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Here’s something that is not the same old same old: Gene Drive Files. It’s a website that covers the following. [I still haven’t got links down.]
“Gene drives are a gene-editing application that allows genetic engineers to drive a single artificial trait through an entire population by ensuring that all of an organism’s offspring carry that trait. For example, recent experiments are fitting mice with ‘daughterless’ gene drives that will cascade through mouse populations so that only male pups are born, ensuring that the population becomes extinct after a few generations.”What fun! We’re gonna chop out links in the Great Chain of Being!
[I got this from over at Rappoport today.]I’m so happy you finally made it to Greece, RIM. May the gods smile on you and leave you be so you and your group may flourish.
Tyler is one real person? I thought “he” was plural.
One person’s excitement is another person’s anxiety.
On cspan right now: “National Guard and Operation Warp Speed Confirmations”. Hunh?
Warp Speed is the vaccine/treatment program. I really don’t want to listen to the hearing, but confirmations of who for what? What’s the national guard have to do with it? I don’t like this at all.Vitamin D levels turn out to be clinically significant. That’s why everyone had to stay indoors. No mention of sunscreen as a cause for low D levels. I’m surprised rickets hasn’t returned.
Gen. Gustave Perna (Warp Speed COO nominee) saying he’ll make sure operations move quickly.
NO NO NO NO! No military!OT In the shunned NYT Science section, there is an article titled “Is That a Bot or Not…” One “Kate Starbird” was mentioned, and I bring this up because of where she works:
The University of Washington’s “Emergent Capacities of Mass Participation Laboratory”.
It’s nice to know such a place exists, isn’t it? /s
(The article concluded that it is very difficult to tell a bot from a human.)How about a little “lighter-hearted” Dore? Canto 19 “Dante addresses Pope Nicholas III” makes me giggle. What did Nick do to find himself in such a predicament?
Ah! Nepotism!
Kamala Harris??!! Well, she is a perfect match for the old law-n-order Biden…(speaking of nepotism…)Isn’t it nice that Powell is investing in corporate bonds for me? How considerate of him! Maybe he could buy some stocks for me, as well. And here I was thinking of getting out of “The Markets” altogether.
I used to sit in my grandparents’ attic looking at the engravings in the Divine Comedy. Dore’s stuff was pretty heavy for a little kid. You have a trove of apt illustrations at your fingertips, Ilargi. Some of them are mighty grim.
The DNC seems determined to get Trump re-elected. The saddest thing about having two incoherent candidates at the top of the tickets is that I think they understand each other.
The dead horse that is Russia-gate was too tough to swallow- even for those who are going to have to eat it, so they must keep beating it until it is tender, I guess.
NYC Blues
The words create fear. The fear creates stress.
The stress leads to symptoms. The symptoms progress.So he took to his bed, where his ailing increased.
He went to the doctor, and now he’s deceased.Ilargi-
I like it when you write instead of cite, and the thought-provoking comments here indicate others do, too.
Thanks.“Taken accountability” …”for the distress…”
Isn’t this everyone’s favorite “apology”? I’m so sorry —you feel that way.
Is “accountability” Aussie for “responsibility”? When used this way, what does either one mean?
Isn’t the right version: “it was my fault, and I have been fired.”
One syllable words have more punch.
Or is it: “Mono-syllabic vocabulary is inherently superior in expressiveness”?Yesterday I saw an ad on tv that is “letting” you buy fractional stocks- is that a thing? Sounds a bit like the shoe-shiner anecdote. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that action?
I’ll start with $5 worth of BRK.AOh- The video is an interview of a nurse who worked at NYC’s Elmhurst Hospital- the “epicenter of the epicenter”. Intubation is a key subject.
Concerning summertime Vit D: you not only have to exit your air conditioned abode, you will also have to forego the sunscreen for at least 20 minutes.
Concerning the future of starvation: so everything is going according to plan, right? Isn’t there a vaccine for that? /s
Concerning the Markets: it’s all funny money, anyways, and may go POOF before you know it.
Over at Ed Curtin’s site today there is a video that is very much worth watching. Rage and weep.Anyone out there- check on a video over at Information Clearing House called “Honey, I Shrunk Trump” under May 29, 2020.
I’m pretty sure you’ll laugh out loud.I just saw the Strib’s list of businesses that were damaged or destroyed- a few were favorites of mine. My wine store suffered heavy damage and looting. (I suppose I sound like a snoot there, but I really like the owner and his family who helps him run it.) What kind of condolences does one send to the victim of such a thing? It’s also notable that so many of the stores were standing in the way of urban renewal.
It’s going to be a fun summer? I cross my fingers.
I love heat and humidity, but I’ll wish this summer to be cool and drizzly.Biden? Good grief. He’s the best the DNC has? I made myself listen to Trump yesterday- those debates are going to awesome. /s And utterly incoherent.
On a different note- I was watching Dr. Michael Saag of U of Alabama on cspan this morning. He made it clear that HCQ was experimental and clearly did not endorse it yet…
Until a woman called and asked if he had used it when he was sick with the virus in March (as he had mentioned).
He did.
Facade and reality.RIM: When people are so afraid of sickness and death that they give up what makes life worth living- and now seem willing to embrace a surveillance state- I call that extreme. I did.
What you cite I call unbearable, terrifying- which is also extreme.
We are living in a monstrous social experiment. This will show up in those who are children now when they become adults. Some of those effects may be a fear of Others, and an inability to see their humanity, which may lead to the terrors you cite.On Taleb’s last point: Evasively stated. Humans are psychological beings. I’m pretty sure policy (decision)-makers ask “how will people react?” because they risk non-compliance if they ignore it.
The surveillance state that the medical experts want to roll out because of The Virus is already being resisted. They could have tried it right off the bat, but they would have risked extreme non-compliance: they had to whip up extreme fear first. Making policy without caring about the psychological ramifications is a hallmark of totalitarianism.
Medical Martial Law: “I’m cold. All of you, put a sweater on!”
Off to off-g to check out the rest of the article.On the Chauvin (as in chauvinist?) thing- why are we concentrating on the victim? The poor guy got dug up before he was buried- and it will all figure in the trial to get the cop- the PERP- off. I don’t understand…this is about a LEO who did a reprehensible thing -on camera with an unmistakable look on his face (bet he wishes he had worn a mask)- and Floyd is in the spotlight.
Wrong!
Every night I go to sleep hoping I will wake up on a different time line- ’cause this one is too snarled to follow.HCQ: No wonder the little managers are scrambling to distance themselves from liability.
The Minnesota study admits it was not used as a treatment but rather to see if it was useful as a phrophylactic. I don’t know about the zinc. If this isn’t the throbbing red thumb that says it’s time to reconsider the hammering methods, I don’t know what is.
On a note I sing all the time:
There is nothing more important to a culture than to party (gather; hang out; assemble; meet; etc.). Nothing. I repeat: NOTHING.In good spirits we come together and share opinions- faces open. Without this, society falls apart.
If it doesn’t, it should.Dr D Rich-
SDD almost sounds like a tactic that could be used by destabilizers. And the world is ripe with the causes of it.Naming it was an enormous factor in where we ended up. A name for a syndrome that covers the entire gamut of symptoms of any disease (diagnosed with a non-diagnostic test) pushed out the research needed to discover the real culprit in institutions. There is an opportunity still being lost- like discovering Legionaire’s disease is specific to plumbing and moistness.
I am comforted by so many front-line MDs wanting an answer despite the doctrine handed down from the weasels. I am distressed that so many terrified people are only glomming onto “expert” advice that makes them more terrified. I want to comfort my friends: “you are in little danger”. They want to remain terrified. Why?In “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” the two protagonists are put on a bus to take them away from their goal of climbing Devil’s tower. Most of the round-ups fear the “deadly threat” and are compliant with their own removal. Our heroes take off their masks and realize it is a scam. They ditch the bus. They climb the tower. One gets to thumb a ride with the aliens. The other finds her son.
Let’s get off the bus.
There’s an economy to build that is skew from the fancy folks. Let’s get to it. Unmasked face to unmasked face; person to person, in little groups and in big gatherings. As humans have done forever: let’s ignore the weasels and get down to it.WES-
As of my writing last night, there were about 150 buildings that had been burned- mostly small businesses, mostly in Mpls, some in St.Paul. St Paul kept their police force out in full force; Mpls did not.The freeways and major arteries into the city are closed. St. Paul has blocked the bridges from Minneapolis.
Peaceful protestors were to leave at 8pm, but those who stayed are sitting down. The involved streets are all cops. In-city people I know are tense. The authorities are positive the agitators are outsiders- there are many “cars without license plates”.
In the endless breaking news, it is clear the left/right thing is specious- the locals want the bad actors out.
Walz is turning out to be a very shrewd politician. It’s a Minnesota thing- boring on the outside, ruthless on the inside. I think he knows the FBI knows what he needs to know but won’t tell him.
That this has spread to other cities smacks of conspiracy- or the months of lockdown, alienating masks, and thinking your fellow man has cooties (or that he thinks you do) has made people twitchy. And it isn’t even summer yet- today was 67 with a dew point in the thirties- a beautiful blue day. Next week we get upper eighties.It’s a salon. It’s a comfortable night at the bar. It’s snappy patter at lunch with those we come to know.
In itself it means nothing, but if you get something out of it, it’s pretty sweet.Logical conundrum of contact tracing: health care workers.
Work one day, stay home for two weeks?The least we can do is give nice, brown shirts to those noble contact tracers.
Stayed up late, got up early to watch my cities burn. It feels like we’ve been set up for this “prison riot”- by the insanity of LOCKDOWN for a lowly pathogen; by a police department who kept the rotten cops on board (higher orders?); by looters and incendiary agents provocateur.
Why no arrests of the four leos (esp.Chauvin)? “These things must be done CAREFULLY…” [picture cackling green witch].
I guess the species can’t wait to usher in the brave new world order.
This is a bad day, and it’s still early. Mushroom season is over.Suckers, dupes, and nincompoops
It seems we’ve lost our nerve.
Snitches, rats, republicrats-
We get what we deserve.Once again, the button says: “submit”.
RaiIs are cutting lines; some Targets are closed; some malls are closed, including the mall of America. The post office is suspending service to some areas. A building is burning right now- unknown, according to local Fox, which is the only station covering it much.
This breaks my heart.
Apparently we are the first city to distract ourselves with something not “covid”.
A long procession of protesters are peacefully walking on I-94.
The “riots” continue as peaceful protests vie for coverage. There’s a lot of rotten behavior going on.
I was born in and returned to the Twin Cities.Okay- let me try that again (lost post). I suspect:
Covid 19 is a brand name that is an artifact of the non-diagnostic rt-pcr tests and the wildly enigmatic antibody tests. There IS a rare, unexplained atypical pneumonia out there that can no longer be studied because there is now an “official” explanation, because- tests, when positive; symptoms, when negative.
In the meantime, the Davos types are tickled that you aren’t getting all hot and bothered about the economy because COVID SQUIRREL.
So everything’s good.Isolation is the first step in brainwashing. Humans are so hungry for socialization that a jailor becomes a trusted companion.
Is this why the cult of the virus has become so prevalent? The experts have so terrorized the populations that they have locked themselves in their abodes and hang on every word the experts say, no matter how confusing the message.
Cognitive dissonance is an important part of brainwashing. Festinger (originator of the term) learned that if he paid people a dollar to tell a lie, they would more likely come to believe it than if he paid them $20 for the same lie (I wouldn’t have sold my integrity for a measly buck!”).
Well, we have given up our integrity, our rights, our joys, our humanity for a measly virus that the CDC now says kills .2-.3% of those it infects.
This is why the cult now needs to double down- to save face, we must keep the terrifying virus alive despite flattened curves and a mostly reliable treatment. The curve is flattened because we gave up so much! The treatment is more deadly than the incredibly deadly disease!
This as-yet-unseen SARS-CoV-2 but early-named Covid 19 is a public relations campaign to herd the masses into pens of obedience, snitching, and virtue-signaling (like a prison camp in the Korean war).
How else could so few control so many?
Juries, businesses, schools, ceremonies, rites, religious exercise, dissent, protests, visitation, mating rituals, smiling faces, elections, concerts, sports, parties, assemblies…
If we’re good enough, we can have some of that back.“at least”, not “at let”
jheez.
The bad guys win and make the new world… is this how it has always been? Is this how we got where we are?If an elite group engineered a collapse of populations, and they were the only ones left after all hell broke loose, would you say- well at let some humans have survived, and that is a good thing?
Whoa- for a second there I thought I had made a hyperlink. Oh well- what I want to tell zerosum is that there was new “quadrivalent cell-based” flu shot introduced for the last season. The CDC has it on their website, and it’s called “flucelvax”. They don’t mention what mammalian species they used.
The squirt gun baptism made me laugh out loud.
Also, thanks for the clarification on which was Twain and which was the kitten.The beach is so fascinating right now- all those shells and flotsam and whatnot- there are fish we could never catch flopping around- you can just pick them up.
Look! Over there! I swear it’s a treasure chest, overflowing with jewels! C’mon- we can haul this in if we work together.
Pay no attention to that dark line on the horizon. Look how slow it is- it won’t get here for a long time. If we all could just work together we can have the pot of gold! If we just work together things will be just fine.
Together we can fight the virus. But what about that approaching wave?It’s the economy stupid.
I left out the comma on purpose. Better: it’s the stupid economy.
Is there an entity called “us” that exists outside the economy? Like it or not, trade and economic interaction is who we are, all 8 billion of us. It’s what we have in common. It’s what we use to find what else we have in common. We can pretend we exist in altruistic, non-tech commonality, but without the internet (an extraordinary chunk of the economy and increasingly the only entry point many of us have), there is nothing. Boats and horses and paper won’t cut it.
It’s not like I think there’s anything I can say about the economy. It’s being restructured (in frighteningly fascist ways) outside of our beams- all we see is PANDEMIC.
But, Jeeeezuz, we are headed into some pretty scary territory when it comes to debt, currencies, resources, labor, power structures, populations…But, it’s mushroom season and I haven’t time for a screen. On this point, I know what’s truly important.
Google entries:
Nocebo effect: “a detrimental effect on health produced by psychological or psychosomatic factors…”
“The BBC calls the nocebo effect the contagious thought “that could kill you”.”
The nocebo effect is generally used with reference to medical treatment. On s3 e18 of “House” (“Airborn”), one sick man on an airplane turns into a whole load of people falling ill with real symptoms.
They are actually suffering from mass hysteria.
The power of suggestion is incredible- as teenage girls, public relations firms, and the practitioners of Voodoo know very well.
And it works best when people are terrified.What a wonderful world it will be when no one is held liable for anything! /s
Happy Mt. St. Helen’s day.
How is a 5% infection rate indicative of a HIGHLY contagious virus? The health officials are dancing around tests- “not-for-diagnosis” RT-PCR tests, 0-100% accurate antibody tests…
Is this a fiercely contagious pathogen or not? If it’s so contagious, then it isn’t particularly lethal. If it’s incredibly lethal, then it isn’t so contagious. Health “officials” want it both ways and the numbers simply won’t support them. Vague and sparse test results work to keep the narrative intact.
When the narrative falls apart, there are always the squirrels of war.
I still can’t believe that Big Mother told us to stay away from each other, and we said “okay”.
