, and tells more about the regulatory environment in the US than it does about pharma companies.
In short, a very rare adverse event was observed in clinical trials, but it lacked the statistical relevance to justify an inclusion in the label. J&J suggested including it during draft labeling discussions with the FDA, but FDA said it should not be included. J&J was later sued over the deaths, and a judge determined that J&J was at fault because they knew there was some chance of these events occurring. That a different government body told them not to do it didn't absolve them of any liability, even though the drug would have never made it to market if J&J didn't do what FDA wanted.
COVID vaccines are no different. Even though the pharma companies involved aren't exactly moral, their profit motivations are simple and expected. But the other half of responsible parties include government agencies like FDA, who exist solely to protect the consumer, while also being entirely funded by the taxpayer. They have utterly failed at their one job, and we'd never be in this situation to start with if they had done what we pay them to do.
and how likely they are to get tested
If you visit the site directly, you can toggle over to "proportion of tests" data. For the current April 12th to 18th timeframe on the site, the "not vaccinated" group actually makes up the largest percentage of total tests (26.8%), and also the lowest positivity rate (currently 9.6%).
Googles and Skypes, bad types.
There's no rise in cases
Philadelphia is using the insane standard of a 50% increase in cases over the previous 10 days. So even going from 2 cases to 3 cases would be sufficient to trigger masks under their current "data-driven" guidelines.
I fully expected this to be satire, but I guess not in today's world.
It's really sad what has happened to Elite Dangerous over the last few years. It had so much potential, but Frontier has squandered it at every turn. The game has so many abandoned features, tons of unused content, and what does exist offers infamously "mile wide, inch deep" gameplay.
Odyssey was really the final nail in the coffin. Half-baked FPS gameplay, horrific performance, tons of bugs, and it broke the few good existing features and game loops people enjoyed. Even today, Frontier still hasn't fixed everything they broke, not even including the console mess. They deserve to fail at this point, although that still doesn't make the flop this game has become hurt any less for longtime fans of the series.
Have you heard the "Ghost of Kiev" shit?
Look how fake it is: https://twitter.com/sopbeen/status/1497214226485719045
The sudden loss of legacy extensions a few updates ago, combined with the recent dev and forum drama, was enough to make me doubt the future of Pale Moon. The number of incompatible websites has also grown significantly as of late, and even though that's mostly Google's fault, I can't avoid the need for a functional browser.
I'm running both Pale Moon and Brave on multiple computers, having recently started moving away from Pale Moon as my primary browser.
No issues or lag observed yet, including when middle-clicking to open a new tab (zero delay opening the tab). This is on both Windows 10 and 11, with the same amount of RAM as you, but using mobile Ryzen chips. I haven't tested the latest release on my i9 desktop yet.
Have you tried running the same new tab tests using a clean profile?
It's a bit of work, but your experience is why I set up my own in-home streaming service. I use Emby, but you can also look at Plex or Jellyfin. It's easy for my wife to use, has no commercials at all, and I can control what shows and movies are added to the library.
It works well for both of us. We don't have cable because my wife can still watch what she wants to, and I don't need to worry about horrible commercials or woke modern media.
Even the return policy is a joke. The last item I ordered from Amazon (before I dropped them forever) actually shipped from China. The item I received wasn't what I ordered, so I filed for a return. Despite trying to escalate the case, Amazon wouldn't provide a prepaid label for this seller, and the return shipping cost more than the item itself.
Just put it in a fucking museum, or a warehouse, or something, for fuck’s sake!
Multiple heritage groups made offers to buy the statue for storage or preservation, but all offers were declined. They WANT to destroy it in the most offensive way possible.
It's not just for tax purposes, but also police funding. In short, the legal loophole to unlawful seizures involves the police department giving the money to the feds. The feds give the seizing department 80% of it back, which they are then allowed to spend on anything they want. Some departments rely on the money to fund their budget, and I recall one even had a margarita maker in their list of purchases.
No one wants to fix it, because the federal government gets free money for no effort, the police departments get to keep most of what they take, and politicians can pretend this is doing something to prevent drug crime or terrorism.
Oh, and you don't get a public defender when you fight to get your money back either, because you haven't been charged with anything.
I'll keep enjoying the GPD Win Max I already have, it still bothers me that so many people think Valve came up with some sort of new concept.
If you go on a Disney cruise ship and pay $20,000 a week for a fancy stateroom, it uses an artificial window instead of a real one.
Artificial windows are only used for inside staterooms, which are the cheapest and least desirable rooms on a cruise ship. But even a top-tier suite doesn't cost $20,000 for a week, and inside rooms are all of a few hundred dollars. Comments like this one, or the penthouse comment:
devote the top floor of it — which is a penthouse floor normally given to rich people, you know, for condos
Show how absolutely out of touch this guy is with the average person.
This is a lot of speculation and no substance. In pharma, nothing leaves the door without meeting release specs. Every batch is tested, every incoming material is tested, every manufacturing suite is tested, and so on. You can't simply make up the release requirements on the fly either, because it's part of the batch record ("recipe") for the drug, and that's on file with the FDA. It's extremely unlikely that lots all labeled as the same drug product went out the door with entirely different contents.
We also lack data on any of the lots mentioned, which can influence these statistics. Was each lot fully administered, or were some underutilized? Drug product is sometimes lost in distribution (for example, it expires), in which case it's sent to destruction. What about lot sizes, were these all the same? Yields and batch sizes fluctuate, and the size of each lot almost definitely varies by some amount.
And all adverse events are reported to the manufacturer with the lot number (if available), mandatorily by law. Claiming lot outcomes are intentionally made difficult to discern is an outright lie.
It takes an enormous amount of energy to cancel sound waves over even a small area, so it's obviously something much less exciting.
In this case, it's just an IR flashlight that acts as a long-range remote, blinking common versions of mute. More info here.
Pro, works just the same as Windows 10 when bypassing (select "I don't have internet").
It's not the funniest joke, but I picked that specific comic for 2005 because it shows how much Sinfest has changed when discussing political issues. In 2005, political topics are the setup for a joke without any serious meaning or connotation. In 2015, those topics are the main purpose of the strip, conveyed seriously with comedy as an afterthought.